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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Events => Topic started by: tonyw on September 18, 2003, 06:51:01 AM
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After some weeks of planning, the OS4 Roadshow for eastern Australia has been announced. As of today, it will be held in Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra. Negotiations for a Melbourne venue are continuing.
http://www.amigaos4downunder.org
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Don't get me wrong, I'm a blind OS4 follower as much as the next irrational and mentally unstable Amiga Inc. follower, but is it just me or is there always an OS4 announcment ready for every MorphOS one? :-?
Perhaps I should get out more.... :-)
- Paul
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Fantastic... I just need to decide which event i'll go two... maybe i'll got to both canberra and melbourne? hrmm... decisions!
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I don't think there is one in Melbourne.
Now that I know a fair bit about MorphOS, I'm not sure that I really care about AmigaOS4 right now. It doesn't seem anywhere near as exciting as it did 2 years ago.
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I don't think there is one in Melbourne.
An event for Melbourne is being planned :-) .
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me or is there always an OS4 announcment ready for every MorphOS one?
hehe, nope the tour has been in the works for awhile now. Pure coincidence :-) .
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Lets keep on topic here please, this thread is about an OS4 Roadshow .. not about morphos ..
Thank you :-)
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Yep and it is gonna rock :pint:
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Oh baby! I love the avatar!! :-o
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Lets keep on topic here please, this thread is about an OS4 Roadshow .. not about morphos ..
Thank you
Yes m'lord!
I was just wondering if that chick in bodies new avatar was going to be at the melbourne aos4 showing session. :-)
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Excellent news that!
Of course, speaking from the other side of the planet, I have something to say to any local (to the UK) user groups -
when can we see OS4 in the UK? (plead, plead)
Stimpy
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@stimpzilla, I totally agree with you. perhaps the NEC ?? ;-)
Wulfrun hall ? JB's ??
(PS: ow bist me mon ?)
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I was just wondering if that chick in bodies new avatar was going to be at the melbourne aos4 showing session.
There will be a private keyboard dance for those who request it :-P . Be prepared to "Get Boinged!" :-D
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I agree with Stimzilla... Can we have a UK tour please? ;-)
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There will be a private keyboard dance for those who request it . Be prepared to "Get Boinged!"
WHOOHOO! Well, in that case, I'm there!!!
She can preview AOS4 for me anyday! ;-)
Can you point me to a larger picture of her, or tell me who she is, and what she's doing? :-o
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@Agafaster
It would be nice ;-) :-D if we could get enough UK users to justify even one hall of the NEC, but as for the others - well, I don't know them.
Would they be over Black Country way, by any chance? ;-)
(PS: I'm over Coventry way - can you translate that please? ;-) :-D )
Stimpy
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just Google'd for Wulfrun - If you'd called it the Wolverhampton Civic Hall, I'd have known what you meant.
You're certainly thinking big, aren't you? ;-)
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No no! It should be in the south west ;-)
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Nah... - Midlands are fairer to everyone ;-)
Stimpzilla
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yes I have waited for this a long time!!!
ever scince I went to the canbera show & won that
Amiga 1200 from Pedro I feel like attending Amiga shows more often.....cant think why :roll:
but melbourne is still a hell of a lot closer to me and even thats more than 200km north :-P
-Panthro
PS where is it likly to be??? & what month??
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Still no uk dates . :-? :-)
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This week, Stimpzilla 'as bin mostly typin:-
Nah... - Midlands are fairer to everyone ;-)
...beers cheaper too !
Wulfrun - Wulfrun hall wolverhampton,
JBs - a small venue in Dudley.
'ow bist me mon' black country for 'how are you dear chep ?'. I'm not actually a black country mon meself, but I live ere, so - when in rome un all ? ay it ?
Coventry ? poor b'stard ! move to wolverhampton ! cov's mental ! (got a mate there, who only wants to move out !)
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@AGAFaster
JBs - a small venue in Dudley.
'ow bist me mon' black country for 'how are you dear chep ?'. I'm not actually a black country mon meself, but I live ere, so - when in rome un all ? ay it ?
Coventry ? poor b'stard ! move to wolverhampton ! cov's mental ! (got a mate there, who only wants to move out !)
JB might be better if its smaller than the Wolves Civic. The general theme for tour venues seems to be somewhere with space for seating, possible presentation space (bit in the corner where a table and projector can be put?), and space for tables and machines ;-)
Cov's mental, huh? And I own an Amiga, and name myself after a cartoon character, so I must be the embodiment of sane normality ;-) :-D
Stimpy
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...beers cheaper too !
Eh? I said south WEST, not London ;-)
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So, what are they going to show at this OS 4 Roadshow in Australia?
We know they can't show OS 4, so can we assume this isn't really going to be in Australia, or is that a leap of logic?
Don't get me wrong, I'm a blind OS4 follower as much as the next irrational and mentally unstable Amiga Inc. follower, but is it just me or is there always an OS4 announcment ready for every MorphOS one?
EGADS! If all it took was being irrational and mentally unstable, then I would be an OS4 follower too. :-D
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i wish everyone in Australia a good time! wish i could be there.
love those sexy accents!
:-D
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Thanks Cecilia. We ALWAYS have a good time out here.
What was Mark Time muttering about? OS4 will be demonstrated running in PPC, on Cyberstorm PPC Amigas. Not on AmigaOnes until the Friedens release something publicly.
tony
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Thanks Cecilia. We ALWAYS have a good time out here.
Where do we have a good time? :-(
I want it to come to melbourne!
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love those sexy accents!
yeah .... roit!
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love those sexy accents!
Funny you should say that.. I know two people going overseas for 12 months (Japan/Canada) and when they came back took a while to get used to the (read: annoying) Australian accent again... wierd, especially since *they* didn't lose their own accent, just weren't used to hearing it
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cecilia said:
i wish everyone in Australia a good time! wish i could be there.
love those sexy accents! :-D
(http://www.guerilla-films.com/bm/barry_sleave.gif)(http://www.ezydvd.com.au/g/i/p/223197.jpg)
@cecilia, may I reccomend THESE DVDs? Other Aussies may groan but they can be a good laugh.
Barry Humphries' legendary
THE ADVENTURES OF BARRY McKENZIE
(30th Anniversary Edition)
Stars: Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Spike Milligan, Peter Cook, and Dennis Price. Introducing Paul Bertram as Curly.
Long before the "gross-out" comedies Something About Mary, Dumb And Dumber, American Pie, Me, Myself & Irene, Road Trip etc, Bruce Beresford's film of Barry Humphries' PRIVATE EYE comic strip THE ADVENTURES OF BARRY McKENZIE (the world's first gross-out comedy) shocked its financiers, the Australia Government, with its portrayal of Australians as drinking, shagging, vomiting, urinating vulgarians. The British press were equally horrified with the English portrayed as upper class perverts, poofters, lezzas, swindlers, exploiters and idiots.
The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie (http:// http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/movies/barrymckenzie.htm)
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (http:// http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/223197)
Edna's nephew Barry and his chums (including a permanently intoxicated Clive James) have to travel into darkest Transylvania (on Vamp-Air) to rescue his aunt, Dame Edna, whose been mistaken for the Queen by Count Erich Von Plasma, a transylvanian vampire and head of a Stalinist state which has no tourist industry.
In the course of this film there are numerous sight gags and sub plots most of which are either racist, sexist or both. The French and the Poms are the main targets, although a scene involving a van loan of illegal immigrants and a DHSS office would not be tolerated if it were filmed today.
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MarkTime mumbled:
We know they can't show OS 4
:-? Whence this certainty, Mark? We know that they CAN show OS 4, because we saw it at running at Amiwest, months back. If anything, it will be even more advanced at these upcoming shows.
:roll: You really need to get out more.
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I must say that I’m pleasantly surprised that Australia got OS4 before the UK.
1) I always thought the user bass wasn’t as high as it was in Europe.
2) Brit has twice as many people (or close to) than Australia
3) It’d be much easier to organise an event in Britain because no matter where you are, I’m guessing it wouldn’t be a large travel to get there. Because Britain is about the size of Victoria..
And In Australia, the location of the events scheduled so far (including Melbourne which isn’t scheduled yet) only makes OS4 available to the eastern half of Australia, which I guess would be something like 11-15 million?
Although, I f you took into account the more rural people, that'd be much less...
So, I think its very weird :) I’m sure the UK will have one soon enough. If Australia can pull one together, I’d say the UK would be able to.
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Funny you should say that.. I know two people going overseas for 12 months (Japan/Canada) and when they came back took a while to get used to the (read: annoying) Australian accent again... weird, especially since *they* didn't lose their own accent, just weren't used to hearing it
Fun you should say that, i had a friend that went to England or Wales or both for a while and she was working over there... so she was there long enough to get used to the accent... Then I don’t know where it was, maybe boarding the plan to get home, she heard two female Australians and she said it drove her up the wall...
but to be fair, the Australia Accent is very rugged, and is much suited for men. I think it makes us sound more manly.. so even us geeks can sound a little rugged, as if we've had some sunshine :)...
On females, it’s no good...
but I think its the opposite for England. Its great on females and would have to be my favorite... I love that English chick on the Yankee sitcom fraiser. Very cute…
But unfortunately, it makes the guys sound a little... well, im not going to say cause i'll be flamed like all hell...
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The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own
I know this may be Unpatriotic, but I only heard about this fello, or at least saw his stuff, only a few months back… And couldn’t believe the stuff they were saying because, when it was made, it was done before all the politically correct stuff was around, and I had no idea just how much of an impact it had made on Australia. They way they used to openly curse the homosexuals and ethnic people… I could understand how disgusting people may find it, and it was, but you’ve just gota laugh at it… you’ll never see stuff like this made every again… they’d lock you up and throw away the key :)
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you’ll never see stuff like this made every again… they’d lock you up and throw away the key :)
Always the non-PC stuff is the best! ;-)
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The really weird thing is - the soundtrack of the movies is uncensored but, the extras on the DVDs which include interviews have their film clips vulgarities 'tooted-out'!
Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, although being in English (sort of) has, as a bit of comedy, Bazza's own words repeated in the English Subtitle! Of course, it doesn't fully match up, but does lend an extra dimention!
One BIG laugh is the portrayal of prospective UK migrants-to-Australia having to undergo Game Show type questioning so that they can prove their worthyness, at Australia House.
Another is Bassa's gaol-break via a centuries-old boat moored underground in a sewer. Since the oars have long since rotted away, he uses his hands and gets to speak the immortal complaint- "Now I'm really up *hit Creek witout a paddle!"
Its interesting to see Edna (Barry Humphries) before Damehood!