To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 computers (and the birthdays of both Nigel Parker and Paul Green), we at the CCC (UK) will be holding our second meeting from Friday the 23rd of January 2009 through to Sunday the 25th inclusive. It will be held in Birmingham, B23 area, just of Junction six of the M6 (and don't worry about what Multi-Map or your Sat-Nav tells you, that really will be the easiest way to travel to the venue in most cases).

We may also be hiring a hall for the Saturday, but this is only if we get a reasonable turn out of at least four people. So far, Chris Snowden (Commodore16.com), Nigel Parker (Commodore Free), Shaun Bebbington (Micro Mart writer) and Peter Badrick have confirmed. Other potential attendees include Mike Dailly (Xeo3.com and ex-DMA Designs), Jason Kelk (various websites including Oldschool Gaming and writer for Retro Gamer), and Paul Green (PJG Developments).

In accordance with club rules, no-members will pay a £2.50 fee if they want to attend, and may be excluded from any "official" business during the weekend, should there be any formal matters to arise between now and then. We have a car share scheme, so if you would like to attend and could offer other people a lift, please contact us or visit our forums to say where you are travelling from. For members, there's a thread under Club News on the forums with further details.

The 24th and 25th issues of Commodore Free have been released; 24 contains Llamasoft - The Dromedary Years Part 2, In the Beginning Part 9 as well as information and interviews regarding Raymond Computer Store and the Hypersid sound module whilst 25 features include an interview with Jeff "Denial" Daniels, In the Beginning Part 10, creating a Commodore 8-bit Machine Code programming environment for Windows and a review of Sceptre of Baghdad from Psytronik.

Both issues can be downloaded from CommodoreFree.com in PDF, text, HTML, D64 or SEQ files and the HTML versions are mirrored here for issue 24 and here for issue 25 on the CCC UK website.

The 23rd issue of Commodore Free has been released; this issue contains Llamasoft - The Dromedary Years Part 1, In the Beginning Part 8, Creating music with DMC, the Commodore 64.prg Generator and an interview with its developer, Arthur Jordison. It can be downloaded from CommodoreFree.com in PDF, text, HTML, D64 or SEQ files and the HTML version is mirrored here on the CCC UK website.