Recoding the Classics at ROUGOL, Monday 17th January 2022

[ROUGOL]

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

Recoding the Classics
Presented by Jeroen Vermeulen

Monday 17th January 2022, 7:45pm

The Duke of Sussex (upstairs in the 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/


Over the past 18 months Jeroen Vermeulen has ported the five games from
the Raspberry Pi book Coding the Classics across to RISC OS. By using the
original sound and graphics resources produced for the book he has been
able to produce very highly polished games in a short space of time.
Jeroen will be joining us via Zoom to tell us how and why these ports were
produced.

For the first two games the Python/Pygame code used in the book was
converted into BBC BASIC with the help of the AMCOG Development Kit.
Jeroen will talk about how this was achieved and some of the
issues/compromises that had to be made.

After Python3 and Pygame were ported to RISC OS by Chris Johns, the
original code from the book could be used for the other games. However
there was still some porting work to do due to the differences in OS
environment, and Jeroen will go through the changes needed (this section
should be helpful to anyone trying to run Python code from other
platforms).

There will also be a look at how to setup all the components needed to get
Python3/Pygame working on RISC OS and some comparisons of the performance
between the BASIC/Python and RISC OS/Linux versions of the games.

All Jeroen's ports are available on PlingStore, and hopefully by the end
of the talk you will be encouraged to not only give the games a play, but
maybe also be inspired to try writing/porting some games of your own!


This meeting will also be held online via Zoom. Please contact us to
receive a link to the meeting :

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

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


Future Meetings
===============

21 Feb: TBC
21 Mar: GAG News, Herbert zur Nedden


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

RISC OS User Group Of London in...@rougol.jellybaby.net
https://rougol.jellybaby.net/ @rougol 07970 211 629


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