 | The little ARM9-powered board with touchscreen that shares some of the same electronics as the A9home. It was running GTK NetSurf on ARM Linux on the NetSurf stand. |
 | NetSurf developer John-Mark Bell chugs on some water to help his throat as he fields questions from gathered users. |
 | VirtualAcorn boss Aaron Timbrell asked for the 18th time when a Linux port of VirtualRiscPC will be released. |
 | Now that Jim Nagel, right, has taken over a editor of Archive from Paul Beverley, left, Jim's happy to do the talking at shows. |
 | On the RISC OS Open stand, Andrew Hodgkinson, left, is told to take it easy by a RISC OS user while we'll leave it up to your imagination to decide what Ben Avison, right, is doing with his hand. |
 | Meanwhile ROOL's Steve Revill, left, is pleased someone's finally pointed him in the direction of the toilet. |
 | An A9home in dual-monitor widescreen mode. One of the screens contains the A9home electronics while the other is a normal LCD. |
 | The new and improved FontEd in Select 4i4. |
 | Print firm Crawfords were obviously pleased to be at the show and co-sponsor it. Either that, or Hazel Blears appeared to be manning their stand. |
 | A tiny Asus eePC running VirtualRiscPC on the R-Comp stand. |
 | Paul Stewart's latest A9home-in-a-box-with-battery project. |
 | LaBella and Dr Wimp developer Ray Favre recreates the moment he delivered the fatal papercut to an unsuspecting foe. |
 | Yes, he can laugh about it now, though. |
 | Soft Rock Software's Vince Hudd as seen through the eyes of someone topped up with vanilla-flavoured vodka. |
 | Aaah, how memories from the 1980s flood back! Podd can dance. Podd can run. Podd can work nine to five as a photocopier telesales operator, dreaming of that lotto win and retiring to Antigua during his lunch break while toying with his Morrisons chicken pasta. Look at how we all turned out. |
 | A real Domesday device, complete with spinning laser disc that was the size of a dinner plate. |
 | RISCOS Ltd's stand resembled an electronics store in down-town Tokyo. Monitors everywhere and a telly playing the video of the 1994 RiscPC launch. |
 | Now that's more like it. The bar at the hotel hosting the show was frequented by gasping RISC OS users. |
 | INVISIBLE MAGAZINE |
 | RISC OS Now editor Louie Smith was praying for plenty of readers to resubscribe. |
 | So, Louie, what first attracted you to apparently successful IT consultant and ISP proprietor Paul Vigay, pictured left? |
 | ArtWorks developer Martin Wuerthner spent the whole show chatting away to delighted punters. |
 | Spare a thought for NetSurf contributor Mike Drake who has been fighting hard to get the web browser working with the monstrous CSS on the BBC's revamped websites. |
 | Dave Ruck looks utterly despondant after some swine carefully hid his coffee mug and glass of cola. |
 | RISCOS Ltd boss Paul Middleton is still in awe of the latest RISC OS Select 4i4 release. |
 | The realisation that the ARM9 PDA prototype on the NetSurf stand has gone missing slowly dawns on developer Daniel Silverstone. |
 | Programmer Alan Wrigley, he of Grapevine fame among many other software products, grins as he ponders his latest invoice for R-Comp. |
 | Once the event was underway, show supremo Chris Hughes was content to swan around. |
 | Aaron Timbrell ponders the state of the RISC OS market while fellow ROL director Dave Holden looks on from behind. |
 | Interesting backdrop choice for married family man Graham Shaw. |
 | The backs of the dual-headed A9home. |
 | Advantage Six's Matt Edgar, right, has his apologetic look perfected for A9home users wondering when the next OS Flash ROM release will come. |
 | Keith from RISC OS Connect makes a convincing argument, whatever the subject. |
 | What's this DIY heroin kit doing on the charity stand? Oh, it's actually something innocent to do with inks. The drugs were just a pigment of our imagination. I said, the drugs were, oh forget it. |
 | Yikes, that really is 16M of RAM and an ARM7 co-processor in a humble Beeb, thanks to some clever hardware and software from John Kortink. |
 | Ad Six's Stuart Tyrrell takes a spin on the almost-A9home-PDA prototype. |
 | While Martin Wuerthner had a tidy and shiny tea set on his stand, complete with tea pot, the ROOL team's best china was a remarkable contrast. Can you see where we're going with this? Me neither. |
 | Note for 2009: hire a real photographer. This is supposed to be some of the ROOL peeps. |
 | The RISC OS Now cover piece was RISC OS Open. |
 | A9home-in-a-flight-case tinkerer and Drobe feature writer Paul Stewart tried his level best to out do Martin in the show fashion stakes. |
 | CJE Micros' Chris Evans, left, is overly amused by Paul's pink notepad. |
 | Mike Glover helped out at the show despite being retired and handing over the TechWriter reins to Martin. It was touching to see him remove the software's banners at the end of the event, perhaps for the last time. |
