Mark Moxon will be joining the next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC), which will take place on Wednesday, 7th October, to take the group on a tour of the various Acornsoft games he has taken a detailed look at, and into which he has hacked new features.
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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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Tonight (17th August) is when the next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting will take place, and like last month’s meeting it hasn’t been possible to arrange a guest speaker, so the meeting will again be an open one for general discussion of all things RISC OS.
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A week later than originally scheduled, as previously noted, Martin Eastwood will be talking to the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) on Wednesday, 12th August, 2026, covering a few different pieces of software:
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As mentioned in the recently posted roundup of August meetings, the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) normally holds their meetings on the first Wednesday of each month, making the normal scheduled date this coming Wednesday. However, the meeting has unfortunately had to be delayed by a week, and will now take place on Wednesday, 12th August.
Read MoreThis is a new trial feature for the website – a list of all upcoming meetings (and other events) I can see for the coming month, possibly with notable mentions for any further ahead. I’ll aim to post this either at the end of one month, or the begininng of the next.
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The next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting will take place on 20th July – tonight – and rather than a guest speaker, the meeting will instead be an open one for general discussion of all things RISC OS.
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The RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) will be meeting up again on Monday, 15th June, and the guest speaker will be Phil Pemberton, who will be talking about Replay.
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The next meeting of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will feature the group’s own Chris Hughes taking front and centre stage, to talk about the ongoing changes to the telephone and communications networks.
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Although we all know and love RISC OS and its consistent – if sometimes quirky, and sometimes lacking (if we’re being honest) – user interface, you may not realise that it wasn’t the operating system Acorn originally intended for the Archimedes range of computers it was developing back in the 1980s.
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