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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: LordSpunky on July 13, 2015, 06:08:07 PM
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I wondered how many of us are going to Amiga30 UK in August?
I will be there - ticket and hotel booked!
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I wondered how many of us are going to Amiga30 UK in August?
I will be there - ticket and hotel booked!
Ill be there.
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Just checked and saw that I've missed out on getting a full day ticket but should be there for the main event. Not sure weather to book a room or not now. Will people be up until the late hours in the bar?
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I'm going, managed to get a half day ticket. There are only 4 tickets left now.
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I'm going, managed to get a half day ticket. There are only 4 tickets left now.
awesome! please let us know how it goes when you get back. sounds like a great event.
-- eliyahu
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Just got my ticket so 3 left now.
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Really hope I can make it, got my ticket.
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I'll be there. Travelling up on the Saturday, back on Monday (2 nights in hotel). I definitely intend to be in the bar 'til late. Come say hello :)
I'll also be attending the German event in Neuss, if anyone else is doing similar and is up for a beer or three, let me know!
Steve
TCM/SLP
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Looking forward to seeing you all there :-)
Myself and Paul Kitching (of ViVa Amiga) will be arriving Saturday afternoon and heading back late Sunday night.
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With all of these 30-years events going on... it is a darn good year to be an Amiga user. :) Y'all have fun! :D
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I'll be there! I bought a half day ticket. I'm staying with a friend who lives locally, but I couldn't persuade him to come to this event. I think we'll all be issued with name tags, but I don't think I can get them to put "Amigabruno" on mine. I'll introduce myself as Amigabruno, so people will know me from that. I hope to talk to some people in person about the classic Amiga and classic Amiga OS, especially because we're celebrating the 30th anniversary of the original Amiga, only later renamed A1000, which used Workbench 1.x. I can't afford an Amiga OS 4.1 computer, but even if I could afford it, I'm not sure if I'd go for one because OS 4.1 doesn't look or feel much like the classic Amiga OS at all and I've never seen anyone create any graphics, or music on it. People from around Europe and the World can try speaking to me in their native languages if they want. I won't list the languages I speak here. I'm almost as good as Dr Daniel Jackson of Stargate SG-1. I don't know if I can hang round the bar later on, because I may be there at 18:00 as I've only got a half day ticket, or spend all my money on some amazing items which are being sold at the show by Amigakit or someone else, but I don't know what these items are yet. I recently bought a Gotek drive. I hope to get an ACA-1221 accelerator card for my A1200 soon. I seem to have missed my chance of buying a new ACA-1220 accelerator now. I recently broke my IDE CF card adaptor, so I hope someone there can look at the adaptor and the card for me. I hope I haven't lost my data.
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It was good to meet you at Amiga30UK Paul.
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It was good to meet you at Amiga30UK Paul.
It was good to meet you too mate. I had no idea until now that you're the chap behind The Silicon Vault! I visited your site a few weeks ago and was very impressed. So that A600 you got signed by RJ and Dave P, that will be an exhibit then?
Regarding capacitors, providing the machine is not powered on (much from new) they shouldn't actually leak. Not that it matters much with those signatures on. :)
You're doing some sterling work there with Amiga preservation! Keep it up mate, and looking forward to meeting you again at a future Amiga show. :)
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That A600 will be pride of place. Kinda wish I got more signatures now. Or taken something else like my original A500 or my A1000.
I should update own Amiga.org signature really we haven't been called Yeovil's Obsolete Computer Museum for some time! And thanks, we do try. Premises is the biggest issue, it is all money.
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It was great to meet some of you - I had a fantastic time! Now looking forward to Neuss!
Steve
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I can't make Neuss, time and money really.
I kinda feel I need another one. Maybe more a local smaller, Amiga club type thing.
Thanks for the photo Steve - I've updated my signature and Avatar now ;)
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I didn't see Paul, or at least didn't recognise him. He must have a new hairstyle or was wearing a hat. I don't remember seeing Lord Spunky either. I was wearing a light blue jacket and a T shirt. I wrote my real name with "Amigabruno" in the middle, but no one noticed. I spoke to a few members of Amiga North Thames, the Sysop of the old 01ForAmiga BBS and some other people whose names I didn't get. One of them was wearing a Guru Meditation T shirt. It was great to see lots of classic Amigas set up. I don't know anywhere else I can go where there would be even one classic Amiga set up except my own. (HINT, HINT)
I finished my day sitting in the "Scene Room", where Dan Wood of Kooky Tech invited me to play the game "Micro Machines". I had no real idea what to do, but it seems I won! After this, he played another game I hadn't seen before, which I thought was called "Dragon's Axe" but it seems it wasn't called that and now I don't know what it is, so I can't find it anywhere.
I left to get a bus just before 19:30, went back to my friend's place in Peterborough, and was back at my local station in London at 00:10.
This week I've been playing with my Amiga A1200, two CF hard drives, and my Gotek USB ADF floppy drive with mixed results. Amigakit/A-EON fixed my broken CF card and adaptor at the show. While there I bought a kit with another IDE CF adaptor, a CF card with WHDload and a floppy disk. My old CF card worked again, but I found I couldn't read the new CF card on a PC using FS-UAE under Linux, so I haven't installed any games or demos on it yet. Perhaps my USB CF card ready is faulty. The latest news is that while using my Gotek drive, my CF hard drive suddenly disappeared from the boot menu, so I'm working on getting it recognised again.
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I didn't see Paul, or at least didn't recognise him. He must have a new hairstyle or was wearing a hat. I don't remember seeing Lord Spunky either. I was wearing a light blue jacket and a T shirt. I wrote my real name with "Amigabruno" in the middle, but no one noticed. I spoke to a few members of Amiga North Thames, the Sysop of the old 01ForAmiga BBS and some other people whose names I didn't get. One of them was wearing a Guru Meditation T shirt. It was great to see lots of classic Amigas set up. I don't know anywhere else I can go where there would be even one classic Amiga set up except my own. (HINT, HINT)
I finished my day sitting in the "Scene Room", where Dan Wood of Kooky Tech invited me to play the game "Micro Machines". I had no real idea what to do, but it seems I won! After this, he played another game I hadn't seen before, which I thought was called "Dragon's Axe" but it seems it wasn't called that and now I don't know what it is, so I can't find it anywhere.
I left to get a bus just before 19:30, went back to my friend's place in Peterborough, and was back at my local station in London at 00:10.
This week I've been playing with my Amiga A1200, two CF hard drives, and my Gotek USB ADF floppy drive with mixed results. Amigakit/A-EON fixed my broken CF card and adaptor at the show. While there I bought a kit with another IDE CF adaptor, a CF card with WHDload and a floppy disk. My old CF card worked again, but I found I couldn't read the new CF card on a PC using FS-UAE under Linux, so I haven't installed any games or demos on it yet. Perhaps my USB CF card ready is faulty. The latest news is that while using my Gotek drive, my CF hard drive suddenly disappeared from the boot menu, so I'm working on getting it recognised again.
Don't forget that you should have a license for Amiga Forever now, provided you didn't go for the ultra cheap ticket.
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I was there AmigaBruno, with my multi coloured Amiga Tick t-shirt ;) and I took and setup our Amiga500 Plus.
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Hello AmigaBruno. I was wearing a light grey Amiga 1.3 boot screen T-Shirt, had a black rucksack too. I'll sort my photo's out soon and get them up here.
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AmigaBurno did you post photos on FB? Commodore Amiga page?
I didn't see Paul, or at least didn't recognise him. He must have a new hairstyle or was wearing a hat. I don't remember seeing Lord Spunky either. I was wearing a light blue jacket and a T shirt. I wrote my real name with "Amigabruno" in the middle, but no one noticed. I spoke to a few members of Amiga North Thames, the Sysop of the old 01ForAmiga BBS and some other people whose names I didn't get. One of them was wearing a Guru Meditation T shirt. It was great to see lots of classic Amigas set up. I don't know anywhere else I can go where there would be even one classic Amiga set up except my own. (HINT, HINT)
I finished my day sitting in the "Scene Room", where Dan Wood of Kooky Tech invited me to play the game "Micro Machines". I had no real idea what to do, but it seems I won! After this, he played another game I hadn't seen before, which I thought was called "Dragon's Axe" but it seems it wasn't called that and now I don't know what it is, so I can't find it anywhere.
I left to get a bus just before 19:30, went back to my friend's place in Peterborough, and was back at my local station in London at 00:10.
This week I've been playing with my Amiga A1200, two CF hard drives, and my Gotek USB ADF floppy drive with mixed results. Amigakit/A-EON fixed my broken CF card and adaptor at the show. While there I bought a kit with another IDE CF adaptor, a CF card with WHDload and a floppy disk. My old CF card worked again, but I found I couldn't read the new CF card on a PC using FS-UAE under Linux, so I haven't installed any games or demos on it yet. Perhaps my USB CF card ready is faulty. The latest news is that while using my Gotek drive, my CF hard drive suddenly disappeared from the boot menu, so I'm working on getting it recognised again.
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haha, you was playing Micro Machines with my mate Paul Kitching. Dan managed to kick my arse just before your turn!
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Don't forget that you should have a license for Amiga Forever now, provided you didn't go for the ultra cheap ticket.
I certainly have got a *licence* for it. "I need a licence. I must ask the council to license me, then I'll be licensed". For some strange reason, a licence key just appeared on screen, which wasn't the same as the one on my pass from the show. I wonder why this is.
This has nothing to do with classic Amigas or the lack of them at any Amiga gatherings, though.
I have booted Amiga Forever on two different PCs, as well as installing it onto one PC. I hope to install something else, such as Amikit or Amithlon, which Amiga Forever is supposed to make easy, but I still don't know how.
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haha, you was playing Micro Machines with my mate Paul Kitching. Dan managed to kick my arse just before your turn!
I didn't know how to play the game, or what was the object of it, but somehow I won! I'm not sure of the name of the game that followed it either. There was a dragon in it.
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I'm glad to find in the last couple of days that several videos have now appeared of the Amiga 30th anniversary event in Peterborough on the YouTube channel Amiga 30 UK, although it says they were uploaded a week ago https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZbuVf_3s-D1a65fccRbUFA . They weren't allowed to show "Viva Amiga", but I hope to see some more videos of the event soon, including any more made after 19:00 because I only had a half day ticket. After leaving the event, I was forced to eat a cardboard pie by my host (i.e. a chicken pie).
Perhaps some people on here could point themselves out in the videos. I spotted myself in the background of one of Ravi Abbott's videos, wearing a bright blue jacket. I sat in different chairs after each break. Something I did was being the first person to stick my hand up as remembering the BBS "01 for Amiga". Unfortunately, I had to admit to the Sysop later on that I didn't remember what I actually did when I was logged on to "01 for Amiga" and I even asked him where it was based, as I'd temporarily forgotten that the name was taken from the former London dialling code 01. Unlike him, I hadn't forgotten that Amiga formatted disks held 880K instead of 720K, though. I also remember getting my phone cut off and thinking that it wouldn't have happened if the bills were monthly instead of quarterly. I don't think there was an option to have monthly phone bills then, but I could be wrong.
I felt totally shocked by the pronunciation of AMOS by Francois Lionnet, as well as the pronunciation of Linux by Trevor Dickenson. I caught a frisbee thrown by Francois Lionnet, but I doubt if anyone captured this on video, although no video of him has been posted so far AFAIK.