Tag: Dr Wimp

A few videos from MUG for your viewing pleasure

VinceH

And one from Kevin Wells for budding programmers The Midlands User Group (MUG) held their re-branded summer event on 1st July. What used to be the Midlands Midsummer MUG Show eventually came to a close due to low attendance numbers, but in 2022 it was resurrected as an online event, and this year held again under its new ‘MUG Mega Meeting’ banner – billing it, in effect, as an extended MUG meeting, with a spread of five different speakers over its five hour running time.

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News nybble: Dr Wimp Hints & Tips video

VinceH

Kevin Wells has written a number of applications designed to interface with remote websites using their published application programmer interfaces (APIs) using Wget, and when writing his software he uses Dr Wimp. Kevin has decided to try to assist others by releasing ‘how to’ videos, with the first being how to ensure only one copy of your Dr Wimp-based application is run at one time. However, noting that the sound quality of Kevin’s videos is a somewhat below par, keep an eye out for this and any future ‘how to’…

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Attend Dr Wimp’s Surgery with MUG

VinceH

The Midlands User Group (MUG) meeting will take place online, via the Zoom video conferencing system, on Saturday, 4th February at 2:00pm. John McCartney will be taking the main stage for the meeting, to discuss Dr Wimp’s Surgery – a book published by the late Ray Favre that provided an introduction to programming the RISC OS desktop using the Dr Wimp BASIC library.

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Snippets – 31st December, 2022

VinceH

A collection of news for 2022 not already covered on RISCOSitory 2022 is about to draw to a close, so it’s time to cast one last eye over the various forums etc., to look for things that haven’t found their way onto these pages already.

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Calibre 3.23 released

VinceH

Calibre is a very comprehensive application for designing and printing calendars of all shapes, sizes and types, written by the late Ray Favre using Dr Wimp, his utility and function library designed to make it much easier to write fully multi-tasking RISC OS applications in BBC BASIC. The last “official” version of Calibre, as found on Ray’s website (along with manuals and source code), is version 3.21, but Chris Johnson has made some changes, and is able to make available an updated version 3.23, which includes the following changes:

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