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Subject: Re: Vintage Computer Festival Europa 01. / 02. / 03. May 2026 in Munich
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In article <ae2362d45c.JF@freak67>,
   <ffrreeaakk@ffrreeaakkmmaaiill6677.ddee> wrote:
> In Nachricht <5cd431973calexander.ausserstorfer@eclipso.at>
> Alexander Ausserstorfer <alexander.ausserstorfer@eclipso.at> haben
> Sie geschrieben:

> > https://www.vcfe.org/D/

> > Do you have any ideas what I could show or demonstrate there?

> > VCFe 24.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNxjy2VwMcQ

> > VCFe 23.0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAC49NU_meg

> Hallo Alexander,

> good demonstration is always to show the desktop and the RISC
> OS-concept itself: Drag&Drop, context sensitive menus, the funtion
> of the 3-button-mouse etc.

> Graphic-Demos are always popular, but showing an "office"-suite
> like e.g. fireworks or "productive" programs like Techwriter,
> Artworks etc. is impressive too. (list above could be extend, of
> course...)

> Programs or Demos programmed in BASIC could show, how fast the
>  system is.

Chris Dewhurst's excellent WIMP library can be used to write programs
that run in the desktop. All library definitions are written in BASIC
and their coding described in "The Application Tutorial and Listings
Book". 

> Or enumarate the hardware, RISC OS could run on (Archimedes,
> RiscPC, A4, A9, Iyonix, Pi, Beagleboard, Pandaboard, Titanium,
> Wandboard...)

Richard