A number of bundled applications are delivered with purchased versions of the operating system. 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. __TOC__
RISC OS bundled applications
Typically bundled with the OS
Title Purpose First inclusion 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 OmniClient universal front end for networking shares V5.00 (previously sold separately) ANT Paint basic pixel-based drawing <=V2 Acorn Patch application compatibility patcher Acorn Patience card game <=V2 Acorn PrintEdit printer definition editor Acorn Printers 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 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 Vendor BookMaker address book CDVDBurnLite optical disc burning hubersn Software Fireworkz office suite Colton FTPc FTP client Lander demo version of the game Zarch Acorn LanManFS network file system Mailman basic email client Acorn Oregano web browser Oregan Networks Update Watcher upgrade manager Castle Technology PDF Xpdf port (PDF viewer) Writer 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 CurveAcorn Computers - The Learning Curve, Getting Started Amazing Maths education A3010 Learning Curve Cambridgeshire Software House Acorn DTP desktop publishing A3010 Learning Curve Acorn (with others) Doris The Dotty Dog education A3010 Learning Curve Sherston Software Explore With Flossy The Frog education A3010 Learning Curve 4Mation Genesis Plus presentation program A3010 Learning Curve A Mouse in Holland education A3010 Learning Curve 4Mation PC Emulator PC emulator, with DR-DOS A3010 Learning Curve TalkWrite word processor A3010 Learning Curve Icon Technology Selected games gaming A3010 Learning Curve
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