The WROCC Newsletter
WROCC members receive a copy of our monthly newsletter, The
WROCC. Produced in A5 format, it contains articles on RISC OS
and its software, hints and tips, information about the subjects covered
in our meetings, and much more.
Copies are produced in PDF format: members can download them from
the this page, or have copies emailed to their inbox as soon as they
are published. In addition to a ‘one page per A5 sheet’ version,
a ‘two-up on A4’ version of each issue is available to help
those who prefer to print their copies out for reading.
If you’re not a member but would like to see what you’re missing,
a selection of older issues are free to download further down the page.
March 2024 (Vol 41, No 12)
In the March 2024 issue there’s a look at creating striped shapes in Draw and ArtWorks, along with the work that went in to creating the rolling display of Acorn’s history seen on the Club’s stand at the 2023 Wakefield Show. There’s a review of Tamarc, which can add functionality to Adjust-clicks on the Switcher icon, a report on February’s Club Annual General Meeting, and an update on the Newsletter Contributor Award Scheme for 2023.
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February 2024 (Vol 41, No 11)
The February 2024 issue contains an update on the 2024 Wakefield Acorn & RISC OS Computer Show, which will once again be returning to Bradford in late April. There’s an analysis of the software bundled with some modern current RISC OS systems, and details of the software used to create it, along with a round-up of some of the news from the software scene. One of our members recounts his experience of persuading Openreach to install full fibre on his estate, while another has a nostalgic look back at some ‘how to’ videos for programming games on the Acorn Electron.
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January 2024 (Vol 41, No 10)
In January 2024 we look at a range of software (both on RISC OS and elsewhere) that one of our members uses to keep track of and manage his digital photography, while Chris Hall revisits an article from 2020, to investigate inflation using BBC BASIC and Draw. We take a quick look at some recent software releases, and one of our members reflects on how he finds new software titles amongst the vastness of the internet. Finally, there’s a look back over 2023 in the pages of the newsletter, and a look forward to the Club’s AGM in February.
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December 2023 (Vol 41, No 9)
In the December 2023 issue, we look at problems with the Real Time Clock on the Pinebook Pro when coexisting alongside Manjaro Linux, along with what can be done to prevent damage to RiscPCs and A7000s from leaking clock batteries. There’s a look at installing AltKeys on a Pinebook Pro, and a project involving RiscOSM, mapping archives and signalboxes. The discussion about the command line continues with *Echo, and a member looks back at some of the latest technology from 25 years ago.
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November 2023 (Vol 41, No 8)
The November 2023 issue reports on our July meeting, when Andrew Rawnsley showed us how he uses RISC OS and Windows side by side, whilst also looking at a way to make Linux and RISC OS work together on a PiRO Qube. There’s a detailed look at setting up NetFetch or Hermes to work with multiple email accounts in a DMARC-friendly way, we re-visit the question of command line aliases from October, and in a continuation of our ongoing series of what-ifs, consider what might have been if only the A3010 had been a success in the games market after all.
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Indexes
An index of the articles found between issues 6.1 and 40.12 of the
newsletter has been produced by John Arthur and Kev Smith, and can be downloaded here
as a PDF document. Volume 6 coincided with the release of RISC OS,
and prior to that the newsletter was mainly short hints and tips.
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Public Download
Public Download
The Wakefield Back Catalogue
Relaunched following the completion of Volume 40 of The WROCC
in April 2023, the thirteenth edition of The Wakefield Back Catalogue contains PDF
copies of the Club’s monthly newsletters going from The WROCC
and Awake right back to the very first “hints & tips”
sheet handed out at the April 1983 meeting.
The new compilation contains around 440 issues and is available as a download in these
more ‘virtual’ times. It costs £7.50 for non-members, whilst
members can buy it for the discounted price of £5.00. To order your
copies, complete the Order Form and send it
back to us. Contact us if you have any
questions.
The WROCC Guide to Networking
Starting in late 2009, the Club has been publishing a series of articles on
networking in the newsletter. Two years on, we’ve turned them into a
stand-alone guide to the subject of networking RISC OS systems.
Each part of the guide is available in a 20 page A5 printed booklet for
£3.00 including P&P, or in PDF form for £1.50. To order your
copies, complete the Order Form and send it
back to us. Contact us if you have any
questions.
The WROCC Guide to Networking (Part 1)
By April 2010 there had been enough articles published to create the first
20 page A5 booklet; launched at the 2010
Wakefield Show, this covers the basics of setting
up a network that contains RISC OS machines and is available for
purchase to members and non-members alike.
The guide introduces us to networking and how to configure IP addresses on a home network,
as well as how to make sure that DNS is working correctly. We look at sharing an internet connection,
configuring ShareFS and using Samba to view RISC OS files on Windows.
The WROCC Guide to Networking (Part 2)
Launched in April 2011 at the Wakefield Show,
Part 2 of the WROCC Guide to Networking
continues where Part 1 left off and looks at file transfer and the
RISC OS firewall.
We cover the use of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and LanManFS to access files stored on
Windows, using Sunfish to read files from Linux over NFS and Moonfish to view RISC OS
files on Linux. There’s consideration of how filetype mappings work on network filing systems,
and details of how to configure the RISC OS Six firewall.
Free samples
Here are some old back-issues of The WROCC, which can be
downloaded in PDF format to give an idea of what the newsletter is about.
More recent issues are available to members at the top of the page.
The files can be viewed on RISC OS using PDF, which is
maintained by Chris Gransden: recent versions (3.00.1.21 or later is
required to view the newsletter correctly) can be downloaded for free from
www.riscos.info/index.php/PDF.
June 2014 (Vol 32, No 3)
In the June 2014 issue, the newsletter carried a report of the 2014 Wakefield Show and details of what RISC OS Open had to say at the event. There was a report of the May meeting, where several members looked at interfacing things to a Raspberry Pi, a review of Sine Nomine Software’s RiscOSM mapping software and a guide to changing the iconbar icons used by Uniprint.
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August 2013 (Vol 31, No 5)
Alongside a report on the new risc/pi website, the August 2013 issue of the newsletter reported on the July Meeting’s talks including the options for printing from RISC OS and Peter Richmond’s experiences using RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi. There was also a guide to getting RISC OS up and running on a Pandaboard.
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January 2013 (Vol 30, No 10)
The January 2013 issue of the newsletter contained a report of the December meeting and included the Christmas Quiz questions for readers to try out for themselves. We looked at the inside story of creating the Back Catalogue CDs, and had a preview of the 2013 Wakefield Show. Some of our members looked at using David Pilling’s SyncDiscs for scripting automatic backups and Snapper for taking screenshots. There was also a quick look at NetSurf’s early Javascript progress.
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December 2012 (Vol 30, No 9)
In December 2012 the newsletter reported on the previous month’s visit from Mike Cook, where he had demonstrated his RFID-based music sequencer, some Raspberry Pi-based hardware projects and the ‘Spoonduino’. In his final article, the late Colin Sutton described the Super Hi-Vision equipment used to bring the London Olympics to the big screen in Bradford, we took a look at an early version of RISC OS on the Raspberry Pi, and discussed what was required to connect a modern LCD monitor to a RiscPC.
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Contributing
If you would like to contribute to The WROCC, you can find details how to do it – including the file formats that we can accept – in our guide to Contributing to The WROCC. We accept items for publication from both members and non-members, and all are eligible for our annual Contributors’ Award.