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.
If you want to keep up with the latest news about RISC OS, there are two publications you need to check out, along with a user group, and a couple of websites.
With Wi-Fi and web browser! Some very welcome news from RISC OS Developments, just a couple of days before London 2024 is the release of RISC OS Direct 5.31 – which includes a new internet stack and Wi-Fi facilities, as well as Iris, the web browser the company has been developing for quite some time.
It’s just two days until London 2024, which takes place on Saturday, 26th October, at the Harrow District Masonic Centre. A long and detailed announcement has arrived at the bunker from Andy Marks of RISCOSbits, so to save me time (I have to get ready for the show as well, you know!), here it is in full:
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No wait, Wradfold… no, I mean Bradford! That’s right, this year’s Wradfold Wakefield Show is just one week away. It takes place on 27th April – next Saturday – in Bradford.
No London Show again? Read about the last Wakefield one instead! Due to circumstances beyond the control of the organisers, last year’s Wakefield Show morphed into the Wradfold show – Wakefield, but in Bradford – and this year, the show carried on in the same location, for much the same reason. It took place on 22nd April at the Cedar Court Hotel in – well, yes – Bradford.
25th February 2023 saw the RISC OS Southwest Show return to the Arnos Manor Hotel in Bristol. This was the first time the event has taken place since just before the Covid pandemic hit the UK, with the last one pretty much on the eve of the plague landing on our shores in early 2020.
Back in March Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) launched a competition to design a new logo – the old one having been used in one form or another for some thirty years.
A very simple game that’s been around for about a decade is 2048, a sliding tile game in which the goal is to slide all of the numbered tiles in one of four directions, in order to cause collisions between two tiles bearing the same number, at which point they combine to become the total of the two.