The WROCC Vol 41 Issue 4 Out Now

The July 2023 issue of The WROCC – the newsletter of the Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club – is on its way out to members across the UK and beyond this week.

In this issue we investigate how RISC OS establishes the correct date and time on start-up, and the ways that this can go wrong. Our short series on using LanMan98 concludes with a look at setting up Samba on Linux, and we have a summary of Mark Stephens’ presentation about using RISC OS alongside MacOS at our June meeting. There’s a look at using OmniDisc to configure the disc drives on the iconbar and a round-up of software releases including CherryBomb. Finally, we report on the results of the Charity Stall at the Wakefield Show in 2023, and look forward to a date in 2024.

See https://www.wrocc.org.uk/newsletter for more details of recent issues, and to download samples of older issues.

Able to trace its roots directly back to the first Wakefield Club newsletter in April 1983, these days The WROCC is produced in an A5 booklet layout and copies are delivered free to WROCC members in PDF format. Membership of the Club costs £7.50 per year… and despite our name, there are no geographical restrictions.

For those who haven’t been following The WROCC each month, 2023’s issues have so far included:

• In-depth coverage of the 2023 Wakefield Acorn & RISC OS Computer Show, with a report and photographs, a run-down of the prize draw winners, the results of the Charity Stall, and the important subject of the WROCC 40th Anniversary cake.

• A look at the work being done to get RISC OS running on the Compute Module 4.

• A detailed examination at the Compute Module 4 hardware and the ‘FAST’ system from RISCOSbits.

• Cooling a system based around a Computer Module 4.

• How to get in control of referenced images in Ovation Pro.

• A users’ eye view of a Pinebook Pro.

• A small hardware module spotted by a member, which allows USB mice to replace the old Acorn quadrature hardware on the RiscPC and earlier.

• Rob Sprowson’s visit to Wakefield, where he talked about hardware speech synthesis on a BBC Micro and software speech synthesis on RISC OS, along with TextEase and PIC microprocessors.

• A walkthrough of creating tessellating shapes using BBC BASIC’s PLOT command.

• A user’s view of the Iris browser.

• Full instructions for setting up LanMan98 and Windows 10.

• How Chris Hall wrote the RingBind application, with manipulation and display of drawfiles.

• The work involved in creating and maintaining the newsletter’s article indexes.

• Monthly round-ups of what’s new in the world of RISC OS software.

The Wakefield Back Catalogue Issue 12

Relaunched following the completion of Volume 39 of The WROCC in April 2022, the twelfth edition of The Wakefield Back Catalogue contains PDF copies of the Club’s monthly newsletters going from The WROCC and Awake right back to the very first “hints & tips” sheet handed out at the April 1983 meeting.

The new compilation contains around 430 issues and is available as a download in these more ‘virtual’ times. It costs £7.50 for non-members, whilst members can buy it for the discounted price of £5.00. See https://www.wrocc.org.uk/newsletter for more details.