User Group

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.

Chris Dewhurst talks Drag ‘n Drop with ROUGOL – 21st April

April 18, 2025April 18, 2025 VinceH

It’s time to drag yourself away from whatever else you might be doing and drop yourself off at a certain London pub (or in front of your computer) for the next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting, which takes place on Monday, 21st April, and features Chris Dewhurst talking to the group about Drag ‘n Drop.

Talking RISC OS North in London – 17th March

March 14, 2025 VinceH

The last RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting before the next show – RISC OS North – will take place on Monday, 17th March, and that very show will be the topic of the evening; a pre-show fireside chat with Richard Brown of RISC OS Developments Ltd and Orpheus Internet taking the floor.

AMCOG Games at WROCC – 5th March

March 2, 2025March 2, 2025 VinceH

The next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting will take place on Wednesday, 5th March, and the guest speaker will be Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games, with a talk that will cover a number of topics.

Rob Sprowson at the Coprocabana – 17th February

February 14, 2025February 14, 2025 VinceH

AKA The Duke of Sussex in London The guest speaker at the next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting will be Rob Sprowson, who may or may not have yellow feathers in his hair1.

ROUGOL meeting – 20th January – T-Wimp

January 17, 2025 VinceH

Following the developers’ fireside chat on Saturday evening, the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting just two days later will also be of interest to people interested in software development.

RISCOSbits docks in the Midlands – 17th December

December 8, 2024December 8, 2024 VinceH

Or even RISCOSbits’ RiscDOCKs… The Midlands User Group (MUG) will be holding a meeting on Tuesday, 17th December, 2024, starting at 7:30pm, at which Andy Marks of RISCOSbits will be the guest speaker.

R-Comp brings some Christmas quizzing to WROCC – 4th December

November 28, 2024November 28, 2024 VinceH

Having been the guest speaker for the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting that took place in November, Andrew Rawnsley will be joining the group again for their December meeting – but wearing a different hat!

RISC OS Developments comes to WROCC – 6th November

November 4, 2024 VinceH

In the run up to the recent London Show, RISC OS Developments released an updated version of RISC OS Direct, their customised and more user-enticing distribution of RISC OS – and it was a very important update, because it also marked the first public release of their web browser, Iris, which is now bundled in the distro.

Preview the London Show in, er, London – 21st October

October 21, 2024 VinceH

In case you hadn’t noticed, the next major RISC OS event will be taking place on October 26th – the London Show – which just happens to be this coming Saturday. The show is organised by the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL), whose regular schedule has their next meeting on 21st October.