Bristol RISC OS Users (BRU) meet regularly, on the second Wednesday of every second month, and this month’s meeting therefore falls on the 9th. The group’s meetings tend to be fairly informal – a handful of like-minded people getting together for a pint and a bite to eat and a general chinwag, with one or other of them sometimes bringing along something interesting and relevant to RISC OS to focus that chat.
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With some notable exceptions, the history of RISC OS on laptops has never been great. Acorn themselves only ever launched one RISC OS laptop – the 24MHz, ARM3-based A4 – in 1992. Its name was based on its size, taking up about the same amount of space on a desk (or indeed a lap) as a piece of A4 paper, it sported a 640×480, greyscale screen, had 2 or 4MB of RAM, and needed an external mouse. The company also later announced the Stork notepad and NewsPAD ‘tablet’, but they…
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A name that may not be familiar to many RISC OS users is Andrew Oyston, but he’s familiar with RISC OS – as well as listing retro hardware and games as a hobby, he is a contributor to publications such as Pixel Addict magazine, in issue 5 of which his Wakefield 2022 show report was published1.
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The next Midlands User Group (MUG) meeting will take place online, using the Zoom video conferencing system, from 2:00pm on Saturday, 2nd October, with a discussion topic inspired by the cancellation of this year’s London Show and the scarcity of active user groups.
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The meeting is cancelled. Long last the meeting. The RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) normally hold their meetings on the third Monday of each month, meaning that the next meeting was scheduled to take place tomorrow evening – Monday, 19th September. However, with the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II taking place earlier in the same day, the decision has been taken to not hold a normal meeting.
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Insert joke about the people of Yorkshire and saving money wherever possible… here! With the cost of living rising at a rate approaching escape velocity – suggesting NASA’s Artemis 1 mission might be fuelled by British prices – any tips and tricks on how to save money will be welcomed by many at the moment. And at this month’s Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting, Peter Richmond will be looking at just this issue.
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The next RISC OS User Group of London (ROUGOL) meeting will take place on Monday, 15th August, and rather than having a guest speaker or themed discussion, the meeting will instead be something much simpler – with the unambigious title: Summer Party!
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The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will next meet up on Wednesday, 3rd August, and the guest speaker will be Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games.
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If you come to RISC OS from another platform, or use any alongside it, you will know there are many features on those other platforms that are lacking on RISC OS. Some of those features can actually be quite useful, and would be beneficial to have, not least for the benefit of people trying RISC for the first time, so that they are more comfortable using it.
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ALso: The Midlands User Group now has a YouTube Channel – the RISC OS MUG Zone. The inaugural virtual show hosted by the Midlands User Group (MUG) took place on 2nd July – and being an online event, it’s no surprise that the various presentations were recorded with the aim of making them available online after.
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