Amiga Users Ireland meetup July 9th!

TenLeftFingers

The first Amiga Users Ireland meetup is this July 9th in the Prince of Wales Hotel. Bring your Amiga or come and see what we've tricked ours out to do. Some interesting talks, competitions, gaming, spot prizes and more. See attached and book early!

See some new Amiga hardware demo'd as well as some recent software for our thirty year old computers like the new Dropbox client

There will also be at least one stall/shop for Amiga hardware and software if you want to do some retro shopping - maybe 4MB of RAM for the misuss, sir?

The full details.

Ruu

Moved from All Things Retro.

eddhorse

Great, sounds good

Danick

Anyone know what time it starts and ends at?

Thanks

Dr Bob

Love to go myself but its a bit far out for me , good luck though

Andrew76

Dr Bob wrote: »

Love to go myself but its a bit far out for me , good luck though

Same here. Too far a trek unfortunately. Hopefully there's a good turn out.

Dr Bob

Dr Bob wrote: »

Love to go myself but its a bit far out for me , good luck though

Maynooth to Athlone!
too far:eek:
less than an hour.


Good to see somebody putting in the effort and organizing a show like this.

good luck with it!

Mancomb Seepgood

I won't be able to make it unfortunately. I owned an A500 back in the 90s and have followed the scene from a distance since..it's long been a wish to get an A1200 and set it up with Whdload. UAE will have to do for now. Anyway, I hope there's a good turnout!

BGOllie

awesome! I'll be there

The Last Bandit

At a wedding that weekend Hope ye enjoy it !!

TenLeftFingers

Danick wrote: »

Anyone know what time it starts and ends at?
Thanks

Starts at 10am. The venue is booked until after 6pm, but they've just told me I can have it until 8 if we'll use it. To which I obviously said, YES!

There will be a range of classic / next-gen machines set up, some network gaming and schenanigans. Talks about using your Amiga for more than just games in 2016 and more. A Vampire boards was due to be there but had to be returned due a defect. We are hopeful the replacement will be back in time. The room has a projector.

Some carpooling is being organised on our facebook page[1] and there is one car leaving from Dublin for the event. We have about fifty members so far and are growing. I keep meeting people who are eager to get back into it, it's great

1: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1511083932525709/

TenLeftFingers

Dr Bob wrote: »

Love to go myself but its a bit far out for me , good luck though

There are people coming from Scotland and Northern Ireland - sorry, don't buy it. Unless you travel by donkey

Nice, Only 40 minute drive from me, I'll pop on down.

smurf492

Best of luck with it...would of been great but im out of the country :-(

Den14

Might head on down there myself. A SWOS competition sounds like a bit of fun. The Amiga was such a great machine in its day. Wish I had held on to mine. It was chucked when we got the 486

Hellrun

Den14 wrote: »

Might head on down there myself. A SWOS competition sounds like a bit of fun. The Amiga was such a great machine in its day. Wish I had held on to mine. It was chucked when we got the 486

Oh dear, that sounds rather blasphemous!

Mancomb Seepgood

Den14 wrote: »

Might head on down there myself. A SWOS competition sounds like a bit of fun. The Amiga was such a great machine in its day. Wish I had held on to mine. It was chucked when we got the 486

It's a similar story for a lot of us I'd imagine, I switched to a Pentium in 1996 when I started studying software development in college and sold my A500 due to lack of space (and beer money, if I'm honest). The folly of youth...

TenLeftFingers

It's bitter-sweet to hear from those who'd like to come but aren't around. We have a FB page that anyone is welcome to join. The next thing on the agenda is to organize routine online meetups where we will log on to IRC from our Amigas and play net games like dynAMIte, Monopoly and others.

There are SWOS and KickOff fanatics in the group as well as programmers and artists. https://www.facebook.com/groups/1511083932525709/1575114019456033/?notif_t=group_activity&notif_id=1466364393971248

DinoRex

I'm hoping to make it along.

Maybe I can force people to play my awful SEUCK games.

TenLeftFingers

I don't see a way to append to the first post - but tickets are EUR 10 via paypal (see attachment on the first post) up until the day before the event. On the day it will be EUR 15 in cash at the event.

Edit: DinoRex - hope you can make it. If you don't still have your amiga you can always emulate. There's interest from a great range of people including very advanced users and people who have yet to own an Amiga and want to learn.

DinoRex

A500 and A1200 are buried at my parents house somewhere... hoping to dig them up at some point this year though.

My CD32 sits under my TV though.

TenLeftFingers

DinoRex wrote: »

A500 and A1200 are buried at my parents house somewhere... hoping to dig them up at some point this year though.

My CD32 sits under my TV though.

Excellent! I'm getting a good laugh at all the Amiga gear being bought in advance of this event. If you're a developer (even if it's SEUCK), would you consider giving a five or ten minute talk on the topic? (assuming you'll be there)

BGOllie

any vendors there ? would love to pick up some titles

Dr Bob

..not sure if my wife needs the car that day , if not I'll see if I can drive down ..:)

DinoRex

Hoping to make it down.

May bring an audio recorder along with me to get a few bits for the ArcadeAndRetro.com podcast.

Den14

It's looking like I'm going to be heading along full of curiosity heaped with dollops of nostalgia. Should be fun. It's been a while since I've laid my eyes on an actual amiga. See ye there!

TenLeftFingers

Just a few photos. Thanks to those from boards who came along. It was great to meet you and the feedback was really good so the next event is in planning already

Myrddin

Cool little bartop thing there

TenLeftFingers

Oh, and I should say that that was David Pleasance on the overhead projector taking questions about the halcyon days of Commodore

Well done!
What sort of numbers did you get?
Do you think you'll do it again?
I'd love to do a arcade/pinball show.

TenLeftFingers

BrownFinger wrote: »

Well done!
What sort of numbers did you get?
Do you think you'll do it again?
I'd love to do a arcade/pinball show.

I *love* pinball We had 18 that were there for the whole day and another two or three that couldn't stay as long. Feedback was great! I've heard from people since who didn't know about it and the group on Facebook (necessary evil for this sort of thing) has grown since the event.

The next one is already being planned but no date to announce yet.

Here's a video one of the guys made between games: https://www.instagram.com/p/BH9fjD7jDQI/

lmimmfn

nice, would be interested in the next one, i missed the previous one even though im close, grrrr

TenLeftFingers

Now's your chance! You can join the group or contact me for tickets.