Date : Sat, 29 Nov 2008 18:55:35 +0000
From : acorn@... (Andy Ford)
Subject: OT (-ish): Beeb meetup at BYTE BACK? (March 2009,
I'm planning on going if I can (but cannot commit 100% at the moment)
Andy.
Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
> I would be interested in this, it's about time I turned up at something!
Is anyone
> else planning to go?
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Ian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dave Moore [mailto:dllm@...]
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Sent: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:19:47 -0000
> Subject: [BBC-Micro] OT (-ish): Beeb meetup at BYTE BACK? (March 2009,Stoke UK)
>
> All
>
> There have been quite a few attempts to organise BBC meetups on the ML over
> the years, so I thought I'd make members aware of the BYTE BACK Classic Gaming
> Convention, which takes place the weekend of March 7-8th in Stoke-On-Trent.
>
> I've managed to secure a few tables for "Acorn use", in the smaller/quieter of
> the two rooms (well away from the noisy arcade cabs that will be situated in
> the main room!).
>
> So far, a broad mixture of BBC gamers, 6502-coders and hardware hackers from
> the 'Stairway to Hell' forum have bought tickets and, due to its central
> location, I figure the event might also be a good opportunity for mailing list
> members to get together and put names to faces etc.
>
> Our current plan is to use tables 1 + 2 to run demonstrations of the latest
> Acorn/BBC projects from the retrosoftware.co.uk crew, whilst the third table
> will be used to demonstrate various hardware add-ons such as the RAMmagic
> upgrade, GoMMC and MMBeeb, the Compact Flash Hard Drive interface and the
> ARM7TDMI co-pro.
>
> There's likely to be plenty of time/space left for the display of other
> "homebrew" creations too, so if there are any list members who'd like to bring
> (or supply) their own Acorn-related inventions, please get in touch. And who
> knows - with enough hardware bods present, the event might turn out to be a
> useful springboard for the development of some brand new Beeb upgrades, too?!
>
> Also, I'm sure that attendees would appreciate the chance to see some of the
> more esoteric commercial upgrades (M5000's? Domesdays?) so if you have some
> really obscure kit that you think would be of interest to visitors, again,
> please let me know.
>
> Anyway, to find out more about the event or to buy tickets, please visit the
> homepage @ http://www.byte-back.info
>
> There is currently an "early-bird" offer on tickets (?10 for the weekend)
> though this expires in a couple of days (November 30th); after which the price
> will rise to ?12. Incidentally, all proceeds from the event will go to
> charity.
>
> So, hope to see some of you there in March! :)
>
> Regards
> Dave.
>
>
>
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