Dodington Parish Hall, located just outside Bristol in Chipping Sodbury, is a popular destination for Amiga enthusiasts from the South West. We also attract visitors from across the country, thanks largely to our commitment to nurturing a vibrant community of Amiga fans.

This year, we are revamping our ticket ordering process. On Sunday, the 28th at 8 PM, we will provide a link for purchasing tickets.

As always, we will offer Adult and Child tickets at standard prices. Additionally, Table tickets will be available, but we need to calculate how many can be offered, as we must reserve tables for our invited guests, suppliers, and featured content.

We are currently working on the layout and will determine how to accommodate Bring Your Own tables.

At this time, we will not be providing food beyond the usual biscuits and drinks available in the kitchen. However, a NEW supermarket is just a short walk from the venue, and we hope they will be fully stocked on that day.

We have begun organizing a raffle, and more information on that will be available soon.

Tickets for the highly anticipated event will be available for purchase as soon as the countdown timer reaches zero and expires. For our regular visitors, you might have noticed some changes to our website recently. This is due to our new partnership with the Retro Directory. Stay tuned for updates and be ready to secure your tickets!

We will be celebrating 40 years of the Amiga 1000 ! Everyone in the room will have a story of when they first discovered the Amiga and how that computer changed everything.  Many will say that it helped them towards their career paths, IT, design, music and many more.

For everyone involved, many thanks for helping myself, Rob and the rest of the team to put together this weekend, the map posted below is now with the final layout.  Please remember your emails/tickets as we are trying out a new system of entry.

To get there, please be aware of problems with the motorways, however most SatNAVs should be taking into account the road closures so allow extra time for your travel.  The event is in a school grounds with a connected community hall.  If you search for Dodington Parish Hall,  Finch Rd, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol BS37 6JZ then that should get you here.  Please note that there is a disabled parking space and some parking outside of the hall, we usually have access to more parking near the school and behind the community hall.  If you have nothing to carry in, then it might be wise to park a little further away.

The event is sponsored by Fusion Retro, we have been working closely with Zzap Live event and Chris may drop down to see us at some point.  Chris has been working on many projects and one of them is the UrbX Warriors game, we will hear from the developers Stoo and Tony about their progress (and maybe a forthcoming Amiga version?) 

Vicky (aka Pixel Vixen) will be helping us with the interviewing process, she has returned recently from Japan and is still working on her pixel editing projects and we hope to learn more about that.  Some others may be helping with the interviewing ( I am currently struggling to shift a cough myself. )

We have some additional guests, we will also be joined by H0ffman who will be floating around  and we also have Trevor Dickinson, who will give us an insight to what himself and Matthew have been doing at AmigaKit/AEON especially with the fresh A1200 NG replacement Amiga system.

Who remembers trying to program their Amiga?, then finding AMOS and reaching out to the Mastering series which included Phil South’s AMOS programming book? We hear from Phil as Daniel interviews him.

We will have Marcin, who came to the previous Workbench and did an epic Kickstarter for his game ProjectX - Light Years, he will be showing off his final game on the Steam Deck, and you will be able to play the game and win your own Steam Key if you're good enough.

There are many iconic Amiga tunes from various games, Alistair Brimble recently put together a tribute 40 years and honours Martyn Brown from Team17 who sadly passed away, this compilation can be purchased on Bandcamp.

Also we will have Mixel’s latest game, he has provided a single player version of his game Wizonk and David Boswell will be supervising a tournament to win some prizes. If there is time, we try to talk with the author Mixel and see what is going on with the game.

The main competition this time will be Stunt Car Racer, Gil will be running this tournament and prizes which includes an Amiga 500 provided by RetroBench

Yes I did mention RetroBench?  Scott will be announcing his return to the Amiga scene and what he will be doing in 2026.

Reassembler, now there are a few versions of Outrun, the arcade machine developed for the Amiga and after Ocean’s failed attempt to bring quite possibly the best driving arcade game to the Amiga, we now have a near perfect version of the game and we look forward to hearing how it was put together.

Amiga Format will be 40 years old, so they've been working with Amiga Addict to produce a fantastic looking cover, Ian will be here one more time.

RetroBitz is a new supplier to us and they will have a stand full of various games memorabilia like mugs, t-shirts and other retro purchases.

David Pleasance, will be returning to his usual spot with his merch and books, bringing news of what just happened at Commodore.

Zeb, he will be back and offers a free-recapping service, you will need to buy your caps from Amiga Spirit and he will be talking about the Amiga Disk Operating System.

Amiga Spirit will be here to discuss and maybe help with poor Amiga’s. Over the last few years he has been working on many projects from 600s to 4000s.

Jason Howells, he brought in many 1200 cases back along, he’s back with the results of working on replacement key parts and cases.  Challenged with perfecting the Amiga, Jason will be sharing his results and where he goes from here.

There is lots more to note but what a line up for Workbench 2025 which is brought to you by the South West Amiga Group, and with that is my final announcement, I will be exiting the management of SWAG as many changes back at home and I cannot commit to any more involvement, I had said similar before but this time it is for real.  I will continue on in the Arcade and Pinball communities but for a computer that I hardly touch, I feel I don’t belong. If I visit SWAG again it will be just as a visitor.  Thank you all for the support, met many great people and been given a big opportunity that I will always remember.  

Thank you AMIGA and SWAG (DAVE)