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 19th October 2026 
Space Chase - Nick Anderson
Following last month's look at dogfighting in 8bit Elite, this month we will be joined by Nick Anderson (aka jankfactor) who has developed something similar for 32bit users. His new game Space Chase is inspired by the flight section of Elite but builds it into a more arcade style combat game.
Something else this project shares with last month's is the love of handcrafting and optimising code. Where that was dealing with 6502 on the Beeb, Nick has worked hard to ensure the ARM code in Space Chase is fast enough to run even on an A3000.
Nick's other projects include
a Midwinter inspired 3D landscape routines, a port of Powermonger,
and enhancements to Arculator.
Nick will be demonstrating these projects and taking us through
some of the source code and toolchains he uses.
Click here for more details
Future Meetings 
19 Oct: Space Chase, Nick Anderson
16 Nov: TBC
18 Jan: 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 24th October 2026.
Recent Meetings
September: Two player Elite, Mark Moxon
August: General chat
July: General chat
June: Replay replayed, Phil Pemberton
May: ARX and the Acorn Palo Alto Research Centre, Jim Mitchell
April: Desktop Themes, Paolo Zaino
March: JSbeeb and Compiler Explorer, Matt Godbolt
February: Retro YouTube and pocket computers, Colin Hoad
January: Multi headed systems, Chris Hall
December: Acorn Biography, Rob Napier
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.