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- {subhead} KickStart Amiga Show{def}
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- {bold}The Place:{nobold} Brook Hall, Brox Road, Ottershaw in Surrey.{p}
- {bold}The Date:{nobold} Saturday February 27th 1999.{p}
- {bold}The Time:{nobold} 1pm-5pm.{p}
- {bold}Admission fee:{nobold} £1
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- Amiga International are officially supporting this years' show, and Petro
- Tyschtschenko has kindly donated a complete A1200 Magic Pack along with an
- assortment of Amiga gear, all of which will be given away to show goers
- throughout the day.
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- The show will consist of a sale of Amiga hardware and software, games
- competitions throughout the day, demonstrations of Amiga applications and
- new hardware and the opportunity to join the Kickstart User Group. In all
- it's a great day out where you can have fun, get help with your Amiga
- problems and meet other Amiga users.
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- {bold}What's on at the show:{nobold}
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- The second Kickstart Show will be bursting with even more Amiga activities
- than last year, showing both Amiga owners and their friends exactly what
- Amiga can REALLY do:
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- {bold}Stands:{nobold}
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- 18 stands selling new and second-user Amiga software and hardware.
- Refreshments will also be on sale and a Kickstart membership stand will also
- be on hand to answer questions and handle membership enquiries from
- show-goers.
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- {bold}Competitions:{nobold}
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- Amiga International are supporting the show by offering a complete A1200
- Magic Pack (worth 200 pound) for the grand draw, which each show-goer is
- automatically entered into. There will also be various Amiga give-aways
- throughout the day and great prizes for the various gaming contests planned.
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- {bold}Games:{nobold}
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- Three gaming competitions are planned:
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- · A multiplayer Doom tournament (with as many as five simultaneous players
- in each game).{p}
- · A Sensible Soccer tournament.{p}
- · A Skidmarks contest (with as many as eight simultaneous players in each
- game).
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- {bold}Demonstrations:{nobold}
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- Kickstart members will be on hand to demonstrate various applications, such
- as Mac emulation under Fusion, PC Emulation under PCX and Amiga emulation
- using Amiga Forever. Also on show will be new hardware innovations, such as
- the AteoBus busboard and Pixel64 graphics card and various A1200 & A600
- tower conversions.
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- {bold}Magazine launch:{nobold}
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- Being unveiled at the Kickstart Show will be the first issue of the new
- monthly Kickstart magazine Amiga Insight. This magazine, produced totally by
- club members on Amiga hardware, will have a monthly mix of news, product
- reviews, tutorials and informed debate about the latest Amiga topics -
- indeed everything from the fate of OS3.5 to why 880K floppy disks should be
- killed off! For show enquiries and stand bookings, please contact Raymond
- McCarthy at {bold}ray@tadworth.demon.co.uk{nobold}.
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- {bold}Directions to Brook Hall{nobold}
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- From the M25, J11 take the Woking exit, at the next roundabout take the
- first left onto the A320 to Woking, at the next roundabout take a left again
- into Murray Rd, about 20yds on the left is a car park, park here and Brook
- Hall is straight in front of you, on the corner of Murray Rd and Brox Rd.