Software information (Rev #27)

These pages provide basic information on released RISC OS components, together with some instructions on usage.

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
• Maestro – Musical score authoring package
• OmniClient – Network file transfer client
• 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 – Printer manager

Utilities

• Access+ – Acorn Access file-sharing
• ChangeFSI – Image processing and format conversion
• HForm – Formatter for native FileCore format discs
• Patch apply or remove patches from applications
• ResetBoot – reset !Boot.Choices directory to factory defaults
• 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 utility
• InetSetup – Network configuration utility
• SysMerge – System merge utility

• PrintDefs – Printer definition files for !Printers
• Screen savers – Desktop screen savers (falling snow, scrolling text etc.)

Additional utilities

Available with selected ROM builds

• SDCreate – Put ROM images onto bootable SD cards (BeagleBoard/PandaBoard/iMx6)
• ZeroPain – “zero page” diagnostic tool

“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
• DebugButtn – adds a “debug” button onto error boxes
• DebugTools – additional debugging facilities
• FontEd – Font editor
• GateWay – AUN/Econet utility
• MakeModes – Monitor definition file creator and editor
• Territories – modules for a selection of territories, with information on how to use these as a basis for internationalisation
• 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 two utilities are only available as source code.

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

Builds available from the “Downloads” page

These information pages are linked from the Downloads pages. They 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

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 from the wiki: 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?

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