The second quarter meeting was held on June 12, 2004. I arrived early and began to setup my PC which was running AmigaForever 6.0. The power supply had died, so I spent the first bit replacing that with a new one. During the repair, Cameron showed up with his reciever and spare speakers (just incase anyone needed them). I soon had AmigaForever 6.0 running and connected to the broadband cable connection. I had additional copies onhand for other members who ordered them.

Michael showed up next followed shortly by Jon. Loran and his dad soon arrived, and he brought his customized Mac Classic for showing. He had it upgraded with an external NIC and plugged it into the broadband router for internet connections. Jon had AmigaForever 6.0 running on his laptop. That was cool to see.

Shortly before noon, Doug showed up with his AmigaOne running OS4 and was followed closely by Scott bringing his AmigaOne, complete with a very nice Dell flat panel monitor. Doug was able to show us the OS4 native version of his thumbnailer application. Also we were able to see the USB pen drive in action. Doug formatted mine under OS4 and it worked great. Scott had one last go at a game of Majesty before wiping out Linux to start an OS4 install. Pizza was ordered in for lunch and the UBoot update began.

First of all, UBoot was really simple to update. Just follow the outline in the OS4 install guide. Scott had the good forsight to print out the PDF version before arriving. There was initially a problem when booting to the install CD, but using a different CD-Rom drive helped to resolve the issue. It was easy to tell when the failure occured, as we connected the AmigaOne's serial output to my PC's terminal program to view the process. The intallation went fairly quick, and in no time, OS4 was booting on the AmigaOne for the first time. We were approaching the cut off time as the shop was closeing, so the meeting ended there. But it was cool getting to see OS4 installed from scratch for the first time. This will surely help some of the other members when they are faced with the same task in the future.

Thanks to all of the members who attended and brought things to demo or participate. I look forward to the next time. Maybe by then I will be able to join the Elite Ranks of OS4 Pre-release Owners.

PS. I neglected to mention that we had a couple of boxes of C-64 software and manuals which were donated to the group. Several members found goodies to claim for free from the box.