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Talking TWimp with MUG – 29th April

April 26, 2025April 26, 2025 VinceH

If you aren’t aware, there’s a new development tool in town, called TWimp, which makes writing multitasking applications for much easier than ever before. The software, from Graeme Shrimpton, takes care of most of the work involved in handling windows and icons by allowing all of that to be defined separately in a text file. This means the programmer doesn’t have to devote so much time (and code) to dealing with all that, and can instead concentrate on writing their core application.

Using StrongED as a scripting aid for Python programming – MUG meeting, 24th July

July 21, 2024July 21, 2024 VinceH

There will be an out of schedule meeting held by the Midlands User Group (MUG), at which the group’s own John Rickman will discuss the use of StrongED as a scripting tool when programming in Python.

Updating RISC OS to 5.30 with MUG – 8th June

June 3, 2024June 3, 2024 VinceH

The next meeting of the Midlands User Group (MUG) will be an in-person event, and will be held from 2:00pm on Saturday, 8th June, at:

Will RISCOSbits be bringing Scooby Doo to the Xmas show?

December 8, 2023December 8, 2023 VinceH

Ah, no, now I get it – it’s a mystery machine, not The Mystery Machine! If you’re planning to pay a visit to the MUG RISC OS Xmas Market on Saturday1, you’ll undoubtedly want to pop into the second room to see what’s on offer from RISCOSbits, because it looks like there will be quite a selection. Andy Marks says there will be “a range of hardware devices, including several machines not yet seen in the wild.

Just five days to go until the MUG RISC OS Xmas Market

December 4, 2023December 4, 2023 VinceH

In case you haven’t noticed any previous references, such as the first announcement, or the banner along the top of all the pages on this site1, there is an extra (sort of2) RISC OS show taking place in just five days time on 9th December – the MUG RISC OS Xmas market.

Midlands User Group meeting – 11th November

November 9, 2023 VinceH

The Midlands User Group (MUG) will be holding their next meeting at 2:00pm on Saturday, 11th November, and with their Xmas Market event barely a month away, the time will be given over to discussing the mini show, and finalising plans for it.

Partition manager discussion at MUG – 7th October

October 3, 2023October 3, 2023 VinceH

The next Midlands User Group (MUG) meeting will take place on Saturday, 7th October, at which the group will be looking at and discussing Jon Abbott’s Partition Manager software.

Playing old games on modern systems with ADFFS – MUG meeting, 9th September

September 3, 2023September 3, 2023 VinceH

Advantages of newer hardware running RISC OS include much greater amounts of memory, and much faster processors – but a significant disadvantage for some is the inability to run older software.

A few videos from MUG for your viewing pleasure

September 3, 2023September 3, 2023 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.

Midlands Midsummer MUG Show morphs into MUG Mega Meeting

June 29, 2023June 29, 2023 VinceH

The time is nigh for the RISC OS world to gather around a single location once again, with the next main event scheduled for Saturday, 1st July. The event is the Midlands User Group‘s MUG Mega Meeting, and the location is in front of your own computer screen, wherever that may be!