All-day 'Virtual' Acorn session #13, Saturday 3rd April 2021, 9am - midnight (BST) FULL!

[SpaceFlightOrange]

All day for me please. Last one was great!!

Thanks

[Kecske Bak]

Morning and afternoon for me if possible, please.

[trixster]

all day please!

[markusher]

+Me all day please

[simoni]

All day for me too please

[Arcadian]

List updated to here.

24 places left.

[Arcadian]

First talk confirmed for April's all-day ABug: Peter Scott, who was undoubtedly the most prolific programmer of commercial BBC Micro and Electron games in the 80s, will be overviewing his Acorn career with Colin Hoad at 8pm (BST) on Sat 3rd April (with thanks to idesine for facilitating the talk!).

[pedro]

All day for me please!

[jubber]

Evening session please.

(Peter Scott - what a legend.)

[kieranhj]

Ooooh! Please put me down for afternoon & evening. Many thanks as always.

[SarahWalker]

I'm going to have to drop out unfortunately

[KarateEd]

Will be happy to see you all in the afternoon session with games on.

[Arcadian]

Sorry that you have to miss this one Sarah, hopefully next time!

List updated up to here.

22 places left.

[swileman]

Please can you add me for afternoon (maybe), and evening (certain). Morning is unlikely I’m afraid.
Thank you!
Steve

[markoceans]

Please could you add me? Thank you.

[Arcadian]

List updated up to here

19 places left (davidb contacted off forum).

[Arcadian]

Talk #2 confirmed: The Story of TBA Software with Alan Peters and Martin Piper, from 10.30am B.S.T.



Hear the story of Archimedes games developer TBA Software first hand from owner Alan Peters and developer Martin Piper.

TBA produced many RISC OS games for the Arc and RISC PC including:

• Axis
• BHP - Brutal Horse Power
• Cobalt Seed
• Command Ship
• Cyber Ape
• Dragonball
• Formula 2000
• FTT
• Merp

If there are any particular games or topics you'd like to hear more about at the talk, please post below or PM me and I can put them to Martin and Alan in advance.

[happycube]

afternoon/evening for me please!

[Dave Footitt]

Pop me down too please Dave and again many thanks to all involved for making these happen

[Coeus]

Could you put me down for afternoon and evening please.

[SpicyNikNaks]

Yes please, all day for me, Thanks.

Dean

[Arcadian]

List updated to here.

15 places left.

[Arcadian]

Third talk confirmed!

Andrew Gordon: Computers in Schools, Econet & SJ Research from 13:00 B.S.T.



Intro from Andrew:

My main involvement in the Acorn world has been the 25 years (1980-2005) that I spent doing interesting things with Econet. However, I was first approached to do this talk because I was working at Acorn in 1981/2; that work itself wasn't particularly significant, but it was a key moment of history to be there. So my aim in this talk is to walk you through the history of Econet and SJ Research, set against the background of the schools that were both our customers and our collaborators, topped up with some anecdotes from my time at Acorn that give a flavour of the era. The details of what we did are mostly clear to see from the machines in preservation, but there's a web of people and coincidences that explains why and how that came to pass.

[IanS]

All day for me, thanks.

[philb]

Morning and afternoon please!

[jgharston]

Yes, please, all day.

[Arcadian]

List updated to here.

12 places left.

[elk1984]

May I be signed up to the evening session?

[scarybeasts]

Can you put me down for the evening? The Peter Scott talk is at a California friendly time


Cheers
Chris

[bleister]

Hi, please add me to the list of attendees

Bruce Leister