Amiga North Thames Meeting, Sunday 13th July 2003

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The Meeting opened up to a brisk pace and before long nearly everyone was in, apart from James (AKA Rudei) Who took a couple of slight wrong turns before arriving. This picture was taken after James arived.
(Photo: Bottom left to clockwise.)Andrew Elia (ANT), Mick Sutton (SEAL/TAM), Sam Bifford (SEAL/TAM) Rob Williams (SEAL/TAM and Standing up) Next James Rigby (ANT -Red top), Andrew Costin, (ANT).
(Right Side of Room.) Steve Croucher (ANT) David Southern (ANT), Chris Handley (ANT-back turned), Ken Davey (ANT) & Ivan James (ANT)
Click on images to enlarge

AmigaOne No.1
Mick Sutton's AmigaOne G4 XE. Whilst the case and hardware is rather cool, Linux refused to work properly on his machine, our Linux expert Andrew Elia eventually concluded that the Gfx card and Linux didn't get along.

Pegasos/MorphOS
Sam Bifford's Pegasos/MorphOS machine was well presented and he was on hand to demonstrate/answer questions from anyone who asked. Generally the Machine performed very well, it did choke on a couple of compatability issues, but overall it didn't take the gloss off it's smoothness. Ambient looks very much like another OS, but it was fast and speedy too. A lot of people had a go at Duck shoot on the Pegasos. An entertaining Game worthy of a stand alone release by itself.

This pic missing. Bad Photo :(

AmigaOne No.2!
James Rigby (AKA Rudei) Turned up with his A1 G4-XE Still in boxes, and not to sure about how best to proceed, So our brave Deputy Chairman, Andrew Costin, took him under his wing and began building The first ever AmigaOne at our Meetings
Overall, if you have built a PC before, there isn't that much difference at all.

How it all arrived
A1 Motherboard in it's Untouced state
ANT Deputy Chairman, Andrew Costin, Makes a Start

Andrew and James half way through the construction process, the A1 Motherboard is in the tower.
Another AmigaOne Nears completion.
All devices wired in, it's time to start to put the case back on

The AmigaOne complete side-on. Yes it is a similar case to the Pegasos
The AmigaOne is complete. notice the nice multicoloured side lights which constantly change.
A succesful build, as the AmigaOne powers up for the first time and finds all the devices without a hitch. Now for Linux

Miscellaneous
Rob Williams gave a demonstration on Hollywood 1.5, Going through the process which was very well attended. Rob went through his tutorial in Issue 15 of Total Amiga Magazine. Although The consensus was that just about every body will wait until Hollywood gets a GUI driven interface. The scripting language, though fairly easy to understand, could become too laborious. It is expected that Version 2 of Hollywood will have a GUI driven interface. Although just about everyone was impressed with it's features.

Hooray for Hollywood - ugh! did I type that?
My Amiga1200T A miricle of modern hack technology, This is the machine that brings you the Mac article in issue15 of TAM and this page.
What I look like.
ATTENTION! CLICKING ON LARGER IMAGE CARRIES A WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION WARNING.
Clicking on Image means you have to subscribe to Total Amiga Magazine.

Thanks to the Lads from SEAL for taking the time to come to our meeting and showing their wares. All in all it was one of the finest meetings we have had in a long time.
Heck even the Pringles didn't get finished!

The Meeting opened up to a brisk pace and before long nearly everyone was in, apart from James (AKA Rudei) Who took a couple of slight wrong turns before arriving. This picture was taken after James arived. (Photo: Bottom left to clockwise.)Andrew Elia (ANT), Mick Sutton (SEAL/TAM), Sam Bifford (SEAL/TAM) Rob Williams (SEAL/TAM and Standing up) Next James Rigby (ANT -Red top), Andrew Costin, (ANT). (Right Side of Room.) Steve Croucher (ANT) David Southern (ANT), Chris Handley (ANT-back turned), Ken Davey (ANT) & Ivan James (ANT) Click on images to enlarge
AmigaOne No.1 Mick Sutton's AmigaOne G4 XE. Whilst the case and hardware is rather cool, Linux refused to work properly on his machine, our Linux expert Andrew Elia eventually concluded that the Gfx card and Linux didn't get along.

Pegasos/MorphOS Sam Bifford's Pegasos/MorphOS machine was well presented and he was on hand to demonstrate/answer questions from anyone who asked. Generally the Machine performed very well, it did choke on a couple of compatability issues, but overall it didn't take the gloss off it's smoothness. Ambient looks very much like another OS, but it was fast and speedy too. A lot of people had a go at Duck shoot on the Pegasos. An entertaining Game worthy of a stand alone release by itself.
		This pic missing. Bad Photo :(
AmigaOne No.2! James Rigby (AKA Rudei) Turned up with his A1 G4-XE Still in boxes, and not to sure about how best to proceed, So our brave Deputy Chairman, Andrew Costin, took him under his wing and began building The first ever AmigaOne at our Meetings Overall, if you have built a PC before, there isn't that much difference at all.
How it all arrived	A1 Motherboard in it's Untouced state	ANT Deputy Chairman, Andrew Costin, Makes a Start
Andrew and James half way through the construction process, the A1 Motherboard is in the tower.	Another AmigaOne Nears completion.	All devices wired in, it's time to start to put the case back on
The AmigaOne complete side-on. Yes it is a similar case to the Pegasos	The AmigaOne is complete. notice the nice multicoloured side lights which constantly change.	A succesful build, as the AmigaOne powers up for the first time and finds all the devices without a hitch. Now for Linux
Miscellaneous Rob Williams gave a demonstration on Hollywood 1.5, Going through the process which was very well attended. Rob went through his tutorial in Issue 15 of Total Amiga Magazine. Although The consensus was that just about every body will wait until Hollywood gets a GUI driven interface. The scripting language, though fairly easy to understand, could become too laborious. It is expected that Version 2 of Hollywood will have a GUI driven interface. Although just about everyone was impressed with it's features.
Hooray for Hollywood - ugh! did I type that?	My Amiga1200T A miricle of modern hack technology, This is the machine that brings you the Mac article in issue15 of TAM and this page.	What I look like. ATTENTION! CLICKING ON LARGER IMAGE CARRIES A WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION WARNING. Clicking on Image means you have to subscribe to Total Amiga Magazine.
Thanks to the Lads from SEAL for taking the time to come to our meeting and showing their wares. All in all it was one of the finest meetings we have had in a long time. Heck even the Pringles didn't get finished!