We are delighted to confirm that both Steve and Jack are able to come to give this presentation.
They will be talking about the RISC OS Shared Source Initiative which was launched in 2006 to make source code for RISC OS freely available.
Jack will hopefully also be demonstrating the latest version of RISC OS 5 running on the IYONIX, and talking about what is available in the IYONIX range.
It should be a good introduction to Risc OS Open and hopefully their plans for the future of our favourite platform. Please make this a well supported talk.
Reported by Gareth
September saw our Treasurer Tony, return from a period of illness to deliver
a talk on "1000 years of the British Royal Family".
The data was presented as slides using Pipedream and 35 line lists which fit
perfectly on an A4 page, together with graphics depicting Royal Coats of
Arms and Family Trees.
The introductory slide informed us of numerous interesting facts... in the
past 1000 years there have been 45 Kings and 6 Queens ruling over Great
Britain in 9 Royal Houses. Queen Victoria did not speak English till she
was 3 years old and more.
The Royal Houses slide provided information on the Royal Houses and how they
originated, from Anglo Saxon times following the withdrawal of the Romans,
through the House of Windsor and the present day.
The Lineage slide presented us with the Kings/Queens separated into the
Houses chronologically from 943AD to the present day together with date of
birth, death and period of rule and the Father.
The Major Event slide listed important events from 1016 to Present including
the Battle of Hastings, Cromwell as Lord Protector, the Bolsheviks murdering
the Romanovs through to the death of Princess Diana.
The Children slide showed the various Royals, and their offspring who became
King or Queen together with various facts, with listings from 1020 to
present.
Violent End listed the Kings and Queens who have met untimely, violent
deaths. These included Harold II, killed at the Battle of Hastings by
William the Conqueror. Edward II, brutally murdered by a sadistic assassin,
and of course the beheaded of two of Henry VIII's wives.
JPEGs were shown, and printouts passed around of the complicated family
trees... and the Royal Coats of Arms, which showed how they got more
detailed as the years progressed.
A very interesting talk with some lively discussion, we are glad to have you
back Tony!
Gareth
I'm very sorry I missed this talk as I was away on holiday. Tony obviously has a very keen interest in his subject and put a great amount of time and effort into this talk. Gareth has passed me a PDF file of scanned images of Tony's tables. I am hoping to obtain the originals from Tony. In the mean time I have appended the PDF file to the Newsletter although the pages in it are not quite in the right order.
I received an interesting email from Paul Beverley which I just thought you'd like to know about.
"Morning Peter
I didn't manage to get down to join you guys often when I *was* the editor of Archive, but now I've retired, maybe it would be more realistic to take me off the mailing list.
By 'retired', I don't mean actually retired - I'm having to work harder now if anything with the freelance work I'm doing. But I enjoy it, so I'm *certainly* not complaining. :-)
Give my regards to the folks when you next see them.
All the best,
Paul
Paul Beverley (Archive Publications) - Advanced Member, SfEP
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Paul,
I will reply here in lieu of an email and as you *are * still on the mailing list at the moment and you will still receive it.
We thank you for those times you were able to visit us. You will always be welcome if you get a chance in future to visit us. I consider that your contribution to the "Acorn/Risc OS Community " over the years has been considerable and you have given voice to such an amazing variety of contributors. I am sure it has kept the spirit of the community alive.
I also remember sitting in "The Lord Nelson" in Ipswich with you and Paul Skirrow when he suggested it could be a good idea to start such a magazine as Living with Technology and although it did not reach profitable status for you, it was a very worthwhile venture and contains some very useful information. I put this in the present tense since Living with Technology is still a useful reference source for all sorts of modern gadgetry.
I know Archive will continue well under Jim Nagel whose articles on Acorn and Risc OS I often read in Computer Shopper years ago. Sometimes that was the main reason to buy it!
So I would like to wish you well in your change of career and that you continue to enjoy it.
PS. I don't mind leaving you on the mailing list, however maybe to reduce your downloads I can convert you to the notification of the "Newsletter is now available online" list. Perhaps I could put Jim on the full text version instead.
| 2007 | ||
| October 3rd | The Risc OS Open Initiative | Steve Revill and Jack Lillingston |
| November 7th | What is a server? - (Microsoft based) | Michael |
| December 5th | Gadgets and party evening | All |
| 2008 | ||
| January | Social evening TBA | All |
| February 6th | "Vector Artware and Artworks" | Frank |
| March 5th | "iLife08 Managing your digital world" | Gareth |
| April 2nd | AGM + TBA | All |
Talks with Visiting speakers are shown in Red. We will give more details as soon as they are confirmed. We are having a committee meeting this month to revise our programme so the above topics will probably change.
Our meetings are held at the Bourne Vale Social Club, Halifax Road, Ipswich IP2 8RE , for a map and other details please see the website. http://icenicomputerclub.users.btopenworld.com
The first visit is free and subsequent visits for non - members is £2·50. The membership fee is £20 due from the AGM date in April, but may be reduced for those joining late in the year.
Continuing our publicity for EAUG events - please see their Website for details of their next meeting.
| 9th October 2007 | "Artworks + ?" | |
| 13th November 2007 | "Film scanning revisited" | |
| 11th December 2007 | "Xmas Special" | |
| 14th January 2008 | "What I got for Xmas" | |
| 12th February 2008 | "Sat Nav Loaded" |
Meetings are at the Great Baddow Village Hall, on the second Tuesday of the month
opening at 7:30 p.m. for a start at 7:45 - 8:00 p.m.
For directions see below (note the new web addresses)
http://www.eaug.org.uk or 'phone one of the contacts on http://www.eaug.org.uk/ppl.htm
"ICENI does not have any Insurance cover for computers or other equipment so please be advised that you bring machines to the club at your own risk."
P.S. My insurance company have added my computer cover away from home with no extra premium required, yours might do the same.(Ed.)
If anyone would like a copy of the CD of our old newsletters this could be arranged.
I am open to suggestions on what people would like to have included in the website.
Our website URL is
http://icenicomputerclub.users.btopenworld.com as a virtual domain,
it can also be reached using http://www.btinternet.com/~icenicomputerclub
Email to: iceni@woolridge.org.uk