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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Events => Topic started by: number6 on August 08, 2014, 05:16:35 PM
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http://www.amiwest.net/
and/or follow updates here:
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=39267&forum=16
#6
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Another way to get there... sacc.org
Thx,
M
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I may attend this year, I have not gone since 2007.
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I will be there. Already booked my flights. :-)
TrevorD
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I will be there. Already booked my flights. :-)
TrevorD
Trevor would it be worth my while to attend this year?
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I will be there. Already booked my flights. :-)
TrevorD
Hi,
I will be there too - my first time at Amiwest. I look forward to meeting Trevor and all other people who come, including those I have talked too via the IRC or forum posts but never met in person. If you can, please come to AmiWest this year!
Very excited! :-)
Catcha,
Epsilon
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Look forward to seeing you all.
Amiwest is always worth attending. :-)
TrevorD
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Look forward to seeing you all.
Amiwest is always worth attending. :-)
Agreed. :D
Just got my plane tickets as well.
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@ssolie
looking forward to seeing everyone there.
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if you are able to travel to california this october, you owe it to yourself to come out for amiwest. always a ton of fun, very relaxed, and tons of amiga content (classic and next-gen). it's worth the trip!
-- eliyahu
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My flights are booked. My wife and daughter are accompanying me this time, first for a visit to San Francisco then onward to Sacramento for AmiWest.
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Is Carl, RJ, Dale Luck or any other original Amiga designers going to be there this year?
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looks like brian has posted the hotel reservation information over on his blog (http://amiwestnet.customersmusic.com/amiwest2014blog/index.html). if you guys have the time and means of making it to amiwest this year, do it. you'll be glad you did.
-- eliyahu
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some more updates this morning, this time on the programming seminar which has become a tradition the past few years just prior to the show. this year instead of two days of dedicated sessions, it looks like this year the organizers are planning a working seminar with an introduction on thursday morning and hacking on a specific project throughout.
there are more details on the amiwest blog (http://www.amiwest.net/amiwest2014blog/) as well as the dedicated pages (http://www.amiwest.net/aosps/) for the programming seminar. i've attended the seminars both last year and 2012 and found them to be hugely interesting. for folks curious about what goes on before deciding to attend, there are session notes and videos of the classes available on the AOS developer wiki (http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Tutorials:Main#AmiWest_2013).
but as with all things amiwest you'll miss out on the fun if you don't show, so start making plans today if you haven't already. all the details you need are at amiwest.net (http://www.amiwest.net), including special rates for the show hotel. i hope to see you there!
-- eliyahu
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The swap/sale event is a good idea. You should advertise it on craigs list etc.
ps. Is there a more up to date Hyperion site than the one linked to on the Amiwest page? That site only has news up to March 2013.
Edit.
Nope, it seems that is the most up to date site. :(
Shame, as it makes it appear that nothing official has happened or is happening since early 2013.
Perhaps pointing potential amiwest attendees to the Hyperion Blog would be better? http://blog.hyperion-entertainment.biz
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I will attend too! Was there 2012. Anyone from Southern Oregon coming too?
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AmiWest 2014
Just one month to go!
Come for the Classic Clinic!
Come for the Swap meet!
Come to find those Classic parts and systems at the SACC Abyss table!
Come to be part of the AmiVerse!
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I will most likely be present.
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Is anyone planning to demo attend with a system equipped with OS4 running on WinUAE?
This is a really important development and I think a presentation and panel discussion is a must.
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Is anyone planning to demo attend with a system equipped with OS4 running on WinUAE?
This is a really important development and I think a presentation and panel discussion is a must.
why is this so important? if it was, then there would be some reaction towards it, wouldnt it? instead there are just few people on their own trying to hack os4 into runing under uae. so far it looks like this doesnt offer much, except a satisfaction to squeeze something into where it wasnt intended for. it appears much more efficient to run plain 68k emulation. most likely the outcome of the whole affair will be that everybody who wants will take a peek at it and quickly returns where they came from.
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Is anyone planning to demo attend with a system equipped with OS4 running on WinUAE?
This is a really important development and I think a presentation and panel discussion is a must.
i wasn't planning on doing a formal demo of AOS4 running under UAE, but on sunday the intuitionbase.com table will have my thinkpad setup with AOS4+UAE available for folks to play with if interested.
while there are always more classic guys at amiwest than NG users, there are a lot of NG users all the same, including some of the AOS4 devs. maybe we can rope a couple of them into talking about it? dunno -- but i'll try. thx for the suggestion! :)
-- eliyahu
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Strange situation that there is no banner for Amiwest on amiga.org only on amigaworld.net
Trevor / A-Eon now own site, sponsoring show for couple years now, and there's no activity on that plan... This is no his job for sure.. moderators are you there?
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why is this so important?
OS4.x can be run on mobile hardware for the first time. It can now be run on cheaper hardware, hardware that people already have. Don't you think that's an important development.
if it was, then there would be some reaction towards it, wouldnt it?
A number of threads on most Amiga sites, 800 respondants (not many polls get such a response here these days) to a poll on Amiga New de.
instead there are just few people on their own trying to hack os4 into runing under uae. so far it looks like this doesnt offer much, except a satisfaction to squeeze something into where it wasnt intended for. it appears much more efficient to run plain 68k emulation. most likely the outcome of the whole affair will be that everybody who wants will take a peek at it and quickly returns where they came from.
The emulation is not mature at this point but there are already various videos on youtube showing that it works and there is a lot of interest.
It's much more efficient to run software directly through Windows too but people still run web browsers and various ports under UAE.
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i wasn't planning on doing a formal demo of AOS4 running under UAE, but on sunday the intuitionbase.com table will have my thinkpad setup with AOS4+UAE available for folks to play with if interested.
That will be nice that people can see it in action and use it.
while there are always more classic guys at amiwest than NG users, there are a lot of NG users all the same, including some of the AOS4 devs. maybe we can rope a couple of them into talking about it? dunno -- but i'll try. thx for the suggestion! :)
-- eliyahu
Would be nice to have a full discussion with all interest parties, attendees and those on IRC.
I think this is something that Hyperion should support but so far there has been no official word.
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OS4.x can be run on mobile hardware for the first time. It can now be run on cheaper hardware, hardware that people already have. Don't you think that's an important development.
not really. by your logic amiga os already runs on mobile devices for years, namely the genuine one. even if os4 ran natively on x86 but still with the speed from the nineties it would remain nice gimmick, but nothing people would seriously use. 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. as it is, it only shows that amiga hackers are more capable, have more vision and sense for experiment than the os4 development team.
A number of threads on most Amiga sites, 800 respondants (not many polls get such a response here these days) to a poll on Amiga New de.
you could vote on that poll multiple times. i did for the fun it. and i told it christoph. im pretty sure there was others eager to prove some point as it was the case in the past. so i dont take it as a secure reference.
The emulation is not mature at this point but there are already various videos on youtube showing that it works and there is a lot of interest.
It's much more efficient to run software directly through Windows too but people still run web browsers and various ports under UAE.
the point of running uae is to run genuine amiga software. if you can run some more or less contemporary open source apps alongside without switching to the host system, it is just a convenience but not a particular argument. os4 lacks genuine software. i doubt there is overwhelming demand to run quick and dirty sdl and qt ports under uae when you can run them natively.
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Just to get back to thread "AmiWest 2014"
So why come to AmiWest? If you're an Amiga user, there are many reasons. I've been thinking about the reasons I go to the show as well as reasons that others have mentioned to me.
reasons to be at AmiWest 2014, the AmiVerse show on the West Coast of the USA.
10. You can potentially experience the entire range of the AmiVerse at
AmiWest. We say "potentially" because that depends upon who shows up.
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.
This is an amazing expansion, fueled by the improvements that others have made in what some are now calling "Amiga-based systems." None of these efforts are, to my knowledge, funded by multi-billion-dollar companies. All are the efforts of volunteers whose passions for a better computer system often exceed their resources.
Come and help expand the AmiVerse!
Come and see what others are bringing. Bring something yourself: a favorite configuration, an insight into OS operation, new and / or improved software to show, photos of your setup, - everything AmiVerse related. Bring your AROS or MorphOS or E-UAE setup for the community area so others can see what's happening there. What people bring is what enriches our show.
So come to AmiWest. The Programming Seminar starts on Thursday, October 23 and runs throughout the show. The show itself begins with the Classic Clinic at 5 PM on Friday with free food and Amiga technicians ready to help you upgrade your machine with the parts you bring with you. See AmiWest.net for the rest of the basic schedu
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I'm still thinking of attending this year.
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@Pyromania
I hope so! Should be a really good show this year.
Cheers,
Bill "tekmage" Borsari
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I'm still thinking of attending this year.
You should come Bill, I would like to meet you and I think I still owe you $50 or so and have some materials to return to you from one of the previous shows where I was selling some of your software (sorry I forgot to send it to you).
You will have a great time, I am sure. Hope to see you there.:)
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I'm still thinking of attending this year.
I'm working on it.... ;)
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@pyromania
I miss the podcasts, those were nice to hear while working :(
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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.
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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.
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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
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Cool! Twice in one year! :)
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@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.
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@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
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please keep the conversation on-topic here, i.e., amiwest 2014. anything else, please take it to another thread. thanks.
-- eliyahu
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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
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Pic 25 looks like Trevor holding the new AmigaOS AEon sat nav!
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a couple of quick updates from the amiwest blog (http://www.amiwest.net/amiwest2014blog/) 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
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Besides being a vendor, I am also a sponsor of the event.
I look forward to meeting everyone!
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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
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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.
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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.
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fpga emulators?
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@comi
No banners on amiga dot org...
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I was really hoping to make ti this year, but it's turning out not to be so. (Midterm, car repair, and WAY too much work all at once) I'll be hoping for next year!
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I was really hoping to make ti this year, but it's turning out not to be so. (Midterm, car repair, and WAY too much work all at once) I'll be hoping for next year!
Okay, we'll let you off this year...see ya next year! Right? (wink)
Folks are coming from England, New Zealand, Australia, Germany... even from Sacramento!
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October 15, 2014 About those Banquet Tickets. . .(Part 2)
Today we invoiced those who have signed up for the AmiWest 2014 banquet. I must say that we have about twice as many signed up this year as we did last year at this point.
We don't want to leave anyone out. Please use the link at the top of this blog page to make your reservations for the banquet featuring Amiga developer and professional musician Andy Broad from the UK.
Tickets may sell out for this event! Don't be disappointed. Reserve yours today.
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a bunch of us arrived last night and have been setting up for our programming workshop. this looks to be a great show as always, and some news is already leaking out elsewhere. for those interested epsilon already has pictures up of our seminar setup: http://amigax1000.blogspot.com/2014/10/amiwest-2014-programming-seminar-day-1.html
-- eliyahu
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The amiga future preview of AmigaOS4.1 final edition is interesting.
http://www.amigafuture.de/album_pic.php?pic_id=20598
Not sure who will have to pay for it though....
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The amiga future preview of AmigaOS4.1 final edition is interesting.
http://www.amigafuture.de/album_pic.php?pic_id=20598
Looks a little like an advertisement disguised as an article...
Not sure who will have to pay for it though....
Remains to bee seen...
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(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AuL2or6PbcI/VEk_r3r20aI/AAAAAAAAI8s/cW-I4POtM3I/s640/blogger-image--350317195.jpg)
Source:
http://amigax1000.blogspot.se/2014/10/amiwest-2014-programming-seminar-day-1.html?m=1
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Is anyone planning to demo attend with a system equipped with OS4 running on WinUAE?
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vCNzrwkLgnk/VEk_kohTQJI/AAAAAAAAI8U/JDFXjsAv1xM/s640/blogger-image--378009945.jpg)
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AmigaOS 4.1 running on AmigaOne X5000 :pint:
Source:
http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/amiwest-2014-friday-night-classic.html
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RM3d6LIoo7E/VEtRsXsG3GI/AAAAAAAAI_s/Fqy21dZUIjc/s1600/IMG_5290.JPG)
(http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/2014/10/amiwest-2014-friday-night-classic.html)
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Some nice looking systems there! :D