The next friendly fireside chat for people interested in RISC OS software development will take place at 7:30pm on Saturday, 20th September. Taking place online via the Zoom video conferencing service, these meetings are intended as an informal way of allowing RISC OS programmers, and anyone interested in the subject, to get together online to discuss relevant matters.
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A new version of TrainTimes has been released. The program is one from the Kevin Wells family of applications that use Wget to request data from a remote application programmer interface (API).
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The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) will take place on Monday, 15th September, with Gavin Crawford taking the podium to talk about how he uses Ovation Pro in his publishing business.
Read MoreAn update has been released by Kevin Wells to one of his newest applications, Web2PDF.
Read MoreThere will be an Acorn and BBC User Group (ABUG) event taking place in the Netherlands later this year – the Dutch ABUG 2025, co-sponsored by The Big Ben Club, which will be held from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th of October at:
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The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will be holding their next meeting on Wednesday, 3rd September, with a two-part talk from Chis Johns on the subject of RISC OS file storage.
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A couple of years ago, Jeroen Vermeulen ported Cherry Bomb to RISC OS, a shoot ’em up – aka a ‘shmup’ according to its original developer, Krystian Majewski – in which you control a ship at the bottom of the screen, and shoot down the incoming waves of alien attackers.
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Note, that’s ‘networking Elite’ and not ‘THE networking elite’ At the next meeting of the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL), on Monday, 18th August, Mark Moxon will be joining everyone in the pub to talk about the things he’s done since the last time he visited, almost two years ago.
Read MoreKevin Wells has released a new application, called Webshot, which aims to take screen grabs of web pages. However, what it doesn’t do is simply save the screen (or browser window), which you could achieve anyway using Paint’s snapshot facility, or a third party application such as Snapper.
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Well, in the context of ROUGOL, anyway. If you regularly attend the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meetings – whether in person or online – you’ll know when the meetings will take place each month; it’s easy enough to remember, being – unless circumstances force a change – the third Monday of each month, with December often being an exception because of the proximity to Christmas. What you usually won’t know until much closer to each meeting day, though, it’s what the meeting subject will be.
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