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[Events] You Oughta be in Ottawa - Show ReportANN.lu
Posted on 24-Nov-2003 20:45 GMT by Kermit Woodall12 comments
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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!

You Oughta be in Ottawa - Show Report : Comment 1 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Amon_Re on 24-Nov-2003 20:01 GMT
Glad to hear you had a good time, thx for the report ;)

Cheers
You Oughta be in Ottawa - Show Report : Comment 2 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Stephane Desrosiers on 24-Nov-2003 20:47 GMT
In reply to Comment 1 (Amon_Re):
Yup it went great.

I had a dental appointement in the morning, so I missed the beginning. :( But otherwise it went well.

The other people not mentionned: CineReal Pro Video (had a lot of old Amiga Stock and were in their own room), Nebularis (web hosting company). Livewire Systems and ACK Systems control had Amiga OS4 running on an Amiga One + Voodoo 3.

The OS4 system didn't seem to have much installed on it besides Quake [I think], the OS and YAM. I would have liked to see it running something more.

The raffle ended with a surprise. The 3rd (Quake II) and 1st prize (AOne motherboard) went to the same winner... unfortuantly it wasn't me. ;)

Technomages will most likely be posting their pictures soon I guess.
You Oughta be in Ottawa - Show Report : Comment 3 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Amon_Re on 24-Nov-2003 21:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (Stephane Desrosiers):
YAM is probably one of the most important apps for me, so i'm glad that it runs on AOS4.

Also i'm glad that neighter side seems to have had issue's with stability, that's always good :)

MOS has matured in the last update i think, it's still not getting my vote tho, but that's my personal opinion, also, i don't see why the two could coexist (after all, i doubt there's any choice about that matter anyway)

About some of the other postings lately, yes, Linux seems to be gaining more & more support, IBM's shoulder is a great force to recon with, and the more acceptance for linux the better.

As for the future? Who knows, i hope the "dark ages" are nearly over for *ALL* of us, be them blue, red or whatever color AROS is :)

AOS4, MOS, AROS & Linux are damned fine pieces of software, overall, things are shaping up.

If only we could get into more homes .... the community as it is now is waaaay to small :(

Cheers
You Oughta be in Ottawa - Show Report : Comment 4 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by takemehomegrandma on 24-Nov-2003 21:07 GMT
Looks like it was a nice event!

That wooden A1200 (really cool), was it a computer inside it too, or was it just o block of wood?
You Oughta be in Ottawa - Show Report : Comment 5 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Stephane Desrosiers on 24-Nov-2003 21:25 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (Amon_Re):
Well yes, YAM was running. :) I'm sure it would have one of the programs that wouldn't have any issues on either MOS and OS4 even if it had to run emulated. :)

If things worked out better, I would have brought my own system. (It's a Peg1) Not to show off MOS itself, but to show off the potential there is for either MOS or OS4. I would have displayed UAE running native in MOS, MPlayer + DVD, Pagestream, etc. The thing I like about my Peg (and hopefully what others will like about OS4) is the ability to go back to the Amiga and say: "Holy *^#@, I couldn't do that before!".

One of the attendees, a graphic artist that switched from PC to Amiga when it really started to get difficult for him to continue on with the Amiga. Saw the pegasos on display, Kermit showed Alladin 4D rendering a few demo scenes and needless to say, he was impressed. ;) (Wow... I remember once rendering a scene that took me 24 hours!) In my mind I thought, now image if this was PPC native. ;)
You Oughta be in Ottawa - Show Report : Comment 6 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Amon_Re on 24-Nov-2003 22:19 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Stephane Desrosiers):
I fully agree! AOS & MOS both have alot of potential, if we could actually gain marketshare it would be marvellous.

All that needs to be done now is getting more apps on both AOS & MOS.

I'm sure that both AOS & MOS will have apps that will be unique to themselves, but the important ones (media players, word proccessors, browsers, office apps etc) should exist on both of them.

Sooner or later MOS will "branch off" into it's own turf, same for AOS & AROS, what's left to do now is making sure they all get a viable market.

Cheers
You Oughta be in Ottawa - Show Report : Comment 7 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by bbrv on 25-Nov-2003 00:56 GMT
In reply to Comment 6 (Amon_Re):
Amon_Re, for the first time ever we find ourselves in complete agreement with you!

Nice report Kermit!

:-)

R&B
You Oughta be in Ottawa - Show Report : Comment 8 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Amon_Re on 25-Nov-2003 05:56 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (bbrv):
Nooooo! ;)

Cheers
You Oughta be in Ottawa - Show Report : Comment 9 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 25-Nov-2003 07:01 GMT
In reply to Comment 5 (Stephane Desrosiers):
" (Wow... I remember once rendering a scene that took me 24 hours!)"

We had a scene of a glass ball on a chequered background that took ten days to render on an A500 with Sculpt3D. There has been _some_ progress.

The graphics card companies are aiming at real-time ray tracing, maybe even with radiosity, in a few more years.
You Oughta be in Ottawa - Show Report : Comment 10 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by minator on 25-Nov-2003 11:05 GMT
In reply to Comment 9 (Don Cox):
>>" (Wow... I remember once rendering a scene that took me 24 hours!)"
>
>We had a scene of a glass ball on a chequered background that took ten days to render
>on an A500 with Sculpt3D. There has been _some_ progress.

Heh I did the same thing - but it only took 4 days :-)

>The graphics card companies are aiming at real-time ray tracing, maybe even with radiosity,
>in a few more years.

At low res you've been able to do this for some time.
You Oughta be in Ottawa - Show Report : Comment 11 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by The_Editor on 25-Nov-2003 17:11 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (minator):
I created a "little" grand canyon flyby with 3d text coming rushing at you (the name of my biznizz) in VistaPro and it took TWO WEEKS 24/7 on my A1200 with 060.

yup ..ended up having to cut it down to a static vista and have the text move on its own.

Nice report Kermit. And Agree with Amon_Re.
You Oughta be in Ottawa - Show Report : Comment 12 of 12ANN.lu
Posted by Don Cox on 26-Nov-2003 15:41 GMT
In reply to Comment 10 (minator):
">The graphics card companies are aiming at real-time ray tracing, maybe even with radiosity,
>in a few more years.

At low res you've been able to do this for some time."

Are you sure? I've never seen a screen grab showing ray tracing done by a graphics card (using the GPU). All the games shots I see are scan line rendering, with the usual tricks.

Compare what you see in Edge with any good Lightwave render.
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