Anyone has experience with Amiwest?

[superfrog76]

I see the banner here on the site, and since I am not that far from Sacramento, I was wondering if anyone can tell me more about this gathering called Amiwest.

I've browsed the site, but other than knowing that it is a gathering for Amiga users, and other than knowing that there is a dinner, for which you need to reserve a spot, I didn't got exactly what happens there

Is a sort of gathering where people sell stuff? There are some sort of panels/talks?

I saw that Amikit will be there, and I may buy some stuff if they have inventory available there , or if there are other fellow Miggy users that sell their stuff I may stop by for a hour or so if it is the case, otherwise I guess that I will have to save the trip for next time.

Can anyone tell me what is all about? Thanks!

[superfrog76]

Thanks for your reply

I am into old stuff...to me Amiga means 68K, so I never got into the PPC phase, and I am not even sure what is considered today an Amiga I left the scene when Commodore died and Escom and Gateway started the dance with the license.

It sounds like a fun place to be I may show up to take a look maybe; South bay is just 3-4 hours from Sac; but most likely I will come next year.

I would never imagine that there was a club that was still running! Live long and prosper, SACC

[superfrog76]

definitely. just dont let you talk into some ppc boards to run so called os4. ;P

btw. there is another upgrade path at hand. its free, its open souce and you can keep your genuine amiga soft and hardware. its called aros68k. beware, its still in experimental stage, but the more devs and the more interest there is the better it will become.

I have heard of Aros, but I thought that was a linux distro with a UAE emulator to mimic the real AmigaOS; if it run on 68K I would love to try it

BTW I am not stuck on 68K and refuse to look somewhere else I just prefer to remember it in that way, because for me, at that time, 3.0 was the best that you can ever run on a computer

Where I can get the source for the 68K aros? and how do you build for Amiga? My only Amiga experience was on argasm many decades ago, and a bit of Lattice C Never did cross platform development, since the only computer for me was the Miggy

[superfrog76]

Im sure if you are an amiga fan you will have fun at Amiwest. Its not the big of a ashow more like a big UGN meeting but whats really fun isnt so much the showfloor but the parties at night in the rooms and stuff. (like all amiga cons actually lol)

Good point, in the end is all about the company

Altho I would love something where you learn stuff about the old architecture CLI, programming, mods and such