ROOLing, ROOLing, ROOLing… ROUGOL! 21st September is the date of the next husking bee for ROUGOL – the RISC OS User Group of London – and this month the group’s guest speaker will be Rob Sprowson (aka Sprow), who will be there yammering about what RISC OS Open Ltd (ROOL) have been up to over the past year, as well as what they have planned for the future.
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Next MUG meeting – 19th September
It’s meeting time for the Midlands User Group this Saturday, and the subject of the meeting will be RPCEmu and Linux – or more specifically, how to get the emulator up and running on a Linux-based system.
Read MoreRONWUG meeting, 16th September – possible venue change
Builders may have spent too much time drinking tea. The RISC OS North West User Group is next scheduled to meet tomorrow – 16th September. According to Steve Potts, however, while the meeting is set to go ahead, it might not take place in its usual venue.
Read MoreSeptember meetings in Southampton and Bristol
Two regular user group meetings are set to take place in the next few days.
Read MoreWROCC Meeting – The Pi as a Media Centre, and other topics – 2nd September
Announcement from the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club – 30th August, 2015. The Pi as a Media Centre, and other topics Meeting on Wednesday 2nd September, 2015, at 7.45pm Malcolm Hussain-Gambles will be talking about using the Pi as a Media Centre, updates to his PiFi software, plus more on using ADFFS as part of the JASPP.
Read MoreARMX6 display and networking capabilities improved
R-Comp Interactive’s already great ARMSX ARMX6 computer has just got better, thanks to an operating system update just released by the company. The headline feature of the update is support for ultra-high definition monitors. UHD monitors provide a resolution of 3840×2160 pixels – sometimes (arguably incorrectly) referred to as 4K or UHD 4K – giving twice the horizontal and vertical resolutions of high definition (1920×1080) displays, and thus offering four times the overall number of pixels and, therefore, four times the amount of desktop real estate.
Read MoreSnippets – 31st August, 2015
News nuggets for you to chew on. The last few months have been very busy with stuff unrelated to RISC OS, so unposted news – particularly smaller items – has built up again. It’s time, therefore, for a snippets post to round up these smaller items.
Read MoreDocumentation updates at ROUGOL – Monday, 17th August, 2015
Announcement from ROUGOL, 14th August, 2015. The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be: Documentation updates Presented by Bernard Boase Monday 17th August 2015, 7:45pm
Read MoreSouthampton RISC OS Users Group – August meeting
Announcement from Dave Higton, 8th August, 2015. The next meeting of the Southampton RISC OS Users Group will take place on Tuesday August 11 in the Sports Centre of Itchen College, Deacon Road, Southampton, from 19:00 until 20:30 – a slightly short meeting, sadly, as the venue is closing a bit earlier than usual.
Read MoreWROCC meeting – Robots and lights with the Pi – 5th August
Announcement from the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club, 2nd August, 2015. Robots and Lights with the Pi Meeting on Wednesday 5th August 2015 at 7.45pm Terry Marsh will be talking about the robot he built to use with the Pi, and ‘Lights’ with the Pi.
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