Software information (Rev #19, changes)

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

Desktop Applications

• Alarm – Desktop clock and alarm
• ChangeFSI – Image processing and format conversion
• 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

• 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
• SciCalc – Scientific calculator
• SrcEdit – Programmer’s text editor
• Squash – Compress files with Acorn Squash module
• WinEdit – Template editor

• FontPrint – Select printer fonts
• PrintEdit – Edit printer definition files
• Printers – Main printer manager
• T1ToFont – Convert Adobe Type 1 to Acorn font format

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

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

ROM related applications

• CreateSEC – Create self-extracting archives
• SDCreate – Put ROM images onto bootable SD cards
• UnTarBZ2 – Easy .tar.bz2 file extractor GUI
• SparkFS – Read-only multiple format archive decompressor

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?

Modules (Core)

• ARM?
• BASIC105
• BASIC64
• BASICTrans?
• Buffers
• CLib
• DMA
• DualSerial?
• IIC?
• Inter
• IntKey
• MsgTrans
• PCI
• Podule
• RTSupport
• Serial
• SerialSpt
• SerMouse
• TerrMgr
• UK

Modules (FileSys)

• 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

Modules (Network)

• AcornHTTP?
• BBCEconet

Modules (Video)

• Colours
• DrawMod – vector-graphics drawing functions
• Fonts
• Hourglass – provides an “animated hourglass” pointer
• ITable
• ScrBlank – to control screen blanking
• SpriteUtil – sprite-related *Commands
• Super – SWIs for the Font Manager

Modules (Audio)

• Sound0
• SoundCtrl

Modules (Desktop)

• Clipboard
• Desktop
• DragAnObj
• DragASprit
• FilterMgr
• Pinboard
• RedrawMgr
• ShellCLI
• Switcher
• TaskWindow
• Wimp?
• WimpUtils2?

Modules (Debug)

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

Others

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.

• CVS?
• CVS (daily)?
• CVS (monthly)?
• CVS (weekly)?
• BCM2835Dev
• DiscDev
• IOMDHALDev
• OMAP3Dev
• OMAP4Dev
• OMAP5Dev
• TitaniumDev
• TungstenDev
• iMx6Dev

• Beta Beagle ROM?
• Beta Tungsten softload
• Beta OMAP 4 ROM
• RISC OS Pi
• RC5 RISC OS Pico?
• Beta RPi ROM
• RPi ROM stable
• Beta iMx6 ROM
• Beta IOMD softload
• NIC drivers
• RiscPC System resources
• Beta OMAP 5 ROM
• Beta Titanium ROM
• Bonus binaries
• System resources
• HardDisc4
• HardDisc4 (self-extracting)
• Nightly Beta HardDisc4
• Nightly Beta HardDisc4 (self-extracting)

These pages (mentioned on the Downloads pages) have the software version in their page titles, so may need updating when the next stable release occurs:

• Beagle 5.24 stable
• OMAP3 5.24 resources
• Tungsten 5.24 stable (flash prog)
• Tungsten 5.24 stable (softload)
• Tungsten 5.24 resources
• Panda 5.24 stable
• OMAP4 5.24 resources
• RPi 5.24 resources
• IOMD 5.24 stable (flash prog)?
• IOMD 5.24 stable (softload)?
• IOMD 5.24 resources
• Titanium 5.24 stable (flash prog)
• Titanium 5.24 stable (softload)
• Titanium 5.24 resources