RISC OS SouthWest Show Feb 25th 2017

It is now a little over a month until the SouthWest RISC OS Show 2017. This year the show takes place on Saturday 25th Feb, at its usual venue – The Webbington Hotel and Spa in Loxton, south of Bristol.

If anyone would like to exhibit and hasn’t yet got in touch, we do can still adjust the floorplan to accommodate one or two more tables. You don’t have to be a commercial company to exhibit at the show – we welcome enthusiasts/hobbyists too, if you’d like to show your projects or arrange a meetup. Please contact show organisers R-Comp (usual R-Comp email address) or Orpheus Internet (usual Orpheus email address) if you’re interested.

One thing that’s a little different about the SW show compared to some others is the sense of “community” that goes with it. Many exhibitors (and show visitors) choose to stay the night before the show, and we organise a “dinner, bed and breakfast” overnight rate with the hotel with that in mind. Please get in touch if you’d be interested in this deal, either as exhibitor or visitor.

Full info about the show can be found at http://www.riscos-swshow.co.uk/

We look forward to seeing you there! :)

It is now just under two week until the show on the 25th, so I wanted to bump this thread up to remind people.

We’ve had several new exhibitors added to the roster since the last post

Amcog games with their new MopTops release

ident Computer with their Pi-based kit computers

RiscOSBits with, well, RISC OS-oriented hardware bits and pieces.

Discussions are still ongoing with a couple more exhibitors too.

With all these new faces, it should be a really good SW Show, with plenty new things to see, as well as old faces to reacquaint with. For example, long-time SW “exclusive” exhibitor David Snell has announced at least one new product, and a possible update too.

If you have any questions, please drop us a line at the usual R-Comp address.

Also Amcog games will be demonstrating our new RISC OS sound module that brings:

• Easy sample playback.
• A 16 channel synthesiser inspired by the MOS SID chip featuring multiple waveforms and resonant low pass filters.
• Sample & Synthesis capability i.e. modulating samples with the ENVELOPE command (a bit like the Korg M1).
• A digital delay effect.

Ready for use via the BASIC SOUND and ENVELOPE commands.

This has been integrated into the new Mop Tops release to provide sound effects.

Tony Bartram
www.amcog-games.co.uk

Just a small bump as we’re now just a few days away.

We can now confirm another exhibitor – there will be an 8 Bit “retro” meet up, with those involved demonstrating their projects and activities to the rest of us.

The new CashBook 1.37 will be available at the event: it’s mainly bug fixes, but several of the issues and ideas raised in this thread have also been sorted out.

PS2Paper will also be getting its show debut outside of London.

Both titles are free, but visitors will be able to purchase them on CD along with all of my other software for £5 – all proceeds will be going to the British Heart Foundation again.

I’ll also have copies of the Sixth Edition WROCC Back Catalogue for sale, for £10 – all the money from those goes to the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club.

CJE & 4D at the RISC OS South West Show this Saturday

CJE Micro’s & 4D are looking forward to seeing many of you at the RISC OS South West Show this Saturday 25th February.

In addition to the two fastest ever RISC OS computers, the RapidO Ig and RapidO Ti, which will be in stock on our stand, we’ll have our normal massive and ever expanding range of Acorn or RISC OS related items!

We are also launching two new products (please see separate announcements)

We will not be able to bring everything with us so if you are interested in purchasing any particular item please contact us by midday Friday. (Sorry for the very short notice)

If you have any small surplus Acorn / RISC OS items that we could help you find good homes for, please do bring them along. (We will be in a car so can’t accept larger items except by prior arrangement.)

Items we are interested in include:
Acorn NICs (Network cards for RiscPC/A7000)
BBC B, BBC Masters, A4000s, Risc PCs, Atoms, Electrons…
IDE Podules or Mini Podules
2.5" IDE Drives
Trackerballs, Mice for BBC
BBC and RISC OS Software (but not Educational titles)
ViewFinder 8, 32 or 128MB
Avie Archimedes keyboard adaptors/encoders
PS2MouseMini / PS2 Pipe
A7000 Backplane
Acorn A4 (even if faulty)
Econet interfaces for RiscPC or A4
UniPods (1, 2 or 3 function)
BBC Coprocessors (6502, Z80, 32016 etc.)
ROM boards for BBC
BBC Games & ROMS
Almost anything Acorn/RISC OS related
For a fuller list please see http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/wanted

Some of the more valuable items such as Net100s & UniPods we even offer cash for! For those items, and if bringing them to a show, please contact us prior to the show to agree a price.

Chris Evans

In addition to the revolutionary new sound module for RISC OS, AMCOG games will be:

• Selling classical music CDs for 5 pounds in aid of Asthma UK
• Selling original music CDs.
• All 4 of our current original titles both seperately and on “The Amcog Collection” compilation.

This year we will have 3 systems set up for playing these titles:

• Xeroid : A 3D vector graphic game inspired by Fervour.

• Overlord : Our retro-tube shooter with more than
  40 minutes of original music

• Legends of Magic : Our isometric 3D quest game comprising 2 quests and a 200+ page fantasy novel.

• Mop Tops : now with 30 levels and sound effects and 6 original music tracks.

As usual all game updates are free for existing customers.

Tony Bartram
www.amcog-games.co.uk

R-Comp / RCI will be showing a range of new developments including multi-disk RAID on RISC OS, partitioned discs on ARMX6 to make better use of large drives, and the recently released “TurboLAN” upgrade (free) for ARMX6 which gives between 1.5x and 10x speed increase for ARMX6 networking. See comp.sys.acorn.announce postings and other RISC OS news sources.

We’ll have a second variant of the rather popular RISCBook Go! range, and the latest iteration of our TiMachine Titanium systems.

On the R-Comp front, don’t forget to check out the lastest software updates for our range of software including Fireworkz Pro, NetFetch etc.

And perhaps a few surprises ;)

Have fun folks. Bit busy¹ myself.

¹ I will be ‘enjoying’ the process of changing the network switches in the labs (the setup covers the county plus Burton and…) hopefully without disrupting things for more than a few seconds for each user device. Cardiology went fine tonight.

Iconbar has a show report and link to pictures at http://iconbar.com/articles/South_West_Show_Report/index1343.html