If your use of RISC OS goes back to the early days of the operating system, there’s a very good chance you’ll have either have played Lander or, at the very least, will have found it lurking on one of the discs that came with your computer. It was supplied on the ‘Applications Discs’ that came with early Archimedes and A3000 computers.
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Okay, it’s a talk, and it’ll also feature Hexen and Heretic Coming just days after this year’s Wakefield Show, the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting will take place on Wednesday, 1st May, and the guest speaker will be Charles Ferguson, aka Gerph.
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No wait, Wradfold… no, I mean Bradford! That’s right, this year’s Wradfold Wakefield Show is just one week away. It takes place on 27th April – next Saturday – in Bradford.
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The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will next meet on Wednesday, 3rd April, and the subject of the meeting – with Chris Hughes taking the podium – are the changes that are coming for the UK’s telephone and broadband services.
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* And the meeting is already free, so that makes this a bargain! Wednesday, 6th March, will see the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting take place, and this month attendees will get two talks from two different people, rather than the usual one.
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The first Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting of 2024 will take place on Wednesday, 10th January – a week later than the regular date, which would have been the 3rd – and the guest speakers will be Matthew and Hilary Philips from Sine Nomine.
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The next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting will take place a week later than usual, on 13th December – the second Wednesday of this month, rather than the customary first. The guest speaker will be Andy Marks from RISCOSbits.
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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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No London Show again? Read about the last Wakefield one instead! Due to circumstances beyond the control of the organisers, last year’s Wakefield Show morphed into the Wradfold show – Wakefield, but in Bradford – and this year, the show carried on in the same location, for much the same reason. It took place on 22nd April at the Cedar Court Hotel in – well, yes – Bradford.
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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.
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