A New Amiga Show in 2023? Kickstart 01 | Retro Road Trip
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A new Amiga show in 2023? Madness surely? Today I take a trip to Nottingham to see what Kickstart is all about. We'll meet the usergroups, the traders and the man behind the idea, and we find out, is it any good?
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00:00 Let's go to Kickstart Amiga Show
01:07 Who are PCBWay.com?
01:33 Arriving at Kickstart Amiga Show
02:37 Kickstart Amiga Show Begins
04:09 Rob Retro.Directory and Amiga Disk Backups
06:06 Scott's Amiga 1200
07:21 Akiko Amiga Laptop
09:13 Rob Cranley's Solas Amiga Project
11:04 Amiga Party Saturday Night
12:54 Sunday at Amiga Kickstart Show
13:31 Zeb's A1200 and 256gb Amiga Partitions
16:12 Immortal Joysticks
18:21 Mike's "Prison Spec" Amiga
20:16 Ian at Amiga Addict Magazine
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23:41 Ravi Abbot Kickstart Organiser
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Kickstart 02 is taking place on 29/30th June 2024 - Great to see it establishing as a big annual event. Find out more at amigashow.com
Please tell us you'll be attending again and shooting footage, as well as interviewing the exhibitors. This video is excellent, allowing folks who were unable to physically attend to at least experience some of the joy.
That custom disk preservation station is actually incredible!
Navigating large events like these can be a challenge with Autism, but everyone was so lovely I ended up really enjoying myself! 😊 There were many cool things to see and many old and new machines to try, and the recap party was such a fitting end to the first day; a really warm community vibe 🖤
That's exactly what I thought.
I was a teenager in the USA and I had an Apple //gs. When my grandfather came to visit, he bought my younger brother an Amiga 500 (from the bargain bin!). While I loved my //gs, I was just amazed what a great computer the Amiga was - and the game collection was just huge. My //gs had a modem, and I spent a lot of time downloading games for Amiga, transferring (some times splitting them) them to MSDOS disks, then using the Amiga to unpack them to Amiga formatted disks and play the games. The Amiga demos were the best. I loved the european cracking and demo scene and dreamed of attending an Amiga party in Europe. You could say the amiga inspired me to move to europe. European coders were just amazing.
Wow that’s a really great story and probably quite a unique one
That reminds me - the Amiga also introduced me into Techno Music . The Prodigy! Nothing like that was in the USA at the time - we are talking early 90s.
Where'd you move to out of interest? The UK or elsewhere in Europe?
Huge congratulations to Andrew at @amigaformortals on hitting the Kickstarter goal with his joysticks shown in the video. There's 1 day left to back it if you're interested in one at www.kickstarter.com/projects/immortaljoysticks/immortaljoysticks Neil
Thank you very much!!
This is cool but it does seem to be an absolute sausage fest...:-D
There’s no more days now :(😢
@@eldenringer6466 - lol I'm sure there are hookers available at night. ;D
I'm an Atari ST guy through and through and I had so much fun at Kickstart - I chatted to so many great people and the whole thing was so well organised by Ravi. The party on the Saturday was a highlight! I'll definitely be back next year - maybe with a little ST table tucked away in a corner somewhere 😅
Next year I’d like to do an ST vs Amiga midi jitter/latency duel, fancy it? 😂
What day did you go Rees sorry I missed you I enjoy your channel too
RetroPassion had a Falcon at the back of his stall 😉
That was my first Amiga event and it was fabulous. Your video really caught the vibe Neil.
I was there with the Scottish Amiga Users Group. I loved every second of the show. A massive thanks to Ravi and the rest of the team for putting on such an amazing event.
Wow. Didn't know there are many other AMIGA lovers like me.
Now living in the States, I watch these UK events with envy. I still have my U.S. Gold badge from a Commodore event in the UK in the 80s.
I love that disk backup system and the clear case Amiga. Looks like it was a fun event.
Learned about the Retro Directory - excellent, bookmarked
Was great seeing you again Neil. What a fantastic weekend we all had!
Fantastic
Attended the Amiga Expos in the Sydney convention center back in the early 90s and they were so much fun...bought a lot of gear whilst I was there (Opalvision card, CDTV etc)...also had the first cyberstorm 060 A4000 in Australia and remember these awesome machines fondly....this was back when computing was fun and not about using the platform to spy on its users. Those were the days 😊
Spotted myself a couple of times there :) Great weekend at the show, though I didn't get to talk to everyone I wanted to either! I'll have to come back...
Gutted I missed it! I had no idea it was on and I'm only down the road in Northamptonshire. Will definitely go to the next one and bring my custom desktopped Blizzard PPC powered A1200 :)
What a great video, it put a smile on my face hearing about the warm atmosphere and friendly people :) Lots of cool projects there too :)
12:07 It's me and the King Cave Dweller! I almost lost my voice after a weekend of non-stop Amiga nerd-festing. Fiery PiStorm debates, rocking chip tunes, new Amiga demos, rubbing shoulders with the good and the great of Amiga games development, hanging with my favourite KZheadrs and Podcasters, and making new friends. I was in heaven! Huge thanks to @Djformula for making it all happen! Counting down the days until Kickstart 02!
Am so jealous that there are events like these across Europe and so many retro events in general in the UK... have not come across any here in Melbourne 😞
Lovely to see so many different custom Amiga setups.
My Snow White 1200 was at 11:40 😊
Wow wow wow. The backup station, the 3D printed floating Amiga demo ball 😍 Akiko32 Mini-ITX , ImmortalJoysticks, Checkmate Monitor ... when I see these awesome projects, I project (errr....) myself back in the days trying to imagine how I'd feel when learning about such machine!!! Cool Party , great remix 🥳
What a phenomenal day. Can't wait for the next one, and now that I know some faces and names I'll be sure to say hi. Candid shot of me playing Turbo Tomato in there too 👀
Looks like Ravi did an awesome job! What am amazing looking event. I will hopefully be there next year. Great video as well Neil. Really well covered. ❤
Great job with the video Neil. You captured the best of the weekend for sure!
It was good to finally meet you in person! Saturday was a blast!
I didnt realise there were so many cool Amiga projects, i want one now.
It was great to be there and share the day with my brother, just like we had to share the phone line extension cable for the modem back in our teens!
Judging from your video, this was an awesome event. Kudos to the organizers.
It was great to meet you and quickly show you my Uzebox. If I'd got there earlier I probably would've made it into this video. Ah well! I will make it down to the Cave soon and we can do some Uzebox content then. The Uzebox is best open source console IMO, its the only one thats managed to maintain a active user base for 15+ years so I was surprised that no-one at Kickstart had heard of it. I can't think of a more fun way to learn eletronics than build your own console and writing a Uzebox game is a great way to learn C. It's nice that you can write games in C for it as most of the 8bit (and 16bit) consoles required you write games in assembly. I look forward to Kickstart 02!
Didn't know this was on until it was too late......Will definitely go to next year's.
The Amiga was such a generational leap from anything before it. I was so fortunate to have an A500 and loved it. It was very hard for my Mother to afford such a device on instalments at the time. But I appreciated it at the time and a lot more so now, looking back. She also worked in an arcade as a book keeper back in the day. "Edmonton Machines" in north London. They supplied London and the surrounding counties. All service by a guy nicknamed "brains".
Amiga was obsoleted literally in its second year. It failed as a productivity machine because it was designed around NTSC TVs with their non-existing resolutions, it failed as a game machine, because it had no RAM to speak of, the only reasonable usage for it was for music because it had a surplus 70s synthesizer chip.
Right on my doorstep. Great location in the centre of the country. Looked amazing. I will have to look out for this next year.
Awww I really need to get on a mailing list, as I am just down the road in Huthwaite :(
Absolutely fantastic show. Well done folks
Seeing John singing his song, the one of Cannon Fodder is a great moment ! Thx for the fun and for sharing.
Thanks for the event. It was interesting and cozy!
What a wonderful video for the amiga fans i loved this thanks for sharing this 👍👍
Amazing to see the Amiga still going stong!!
I miss the good old Amiga times
I gave my Amiga away years ago and regret it now. I spent hours and hours on it - writing AMOS games, playing games, drawing in Deluxe Paint, playing around with Sound Tracker, etc. I guess the problem is that I've spent a lot of years since using Windows PC's and I remember just before giving away my Amiga I played a few games on it.. and it was looking very primitive. I have glanced at the emulators.. but I got bored with those quite quick. As I say the problem is - I've just got too used to modern technology. I'm glad that people are keeping the Amiga alive though.
Many of us keep the machines alive for creative uses, things that the modern systems don’t quite do as well, I made a documentary about Amiga sound/music for instance 😊
It's great to see so much support for the Amiga. I will have to checkout Kickstart next year.
Great video and so reminds me of the 80s and 90s Amiga shows and usergroups. Great memories... 😊
Thank you for letting us visit!
It was cool meeting you Neil enjoyed the flick through the last Amiga Power too
Nice to meet you too! The thinness of that mag is a sad story in itself, an interesting read though
Awesome, 🎉loved my Amiga 500+. This was fascinating. Thank you! 👍🙂
Awesome video showing how great the event was. I managed to get a ticket for the Saturday and loved rekindling my love of Amiga chatting to people across the floors. Sadly, for my wallets’ sake I’m now looking to find an old Amiga 1200 that needs some TLC as a project to rebuild. Thanks to everyone involved putting it on and I can’t wait for next year which will be hopefully bigger and better. Oh, one last thing. Anyone have a url for the Gotek replacement on the left hand side, close to the entrance in the exhibitors room? I chatted with them for a bit but forgot to get any details - doh!
Nice. Also nice to finally see that Solace will be released. Hats off for Ravi!
What a fantastic community event and some real passion for the amiga !
Looks like a nice day out.
So cool to see so many Amiga fans with all kinds of turbo specs and creations (especially in 2023). Great coverage of a good looking show that seems well attended 👍😊
Thank you so much for this excellent video. I live in the USA and would love to attend one year. I’m a big fan of The Retro Hour and had been listening with interest about this event. Your video made it feel like I was there.
What a bunch of great people in one place :) Enjoyed watching this video, seen some great stuff.
I've been watching old Computer Chronicles episodes, and something I really lament is the loss of trade shows and retail computer stores. I was on the "buy all the things from the Internet" bandwagon like everyone else, but like he said in the Checkmate interview -- you can't get across what it's like to use a product through a video. I really miss this stuff. With the DIY cottage industry that has sprung up, we're literally coming full circle, with vendors creating products that those early Comdex and CES shows would've killed for -- and they're still lustworthy today. Obsolete is a lie. Good products are good forever. Bring back the trade show! :-D
Awesome stuff gentlemen !
It was a great event and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Everyone was extremely friendly and it had a great atmosphere. It was also wonderful to meet you, Neil. Glad you had a good time as well!
great to see so many passionate amiga enthusiasts, had an amiga as a kid, but never really explored it much, life moved on and pc's came along. great this kit it still out there and advancements with new cases and pi's etc. one day would like to relive my youth and get back into this.
looks like it was fun, good on everyone for doing it and going to it :)
Looked amazing!
Looks like Ravi and everyone else did an amazing job with the event. Thanks for making the video for us that couldn't go. I hear some rumors that you and Ravi might come to Retromessa in Norway. Would be great to say hi! :)
Yes! Really looking forward to Retromessa please say hello!
@@RMCRetro I will!
@@RMCRetro I have a video from my trip to Retromessa last year if you're interested: kzhead.info/sun/oZWMmt5usGJ_fJs/bejne.html
Absolutely amazing video and show.
Wonderful!
Seems ages ago now... loved the show.....💕
Ravi clearly did an amazing job and im so glad it went so well. I would love to attend the event next year, along with Amiga Ireland and a visit to the Cave as well!
Ahh I can see myself repping the N4 Records t-shirt at 0:19! 😂 It was really nice to meet you Neil :)
One of the best retro computer events I ever attended was the Personal Computer Show at Earls Court in 1988 🙂
The last Amiga show I went to was Amiga Format Live in ‘93
@@RMCRetroI went to World of Amiga ‘98 and saw Petro’s dancing girls 😂
Last one I attended was the personal computer show 1987. Microprose had a hydraulic flight sim which was ace and I got to chat to Alan Sugar on the Amstrad stand. There were some very scantily clad ladies promoting a Domark game (i think), which was nice. Also bought a load of c64 pirating tools from one of the dodgy stalls tucked away lol.
I went to the World of Commodore, I think it was 1992 at Earl’s Court and I still have the CDTV t-shirt! I met a bunch of nice dudes from Amiga Format (and Commodore Format) who gave me a bunch of goodies back in Bath, where we were all from at the time
Looks like someone managed to organise a piss up in a brewery 👍
I remember playing Lemmings on my Amiga 1000. With extra memory. Boy was that expensive at the time. I really enjoyed Amigabasic. It was a great jump forward for me coming from my Commodore 64.
@27:50 we see the visage of Neil's "dark doppelganger" center screen, as the nice chap from Yorkshire Amiga describes his fabulous A500++ with the A530T rare gem! :D
Thanks Neil, I live close by but I'm too ill to go out at the moment, so it was great to see what happened. Look forward to next year.
It was great to meet up with the AmigaKit team, who had some great new developments to show off. Sadly you missed them from this video, how?
There’s no way everyone would fit in a video so I had to chat to who I could in the time I had. What did AK have that impressed you the most?
@@RMCRetro The GS600 was very interesting. Certainly worthy of some coverage. Also their consistently good arcade joysticks - something I note that you missed when you covered the immortal joysticks and said they were the first modern sticks.
I wish Commodore was as big a deal in the states as it was in Europe. I missed the hayday of a lot of this and good to see an old school meet. Hopefully I can get to one of the VCFs somewhat near to me. Michaels project is amazing. I will have to look into it.
Kudos ! Great concept, and the name is awesome in part because non-amigos will mistake it for fund-raising stuff and we get to correct them about what a "Kickstart" actually is (an Amiga OS rom, what else ?). This type of show was sorely needed
Amiga stuff is just slightly before my time but it's a curious piece of hardware and it's great to get the opportunity to learn why people are so enthusiastic about it
I didn't know about this event until just before it happened. Looks like a great couple of days. Hopefully, it will be back again next year so I can check it out in person.
I love Scott and Mike's Amigas!
Ah didn't know this was on. 😢 Ironically i live in Nottingham and am a Notts County season ticket holder. 😂
Amiga was great expirience in my youth... 😊
Thanks for the great vid, so I’m not mad then, building an Amiga A500 with modded 1Mb ram and 2 Raspberry pies into a desktop pc case.
I feel like I'm playing Where's Wally watching this. I should buy a red and white striped jumper for next year 😂
Great stuff!
Magnificent
great episode Neil
Here in Canada, there were some Amiga users like myself, back in the day, but there's nothing here today.
11:05 congrats to Ravi for successfully organising what looks like a literal piss-up in a brewery.
God I want a scaled down version of that checkmate monitor, would look so nice with the 500 mini
Interesting idea.
These projects are seriously cool.
Had no idea this was happening, may have to look out for the next one.
Looks like a great place for aging Gen-X-ers (yours truly) to have fun and meets fellow enthusiasts. :) That Retro Directory is pretty cool to find retro game spots in your city or others you might be visiting.
Pretty cool. Rgds from Germany
Gutted that I missed this event, I wish I'd heard about this earlier. I live really close by too!
3:00 That high five was as awkward as it should be on any amiga show!!! I love it!
Hahaha so true
always wonder how many folk i'd recognise at these amiga gigs. only really ravi that i've met IRL. can't see steve30, rockape or terl in the video, they live at lincoln amiga user group normally...
Those joysticks are rad. He needs to do custom arcade one sticks! That's a cool mod market.
Lets hope I can come next year.. seems nice..
This looks great. I miss my user group days and running CWCCC (Coventry and Warwickshire Commodore Computer Club) with my friends. We had lots of good times :) when it was in its heyday. The user groups are so important to have, and events like this seem excellent. I'll keep an eye out for the next one ;)
The clear Amiga case is awesome. I would love to know more about it in particular as well as the disk back up service. I will be trying to make contact for this great service.
Looks great, I wish I had known about this at the time so I could have gone.
what a great party!
Beautiful monitors I gotta get one 😊