On Saurday and Sunday 14th/15th October 2000, QLers from Britain,
Switzerland, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, the U.S.A. and France
gathered in Portsmouth on the south coast of England for the largest
get-together of QL enthusiasts for some time. Among the delights to savour
there were one of the first public glimpses of Jon Dent's SoQL TCP/IP
stack system for the QL (Jon was the first to send an email from native QL
hardware while Jonathan Hudson was first to send an email with QDOS
running on the uQLx emulator), Simon Goodwin demonstrating the QLSSS
(Sampled Sound System) for QDOS Classic on Q40 and Amiga and his digital
camera software for QDOS, Al Boehm demonstrated the QL Midi software
system and presented Jon Dent with a cash prize for his work, Jochen Merz
released an admittedly early version of the "colour drivers"
version of QPC2, Q-Celt had several CD-ROMs for QL emulators on sale,
Wolfgang Uhlig demonstrated the SuQcess database system, Arnould Nazarian
presented his ideas for the QL's future by looking at the possibilities of
producing a "toy computer" based on SMSQE for youngsters and a
possible LCD display PDA type system with the backing of Tony Tebby.
Sunday morning saw a lively debate on the future of the QL where several
very interesting ideas were discussed, and of course saturday night saw
the now traditional show meal and social event. All those there (traders
and visitors) declared themselves well happy with the event and we look
forward eagerly to the next such meeting!
Urs König from Switzerland has kindly sent me some pictures he took
of the show, so that those of you unable to attend this marvellous show
can get some idea of who was there and what was happening. Thank you, Urs.
Jonathan Dent working on his SoQL TCP/IP system for the QL, with Tim
Swenson (left) and Dilwyn Jones seated in the background. |
Screen picture of part of SoQL. |
Al Boehm gets down on his knees to demonstrate the QL Midi software.
Or is he just praying it will work??? |
Al Boehm and Simon N. Goodwin demonstrated the QL Midi software. |
The QLSSS (Sampled Sound System) demonstrated at the show by Simon
N. Goodwin. |
"A genuine Tony Firshman-repaired QL? I'll take it!" says
Irish visitor Hilary O'Kelly to Tony Firshman. |
Robin Barker haggles over prices at the Q-Branch stall. |
QLers families meet at QL2000. |
Laurence Reeves is snookered by an awkward question from Bernd
Reinhard. |
Bill Newell (seated) and John Taylor on the Quanta stand |
The Q-Celt Computing stand - Darren Branagh looking for volunteers
to tidy it up no doubt! |
Simon Goodwin has to drag his son Ingo Erin away from all the QLs! |
Al Boehm of NESQLUG, USA, presents Jon Dent with a prize of $200 in
recognition of his work producing the QL TCP/IP system. |
The man of the moment, Jonathan Dent, addresses an appreciative
audience at QL2000 about SoQL. |
Darren Branagh of Q-Celt Computing somewhere near food as usual! |
Part of the audience listening intently to the Future Of The QL
discussion on the Sunday morning at QL2000 |
Keith Mitchell listens intently to the QL Sampled Sound System demo. |
Simon N. Goodwin demonstrating QLSSS and his Digital Camera software
for the QL. |
The Horizon Centre, Cosham, Portsmouth - venue for QL2000. |
Robin Barker chaired the Future Of The QL discussion on the Sunday
morning. |
A demonstration of Simon Goodwin's digital camera link software |