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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 June 2021 
RISC OS in those StrongARM days - Mike Stephens, ex-Acorn and Pace programmer

Mike Stephens worked at Acorn from 1994 to late 1998 as a Principal Programmer. He left Acorn soon after Phoebe & Ursula were cancelled. About 2 years later, he rejoined colleagues at Pace to work further on RISC OS. His talk will be a mix of reminiscing about late-Acorn and some low-level technical details.

Some things that he worked on include:

• Assisting ARM with validation of prototype ARM 810 processor
• RISC OS 3.7, the substantial low-level update of the OS to support StrongARM
• RISC OS 4/Ursula kernel for Risc PC 2/Phoebe
• Hardware abstraction and 32-bit-clean plans for RISC OS at Pace

Michael left Pace soon after they cancelled all RISC OS work, and is excited to see there is still a love for it and there is active work after all these years!

The meeting will be held online via Zoom. Please contact us to be sent a link to the meeting on the day. (If you have attended any meeting this year, it is the same link!)

Click here for full details

Future Meetings
21 Jun: RISC OS in those StrongARM days, Mike Stephens, ex-Acorn and Pace programmer
19 Jul: Hybrid Meeting Trial
16 Aug: TBC
20 Sep: 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 30th October 2021.

Recent Meetings
May: Software Testing, Gerph - Slides... and Report...
April: The Future of Microprocessors, Sophie Wilson CBE - Report... and Video...
March: The DARIC Programming Language, Daryl Dudey - Report... and Video...
February: CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray Burning, Steffen Huber, hubersn Software - Report... and Video...
January: The AMCOG Development Process, Anthony Bartram, AMCOG Games - Report... and Video...
December: RISC OS Developments, R-Comp, and AMA, Andrew Rawnsley - Report...
November: Building RISC OS Online, Gerph - Slides... and Report... and Video...
October: Audio Matters, Jason Tribbeck - Report... and Video...
September: From Fortran to Fireworkz, Stuart Swales, Acornsoft and Colton Software - Slides... and Video...
August: Cloverleaf and ChatCube, Stefan Fröhling - Report... and Video...
July: RISC OS Direct, Tom Williamson, WiFi Sheep - Report... and Video...
June: Euclid and friends, Tony Cheal, Ace Computing - Report... and Video... plus sample Films and Projector

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.