RISC OS User Group Of London
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Welcome to RISC OS User Group Of London |
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ABOUT ROUGOL
ROUGOL is a not-for-profit organisation consisting of Acorn/RISC OS computer users in London and the south-east. Our aim is to bring those users together. There is no membership fee and entry to all meetings is free. To find out more, email us.
MEETINGS
Meetings are held on the third Monday of every month. Most meetings feature a guest speaker, demonstrating the latest hardware or software, giving tutorials of software both new and old, or simply to kick off discussions on the current hot topic. Entrance is free, so why not come along and say hello?
Next meeting -
Monday 21st July 2025 
New 5tuff - Andrew Rawnsley, R-Comp
This month we are delighted that Andrew Rawnsley will be joining us from R-Comp towers to talk about their latest hardware and software releases.
The newest members of their selection of machines are the 5idekick and pi5erve. Neither of these are native RISC OS machines, as they both use the Raspberry Pi 5 compute module which is a 64bit system, but are instead designed to supplement an existing RO setup.
The 5idekick is a small form factor machine running Linux that can be controlled from your RISC OS desktop to run things not available for RO, such as Firefox or LibreOffice, and access Pi hardware devices. Files can be shared between the two environments, or cut n paste used for transfer between applications. The pi5erve has all the features of 5idekick and adds multiple SSD drives to form a RISC OS friendly NAS with RAID security.
In addtion, by using Timothy Baldwin's RISC OS on Linux developments, it is also possible to use both 5ystems to run RISC OS applications faster than ever before!
On the software front there were many releases at the RO North show earlier this year, including the latest versions of PhotoDesk and MessengerPro, and updates to games such as Heretic and Hexen for modern hires platforms.
All in all, lots of 5tuff to cover!
Click here for more details
Future Meetings 
21 Jul: New 5tuff, Andrew Rawnsley, R-Comp
18 Aug: Econet ArcElite, Mark Moxon
15 Sep: Book Publishing with Ovation Pro, Gavin Crawford
20 Oct: RISCOSbits pre-show teaser
17 Nov: TBC
If there is a topic you would like to see covered at a future meeting, or (even better!) if there is a
subject you would like to talk about, please contact us.
London Show
The next RISC OS London Show will take place on Saturday 25th October 2025.
Recent Meetings
June: Everything I did at Acorn, Hugo Tyson
May: ARM anniversary chat, Bryan Hogan
April: Drag n Drop, Chris Dewhurst
March: Pre-show fireside chat, Richard Brown, RISC OS Dev
February: Copro copro-cabana, Rob Sprowson
January: T-Wimp, Graeme Shrimpton
Click here for a full index of past meetings, reports etc...
If you see a topic that hasn't been covered for a while that you think
needs revisiting, please let us know.