Arche Gathering, Essen, Germany

Jun 022012
 

A June German get together.

The Arche Acorn User Club, based in the Ruhr area of Germany and describing itself as being “for the Friends of the RISC OS machines Acorn Archimedes, Acorn Risc PC, IYONIX pc, A9home and all other RISC OS computers,” are organising an “Arche user gathering”.

The gathering, number 2.2 on their (new) numbering scheme, will take place from 1pm on Saturday, 16th June, 2012, in Room 104 of the Unperfekthaus, Friedrich-Ebert-Str. 18, 45127 Essen – the same location as the last two gatherings, which took place during 2011. Continue reading »

Snippets – 24th March 2012

Mar 242012
 

It’s been a busy month again here, which means there have been no posts to RISCOSitory for a while – so here’s a quick round-up of recent goings on in the world of RISC OS.

RISC OS 5.18

RISC OS 5 has seen its latest ‘stable’ release in the form of RISC OS 5.18, which features some 340 improvements since the last such release (version 5.16). The full list of improvements can be found on the RISC OS Open website, but this list isn’t written in ‘typical user-speak’. In response to requests for a more user friendly list, Rob Sprowson posted one to usenet, which Steve Revill has since posted on the RISC OS open forum. Continue reading »

Midlands MUG Show 2011 report

Jul 112011
 

The Midlands Midsummer MUG show 2011 took place on Saturday 9th July, 2011, and was perhaps one of the quietest RISC OS shows I’ve attended in as long as I can remember, if not the quietest. However, in spite of the very small attendance by users, I did find myself reasonably busy for most of the day, having some fairly long chats with various people – mostly visitors, and some exhibitors, though often not about things RISC OS!

(For example, Martin Wuerthner and I discussed the joys of travelling down narrow country lanes; in my case often in my own car when venturing out for walks in the middle of nowhere, and having taken a wrong turn a couple of weeks ago and subsequently reversing quite a way before I could turn around, but trumped by Martin who was once a passenger on a coach whose driver had taken it down some wholly unsuitable lanes and had to somehow reverse it back out.)

Of course, this means that writing a show report is going to be somewhat challenging, with the only stand I can honestly write anything definitive about being my own – but that doesn’t mean I can’t try to write an interesting account of the day, so here goes!

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Snippets – 21st June 2011

Jun 212011
 

David Higton reported on the RISC OS Open forums that at the Southamton Acorn Users Group meeting on 14th June, to which he took his BeagleBoard for the purposes of this, he “demonstrated copying the files from a bootable SD card to an empty (formatted) SD card and booting from the latter.” Continue reading »

Midlands Midsummer MUG Show 2011

Mar 262011
 

As suggested previously, the date and venue for the 2011 Midlands Midsummer MUG Show has now been confirmed as 9th July 2011, at the same venue as last year – St John’s Church Hall, 205 Warwick Road, Kenilworth. Emails have been sent out to potential exhibitors requesting a yes/no/maybe response for attendance and asking for the number of tables likely to be required. The charge will be £10 per table.

Exhibitors should have access to the hall from 9:00am on the day of the show, and the doors will be open from 11:00am until 4:00pm for visitors. The entrance fee will be £3.00 for adults, and free for children.

Bristol RISC OS Users 2nd Meeting

Feb 282011
 

Following the success of the first meeting of members of the Bristol RISC OS Users mailing list, a discussion list formed to support the possible rebirth of a user group for the area, a second meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday 16th March, 2011, and is therefore an ideal opportunity to discuss anything of interest from the RISC OS South West Show, which takes place on Saturday 5th March, 2011. Continue reading »

Sophie Wilson at the RISC OS South West Show 2011

Feb 102011
 

South West Show 2011 Banner

South West Show 2011 Banner

If RISCOSitory.com did awards, then the South West Show would surely win the one for the most under-publicized event in the RISC OS calendar, and the one for the most last minute announcement of a show – but it turns out to be an announcement that was well worth the wait.

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Bristol RISC OS Users announce an initial informal meeting

Jan 202011
 

Following on from discussions that began about a year ago and which led initially to the creation of a mailing list to bring together RISC OS users in and around the Bristol area, an initial meeting has been announced for those users – so if you are a RISC OS user in that area, the date to note in your diaries is Wednesday 26th January, 7:15pm for 7:30pm, and the venue the Air Balloon pub in Filton, Bristol – which is very easy to find. The following is the announcement that has been posted to comp.sys.acorn.announce:

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RISC OS London Show 2011 announced, SW Show confirmed

Nov 292010
 

Following a successful show in 2010, ROUGOL – the RISC OS User Group of London – have now announced the date and venue for the RISC OS London Show 2011. Taking place on Saturday29th October, 2011, the show will again be at the St Giles Hotel, Feltham. Photos and videos of the 2010 show can be found on the media page of the show website.

The South West Show, the date for which had only been mentioned as hearsay, does appear to be going ahead when suggested – Saturday 5th, March 2011, at the Webbington Hotel, Loxton. Discussions with some of the other show organisers during and around the times of their respective events revealed a common awareness that one of the main mistakes they had been making was not publicising their shows enough – so it is somewhat disappointing that I have seen no official announcement of this show, and only discovered that it had been confirmed when glancing at the Wessex ARM User Group site while seeking out Robin Hodson. This is, after all, the next show in the RISC OS calendar.

MUG Summer Show 2011 confirmed, date TBC.

Oct 252010
 

In a recent discussion on comp.sys.acorn.misc news of another RISC OS show in 2011 emerged. The day before the recent London Show, Midlands User Group member, Doug Webb, confirmed that there will be another Midlands Show, again in Kennilworth, with two likely dates being considered – the 2nd and 9th July.  Later the same day, another MUG member, Stuart Winsor commented that the 9th looks most likely.

The thread in which these two possible dates were mentioned was prompted by a report in Archive magazine, issue 22:10, in which another member of the group, Ron Briscoe, revealed that there were only a very disappointing 31 visitors to the 2010 Midlands Show, which was held  at St John’s Church Hall in Kennilworth. The question is: what can be done to improve numbers?

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