Miscellaneous downloads

These are software resources for RISC OS that work on any RISC OS 5 platform.

Information about downloading hard disc images for booting and so-on is due to be added here soon.

Ancillary downloads 

Icon	Name, date & MD5	Description	Version	Size	Details
	Bonus binaries 2020-05-24 06:46:43 86653e8d8e35cbac39acf9e29611f0e9	Applications and modules of interest to developers. (Work in progress!) Some of these are unfinished or unsupported and only provided for experimental use.	-	1 MB
	CreateSEC (self-extracting) 2014-04-24 17:03:20 a10462098a2b60e7c143ddc6781d5220	Self-extracting version of the CreateSEC front end and command line (self-extracting archive creator) tool.	1.03	34.1 KB
	SparkFS (self-extracting) 2016-03-04 21:26:12 94554933f1f02e1963a89c99b2a725fd	Self-extracting, read-only version of the SparkFS application, for accessing the contents of various archive formats.	1.44	454.6 KB
	System resources 2020-05-24 06:46:35 3f58aad73daa791222452bfdaf1dab52	Distribution of !System for use with pre-RISC OS 5 machines. RISC OS 5 users should just download HardDisc4 as it contains the complete boot sequence.	-	1.2 MB
	UnTarBZ2 (self-extracting) 2019-08-23 08:38:35 fb05573d57ae22179a17084512defb88	Self-extracting version of the UnTarBZ2 front end and command line (archive decompressor and extractor) tool.	1.11	263.7 KB

Backdrops 

Icon	Name, date & MD5	Description	Version	Size	Details
	Backdrops (emulators) 2011-11-01 17:09:04 a23ab90c8ed336be3df46f43ac341f5c	Extra backdrop JPEG images, to be decompressed by your host operating system and moved into the HostFS folder for accessing under RPCEmu.	-	209 MB
	Backdrops (native) 2011-11-01 17:16:50 9f5b8cb31d4a71f019dba561a5691e47	Extra backdrop JPEG images, encoded at a much higher JPEG quality than provided in the User Guide examples. This is a SparkFS archive that must be decompressed under RISC OS.	-	210.7 MB

Disc based components 

Icon	Name, date & MD5	Description	Version	Size	Details
	HardDisc4 2018-12-10 14:12:50 1f7fdce92d7a98c230019c1bd4a16e29	RISC OS 5.24 stable disc image, including boot sequence and applications. See press release for more information. The 'System resources' (above) are also required for users with pre-RISC OS 5 machines.	5.24	12 MB
	HardDisc4 (self-extracting) 2018-04-15 09:17:26 000ceaac653efb97f2c0578fc8fcd851	Self-extracting version of the stable RISC OS 5.24 disc image. Contains the same files as the Zip, but can be decompressed by running it as type 'Utility'. See press release for more information. The 'System resources' (above) are also required for users with pre-RISC OS 5 machines.	5.24	16.3 MB
	Nightly Beta HardDisc4 2020-05-24 06:47:38 a4140710e92be9edc052239de0966e2f	RISC OS 5 disc image (zipfile format), including boot sequence and applications. (Work in progress!) The 'System resources' (above) are also required for users with pre-RISC OS 5 machines.	-	12.2 MB
	Nightly Beta HardDisc4 (self-extracting) 2020-05-24 06:47:14 f84886303fa0dde5604dde4101686558	Self-extracting version of the development RISC OS 5 HardDisc4 download. Contains the same files as the Zip, but can be decompressed by running it as type 'Utility'. (Work in progress!) The 'System resources' (above) are also required for users with pre-RISC OS 5 machines.	-	16.7 MB

Documentation 

Icon	Name, date & MD5	Description	Version	Size	Details
	Technical Publications Style Guide 2018-02-22 18:53:08 5fda863ab88c39d36cc93cf7b9b69d30	The set of rules we follow when writing the books documenting RISC OS for programmers and end users alike.	3	572.3 KB
	User Guide 2020-05-23 18:25:47 15f0b148586094feea8bfdac2439cdfb	RISC OS User Guide. (Work in progress!) This is a draft RISC OS 5 User Guide which is being updated.	-	11.5 MB
	User Guide 2018-04-02 09:51:30 e795071c7f9dd3b84d36ae7826f3b12a	RISC OS User Guide. See page ii for distribution information, also available in printed form and from booksellers.	5.24	11 MB