A number of RISC OS bundled applications are delivered with purchased versions of the operating system.[1][2] Some are provided in ROM or pre-installed on hard disk or equivalent, with others being supplied on removable media such as SD card.
Such applications vary between versions.
RISC OS bundled applications
Typically bundled with the OS
Title | Purpose | First inclusion (OS version) | Vendor |
---|---|---|---|
Access+ | peer to peer network management application | V3.60 | Acorn |
Alarm | clock, with alarm functionality | <=V2 | Acorn |
Blocks | Tetris clone | Acorn | |
Calc | basic calculator | V1 (Arthur) | Acorn |
Chars | character insertion | V1 (Arthur) | Acorn |
ChangeFSI | bitmap graphic conversion and enhancement | Acorn | |
Clock | analogue clock | V1 (Arthur) | Acorn |
CloseUp | screen magnifier | Acorn | |
Configure | customise computer settings | V1 (Arthur) | Acorn |
Draw | vector graphics editor | <=V2 | Acorn |
Edit | text editor, support for editing tokenised BASIC programs | <=V2 | Acorn |
Flasher | locate the caret | Acorn | |
FontPrint | font conversion (Acorn to Postscript) | Acorn | |
Help | context-sensitive help | V1 (Arthur) | Acorn |
HForm | hard disc formatter | V1 (Arthur) | Acorn |
Hopper | game similar to Frogger | Simon Foster | |
Madness | desktop toy | Acorn | |
Maestro | simple scorewriter, with playback | <=V2 | Acorn |
Magnifier | screen magnifier | Acorn | |
MemNow | live memory use display | Acorn | |
Meteors | Asteroids clone | Neil Raine | |
MineHunt | mine sweeper clone | Paul LeBeau | |
Paint | basic pixel-based drawing | <=V2 | Acorn |
Patch | application compatibility patcher | Acorn | |
Patience | card game | <=V2 | Acorn |
PrintEdit | printer definition editor | Acorn | |
Printers[1] | printer manager | Acorn | |
Puzzle | sliding puzzle | <=V2 | Acorn |
ResetBoot | restore machine to factory ship state | Acorn | |
SciCalc | scientific calculator | Acorn | |
ShowScrap | locate temporary files | Acorn | |
SparkFS[2] | file compression | David Pilling | |
Squash | file compression | <=V3 | Acorn |
T1ToFont | font conversion (Postscript Type 1 to Acorn) | Acorn | |
Usage | system monitor | <=A3010 (on floppy) | Ran Mokady |
BBC Basic V & VI | programming languages, with inbuilt assembler | All versions? | Acorn |
Bundled with specific hardware, including optional software packs
Title | Purpose | First inclusion (Machine model) | Vendor |
---|---|---|---|
BookMaker[2] | address book | ||
CDVDBurnLite[1] | optical disc burning | hubersn Software | |
Fireworkz[2] | office suite | Colton | |
FTPc[1] | FTP client | ||
Lander | demo version of the game Zarch | Acorn | |
LanManFS[1] | network file system | ||
Mailman | basic email client | Acorn | |
Oregano[1] | web browser | Oregan Networks | |
OmniClient[2] | desktop front end to network file system | ||
Update Watcher[1] | upgrade manager | Castle Technology | |
PDF[1] | Xpdf port (PDF viewer) | ||
Writer[1] | cut-down version of EasiWriter | Icon Technology | |
65Host | BBC Micro emulator | Acorn | |
65Tube | 65C02 second processor emulator | Acorn | |
1st Word Plus | word processor | A3010 Learning Curve[3] | |
Amazing Maths | education | A3010 Learning Curve[4] | Cambridgeshire Software House |
Acorn DTP | desktop publishing[citation needed] | A3010 Learning Curve[3] | Acorn (with others) |
Doris The Dotty Dog | education | A3010 Learning Curve[4] | Sherston Software |
Explore With Flossy The Frog | education | A3010 Learning Curve[4] | 4Mation |
Genesis Plus | presentation program | A3010 Learning Curve[3] | |
A Mouse in Holland | education | A3010 Learning Curve[4] | 4Mation |
PC Emulator | PC emulator, with DR-DOS | A3010 Learning Curve[3] | |
TalkWrite | word processor | A3010 Learning Curve[4] | Icon Technology |
Selected games [1] | gaming | A3010 Learning Curve[3] |
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