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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Events => Topic started by: otpsoft on October 17, 2003, 04:19:50 AM
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Don't forget Queenslanders tomorrow (Sat Oct 18th) is your day for the Amiga Os 4 Roadshow.
Venue: Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
Building B level 1, Theatre B 117, Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane.
Time: 1 pm (doors open 12.30 pm)
Come and see Amiga OS 4 in action on Classic Amiga and AmigaOne, come and see the new AmigaOne Lite mini ITX motherboard.
Go in the draw to win a door prize supplied by AnythingAmiga and be in the draw for our major prize to be drawn at the end of all the Australian shows ..... a Thermaltake Lanfire Aluminium computer case supplied and presented by Thermaltake Aust.
The Australian Amiga OS 4 Roadshows are proudly supported by Amiga Downunder User Group, the relevant user groups in each city, AnythingAmiga, Thermaltake Australia and Anyware PC Accesories.
More info is available at the website below.
Regards,
Doug Moir
OS 4 Roadshow (http://www.amigaos4downunder.org)
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Good luck with the show ya northerners! :-D :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint: :pint:
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Great! Is anyone here going to be attending the canberra show? I'll be there unless there is a melbourne one, but then again i may go to both? Their just about the same distiance from here (albury/wodonga)!
So i cant wait, i'll be taking my dads camera hopfuly, which isnt too shabby... i believe it can take movies, so i'm goign to have to ask him and then get him to show me how its works :)
I assume Hyperion WONT be there... damn this remote continent of ours, event though it does have its advantages! I take that damn back... God bless this remote continent of ours :)
Couldnt we toe Australia with a few hundred thousand tugboats closer to the US or Europe?
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LOL Rodney, maybe we could find some benefactors to fund the purchase of the tugboats! :-D
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I figure china is going to be a super power pretty soon, so if we did move the country, we'd have to move it straight back again. I ask myself, and my fellow aussies... is it worth it?
LOL Rodney, maybe we could find some benefactors to fund the purchase of the tugboats!
Well, if we did decide to do it... Maybe we could just hire Ian Thorpe? Hows that old saying go?... oh yes "Thorpies as strong as one hundred thousand tugboats and as fast as a zertec! :)
Ian may well be cheaper than the tugboats!
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gar! What abou bludy Melbourne, mate!!!
Some bloody drongo left us chuz-wozzer-molunga-goolachucks out mate!!
That's a bloody outrage it is! I'm gunna take this all the way to the primeminister!
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I'm gunna take this all the way to the primeminister!
Well maybe you could hich a ride with us to canberra? Tell him there... I wonder he'll be attending the OS4 show?
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Well maybe you could hich a ride with us to canberra? Tell him there... I wonder he'll be attending the OS4 show?
:-o You kidding? I havn't even been out of the state of Victoria!
I'll lose my interstate virginity - twice!! :-o
I'm not all that interested in AOS4 until it comes to Melbourne - I think.
I would think about it though. :-)
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LOl hehehehe u guys kill me!
Yeah I reckon Ian Thorpe would actually not be cheaper! :-o Why? you ask? Well after those crappy Pura ads in which he showed off his legs, I reckon he'd ask for too many royalties.
Oh and a big LOL about THAT simpsons episode Prime Minister thing! :-D
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What do you think of our venue?
(http://www.amigaos4downunder.org/B117.jpg)
I was there with Doug & his wife, and Charles, on Thursday! Great A/V setup. The OTHER thing is I'll finally get to see my A1, though it'll be showing Linux. I'd hoped for a AOS4 beta . . . . . . . . . .:-(
Here's a
location map (http://home.iprimus.com.au/vortexau/images5/RoadShowVenue.gif) that I prepared earlier! The theatre is depicted in red near LEFT-TOP corner of QUT. For ANYONE within affordable Air Travel distance of Brisbane; you can take the AIRTRAIN: (http://www.nachohat.org/qld_feb2002/thumbnails/qld002.jpg) from the airport in to Central Station. From there, it's a 15 min walk to QUT.
For southside arrivals, the CAR PARKING, BUS Station & RAIL Station at Southbank Parklands offers one of the best options, allowing access to QUT via the Goodwill Pedestrian Bridge...... ( indicated in green on map )
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looks great pity iam the other side of the World.
:-)
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That's a huge venue!
also, vortexau, can we expected pictures and a report from you? I'll hopfully be able to privide pictures and deffinitly a short report about the canberra one... I just wish to know what im up for...
The canberra one could be the smallest of them all actualy... :} Most likly i'd say!
And maybe grant hacket would be more suited to the moving australia idea... he's more of a long distance swimmer... He wouldnt be cheap either, but cheaper than thorpe anyway!!!
When will we start to hear from anyone at the show? And, if your not one of those guys on the internet, how does anyone else know about the OS4 tours?
Is there anyone in australia that subscribes to magazines that these events would have been published in?
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LOL Rodney about Hckett, I bet you're right too!
Oh, and good luck today guys! I wish you all the best. :-)
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hey, bodie... wheres all the pics from the sydney show? We're well overdue for some.
I havnt noticed anyone from here or amigaworld that are going to the canberra one yet either! :}
I wonder how big these shows are gunna be... i mean some of the ones through out europe wernt that large, do you think the Aussie ones could topple them?
I doubt it! If im the only one there, im gunna feel a little weird! :)
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I was at the sydney one but has been too lazy to put any pictures or reports up, if someone want me to let me know and ill do something tomorrow, i got 30Mb of pics (not all good) but i also have $4!tloads of pics of the a-one mini itx board as well, with size comparisons with the current a-one atx (sitting on top, beside etc etc)...
There was more people there then i thought there would be so all was good, the venue was also *huge*, there were three giant screens each with presentations going on, The main screen was at a guess 4 metres high and showing aos4 one an a-one
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teotwin:
I just kinda wanna know what number of people turned up, if there was a lot of interest, and what it was focused on, like A1-itx or OS4, etc...
I think its a shame no pegasos systems arnt being shown at the shows. You'd get more interest, bigger, brighter atmosphere etc...
So what was the atmosphere like? Who was there? Any Amiga Celebs?
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Im not sure of the numbers, I would guess at around 40+-5? people where there for the couple of hours it was going for? I believe some normal public people were there such as some people from the engineering department at the uni, which was a polite surprise.
The presentations where staggered between the different aspects of the amiga OS, front end back end, past present future, dev and user stuff etc etc and most presentations related back to AOS4 in the end, i was actually quite impressed! esp by colin, would be more impressed if you cut your hair colin ;-) Got more then i expected for sure.
I also got to chat to the hardware distributer for the region about the future and whats coming, i must say my hopes are once again high.
Tell me what a pegasos has to do with AOS4 and ill agree with you, but until then i think it would be like showing an amiga-one at a morphos roadshow, or showing a carolla at a honda convention, ie pointless. Dont forget the whole idea of the AOS4 roadshow it to show OS4. Id like to see aos4 run on peg2 and hence then it would have been relevant, but until all parties involed stop behaving like f#@kwits peg2 is irrelevent to amigas future path.
There was an irc wth fleecy in which some questions were asked and some questions were answered, most of the time the answers were even related to the questions! ben hermans was also penciled in for the chat but technical issues prevented him from joining. I was busy taking photos of the new mini a1 so didnt catch much of the chat session so would appreciate getting a log if anyone has one?
There was a karaoki machine (i did a cracker rendition of kenny rogers gambler) and there were a few blondes sweeties dancing around the room, everyone was drunk as! had a *good* night ;-) oh wait, that was the party i went to afterwards...
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if there is a party, i wont be attending... i'll have to get back home... And yer, i didnt mean to imply that peg + mos shoud be there, just that i havnt seen it and wouldnt mind seeing it... But i wouldnt go out of my way to see it as im doing now... i'd just be very convenient for me if it was there :)
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( Writing this just after midnight . . . trouble was that one of my brother-in-laws was being thrown a Birthday Celeb Dinner at home and I got stuck-in to the food last when I made it home . . . . then, I got to see MatrixII on DVD -- standard one under the 68cm TV )
No chance to take photos I'm afraid -- I was one of the helpers and don't have very easy access to unload digital photos anyhow!
I left to travel in by bus at 10.25am -- crossing from Southbank, I decided to save my legs some by using an elevator at QUT and I had my first ocassion to extole the news about the Amiga return on PPC, & OS4.0, to a stranger who shared that lift.
Entering the theatre, I found things were being set-up; hardware out on the dias, the transparent A1 (with Linux) up the back, and the big banner up under the main screen.
Dropping my backpack under one of the rear tables, I helped with a load of gear to be brought in from a car. The closest parking was 40-50 metres away and, after helping load two 19" CRTs screen-down on a dolly, I loaded up with a laptop-strap over my sholder while I carried one mid-tower. Later I was sticking up some banners & posters outside the theatre.
Only two or three visitors (as distinct from presenters & workers) entered before the 1.00pm kick-off time!
Come 1.00 o'clock, however, and short lines began to form at the enterance door!
Unfortunitely the NAME - EMAIL ADDRESS & Sign-the-doorprize-docket procedure slowed things up at the entrance. The low-light and shadows didn't help that either. (The door prize was a snappy-looking 5¼" bay-Mounted cooling fan) I tried to assist by handing out the information packs.
I think that there is to be a national prize, following all the Australian RoadShows, of a Thermatake Tower Case!
Unfortunitely, after the presentation started, I missed a bit as visitors continued to arrive. Because of what I missed, I hope someone else will write-up a better report.
Anyway, the 1.00 - 5.00pm RoadShow presentation was divided up by two breaks which split the segments on Amiga History - The Comeback Story - The Developer Talk (Ross- I think) - OS4 Talk - and the Hardware Talk. Questions were fielded from the audience. I tried to submit some obvious-type questions (so the presenters could describe some progress & features NOT yet handled) to the speakers when audience questions were sparse! This DID help because the presenters were able to show quite favourable features of RoadShow: the TCP/IP Stack & Handlers, for one thing! The NEW implimentation of UAE is superior. The UAE improvements are due mainly to recent work from Richard Drummond { this info from the A1g3dev List }.
Doug Moir presented the final session - quite busy as he wore (figuretively speaking) many hats: representing ADUG, the reforming QLD users group, his business as distributer to the EAST-half of Australia-N.Z.-& S.E.Asia! He also has a lot of contact with various Australian developers incl several already onboard to write drivers for the mini ITX board!
° Speaking of which- Doug slipped that board out of its foil pack and held it up beside the A1XE board! WHAT A CONTRAST!
Physically it seems slightly smaller than many of the manuals that are supplied with accessories, and that came with the '85-'94 Amiga models!
Anyway, I'm sure you get the impression - it would fit inside a CD32 Case! Aparently, it takes a Laptop-type Ram Simm, has a 2.5" IDE Header (& can Boot from a Memory Card in a no-moving-parts type configuration), onboard sound, onboard Gfx, onboard Firewire, incl VGA & SVideo outputs.
I can forsee someone fitting it into a Laptop Case, for one application!
WELL - to round-up:- last event was an IRC Session with Fleecy (10 Hrs behind Oz E.S.T) The questions seemed to lag so I kicked in with questions concerning the Joyboard (of El Torro fame), Naration.device & SAY, and Speech Input! Fleecy wrapped it up by telling us that his kids were assulting him with their copy of Thomas The Tank Engine on video. I asked him if they had one of The Wiggles!
THE VERY LAST thing, for myself, was to arrange a lift homewards, since I wasn't about to take my NEW A1XEG4 System home on a BUS! John (another one!) and his better half (sorry, forgot name) kindly ferried me in their car! I'll leave it for daylight tomorrow to set it all up - I have BAD memories of mashing pins on the A1200 IDE Header trying to connect a SCSI Pass-thru under harsh artificial light, and THAT was when my eyes were TEN YEARS younger!
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Rodney....
There will be a Roadshow in Melbourne. The exact date and venue has not been finalised yet, however it will be sometime in the middle of November.
By the way, I used to live in Albury too, between 1959 and 1980...I remember visiting the Tandy store in Olive St after school back in 1977 and drooling over the Trash-80 they had on display!!
David.
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The important detail for Melbourne is:
Getting the word out! Advertising!!!!!!
We started getting the news out really, in Brisbane, on THURSDAY! That was when we had the first posters.
Put posters up at QUT, and some at Southbank TAFE & Kangaroo Point TAFE. I got off an email to the Business Development Officer - ETechnology of Southbank Institute of TAFE that evening after she had offered to relay it via her own mail-list. But this may have been getting TOO late, and close to the event.
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By the way, I used to live in Albury too, between 1959 and 1980
Wow, you like, totally snobed me... i was born in 1981!
Any ideas on how to get out of this town? Im sure it involvs finding work.. no luck yet though!
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Getting the word out! Advertising!!!!!!
Sir, YES SIR!
I've got a coupla friends studying at melbourne university (where i may be soon, if i cant find a job) so i'll let them know.
Is there like posters on the net that one could print off and post here and there? That'd be handy! I guess theres that one on the os4downunder site!