For those who have yet to read it, The Icon Bar – a site that once upon a time saw regular news and features posted to it, and seems to be starting to do so again – has this weekend published an interview with Jeffrey Lee. Jeffrey, as every RISC OS user should know, puts a remarkable amount of effort into the operating system, and has been heavily involved in bringing it to some of the newer platforms we now enjoy. Not entirely surprisingly, therefore, he has also won Best…
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News Nybble: Sound synthesis at ROUGOL, Monday 21st November
And pencil in 16th January to hear about CloudFS and an as yet unannounced new product from Elesar! Anthony Bartram of AMCOG Games will be talking about sound synthesis at the next meeting of the RISC OS User Group of London, which takes place on Monday, 21st November, kicking off at 7:45pm. Tony – a musician, as well as a games developer – is working on a sound synthesiser for RISC OS, based on Wavebox for Windows, but with some differences in the sound engine, which will be geared towards…
Read MoreNews nybble: Midlands User Group meeting, Saturday 19th November
The next meeting of the Midlands User Group – the last one of this year – will feature a hardware repair clinic, covering some common hardware faults that can occur with RISC OS computers, and how to deal with them. The group will also review the exciting RISC OS year, and look forward to the next with a planning session on future meetings. The meeting takes place on Saturday, 19th November, starting at 2:00pm, at the Methodist Church Hall, Greenhill, Blackwell, Bromsgrove, B60 1BL – a mere couple of miles…
Read MoreNews nybble: RISCOSbits reaches for the bottom…
…with the Absolute ZeRO! What do you get if you take one Raspberry Pi Zero, add an expansion board to provide an ethernet socket and two standard USB ports, and throw in a 16GB microSD card with a fully licensed RISC OS ready to run? The answer is the Absolute ZeRO – the latest product from RISCOSbits. Limited to one per customer until further notice, the Absolute ZeRO costs £42.99 plus P&P (or £32.99 plus P&P without the RISC OS card – but who in their right mind would want…
Read MoreNews nybble: RONWUG meeting, 16th November*
The RISC OS North West User Group next meets up this coming Wednesday evening from around 7:30pm. The meeting will take place at the Trafford Metrovick Rugby & Cricket Club, Finnybank Road, Sale, Cheshire M33 6LR, and anyone interested in RISC OS is welcome to come along – there are no membership or entry fees. The group usually gets together on the third Wednesday of each month, but organiser Steve Potts points out that the November meeting is actually the last one of the year – there is usually no…
Read MoreNews nybble: Wakefield 2017 confirmed for 22nd April
Organiser Chris Hughes has been in touch to confirm that date of the next Wakefield Show is 22nd April, 2017, as published in the latest issue of Archive Magazine – so mark that date in your diaries now, folks. No comment was added about the venue, so I would imagine it is safe to assume that it will be at the Cedar Court Hotel as usual. Such details will undoubtedly come when a more formal, and more detailed announcement is made – if there is one thing that can be…
Read MoreBristol Users meeting, 9th November
The next meeting of Bristol RISC OS Users (BRU) is Wednesday 9th November, starting at around 7:00-7:30pm (though some of the group may arrive earlier1) and continuing until closing time. The meeting will take place at: The Hope and Anchor pub, 38 Jacobs Wells Road,
Read MoreNews nybble: Pop to the shop and buy Mop Tops
Well, okay, !Store, not ‘the shop’ as such! Anthony Bartram of AMCOG Games has officially released his latest game, the Lemmings-inspired Mop Tops, which is a parallax scrolling puzzle game featuring 22 levels (currently – more are planned, with updates being free) and four original pieces of music. The objective is to guide as many Mop Tops as you can to the exit before the time runs out, and you can place tools and objects on the screen for the Mop Tops to pick up and use, or interact with…
Read MoreNews nybble: Southampton meeting – 8th November
The Southampton RISC OS Users Group will be meeting next on 8th November, running from 7:00pm until 9:00pm with no admission fee. The group gets together in the Sports Centre of Itchen College, Deacon Road, Southampton – head for the College Centre, an open area with tables and chairs, by the Sports Centre Reception desk. The group usually has a small network of RISC OS computers, and those attending are welcome to bring along any hardware and software they choose, to test or demonstrate.
Read MoreNews nybble: Ovation at Wakefield meeting
Nearly missed it – I really need a news address. Oh wait, I do have one! The next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club takes place tonight – Wednesday, 2nd November – and this month Steve Fryatt will be talking about Ovation, the DTP package originally written by David Pilling. Not to be confused with its younger ‘Pro’ sibbling – which is used to create the club’s monthly newsletter – Ovation is now available for free, with the source code available, and further work has been done on…
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