Most development work tends to happen quietly, with little or no fuss, and users only find out about it when things are announced as finished (or sometimes early access beta) products – and one of the customary times for that to happen is in the run up to or at the main shows.
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Conversation time again with ROUGOL – 16th October
Tonight at 7:45pm, the RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) will be holding their October meeting – and for the third month in a row it will be one for members and other attendees to have a general chat about all things RISC OS, anything related, and probably a lot that isn’t as well. This is because, like last month and the month before, it hasn’t been possible to arrange a formal speaker for the meeting.
Read MoreLinux gets a look-in with WROCC – 12th October
Back in June, Mark Stephens talked about using RISC OS in conjunction with MacOS at the Wakefield RISC OS User Group (WROCC) meeting, and July saw a similar overview by Andrew Rawnsley, but that time the subject was using RISC OS and Windows together. For the October meeting, a third notable operating system and how it can be used alongside ‘our’ system comes under the spotlight – Linux.
Read MorePartition manager discussion at MUG – 7th October
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.
Read MoreChristmas to come early for RISC OS users
The RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) announced barely a week ago that, sadly, they are not going to be able to proceed with this year’s London Show; the usual venue isn’t available, and they have been unable to find an alternative. This wasn’t entirely surprising – they were also unable to proceed last year, and they aren’t the only group to have faced struggles organising their annual event recently; the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) also had problems with their annual event, but luckily did manage to…
Read MoreTime for more conversation with ROUGOL – 18th September
Like last month, it hasn’t been possible to arrange a formal speaker in time for the next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting, so the group is once again setting the evening aside for general chat on all things RISC OS and related – and possibly beyond.
Read MoreBristol RISC OS Users meeting – 13th September
The next meeting of Bristol RISC OS Users (BRU) is will take place on Wednesday, 13th September.
Read MorePlaying old games on modern systems with ADFFS – MUG meeting, 9th September
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.
Read MoreWakefield group holds the most Elite of meetings
With so many RISC OS users also having been Acorn users in the 8-bit era, there can’t be many who are unaware of the game Elite, originally developed by David Braben and Ian Bell and published by Acornsoft.
Read MoreA few videos from MUG for your viewing pleasure
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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