All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #4, Saturday 6th June 2020, 9am - 10pm - NOW FULL

[sirmorris]

I would very much like to attend please.

[oss003]

#metoo please .....

[TimoHartong]

Hi Can I also be placed on this list. I will visit the home computer museum in Helmond the Netherlands. We can ask the museum director if we can show the Acorn System one in detail and stream it live.
I will be in and out

Oh, that sounds REALLY cool, Timo.

Do you think there's any way you could you get the necessary permissions in advance? As we could allocate a slot on the programme for you if so ...

I spoke to the museum director and he is more than happy to show it. Even more it is a working condition so he will show a working system one. Could we be put in the afternoon at around 14:00 your local time. I believe it will be 14:15 because of another speaker before us.

[dominicbeesley]

Please could I attend

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[klintworth]

I'd love to attend as well - thanks, Paul

[1024MAK]

Another person that would like to join. Although only in the evening between 19:30 to 22:00 this time.

Mark

[Arcadian]

I spoke to the museum director and he is more than happy to show it. Even more it is a working condition so he will show a working system one.

Ah, that's excellent news - this is going to be a great addition to the schedule!

Could we be put in the afternoon at around 14:00 your local time. I believe it will be 14:15 because of another speaker before us.

Ah, the slots actually begin at 2pm and are either confirmed (0XC0DE) or at least provisionally filled.

However, if you could present at 13:30 - 14:00 I could push all the other slots back 30 mins?

[TimoHartong]

However, if you could present at 13:30 - 14:00 I could push all the other slots back 30 mins?

If that would be possible please do. It will be presented from the Homecomputer museum in Helmond by Bart van de Akker ( managing director ) I myself will interview him. ( https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl )

[Arcadian]

However, if you could present at 13:30 - 14:00 I could push all the other slots back 30 mins?

If that would be possible please do. It will be presented from the Homecomputer museum in Helmond by Bart van de Akker ( managing director ) I myself will interview him. ( https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl )

There you go all done, I've reduced the lunch break to 45 mins from 1hr and have moved the later talks back 15 mins:

Thanks again Timo really looking forward to the live demo, can you check with Bart and ensure that he's happy for the presentation to be recorded and put on Youtube? We can always allow Bart to review the edit before it goes public.

[TimoHartong]

I forgot to mention something very important bas Verhoeven will also joining as well.

[TimoHartong]

However, if you could present at 13:30 - 14:00 I could push all the other slots back 30 mins?

If that would be possible please do. It will be presented from the Homecomputer museum in Helmond by Bart van de Akker ( managing director ) I myself will interview him. ( https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl )

There you go all done, I've reduced the lunch break to 45 mins from 1hr and have moved the later talks back 15 mins:


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Thanks again Timo really looking forward to the live demo, can you check with Bart and ensure that he's happy for the presentation to be recorded and put on Youtube? We can always allow Bart to review the edit before it goes public.

No problem there under the condition that you place a link to the youtube channel of the museum

[sbadger]

Yes please if I can.

[markoceans]

please could I attend in the afternoon and evening (as a newbie). Thanks. Mark

[sydney]

List complete to here.

ONLY 16 PLACES LEFT!

[kieranhj]

Oooh, looking at the talks being lined up, I would like to attend this one please!

[oss003]

Hi moderators,

you can put me down for an AGD demo and explanation.
I can make a demo to show how AGD works and what the features are.
Already did this for Daredevil Dennis but now I can make it more general for Atom, BBC and Electron.

Greetings
Kees

[hoglet]

I'd like to attend please.

Dave

[markdryan]

I'd also like to attend. Could you add me to the attendee list as well?

[wolfgang]

I would like to attend too please.

[scarybeasts]

Hi,

I'd like to join for some of this. Due to the California timezone difference, it'd likely be from 6pm onwards if that's ok.


Cheers
Chris

[Arcadian]

Three more presentations added:

10.00 - 10.45 : DanielJ will give a demonstration of the Greaseweazle USB floppy disc reading interface, including an overview of the software/hardware involved, as well as precautions to take whilst archiving. Dumping protected discs to HFE format will also be covered.

15.15 - 16.00 : Sarah Walker will give an overview of her space-based arcade shootemup, White Light (2017) including selected programming techniques and tools used.

16.15 - 17.00 : Kees van Oss will present the third and final part of his series of tutorials for AGD - Arcade Game Designer. This presentation will have more of an emphasis on Electron and BBC games creation using AGD, though the Atom will still be included.

The schedule in the top post has been updated.

The 9pm talk should be confirmed later today hopefully!

I've also added the last four names to the top post ... just 12 places left now.

[kieranhj]

What an amazing line up of talks! Thanks for organising and for all the speakers taking the time. Looking forward to it.

[Soruk]

I'd like to attend.

[IanB]

I'd like to attend

[Arcadian]

Another confirmed talk added to the schedule, and it's a cracker!

21:00 - 22:00
Speaker - Phil Pearson (myelin): The Ultimate Electron Upgrade

I'll be talking about the trickiest hardware project I've done, the Ultimate Electron Upgrade:
- A brief rundown of the Electron ULA's capabilities and the original wishlist for the UEU
- Hoglet's work to implement a ULA workalike in VHDL, and the full ElectronFpga project
- The UEU PCB and its quirks: four layers, tons of BGA, missing IRQ/NMI pullups, bus-hold buffers, LVC vs HCT for video
- Writing and debugging the RTL: SDRAM, QPI flash, audio
- Future potential: how to max out the SDRAM bandwidth, internal coprocessors, emulating bigger systems

So we'll have three presentations from the Netherlands throughout the afternoon, Matt dialing in from Chicago for the 6pm 'jsbeeb' talk, Ed coordinating the High Score challenge from BC at 7.15pm then to top the evening off, Phil will be giving the above presentation from California at 9pm. These VABugs have become truly international affairs now ... and I love it!

[Arcadian]

I'd like to attend.

I'd like to attend

Names added. Just 9 places left now!

[scarybeasts]

I'd like to join for some of this. Due to the California timezone difference, it'd likely be from 6pm onwards if that's ok.

I've just seen @danielj is talking on floppy disc preservation at 10am so I'll have to stay up late for that, sleep, then rejoin!


Cheers
Chris

[Arcadian]

Oh dear, sorry about that Chris haha!

Remember we will be recording talks (subject to agreement from the speakers) if you need to timeshift?

[CommanderCoder]

I’ve just PM’d you as I’d like to attend.

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[Jonsoft]

I would love to attend (will probably lurk in the background "ABUG radio" style) but as a newbie here I would gladly defer to forum veterans and contributing members if places are limited.