Oh. Well I've booked a ticket and a hotel room, so I'm hopeful it'll
go ahead. There certainly seems to be a lot of interest at the Retro
Gamer forums (http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10861&highlight=byte
), and a whole bunch of people from the BBC emulation community are
planning to go, which is where I heard about it from. Per the Retro
Gamer forum, the most local hotel is already booked up.
That said, I've never attended or paid that much attention to this
sort of thing before, so I've absolutely no baseline of interest to
compare it to. I've only ended up with the offer of a table because I
posted to the Byte Back forum and asked if homebrewy stuff would be
welcome. I guess if the show occurs and the offer was genuine, I'll
probably be in some corner with a Sam, an Electron and a Mac, showing
my Sam 3d stuff, some Electron stuff as yet unwritten and my OpenGL 3d
Construction Kit-compatible Freescape implementation. If that makes me
unofficial custodian of all Sam content in the 'homebrew' corner then
I'd really love to have more than my momentarily-interesting 3d
routines to show.
On 23 Sep 2008, at 21:58, Steve Parry-Thomas wrote:
Interesting that's on my door step!
There has been one or two of these in the stoke area that's never
quite
happened.
If this one goes ahead, then yes, I could be there with my SAMs and
Jupiter
Ace Archive
Steve(spt).
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Subject: New projects & Byte-Back 2009
Through an uninteresting, indirect route, it seems likely that I'll be
attending and supplying a Sam for the homebrew area of Byte-Back 2009
(http://byte-back.info/ ), one of those classic gaming convention
thingies,
which will occur in Stoke-on-Trent on March the 7th and 8th next year.
Consequential
questions:
1) Will anybody else be in attendance?
2) Is anybody willing and able to transfer some of my Sam programs
to actual
Sam floppy in preparation for the event? I guess I'll want to take
all of my
current 3d stuff and maybe another thing that I've just started
messing
around with.
3) Does anybody else have anything I can take along? Obviously the tag
'homebrew' doesn't mean that much in the Sam world, but in the
context of
all the information available I'm interpreting it just to mean new
stuff for
old hardware
