The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be:

BBC Micro Lives
Presented by Jason Nicholls, ABUG

Monday 17th February 2020, 7:45pm

The Duke of Sussex (upstairs in the Chichester Room)
23 Baylis Road
London, SE1 7AY
http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html


Many ROUGOL members will have previously used a BBC Micro. Maybe you
still have one, or have a hankering to get one? If so, this is the
meeting for you! Jason Nicholls, an active member of ABUG (Acorn and
BBC User Group), is going to be talking about some of the modern
upgrades available to breathe new life into the Beeb.

Despite Acorn ceasing production of the Beeb over 25 years ago, that
has not stopped enthusiasts producing new software and hardware for
the systems, adding features the original designers could only have
dreamt of. Much of this has been driven by discussions on the StarDot
Forum and at ABUG get togethers.

On the hardware side, Jason will be showing some of the storage
options that can be added to give access to USB sticks and SD cards,
both of which can be used to mount images of your old floppy discs
(and if we have time we will look at how to create these). The
VideoNuLA graphics enhancer will also be on display, bringing a 4096
colour palette with a full 16 colours on screen in MODE 2 with smooth scrolling.

Rather appropriately combining Beeb and ARM, the PiTubeDirect uses
a Raspberry Pi as a second processor connected via the Beeb's Tube
interface. This can emulate all the original Acorn co-processors
(6502, z80, x86, 32016) and more. It can of course also be run as
an ARM co-pro, mimicing the first ARM Evaluation System used to test
the ARM1.

On the software side, some of the new games that have been produced
will be on display, and we will look at how modern development tools
and emulators can greatly ease the programming and debugging task.
We might end the night with a browse through the online archive of
(almost) every Beeb game ever released at bbcmicro.co.uk.

http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/


London Show 2020
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This year's London Show will be on Saturday 24th October 2020 at its
regular venue, the St Giles Hotel, Feltham.

http://www.riscoslondonshow.co.uk/


The usual arrangements
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All ROUGOL meetings are free to attend and take place at:
The Duke of Sussex, 23 Baylis Road, London, SE1 7AY.

The venue is easy to reach by public transport from in and around
London and the south east, being only a couple of minutes walk from
Waterloo Station. There is parking outside the pub on Coral St.

The room is open from 6.30pm and the meeting starts at 7.45pm,
leaving plenty of time to chat and sample the range of food and
drink on sale.

If you need any help reaching the venue, or any other information,
please contact us as below.

RISC OS User Group Of London info@rougol.jellybaby.net http://rougol.jellybaby.net/ @rougol 07970 211 629



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