News 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…

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News 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.

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News 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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Chris Hall visits ROUGOL to help decide which computer really is best!

Erm… best for you, that is, because it’s subjective, innit? Chris Hall will be visiting the RISC OS User Group of London on Monday, 17th October, to give a talk entitled ‘System Comparisons’ in which he will look at the various new systems available that can be used to run RISC OS – whether they are full-blown, ready to use computers sold by the likes of R-Comp and CJE Micro’s, or simply system boards and DIY kits, for which additional components are needed such as (for that full Blue Peter…

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User group meetings galore over the next seven days

Horsham, Southampton, Bristol, Midlands, Wessex… Everybody talk about… pop music! No, hang on, that’s not right. There are quite a number of user group meetings taking place over the next week, so it seems sensible to wrap them up in a single post, covering all of those up to and including next Saturday (17th September).

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ROUGOL goes back in time

Well, sort of – through emulation, not temporal manipulation! Realising that people can’t time travel – not even within their own lifetime – members of the RISC OS User Group of London will step into the Quantum Leap Accelerator Blue Eyed Maid and, rather than vanish, will find themselves enjoying a presentation about a BBC Micro emulator for Android devices.

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