Here is a brief show report from AmiGBG 2003 in Gothenburgh, Sweden.

We suprisingly got there before the show opened (unusaually) and had some
time to arrange the stuff. (I actually got my pegasos-board exchange with
one of the April2-fixed mobos). So that was a good start for me anyway :)

A quick look over the show area showed that there were more exhibitors this
year compared to the last year show. It somehow felt that the visitors
were fewer this year than previously though.

...
The first stand you got your eyes on when entering the show was GGS-data's
stand which also contained Individual Computers and Eyetech on a corner.
Gunne of GGS-data sold a lot of different gadgets and he seemed to be
very busy all along the show. Individual Comp. were showing the latest
version of the Delfina sound card, which is a very nice product IMO.
Eyetech didn't have anything (new) to show...

If you took a glance on the left side from GGS's booth you could see Genesi which
had gathered 5 Pegasos machines and a lot of people using these, enjoying playing
BirdieShoot and a lot more stuff on these nice machines. Mr. Thierry Valesco of
Genesi was handing out a LOT of t-shirts (for free) and we all got one :)
Sigbjørn "CISC" Skjæret and Mark "bigfoot" Olsen (known for a lot of great software-
ports for the AmigaOS and MOS) were also among the Genesi-team and they actually
started the seminars demonstrating MorphOS for a lot of interested people. 
This was absolutely the most popular stand on the show (not strange though).

The AROS team had a table showing the latest work of this very nice OS, it has
a lot work left to be done though. But they have done a lot of good work considering
they are 10-15 people doing this on their spare time.

Boing Mag (online magazine) and the only printed magazine - Azine had a table at which
they sold the latest number of their paper. They also sold FinalWriter'97 (Swedish-
edition) for only 100 SEK (apx. 10 USD) and of course I got one of those :)

Then there was a table with AmigaONE's running Linux (and I think Mac-On-Linux),
I think most people had thought OS4 in some form (alpha/beta) would have been
demonstrated but as one could have figured out, nothing really new on that :(

After that there was a whole lot of old machines running games in all sorts and forms.
This was some sort of "history of the Amiga", and started with a Amiga1000 and most
of the following models. There was a huge joypad (consisting of 2 joysticks) as well.
Don't know exactly what it was but I think they used it to play "Gravity force" or
a similar game...

Next table was all about music, a really cool synthesizer (MIDI-)controlled by an
Amiga4000 and a nice program called "Tracks & Field" (might have got it wrong though).
On their side the magazine Amitopia (norwegian) had a table, I never got to talk
to him this year though. But they had a lot of fun playing "Payback" for sure :)
Then there was a team called Explosive Brothers which sold demo-tapes of music 
they had made. The music that came from their machines was lots of nice nostalgia
in my ears.

Then we had our table, only one computer this year (mainly because of HW-troubles)
but we had my Pegasos to demonstrate our titles to interested peoples.
Actually Daniel had made a huge job the night before the show to get the new
Cathedral to work, and with the new MorphOS-engine the speed was rather amusing =)
My plans fixing OnyxBase and QuickNote to this day was pretty doomed, but it will
be done pretty soon. Daniel has a lot of updates comming as well, but we wait
until we have ironed out the bugs first.

Next to us there was a couple of CD32's which people could play games on, and most of
the people were playing "Cannon Fodder", what memories that wakes...
The table also had a robot head which was controlled by an Amiga. I even think that
it was the person who now have Daniel's BlizzardPPC ? :)
And last in the line there was Atari group, which I sadly hadn't the time to visit
since I had a lot of other to do.


Seminars (I might have missed some) :

First off was Genesi demonstrating MorphOS which I spoke about above here.
The latest APDF (1.4) and fxPaint was demonstrated among others and it's really
fast on this machine =)

Next one was Alan Redhouse of Eyetech.
I wasn't there though since I had a chat with Mr. Velasco of Genesi, but both
Anders and Daniel was there so they can fill out the blank here for me...

--Fill in by Anders--

Well, the main thing Mr. Redhouse talked about was how to get the sales numbers up for the
hardware, leading to lower prices. To accomplish that they had to look into other niches
of computing than leisure machines (standard home use). He alsoo explained how he presented
Amiga to the "Big Boys and Girls" of the computer industry.

One thing that he mentioned was the very low power consumption of a PPC processor. This is
something most home users don't need to care about, but for a company with a "sever farm" of
5'000-10'000 computers it can be very important. A G3 uses approx. 3 Watts compared to x86 CPU's
like AMD Athlon and Pentium 4 which draw more like 90W. That's a lot of money to save in just
power consumption for these companies.

And ha had also showed some demos/presentations in SCALA on a bog standard Amiga 1200 which had
impressed on a lot of people. They couldn't believe how such old hardware could manage so much
computing power =)

--End of Anders text--

Gunne Steen of GGS-Data held the next one, I actually didn't had the time
to go to that one (either) since I tried out "Hollywood" with Boing Mag's editor
on my machine.

Last one out was the AROS-developer Adam Chodorowski that showed some impressive
stuff with window-layers and Zune (AROS MUI-implementation) which is now (as in MOS)
the main GUI-system since the GadTools/ClassAct/ReAction was not prefered by the
developers of AROS. And I really understand this since MUI is so much more flexible
and powerful, both for the user and developers.
I really hope they'll get more developers that would like to help them fix the last
pieces in this nice OS. 
Btw. the new AROS-mascot made by Eric Schwartz is really cute, grrrr :)