Fortran to Fireworkz at ROUGOL, Mon 21st Sept 2020

The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London (online) is:

From Fortran to Fireworkz, a programmer’s voyage, presented by Stuart Swales, Acornsoft and Colton Software

Monday 21st September 2020, 7.45pm

Online via Zoom, meeting open from 7.30pm

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

Back in the 80s, Stuart Swales worked at Acornsoft producing software for the BBC Micro, particularly programming languages. When Acorn found themselves with no operating system for their super new ARM powered Archimedes, Stuart became part of the team for Project Arthur, coding parts of the OS that would become RISC OS.

In the 90s he moved on to become lead programmer at Colton Software, working on the integrated wordprocessor/spreadsheet/database application PipeDream and its “successor” Fireworkz. PipeDream and Fireworkz are now open source and free to download, and he still maintains them both. (Note Fireworkz Pro is still a commercial application available from R-Comp)

Stuart will be joining us from his cottage in Scotland to tell us about his long history with Acorn and RISC OS, and how it all started.

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

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

Damn, typo in the title (despite checking it multiple times!), and there doesn’t seem to be a way to edit it :-(

Maybe you can just say that you’re celebrating the meeting’s 1818th anniversary with a special one-time-only repeat event :)

In honour of the talk tomorrow (Monday) I have dropped Fireworkz Pro 2 to approx half-price on !Store for the rest of September, as a special offer. Look forward to seeing everyone at the talk tomorrow – I know I’m looking forward to it :)

Links to the slides and the video are up on the meeting page → http://rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/2020/sep.html

(oh, and thanks to whoever fixed the thread title!)