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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
{p} {p}
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.