AmiWest - October 24-26, 2014

[saimon69]

@pyromania

I miss the podcasts, those were nice to hear while working

[kickstart]

An expanding AmiVerse
Since AmiWest began, new "planets" have arrived in the AmiVerse. Planet AmigaOS NG, planet AROS, planet MorphOS, and planet E-UAE have begun orbiting in the AmiVerse.

That sound like a rave full of synthetics drugs.

[JimDrew]

I just officially became a sponsor of this event.  I will be bringing a bunch of stuff for demo and sale, from new old stock to brand new products.  It will be good to see some of the old Amiga crowd.

[RobertB]

Oh, I'll see you there, Jim.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm
Southern California Commodore & Amiga Network
http://www.sccaners.org

[JimDrew]

Cool!  Twice in one year!  

[LiveForIt]

@wawrzon

even if os4 ran natively on x86 but still with the speed from the nineties

If AmigaOS4 run natively as not under emulation, AmigaOS4 be runny many times faster then it does in WinUAE now.

it would remain nice gimmick

Well Visualization and Emulation is used a lot in IT, because it saves space and cut costs.

The uses I see for WinUAE is maybe not to run it 24/7 but it has its uses.

* Use it when you travel, a big box Amiga is not easy to drag on the train, or take on the airplane.
* Use it to test cross compiled exe files from Cygwin.
* Use it for recovery, some thing went wrong your real AmigaONE is not booting, you need to find a way to change some boot priorities or need to get access to some files, or maybe some files are corrupted and you need to replace or update some files. (The only way to access the files is to use a Computer that support the new file-systems like SFS/02, JXFS, FFS/07.)
* To try/test AmigaOS4.1.

So as I see it, its more then a gimmick, but it wont replace any hardware.

Seriously as in actually using it for productivity or so, which is the point os4 fans try to prove. namely that os4 is a contemporary solution and not just a retro toy.

Well yes, it be nice to use AmigaOS as you can with any other OS, so yes.

As it is, it only shows that amiga hackers are more capable, have more vision and sense for experiment than the os4 development team.

Well no, WinUAE is limited by all old hardware it tries to emulate, the future for AmigaOS is to support new hardware and too have good hardware acceleration, so no, I see no vision because there is no future in WinUAE hardware support.

But as I was saying it has it uses even so.

[number6]

@LiveForIt

And what about from the standpoint of sales of AmigaOS? No future there either compared to current sales of AmigaOS4.1 for current h/w?

@6

[eliyahu]

@thread

please keep the conversation on-topic here, i.e., amiwest 2014. anything else, please take it to another thread. thanks.

-- eliyahu

[mbrantley]

I'm bringing my girls this year, wife and daughter. Kid's job is to bring down the median age of AmiWest attendees. Heh heh. We'll be in San Franciso for couple of days while the smartest people are in the programming seminar. Everybody is fired up about the trip. I plan to bring my little Fuji camera and a couple of lenses again and will share photos when we get back.

Last year's photos: http://www.thevideojunkie.com/AmiWest2013

[ddniUK]

Pic 25 looks like Trevor holding the new AmigaOS AEon sat nav!

[eliyahu]

@thread

a couple of quick updates from the amiwest blog today:

• CBMstuff.com (JimDrew) has decided to attend as a vendor
• Dave Morris (amigadave) has decided to attend as an exhibitor
• Andy Broad (broadblues) will be the keynote speaker

this is shaping up to be a terrific get-together, so if you have the means to be in sacramento on october 24th, finish those travel plans now! i look forward to seeing you there along with other amiga.org members.

-- eliyahu

[JimDrew]

Besides being a vendor, I am also a sponsor of the event.

I look forward to meeting everyone!

[Spectre660]

Two more weeks to AmiWest .
Is it safe to use "two more weeks" in this context  and not be shot ?
http://blog.a-eon.biz/blog/?p=3707

[SACC-guy]

The Sacramento Amiga Computer Club Announces Amiwest 2014 website. This 17th annual event takes place October 24th thru the 26th at the Holiday Inn Express Cal Expo, 2224 Auburn Blvd. Sacramento, CA.

Admission is FREE for the 3 day event. Come see the newest Amigas now available along with demonstrations of the newest Amiga Operating systems. Amiga emulators for your PC or MAC are also being exhibited. And we will have a large collection of the original Amiga systems for your reminiscing. The event will be broadcast via the internet as well, check out the broadcast page for details. For special Hotel rates and more information visit:AmiWest.net hotel page

Click READ MORE for details ===>

Friday, October 24th at 5 PM is Fix-Your-Amiga day (a.k.a. the Classic Clinic) where one can bring any of your Amigas and we can do FREE basic maintenance. We will have special diagnostic gear this year. If you have a dead Amiga, bring it. If we can't get it running, there is always the swap meet on Sunday. If your coming send a note to info@amiwest.net or Twitter amigadan@amiwest with your request.

Saturday at 10 AM the show floor opens. This year we are expecting over 10 exhibitors with several who will be attending for the first time:

*SACC - The Sacramento User Group who hosts AmiWest
*Hyperion Entertainment - producers of AmigaOS 4
*A-Eon - Makers of the X line of Amiga’s, including the new X5000 and will have some new software announcements
*AmigaKit -Renowned Amiga Shop and long time AmiWest supporter. Come see many new devices for this including a new sound card for classics and a custom designed Joy Stick
*Intuitionbase - See the latest generation of AmigaOS 4 applications
*Infocessories - The new Amiga REBOL community
*Epsilon - New for 2014! From Adelaide, Australia, will be showing the latest MorphOS and AROS systems
*AmigaDave - Demonstrating MorphOS and classic systems
*Jim Drew - New for 2014! Maker of the famous Emplant Board will be showing the FPGA Arcade system and a Floppy archiving device

During the show will we also feature seminars to explore the Amiga Universe in more depth. A schedule will be posted before the show starts but expect the 2104 games review and presentations by Hyperion and A-Eon on New products and developments.

Saturday evening is the AmiWest Banquet. We are proud to announce that our speaker will be Andy Broad. Andy is an accomplished Amiga developer and musician. His latest work, SketchBlock, is an excellent ground up designed drawing program with a rich feature set. Andy is going to treat the banquet guests with his story around using the Amiga in its different forms to backup his music career and he will interject a little of that music into the proceedings. Should be a unique event. Banquet tickets are $25 and you can register here. After registering an invoice will be sent to the email address you provided.

Sunday will see our first swap meet. The idea is to provide an official way for users to meet other users and exchange or sell their extra Amiga related items knowing they will go to a good home. The meet will start at 9 AM and there will be tables for people to come and setup their items. Should be an excellent opportunity to meet other Amigan's at the show and pick up those rare or hard to find items that everyone is careful to part with. Should be a good time all around.

Another amazing feature of the AmiWest show is the programming seminar. The programming days will start with a Thursday morning presentation by Mr. Steven Solie, the AmigaOS development team leader, on the status of the AmigaOS, the SDK and AmigaOS API. For beginners, we will continue on with a group discussion on the coding process. We will touch on how to organize a coding project, how to break a project into manageable pieces, how to get help and how to debug one's work. We'll wrap up our discussion with a review of possible programming projects. The goal is to pick projects to work on in small teams or individually over the following days.

AmiWest is a unique event on the Amiga Community. It is a forum to come and see the latest developments, talk to the developers, and users of those systems. The organizers work hard to make sure that the Amiga is shown in all its glory, AmigaOS 3 and 4 are well represented, several exhibitors will be on hand to show MorphOS and AROS as well. We will have FPGA based and PC software based emulators running too. Another new feature this year is the AmiVerse where attendees are invited to setup their Amiga and Amiga related systems to show and demo. Space is limited so show up early to get a spot.

AmiWest 2014 is going to be a great show. Can't spoil the fun by giving away the secrets of what will be revealed. You'll have to come to see all that's happening on the Amiga World today.

[SACC-guy]

opps, double post sorry

The Sacramento Amiga Computer Club Announces Amiwest 2014 website. This 17th annual event takes place October 24th thru the 26th at the Holiday Inn Express Cal Expo, 2224 Auburn Blvd. Sacramento, CA.

Saturday at 10 AM the show floor opens. This year we are expecting over 10 exhibitors with several who will be attending for the first time:

*SACC - The Sacramento User Group who hosts AmiWest
*Hyperion Entertainment - producers of AmigaOS 4
*A-Eon - Makers of the X line of Amiga’s, including the new X5000 and will have some new software announcements
*AmigaKit -Renowned Amiga Shop and long time AmiWest supporter. Come see many new devices for this including a new sound card for classics and a custom designed Joy Stick
*Intuitionbase - See the latest generation of AmigaOS 4 applications
*Infocessories - The new Amiga REBOL community
*Epsilon - New for 2014! From Adelaide, Australia, will be showing the latest MorphOS and AROS systems
*AmigaDave - Demonstrating MorphOS and classic systems
*Jim Drew - New for 2014! Maker of the famous Emplant Board will be showing the FPGA Arcade system and a Floppy archiving device

During the show will we also feature seminars to explore the Amiga Universe in more depth. A schedule will be posted before the show starts but expect the 2104 games review and presentations by Hyperion and A-Eon on New products and developments.

Saturday evening is the AmiWest Banquet. We are proud to announce that our speaker will be Andy Broad. Andy is an accomplished Amiga developer and musician. His latest work, SketchBlock, is an excellent ground up designed drawing program with a rich feature set. Andy is going to treat the banquet guests with his story around using the Amiga in its different forms to backup his music career and he will interject a little of that music into the proceedings. Should be a unique event. Banquet tickets are $25 and you can register here. After registering an invoice will be sent to the email address you provided.

Sunday will see our first swap meet. The idea is to provide an official way for users to meet other users and exchange or sell their extra Amiga related items knowing they will go to a good home. The meet will start at 9 AM and there will be tables for people to come and setup their items. Should be an excellent opportunity to meet other Amigan's at the show and pick up those rare or hard to find items that everyone is careful to part with. Should be a good time all around.

Another amazing feature of the AmiWest show is the programming seminar. The programming days will start with a Thursday morning presentation by Mr. Steven Solie, the AmigaOS development team leader, on the status of the AmigaOS, the SDK and AmigaOS API. For beginners, we will continue on with a group discussion on the coding process. We will touch on how to organize a coding project, how to break a project into manageable pieces, how to get help and how to debug one's work. We'll wrap up our discussion with a review of possible programming projects. The goal is to pick projects to work on in small teams or individually over the following days.

AmiWest is a unique event on the Amiga Community. It is a forum to come and see the latest developments, talk to the developers, and users of those systems. The organizers work hard to make sure that the Amiga is shown in all its glory, AmigaOS 3 and 4 are well represented, several exhibitors will be on hand to show MorphOS and AROS as well. We will have FPGA based and PC software based emulators running too. Another new feature this year is the AmiVerse where attendees are invited to setup their Amiga and Amiga related systems to show and demo. Space is limited so show up early to get a spot.

AmiWest 2014 is going to be a great show. Can't spoil the fun by giving away the secrets of what will be revealed. You'll have to come to see all that's happening on the Amiga World today.

[wawrzon]

fpga emulators?