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ORSAM

chaosmongerschaosmongers
edited November 2004 in Sinclair Miscellaneous
It's that time of year again...

(no, not the time when baseball cap wearing youth stick fireworks up the bottoms of cats)

.. but the ORSAM show in Norwich, this coming Saturday.


Any of you lot going down?
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  • jonathanjonathan
    edited November 2004

    Judging by the list of exhibitors this looks like being a much bigger event than last year which is very good news. It's not exactly CGE UK, but let's hope ORSAM establishes itself as the Sinclair scene's other big day out.

    For my part I've foolishly volunteered to attempt to write a Spectrum game during the course of the show, which ought to be good for a laugh.
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  • b00mzi11ab00mzi11a
    edited November 2004
    It's seeming to be a bit early in the day.
    Is anyone going down on Friday and staying over?
    I don't think I can get from Brighton to Norwich before 4:00pm ;)

    Any recommendations as a place for 8-bitters to stay over the weekend?

  • chaosmongerschaosmongers
    edited November 2004
    On 2004-11-04 21:14, jonathan wrote:

    For my part I've foolishly volunteered to attempt to write a Spectrum game during the course of the show, which ought to be good for a laugh.

    Hope you manage to get there before 3 PM, or you could be in a bit of a rush :)

  • chaosmongerschaosmongers
    edited November 2004
    On 2004-11-04 22:17, b00mzi11a wrote:
    It's seeming to be a bit early in the day.
    Is anyone going down on Friday and staying over?
    I don't think I can get from Brighton to Norwich before 4:00pm ;)

    Any recommendations as a place for 8-bitters to stay over the weekend?


    Hmm... quite a bit further Brighton to Norwich :) Maybe if you set off now...


  • CKayCKay
    edited November 2004
    It`s a pity that someone couldn`t make some clips from the show, so that the people who can`t get there could `experience` it a bit.

    Hope you all have a jolly good day *_+

  • chaosmongerschaosmongers
    edited November 2004
    I think there may be some pics coming in Retro Gamer....
  • DunnyDunny
    edited November 2004
    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/ORSAM/

    But no annotations yet.

    D.

  • WoodyWoody
    edited November 2004
    Or here, even:
    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.dunn4/ORSAM2004/
  • b00mzi11ab00mzi11a
    edited November 2004
    Does anyone know if Colin (Quazar) was showing his interesting Sam appendage? And if so, if there was anything vaguely clown-shaped on the screen?

  • Steve(spt)Steve(spt)
    edited November 2004
    Thanks.... to who ever put the box of stuff / books QL bits "Free.. Help yourself" I did to the QL Forth on Microdrive, and yes it works! - thanks !!!

    Steve(spt)
  • DavidBDavidB
    edited November 2004
    On 2004-11-07 19:07, b00mzi11a wrote:
    Does anyone know if Colin (Quazar) was showing his interesting Sam appendage? And if so, if there was anything vaguely clown-shaped on the screen?


    Yes, Colin had a very nice appendage indeed - and that certain Clown also looked extremely swish!
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  • DavidBDavidB
    edited November 2004
    I stuck a few odd Spectrum books in the box as well - hope they came in handy. (I saw the very pleased look when I passed my old ZX81 manual to the ZX81 seller as well :)
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  • CKayCKay
    edited November 2004
    Been looking at the pictures (it took me nearly an hour and a half to load them... deery me)... Looked like an interesting day.
    Great to see all the computers, and boxes I`ve never seen before and the old gadgets etc...

    How come you guys were tooled up? I seen them seven sinclair light guns, expectin` bother eh? haha

    Davey, if that metallic computer is your SAM in a can, it looks mint :) Im that jealous Im gonna paint a cornflakes box with metallic paint and pretend I have one... no, seriously *_+


  • DavidBDavidB
    edited November 2004
    Indeed it is - and I'll be playing around with the sampler tomorrow as well which I just got added before the show :)

    (I had half got a simple slideshowy thing done to run with the sid interface, but I didnt get enough chance to finish. Never mind - one for next time perhaps)


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  • DavidBDavidB
    edited November 2004
    Glad I got rid of the cherry keyboard though - this Logitech doesnt jam like that other one did.
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  • b00mzi11ab00mzi11a
    edited November 2004
    On 2004-11-08 00:46, daveykins wrote:
    On 2004-11-07 19:07, b00mzi11a wrote:
    Does anyone know if Colin (Quazar) was showing his interesting Sam appendage? And if so, if there was anything vaguely clown-shaped on the screen?


    Yes, Colin had a very nice appendage indeed - and that certain Clown also looked extremely swish!

    Aha - was it playing some nice music? I sweated blood over that ruddy conversion! ;)
  • DavidBDavidB
    edited November 2004
    Indeed - and I made sure I turned my tunes down, as they where very good indeed!
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  • QuazarQuazar
    edited November 2004
    On 2004-11-08 08:53, b00mzi11a wrote:
    Aha - was it playing some nice music? I sweated blood over that ruddy conversion! ;)

    Yes I was, as it's bloody good music!
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  • QuazarQuazar
    edited November 2004
    On 2004-11-07 19:07, b00mzi11a wrote:
    Does anyone know if Colin (Quazar) was showing his interesting Sam appendage?

    It was announced at about 12.45 :)

    Info about the 'Mayhem Accelerator' (which is still a work-in-progress' will be up on the website sometime, as well in Sam Revival issues 11 and 12)
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  • btyler1978btyler1978
    edited November 2004
    Hi guys

    Good to see everyone there old faces and new.

    We made it back home - just with our windscreen cracked twice from top to bottom!

    Had a laugh and checked out the pic of me, and safe to say I look bad :))

    Hope it carries on next year, had a good day and a big thanks to everyone that visited our stall and played the games and stopped by for a chat - just a pity we didn't get Shuan's CodeMaster's CD collecion (yes CD) for the spectrum, as never saw one in the day and would love to have gt it running!

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    [ This Message was edited by: btyler1978 on 2004-11-08 18:09 ]
  • btyler1978btyler1978
    edited November 2004
    Oh, forgot to say, give me a few days and I will have video footage of the event and pictures of the event of the website for all that missed the show.
  • chaosmongerschaosmongers
    edited November 2004
    Excellent day - look forward to going again next year :)

    Cheers Barry for lending me your TV (after one of mine decided to go tits up halfway through the show).
  • btyler1978btyler1978
    edited November 2004
    No problems Simon.

    Hope you get on well with the QL mate and speak soon mate.
  • Shaun.BebbingtonShaun.Bebbington
    edited November 2004
    Greetings folks,

    The OrSam was great. Very well organised and attended for the size of the show. Hi to everyone I saw there.

    Just to say that I have the CodeMasters CD Rom pack working in the office now. It's running from a Plus 2 with both Sinclair and Kempston joystick inputs. If only it would work on the day!

    Barry (Retro Passions), if you are reading this then please get in touch. ;)

    Regards,

    Shaun.
  • Steve(spt)Steve(spt)
    edited November 2004
    While at the Show I lost my wallet !!!
    [ properly dropped it while writing a cheque for my new sam disk drive]

    Someone gave it in to Bethal Street Police station - A BIG THANKYOU !!

    No there was no money in it! As I do not carry any cash! But still, my faith my human kind has been restored, along with my Sam and QL thanks to the show!

    Steve(spt)
  • oboobo
    edited November 2004
    More pics, for anyone that hasn't seen em:
    http://www.simonowen.com/photo/index.php?folder=/orsam2004/

    SPT: I didn't realise you were at the show! Are you in any of the pics?

    Si
  • Steve(spt)Steve(spt)
    edited November 2004
    On 2004-11-11 12:18, obo wrote:

    SPT: I didn't realise you were at the show! Are you in any of the pics?

    Si

    No, sorry Pics of me are very rare. My wife saw a lakeland plastics shop on the way in, So I think I was being dragged around there when the photos were being taken.

    steve(spt)
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