The Wakefield Show '99 took place at the Thornes Park Athletics Stadium on 15th and 16th May 1999. The photographs presented here were all taken on Saturday, 15th May and were used in a report which appeared in RISC User 12:4.
The captions used here are based on the ones that appeared in the magazine, with further comments in italics. The report was laid out using Ovation Pro, and can be found elsewhere on this CD.
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Queues prior to opening time |
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The animated snowboarders ('peak performers') which adorned the dodecahedral Castle Technology stand and waved leaflets at punters probably looked more comic than was intended, but at least they were eye-catching and original |
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Wakefield '99 marked RISCOS Ltd's launch of RISC OS 4 |
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Andrew Rawnsley, Technical Director of RISCOS Ltd, on hand to talk about RISC OS 4 |
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The R-Comp stand, with the RISCOS Ltd stand in the distance |
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Overview of the hall |
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Overview of the hall |
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A very good turn-out of visitors and exhibitors alike |
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Simon Birtwhistle, programmer of Vantage, demonstrates his software |
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Cerilica set up a small theatre for demonstrating Vantage, although it didn't really have enough seating space |
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Millipede Electronic Graphics' stand, with Richard Jozefowski at the left (wearing the waistcoat) |
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Geoff Titmuss of Softease was selling a new triple-platform (Acorn, PC, Mac) version of TextEase on CD. The grape-coloured iMac in the pictures had been chosen deliberately to complement the stand( |
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MicroDigital's Mico computers have been designed from scratch. unlike the defunct Medi which was based on the A7000+ |
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David Atkins holds up the main circuit board used in the Mico range |
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The Spacetech stand: an Olympus C-2000 Zoom adorns Chris Hornby at the left |
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RiscStation was the only company to have new RISC OS-based computers that were actually working at the show |
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Another animated mannequin at the Castle/Acorn stand; Castle Technology's Jack Lillingston can be seen with a clipboard at the right of the picture |
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The bare tables of the ePage stand led many to think that the company had pulled out, but in fact a lone representative was present to answer questions |
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RISCOS Ltd staff give a presentation to a packed theatre |
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Music, utilities and games at the R-Comp stand |
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A long shot of the hall |
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The RISCOS Ltd stand was constantly busy |
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Akalat Publishing, iSV Products and others |
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The RiscStation R7500 in its mini-tower configuration |
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Richard Hallas encounters David Bradforth (seated) at the ProAction stand |