Meetings
Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club meets on the first Wednesday of most months: at least in February, April, June, August, October and December, and often in several of the intervening months as well. Our meetings usually consist of a talk or demonstration, with plenty of time for informal discussions before and after.
Recent meetings have included presentations from major RISC OS hardware, software and operating system developers, along with demonstrations of specific pieces of software by experienced users. In addition, we have covered a wide range of other subjects including digital photography, hardware upgrades, networking and problem solving. More information about the topics covered in recent meetings can be found further down the page, and details of future meetings can be found below.
Meetings take place online using the Zoom platform. They start at 7.45pm, and the scheduled part of the evening is generally complete by about 10pm.
Visitors are always welcome to attend our meetings (with the exception of the AGM and EGMs) – contact us for details, or see the Join Us page for information about membership.
Forthcoming meetings
The following meetings are planned for the near future (note that presentations may be re-scheduled due to events outside of our control).
Graeme Shrimpton will be demonstrating his TWimp module, which makes writing WIMP applications easy.
TWimp lets you use simple text in English to describe how you want your windows, icons and menus to be created or updated. This allows a quick and simple way to create applications for RISC OS.
Graeme will be presenting how to build an application from scratch. The demonstration will be in BASIC although you can use this module with any language that supports SWI calls.
This will be the first presentation since its release, and will also answer some of the questions that Graeme has been sent by people who are using the product.
This product, including a demo, is available at www.ro32.co.uk
More details nearer the Time.
Recent meetings
WROCC’s meetings cover a wide range of topics relating to RISC OS and computing more generally. Here are some of the events from recent months; for a longer list including videos and links to more detailed reports, see our past meetings page.
Tony Bartram of AMCOG Games joined us at WROCC to talk about what they’d been creating for the upcoming RISC OS North show. This included advice on creating promotional videos, and also showing their new video game, ‘Morphix’ (a portmanteau of Morphing Blocks). Finally, he looked at how to adapt and expand 8-bit game concepts into larger, more modern games.
You can find links to the meeting on YouTube via its page.
The WROCC Annual General Meeting was a chance for members to elect the committee for 2025, and to have their say on the running of the Club.
Rob Sprowson of Elesar started with a case study that he called ‘NICanatomy’. This followed the whole process of designing, prototyping, testing, manufacturing, documenting and packaging of a new product, using the Econet NIC (Network Interface Card) for the RiscPC / A7000 / A7000+ machines as an example. He went on to describe the benefits of cloud storage and the many providers offering it. He then focused in on the Switzerland-based pCloud and its particular suitability for accessing from RISC OS using CloudFS. This was followed by a very interesting demonstration, whereby Rob took a photo on his Android tablet, sent it to pCloud, viewed it using CloudFS on a RiscPC, and then finally did a live share via Econet to a BBC B. Of course the Beeb could not display the image, but it could be seen as a hex dump.
You can find links to the meeting on YouTube via its page.
Andrew Rawnsley talked about the N.Ex.T project, with news on the latest work on the NVMe drivers and new Block Devices. He showed the new partition facilities and the speed of the new NVMe drives in action. In addition he showed the new high resolution display drivers for 4K monitors with potential refresh rates of up to 175Hz! He briefly gave details of the next major release of PhotoDesk 3.24, with a very large number of enhancements and bug fixes. He also showed the new Hydra computer with Linux running in a RISC OS window. We then had a Christmas Quiz of 12 questions, plus a tie breaker if needed. All entrants were entitled to an item of free software (from a choice of three), but the overall winner was given a more major item of software (also from a choice of three).
You can find links to the meeting on YouTube via its page.
Richard Brown and Andrew Rawnsley of RISC OS Developments talked about RISC OS Direct 5.31 (Iris release), and other things.
You can find links to the meeting on YouTube via its page.
