RISC OS USB Sticks
RISC OS Open sell two different USB sticks, one is for running RISC OS on an emulator on Windows, Mac and Linux machines, the other is for booting native RISC OS hardware.
RISC OS Emulator Stick
The 'Emulate' USB stick includes:
- a pre-built RISC OS emulator, RPCemu, for Windows and Mac - plus full source code
- source code for RPCemu for Linux
- the RISC OS 5 operating system
- a boot sequence and other disc-based tools and applications
- a range of third-party software, including StrongED, AWViewer, SparkFS (R/O) and more
- full source code for RISC OS and related software
- a number of other goodies
This stick is FAT formatted. RPCEmu is compatible with Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8, Mac OS X 10.5 ("Leopard"), 10.6 ("Snow Leopard"), 10.7 ("Lion" [*]) and 10.8 ("Mountain Lion" [*]), or 32-bit and 64-bit Linux (32-bit Ubuntu 10 or later recommended), on computers using Intel or Intel-compatible (e.g. AMD) processors only.
RISC OS Native Stick
The 'Native' USB stick includes:
- the RISC OS 5 operating system
- a boot sequence and other disc-based tools and applications
- a range of third-party software, including StrongED, AWViewer, SparkFS (R/O) and more
- full source code for RISC OS and related software
- a number of other goodies
This stick is Filecore formatted so it will only work directly in and may be used to boot up a RISC OS computer (e.g. Beagleboard, PandaBoard, Raspberry Pi, etc.).
Related downloads
Please see this page for extra resources related to the above products.
[*] Important note for OS X 10.7.5 "Lion" or OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion" users
When Apple released the OS X Mountain Lion operating system they introduced a new security feature called "Gatekeeper". This was later added to OS X Lion in the 10.7.5 update. To launch RPCEmu for the first time on a Mac which includes Gatekeeper, you will need to follow the instructions given on this Apple information page in the section "How to open an app from a unidentified developer and exempt it from Gatekeeper". Thereafter, you should be able to start RPCEmu like any other application installed on your system.
