Bath is miles away for me - Birmingham is easier. I wish there was more of a central point so every one is happy, and easier to get to. Not all of us have cars yet you know.... train is the only way for some...!

Im in Newcastle - the reason why I suggested Bath was because it was easiest for most to get to. It has fnatastic air, road and rail links - and I also dont have a car anymore


But it turns out that Xeron was already arrangeing something for Bath - so it looks like great minds think a like

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and I also dont have a car anymore

I never had one at all, and can't afford bus/train fares

I'll have to rely on getting the 'Relative Taxi Co.' to give me a lift as it's under 50 miles and it'll give them an excuse for a day out in Bath

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It may be that your sole purpose is to serve as a warning to others.

well i'll be there and i live in scunthorpe... £63 return on the train... which is damn expensive, esspecially if your unemployed like i am.....

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I have an A1 with Voodoo 3 which I could bring over on any of these
dates. If the guys at SWAG could have a word with Ben Hermans and
i'll ask about it on the A1 dev list too.

The more systems there are the better the chance of everyone getting
to see what they want.

It might be an idea to formulate a list of what software to demo/test
at the show.

A meet sounds like a great idea, although most of the dates between now and christmas are already booked up for me

I also have an A1 that I'm more than happy to bring along and show off.

Not that its much worth showing off without OS4 but it is in a smart case.

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Bath is miles away for me - Birmingham is easier. I wish there was more of a central point so every one is happy, and easier to get to. Not all of us have cars yet you know.... train is the only way for some...!

Yeah how about something a little more central to everyone, like... New York City! Talk about transportation hub. They've got road, rail, air, and sea!!!

Only joking!

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If there is anyone on-route from Preston, to whereever we end up, there should be room for a couple of people in my car. If that helps anyone once we know where we are going, please let me know. First come first served of course

Well I've seen and played with OS4 until I'm bored with it on the 68K. Still waiting for a release for the A1.

All the same, the get-together sounds like fun. Can we come over just for the get-together? I'm sure the Bodies will hop on a plane too

tony

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Magic2003 wrote: Bath is miles away for me - Birmingham is easier. I wish there was more of a central point so every one is happy, and easier to get to. Not all of us have cars yet you know.... train is the only way for some...!

Birmingham is the best place. Its central.

The country does continue northwards after watford gap you know

To Show OS4 A1, I dont mind taking my Amiga1 along or to the micromart show on the 29th nov.

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tonyw wrote: Well I've seen and played with OS4 until I'm bored with it on the 68K. Still waiting for a release for the A1. All the same, the get-together sounds like fun. Can we come over just for the get-together? I'm sure the Bodies will hop on a plane too tony

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Cross posting this from amiga.org...

Ryu said:

>I am quite sure there isnt going to be a WoAse this year.

a pity, :(


>However it does look as
>if a show of sorts will happen. You might want to check out a thread over on
>amigaworld.net...
>http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1764&forum=4

ok, I've just visited this thread,

Is it possible for you to cut and paste my reply to there?

Bath would be very convenient for me,
preferably in November as December usually gets quite hectic

If and when they finalize the meeting could you ask them to
publicise it on the main forums eg here, ann.lu, www.amiga.com?

2 things would be of interest for me:

1. Seeing OS4 on A1,
2. AmigaOneLite,

If a lot of people oppose Bath, how about using WOASE's venue!
maybe meeting in Bath could be WOASW?

BTW for people trying to get to the South West eg Bath,

the rail system in this part of the country is very tricky
regarding prices, eg if you ask for a return ticket they
may try to sell you a month return which can be very expensive.

I once tried buying a cross country return ticket to the South West
and was told £25,
however I knew that a return to somewhere nearby was £10 so I argued
this and the clerk checked up and found there was possibly a
"cheap day return" ticket approx. £10, the £25 ticket was something like
a month return which BTW is more expensive than buying 2 single tickets!

Many people get wrong footed by British Rails pricing, also dont trust their
suggested route, instead buy the national time table and plan the route
yourself, this can save a lot of money:

I once wanted to travel to Northampton and was told I had to take Virgin
trains up to Warwick or somewhere and then take another train from there,
total price well over £40. I gave up and took a bus to Luton? followed by
train from there, but on the return I missed the last bus.
So took a train and thereby found that there is a
much better + cheaper route via London. :London to Bedford, possibly from
King's Cross and then another train on from there.

If you buy your ticket some weeks in advance you may be able to get
an "Apex" ticket which can be considerably cheaper.

:again they are tricky in that they will tell you that you have to go
on a very specific train. This again is not totally true, what it is
is that you need to catch the specific train to have a booked seat,
no problem using other trains just no booked seat.

Anyway, moral of the story is that the rail system will try to sell
you the most expensive way of getting from A to B, so dont trust them,
someone mentioned £63 in that thread, study a rail map and figure out
your own route and ask the prices of the individual stages.

:the rail prices are supposed to add up, ie
price(A to B) + price(B to C) == price( A to C via B)

:this wasnt always so in the past, but I believe is now true.

Here are 2 further tricks:

1. If you want to go from A to B, study how much it will cost you
to go A to London to B, : travelling via London is often cheaper!
(even when it doesnt make geometrical sense), (with British Rail
the triangle inequality doesnt hold!)

2. If you travel via London, find cost of:

a. return from A to London with travel card
b. return from *boundary* of London to B,

the price of a. + b. is often cheaper than return from A to B,
(regardless of whether you go via London)
with the bonus that you get one days unlimited travel in London.

A carefully chosen return from London to Bath a year ago was less than £18 ISTR,
I am sure they have Apex for this particular route,
you can get from Birmingham to Londons Victoria coach station
by coach probably for less than £10.
These prices and places are all from memory so I may be wrong,

I have here a leaflet from last year, various categories of special
tickets: apex, superadvance, supersaver, saver, group travel discounts
of 25% etc,

Make sure to ask the price of a "cheap day return" which is totally
unconnected to a "return". Generally speaking you never want a return-ticket,
but instead want either a cheap-day-return or apex or supersaver etc,

return tickets have been designed to catch the unwary!

(depends also how cynical the clerk is as well),

(return tickets often being more expensive than 2 cheap day return tickets!)

For people travelling by Coach, (Bath has a major coach station next door to
the rail station) make sure to find the time of the last coach otherwise
you will get stranded and have to take a train anyway!

Bath is a very touristy place so its well organised for staying the night,
its worth going on the open topped green+yellow double decker tourist coach tour,

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is it deffinate yet? I will need to know before the end of the week really if the 13th of December is deffinate.. I need at least 6 weeks to plan if im going to go... and I would assume a lot of people would really need to know well in advance too...

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With you on that one, Jurassic. Amimonkey probably feels the same !!

At Tony & the Bodie Æ ( damn ...here we go again)

Bodie² ... Yeah ..Come over here .. (whispers) get the latex ready to smear on their faces ... ( Make bodie & Tony masks)

We will assimilate them. Take their places in Oz.

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Sound advice on the train tickets

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Bobsonsirjonny. wrote: Sound advice on the train tickets

Yep!

When the get together has been arranged why doesn't someone donate some webspace to advertise the event. These tips and travel information could be put up together with a list of events.

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GadgetMaster wrote: Quote: Bobsonsirjonny. wrote: Sound advice on the train tickets Yep! When the get together has been arranged why doesn't someone donate some webspace to advertise the event. These tips and travel information could be put up together with a list of events.

Xeron I think has agreed to put up a web site, see the thread on this site
http://amigaworld.net/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=1792&forum=3

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OK - I've booked my flight for the 13th December :0)


£25.98 to Bristol return.

I'm flying out at 2.20pm on Friday the 12th December - returning on Sunday really early - about 7am ish cos I only have 6 days holiday left this year and I need to keep some for Christmas...

I'm heading out on flight 571 on Friday 12 Dec at 2.20pm

Have you actually paid for that ticket? We havent actually got confirmation from the university yet, you see. We are pushing for that date, and it is almost certainly going to be the 13th, but without confirmation, I can't 100% guarrantee it.

Mark is going to hassle our contact at the university to get it confimed ASAP.

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CRAP.. I've paid for it. Its non refundable, and non transferable.. Bugger....

Oh well.... I hope it is the 13th........