RISC OS Pi

"RISC OS Pi" is the latest official release of RISC OS for the Raspberry Pi. If you are new to RISC OS, take a look at our Welcome to RISC OS Pi wiki pages.

RISC OS Pi is supplied on a specially-branded 2GB micro SD card (or full-size SD card for the original Pi) which has been created and tested by RISC OS Open specifically to avoid the hassle of creating your own bootable card for the Raspberry Pi.

Eben Upton, from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, has the following to say about RISC OS Pi: "Having spent a lot of time in my youth pining over Acorn Archimedes and RiscPC products, it's a great moment for me personally to see an evolved version of the original ARM operating system brought to the Raspberry Pi. From the Foundation's point of view, we welcome the arrival of an alternative desktop environment, offering a rich suite of applications, and with BBC BASIC only a few keystrokes away."

What's included?

• The current edition of the standard RISC OS disc image (see page for details)
• Apps: Director desktop manager, NetSurf web browser, Ovation Pro desktop publishing package, PipeDream combined wordprocessor/database/spreadsheet, StrongEd editor
• Diversions: CountDown maths puzzle, Doku number square puzzle, Poker card game, SuperChain tiles game, SignalBox train layout simulation
• Documents: Quick Start introduction to RISC OS, Beginners Guide to Wimp Programming (Martyn Fox), First Steps in Programming RISC OS Computers (Martyn Fox)
• Printing: PrintPDF direct to Acrobat compatible files
• Programming: StrongHelp hyperlinked manuals, examples in BASIC, the Charm language, DrWimp making desktop programming simpler, PHP scripting, Python 2.7 language, RiscLua port of the Lua language, Routines library for BASIC
• Graphics: ArtWorks read-only viewer, SpecialFX enhancements, DPlngScan convert and edit bitmap images, InterGIF generate animations in GIF format, PrivateEye fast image viewer, SwiftJPEG fast photo viewer, PDF reader
• Utilities: 7backup/7bupstats backup and rescue tools, interactive Periodic table of elements, Snapper screenshot capture, SyncDiscs backup tool, UnTarBZ2 archive decompressor, WinMenu sorting your application collection
• WiFi Manager and drivers for the chips on those models which have built in WiFi
• plus PackMan package manager, PlingStore software catalogue, and 10 bonus fonts

The RISC OS Pi SD card can be yours for just £10 plus P&P.

Micro SD card (for Pi Zero/ZeroW/Zero2W, 1A+/B+, 2B, 3A+/B/B+, 4B, 400, Compute Module 1/3/3+/4)
Full-size SD card (for Pi 1A/B)
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