The WROCC Vol 41 Issue 9 Out Now

The December 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 look at problems with the Real Time Clock on the Pinebook Pro when coexisting alongside Manjaro Linux, along with what can be done to prevent damage to RiscPCs and A7000s from leaking clock batteries. There’s a look at installing AltKeys on a Pinebook Pro, and a project involving RiscOSM, mapping archives and signalboxes. The discussion about the command line continues with *Echo, and a member looks back at some of the latest technology from 25 years ago.

The delayed November issue came out earlier in the week, and contained a report on our July meeting, when Andrew Rawnsley showed us how he uses RISC OS and Windows side by side, whilst also looking at a way to make Linux and RISC OS work together on a PiRO Qube. There’s a detailed look at setting up NetFetch or Hermes to work with multiple email accounts in a DMARC-friendly way, we re-visit the question of command line aliases from October, and in a continuation of our ongoing series of what-ifs, consider what might have been if only the A3010 had been a success in the games market after all.

Between them, the two issues contain 32 pages and over 13,500 words on subjects relating to RISC OS or WROCC. See https://www.wrocc.org.uk/newsletter for more details of recent issues, and to download samples of older ones.

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.

The Wakefield Back Catalogue Issue 13

Relaunched following the completion of Volume 40 of The WROCC in April 2023, the thirteenth 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 440 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.