AmigaOS 4.1 shown at Primevère 2012

Each year, a very big event is held at Eurexpo, near Lyon, in France : Primevere

"Primevere is a prestigious event which seeks to sensitize the general public about the fragile condition of earth's ecology and develop sustainable strategies to preserve its longevity and well being. Organized over three days at the French cities of Lyon and Chassieu, this show has enjoyed immense success in the past, hosting exhibitors and visitors in increasing numbers each year. Over 470 exhibitors showcase their products and services at the fair, attracting a substantial number of experts in each of its editions.

Primevere also additionally organizes 120 meetings where some of the leading figures from the world of ecology converge and share their ideas and predictions for the future. Other seminars and lectures also serve as attractive features for participants of the show.

The chief highlights of Primevere are :
+120 meetings.
+Lecture programs.
+Workshops.

Primevere welcomes animal rights activists, environmentalists, key decision makers from various industries especially those with a greater capacity to pollute, policy makers, members of international organizations, heads of national environment and forestry ministries, representatives of victims of environmental disasters triggered by human errors, scientists, researchers, heads of research institutes, retailers of organic farm produce, wholesalers of environmentally safe products and many more as visitors."

This year again, the French association Triple A attended Primevere to show that alternatives do exist regarding computers.

We came with an A600 equipped with an ACA630, an A603 and a CF2IDE. So we could speak about sustainable development since the A600 was made in 1992 and is still working.

We also had a Sam440ep clocked at 733 Mhz and a Sam460 at 1,15 Ghz on our booth. We wanted to demonstrate that there is a real alternative to Windows, Mac OS X or Linux and that this alternative is still being developped.

Many visitors stopped and couldn't believe that such slow computers could run an OS that fast. We also met many ex Amigans which showed a real interest about either the possibilty to upgrade an old Amiga or see and test a new Amiga. Our flyers ran away very quick.

We used solar panels to run the Sam460 for a while(not enough sun in the hall) and this also amazed visitors.

During these past 3 days, we enjoyed showing our systems outside of our own community. Attendees were really pleased by our explanations and by what they saw.

Do not hesitate to do the same with your won club in your respective countries. Yes, it's some work before and after the show but this is really worthwile.

A big thank you to Relec and Acube Systems for their financial help in this adventure.

French members of the association who participated : Elwood, M Belett, Corto, Dr Bio, Kickstart, Sego, Rajah and myself (K-L).

Here are the pictures : http://www.amiga-ng.org/resources/Primevere2012/

Enjoy

Nicely done. From the photos it looks like you had quite a number of people come and have a look at your machines.

I'm curious about the solar panel set up. What did you use? Did you connect the solar panel to the computer via a DC-to-AC inverter? And, did you also have a battery in the system?

Hans

I love posts like this one. This event looks like it was a great opportunity to showcase what we've been up to in this community of ours to people on the "outside." Great job in seeing the opportunity and taking advantage of it.

I'm also interested in hearing more about the solar panels.

About the panels:

They were used with a DC-to-AC inverter and a battery. This allowed us to have a simple plug to connect the Sam460 to (this is why I show the plug on one photo).
Of course it would have been better to connect the DC cables to the motherboard directly but we have no skills in electricity :-/
If someone can do it, just show us how to do.

Thanks to Kickstart for providing the panels and battery, and to Sypher for the A600++.


Also it's important to say that the Composite3Ddemo by Hans and Hollywood by Andreas are very useful to show what we have on AmigaOS.
This is truely a team effort here. Thanks to all involved.

More details :
Solar panels: Photowatt PW500, documentation
Battery: Cyclon, 6V - 8 Ah
DC-AC inverter: Xantrex 150 W, 12 VDC->230 VAC

@Elwood

Thanks for the details.

Hans

@Hans

You're welcome.


As some people wanted to see it. Here is a quick video to show that it works for real
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Srg29eIt8