Amiga User Groups - Melbourne, Australia - Page 3

NovaCoder · 05 December 2008, 00:41

Wow what a great turn-out

mihcael · 05 December 2008, 00:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by NovaCoder

Wow what a great turn-out

Thanks to THB, i think we had 7 EAB members turn up!!

Putting faces to names really makes EAB feel more like home, nice to meet Nova and Calgor for the first time!!

blade002 · 05 December 2008, 04:20

Yeah that was a great night!!.. loved it!... but i had to work today i got home at 3am which gave me only just over 2 hours sleep and i was 1 hour late for work

....

But brilliant night

@mihcael-: Yeah putting some faces to the names was great, especially the EAB guys as you said like Calgor, Nova Coder and the other guy i was talking to outside at the start of the night about blitter and CPU timing... you know who you are!.. whats your username on EAB again?

And of course, there was the amazing THB !!! ( for whom shall only redeem himself once he buys Python )

T_hairy_bootson · 05 December 2008, 05:03

Yeah was a great night, good catching up with you guys and meeting some of you for the first time.

Big effort from mihcael and was it Jeff? 4 hour drive to make it down.

I took the day off today despite leaving early to go to bed.

I really need to practice more at stunt car racer.

mihcael · 05 December 2008, 13:12

Quote:

Originally Posted by blade002

Yeah that was a great night!!.. loved it!... but i had to work today i got home at 3am which gave me only just over 2 hours sleep and i was 1 hour late for work

....

But brilliant night

@mihcael-: Yeah putting some faces to the names was great, especially the EAB guys as you said like Calgor, Nova Coder and the other guy i was talking to outside at the start of the night about blitter and CPU timing... you know who you are!.. whats your username on EAB again?

...

Sounds like i got more sleep then everyone? lucky i changed to a late start!!

the other guy username is off1k

You asked about my avatar, incase i didnt explain it...
avatar is cropped from here which is created from this

off1k · 06 December 2008, 05:48

Yep! that was a great night, havnt been to something like that in a very long time. It was also great to meet some of the EAB members and put faces to names, great bunch of guys

There was a good variety of systems on display, got to see OS4.0/4.1 for the first time in the flesh

and was really impressed with the Minimig

.

After doing something really stupid back in 2000 when I sold my A1200 060/50 for a very low price [Yes Blade I know, it was a dickhead act], I am back with a vengeance, I picked up my sexy new A1200 on the night thanks to NovaCoder who did a great job on the Miggy

.

Thanks THB for the demo of the indivision early in the night and that joystick of yours was pretty damn good

(cant think of the name of Joystick), I almost beat my Little Ramp time for SCR, I only played 2 hot laps, better than the cordless shit I've been using.

All up it was great and I must try to make it to another meet in future.

thgill · 06 December 2008, 06:48

What, no pictures?

For shame...

whiteb · 06 December 2008, 09:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by thgill

What, no pictures?

For shame...

mihcael · 06 December 2008, 10:42

Grandmother... Yes that Beatrice!!!

Haven't tested her out yet, see how the A590 works!!

Do you mind if i steal those pics, to put them on my website??

whiteb · 06 December 2008, 11:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by mihcael

Grandmother... Yes that Beatrice!!!

Haven't tested her out yet, see how the A590 works!!

Do you mind if i steal those pics, to put them on my website??

Be my guest dude, PM me your email address and I will email the raw pics from the camera instead of the (No doubt) reduced Imageshack images.

mihcael · 06 December 2008, 12:15

email is my EAB username @hotmail.com, i will probably only need small pics, but hi-res will be handy in the future, so thanks for that!

mihcael · 07 December 2008, 04:08

It turns out that Beatrice (pictured above with the minimig) is not quite the old hag she looks!!

With the a590 connected i get...

1 MB Chip
2 MB Other mem (edit - 1.5MB maybe?)
Kickstart 2.0
2 partitions 600MB and 800MB

Workbench 2.? installed

Not bad for a freebie!!

PWLM · 07 December 2008, 04:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by whitegiant89

I'd love to meet up with fellow amiga users, but i'm in Far North Qld and it is a bit far to get to melbourne

Same here, anyone have any info on a user group in or around Townsville?

mihcael · 07 December 2008, 04:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by PWLM

Same here, anyone have any info on a user group in or around Townsville?

Townsville is nearly Far North Queensland, you 2 should start one together if there are none around!

whiteb · 07 December 2008, 04:50

Quote:

Originally Posted by mihcael

email is my EAB username @hotmail.com, i will probably only need small pics, but hi-res will be handy in the future, so thanks for that!

Sent, I hope Hotmail has matured enough to actually receive them. (3x1.5MB images).

At least with the raw images, you can resize them any way you wish to fit the required space on web.

mihcael · 07 December 2008, 05:27

no worries, Thanks for those!!

Calgor · 11 December 2008, 04:02

Was great to meet all you guys too. Was a pretty fun meeting.

Blade, I am waiting to hear what goes on with the musicmaking. The syntax guys had some interesting things to say, and I thought their own music was quite good.

I too went to work pretty late the next day, but I start late anyway. I think some of the guys who didn't have to work the next day would have stayed there all night if the could!

OS4 on the AmigaOne is faster than I remember it. I thought Vista was quite good until I started accidentally closing windows as the first one takes so long to close and the window closing delay is perfectly timed so my second click closes the window behind

Also, when Vista shuts down it closes apps without asking if you want to save your work....... nice.

Anakirob · 20 December 2008, 11:27

Quote:

===============================
SYNTAX DEMO PARTY 2008!
Australia's largest coding, gfx
and music tracking party for
Oldskool & nuskool platforms
www.syntaxparty.org
===============================

Come to MAUG and see the party crew in action for an exclusive special
treat for MAUG members not to be seen anywhere else! Just back from
overseas and we managed to secure a booking for our break-up. Are we good
to you or what! You've not seen such an exclusive since the days of the
CUAmiga and AmigaFormat coverdisk demos I bet! And that retro feeling will
keep on flowing at MAUG.

I wish someone had sent me a copy of this before I turned up almost COMPLETELY unprepared! (For those of you who don't know I am one of the Syntax Party Crew or System Of Sound Organization). I didn't realize we were the main event until I was in Chris' studio arguing with a dying A1200. I would have brought my second (or even my third) A1200 as well.

We were planning to show everyone the playlist of demos we were playing at BeachParty, but my old A1200 decided that it had had enough abuse LESS THAN AN HOUR before we were due to entertain you all. Oh well, is my face red or what!?

Anyway. Greets to all the cool people I met at the MAUG break-up (that would of course be all of you). For sure I'll be paying my membership and you'll be seeing me and my A1200 and my (at the moment incomplete) Efika/MorphOS system early Feb.

oh, and don't forget that the Melbourne Oldschool Demoscene now has a new home at http://www.systemofsound.org/ - but we are all on holidays right now so don't expect to see much until mid-Jan.

If you make art on or for vintage computer systems and live in Victoria. Then we would like to showcase some of your work on our site. Visit the site for contact details.

CYA.
(A)Rob

T_hairy_bootson · 01 April 2010, 18:02

Thursday 1st of April MAUG meeting brief walk around.

[ Show youtube player ]

Small numbers tonight but we had fun regardless.

We are always on the look out for new members or even curious visitors so come down and check it out.

Loedown · 02 April 2010, 02:17

Forgive me for not coming down, I'm really not very social in larger groups.

06 December 2008, 05:48	#46
off1k Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of Oz Posts: 89	Yep! that was a great night, havnt been to something like that in a very long time. It was also great to meet some of the EAB members and put faces to names, great bunch of guys There was a good variety of systems on display, got to see OS4.0/4.1 for the first time in the flesh and was really impressed with the Minimig. After doing something really stupid back in 2000 when I sold my A1200 060/50 for a very low price [Yes Blade I know, it was a dickhead act], I am back with a vengeance, I picked up my sexy new A1200 on the night thanks to NovaCoder who did a great job on the Miggy. Thanks THB for the demo of the indivision early in the night and that joystick of yours was pretty damn good (cant think of the name of Joystick), I almost beat my Little Ramp time for SCR, I only played 2 hot laps, better than the cordless shit I've been using. All up it was great and I must try to make it to another meet in future.

07 December 2008, 04:08	#52
mihcael Zone Friend Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Aussie Posts: 1,144	It turns out that Beatrice (pictured above with the minimig) is not quite the old hag she looks!! With the a590 connected i get... 1 MB Chip 2 MB Other mem (edit - 1.5MB maybe?) Kickstart 2.0 2 partitions 600MB and 800MB Workbench 2.? installed Not bad for a freebie!! Last edited by mihcael; 07 December 2008 at 05:28.

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05 December 2008, 00:41	#41
NovaCoder Registered User Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne/Australia Posts: 4,408	Wow what a great turn-out

05 December 2008, 04:20	#43
blade002 Zone Friend Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Australia Age: 50 Posts: 2,616	Yeah that was a great night!!.. loved it!... but i had to work today i got home at 3am which gave me only just over 2 hours sleep and i was 1 hour late for work .... But brilliant night @mihcael-: Yeah putting some faces to the names was great, especially the EAB guys as you said like Calgor, Nova Coder and the other guy i was talking to outside at the start of the night about blitter and CPU timing... you know who you are!.. whats your username on EAB again? And of course, there was the amazing THB !!! ( for whom shall only redeem himself once he buys Python )

05 December 2008, 05:03	#44
T_hairy_bootson Workbitch 1.3 Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 47 Posts: 2,084	Yeah was a great night, good catching up with you guys and meeting some of you for the first time. Big effort from mihcael and was it Jeff? 4 hour drive to make it down. I took the day off today despite leaving early to go to bed. I really need to practice more at stunt car racer.

06 December 2008, 06:48	#47
thgill Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Location: Mason, Ohio / USA Age: 48 Posts: 391	What, no pictures? For shame...

06 December 2008, 10:42	#49
mihcael Zone Friend Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Aussie Posts: 1,144	Grandmother... Yes that Beatrice!!! Haven't tested her out yet, see how the A590 works!! Do you mind if i steal those pics, to put them on my website??

06 December 2008, 12:15	#51
mihcael Zone Friend Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Aussie Posts: 1,144	email is my EAB username @hotmail.com, i will probably only need small pics, but hi-res will be handy in the future, so thanks for that!

07 December 2008, 05:27	#56
mihcael Zone Friend Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Aussie Posts: 1,144	no worries, Thanks for those!!

11 December 2008, 04:02	#57
Calgor (Amigas && Amigos)++ Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Anrea Posts: 999	Was great to meet all you guys too. Was a pretty fun meeting. Blade, I am waiting to hear what goes on with the musicmaking. The syntax guys had some interesting things to say, and I thought their own music was quite good. I too went to work pretty late the next day, but I start late anyway. I think some of the guys who didn't have to work the next day would have stayed there all night if the could! OS4 on the AmigaOne is faster than I remember it. I thought Vista was quite good until I started accidentally closing windows as the first one takes so long to close and the window closing delay is perfectly timed so my second click closes the window behind Also, when Vista shuts down it closes apps without asking if you want to save your work....... nice.

01 April 2010, 18:02	#59
T_hairy_bootson Workbitch 1.3 Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 47 Posts: 2,084	Thursday 1st of April MAUG meeting brief walk around. [ Show youtube player ] Small numbers tonight but we had fun regardless. We are always on the look out for new members or even curious visitors so come down and check it out.

02 April 2010, 02:17	#60
Loedown Precious & fragile things Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Victoria, Australia Posts: 1,946	Forgive me for not coming down, I'm really not very social in larger groups.

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