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Re: New User from Australia
« on: May 06, 2020, 08:59:43 AM »
...I think I got off pretty well when it went to an aquaintance in Sydney who is into the Amiga...
Ah, if you are in the Sydney area, then there is the Sydney Amiga User Group.  http://www.saug.org.au

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Re: New User from Australia
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2020, 06:47:25 AM »
Robert, I actually live in Adelaide...
Oh, Adelaide.  Well, I was there for the March Adelaide Retro-Computing meeting (formerly, Adelaide Amiga and Retro-Computing), and there were no Commodore/Amiga users there!  :(  The dozen or so people at the meeting had modern PC desktops!  And they were playing those 3-D, POV, networked games!  The oldest computer there was a Windows 98 (or was it ME?) machine.

I was the only person with any Commodore/Amiga content, showing off my videos of Trevor Dickinson and his C= laptops and Tabor A1222, showing the classic C64 DTV, and demonstrating my A.L.I.C.E. laptop.  At least, there were a few people who interested in what I had to show - Mike, Chris (a newbie to the meeting), and Michael.  The latter had brought his Raspberry PI emulators, though none of them were running Commodore or Amiga.  He assured Chris that the previous month there had been several C64's.

Epsilon was not there.  Overall, I was very disapppointed with the meeting.  The one bright spot in my visit to Adelaide was my visit to veteran C= user Gaelyne Gasson who lives in Old Reynella.

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Re: New User from Australia
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2020, 07:48:56 AM »
Yeah, it's sad.  When I visited the group in 2016, it was still Adelaide Amiga & Retro-computing, and the Amiga and Commodore users were out in force (so many were there!) to greet Trevor Dickinson to the meeting.  There was so much enthusiasm!

However, since then, there seems to have been a reorganization (even to the point that the group was off-line/disbanded for a while).  After the reorganization, it became Adelaide Retro-computing, and that's situation we have today.

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