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 When: October 16, 17, and 18
Where: Capitol City Hotel, Sacramento, CA
Cost: FREE!
[Show Info] [Banquet Info] [Hotel Info] [Sponsors] [Exhibitors] [Seminars] [Thanks]

AmiWest 2009 will be OCTOBER 16-18, 2009

We are holding AmiWest this year at the Capitol City Hotel, , OCTOBER 16-18, 2009, 3 days of Amiga!

Friday night (6 PM till 10 PM in the main hall) will be a night focused on Classic Amiga's. This event will feature food and drinks while we mingle and talk about all things Classic! Bring your machine and have some exports look it over, replace batteries, and much more.
Saturday will start with seminars with the show floor opening at Noon till 5:00 then the banquet later that night. We'll also have a Games Competition with great prizes.
Sunday will be seminars, the show floor and the finals of the Game Competition.

MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND NOW!

Free show admission

For the third year in a row, our sponsors have made free admission possible. Please thank them for their support when you attend the show.

Games Competition

Come join the fun and compete for great prizes by playing classic Amiga Games. The enterance fee is $2 which will be collected at the show. Send email to David Morris to register

Join our email list!

For even more information, email us at info [at] amiwest.net! We'll add your name to the AmiWest email list immediately!

Banquet

The banquet will be October 17th starting after the show ends. To get your ticket send an email to Chuck Washburn or send a check, made out to Amiwest and send it to:

Chuck Washburn
7051 Dolan way,
Citrus Heights Ca. 95621.

This years panel will be feature some well known names in the Amiga community plus a new face. Joining us will be Sellam Ismail, creator of the Vintage Computer Festival,to discuss the topic: "The Relevance of Vintage Computers in 2009". Joining Sellam will be Steven Solie, Matt Leaman, and more.

Hotel info

Here are the contacts for the Capitol City Hotel, location of AmiWest 2009. The name has been changed, The address and location are the same as last year. Chuck has gotten us a special discounted rate of $59 a night, so be sure to mention AmiWest when you book your room.

Address

2600 Auburn Blvd. 
Sacramento California 95821

Hotel reservations:

http://capitolcityhotel.com
salesmgr@capitalcityhotel.com
Phone 1-916-487-7600 and by snail-mail at the above address.

Exhibitor list

Look for the exhibitor list at amigaprez.wordpress.com. So far, these exhibitors have confirmed their attendance:

Games Competion

The Amiga Game Competition will consist of 5 different Amiga games to be played on 5 different types of Amiga computers. The planning is not set in stone yet, but it looks like I will have one game running on a Classic Amiga (probably an A600 w/2mb RAM), another game running on a SAM440ep w/AmigaOS4.1, another game running on an Efika w/MorphOS2.3, another game running on either a MiniMig v1.1, or on a C-One computer running a MiniMig core via itŐs add-on FPGA board, and the fifth game running on a PC using emulation such as AmigaForever, or AmiKit/WinUAE.

The entry fee to participate is $2 and pre-registering to participate is encouraged, so we will have some idea of how many contestants we might have and therefore can estimate the time needed to complete, but no money will be accepted before the AmiWest 2009 show begins. The registration fees collected will be used solely to offset the cost of obtaining the prizes, and if there is any excess money, it will be given back to the first place finisher in the contest as well as the first place prize.

Please contact Dave Morris at amigadave[at]earthlink.net to register your participation.

Reserve your exhibitor space now!

Advance exhibitor space reservations are required so that we can provide the necessary space and other facilities. Let us know that you'll be there and what we need to do to provide what you need for your exhibit. We're already working on better internet access. Let us know what you would like to see happen as well. Just email chuck[at]amiwest.net.

Sponsors for AmiWest 2009

SACC would like to thank the AmiWest 2009 Sponsors: To join this list just send an email to chuck[at]amiwest.net with your suggestions or information if you want to be one of our sponsors for 2009! We'll get back to you regarding the financial commitment for helping to sponsor the show.

Seminar list

October 17th:
TBD Using Amiga OS4.X by Bill Borsari
TBD AROS talk by Alex Preze
TBD MorphOS Demo and talk
October 18th:
TBD Python Programming by Steven Solie

Thanks to everyone for attending AmiWest 2008!

You are the show. Your presence means everything to all of us. Now invite just one other person and bring them along next year. Statistically, all of know at least 10 other people. If you can come back and bring just one other person, we can double show attendance!