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

[VectorEyes]

Please could you put me down for the morning and evening session? Thanks!

[Arcadian]

List updated up to here.

Nine places left.

[JIM]

All day for me too please

[Arcadian]

List updated up to here.

Eight places left.

[Arcadian]

Final schedule added.

When myself and host Mark Usher had a dry run through the Econet/SJ Research presentation with Andrew (arg) on Tuesday, it soon became clear that the talk warranted more than a single timeslot. In fact, we felt it required the equivalent of three timeslots(!), hence we've dedicated the entire afternoon to the talk, which will now be presented in two parts.

Note that both Part 1 and Part 2 will feature a QA and there will be a half hour break around the mid-point.

We're really grateful to Andrew for preparing such an extensive history of the early days at Acorn including the formation and development of Econet and its introduction into classrooms, whilst also providing a remarkably detailed account of Cambridge-based company SJ Research, which was founded by Kim Spence-Jones.

We've got three first rate talks on the agenda for the 3rd now, so please sign up soon to guarantee your spot and avoid disappointment - currently only 8 places remain and at present, we are not intending to offer a reserve list for this session.



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[sPhilMainwaring]

All day please ... As usual no kit

[JonHarrison]

Dave, could you sign me up for all three sessions please.

[Arcadian]

Certainly Jon!

List updated to here.

Six places left.

[z0m8ied0g]

Please put me down thanks.

[sbadger]

Yes please Dave, Many thanks

Stew

[Arcadian]

List updated to here.

Four places left.

[SL72]

Hi
I would like to join the morning and afternoon sessions if possible please.

Many thanks
Steve

[fwibbler]

If there is a space left, could you put me down for the evening session please?
Thanks.

[Arcadian]

List updated to here.

Two places left.

[TimoHartong]

Can you me put on the list morning and afternoon for the Econet lecture in and out

[Arcadian]

Can you me put on the list morning and afternoon for the Econet lecture in and out

Certainly Timo, consider it done!

One place left!

[KenLowe]

Hi folks,

If possible, I'd like to get a little bit of time in the morning with the experts to discuss some of the CPLD space constraint challenges I'm facing with my project, and to get their thoughts on where I should go from here. Happy to take this to a week day evening meet if that would be more appropriate.

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Thanks
Ken

[Arcadian]

Yes of course Ken, when we open the 'surgery' at 9.15 you'll be first in line!

[Arcadian]

All Zoom info now communicated via Calendar invites emails. Please check your email inboxes.

If the invite hasn't got through to you, please post in this thread.

[SuperBadger99]

Yo, can you pls add me.

[Arcadian]

Done!

0 places left! We are full!

[bleister]

Hi,

I have not received an email with the meeting ID + Password

Bruce (bleister)

[TimoHartong]

So I'm ready for it

[Arcadian]

Hi,

I have not received an email with the meeting ID + Password

Bruce (bleister)

Hi Bruce, I've checked they were definitely issued to your Gmail address but I've sent them to you as a forum PM as well.

[Arcadian]

Thanks to Alan and Martin for sharing their memories of TBA Software, the RISC OS games development/software publishing company they ran with Matt Dulson between 1993-1997. Some astoundingly good games were demonstrated, the TAG/Holograph titles (Formula Two Thousand, Cobalt Seed, Mirror Image and the [sadly-unreleased] A.R.L.) seemed to easily be on-par with console titles that would have been produced by much larger development teams.



Here's a copy of the presentation that was shared during the talk ... video to follow, though I've got quite a backlog of videos to edit at the moment so don't hold your breath!

TheStoryOfTBASoftware_ABug_210403.pdf

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We look forward to welcoming them back to future ABugs for the 'sequel' (and possibly the 'prequel' too! ).

[davidb]

Thanks Alan and Martin, and Dave for organising again. Also to the moderators/hosts.

[1024MAK]

I could only catch the afternoon session, but it was definitely worthwhile. Thank you Andrew Gordon, that was a very interesting talk that you gave

And of course, thanks to the back room team that helped make it happen

Mark

[philb]

Same here, I was only able to attend Andrew's talk but I enjoyed it very much. Thanks to Andrew, Mark and everyone else for an interesting and informative session!

[cardboardguru]

Yes, thanks to Arcadian, the speakers, IDESINE and all involved in organising it. It was another great day. I love hearing the stories of what things were like in the industry BITD.

[JonHarrison]

Thank you Arcadian, all the presenters and everyone else involved. It was a very interesting and enjoyable day !