Your next opportunity to attend a RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting is Monday, 17th November, where Gerph will be discussing the evolution of RISC OS Pyromaniac.
If you don’t already know, RISC OS Pyromaniac is an online resource developed by Gerph that provides a semi-hosted re-implementation of RISC OS, capable of running 32-bit programs with a focus on testing software.
Gerph first talked about the system to ROUGOL five years ago this month, with the last follow-up talk four years ago – and if you want to go back and watch the original presentation, it can be found on YouTube.
On Monday he will return to the group (virtually) to talk about developments to RISC OS Pyromaniac over the last couple of years, and where that has taken the system, as well as the work towards building components in C, development environments, and more. Along the way, you can expect to see a few small demonstrations, and Gerph will describe what he’s doing and why – and asking for people to get involved.
As usual attend the meeting in person (which is to be encouraged where possible, as it helps keep a meeting room available to), or online via Zoom.
To attend in person, you need to head to:
The Duke of Sussex
(Upstairs in the Chichester or Petworth Room)
23 Baylis Road,
London,
SE1 7AY.
There are directions to the venue on the ROUGOL website, and you can expect to find members lurking from around 6:30pm. The meeting proper will commence from around 7:45pm.
To join online using Zoom you’ll need a device that can run the software, along with the log-in credentials. These remain the same as previous meetings, so if you’ve already joined one you should have them, but if not you can get them by contacting ROUGOL. The Zoom meeting should be open for people to join from around 7:30pm.
Looking ahead one month, there will be a Christmas meeting this year, but it will only be held online, using Zoom.
The meeting will take place on Monday, 15th December, with arrangements as above. The speaker will be Rob Napier, zapping himself through the ether all the way from Melbourne, Australia.
Back in the 1980s Rob worked for the Acorn division of Barson Computers, and he is currently writing the authorised biography of Acorn Computers, covering everything from the company’s early days as Cambridge Processor Unit, all the way through the rise – and fall – of Acorn and the transition to ARM and Element 14.
As part of the process, he has been chatting with old colleagues, and many names you may or may not recognise – for example Hermann Hauser, Chris Curry, Andy Hopper, Steve Furber, Sophie Wilson, Chris Turner, and Brian Cockburn to name but a few. Rob has a great deal of behind the scenes gossip, as well as many pages of previously confidential information, and will be sharing a little of that with the group – and no doubt even more will be in the book, once published!
