Software information (Rev #56)

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 – 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)

“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.

• AREncode – compress Replay videos
• ARPlayer – play back Replay videos
• ARWork – Replay work directory
• CDPlayer – plays audio CDs
• Clock – a simple clock display
• Connector – Terminal emulator with XYZModem transfer
• DebugButtn – adds a “debug” button onto error boxes
• DebugTools – additional debugging facilities
• FontEd – Font editor
• FormEd – Wimp template designer
• GateWay – AUN/Econet utility
• MailMan – AUN/Econet email client
• MakeIns – ESP MIDI application
• MakeModes – Monitor definition file creator and editor
• NetMonitor – Econet network packet tracer
• Player – audio sample player
• RealTime – ESP “RealTime” front-end component
• ResCreate – Toolbox object and gadget creator
• ResEd – Toolbox resources editor
• ResTest – Toolbox resources tester
• SrcEdit – Programmer’s text editor
• Territories – modules for a selection of territories, with information on how to use these as a basis for internationalisation
• WinEdit – Wimp template designer
• ZeroPain – diagnostic tool for ROM images with “zero page” memory protection

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
• PineA64Dev – Pinebook 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 (places)
• Backdrops (pi)
• Backdrops (robot)
• HardDisc4
• HardDisc4 (self-extracting)
• Nightly Beta HardDisc4
• Nightly Beta HardDisc4 (self-extracting)
• Stable release candidate of the forthcoming RISC OS 5.30 HardDisc4 image and selected qualifying ROM images
• BBC BASIC Reference Manual – in PDF form
• RISC OS Style Guide – in PDF form
• Technical Publications Style Guide – in PDF form
• RISC OS 5 User Guide – in PDF form

Further information

For more technical information on RISC OS – including details of components not listed above – see the PRM or the GitLab source repository.