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Reminder that the meeting is this Monday

I'll try to remember to take some notes (or twist someone elses arm to do it!) and post a summary.

Bryan.

Probably worth highlighting in the first post that although the attendee list (actually a table list) is full, people can still turn up on the day as visitors to join in the fun

I'll be there for all three days, but won't need much space, probably spend most of the time marvelling at what everyone else has been up to! (assuming I don't end up fixing SparcStations and VR systems in the main museum again :lol: ) For Saturday night, I can highly recommend the Wrestlers on Newm...

Hopefully someone will video the presentation and post it on you tube for all to see. I'm sitting here next to Peter, and he says "Nooooooooo!" :lol: We are always a bit reluctant to record the talks as it is hard enough persuading people to stand up and speak as it is, without it being broadcast f...

The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be: RPCemu, presented by Matthew and Peter Howkins Monday 18th June 2018, 7.45pm The Blue Eyed Maid , upstairs in the restaurant 173 Borough High Street, SE1 1HR RPCemu is the free, open source, RiscPC emulator available for use on Windows an...

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Sat Jun 02, 2018 9:21 am

Hoping to come along tomorrow with Louie & Dave. Not bringing any kit.

Great news, see you tomorrow! Can you bring the video of your LED cube that you showed at ROUGOL last month? I'd like to upload it to the website.

Thanks,
Bryan.

Welcome from your local user group

Welcome! For RISC OS programming info and help try the ROOL wiki and forum: https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/HomePage https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/ Also check if you have a nearby user group (hint, see sig!): http://www.riscository.com/calendar/ No questions are too silly, just...

Reminder that this is on Monday

Right, I've booked into the hotel for the Saturday night, so please put me down for a table for Saturday and Sunday.

Bryan.

I've put up the info for this month's ROUGOL meeting here - viewtopic.php?f=25&t=15053

The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be: Raspberry Pi interfacing with BBC BASIC, presented by Andrew Conroy, Owl Art Un Ltd Monday 21st May 2018, 7.45pm The Blue Eyed Maid , upstairs in the restaurant 173 Borough High Street, SE1 1HR Andrew Conroy will be familiar as the helpfu...

IIRC this was a number range bug in the installer that caused it to wrap if you had lots of memory. The counterintuitive solution was to reduce your free memory before running it!

Bat wrote:Do I need to unzip these things in RISC as I unzipped them onto the card....?

Yes. See my full reply over on the other thread - viewtopic.php?f=16&t=14985&p=201643#p201643

Bryan.

The bad news is that the A9home was a rather beta test machine with a very beta test OS version, so your RISC OS experience is going to be a rough ride :-( Its USB setup does require manual fiddling as others have mentioned, and you'll probably find it will only deal with memory sticks/cards of less...

Spent most of the weekend at the Science Museum, either in the Power Up exhibition (sadly without Arcadian this year :-( ) showing visitors how to play the classic games, or helping children do stop motion animation with their plasticine monsters :D Also saw Ready Player One, which was fun spotting ...

RobC wrote:There's a self-extracting version of SparkFS here.

To be pedantic that's a read only version of SparkPlug. For a read only version of SparkFS go here.

You should come along to the ROUGOL meeting on Monday 21st May, as our guest speaker will be Andrew Conroy who is bringing along a selection of his Raspberry Pi projects, all controlled using GPIO from BBC BASIC.

It was rather great meeting everyone. Good to meet you too :-) Thanks for coming and diving straight in with a presentation! =D> Bryan bought me a single whiskey that turned into a double somehow. Thanks Bryan! Those thanks belong to the nice lady behind the bar! The Blue Eyed Maid is an excellent ...

Tonight!

The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be: Game Development, presented by Squaregames and AMCOG Games Monday 19th March 2018, 7.45pm The Blue Eyed Maid , upstairs in the restaurant 173 Borough High Street, SE1 1HR There has recently been a bit of an upsurge in games development on...

Square Mezzmer (aka Tim!) and Tony from AMCOG Games will be coming along to this Monday's ROUGOL meeting to talk all about games development. http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/index.html It would be great to see any other StarDot members who can make it along to provide advice and encourageme...

but when I click on the (now blue) Spark FS icon to run it it just opens in !Edit. It's not thinking it's a program. That sounds like the Shift key is stuck on your keyboard! Double clicking on any file with Shift held down loads it into an editor rather than running it. I don't know how to write p...

That's great news!

You can email me on the ROUGOL contact address - http://rougol.jellybaby.net/contacts/index.html

Thanks,
Bryan.

Square Mezzmer wrote:ROUGOL sounds good for March 19th.

Well I don't have a speaker organised for that meeting, so if you wanted to get up and talk about your plans/ideas you would be very welcome!

I realise that would be very much in at the deep end, but we are friendly and (mostly) harmless

Bryan.

Firstly, I would also agree with several others here in saying that KickStarter probably won't work for this. Posting a development blog on here is more likely to get people involved. Some other suggestions to drum up more interest: Put something in the Announcements section on the ROOL forum - http...

Hi all, (I posted a similar request last year, but under a slightly cryptic title, so let's try again!) I run the RISC OS User Group Of London, which holds monthly meetings usually with a guest speaker. Despite the name of the group, we do cover all things Acorn, as most of our members started out w...

Welcome!

If you're writing games in BASIC then have a look at the AMCOG Development Kit - http://www.amcog-games.co.uk/kit.htm

It also includes RDSP which makes sound generation much easier - http://www.amcog-games.co.uk/rdsp.htm

Bryan.

If you can find an old RPi 1 that isn't wanted any more because it is underpowered for running Linux, it makes a great RISC OS machine! Plus it is slightly more compatible with old software than the Pi3.

Welcome from your local user group!

When you do go public, we'd love to have you come along and tell us all about it

Bryan.