Amiga Ireland 3.0 – Jan 19th & 20th 2018

(Photo by Trevor Dickenson – A-EON)

Meet fellow Commodore and Amiga fanatics as well as some of the people behind developments of past and present. Trophies for the winners of our gaming competitions, spot prizes, exhibitions, workshops, demo comp, interviews and most importantly – good ‘craic’ as we say in Ireland ( ‘fun and good cheer’). Visit www.amigausers.ie/media to see images and video.

Interviews & Meetings

Meet people behind the past, present and future of Commodore and Amiga developments. We’ve invited some great guests and thankfully, they have either committed to come or are hoping to make it.

David Pleasance – Commodore / FriendUP
Trevor Dickenson – A-EON
Nick Veitch – Amiga Format editor*
Matthew Leaman – AmigaKit
Brendan Smith – Computer & Communications Museum of Ireland
Neil Cafferkey – AROS Core Developer
Tomasz Ankudowicz – Komoda & Amiga Plus Magazine
Eddy Carroll – SnoopDOS creator
Niall O Brolchain – Creator of Ireland’s first C64 game
Rob Cranley – Amiga Future Magazine
The Amiga Ireland podcast team, and more to be announced
(* invited)

Some excellent Youtubers and Podcasters will be there too. This is just a short list and we are hopeful that other names from Amiga Format & Commodore will confirm their attendance soon.

Gaming Competitions

Again this year there will be trophies for Sensible World of Soccer, Stunt Car Racer and more. We will also have Amigas linked up with Skidmarks for some 8 player madness.

On the C64, Paper Plane Hi-Score competition runs all weekend as well as a Sub Duel play off.
Workshops
Programming, Music Creation, Soldering: these workshops ran last year and we plan the same again this year. Limited soldering equipment available so bring what you can.

Commodore Creative Competition

Enter your demo, art music or PETSCII. It could be something as simple as a Father Ted quote, a music piece or as complex as Irish art/calligraphy made in your favorite graphics editor. You can even submit an Amiga cake or knit a C= jumper – let your imagination run free 🙂 Our judges will announce the top entries as well as runners up. Submissions to info@amigausers.ie.

Exhibitions

See Terrible Fire accelerators, Vampire, Dropbox & Google Drive for Amiga, WiFi on C64 and Amiga and other displays on the day. Core AROS developer will be there on the day to demo the latest developments. There is a rumour that someone is bringing a Commodore PET on the day 🙂

Workshops

Every year we have workshops in programming and music creation. Last year we had a soldering workshop run by Rob Cranley which was very popular. If you’d like to solder this year, bring equipment with you and we’ll be able to give you pointers.

Spot Prizes

Amiga WiFi cards, notepads and boxed games will be among spot prizes on the day.

Podcast

The Amiga Ireland podcast will record an episode at the event with a live audience.

Nights Out

Go for a meal with the organisers and our VIP guests on Friday night. On Saturday after the event, we go to Gertie Brown’s pub.

Tickets

Tickets can be booked at http://amigausers.ie/tickets/