G'day from Adelaide

[MelbourneBen]

Welcome mate,

Sounds like a nice project, an A500+ is a nice machine. Are you gettinf it shipped from the UK? They rarely come up on ebay.com.au as I dont think they were ever sold in Aus.

I also live in Adelaide ;-)

[MelbourneBen]

Cameng is in Waikeri, djos is in Edwardstow, I'm in Ingle Farm, so chances are MelbourneBen is actually in Melbourne :p

Hi mate, I'm definately up for an Adelaide meet. I created my handle when I lived in Melbourne, we moved to Adelaide 3 years ago.

I know there is already an Amiga/PC computer club in Unley but I'm not sure if this is still active. I only know about that from doing a Google search, I've never heard the group memtioned on any of the Amiga forums. So probably best to form our own group.

Anyone got any idea's for a meeting place? Some where around the city would probably be best.

[MelbourneBen]

Yeah I found some refs to an Adelaide Amiga group too but the site hadn't been updated In years from what I could tell.

Amusingly enuf I used to work for Adam Internet as their Customer Delivery manager and that company was born out of a bbs for the ADelaide AMiga user group.

Somewhere close to the city would certainly be the most central location for all, initially we could get the ball rolling by meeting at a pub like the Tap inn over some snitzel's and beer and throw around some ideas for the location of an actual user group meet?

Yeah I heard about the Adelaide Amiga (Adam) beginnings, interesting stuff ;-) Someone also mentioned the Phoenix board for the A1000, I recently learnt that was built/designed in a small office just off the Anzac Highway in Keswick.

The Tap inn would be good for me, how about a Friday night after work? Shall we pencil in the 13th of July? Is that date/time ok with other Adelaide people?

[MelbourneBen]

I have a Phoenix add on board (RAM and ROM I think) for my A1000. I wonder if that was made there? Did somebody say Pub? I will see if I can make it, maybe later that night due to travel time.

Good stuff, so we have 3 for the first meeting so far! ;-)

I think all Phoenix boards were made there. I have a stack of old Australian Amiga mags and its interesting to see the amount of parts that were made in Australia, from RAM boards through to Joypads. We dont see that so much these days

[MelbourneBen]

LOl, thats sounds like fun!

Chap's, my minister for social affairs and handbag collecting has advised we have a pretty full weekend this weekend so how about Friday the 22nd for our meet instead?

Hi mate, yes - I can do the 22nd but can't have a late one as got daugthers christening that weekend. How is the 22nd for everyone else?

[MelbourneBen]

Hi All,

I live in Adelaide too! Lived here on and off for almost 25 years now...

I have been a member at Amigaworld.net for a long while and I check Amiga.org website from time to time - only time to post in one place really though so it has always been Amigaworld.net....sorry amiga.org!

Saw some fellow South Australian Amiga users pop up here in the last few days so thought I should sign up to Amiga.org so I could say hello and introduce myself!

As I said before I am from Adelaide, Australia, and I have and still own  many and various Amiga (and other) hardware!

I started using Amiga's in  1988 when I helped my Perth High School's Art department setup an Amiga 1000! My  first Amiga was an Amiga 500 in late 1988.

Since then I have owned pretty  much every Amiga out there except a CDTV...

I have started keeping a blog on the AmigaOne X1000. If anyone is interested, it is at http://amigax1000.blogspot.com.au/

At one stage I was part of an  Amiga demo group called "The Experience", and we released our last AGA demo  "Terminal" in 1998. I think it is available on pouet.net if you are interested!  My handle was "Epsilon", hence my name! My avatar came from  our long closed Experience website which I used to run. I went to Coven in 1996, and 1997. If you were there I was the guy playing all the Amiga 1200 AGA demos all night...

At the moment my  main completed Amiga hardware is AmigaOne X1000 (my pride and joy), Amiga 4000T/060, Amiga 4000D/PPC-060, Amiga  1200/060, Amiga 2000/030, CD32, eMac (MorphOS 3.0) and a Minimig. I currently play around with Kryoflux Amiga write  support (since reading about it in Amiga Future) and it works great!

I  guess this qualifies me as an Amiga Geek!

Look forward to seeing you all around in  the forums either here or at Amigaworld.net.

Catcha,
Epsilon

Good to hear from you Epsilon, sounds like you have heaps of Amiga experience. Do you work in I.T. in Adelaide? Would you be interested in joining us for the meet? Would be good to have you onboard.

[MelbourneBen]

True, other good options are the café's on the parade at Norwood? There's a few that do decent pizza iirc and those that do want to have a beer can and the teetotallers hopefully wont feel out of place? :cool:

PS, prolly easier to talk at a cafe too as lower noise levels.

PSS, so tempted to ask how you get your fluid intake not drinking and all!

A pizza in Norwood sounds good to me. How about a weekday or weekend lunch time?

@AmmoJammo, I'm not a big drinker either, so your not alone ;-)

[MelbourneBen]

How about Saturday August the 4th for Lunch somewhere in Norwood? is that date good for everyone?

[MelbourneBen]

That's 6 weeks away!

I know but atleast it gives plenty of notice.

So far we have 4 confirmed attendees:

me
djos
ammojammo
haranguer

Cameng, Epsilon, can you make it?

How about Cafe bravo on the parade in Norwood?

[MelbourneBen]

cool :laugh1:

That's 7 confirmed and 1 maybe. I suggested cafe bravo because I think it sells a variety of food so should be good for everyone, its also licensed.

MickJT, are you the guy that wrote the MSN client?

For the second meeting it might be good to meet at a community hall or somewhere similiar so we can demo machines etc. I think this is what the Melbourne group do. Would also be a good way to assist each other with troubleshooting and share ideas.

[MelbourneBen]

welcome wakido and mylo, will be good to have you at the meet.

[MelbourneBen]

Sorry for the delay in responding - been off sick in bed the whole of last week.
 
Cafe Bravo sounds good to me, look forward to catch up with some fellow Adelaidean Amigans!
 
I think in the first instance getting together informally is good, and then we can decide after that whether we want to have a community centre room hired or similar based regular event that allows us to bring machines, etc. I missed out on the user group thing when it was most popular, and with such a small Amiga community in Adelaide, it would be good to get something happening locally so we can help each other out and learn more about our Amigas.
 
Catcha,
Epsilon

Good stuff Epsilon, agree.

Looking forward too it...all being well we should have about 8 attendee's.

[MelbourneBen]

So everyone seems happy with August 4th and Cafe Bravo on the Parade at Norwood - is everyone available for dinner, or is lunch the preferred option?

Lunch is much preferred for me. Looking forward to it :banana:

[MelbourneBen]

@djos,

I notice from your signature that you have a GBS-8220 scandoubler and flickerfixer, does this work well? I'm especially interested how it works in interlaced modes, have you been able to test these?

[MelbourneBen]

looking forward too it ;-)