Wakefield RISC OS show 21st April 2018

[jgharston]

Just about to set off. I'll see any Friday arrivers at teatime.

[jgharston]

Have arrived. Am looking for something cold and wet.

[tricky]

Me too

[flibble]

Have fun today, and post some pics

[danielj]

I have no pics -I was too busy talking! It was great to see everyone, fun meeting, lots of 8-bitness, lots of lovely colours, lots of new old tech

d.

[daveejhitchins]

Apologies to everyone that attended Wakefield today from both my wife and I.

This is what we left at home - accidently! . . . Sorry!

Dave H

p.s. Just had a slice - Mmmmmmm!

[daveejhitchins]

I may need a larger table, next year . . .

Dave H

[HullBeebman]

Thank you all for a brilliant show today, especially David from Retrohardware - fantastic hardware. Definitely on my future shopping list.

[Elminster]

Thank you all for a brilliant show today, especially David from Retrohardware - fantastic hardware. Definitely on my future shopping list.

You are going to buy Dave!? Good choice.

[daveejhitchins]

You are going to buy Dave!? Good choice.

Dave H

[IanS]

Have fun today, and post some pics

Some pics on the icon bar - http://www.iconbar.com/articles/Wakefie ... x1420.html

[gazzaD]

Enjoyed my first Wakefield show, got a lot out of it for a fiver, Although the WROCC people did StrongArm (see any I did there?) me into a club subscription

[gazzaD]

Also the smell of an X2 capacitor failing added an authentic smell that every retro hardware show should have!

[Arcadian]

Enjoyed catching up with everyone again today, nice to meet you HullBeebMan!

Thanks Rob for the Beebsid PCB, Daniel for the Smallymouse PCB and Tricky for fixing up my dodgy controllers!

I took some photos of the 8-bit stand holders as well as Anthony's AMCOG stall (below). Thanks to Beebmaster for letting me use his camera!

Now looking forward to the Camberley ABug in June!

Richard (Tricky), with the nULa version of Frogger, which featured the same colours from the original arcade game. Also on display was the latest version of Tricky's Centipede conversion, which featured trackball control.

In addition to demonstrating both the new AP5 cartridge and the Mega Games Cartridge, Dave (Retro Hardware) also displayed some examples of the new run of metal cases for the Electron UPURS, Slogger Pegasus Disk Interface and AP5.

DanielJ's BeebSCSI-powered BBC Master running Domesday. Also note the A5000 with Gotek floppy emulator.

John demonstrated some of the newest additions to the Flaxcottage educational software archive

16 colour games/graphic demos and even Spectrum games from Rob Coleman, designer of the nULA upgrade.

Stephen (Retro Acorn) had a rare Acorn System 1 on his table

Anthony Bartram's AMCOG stand, featuring new RISC OS games

[richardtoohey]

Nice to see the pictures.

Hope to manage to get to another show in the next year or two.

[RobC]

Was a good day even in the heat and great to see some familiar faces again and to meet others in person for the first time.

[jgharston]

Apologies to everyone that attended Wakefield today from both my wife and I.

....from I ????

[jgharston]

Using somebody else's DataCentre and a collection of keyboards I think I dug out my USB keybaord + Hub problem.

In essence, two of the USB keyboards I have aren't actually USB keyboards, but are PS2 keyboards with a USB plug on them that you can plug into a little USB-PS2 adaptor to plug into a PS2 socket. As these type of keyboards are not actually USB keyboards they don't understand the full USB protocol and must be plugged directly into a USB master socket as device zero, and don't work through a hub as device 1+. A shame as one of them is a really nice Japanese keyboard with all the symbol keys in the correct place.

[daveejhitchins]

Apologies to everyone that attended Wakefield today from both my wife and I.

....from I ????

Jonathan . . . Are you being picky again? If English were my first language I might fair better - as it is I learned (to) dribble first - and never recovered

And more to the point - I don't have a face of one that cares And the cake is really good

Dave H

[JohnH]

If English were my first language I might fair fare better

Dave H

sorry Dave...

Wish I could've made it to the show but the wife made plans for this weekend without consulting me

[daveejhitchins]

Some bad news . . . (apart from my English!) . . .

I unpacked my transport box last night and found two items missing

Two IDE interfaces. One was delivered to me by IanS (his new version) and the second was an original version 6C, found for me on the bring and buy stand by DanielJ.

The last time I remember seeing them was on my side of the stand after showing them to someone - on reflection I don't remember packing them at close of play.

Has anyone seen or found them?

Thanks - Dave H

[trixster]

Fantastic photos!

I really must try and get to the show next year! Damn work

[flaxcottage]

Some bad news . . . (apart from my English!) . . .

I unpacked my transport box last night and found two items missing

Two IDE interfaces. One was delivered to me by IanS (his new version) and the second was an original version 6C, found for me on the bring and buy stand by DanielJ.

The last time I remember seeing them was on my side of the stand after showing them to someone - on reflection I don't remember packing them at close of play.

Has anyone seen or found them?

Thanks - Dave H

Sorry, Dave. You prompted me to unpack! Ha ha! I was right next to you but there is nothing untoward in my boxes. I don't even remember seeing them at all.

Hope they turn up soon.

[RobC]

Hi Dave,

This has prompted me to unpack too

I didn't come across either interface but know that there was nothing left on the side table that tricky and I were using when I departed. Don't know about the table you were using though as I didn't look at it.

Hope they turn up.

[danielj]

I've unpacked too Nothing in my boxes I'm afraid

d.

[IanS]

Has anyone seen or found them?

Have you contacted the show organiser to see if anything was found or handed in at the end?

[daveejhitchins]

Have you contacted the show organiser to see if anything was found or handed in at the end?

I'll do that.

My table was quite empty - I even looked under the table, in case they had been knocked off during the tear-down. And Mrs H says she didn't help with the packing or unpacking

Dave H

[tricky]

Sorry, nothing extra in my tubs either, apart from a couple of blown caps!

[daveejhitchins]

Well, well, well . . . .

There I was putting some caravan items away in my shed . . . And what do I spot? A pink antistatic bag with a SCART cable inside. I'm wondering what on earth is it doing there? It was among a few other items that I taken down to Wakefield. Hmmm! I thought, why has Mrs H put these in here? On opening the bag . . .yes, you've guessed, 2 x IDE interfaces and a SmallyMouse PCB

Firstly . . . My apologies to the Wakefield crew for all my awful thoughts. Secondly . . . To Mrs H - I've told her the nose bleed will stop soon No, seriously, I won't tell her, as she gets so upset when she does this . . . There's no way any of my 'workshop' stuff should be in the 'shed'

So, all's well that ends well - to coin a phrase . . . Bless her cotton socks . . .

Dave H

[tricky]

Glad you found them.