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South East 2008 show photos Published: 20th Oct 2008, 23:20:59. If a picture tells a thousand words, here's a short story Photographs taken of last weekend's South East 2008 show are here, thanks to Peter Howkins. Click on a thumbnail for a larger picture. The RISCOS Ltd stand showing off RISC OS 6 Allan Rawnsley of R-Comp looking well The widescreen-monitor-with-a-built-in-A9home, aka the A9wai1, and Advantage Six's reasons for its, um, advantages Each A9wai1 can drive two monitors INVISIBLE A9HOME The A9wai1's monitors can also be stacked vertically to create a portrait mode RiscPkg author Graham Shaw ponders which RISC OS module to rewrite from scratch next "I give the source code a little rub and then blow, just like this, and bam - a new feature appears. That's the magic of ArtWorks development" MW Software's Martin Wuerthner struggles to maintain his usual cheery face when asked if ArtWorks can produce Flash files Paul Vigay can only stare in horror as a small child spills hot chocolate over his Iyonix 2 prototype motherboard* Is "the leading internet service provider" bit missing a letter 'p'? Just kidding, Paul, you're all right It's RISC OS Now editor Louie Smith APDL's Dave Holden keeps an ever-watchful eye on proceedings RISC OS Open's Steve Revill totally convinces punters he hasn't been up all night preparing to release the latest batch of RISC OS 5 source code "We are Borg, I mean, ROOL. Relicensing is futile" RISCOS Ltd's Paul Middleton moves onto his next song, My Sweet A7000 Left Me For A Mico And Fresco's Crashed Again Leo White prepares his video camera, hopefully so that recordings of the show's theatre presentations can be watched over the Internet at some point in the near future NetSurf's John-Mark Bell pauses momentarily as he starts to run out of witty replies for the constant stream of "When will you add JavaScript support?" queries PrintPDF author Steve Fryatt is available for life model sessions at art classes near you NetSurf developer Rob Kendrick comes to his senses again after dashing out of one particularly hard-going theatre talk. He was forced to escape the lecture hall when the speaker kicked off with: "The future of RISC OS is in networking. Say you have a RiscPC and an A9home. Or a RiscPC and an Iyonix. Or an A9home and an Iyonix. Or maybe two A9homes and two Iyonixes..." Really. Martin Wuerthner holds a theatre talk, and not a slideshow of his flower gardens A table of biodegradable one-use nutritional upgrades for punters Graham Shaw, left, tries not to overhear John-Mark being quizzed over his choice of desktop background by fellow NetSurf developer Daniel Silverstone, far right The ARM Club had various bits of kit on sale A punter inspects ROL's updated PRM for desktop software developers The R-Comp stand had plenty to play with The APDL stand stocked as per usual CJE Micros also brought an updated LanMan98 and Photodesk to the event in Guildford, UK Qercus editor John Cartmell, centre, waits patiently for a show punter to complete a puzzle game before being allowed to resubscribe RISC OS Open loves the userbase tthhiiiisss much, and says it in source code The ROOL gang have spun out a desktop calender set featuring images from RISC OS's history - but is this a subtle admission that they've lost the blueprints for !Alarm? "And that's how I completed Pacmania in 3 minutes, 8 seconds" Links Send us your news, views, abuse and ideas Photos taken by Peter Howkins and used under licence. * None of this is true Discussion Viewing threaded comments | View comments unthreaded, listed by date | Skip to the end Hmm - I should have shaved. Although there are certain things you just can't be faffed to do when you get up at 5am to arrive at the other end of the country for 9! rjek on 21/10/08 12:03AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ] In reply to rjek: Not to worry, you can always try and shave for the MUG show in December. sa110 on 21/10/08 7:52AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ] Many thanks to Peter for taking these. Combined with the show report, I don't feel as if I have missed anything by not attending. sa110 on 21/10/08 7:54AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ] Well it might have to be done entirely online next year. druck on 21/10/08 9:10AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ] Hopefully it won't come to that Druck sa110 on 21/10/08 9:14AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ] In reply to sa110: Pity that you don't feel you have missed anything! There is a real difference to reading show reports and looking at still images or even short movies (there was the odd one a while ago) to being there and meeting others and chatting with them. But perhaps I'm the wierdo here since for me there is a difference between email, internet chat, telephone and meeting! hzn on 21/10/08 6:18PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ] In reply to hzn: Yes you are quite correct. Being there is not the same as reading a show report or watching a video. However some of those are unable to attend every single show that goes on! Roll on the MUG show! sa110 on 21/10/08 7:11PM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ] In reply to sa110: True - visiting shows implies quite a bit of travel not everybody can afford (be it time, money, or both) - especially when you don't live in UK. hzn on 22/10/08 10:03AM [ Reply | Permalink | Report ] Please login before posting a comment. Use the form on the right to do so or create a free account.

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