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 2017-07-19 08:39:56 6352007554ab54254e5997b65a425f8d	Applications and modules of interest to developers. Some of these are unfinished or unsupported and only provided for experimental use.	-	962.2 KB
	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.	-	34.1 KB
	SDCreate 2014-04-24 17:17:38 0a74f70bf5eae74b0e392d28ab65b828	RISC OS tool for putting RISC OS ROM images onto SD cards for things like Beagle Board and Touch Book to boot from.	-	26.8 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.	-	454.6 KB
	System resources 2017-07-19 08:39:56 15acc51c55afa7f6af028ddbab13e2e2	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.	-	1.1 MB
	UnTarBZ2 (self-extracting) 2017-04-07 08:07:48 eaa05d9b9f5836d7e04caf7f38a09a2c	Self-extracting version of the UnTarBZ2 front end and command line (archive decompressor and extractor) tool.	-	263.1 KB

Backdrops 

Icon	Name, date & MD5	Description	Version	Size	Details
	Backdrops (emulators) 2011-11-01 17:09:04 a23ab90c8ed336be3df46f43ac341f5c	The backdrop JPEG images from the "emulate" USB stick, 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	The backdrop JPEG images from the "native" USB stick, encoded at a much higher JPEG quality. This is a SparkFS archive that must be decompressed under RISC OS. This collection completely replaces the original set of images.	-	210.7 MB

Disc based components 

Icon	Name, date & MD5	Description	Version	Size	Details
	HardDisc4 2015-04-19 15:14:54 4a9dd6cd6598de850bc1a2b5540128f0	RISC OS 5.22 stable disc image, including boot sequence and applications. press release for more information. The 'System resources' (above) are also required for users with pre-RISC OS 5 machines.	5.22	11 MB
	HardDisc4 (self-extracting) 2015-04-19 15:17:36 77068e82da2fc0bffc1494b48c6140bc	Self-extracting version of the stable RISC OS 5.22 HardDisc4 tarball image. This contains the same content as the HardDisc4 Zip but decompresses directly on RISC OS. press release for more information. The 'System resources' (above) are also required for users with pre-RISC OS 5 machines.	5.22	15.1 MB
	Nightly Beta HardDisc4 2017-07-19 08:40:01 2cd441a3f3bbf42f7dc4268f910c6052	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.	-	11.1 MB
	Nightly Beta HardDisc4 (self-extracting) 2017-07-19 08:39:59 2e6f22a5e9257378fade74660bed909c	Self-extracting version of the development RISC OS 5 HardDisc4 download. This contains the same content as the HardDisc4 zipfile but can decompresses directly on RISC OS by running it. (Work in progress!) The 'System resources' (above) are also required for users with pre-RISC OS 5 machines.	-	15.4 MB

Documentation 

Icon	Name, date & MD5	Description	Version	Size	Details
	User Guide 2015-06-24 22:44:30 fa3e99046dff08c19ae8e9beef4e1932	RISC OS 3.70 User Guide, provided for reference purposes.	3.70	8.6 MB
	User Guide 2017-06-26 09:15:26 5f10ca7acaeec6805b210069b2ab48d9	RISC OS User Guide. (Work in progress!) This is a draft RISC OS 5 User Guide which is being updated.	-	10.7 MB
	User Guide Tutorials 1994-01-24 08:00:02 1d75e5d69a46cfe4a1a23b79e31dd0ba	Supporting tutorial files referred to in the RISC OS 3.70 User Guide.	3.70	296.3 KB