The latest from our roving show reporter...
The queue |
| Sent 10 May 2003 09:54:45 by Phil Mellor |
 | We're here and we're early. Time to join the queue. Surprisingly for up north It's sunny! A good omen. |
The alpha laptop |
| Sent 10 May 2003 11:24:22 by Phil Mellor |
 | The new portable from microdigital. 2ghz celeron running a form of virtual acorn and select. |
Fast |
| Sent 10 May 2003 11:30:16 by Phil Mellor |
 | The production quality omega. On arm twistdr on display - but it should be delivered in weeks rather than months. David atkins didn't want to show their nearly finished version because of rumour mongering. |
The crowds |
| Sent 10 May 2003 11:43:45 by Phil Mellor |
 | It's getting more busy now. Lots of people still turning up. A good positive atmosphere so far. |
Select 3 |
| Sent 10 May 2003 11:50:25 by Phil Mellor |
 | Running the latest build. An omega was also seen on the stand with it. Thumbnail filer seems fast. Not tried the transparent sprites yet. Very impressive. |
The opposition |
| Sent 10 May 2003 11:55:27 by Phil Mellor |
 | Tapping in a witty drobe report with a palm and stylus. Slow going? |
Castle |
| Sent 10 May 2003 12:08:23 by Phil Mellor |
 | Card reader running on an iyonix. John ballance demonstrates the printers. The pop up software pops up! |
Omega progress |
| Sent 10 May 2003 13:18:46 by Phil Mellor |
 | The sound works, networking and other pci cards to come. Hardware acceleration will speed up standard os plots and sprites. |
Artworks2 |
| Sent 10 May 2003 13:37:34 by Phil Mellor |
 | Martin serves the long queue of artworks 2 customers. |
Theatre |
| Sent 10 May 2003 13:30:01 by Phil Mellor |
 | The show theatre. Currently simtec are demonstrating their usb devices. Usb radio, cameras, media and more. A pen drive from someone in the audience was tried but didn't work. Standards eh? |
Eggs beans and spam |
| Sent 10 May 2003 13:48:15 by Phil Mellor |
 | Spellings can stop you getting this. |
Select on an omega |
| Sent 10 May 2003 14:12:01 by Phil Mellor |
 | Yes, it works. The image file renderer may be extended to cover text formats in the future. Some applications like stronged don't work with the writeable icon but and paste, and impression doesn't use the custom icons but mostly It's seamless. On the website next weekend, hopefully. |
Acorn user |
| Sent 10 May 2003 14:26:34 by Phil Mellor |
 | Steve turnbull wonders where his editor has got to. |
The charity stand |
| Sent 10 May 2003 14:54:34 by Phil Mellor |
 | Lots of stuff, big pile of a3020s and some bbcs. Not so much good software this year |
Stuart tyrrell developments |
| Sent 10 May 2003 15:14:18 by Phil Mellor |
 | Lots of usb gadgets from the man himself. A god few pounds off with the show prices too. |
Webster xl |
| Sent 10 May 2003 15:33:02 by Phil Mellor |
 | That looks familiar... Not as quick as oregano, but that runs on an iyonix and still feels a little sluggish. |
David holden |
| Sent 10 May 2003 15:49:18 by Phil Mellor |
 | Winner of the best beard award. |
And the winner is... |
| Sent 10 May 2003 15:59:19 by Phil Mellor |
 | This man from reading. He's won an omega! Apparently he was one of the first in the queue to buy an iyonix at the south east show. Is he the only person in the world to own two different new risc os computers? |
Binary dinosaur |
| Sent 10 May 2003 16:07:00 by Phil Mellor |
 | Mr witchy shows off his Domesday system. |
