The official Acorn biography, Voices from a Future Passed, put together by Rob Napier, will be available to buy from 1st March.
Read MoreGrok your railway stations in TrainTimes
A new version of TrainTimes (2.09) has been released by Kevin Wells, featuring the ability to link to a second online encyclopaedia to look up information about railway stations, as well as a small fix for using the first.
Read MoreRetro YouTube, and pocket computers – ROUGOL, 16th February
The RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) will next meet up on Monday, 16th February, and the guest speaker – who will be visiting the group in person – will be Colin Hoad.
Read MoreDevelopers’ fireside chat – 7th February
Saturday, 7th February offers people involved or interested in software development for RISC OS the opportunity to once again to meet up online and discuss the issues and problems they face, seek help, offer advice, demonstrate what they’re working on, or just generally chat about the things programmers like to chat about.
Read MoreScummVM 2026.1.0 released
With support for a dozen new game engines, and with them a raft of additional games, ScummVM has seen a new release.
Read MoreMUG marks its 20th birthday
On Wednesday, 4th February, it will have been twenty years to the day since the Midlands User Group (MUG) held its first meeting, and will be getting together in a pub on the day to celebrate that anniversary.
Read MoreRISCOSbits becomes a VENOMoid
Although it was introduced only a few short years ago, being announced shortly before the 2024 South West Show, the VENOM computer from RISCOSbits is now being discontinued.
Read MoreChris Hall brings three (count ’em) heads to ROUGOL
Zaphod Beeblebrox, eat your heart out. The next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting will take place on Monday, 19th January, with a presentation by Chris Hall, joining the group via Zoom, about multi-headed systems.
Read MoreTime to express an interest in the official Acorn biography
December’s RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting featured Rob Napier as the guest speaker, on the subject of the book he has been working on. Titled “Voices from a Future Passed”, the book is the official biography of Acorn Computers, and Rob went over various aspects of the book and that biography at the meeting.
Read MoreDevelopers’ fireside chat – 10th January
The opportunity has once again come around for people involved or interested in software development on, for, or even of RISC OS to gather together and discuss matters relevant to the topic. The next friendly fireside chat is scheduled to take place on Saturday, 10th January.
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