Vintage Computing Festival-Amiga 25th Anniversary (Blog-thingy)

Hello all,

Here are some photos, of the Amiga Area (Admittedly they were taken early this morning and the area is now looking a lot more populated.

Here are a couple of Photos I took. (They are not great)

Link 1

Link 2

Link 3

I am also delighted to reveal a rather slightly blurry photo of the SAM460 Computer.

SAM 460

I have had a long day. We hope to have a Live webcam feed running off AmigaOS4 on a my MicroA1.
But we are still for waiting for Amazon to deliver it. If all goes well, we shall be webcasting live images, with thanks to Corto.

I was gonna do a write up on how the day went, but alas, I am too tired. So I'm off to bed cos I have to be up early

I'll update this forum post tomorrow and Sunday as and when I can.

Mikey C

Oh just some brief points.
* A-EON Turned up with AX1000 Display Case & Board + Posters and Some "Gooedies"

* We now have full Internet Access and Power Points to the Marquee.

* AmigaKit are in Attendance.

* ACUBE Systems SRL Are in Attendance and set up

* As is IMICA.

That's it, bye,

@Mikey_C

Thanks!

Coder

@Mikey_C

Cool. :)

@all

Thanks. The SAM460 semed to have a SATA PCI controler (but the picture isn't enough clear to see that well).

Ask this question to Acube, please.

@Mikey_C
See you all in about 2 hours depending on traffic

@Mikey_C
Cool

Thanks Mikey,

I know that the Sam460 is already running. Hope to see a video of it. Hints

@Mikey_C

Just looking at pics 1 and 2, I got the impression that the show was in Poland, not Bletchley Park.

"Pole-land", get it? Oh, well...

waiting for more pictures :)

@Kicko

Waiting for streaming video...

Look forward to full report

@DAX

Looking forward to streaming video!

Can someone get pics of the radios too please?

Was hoping to be there today but can't make it till tomorrow now, hopefully there will still be plenty to see tomorrow.

Some photos here http://www.sguidetti.net/photogallery/?album=4&gallery=16

It's for real!

@Daniel

I think I spotted Trevor and Ben on the second picture, showing AmigaOS 4?

Just posted this on AmigaWorld, but thought it best to post it here too

Just back from the fair.

To the others that attended - was it me or was the whole announcement thing badly organised? You could hardly hear the bloke from A-eon and couldn't see him either unless you were crammed at the front. At the very least he should have had a mic on, and/or had everyone stand in a horseshoe shape so more people could see him.

In terms of info, the price will be "north of ?1,500" and they couldn't/wouldn't tell us the make of the CPU. They said it was likely the machine would be on sale before Xmas.

It was cool to see the X1000 running OS4.1 though and the SAM 460 running. I'm very much inclined to go down the SAM 460 route now though, cos >?1,500 is a little steep.

The Amiga X1000 has an IDE connector on board???

@tommo1975

ill probably wait and see if they will sell x1000 without case/kbd/mouse etc and how much it will cost then if.... Ok if it was a laptop with that features but for a big box....

@Mikey_C

I like my Ferrari red Samflex mb better ...where's the X1000? what CPU does it have?? videos please

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Nice pictures! I want and X1000!

A couple of observations:

I see a CF card in the CF card slot. I presume that means they have the interface code for it working. Nice!

I noticed they are using a LAN card to connect to the internet. I would assume that the on board 1 gigabit Ethernet isn't working yet.

Looks like the RAM chips are on both sides of the CPU. There is no fan on the CPU so I guess that means the CPU doens't generate much heat. I'm sure the designers know what they are dong and that won't be an issue when both CPU cores are being used.

Overall the X1000 looks nice!
The new SAM 460ex looks nice as well.
I want both!