Howdy Fellow Commodore Users!

From week to week I am amazed at the quantity of visitors to the C64friends chat room that can be accessed via irc using the server irc.eskimo.com. Several come locally from Ohio, even from our own club, and as far away as Europe and Australia, two opposite directions of the globe, yet united with one common thread. The love for our 8-bit classic computing system.

The topics from week to week are not pre-arranged, yet hardly a week goes by that someone praises the wonderful opportunity to gather in real time with fellow Commodore Users. I respond by saying something along the lines of, by participating in the discussions, you make this channel the wonderful resource that it is.

Here are some examples of what has been discussed over the past few weeks:

For the weekend of 2/5: Chips, hard drives, 3 1/2" DS/DD disks, CMD HD repairs, the SuperCPU and demos for it, power supplies and the SCPU, the SX-64 and the SCPU, the AUSCBM mailing list, Ray Carlsen, 1581's, GEOS, the different CBM series of computers, GEnie, and the extra GEnie files at

http://pages.prodigy.net/snogpitch/GEnie/

For the weekend of 1/29: net.micro.cbm, Logo, Radiant - the double FLI Plus/4 demo, DTV hacking, the LUCKI Spring Expo, disk-formatting on the 1571, Ray Carlsen, Amigas, DTV sound capabilities, Voice Master, SAM, Charlie Andrews, Yeahronimo, Joe "The Fox" Ekaitis, KB Toys, train games, MSD drives, PETs, the SID list, tank games, CML, and Dungeon & Dragon games.

For the weekend of 1/22: KayBee Toys, Forth, the C64 DTV, demos, SAM, BBS's, other 8-bit computers, Amigas, videos of Jeri Ellsworth, old CBM locations and stores, CS Doom 64, PAL C64's, magazines, newsletters, the Genie download library, Geowrite v2.2, the IDE64, and CMD hard drives.

That's just three weeks of logged time from 9PM to Midnite every Saturday evening. Maybe you can join us next weekend? Visit the C64friends website at: http://www.oocities.org/c64friends

Keep on Commodoring!