The latest from our roving show reporter...
 

The queue
Sent 10 May 2003 09:54:45 by Phil Mellor
	We're here and we're early. Time to join the queue. Surprisingly for up north It's sunny! A good omen.

The alpha laptop
Sent 10 May 2003 11:24:22 by Phil Mellor
	The new portable from microdigital. 2ghz celeron running a form of virtual acorn and select.

Fast
Sent 10 May 2003 11:30:16 by Phil Mellor
	The production quality omega. On arm twistdr on display - but it should be delivered in weeks rather than months. David atkins didn't want to show their nearly finished version because of rumour mongering.

The crowds
Sent 10 May 2003 11:43:45 by Phil Mellor
	It's getting more busy now. Lots of people still turning up. A good positive atmosphere so far.

Select 3
Sent 10 May 2003 11:50:25 by Phil Mellor
	Running the latest build. An omega was also seen on the stand with it. Thumbnail filer seems fast. Not tried the transparent sprites yet. Very impressive.

The opposition
Sent 10 May 2003 11:55:27 by Phil Mellor
	Tapping in a witty drobe report with a palm and stylus. Slow going?

Castle
Sent 10 May 2003 12:08:23 by Phil Mellor
	Card reader running on an iyonix. John ballance demonstrates the printers. The pop up software pops up!

Omega progress
Sent 10 May 2003 13:18:46 by Phil Mellor
	The sound works, networking and other pci cards to come. Hardware acceleration will speed up standard os plots and sprites.

Artworks2
Sent 10 May 2003 13:37:34 by Phil Mellor
	Martin serves the long queue of artworks 2 customers.

Theatre
Sent 10 May 2003 13:30:01 by Phil Mellor
	The show theatre. Currently simtec are demonstrating their usb devices. Usb radio, cameras, media and more. A pen drive from someone in the audience was tried but didn't work. Standards eh?

Eggs beans and spam
Sent 10 May 2003 13:48:15 by Phil Mellor
	Spellings can stop you getting this.

Select on an omega
Sent 10 May 2003 14:12:01 by Phil Mellor
	Yes, it works. The image file renderer may be extended to cover text formats in the future. Some applications like stronged don't work with the writeable icon but and paste, and impression doesn't use the custom icons but mostly It's seamless. On the website next weekend, hopefully.

Acorn user
Sent 10 May 2003 14:26:34 by Phil Mellor
	Steve turnbull wonders where his editor has got to.

The charity stand
Sent 10 May 2003 14:54:34 by Phil Mellor
	Lots of stuff, big pile of a3020s and some bbcs. Not so much good software this year

Stuart tyrrell developments
Sent 10 May 2003 15:14:18 by Phil Mellor
	Lots of usb gadgets from the man himself. A god few pounds off with the show prices too.

Webster xl
Sent 10 May 2003 15:33:02 by Phil Mellor
	That looks familiar... Not as quick as oregano, but that runs on an iyonix and still feels a little sluggish.

David holden
Sent 10 May 2003 15:49:18 by Phil Mellor
	Winner of the best beard award.

And the winner is...
Sent 10 May 2003 15:59:19 by Phil Mellor
	This man from reading. He's won an omega! Apparently he was one of the first in the queue to buy an iyonix at the south east show. Is he the only person in the world to own two different new risc os computers?

Binary dinosaur
Sent 10 May 2003 16:07:00 by Phil Mellor
	Mr witchy shows off his Domesday system.