• Recoding the Classics at ROUGOL, Monday 17th January 2022

    From ROUGOL@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 9 03:10:56 2022
    The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be:

    Recoding the Classics
    Presented by Jeroen Vermeulen

    Monday 17th January 2022, 7:45pm

    The Duke of Sussex (upstairs in the Petworth Room from 6.30pm)
    23 Baylis Road, London, SE1 7AY
    https://rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

    Also online via Zoom, meeting open from 7.30pm

    https://rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/


    Over the past 18 months Jeroen Vermeulen has ported the five games from
    the Raspberry Pi book Coding the Classics across to RISC OS. By using the original sound and graphics resources produced for the book he has been
    able to produce very highly polished games in a short space of time.
    Jeroen will be joining us via Zoom to tell us how and why these ports were produced.

    For the first two games the Python/Pygame code used in the book was
    converted into BBC BASIC with the help of the AMCOG Development Kit.
    Jeroen will talk about how this was achieved and some of the
    issues/compromises that had to be made.

    After Python3 and Pygame were ported to RISC OS by Chris Johns, the
    original code from the book could be used for the other games. However
    there was still some porting work to do due to the differences in OS environment, and Jeroen will go through the changes needed (this section
    should be helpful to anyone trying to run Python code from other
    platforms).

    There will also be a look at how to setup all the components needed to get Python3/Pygame working on RISC OS and some comparisons of the performance between the BASIC/Python and RISC OS/Linux versions of the games.

    All Jeroen's ports are available on PlingStore, and hopefully by the end
    of the talk you will be encouraged to not only give the games a play, but
    maybe also be inspired to try writing/porting some games of your own!


    This meeting will also be held online via Zoom. Please contact us to
    receive a link to the meeting :

    https://rougol.jellybaby.net/contacts/

    If you have attended any previous meeting, it's the same link this month!


    Future Meetings
    ===============

    21 Feb: TBC
    21 Mar: GAG News, Herbert zur Nedden


    If you need any further information, please contact us as below.

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


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