According to the BAUG (prn. "borg") archives, the inaugural meeting happened on 23rd February 1982 in a house in Bottisham. The three founding members had had their BBC Micros on order since September 1981, and they didn't arrive until April 1982! Unless you know otherwise, this makes BAUG the oldest Acorn User Group in the world.

You may have spotted the new My RISC OS banner on this site.

It's available for you to use on your own sites too! - click the banner when you see it for more details.

The Wakefield RISCOS Computer Club (organisers of Wakefield 2002, The Acorn RISC OS Show) are pleased to announce that we now have a new Internet Domain name.

The new domain for the club and the club website is http://www.wrocc.org.uk/

Just noticed an article at Slashdot about a ROX Desktop Update.

There are a fair number of comments from people who seem to like it as well.

Note: ROX Desktop is a desktop based around a filer - the RISC OS filer!

The next meeting of the Hemel Hempstead RISC OS User Group (HHRUG) will take place on Wednesday 20 Feb.

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER - PAUL MIDDLETON FROM RISC OS LTD.

Everyone is welcome.

Consult the website (http://www.hhrug.org.uk) for more information.

Goodward Associates and 4-sale-gb.com would like to announce their great new way of advertising on the net.

They provide a quick and simple way to place your classified adverts.

Although they do have a small fee to place your adverts, they currently offer all their services for FREE!

Note: Best of all, they are RISC OS converts too!

BAUG (prn. "borg"), the Bottisham Acorn User Group, will be meeting on Tuesday 12th February to take a look at programming in WIMP Basic. This is a second look at Clares's excellent desktop programming environment.

Note: We will not be assimilated ;)

RISCOS Ltd have announced that RISC OS is to get the embedded treatement and that work is well underway for ARM7500 and SA1100 chipsets.

The first machine to have this technology on board is being developed by Castle for their Neuron product.

After a period of confusion Paul Middleton, managing director of RISCOS Ltd, has stated categorically that VirtualAcorn is not "a legally licensed product"

Note: While MyRISCOS may carry this story, it may not reflect the views of either MyRISCOS or the moderator of this article. There is a certain degree of confusion over VA having a licenced copy of OS 3.11 (from Pace) or having an agreement with Pace for 3.11 (this amounts to the same, but doesn't cost as much)

Not really RISC OS, but...

On ZDnet there's a bit of Info about this at LinuxWorld.

A colour screen, a 206MHz Intel StrongARM processor, a tiny pull-out keyboard, rechargeable batteries, CompactFlash and Secure Digital expansion slots, and 64MB of memory

I wonder if it would run RISC OS? Oh! Wait! That's RON isn't it!

For those of you that were waiting ...

Dear RISC OS Select User,

The first Kinetic enabled version of the first Select ROM image is now available for download from the Web Site. This version is also suitable for standard Risc PC and A7000 users and contains all the latest updates and fixes.

Don't all rush at once!

Cerilica is proud to announce that its brand-new software product Insignia has been officially released and is now in stock.

The Wakefield RISCOS Computer Club are pleased to announce that Chris Morison, author of the excellent desktop organiser program "Organizer" for RISC OS, will be our guest speaker for February.

Meetings are held at the West Yorkshire Sports & Social Club, Sandal in Wakefield. The venue has free parking and visitors are welcome (for a minimal fee). Meetings start at around 7:45pm.

For more information about the club, or how to get to the venue, visit the Club website.

In the fifth year of their presence at the HobbyTronic in Dortmund, Germany the Arche - Acorn User Club e. V. will be there for the first time having their own stand [14 x 6 = 84 m²].
The enthusiasts are going to represent the RISC OS scene and will show the latest news to interested visitors.

According to the Select website (password required)

The Wakefield Acorn Computer Group has recently changed its name to "Wakefield RISCOS Computer Club". After a debate at the AGM in January, the members voted to change the name to reflect the new era of our faviourite computer platform.

The Wakefield Show will be held on Saturday and Sunday 18th and 19th of May 2002. Opening times will be 10:30-17:30 and 10:30-16:00 on Saturday and Sunday respectively.

Please note it in your diaries now!

This announcement has been delayed partly due to several organisers' work committments and the recent sad loss of Mike Wilson who was our publicity officer. Companies or shareware authors interested in taking space at the show should now contact the address below.

From CSA.Announce:

The Acorn version of DA's Picture from Digital Arts is now officially declared 'Freeware'. The program was released in 1994. It is an 24 Bit image processor and will work on RISC OS 3.5 or higher (it has been tested with RISC OS 4.24 and StrongARM processor). The program is released as it is - there will be no further development.