Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club

Meeting on Wednesday 7th August at 7.45pm

X-Ample Technology

Paul Reuvers is the Director of X-Ample Technology (XAT) in The Netherlands. For many years, XAT was the Dutch representative of Computer Concepts (CC) and later also the official Acorn distributor. Over the years, XAT developed presentation software, hard/software for television subtitling, teleprompters and sports events, medical applications, databases, etc. With the arrival of the Iyonix, USB was brought to RISC OS and Paul wrote USBinfo and developed a generic HID driver.

In this talk, Paul will give an overview of his involvement in the Acorn/RISC OS world from the early 1980s to the present day. Apart from developing software for the platform, Paul still uses RISC OS on a daily basis for a variety of applications, including web design for one of his other passions. If possible, he will give a brief demonstration of a piece of RISC OS software that is currently under development.

This ‘virtual’ meeting is open to all, and will take place using the Zoom conferencing service using our regular meeting credentials. Zoom invitations will be sent out ahead of the meeting, but only to those who email info2024@wrocc.org.uk to request one. If you would like to be part of the meeting (and don’t already have the link from a previous meeting or receive an invite in the next 24 hours as a member of WROCC), please RSVP — at the latest by the end of Tuesday 6th August (GMT).

If you haven’t used Zoom before, we suggest that before Wednesday you try to join the Zoom test meeting at https://zoom.us/test on the device that you intend to use, in order to check that your system works OK. You will not require a Zoom account to take part.

Past Meetings

Videos of previous meetings can be found in our links to past meetings at https://www.wrocc.org.uk/meetings

Club Membership

Annual membership of WROCC is available for those living near and far at 7.50ukp per year.

Members receive:

• A PDF newsletter with all the latest news and articles.
• Entry to meetings.
• Access to the WROCC Internet Discussion Forum.

For further information, please email info2024@wrocc.org.uk or visit the Club’s website at https://www.wrocc.org.uk