Software information (Rev #23)

These files provide basic information on released RISC OS components, together with some instructions on usage, known issues, etc.

Applications in the standard RISC OS distribution

Desktop Applications

• Alarm – Desktop clock and alarm
• Chars – Character code finder
• CloseUp – Desktop magnifier (variable zoom)
• Draw – A fully featured vector graphics editor
• Edit – Simple desktop text editor
• Help – Interactive floating help messages
• HForm – Formatter for native FileCore format discs
• Maestro – Musical score authoring package
• Paint – A bitmap image editor
• SciCalc – Scientific calculator
• Squash – Compress files with Acorn Squash module

Desktop Diversions

• Blocks – “Falling blocks” game
• Flasher – Makes the caret flash
• Hopper – “Help the frog cross the road” game
• Madness – Moves all windows on the screen
• MemNow – Displays available memory
• Meteors – “Destroy space junk” game
• MineHunt – “Find mines hidden in grid” game
• Patience – Desktop card game
• Puzzle – Sliding-block puzzle game

Printing

• FontPrint – Select printer fonts
• PrintEdit – Edit printer definition files
• Printers – Main printer manager

Utilities

• ChangeFSI – Image processing and format conversion
• Patch apply or remove patches from applications
• ShowScrap – display the contents of the “Scrap” directory
• SparkFS – Read-only multiple format archive decompressor
• T1ToFont – Convert Adobe Type 1 to Acorn font format
• Usage – show CPU usage for each active task

Boot Sequence

• Configure – System configuration
• BootSetup – Boot configuration plugin
• DiscSetup – Discs configuration plugin
• FilrSetup – Filer configuration plugin
• FontSetup – Fonts configuration plugin
• HelpSetup – Help configuration plugin
• InetSetup – Network configuration plugin
• KbdSetup – Keyboard configuration plugin
• LockSetup – Lock configuration plugin
• MousSetup – Mouse configuration plugin
• PinSetup – Pinboard configuration plugin
• ScrnSetup – Screen configuration plugin
• SndSetup – Sound configuration plugin
• TimeSetup – Time and date configuration plugin
• WindSetup? – Windows configuration plugin

• PrintDefs – Printer definition files for !Printers
• SysMerge – System merge utility

Screen Savers

• AcornLogo?
• Circles?
• Deskball?
• Pogo?
• Rain?
• Random?
• Scrbounce?
• Scrolling?
• Shred?
• Slider?
• Smear?
• Snow?
• Swarm?

Additional utilities

Available via PackMan

These utilities are not in the standard HardDisc4 image, but are available via PackMan.

• SDCreate – Put ROM images onto bootable SD cards (BeagleBoard/PandaBoard)

“Bonus binaries” package

These applications appear in the Bonus binaries package on the Miscellaneous downloads page. They are provided “as-is”, and have had little or no testing, lack internationalisation, or are deficient in some other way.

• Connector – Terminal emulator with XYZModem transfer
• FontEd – Font editor
• GateWay – AUN/Econet utility
• MakeModes – Monitor definition file creator and editor
• ResCreate – Toolbox object and gadget creator
• ResEd – Toolbox resources editor
• ResTest – Toolbox resources tester
• SrcEdit – Programmer’s text editor
• WinEdit – Template editor

Source code only

At present, these utilities are only available in source code form.

• GetClip – Global clipboard demonstration
• PutClip – Global clipboard demonstration

Builds available from the “Downloads” page

These information pages are relevant in the context of the main software section but are listed here so that the Wiki has references to them, rather than thinking they are orphan pages. There would be a risk of accidental deletion otherwise.

Source code tarballs

• BCM2835Dev – Raspberry Pi source code
• IOMDHALDev – Risc PC source code
• OMAP3Dev – OMAP3 (BeagleBoard) source code
• OMAP4Dev – OMAP4 (PandaBoard) source code
• OMAP5Dev – OMAP5 source code
• TitaniumDev – Titanium source code
• TungstenDev – Iyonix source code
• iMx6Dev – i.Mx6 source code
• DiscDev – Development HardDisc4 source code

Hardware-specific downloads

• Beta Beagle ROM?
• Beagle 5.24 stable
• OMAP3 5.24 resources

• Beta Tungsten softload – Iyonix
• Tungsten 5.24 stable (flash prog)
• Tungsten 5.24 stable (softload)
• Tungsten 5.24 resources

• Beta OMAP 4 ROM – PandaBoard
• Panda 5.24 stable
• OMAP4 5.24 resources

• RISC OS Pi – Raspberry Pi SD Card image, with bonus applications
• RC5 RISC OS Pico? – Cut-down ROM (no GUI) for Raspberry Pi
• Beta RPi ROM – Raspberry Pi beta ROM
• RPi ROM stable – Raspberry Pi stable ROM
• RPi 5.24 resources

• Beta iMx6 ROM – for WandBoard

• Beta IOMD softload – Beta Risc PC ROM
• NIC drivers – for Risc PC
• IOMD 5.24 stable (flash prog)?
• IOMD 5.24 stable (softload)?
• IOMD 5.24 resources
• RiscPC System resources

• Beta OMAP 5 ROM

• Beta Titanium ROM
• Titanium 5.24 stable (flash prog)
• Titanium 5.24 stable (softload)
• Titanium 5.24 resources

Miscellaneous downloads

• Bonus binaries
• CreateSEC – Create self-extracting archives
• SparkFS (self-extracting)
• System resources
• UnTarBZ2(self-extracting)
• Backdrops (emulators)
• Backdrops (native)
• HardDisc4
• HardDisc4 (self-extracting)
• Nightly Beta HardDisc4
• Nightly Beta HardDisc4 (self-extracting)

ROM modules

These pages detail some – but not all – of the modules found in the RISC OS system ROM. For the most part they repeat information mentioned elsewhere (e.g. in the PRM or on the GitLab source repository). As such they are candidates for deletion: do NOT rely on their continued existence!

• ARM? – control ARM CPU settings
• BASIC105 – BBC BASIC V interpreter
• BASIC64 – BBC BASIC VI interpreter
• BASICTrans? – allows translation of BASIC messages
• Buffers – buffer management
• CLib – ANSI C library routines
• DMA – Direct Memory Access
• DualSerial?
• IIC?
• Inter – provides *Keyboard and *Alphabet commands
• IntKey – mapping of keys to character codes
• MsgTrans – Allow internationalisation of messages in programs
• PCI – common services for PCI device drivers
• Podule – support for podule expansion cards
• RTSupport
• Serial
• SerialSpt – implements legacy SWI OS_SerialOp
• SerMouse – supports a mouse connected via the serial port
• TerrMgr – internationalisation via territory modules
• UK – the UK territory module

• ADFS? – Advanced Disc Filing System
• ADFSFiler? – Filer front-end for ADFS
• ATAPI? – ATAPI driver for CDFS
• CDFS – CD-ROM filing system
• CDFSDriver – hardware drivers for CDFS
• CDFSFiler – Filer front-end for CDFS
• DeviceFS – standardised interface to device drivers
• DOSFS – an image filing system for DOS (FAT12/FAT16) format discs.
• FileCore – core services for a filing system
• Filer – displays a graphical representation of a filesystem structure
• FilerSWIs – additional SWIs for Filer_Action
• FileSwitch – a common set of functions for all filing systems
• Free – interactive free space display on the desktop
• PipeFS – functionality for the *PipeCopy command
• RAMFS – RAM-based filing system
• RAMFSFiler – Filer front-end for RAMFS
• ResFiler – Filer front-end for ResourceFS
• ResourceFS – the “Resources:” filing system
• SCSIFS – SCSI Filing System

• AcornHTTP?
• BBCEconet

• Colours – choose best approximation to desired colour
• DrawMod – vector-graphics drawing functions
• FontManager – outline font manager
• ROMFonts – fonts used by ROM-based modules
• Hourglass – provides an “animated hourglass” pointer
• ITable – generate lookup tables for 256-colour modes
• ScrBlank – to control screen blanking
• SpriteUtil – sprite-related *Commands
• Super – SWIs for the Font Manager

• Sound0 – SWI calls for the sound system
• SoundCtrl – manages audio mixer settings

• Clipboard – global cut and paste
• Desktop – initialise the desktop display
• DragAnObj – drag object using mouse pointer
• DragASprit – drag sprite using mouse pointer
• FilterMgr – allows for interception of Wimp_Poll messages to/from a task
• Pinboard – allow objects to be attached to the desktop background
• RedrawMgr – screen redraw facilities
• ShellCLI – invokes a command shell
• Switcher – a.k.a. Task Manager
• TaskWindow – allow preemptive scheduling of non-Wimp programs
• Wimp? – windows, icons, menus and pointers
• WimpUtils2?

• DebugButtn
• DebugTools
• HeapUtils
• MemInfo
• SysLoad
• TrapError
• UnSqzAIF
• WatchAbort?
• WatchUserSWIs?