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 2020-11-29 05:50:58 25a5ff0fd6c2063795e47746c73ebb42	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) 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 2020-11-29 05:50:48 e540d5ae72342c6b072c05c82c0ae021	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 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. The 'System resources' (above) are also required for users with pre-RISC OS 5 machines.	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. The 'System resources' (above) are also required for users with pre-RISC OS 5 machines.	5.28	16.7 MB
	Nightly Beta HardDisc4 2020-11-29 05:51:58 6b17d6dc440c20827d6fc7e85b2e7dcb	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) 2020-11-29 05:51:31 ded8e20f9d9ea8c90afd97a49d5928a7	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
	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.	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