ROUGOL revisits elite – now with two player split screen

Just over a year ago, Mark Moxon visited the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) to talk about how he had added econet support to Elite. He had been taking a deep dive into the game for a while, analysing the code and how some of its clever tricks were implemented, adding his own improvements to it – such as ensuring the graphics were flicker free – and at the time of that meeting, network support was his latest innovation.

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Rob Napier, Acorn Biographer – ROUGOL meeting, 15th December

This Monday will see an incredibly rare event take place – so rare, in fact, that there are more dentists for hens than occurences like this: The RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) will hold a December meeting, with Rob Napier taking the virtual podium to talk about his current work-in-progress, an Acorn biography.

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RISC OS Developments London Show news – including a public Iris release

With this year’s London Show drawing ever nearer – the doors will be open to the public in just two days on 25th October, at the Harrow District Masonic Centre – another announcement has landed in the RISCOSitory bunker, and, amongst other interesting news, this one includes something we’ve all been eagerly awaiting for a very long time: a public release of web browser Iris from RISC OS Developments. Over to Andrew Rawnsley for all the gory details:

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