Miscellaneous downloads

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

There are the standard disc based components (‘HardDisc4 image’) which partner the main operating system, bonus high resolution backdrop images, ancillary software and utilities, plus a selection of published documentation.

Ancillary downloads 

Icon	Name, date & MD5	Description	Version	Size	Details
	Bonus binaries 2021-05-16 07:02:38 1ba37694c3f1d9f7f3706155c6bdeae6	Applications and modules of interest to developers. Some of these are unfinished or unsupported and only provided for experimental use. (Work in progress!)	-	1.1 MB
	CreateSEC (self-extracting) 2021-04-12 06:54:38 e74848350076f379628a5e4afd196849	Self-extracting version of the CreateSEC front end and command line (self-extracting archive creator) tool.	1.05	31.9 KB
	SparkFS (self-extracting) 2020-07-19 06:51:12 1f61a487b05069059f09d60d1ac44faf	Self-extracting, read-only version of the SparkFS application, for accessing the contents of various archive formats.	1.46	457.1 KB
	System resources 2021-05-16 07:02:26 11d92d64937692e524f7acf798a82861	Distribution of !System extension modules for use with pre-RISC OS 5 machines. This must be merged with the main HardDisc4 download (below) as it contains selected modules to update or supplement the ROM operating system. Not required for RISC OS 5; these modules are already provided by default.	-	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 2020-10-19 11:43:32 931eeb47ab12eebef35c4e0b425e1ec7	RISC OS 5.28 stable disc image, including boot sequence and applications. See our press release for more information.	5.28	12.3 MB
	HardDisc4 (self-extracting) 2020-10-19 11:44:58 36bd065fa72d681824e24255d94d6fb9	Self-extracting version of the stable RISC OS 5.28 disc image. Contains the same files as the Zip, but can be decompressed by running it as type 'Utility'. See our press release for more information.	5.28	16.7 MB
	Nightly Beta HardDisc4 2021-05-16 07:03:41 8fd528024a498db8698c7035f0bc32ca	RISC OS 5 disc image (zipfile format), including boot sequence and applications. (Work in progress!)	-	12.2 MB
	Nightly Beta HardDisc4 (self-extracting) 2021-05-16 07:03:14 b45b2e18b5196ad0e566d83315f24570	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!)	-	16.7 MB

Documentation 

Icon	Name, date & MD5	Description	Version	Size	Details
	BBC BASIC Reference Manual 2021-02-22 08:19:34 a416d0b56b65efc25ff8c04b10ec059f	Full details on the popular programming language built into RISC OS, with worked examples and every keyword explained. See page ii for terms of use. Also available in print.	3	1.4 MB
	RISC OS Style Guide 2016-04-12 20:18:06 8fa724e99d8e74fbffe08fbce3cd3f0f	How to write applications that are a pleasure to use and fit in with the rest of the RISC OS desktop. See page ii for terms of use. Also available in print.	3	1.2 MB
	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. See page ii for terms of use.	3	572.3 KB