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The Ottawa Amiga Show is now past and a fantastic time was had by all.

You Oughta be in Ottawa!

The Ottawa Amiga Show is now past and a fantastic time was had by all.

The event started at 11am on a crisp Canadian Saturday morning, however the real action started the night before the event. After some early setup on Friday, the exhibitors all walked over to enjoy some Fine Indian Dining. Actually it was my first time with Indian cuisine (I'm not known to be epicurious) but I enjoyed it thoroughly. Everyone had fun catching up on rumors and news. This went on until well past closing for the restaurant - we then moved to another business that served coffee and desserts and kept going for quite some time more.

So back to Saturday morning. The doors open and the Amiga fans begin sampling what the Ottawa Amiga Show has to offer. The show is primarily local developers (Technomages, ZEE4) and resellers (Livewire and others whose names I forgot - sorry!!). I was there to represent Genesi and show off Nova Design's ImageFX for MorphOS as well.

My Pegasos system, tried, tested and delivered to me at the Washington, DC Pegasos Event, performed like a champ. I showed MorphOS 1.4 and PegXlin (which I installed prior to the show) and presented the crowds with our new Presentation showing information and background on Genesi, Pegasos, MorphOS and the other operating systems for Pegasos, and the SuperBundle. I also occasionally would run a few dozen Amiga and MorphOS programs, play Quicktime and AVI movies and whatever else people wanted to see running. MorphOS never once crashed. Mplayer (a third party movie player) did lockup twice - but after a ten second reboot, MorphOS was back and amazing everyone.

Even though I work for Genesi, MorphOS is relatively new to me. I've been using it for a few weeks now and it continues to amaze me with it's stability and speed. It's very advanced and has a wide range of native software already. It's Amiga compatibility really amazes me - later that night everyone left at the show retired to the Royal Oak Pub several blocks away - and we were discussing what a smooth extension of the original Amiga concepts are seen in the Pegasos/MorphOS combination. Everyone saw how MorphOS supports pretty much ALL of the top Amiga standards. AHI, Warp3D, Rave3D, TinyGL, WarpUP, PowerUP...it just goes on and on. With the rapid expansion of the Pegasos market into other niche markets and the Linux market - it's really astonished people.

Back to the show. Over the course of the day about 50 people, some coming across the border from Syracuse, NY and some coming from the far northern reaches beyond Quebec, came to the show. One of the club members, Paul, had a giant wooden Amiga 1200 on display outside the main doors. He'd built it himself for a display some time back. It was a really beautiful piece of woodworking. Everyone seemed to be pretty happy with business at the show overall.

Now - back to the pub. Well, not much to report here. We drank. We ate. We swapped gossip all night long. You really need to be at one of these late night sessions to get an idea of how much fun they are to attend. Everyone made fun of everyone else's accent (Bonjour ya'll, eh? VDQ!) and country. Or province.

I couldn't attend brunch the next day (yes it's true, one event, three get-together event meals) and made my way back to America.

The photos:

http://pegasosppc.com/images.php?f=gallery&id=80

Photo 1: Paul, Tracey, Thomas, Jay, Zoltan, and Justin - at the Indian Restaurant

Photo 2: The Genesi table and display - someone's wife whose name I forget. Sorry!

Photo 3: The wooden Amiga 1200

Photo 4: The Electronic Morpho

Photo 5: Justin, Lucy and whatshername (sorry!!)

Photo 6: The whole inebriated gang!

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