Geek fest at Bletchley Park

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » June 18th, 2010, 23:55

http://tnmoc.org/vcf-gb.aspx

13.30 Amiga X1000 Launch in Marquee 2

I'm going today (Saturday), come along. Possibly the only good reason to go to Milton Keynes...

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » June 19th, 2010, 0:21

Colour me interested on the AmigaOne X1000. I wonder what will happen to it, I expect it to vanish sharpish like the original AmigaOne, even if OS4.x has been in constant development for years and could be quite good.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » June 20th, 2010, 9:42

narf, didn't look that special.

For Amiga fans, this (stand/project) actually looked a lot more interesting
http://aros.sourceforge.net/

Anyway for those that are interested, here's the photos I took (no descriptions at the moment)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dancheesea ... 190155765/

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » June 20th, 2010, 10:21

Highlights

Pong! - On a Prinztronic VC-6000 (1977) amazing how well it plays - really fast!
4 player Mashed on a projection screen.
Guitar Hero on the Commodore 64 (yes)

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 20th, 2010, 10:59

Interesting pics. I'm not sure I understand the point of keeping the Amiga going, unless it's "just because we can".

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » June 20th, 2010, 11:12

it's a hobby i guess, and beats train spotting and collecting bat poo

Post by **Dog Pants** » June 20th, 2010, 11:26

Oh my, Guitar Hero on the 64 is quite special. I only wish they'd have picked some proper music though, rather than something from Zelda.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » June 20th, 2010, 18:20

it was 'Axel F Remix' at the museum.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » June 20th, 2010, 18:41

Tidy pics Cheesyham!

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 20th, 2010, 19:37

cheeseandham wrote:it's a hobby i guess, and beats train spotting and collecting bat poo

Sure, I just imagined the Amiga OS had a particular speciality. Better for 3D modelling than Linux or something like that.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » June 20th, 2010, 20:02

Well, Workbench or as it's now known, Amiga OS kept going because it was good.

The biggest problem I see is that they keep tying it to specific hardware, the last one was the original AmigaOne which was quite hard to get and I think they'd be best off just releasing it for x86-64 systems as a cheaper alternative to Windows.

I've got no idea why they keep pushing Amiga systems though as unless they release something akin to the originals in an all-in-one keyboard profile they're in direct competition with the entire PC market.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » June 20th, 2010, 20:33

The AROS project stood out for me because it appeared to give a modern desktop, browser, RDP client & HD capable multimedia player on low end and generic hardware (one of those small Atom 1.6Ghz boxes) with a 10 second boot time.

It seemed quite pleasant - although I'd probably never use it myself.

Post by **Dog Pants** » June 20th, 2010, 21:38

Wasn't Workbench one of the first OSs which managed true multitasking?