Wakefield ‘09
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Show report on RISCOScode.
Show photos taken by WROCC members, as well as some by RISC OS Open Ltd.
Show report
The Centre for Computing History produced a short video report of the day.
You can watch the video on YouTube via this link.
Photos
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Hilary and Matthew Phillips of Sine Nomine Software were selling the Impact database along with their shareware games
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The WROCC club stand remained busy throughout most of the day
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Jim Nagel and Paul Beverley, the current and former editors of Archive Magazine, had copies of Issue 22.3 fresh from the printers
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The Centre for Computing History attended the show for the first time
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An Altair 8800 was on display at the Centre for Computing History’s stand
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Members of RISC OS Open Ltd, staring intently at one of their computers
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RISC OS Open Ltd had machines on their stand running RISC OS 5.14 and RISC OS 5.15
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There was also an early port of RISC OS 5 running on a Cortex A8 “Beagle Board”
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The Qercus stand wasn’t all about the magazine
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As well as board games, Fleur Designs have a good line in card design
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There was plenty of reading material for a RISC OS enthusiast
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Qercus Editor John Cartmell and his wife, who was selling Fleur Designs board games
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Paul Stewart and Keith Dunlop (both in black) of RISC OS Connect, talking to people about using RISC OS on Puppy Linux
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Andrew and Diane Rawnsley on the busy R-Comp stand
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It wasn’t all electronic gadgets...
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Alan Wrigley, the developer behind many of R-Comp’s recent releases
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Joel Rowbottom’s 8-bit World had plenty of old hardware – and an iBook
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Aaron Timbrell of Virtual Acorn had everything needed to use RISC OS on a PC or Mac
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The APDL stand was as well-stocked as ever
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The Charity Stall, staffed by WROCC members, was again raising money for Wakefield Hospice
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Graham Shaw, of the RISC OS Packaging Project, was talking about natural language translation
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The NetSurf team were out in force for the launch of NetSurf 2 – and the mints were nice, too
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Once again, Martin Hansen’s MathMagical Software was competing alone for the “most flamboyant stand” award
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Derek Baron and WROCC Chairman Rick Sterry were manning the ticket desk for some of the day
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Ticket 161 – nicely numbered using ArtWorks 2’s multiple page and PDF import facilities
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Martin Hansen of MathMagical software, preparing for his show theatre presentation
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Steve Fryatt launched a new version of his CashBook software at the show
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R-Comp had a new range of i7-based virtual systems available to buy
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The show theatre presentations proved popular throughout the day
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Martin Wuerthner used his theatre slot to demonstrate what ArtWorks 2 can really do
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ArtWorks 2.9 has gained support for alpha-masks in its bitmap export
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Aaron Timbrell, the man behind Virtual Acorn
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Qercus Editor, John Cartmell – with an invisible A9home?
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Paul Stewart, showing what you need to get RISC OS running on your PC – with the aid of a Live CD of Puppy Linux and RPCemu
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Steve Fryatt was demonstrating a number of his freeware titles, including CashBook and PrintPDF
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Michael Gerbracht, the developer behind the new statistical package LuaFox
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Paul Beverley, the former editor of Archive Magazine, was helping his successor
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Martin Wuerthner had a new version of ArtWorks 2 alongside EasiWriter, TechWriter and GutenPrint
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Keith Dunlop of RISC OS Connect was demonstrating RPCemu on Puppy Linux
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R-Comp’s Andrew Rawnsley had some powerful i7-based RISCubes on sale
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The team from Stuart Tyrrell Developments were on hand to launch the VPod graphics card
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As ever, the Charity Stall was selling items throughout the day in aid of Wakefield Hospice
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Martin Hansen’s MathMagical Software stand was very bright
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The R-Comp stand, staffed by many people in red shirts, was a long line of technology
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John Cartmell, the editor of Qercus, shows the magazine to a visitor
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The team from the Centre for Computing History had a number of interesting artifacts on display
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It wouldn’t be a RISC OS show without the Aladdin’s cave of CJE Micro’s
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Steve Fryatt, demonstrating the use of PrintPDF
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RISCOS Ltd’s Paul Middleton was on hand to introduce RISC OS 6.16
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Daniel Silverstone, Michael Drake and Rob Kendrick of the NetSurf team show the new NetSurf 2.0 to a visitor
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Virtual Acorn’s Aaron Timbrell was able to offer emulated RISC OS to Windows and Mac OS users
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The Qercus stand had a lot of potential reading material available.
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Developers Martin Hansen (RISCOS Code and ArtGraph) and Graham Shaw (RiscPkg, UnixLib and Project Babel) in discussion
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Jim Nagel and Paul Beverley, the current and former editors of Archive Magazine, talk to some readers
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The RISCOS Ltd stand had some very impressive lighting effects
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Joel Rowbottom’s 8-bit World had a range of old BBC hardware, all networked via Econet
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WROCC’s own Steve Potts gets his hands on a machine with a VPod
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Paul Beverley was one of many “RISC OS Names” who tried to coax the recalcitrant RiscPC on the Sine Nomine stand back into life before the show