The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London will be:

New 5tuff
Presented by Andrew Rawnsley, R-Comp

Monday 21st July 2025, 7:45pm

The Duke of Sussex
(upstairs in the Chichester or Petworth Room from 6.30pm)
23 Baylis Road, London, SE1 7AY
https://rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

Also online via Zoom, meeting open from 7.30pm

https://rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/


This month we are delighted that Andrew Rawnsley will be joining us from
R-Comp towers to talk about their latest hardware and software releases.

We will be starting with a look at the latest developments with NVMe and
the block device drivers. Then Andrew will go through the many features of
the multi headed Hydra machine, which has recently gained new head
options. That leads nicely onto ...

The newest members in their range of machines are the 5idekick and
pi5erve. Neither of these are native RISC OS machines, as they both use
the Raspberry Pi 5 compute module which is a 64bit system, but are instead designed to supplement an existing RO setup. However, by using Timothy Baldwin's RISC OS on Linux developments, it is also possible to use both 5ystems to run RISC OS applications faster than ever before.

The 5idekick is a small form factor machine running Linux that can be controlled from your RISC OS desktop to run things not available for RO,
such as Firefox or LibreOffice, and access Pi hardware devices. Files can
be shared between the two environments, or cut n paste used for transfer between applications. The pi5erve has all the features of 5idekick and
adds multiple SSD drives to form a RISC OS friendly NAS with RAID
security.

On the software front there were many releases at the RO North show
earlier this year, including the latest versions of PhotoDesk and
MessengerPro, and updates to games such as Heretic and Hexen for modern
hires platforms.

All in all, lots of 5tuff to cover!


Forthcoming meetings
====================

Mon 18 Aug: Econet ArcElite, Mark Moxon
Mon 15 Sep: Book Publishing with Ovation Pro, Gavin Crawford
Mon 20 Oct: RISCOSbits pre-show teaser
Sat 25 Oct: The RISC OS London Show
Mon 17 Nov: Pyromaniac update, Gerph


Directions to the venue by car (there is parking directly outside the pub
on Coral Street) and public transport (recommended!) are on the website:

https://rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

Or contact us to receive the Zoom link to the meeting:

https://rougol.jellybaby.net/contacts/

If you have attended any previous meeting, it's the same link this month.

If you need any further information, please contact us as below.

RISC OS User Group Of London rougol2025@helpful-demon.co.uk https://rougol.jellybaby.net/ @rougol.bsky.social 07970 211 629


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