Paul Vigay's comprehensive RISC OS links page

Tue 26th Oct 1999
(594 links)

ACORN SYSTEMS USED IN REAL LIFE & INTERESTING APPLICATIONS (5)

Jobs Vacant - Job Vacancies specifically for the Acorn/RISC OS market
AVS/Omnibus Systems - Manufacturers of advanced computer graphics and post-production equipment
Icon Multimedia - Audio/Visual systems (Spanish site)
KITT Engineering - MIMIC, Media and Exhibition Control Systems
X-Ample Technology - Authors of CueMaster, teleprompter for professional use

BULLETIN BOARDS (4)

Arcade BBS - The Best Acorn BBS!
CC14 - Hull/London BBS run by James Lawson, Gareth Babb & Ron Morgan
Heaven - WWW BBS run by James Coates
The Plasma Sphere - North of England BBS run by Keith Hall

COMMERCIAL COMPANIES (53)

RISC OS Ltd - Top of the list because they are 'Top'! - Homepage of the Worlds best Operating System
Abacus Training - PipeDream & Fireworkz support
Acorn Computers Group - Inventors of the Worlds' Best Computers
The Acorn CyberVillage - Excellent resource centre.
Acorn User Magazine - The main newsagent magazine for Acorn owners.
AF Software - Authors of WinRisc.
Aleph 1 - Makers of PC cards and Physiological Instruments
Alsystems - Acorn dealer and developer of the Power-Tec range of products.
Alternative Publishing Ltd. - Authors of ImageFS2
ANT Limited home page - Authors of the best Acorn Internet suite.
Archive's Home Page - The best subscription magazine for Acorn owners.
Atomwide - Acorn education agents and makers of fast serial cards
Avie Electronics - eMate Connectivity and Acorn Repairs
Beebug - Old established Acorn dealer and Publishers of OvationPro and Sleuth
Castle Technology - Makers of Acorn's RISC OS based computers
Cerilica - Risc OS software developers - authors of the forthcoming Project Avante
Circle Software - Authors of Impact relational database
Clares Micro Supplies - One of the oldest established Acorn software houses.
Cumana - Acorn dealers and CD Rom manufacturers
Dalriada - Producers of Risc OS desktop publishing utilities
DanSoft Developments - Authors of WebFX3D and SiteWriter.
The DataStore - One of the oldest established Acorn dealers in Kent
Dial Solutions - Authors of My World and Apollonius.
ECS - Electronic Control Systems - Authors of NewSaver
Eesox - CD Rom hardware and software development for Risc OS
Fabis Computing - Home of EasyFont, Recycler etc
Feldner & Braun Software - Authors of technical and scientific RISC OS software
Icon Technology Ltd. - Authors of the EasiWriter/TechWriter word processor family.
i-Cubed - Acorn network specialists
IFEL - Acorn Hardware Support and Sales
Interconnex Ltd - Developers of the 'Peanut' and PsiRisc.
Iota - Risc OS software developers - authors of DataPower & The Complete Animator.
iSV Products - Authors of Typography 2100, DrawWorks and other quality Risc OS applications.
Kudlian Soft - Authors of DataSweet.
Levens Software - Authors of HTMLPro and Ovation Pro applets.
Microdigital - Manufacturers of the Mico RISC OS based computer range.
Microlynx - Authors of TopCat thin client technology.
Mijas Software - Printing utilities and analogue/digital simulations.
Millipede Graphics - Manufacturers of professional video boards.
Octopus Systems - Developers of Caller Display and Teletext+.
Oregan Developments - Producers of excellent audio & video software.
Paradise - Budget Acorn game authors, writers of Inferno, amongst others.
PEP Associates - Acorn dealers and CD Networking solution providers for Acorn Risc OS
Quantum Software - Authors of Keystroke and Blinds, amongst other useful apps
RComp - Acorn Software house. Authors of Acorn Doom & HTMLEdit amongst others.
Reflex Electronics - Acorn repairs and servicing
Simnett Computer Services - Acorn and RiscStation dealer. Email: Tomislav Simnett
Simtec - Custom hardware design and Acorn upgrades
SoftEase - Authors of TextEase and Multimedia TextEase
Spacetech Imaging Technology - The authors of the best Acorn Photoshop package.
Uniqueway - Acorn Centre of Technology in Cardiff
Warm Silence Software - The authors of !MovieFS and Win95FS amongst other excellent utilities.
Wyddfa Software - A range of educational software including Talking Stories
Xemplar Downloads - Software upgrades from Xemplar

DOCUMENTATION & REFERENCE (22)

Acorn/RISC OS machines - A nice non-technical description for non technical people
Acorn Share Prices - A graph of the last year's Acorn & ARM share prices
Ant Internet Suite - Foggy's comprehensive Ant FAQ page
The BBC Lives - Loads of documentation and circuit diagrams for the BBC
BBC Micro Documentation Project - Loads of resources for the BBC Micro and Master.
Cloning a RISC iX disc - How to re-install and setup RISC iX on an Acorn R series machine, by James Carter
Comp.Sys.Acorn.* FAQ - Comprehensive Acorn newsgroup FAQ
Cumana 300i CD-ROM - Info for connecting to a RPC fitted with ROS3.6 or 3.7
Home Networking - Hnady info for networking computers at home
Index - Indexes of most popular Acorn CDs, by Richard Whincup
Installing ArmLinux for Dummies - My own beginners instructions for installing ARMLinux
Internet Instructions - Installing Socketeer, Ant, Freeserve etc etc on RISC OS
MIDI Index - Technical details and specs for MIDI implementations
Networking Instructions - For connecting an Acorn to a PC via TCP/IP
PC Card DIY upgrade - How to upgrade an Acorn 486 PC card to a 586.
RISC OS 4 Compatibility - Extensive, independent RISC OS 4 software compatibility chart
Squirrel FAQ - Info on the relational database
StrongHelp Manuals - Programmers reference info in StrongHelp format.
Technical Documents - Various Acorn orientated technical documents
Techwriter Tips - Hints'n'Tips for the excellent Easi/Techwriter family, by Jim Lesurf
URL Fetcher API Specs - Official Acorn documentation
Voyager Technical FAQ - Foggy's comprehensive Voyager Internet FAQ

INTERNET NEWS GROUPS (14)

alt.acorn.adverts - Acorn related adverts
alt.acorn.demos - News & discussion from the Acorn demo scene.
alt.fan.riscos - Little known group for RISC OS fans
comp.binaries.acorn - Newsgroup for posting binary data (apps & progs etc)
comp.sources.acorn - Newsgroup for posting source code (apps & progs etc)
comp.sys.acorn.advocacy - Our computers are better than the rest of the worlds' ;-)
comp.sys.acorn.announce - Announcements & other news postings (moderated)
comp.sys.acorn.apps - General chat about Acorn/RISC OS applications
comp.sys.acorn.extra-cpu - Chat/Discussion about using PC cards & software
comp.sys.acorn.games - Various discussions about the Acorn games scene
comp.sys.acorn.hardware - Acorn hardware related discussion
comp.sys.acorn.misc - Anything chat about anything Acorn related
comp.sys.acorn.networking - Acorn network related discussion
comp.sys.acorn.programmer - Programmers forum for swapping hints 'n tips

RISC OS ORIENTATED MAILING LISTS (6)

Acorn Servicing - Technical forum for experienced Acorn technicians & engineers. Send SIGNON as subject.
Ant Chat - Discussion of the Ant Internet Suite. Send subscribe inetchat <your email address> as the message body.
Browse - Mailing list for users of Acorn's Browse web browser. Send message with SIGNON in the subject line.
NetBSD - For users of NetBSD
Perl - For users of RISC OS Perl. To join, send a message to riscos-subscribe@perl.org
PlayIt - List for users of Rick Hudson's PlayIt

PD CLUBS & USER GROUPS (11)

8-bit Software - The BBC and Master Computer User Group and PC Library
AAUG - The Association of Acorn User Groups
Acorn Arcadia - Risc OS Developer Forum created by Andrew Flegg
AcornSitePD - Adam Seeley's excellent repository of PD software.
Acorn User Group RC5/DES Cracking Effort
APDL - APDL incorporating The DataFile
CodeCraft - Coding contest for small sized programs
ERA - The Edinburgh RISCOS Users Association
The GCC for RISC OS initiative - An exciting project for porting the latest GCC to RISC OS
SaSAUG - The Surrey and Sussex Acorn Users' Group
Solar Flare - The homepage of the Solar Flare PD group

PEOPLE & SOFTWARE COLLECTIONS (19)

ICQ User List - List of Acorn users ICQ numbers.
Stephen Courtney's handy list of web creation utilities
DaveSpace - Dave Thomas' excellent Acorn resource site.
Justin Fletcher's homepage - home of all sorts of goodies
Bob de Jong's Acorn Links - Bob's large selection of Acorn/RISC OS orientated links
Gardar Gislason's WimpBasic site - Loads of WimpBasic resources and applications.
Andrew Harmsworth - Excellent educational resources & software reviews
Hensa RISC OS software - The Entry page to Hensa's vast RISC OS software collection.
JazSoft - Home of BootProgs, StrongCD and a number of Voyager Themes.
Chris Morison's excellent !Organiser application
Phil Norman's web pages - Dicottery & other software.
David Pilling's Acorn Software - Author of !SparkFS and !OvationPro
Andrew Poole's web site - Acorn links, pictures and downloads.
Spriteman's Acorn Stuff - David Watson's homepage
Peter Teichmann's homepage - home of several good utilities and also ArcQuake
Verelanthe - Musus Umbra's Homepage (home of Angband, Frotz and MoonTool amongst others)
Frode Wells homepage - Excellent Acorn resource.
The Acorn Filetype page - Comprehensive list of Acorn filetypes.
TriStone - A very impressive looking site full of Acorn goodies.

ARCHIVING SOFTWARE (9)

ArcFS
Dicottery & Phil Norman's Acorn-related web pages - Compression utility & other software.
InfoZip - Free, portable, high quality versions of PK Zip compatible Zip and UnZip, by Harriet Bazley and Sergio Monesi
lharc - Encode and decode lharc files on RISC OS, by Nick Roberts
MakeLSFX - Create RISC OS self-extracting zip archives, by Timothy Baldwin
PackDir - Extremely fast file archiver, by John Kortink
Skullcrusher - Another file archiver, by Skullsoft
SparkPlug - The definitive de-archiver, by David Pilling
ZipEE - PKUnzip and Zip for Acorn Risc OS, by John Pettigrew

BUSINESS/OFFICE APPLICATIONS (13)

1999 Calendar in Draw format, by Michael Martin.
Big Book - Integrated diary, address book and notepad, by Barry Wickett
Fax software - PD Fax software for Risc OS
Finder - Search lists of phone numbers, postcodes etc, by Jonathan Martin
Impression Junior - Junior version of Publisher professional DTP package by Computer Concept
Isis - A comprehensive freeware spreadsheet application, by Marc Warne
Journal - A regular diary, by Robert Seago
Organizer - Chris Morison's excellent desktop filofax.
PowerBase - A powerful and flexible database system, by Derek Haslam.
PSTN-Site - Finds the geographical location of a given telephone number, by Birger Harzenetter
S-Base - Powerful database system for RISC OS, by Bluewater Systems
Sheet - A shareware spreadsheet application, by Tim Dilks
Statistix - A rudimentary Statistics application, by Robert Seago

COMMS & DIAL-UP NETWORKING (4)

Connector - An excellent freeware communications package
FidoMail - A Fidonet mail processor for RISC OS, by Glenn Richards
SerReset - Reset the serial port utility, by Birger Harzenetter
Telnet - A Telnet Block driver (so that you can use a comms package for Telnet)

DEMOS (4)

Acorn Demos Worldwide - ArmOric's Acorn Demo pages
Icebird - Authors of Reisnac
Nutters - Authors of Fluoro and Zero
Xperience - Authors of Blu and Era

DESKTOP UTILITIES (42)

3D Rom Patch - Patch to give all menus and dialogue boxes 3D borders, by Matthew Bullock.
AlphaSave - A programmable screensaver
BDRand - Select a random image for the desktop backdrop, by Nick Roberts
BlackHole2 - Bin Utility
BubbleHelp - Excellent replacement for Acorn's interactive !Help, by Miles Sabin
Calc - Floating-point scientific calculator for the CLI, by Guy Griffin
Clipboard - See the contents of the global clipboard, by Thomas Leonard.
CoolSwitch - Use Alt-Tab to switch between tasks (like Windoze)
CustomChr - Alternative to !Chars which allows you to design your own layout, by Jonathan Rawle
Delirium - New Generation screen saver.
Drobe Launch - A PC style application launcher, by Peter Price
ECSUtils - Useful desktop utility with loads of useful features, by Simon Anthony
ExtraBar - An extra toolbar for launching apps, by David McCormack
Float - Floating !Help application to replace Acorn's, by Stephen Fryatt
FreeMem - Small utility to display free memory on the icon bar, by Liquid Silicon
Freeze - Save the current state of the machine and load it back at anytime, by GUS
Help2 - Interactive help display program, similar to that in RISC OS 4, by Squeaky Software
IbarPatch - Replacement icon bar and pinboard patch, by Mark Seaborn
Insert - Insert text into windows that don't allow you to drop text into them, by Barry Wickett
MultiDesk - Vitual desktop for RISC OS, by Julian Smith
Neil Spellings Slimline icontools - New slim 3D sprites for the desktop
PCKeyboard - Mimic the PC style backspace and delete keys, by Stephen Fryatt
Phoebe icons - A new set of wimp icons to make your desktop look like the Phoebe
PinFilters - Save files by dragging them onto the pinboard, by Andrew Kemp
Prettify - Customise the main RISC OS startup banner
JFShared - Justin Fletcher's shared wimp library
MagPi-Mo - Desktop magnifier, pointer info and mouse setter, by David DCLXVI/M.
Mangify - Another desktop magnifier
RPCInfo - Smart icon bar clock, by Rosemary Miskin
Nice - Simple priority system for RISC OS wimp tasks, by Vincent Lefevre
RemoveDA - Manually remove dynamic areas and recover memory, by Jonathan Brady
RISC OS Icons - A selection of new desktop icons from Justin Fletcher, David Ruck & others
StrongMen - A handy application/URL launcher, by Guttorm Vik
Swipe - Allows you to drag text from icons, even if non-writable, by Thomas Leonard
SysUsage - Displays system load on the icon bar, by Birger Harzenetter
TaskUsage - RISC OS Processor Usage Monitoring application, by Martin Avison
TitleMenu - Small utility to give diretory navigation by clicking on title bar of windows, by Vincent Lefevre
Today - What happened on this day in history, by Rosemary Miskin
TopSave - Automatically save files to the topmost filer window without the need for dragging, by Thomas Leonard
WimpBar2 - Application launcher in the style of an extra toolbar
WimpFont - Utility for changing the desktop wimp font,by Nigel Parker
WorldTime - Nice little desktop application to display world times, by Alex Bach Anderson
XEarth - Realtime display of sunlight hitting Earth as a Risc OS backdrop, by Matthew Bloch

EDITORS (4)

armTeX - Complete TeX distribution for Risc OS
StrongEd - Guttorm Vic's excellent text editor
Vim 5 - Risc OS port of VI, by Thomas Leonard
!Zap Arguably the best RISC OS text editor (well, it's my favourite!)

EDUCATIONAL AND INFORMATIONAL SOFTWARE (29)

ARM Prime - ARM code program for testing Mersenne prime numbers, by Nick Craig-Wood
Astronomy software - including Copernicus and Orion
Cbase - A database for electronic components, by Rick Hudson
CDprofile - A database for cataloguing audio CDs, by Malcolm Knight
Chemistry software - Including Series First Order kinetics, Translational Energies, Isotope abundancies, Kinetic energies of gases in a box, MoleDraw, RMM Calculator, Acorn port of the Oak Ridge Thermal Eliptoid Program, Periodic table, RASMOL and a wave function plotter.
Earthmap - Electronic globe, by John Kortink
Elements - Handy guide to chemical elements and the Periodic Table, by Jonathan Rawle
Ergane - A translating dictionary program by David O'Shea
EuroDict - Translation dictionary to and from European languages, by Philip Murray-Pearce
Spotlight on Europe - An up-to-date geographical quiz about Europe, by Jonathan Rawle
Family - David Howe's excellent Family Tree program.
'Females' - Finite Stress Analysis for RISC OS, by Brian Hogg
GraphDraw - Enter and edit x,y points and plot graphs, by Chris Johnson
Jiten - A Japanese/English dictionary program, by Philip Murray-Pearce
Kinetic - A Molecular simulation, by Robert Seago
Lab Assistant - Data processing and plotting program, by Chris Ford
LED_Board - Teach binary sequences using an LED board (via I.O. card), by Jochen Lueg
Maths software - Including a simultaneous equasion calculator, a linear regression utility, Numeric and calculating the area under a curve using teh Simpson Rule.
MultiPlot - Plot up to 8 graphs using the same axis, by Chris Johnson
Onomata - European and Asian vocabulary tester, by Philip Murray-Pearce
RasMol - A molecular visualisation tool, by Martin Würthner
RiscPCB - Freeware printed circuit board designer for RISC OS, by Terry Swanborough
ROCchart - A star chart generator, by Rick Hudson
SkyGuide - Comprehensive RISC OS Astronomy program, by Alan Senior
Sprite file of OS map symbols by David Robinson
SSystem - A Solar System simulation, by Robert Seago
Sums - Quickly create Sum sheets, by Noel Hitchcock
Tiles - Entertaining crossword game in 5 languages, by Ian Macfarlane
Waves - A Waves simulation (plus other related apps), by Robert Seago

EMULATORS (10)

The Acorn Emulation page - Loads of different emulators.
ArcVic - Commodore Vic-20 Emulator for Risc OS, by Boris van Schooten
BeebIt - 32k BBC B emulator (requires original ROMS), by Michael Foot
CPC - Amstrad CPC emulator for Risc OS, by Andreas Stroiczek
Gameboy - Gameboy emulator for Risc OS, including source code, by Andreas Stroiczek
Gareth Longs Emulator Ports - RISC OS ports of MAME, MESS & SNES
MAME Play - Front end for the MAME Emulator, by Robert Chasner
Miracle - Sega Master System emulator, by Richard Talbot-Watkins
David McEwen's Emulator Ports - RISC OS ports of ColEm,fMsx,madNES,Stella,Atari 800, TI8x,MGear &VGB
Vice - GPL Commodore Emulator, by Andreas Dehmel

FILE/DISC UTILITIES (46)

See also Foreign file converters
BootPlus - A !Boot editor and password protection, by Malcolm Ripley
CASE2case - Rename files into capitals, lowercase and remove PC file extensions, by Robert Lytton CD Utilities
See also Sound Utilities

32bit CDROM Driver for Windows95 - Aleph 1's latest CDROM driver for the PC Card
AudioFS2 - Directly read sound samples from audio CDs, by Jonathan Hunt
CD Simulator - Simulate a CD using an image file on disc
CDViewer - Excellent replacement CD filer, by Jeremy Paulter
SampleCD - Directly read sound samples from audio CDs, by Paul Wilkinson
SearchCD - Utility for searching CDs (or other filing systems) for graphics and the like

CloseFile Useful utility for closing open files, by Tim Howarth
Coeden - Multitasking graphical tree display for examining directory use, by Barry Wickett
Director - Application launcher and desktop utility
ExMac - Read, Write and format Apple Mac discs from Risc OS, by Paul Gee
Faster Action - Adds buttons to filer action windows, by Ian Clark
FileFind - Recursive file finder, by ID Software
FileFlick - Quickly scan through files and applications to launch them, by Chris Morison
FormatPlus/FDFormat - Extra options for *Format, and non-standard DOS formats up to 1722K, by Darren Salt
Free - More compact 'Free' display for filing systems, by Bernard Veasey
FSCK - Disc fixer for Risc OS, by Sergio Monesi
GZip - Gzip and Gunzip files, by Rosemary Miskin
HardBack - Hard disc backup for Risc OS, by Theo Markettos
LongFiles Allow long filenames in Risc OS, by Jason Tribbeck
LooknFind - Useful file search utility for scanning the contents of files/directories, by Robert Lytton
MagFS - Filer for removable discs, eg. MagOpts, zips etc.
Memphis - Replacement for RAMFS with long filenames, >77 files per dir. etc, by Nick Smith
MiniDisc - Provides a single, small icon allowing access to all your discs, by Parsed-out
Nomen - A filename tidying application, by Skullsoft
NumberFix - Provide various utilities for renumbering numbered files, by Jochen Lueg
OpenFiles - Useful utility for closing open files, by Jon Brady
PackDisc - Rearranges fragmented discs to recover wasted space, by Steve Lee
PCdisk - Access PC formatted SCSI discs/drives.
QFiler - Key shortcuts for filer operations, by David Thomas
raFS - Another filer which allows long filenames and more than 77 files per directory
RealCount - Show the real disc space that files or directories occupy, by Sergio Monesi
Rename - Intelligent file renamer using !Edit like searching, by Nick Roberts
SymLinks - Create Symbolic links for RISC OS
TempDir - Quick and easy saving of files with dated directories.
Thumbnail Image Viewers
See also Graphics Utilities and Converters

Nail - Make thumbnails of pictures
PhotoFiler - Automatially generated Thumbnails of images using the normal filer, by Sliced Software.
Thumbnail - Handy image previewer, by Ian Palmer
Thump - Realtime JPEG thumbnail viewer, by Rick Hudson

Toolbar - Application launcher and pulldown toolbar utility
Transient - Creates daily temp directories for ease of saving files, by Illusion Software
TreeMenu - Hierachical menu system for filing systems, by Julian Smith
TreeSave - Adds a windows style saving system, by Ian Clark
TypeFind - Guess the filetype of unknown files, by David Sharp
X Files Another long filenames/more than 77 files per directory utility

FONTS/DTP (7)

Babylon 5 - Selection of outline fonts from Babylon 5
Basketcase - Plus Firecat, Garish Monde, Gen XCrumble, Love Letter, Metropolit, Samarkan, Scratch, Taco Salad, Texas Hero, Treefrog and Violation fonts, by Rob Ives.
EuroFont - PD Euro font family, by Francis Chin
Font Designers Toolkit - Full application from iSV Products - Loads of facilities for editing and creating fonts
Font Emporium - Harry Decker's *Excellent* collection of TrueType fonts converted to RISC OS
Hermetic Font - Standard, Greek, Hebrew + Escoteric characters, by David DCLXVI/M.
Wanna Kern - Small utility to perform kerning on fonts and output as a !Draw format, by Barry Wickett

FOREIGN FILE CONVERSION and UTILITIES (4)

See also Graphics Utilities and Converters
AntiWord - Convert Micro$oft Word documents into text.
Acorn PDF Reader for displaying Adobe PDF documents.
Ps2pdf - Drag and drop Postscript to PDF frontend for Ghostscript, by Tim Nicholson
PSUtils - A set of page imposition toold for postscript files, by Graham Jones

GAMES (28)

Abuse - Acorn port of the PC game
Acorn Arcade - The best 'first stop' for Acorn Games & Demos
Acorn Gaming - Gareth Moore's excellent Acorn gamescene site
Alerion - Flying shoot-em-up game
Alien Invasion - Classic Space Invaders game
Asylum - Platform game
Bloxed - Single and multi-player Tetris clone, by Steven Singer
Caves - An 'obstacle course/alien-shooting/puzzle' game, by Matthew Wilson
Deth - Acorn port of the PC Doom wad editor
Dune II - Patches to make it work on StrongArm machines
Elite - The RISC OS version of the best game ever written!
Infestation - Bubble Bobble type game for up to 4 players, by David Stubbs
IronLord - Graphical adventure game
MarsQuake II - Bomberman clone by Paul Taylor
Monopoly - Wimp version of the famous board game, by Duncan Mortimer
Mr Doo - Collect the cherries classic arcade game
NoDisc - Utility to load old 4thDimension games on SA machines, by Wag Software
Nuclear Holocaust - Multiplayer sideways-view tanks game, by Graham Crockford.
Oddball - Bat and Ball game
Othello - The classic board game, by Barry Wickett
Phaethon - The futuristic chase game originally from System Interrupt
Pinball Wizard - Pinball game
Risk - Acorn version, by Steve Bosman
Terramex - The classic platform game where you must save the Earth
TwinWorld - Excellent platform game
WSearch - Create word squares, by Robert Seago
Xenocide - Vertical scrolling shoot-em-up game, by Skullsoft
X-Word - Scrabble type word tile game, by Alan Trewartha

GRAPHICS UTILITIES and CONVERTERS (36)

See also Foreign file converters
ArtToSpr - Convert Artworks and Draw vector images into sprites, by Tony Houghton
BatchFSI - Feeds ChangeFSI with a batch of files at once, by Rob Davison
ChangeFSI RC - Latest version of ChangeFSI, which loads progressive JPEGs
Chopper - 'Cut' a sprite into rectangular areas for web pages etc, by Rob Davison
Creator - Convert Acorn sprites to a variety of foreign formats, by John Kortink
DrawBasic - Sript language for !Draw, by Joe Taylor
DrawMerge - Merges grouped path objects in Draw files
DrawPersp - A vector drawing package with perspective, by Robert Seago
DrawPlus - Super-duper enhanced version of !Draw, by Jonathan Martin
DrawText - WimpBasic programme for creating Draw text areas, by Stephen Murphy
DrawWorks SE - Full application from iSV Products - A powerful addon for the !Draw application
DVIView - View DVI files on RISC OS
Easy Anim - A simple animation creator, by Marc Wayne
EasyView - A small and quick way to browse through pictures,by Thomas Olsson
Fade - Simple slideshow application, by Richard Windley
FSI_Batch - Convert multiple batches of image files using ChangeFSI, by Jochen Lueg
Ghostscript - A port of Ghostscript 5 for RISC OS, by Graham Jones
InterGif - For creating interlaced and transparent GIF images from sprites. Will also create animated graphics.
JQuick - Allows ChangeFSI to convert multiple files, by Spidersoft
MakeJPEG - Convert sprites into JPEGs, by Dave Thomas
MavicaFS - Utility for reading JPEG images from Sony digital camera, by David Glover Temporarily Removed!
Megumi - Cute and fast image viewer for GIF,PNG,JPEG etc plus animated GIF,ECC,MASL,by Mr Krumbholz
Mesa graphics library for Risc OS - Acorn port of Mesa drivers, by David Boddie
MultiShow - Displays GIF, JPEG, Sprite and Draw files in a carousel type display, by Paul Johnson
Peep - To view JPEG images either singly or cycle through them, by John Jakobsson
PNG2Spr - PNG to Sprite converter, by Tom Tanner
Spr2Png - Convert Sprites into PNG graphics, by Darren Salt
SpriteExtend patch - Patch to display JPEGs which don't convert properly, such as Sony Mavica ones, by Nick Craig-Wood
Sprout - Convert RISC OS Sprites into Linux XPM files, by Matthew Bloch
Squish - Stretch sprites in a linear or non-linear way, by Barry Wickett
Thumbnail Image viewers - go to appropriate listing section.
Tiff2png - Convert masked Tiff images to PNGs.
Tiffin - Convert between RISC OS sprites and TIFFs, by Peter Greenham
Translator - Convert and view foreign image formats, by John Kortink
Widget5 - Image processing package which supports grey levels and 24bit colour, by Andrew Sellors
WMF>Draw - Windows Meta File to Draw converter.

INTERNET SOFWARE UTILITIES (71)

AcornICQ - Acorn Risc OS ICQ client, by Angelo Melis
AntUtils - Add loads of handy features to the Ant Internet Suite, by Paul Vigay
ArcLynx - RISC OS port of the text based web browser Lynx, by Andrew Wood
ArcWeb - The best freebie web browser for Acorn machines.
ArmTCP - Internet dialler utility, and an alterantive to Socketeer.
Attacher - John Allen's utility for UUencoding and decoding files.
AutoFAQ - Automatically send Usenet messages via the Ant Suite, by Brett Laniosh
BookMaker - Central address book/hotlist maintenance for Voyager/Fresco, by Nick Roberts
Buttons - A web site button designer for RISC OS, by Geoff Youngs
CacheMan - Reconstruct web sites from Fresco's cache, by Robert Hampton
CamTrack - Fetch images from remote web cams and store them locally, by Hans de Jong
ChatServ - A ChatServ which allows one to one communication via the internet, by Joseph Heenan
CheckWeb - Check through all your links to see if any don't work, by Peter Hartley
ColDef - Easily choose colours for web pages, by Rosemary Miskin
CSSDesign - A Cascading Style Sheet designer for RISC OS computers, by Geoff Youngs
DeBinHex - Decode Apple Mac BinHex email attachments, by Alex Howarth
DFax - Convert faxes received via Demon's Fax service to Acorn sprites, by Eurisko Software.
EasySockets - Internet utility
FreeNet - Freeware TCP/IP stack
FreeTerm - Freeware VT52/102 telnet client for Acorn Risc OS, by 20-20 Software.
FTPc - GUI FTP client for RISC OS, by Colin Granville
HTMLTidy - Dave Ragget's utility to tidy and fix sloppy HTML files, by Iain Truskett
ImageMap - Utility to create client-side image maps, by Dave McCormack
Imagen - Another create client-side image maps creator, by Justin Fletcher
Historian - Selective deletion of pages from !Fresco's History list, by Lenny
HSC - RISC OS port of HTML Sucks Completely (HTML pre-processor), by Thomas Aglassinger
HTML² & HTML³ - HTML Macro insertion tool for text editors, by Richard Goodwin
HTML Validators

HTMLcheck - HTML 3.2 validator for Risc OS
HTML Scan - HTML Validator, by Tim Tyler
Validator - HTML Validator, including HTML4 tags by John Aldred
WebLint - Another HTML validator

IRC Clients

g0-iRC - IRC Client by Ian Hawkins
IChat - An Acorn IRC Client.
IRClient - Another Acorn IRC Client.
LIRC - Yet another Acorn IRC Client, by Thomas Olsson

Juice - A RISC OS Telnet Talker, by Fanta
LintCheck - Checks HTML links and references between files in a local directory, by John Aldred
MakeTable - Text (CSV) -> HTML table generator, by Nick Roberts
Messenger - Another Email/News client for Risc OS.
Monty - Mangle your email address automatically in an attempt to avoid spam, by Illusion Software
Multi-ISP - Configure and switch up to four ISPs on the Ant Suite, by Richard Whincup
Navaho - Internet Server Suite for RISC OS
NetPlex - An Acorn www server by David Thomas
NetFetch - A CLI utility to fetch web pages directly off the net, by David Thomas
NetReader - Offline email reader for beginners, schools and colleges, by Paul Vigay
NewsBase - Mail and news database server for multiple users, by Graham Allan
NewsHound - An NNTP newsfetcher for RISC OS, by Joseph Heenan
Pluto - Jonathan Duddington's excellent email/news reader.
POPstar - POP3 mail transport mechanism, by Tony Houghton
POPstar2 - Improved version of POPstar, by Joseph Heenan
PortScan - Utility to scan TCP/IP ports, by Herbert zur Nedden
Qedit - Newsbase/Ant outgoing queue viewer, by Joseph Heenan
Ringo - Automatic call coster for the Ant Suite, by Illusion Software
RiscFree - A suite of PD applications together forming a fully fledged Internet package.
sFTP - A Risc OS FTP utility, by Carol Carpenter
SiteMatch - Synchronise an uploaded web site with a local copy, by Dave Edwards
SMS - Send SMS messages to mobile phones from your Acorn, by Alex Macfarlane Smith
Socketeer - An internet dialler by Matthew Bloch
SocketManager - Display all active sockets and close them, if required, by David Thomas
SSHProxy - Secure Shell client for RISC OS, by Theo Markettos
SSL for ArcWeb - Interfaces ArcWeb to Acorn's SSL module (required), by Richard Sargeant
Ticker - Online News Ticker for Risc OS
UnHTML - Strip HTML tags from web pages, by Mike Williams
UplHome - Automatically upload web pages to an FTP server, by Roy Fellows.
UUcoder - John Allen's utility for UUencoding and decoding files.
WebChange - Search and replace across all text/html files in a directory, by Softrock Software
WebGet - A recursive web fetcher for Risc OS, by Joseph Heenan
WebMan - Test what the differences are in a locally held web site
Zonk - Program for creating html files from templates and datafiles, by Tim Brown

INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER FILES & SCRIPTS (4)

Beebware, FreeUK, Freeserve, UKGateway, XStream - Ant Suite scripts by Richard Wincup
!Connect scripts - Details on connecting to free ISPs using !Connect
Freeserve - Freeserve Connection on an Acorn for Dummies
FreeUK - How to connect an Acorn up to FreeUK

JAVA UTILITIES and PROGRAMMING (4)

Drawfile renderer - Useful looking Java applet,by Iain Coulter
guavac - RISC OS Java compiler, by Peter Naulls
Jikes - RISC OS port of IBM's Java compiler, by Peter Naulls
JvScript - JavaScript authoring utility for RISC OS, by Geoff Youngs

MISCELLANEOUS SOFTWARE (28)

65Link - Connects your BBC B to your ARM machine to share the ARM machines hard disc etc., by John Kortink
Animate - Animate lumps of plasticine with the aid of Acorn, digitiser and camera, by Robert Hancox
ArcLink5 - Transfer files to and from the Psion series 5, by Paul Vigay
Braille - RLSB Text to Braille Converter for RISC OS
Calc - A floating point CLI scientific calculator, by Guy Griffin
Converter - Convert units of distance, liquid etc, by Bernard Veasey
Credits - An Internet Movie Database browser for Acorn computers

Cross Stitch I - Full application from iSV Products - Convert sprites into cross stitch charts
Doggy Hourglass - The infamous cute doggie hourglass module for RISC OS, by Joe Oldak
GpsNav - A driver/interface for the Rockwell Microtracker LP GPS Receiver module, by Neoklis Kyriazis
Hal - Sound sample of "All my circuits are functioning correctly"
iBeat - A port of the Swatch iBeat clock, by Iain Truskett
KangaKoe, Locomo & Repair - Excellent desktop sillies, by Tijmen
KGSD - A small utility to test the speed of your machine in MIPS, by Gavin Jenkins
KiSS - Play and edit Kiss Dolls, by Nick Roberts
MovieDB - RISC OS front-end for a local copy of the Internet Movie Database, by Rick Hudson
PIC micros - Details on software/hardware for PIC programming under RISC OS

PostRates - Calculate Royal Mail postal charges, by Andrew Wineberg
PsiFS - A RISC OS filing system to access files on an EPOC16 or EPOC32 computer (such as the Psion S5),by Alexander Thoukydides
SA patches - Various patches to allow software to work with SA, including Pipedream, Lemmings and Mad Professor
Sheep2 - Change your RISC OS backdrop into a rather nice field containing sheep!, by David Stubbs
Tablet - Use a Psion series 5 as a graphics tablet for your Risc PC, by Paul Corke
Trees - A recursive tree drawing application, by Robert Seago
TumbleWeed - Configurable frontend for SlideShow and Tumble
UniqueID - Utility to fake the ID chip!
UnitConv - An excellent little interactive unit converter, by Chris Johnson
VideoPlus - RISC OS port of the DOS VideoPlus codec,by James MacDonald
WacomTest - A test and configuration application for Wacom graphics tablets, by Neoklis Kyriazis

MODULES & SYSTEM STUFF (13)

!Boot and Module Database - My own database of module version numbers and !Boot information.
ABCLib - Module required by Archimedes Basic Compiled applications.
Acorn files - Various 'official' Acorn patches and updates.
DDA - Dummy Dynamic Areas module for RISC OS 3.1, by Justin Fletcher
IClear - Clear any icon by mouse double-clickinh, by Martyn Fox
LiteUtils - Keyboard control of the mouse pointer, by Nick Kennedy
MimeMap - Release 3 of the MimeMap module, by Justin Fletcher
MDFs - Carlos Michael Santillan's extensive list of monitor definition files
RISC OS 4 upgrades - Official upgrades and patches for RISC OS 4
VProtect - Latest virus protection module by Pineapple software.
WhichMod - A simple utility that attempts to work out what module a given address is in, by Musus Umbra
WimpBasic modules - Runtime modules for Clares WimpBasic programmes.
WritableUtils - Allow remapping of keys and an interface to the global clipboard within writable icons, by Richard van der Hoff

MPEG PLAYERS & UTILITIES (13)

See also Sound Utilities
8hz-mp3 - MP3 encoder (faster than cmpa)
Amp - WinAmp lookalike MP3 player for RISC OS, by David O'Shea
AMPlayer - Very nice MP3 player, which auto detects 8 or 16 bit sound, by Thomas Olsson
AudioMPEG - MPEG layer 1,2 &3 audio player module, by Peter Teichmann
DigitalCD - A desktop music player for RISC OS, by André Timmermans
Dmpa - Audio MPEG3 player, by Ossi Lindvall
FishMpeg - Desktop MPEG audio player, by Charlie Baylis
mp32wav - Convert an MP3 file into a WAV sample, by Dennis Ranke
MP3z - Sequencer for MPEG3 audio files, by Andrew Boura
MPEG2 - Play MPEG/MPEG2 movies, by Peter Teichmann
MPEG Audio player - by Ossi Lindvall
PlayAMPEG - Simple Task Window parent for the 'dmpa' MP3 player program,by Thomas Olsson
RiscAMP - RISC OS Audio MPEG Player, by Andy Boura

NETWORK APPLICATIONS (15)

eChat - A real time network chat program, by Andy Pirozek
JetDirectFS - Use RISC OS to print to an HP JetDirect network printer, by Elliott Hughes
NetGram - Utility for sending messages over a TCP/IP network, by Andy Pirozek
NetTime - Set all network computers to a common local network time, by Robert Lytton
Network - Easily setup a PPP serial connection between two Acorn computers, by Mad Cow Software
NWClient - Novell Netware client for RISC OS, by Falstaff
PostOffice - Easy to use network (access+) Email system, by Robert Lytton
Samba - A RISC OS Samba Server, by David Buston
ShareLM - ShareFS like environment for logging on/off Lan Manager servers
TimeServer - AUN tool for syncing internal clocks from a server, by Adam Scott
UnixTalk - The BSD 'ntalk' compatible chat program for RISC OS, by Marco Baye
UserUtils - Replacement for NetFiler
VNC Server - A 'Virtual Network Computing' server for Risc OS, by Paul Corke.
VNC Viewer - A 'Virtual Network Computing' viewer for Risc OS, by Simon Truss.
VNC Viewer - Another 'Virtual Network Computing' viewer for Risc OS, by Leo White.

OPERATING SYSTEMS, LANGUAGES & UNIX/LINUX PORTS (18)

4tH - An embeddable Forth compiler, by Reuben Thomas
Arm Linux pages
ChiOS FAQ - Details on the new Operating System for a Risc OS style PCI card
CVS - RISC OS port of CVS, by John Tytgat
ficl - Forth Inspired Command Language, by Reuben Thomas
GNU GCC - RISC OS port of the tool for translating C, C++ and Fortran source into ARM assembler
grep - RISC OS port of the powerful search tool
Hugs98 - RISC OS port of the Haskell 98 interpretor, by James Shiell
LinLoader - A RISC OS CLI program for booting Linux on RPCs, by Timothy Baldwin
Linux for Acorn Risc OS
Linux Installation for Acorn Risc OS - Phil Norman's Linux installation guide
Lua - RISC OS port of a small, elegant, extsnsible, embeddable language, by Reuben Thomas
PERL - Acorn port of the cgi scripting language.
Python - RISC OS Port of Python 1.5, by Chris Stretch
Squeak - Smalltalk system for Risc OS
TAB - RISC OS Port of TAB - typeset lute tablature, by Tommaso Leddi
tcl - RISC OS Port of tcl
XServer - RISC OS XServer software, by Vince Sanders

PGP & ENCRYPTION (6)

Encrypt - Encrypt your private files securely, by Stephen Sloan
Nuke - Utility for overwriting files on disc making them impossible to recover.
Mail-Lock - Protect Ant Suite mail folders, by Nat Queen
PGP 2.6.3i - Acorn version of PGP.
Q-Lock - Encrypt files on your discs, by Nat Queen
RNDPass - Program for generating random pass phrases.

PROGRAMMING APPLICATIONS, UTILITIES & OTHER STUFF (18)

ArmSort - Module to provide easy sorting of BASIC arrays, by Martin Avison
ASM - ARM Macro Assembler, by Nick Roberts
DrawGen - Utility to create Draw files from your own apps, by Jim Lesurf
Dreamscape - C++ class library for Risc OS, by Mark Seaborn
Dr Wimp - Library to enable wimp programs to be written using BASIC, by Andrew Ayre
FormEdExt - Enhanced window template editor, by Justin Fletcher
Make - RISC OS Version of Make, with proper filename conversion, by Reuben Thomas
OSLib - C functions and headers, by Jonathan Coxhead
PCR13 - Change SWI calls to help StrongArm compatibility of old software, by Jan de Boer
RCS - GNI Revision Control System, by Erik Groenhuis
StrongBS - Compact BASIC programs, by Mohsen Alshayef
TemplEd - Template editor for Risc OS.
Ting's World - Acorn Programming Resources
Where - Small utility to tell you which module a particular memory address is in.
Wimp2 - A preemptive multitasker for RISC OS, by Niall Douglas
WimpWorks - Guide to Application programming using this Jaffasoft tool
WindowEd - Template editor for Risc OS, by Jaffasoft.
WinEd - Tony Houghton's Window editor

SOUND, MIDI & MUSIC (17)

See also MPEG Utilities
CDDB - A CDDB server for RISC OS, by John Beranek
CDPlay - Useful audio CD player and utility
CD Suite - An audio CD playing utility by Jim Morrison
DataEvent - Assign sound samples to system events, by Philip Banks
Desktop Tracker - Full version of VTIs Desktop Tracker, by Jason Tribbeck
DigitalCD - A desktop music player for RISC OS, by André Timmermans
Emu16 - 16bit sound emulation for computers with 8 bit sound, by Dennis Ranke
Monolith - Freeware MIDI player width desktop control
PlayIt - Forign sound format player module, by Rick Hudson
PlaySound - Wimp front-end for Rick Hudson's PlayIt utility, by Mark Scholes
ReMIDI - Play MIDI files without MIDI hardware, by Michael-Dennis Biemans
RiscTracker - Desktop multi-format music tracker player, by Ian Clark
SmartCD - Another desktop audio CD player
Sonor - Full version of VTIs Sample editing software, by Jason Tribbeck
SoundCon - Convert and play foreign sound samples, by Rick Hudson
Spectrum - 16 bit graphical spectrum alanyser for the RISC OS sound system, by James Reynolds
TimPlayer - Audio CD & Digital Symphony player

YEAR 2000 ISSUES (3)

Acorn Statement of Year 2000 Conformity
BBC Micro Y2K - Andrew Benham's Year 2000 fixes for the BBC Master series
BBC Master 128 Rom - A fix for the Master 128 Rom for the y2k problem

NON RISC OS ORIENTATED SITES (15)

Alta Vista - The best search engine
Alta Vista's translation page (Acorn friendly version
Bobby - Analyse web pages for accessibility to people with disabilities.
BT Friends & Family - Go directly here to view/edit your friends and family numbers
CNN - Up to date news from around the world
Demoroniser - Correct Moronic Microsoft HTML
Dilbert - Beware.... The Dilbert Zone!
Earth and Moon Viewer - View the Earth or Moon from any position
IMDB - The Internet Movie Database
IPN - Intellectual Property Network - Check Patent Information
Microsoft - Good news about Microsoft having Bad news
Mozilla source code - Source code and information for Mozilla
Slashdot - News for Nerds. Stuff that matters.
W3C HTML Validation Service - Online validation of web pages
Wotsit's Format - The programmers resource for file formats

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