Tickets cost £7 and cover a sandwich lunch plus tea, coffee soft drinks and nibbles throughout the day.
This meet your £7 also gains you one entry into the main tournament !
How to Book
If you wish to book a table to set up kit you’ll be bringing then please select a table (squares prefixed with either A, B or C) and proceed to the payment option. The tables are quite sizeable so please don’t be greedy and book multiple tables for just yourself.
If you’d like to bring your own table then please select a table (squares prefixed with BYT) and proceed to the payment option. Our space is limited so please don’t book multiple bring your own table slots for just yourself.
Finally, if you’d like to attend but don’t wish to bring any kit then just select a seat (squares prefixed with S) and proceed to the payment option.
Once again, where do we start? the South West Amiga Group came back to Doddington Parish Hall in Chipping Sodbury for our tenth meet where within 48hours on our booking page, we were sold out of our tables. But the venue that week had sprung a leak, part of the building was roped off and toilets were outside, but this didn’t put us off from fitting everything in and having a good time.
We wish to thank so many people for all their help in bringing this together, there is a true feeling within the group that we made something special for the community and we are listening to you. Scott from Retrobench , who has been to virtually every meet helped sponsor this event, he had helpers to sell items on his table as well repair Amiga’s all day long. Retrobench not only sponsorred the meet, but ran a raffle where ‘3 Amigas’ were the prizes and the proceed’s of the raffle were reinvested for future meets.
RetroBench / Scott working
We also had Chris Poacher with a music studio setup, he showcased his music catalog and how he used Octamed to remix dance music and how he was sampling back in the day. He also had an array of studio equipment that was on show.
Chris Poacher / Showcasing Amiga and Music creation
A sligthly different presentation was from Chris Forrester from then ANT group , he showed how the Amiga was used in Stop-go frame-by-frame capture which was used for Felix the Cat commericals.
Felix the Cat Stop Motion with Chris Forrester (ANT Group)
We also had demonstrations of Video capture from Andrew Reader, Retro Revival Craig and Arron with the latest games for the Spectrum next and an interesting lightgun project. Error 42 Paul was also at the meet and below is his preparation video.
Error 42 – YouTube channel
We had so much going on it was hard get around and see everything, so with the help of our friendly YouTuber’s, Colin and James from Let’s Talk Retro, the other video will be from Neil of Retro Man Cave and currently that video will be shown to Patreon’s first and we will link it here soon.
So, two dates to add to your diary are 25th January 2020 and 30th May 2020, we are now starting to put together what we are going to do and invite anyone with ideas (amiga related) to contact us to share suggestions.
Most importantly thank you to everyone that came and enjoyed the day with us and we look forward to seeing you at the next one.
Retro Man Cave / Neil stalking his prey
Let Talk Retro / James and Colin
Retro Revival / Craig and Arron with some a little different
Brian with two Richards (ANT)
Boing Ball on a very special Amiga (or was a Switch demo?)
Chris Forrester / Stop Motion graphics with the Amiga
Zeb / Working on restoring Amiga’s to former glory
More repairs
Vectrix demonstration
Some Supergrafix going on?
Zeb’s BBC Master on show
Andrew with his Arcade controls and MAME
Sanxion and Pixel Vixen vast array of goodies
Brian and Amiga Richard going back to 8-bit
Now you don’t see Amstrad 664 very often
New toy on the Sega bundle, Operation Wolf light gun
RetroShed Barry experimenting with the Spectrum Next
UPDATE 1st September 2019: Thank you to all that have purchased a ticket to go to the next meet and we soon filled the tables up with only a few seats left. Some have messaged me, some have messaged Rob, we introduced the booking system to help us keep on top of the money, we won’t be chasing you for the money at the meet’s, we won’t have a cash tin in any shape or form, we hire venue as a private-gathering. We also need to keep an account how many heads are coming as the food/drink needs to be divided fairly, this time round you have a chance to win a recapped Amiga courtesy of RetroBench, all you will need is your ‘paid entry’ to enter the competition. I know it sounds weird, but purchasing a seat just means ‘you are attending, you have entered the competition and you have been accounted for food’, it doesn’t mean you gonna be sat in it the entire meet so please don’t think of it like that, it’s just to help us count heads. We look forward to seeing you all and remember you will need your 4-way extension cables. Anyone bringing something ‘interesting’ please post in the ‘Declare your SWAG” Facebook / Twitter. please so we can help in anyway. Thanks and let’s have a good one.
