Amiwest 2005 Second Special Announcement For Immediate Release!
SECOND SPECIAL IMMEDIATE INFORMATION RELEASE for AmiWest 2005, July 23rd,
2005 in Sacramento, California! Our webpage at
www.sacc.org/amiwest is
being updated with all the current show information. We encourage you to
visit our site to see the rest of the current information.
Amiga Forever,
Sacramento Amiga Computer Club
AmiWest 2005 Committee
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RICHARD DRUMMOND TO SPEAK AT AMIWEST 2005 BANQUET!
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By special arrangement, Amiga OS4 developer Richard Drummond will present
the banquet address at the AmiWest 2005 Saturday evening banquet! He is
our **surprise** speaker this year! Here is the rest of the bio of Richard
(courtesy of AmiWest committee member Charles Pickrell) to help you get
better acquainted!
"Ben Hermans of Hyperion, having learned about Rich during his Amiga Format
days, contacted Rich asking him if he would be interested in doing some
documentation for the upcoming Amiga OS 4. While Richard never ultimately
took the documentation job he now had a contact and relationship with Ben
at Hyperion.
Later Rich and his wife decided to move their family to his wife's home town
of Fort Wayne, Indiana so they and their children could be closer to her
family. Moving from Europe to the US, Richard decided to shed his aging
Amigas for the move.
It was at this time Rich became more intersted in the Amiga emulator UAE,
which allowed him to run classic Amiga software on Linux. Realizing that UAE
on Linux didn't work terribly well, Richard rolled up his shirtsleeves and
started making changes to UAE himself. The UAE maintainer, Bernd Schmidt,
never responded to offers from Rich of his home-grown upgrades to UAE so he
started making them just for himself. Later in discussion boards people were
complaining about the poor compatibility of UAE and Richard offered his
upgrades to others. This quickly bloomed into the current E-UAE that Rich
maintains for Linux, Mac, Amiga, and Unix platforms. This got Richard on the
select beta test team for OS4 so he could make his E-UAE work properly with
OS4 before its official release.
Not content simply to be a beta-tester of OS4.0, Rich compiled the first two
OS4 pre-release CDs for Hyperion and has helped out with the development of
Picasso96 and Warp3D drivers for OS4.0. He has also worked for Mr Hardware
Computers, bringing their relational database software, SBase4, to OS4.0.
Want to know Rich's thoughts and inside information on OS4 from the
perspective of a developer? Would you like to know more about E-UAE? Then
attend AmiWest 2005 in Sacramento, CA on July 23."
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So remember,
AmiWest 2005 is rolling! The facility is reserved and the vendors
are notified! Keep watching for these releases and tell everyone
that you know - the Amiga and the Amiga community is alive and
well!
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AmiWest 2005 will be at the
Clarion Hotel Cal Expo
2600 Auburn Blvd.
Sacramento California 95821
Reservations Phone 1-800-424-6423 toll-free (local 1-916-487-7600)
and by snail-mail at the above address.
Please watch our website at
www.sacc.org/amiwest for continuing news and
information regarding AmiWest 2005. We are on target for another improved
show! See you there!
