Our next SWAG meet of 2026 will be our annual Workbench event! This takes place at Dodington Parish Hall, Finch Road, Chipping Sodbury, Bristol, BS37 6JZ. Tickets are on sale now.
The most anticipated event is here with a full line up of speakers and suppliers coming to Chipping Sodbury. We also will be having a Tournament throughout the day we’ll be running a Battle Squadron 'High Score Tournament'.
This tournament will be a little bit special as the Amiga Belfast group are holding their event on the same day as Workbench 2026, so you’ll be competing against your fellow SWAG attendees and those at the Amiga Belfast event! As with all SWAG gaming tournaments, you can expect prizes for those ranked in the top three.
We also have regular suppliers, re-capping and Talks. Zeb and Scott will be on hand to re-new your caps which can be purchased from either Digital Retro Bay, Amiga Spirit or Retro Passion who all will be attending.
We have three ticket types available at all SWAG events - a table ticket, where you book a table to set your kit up on, a bring your own ticket which covers you bringing a table of your own to set up on and a standard visitor ticket where you simply wish to attend but are not planning to set up equipment.
At all SWAG events we want to encourage youngsters to attend. Under 18s are always free of charge if accompanied by a fee paying adult.
Your ticket covers a contribution towards the venue hire, tea/coffee/soft drinks and snacks such as biscuits and crisps.
Join SWAG regular Chris in the Amiga North Thames alcove where he'll be showing what you can do with a light box, animation cells from a Felix cat food advert and a trusty Amiga.
Former Future Publishing legend Phil South and Amiga Addict Editor Ian Griffiths speak to SWAG's Dan Rolfe about Amiga magazine creation then and now.
Beth was the lead engineer of the Commodore CD1200, the CD add-on for the Amiga 1200.
We also find out about the cost reduced CDTV and why it failed to make it to market.
GOTEK goes to the next level with Michael's wireless based control system.
Learn more about the design process and how the project is progressing.
Stuart Chiplin of Retro Games Limited will be with us to showcase the Brand New THEA1200 project.
Demo Scene coder and DJ, he returns to us to talk about how he got into games and demo development.
Long-time supporter of SWAG. Sean will be on hand to talk all things FPGA Amiga related. If you wanted to know more about field programmable gate array Amiga systems, this is a talk you won't want to miss.
Tickets to our Workbench event on Saturday 7th November are on sale. You can order them by clicking on the button below.
