"QL & Mac are 25" international event - Oct 31st/Nov 1st 2009
Verkehrshaus, Lucerne, Switzerland
Sessions

Added: September 18th 2009 | Updated: October 24th 2009 (Content), June 5th 2017 (Broken Links & Formatting fixed)


Each session will only be hold once in one of the sessions slots of the agenda.

ID What Where Speaker Type
S1 Sinclair QL, "the Mac that never was..."
A story of how things started, developed, got launched and what happened to the innovations and innovators of both the QL and Mac.
Conference Center, 2nd floor, room DC3 Urs König Session
S2 "The Quantum Leap innovation & design process in retrospective..."
A session covering the highs and lows of the Sinclair QL design and development process and its premature launch in 1984. 25 years after the bang, all the unspoken secrets are disclosed and reflected.
Conference Center, 2nd floor, room DC3 XXX (tbc) Session
S3 RAD, "Rapid application development then and now..."
A session covering Sinclair QL's SuperBASIC (SBASIC) compared to Microsoft's Visual Basic.
Conference Center, 2nd floor, room DC3 Urs König Session
S4 Windows 7, "what the world got on Oct 22nd 2009?"
Presentation and live demo of the brandnew Microsoft Windows 7 by an experienced early adopter. Covering both user experience and technical issues including PowerShell. Another topic is Windows Mobile 6.5 on a HTC mobile phone.
Conference Center, 2nd floor, room DC3 Markus Limacher Session
S5 SMSQ/E and QPC, "the core of the virtual QL environment..."
A session covering SMSQ/E and QPC2, their sources (hot spots), development tools & process (including a live compilation of the OS) and future prospects.
Conference Center, 2nd floor, room DC3 Marcel Kilgus Session
S6 Launchpad, "the complete desktop GUI for QDOS/SMSQ"
A session demoing Launchpad and other QL applications on both Q-emuLator (Windows, MacOS) and QPC2 (Windows).
Conference Center, 2nd floor, room DC3 Dilwyn Jones Session
S7 Apple Mac OS X, "The Mac died nine years ago!"
A story on the Mac, the NeXT and how they came together. Another topic is "How to become a Mac Indie developer?" covering Mailplane which brings Gmail to your Mac desktop.
Conference Center, 2nd floor, room DC3 Ruben Bakker Session
S8 AmigaOS4.1, "still improving..."
A session covering the updated OS of another 68k-computer from the 80's.
Conference Center, 2nd floor, room DC3 Anton Preinsack Session

Session assignment to time slots is as follows:
Sat Oct 31 2009 Topic Sun Nov 1 2009 Topic
09:30-10:00 Registration at the Info Desk in the Conference Center on 2nd floor 09:30-10:00 Registration at the Info Desk in the Conference Center on 2nd floor
10:00-11:00 Welcome & Keynote Session. (Urs König & XXX) 10:00-10:45 "The Quantum Leap innovation & design process in retrospective..." (S2, tbc)
- - 11:30-12:15 Launchpad, "the complete desktop GUI for QDOS/SMSQ" (S6, Dilwyn Jones)
13:00-13:45 Apple Mac OS X, "The Mac died nine years ago!" (S7, Ruben Bakker) 13:00-13:45 Windows 7, "what the world got on Oct 22nd 2009?" (S4, Markus Limacher)
14:30-15:15 Sinclair QL, "the Mac that never was..." (S1, Urs König) 14:30-15:15 RAD, "Rapid application development then and now..." (S3, Urs König)
16:00-16:45 AmigaOS4.1, "still improving..." (S8, Anton Preinsack) 16:00-16:45 SMSQ/E and QPC, "the core of the virtual QL environment..." (S5, Marcel Kilgus)
16:45-17:00 Day one closing, information on the "Official 25th anniversary celebration dinner". (Urs König) 16:45-17:00 Summary and farewell. (Urs König)

Please note that sessions are subject to change.


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