A4 !A4Extra : Fixes some of the 'features' of the A4. It stops the HD from powering down if the external PSU is on, controls the cache and screen blanking and can switch between an external monitor and the LCD display. !A4_Utils : Helps with changing the monitor and managing the battery on an A4 !Secure3 : Provides a small amount of security if your computer is stolen. Mainly intended for the A4, it diplays a security screen when the computer is started up. This could, of course, be bypassed by an experienced user but 99% of computer thieves wouldn't know an Arc. from a Z81 so it might make them discard it or not bother to nick it Am_Radio !ArcFax - a Fax driver for the PK232 !ArcPacket - General purpose TNC driver !ComLink - Multi tasking TNC driver with script language. !DeskMorse = 2.16 By Ian Hawkins. This is a multi tasking program mainly intended for training but can also send and receive morse via a tranceiver interface which is described in the manual. !Locator - A worldwide locator program for HF/VHF/UHF enthusiasts. !LogBook = As the name suggests, a simple app to keep a contact log !Morse - Morse tutor !Packet - A packet radio terminal program (TNC driver) with two similar utilities !Pkts and !Wefax !PacMon - TNC connect warning indicator !Pkts - General purpose packet driver program !Pkts - General purpose packet driver program !QMR = Quick Morse Reader from Chris Coe. Converts text to morse and visa versa. Morse is represented as a series of .'s and -'s. !RickTerm - Packet TNC driver !RickTutor - Advanced morse tutor !RiscyTNC ^ Multi tasking terminal program for Ax25 controllers !Sender ^ 1.24 A Random morse code generator/tutor by Steve Eyre !Term93 : 2.00 A TNC driver and terminal from W.N.Rodger !TNC - Multi tasking TNC driver with script language. !Wefax - TNC driver !WWLocator - Locator for HF, VHF and UHF enthusiasts Apps !Accounts ^ A port of a BBC simple accounts program. ArcOutline ^ 1.04 A 'text outliner' which can be used to 'design' a piece of writing. Allows up to eight 'levels' of ideas which can be displayed as required !Ancestor+ ^ The long awaited family tree program, sucessor to Ancestry I, that Graham Crow was working on at the time of his death. We've been working very hard to get this finished in time to make this CD and the Wakefield show. It was to have been called 'Ancestry+' but threats by Minerva have caused the name change !ATC ^ 1.01 Air Traffic Control by Mike Smith. A simulation of controlling civil aircraft and guiding them in to land at several airports using your radar screen. Some features are not yet implimented and others will only be available in the 'full' version (ie. after you pay - so it's NOT Shareware). !BankAccnt = Very simple non desktop bank account program !Banker ^ Personal accounts program by Ken Jolley. No instructions, he says it's 'self explanatory' !Bells ^ A multimedia application about bellringing by Anne Parmenter. Lots of interesting info plus descriptions of the basic principles and sound samples !Charges ^ 1.70 Application for people who use the computer commercially to let you keep a log of work done on projects. New version has several major enhancements Chinese = 1.02 Billed as 'Chinese for RiscOS' by Like Taylor. It appears to be intended as a tuition program, and consists of two applications, a flashcard tuition program and a text reader !CompInt ^ Simple program to calculate compound interest !Coprnicus ^ Lets you identify objects in the night sky. Star maps can be printed or saved as Sprite or Draw files. This is a slightly cut-down version of a commercial program but the main functions are operative !CrossAid ^ 2.00 helps you find a word when only some of the letters are known, hence very useful for solvong crosswords !CSB ^ Cricket Scorebook, a comprehensive cricket scoring and statistics program by John Fairhurst. Comes with some example files and lots of instructions. !Daylight ^ Displays information about Sun and Moon rise and set at any point on the Earth's surface !DayNight ^ 1.30 Shows a map of the world indicating which sections are 'day' and which 'night' at any time !Distances ^ Desktop program by Robert Seago to show the distance between two cities. A computerised version of the distance table found in many road atlases. !DOField ^ Non desktop program to show depth of field of a camera lens. Gives numerical data plus a graph. !EAN ^ Produces a Barcode from it's 13 digit code number !EasyKnit ^ Comprehensive program BY Jim and Alan Muir to turn a Sprite or Drawfile into Intarsia or punchcards for knitting machines. Lots of features too numerous to mention, but this looks as good as a program I've seen on a PC which cost a LOT of money !Explorer ^ Nothing to do with Microsoft, it's a program by Mark Ainsworth for the production of 'blue lines' which bellringers use to learn a method !Family_1 ^ A simple 'family tree' program from David Breakwell. Not particularly sophisticated, but lets you input the data for each member in a standard database type format and it can then produce a Drawfile of the whole or part of the tree. Comes with two examples, one of which is a family tree of the various Acorn computers !Family_2 ^ 2.17 Nice geneology program from Denis Howe. Quite a comprehensive program. the whole 'tree' is shown on a desktop window and clicking on any name opens another window showing notes on that person. Various print and display options. Looks very easy to use. Can accept data in GEDCOM format. Comes with an example tree and some additional tools for handling GEDCOM files !Finance ^ Slightly cut-down version of the commercial program Finance Manager by Solloway Software. This might be quite good, but I found the design of the windows large and ugly using a 1280 x 1024 mode, so they would probably be completely overpowering on an older machine (plus it uses lots of pane windows - ugh!) !FixGen ^ 2.00 Fixture generator. Given a series of teams this can create a list of fixtures so all teams play each other twice (home and away). Can produce output in the form of a list or a fixture grid !Fixtures ^ Program to help create and maintain fixtures for football competitions. Fairly versatile so could be used for almost any sporting events !Flash ^ Calculates exposure required to photograph a subject using a flash. !Frank ^ From Mike Goatly, who describes it as a 'non-intelligent language learner'. It tries to learn about the order of and relationships between words from sentences you type !Forecast ^ Lets you create your own weather maps on which you can place all the usual symbols !Hiper ^ A sort of hypertext compiler by Andrew Hunter. It can create hypertext documents with various features. Would be useful for program Help texts, education, and lots of other purposes Hyperbook - Hypertext database system by Nick van Someren. Complete with several demo files. !HyperHelp ^ Quite nice hypertext viewer by Chris Wymark which can display documents containing sprites and links to other parts of the text. !Interest = Program from Neil Walker to calculate interest paid on a variable sum throughout the year with variable rates of interest. Check your bank/building society isn't cheating !Invoicer = Fron Anthony Goffart This lets you create invoices. !Junior ^ Computer Concept's Impression Junior program. They have now permitted this to be distributed as 'Freeware'. This version is completely unbridged and includes a Manual and examples. It's the early equivalent of Impression Style, and although not as powerful as Impression Publisher it's still a fully featured wordprocessor with many features of a full DTP package. This version works on any machine with at least 2Mb RAM (inc S/Arm), although if you've got a RPC it needs an old-style numbered screen mode or strange things can happen. (For those who are interested in getting a copy of the current equivalent, !Style, you might note that CC's 'special offer' price is actually higher than APDL's 'normal' price!! !Layout ^ 1.10 Very professional looking desktop PCB design package by Bernhard Walter. As well as its own format designs can be saved as Drawfiles for printing etc. !LotCheck ^ This is by Paul Gee and is intended to help you check your lottery numbers. It's particularly useful for syndicates or where there are lots of numbers to check !LotoPick ^ If you are silly enough to throw away money on the National Lottery here is anoth program, by Mark Collier, to help you !Lottery = 1.13 From Paul Vigay. The Author describes the purpose of this program as 'to win loads of money', so, as you can imagine, it's an aid to picking the correct numbers to help increase your chances of getting a prize in the national lottery. By using something like this you might even have as much as half the chance of winning as you would doing the pools! !Meditate = The Editor used to create 'Lunchtime' magazine. Contains all the tools you need to put together your own magazine !MoonTool : Gives info about the moon. Phase, age, distance, angle, dates of last/next new moon etc. plus various other items !Mortgage = Calculates your monthly mortgage payments !Movie = 1.06 a large database of film info, including actors, directors, writers, and other stuff. The actual program is fairly crude but the data is all plain text files so you can easily add to it. If you are interested in films it's a must !Niall II = Non Intelligent Archimedes Language Learner. Word learning parser named after an Amiga program. Processes user input and tries to 'learn' relationships between words so it can make sense of a sentence. At the end of a session you Save the vocabulary that has been learnt. !NumberGen ^ Program by Andrew Berry to generat lists of random numbers with full control over the range and type !Pools = 1.02 Another program with the aim of helping you to win money. A pools prdictor from Andrew Ayre. (Anything that keeps you away from thet *^&$£ed lottery!) !Predict ^ A weather predictor. The Author says it's pretty accurate !ProjMan = 1.03 Project Manager by Neil Vickers. Lets you set up ten different 'environments' which can be selected from a menu. Each environment can open directories, set screen mode, run specified applications, etc. The idea is that you would set these to suit the 'projects' that you are working on so you can have everything just the way you like it for each working environment you use !ShareGrph ^ 1.17 Program from Neil Walker to keep track of share prices and provide graphs of performance !Sheet ^ 0.84 Shareware spreadsheet by Tim Dilks. Up to 100 columns by 100 rows. Lots of features and being continually improved !SkyGuide ^ 0.16 Very complrehensive celestial viewing program from Alan Senior. Will work on an ARM2 but it's rather slow so it really needs at least an ARM3 !SkyView ^ 1.02 Superb program which shows a simulation of the sky showing all the major astronomical bodies at any time and date from any location on the Earths surface. The result is displayed in scrollable windows. Can also print the output via RiscOS printer drivers. !Speak ^ 1.00 From Robert Seago, an amalgamation of his earlier !Keyspeak and !Say programs so it can both speak short phrases and say the name of keys as they are pressed. !Spotter = 1.10 Gives a variety of information on satellites. It uses the NORAD SGP4 and SDP4 models to give visibility predictions It can display the information relative to any point on the Earth's surface, perform real time analysis, and print out the results !SS ^ Billed as a 'cell editor'. Briefly, it loads data in a variety of formats and displays it in cells rather like a spreadsheet. Obviously data must be 'viewable', but it's ideal for looking at CSV, Tab separated and various other formats without the need to load a major package !SSS ^ Simple desktop spreadsheet, complete with 'C' source !Stargazer ^ 7.0 By Steve Ellwood, very good star plotter with real time update of the viewing window. Lots of features and the data is in the form of a textfile so more expert users can edit it to add data for additional objects !Tabellen ^ This is a German program, and although the instructions are also in English they're rather vague, so I'm not 100% sure what it's all about, but I think it's for keeping league tables for sporting teams. !Telescope ^ By Martin Dale, gives info about the objects in the solar system and general astronomical data. The observer's position and date can be varied !Thoughts ^ From G.Rampton, an 'ideas processor' to help you plan projects, docoments, even letters !VAT ^ Adds 17.5% VAT to a price. !VAT_Calc ^ Very simple desktop VAT-adder from Tim Wiser !Wages = A (very) simple program to calculate your 'take home pay' given the gross pay, tax free allowance and tax rate. Can only cope with a single tax rate so not for serious use. !Wapuro = 1.00 From Jason Williams. Lets you enter Japanese script (Hiragana or Katakana) by typing the appropriate Romaaji. Works with any desktop app that can use the supplied fonts !Waterways ^ Draws a rather large map of the inland waterways in a scrollable window. I don't know how accurate it is but it doesn't admit the existance of the Medway so either it has a few omissions or I've been floating my boat on dry land for years without noticing it! !WorldTime ^ Displays a visual indication of the position of the Sun in a desktop window showing the parts of the world in darkness. Also gives various other information and can 'step' the display time !Xmas ^ Tells you how many days to Christmas. !XWords ^ From Geraint Williams, takes a list of words and generates a crossword in the form of a Drawfile. The Drawfile can also incorporate the clues so you can have a nice, neat, completed crossword. Art_Draw 3d_Tutor ^ A Module and 'tutorial' from Paul Mason, with some examples, for producing 3D images based on the techniques used in the cinema !ArchAngel = 3.50 Another 256 colour package. Like Arctist it's a bit old but seems to work well and unlike some later programs is OK with only 1Mb. Comes with good instructions !Arctist+ = 1.00 256 colour art package. Rather old now and once withdrawn because it kept crashing. This version was modified by a user so it doesn't crash. I have made a few modifications myself to stop it needing a hard reset when you quit and fixed a few other bugs. !Artist2 ^ Non desktop painting program with various features such as polygon/circle/rectangle/arc and line drawing, text insertion, spraycan etc. !Artist4 ^ Non desktop easy to use program with lots of features !AWViewer ^ A viewer for Artworks files. Allows people who don't have it to look at pictures created with CC's Artworks package !BigM = Another simple art package, ideal for kids !Design2 ^ A simple non desktop drawing program that allows you to create complex 'mirror image' artwork !Detail ^ This alows you to display and manipulate images. Works with CLEAR files and sprites and up to 24 bpp. Can grab a screen, change the palette, etc. This is a partially crippled version of a commercial package (the distributors describe it as 'Shareware' which shows how ignorant they are of the Shareware principle) but it is useful 'as is' !DigiGraf ^ 1.40 Non desktop art package by Stuart Smith. Lots of features and the examples show it can create some very good effects !DrawLink = Links ASCII text files into a format suitable for inclusion in !Draw/!Draw+ as a text area !DrawPersp ^ 1.3 A much improved version of Robert Seago's 'ThreeDee' program for drawing in perspective. With examples. !Draw+ ^ 2.37 Jonathan Martens superb PD drawing package now has all the features of RiscOS 3 Draw and more. Transformed text and sprites, colour dithering and iconising supported (RO3 only), text objects, sprites, groups can be rotated, skewed and flipped. Transformed text objects can be edited. Some types of Vector objects can be used (not surprising as Vector was also written by Jonathan). Various bug fixes and improvements in font handling. Three example Libraries and some example Draw files are provided. !FineArt :~ 1.00 Highly acclaimed program by Barry Alcock. If you have been following the PD columns in magazines you will have seen this mentioned so I shan't describe it at length. However you should be aware that it really needs 4Mb of RAM !FormDraw ^ By Kell Gatherer, merges text with a Drawfile. Lets you create effects that would be much more difficult to do when typing the text directly !FreeHand ^ Simple drawing package for 'freehand' drawings which saves its output as a Drawfile. Makes drawing or certain shapes much easier than with !Draw itself !Graffiti ^ Nice desktop art package from Andrew Lindesay. All the usual tools and feature and very easy to use. Complete with good Manual in text and Impression Style format Grid ^ temporarily draws a grid over the screen. Very useful for lining up objects in Draw, template editors, etc. !Librarian ^ Extracts objects from DrawPlus libraries for transfer to other apps !MArt ^ 256 colour non desktop art package. Lots of tools and features and easy to use so it's ideal for younger users !MC_Paynta ^ For younger kids, very simply app with background music !Monet ^ Another art package to let you create paintings in the style of the French Impressionists !Painter = 1.00 Art package !Pixar ^ 0.80 Non desktop sprite editor. !Paint is perfectly adequate for most purposes but this program has some advantages, such as an 'undo' facility, pattern and image fill and scaling !Reflect ^ A drawing program which produces a 'reflection' of what you are drawing !Rembrandt = 4.22 Quite good 256 colour art program from R.B.Brown !SketchPad ^ Desktop art package, again with lots of features !SpacePaint ^ Not particularly brilliant but very easy to use non desktop painting program. Probably ideal for kids !Splosh - A 'Risc compliant' drawing package by Wayne Keenan. Unfortunately it's somewhat diminished by the complete lack of instructions but is otherwise quite good !SpiroDraw ^ 1.01 Nice program by Rosemary Miskin to make 'spirograph' Drawfiles. Lots of patterns and options !StreetMap ^ By Kell Gatherer, converts a Drawfile made up of single lines into parallel lines. Main use, as the name implies, is for making street maps, but there are lots of others !Text2Draw ^ 1.03 By Frank Hertel, converts textfiles into Text Objects which can loaded directly into Draw to produce nicely formatted text in any font/style etc. !ThreeDee ^ 1.01 Simple drawing program from Robert Seago. It's designed for line drawing in perspective and you can move the 'vanishing point' to alter this. Has a few bugs but interesting The following are Artworks add-ons by Martin Wurther !ShowXY ^ 1.00 Shows the pointer position in Artworks page units !Translate ^ 1.04 Object translation tool !Polygon ^ 1.20 Lets you create and manipulate regular n-sided polygons and stars !MadnessT ^ Don't ask! Clock_Time !AppsClock ^ By Andrew Booker, replaces the word 'Apps' under the Apps icon by the current time. It might do other things but the instructions are in StrongHelp format and I'm not going to fiddle about with that to try to get more info !Chime ^ Just chimes on the hour !Chimes ^ Chimes on the hour and half hour if required !Clock ^ Not a very exiting clock, but as it only tells the time to the nearest minute it's only polled once a minute so it won't slow down your Arc !DClock ^ Digital clock that displays the time in a small window so you can tuck it in a corner out of the way. !DeskDate ^ Shows the date at the top RH side of the screen !DigiClock ^ Digital clock in a small window so it doesn't take up any icon bar space and you can put it where you like !DskChimes ^ Chimes every hour !Floating ^ Yet another desktop clock (doesn't anybody wear a watch?) in a small window with lots of options. !GSSClock ~ Unobtrusive clock that sits just above the left hand end of the icon bar !HourAlarm ^ Does just what you would expect !IconClk3d ^ Digital clock on the icon bar that I think is ugly and too big but some people think is wonderful !IshClock ^ Tells the time to the nearest five minutes or so !RiseSet ^ Tells the time of sunrise/sunset for today !sclock ^ A Sidereal Clock by Simon Melhuish (makes a change!) Sensible ^ Displays dates in a more 'humanised' format than the standard options. eg, will show things like 'yesterday', 'today'. etc. SetTimer ^ This creates a System Variable which represents the time since it was created. There are various uses for this, such as timing tasks, on line time, time the computer has been in use, etc. !StopClock ^ A straightforward desktop stopwatch that counts in seconds so it doesn't grab too many null events and slow up whatever it is you're trying to time. !SmallTime = A 'small' desktop clock from James Feeman !Time ~ World time display !Timer ^ Although written as an online timer this is a general purpose stopwatch that could be used to record the time taken by any task !Tyme ^ A clock that tells the approximate time rather nicely. !VoxClock ^ 2.36 Icon bar clock that speaks the time. Comes with four sampled voices from which to choose and you can make it tell the time at a variety of intervals as well as when you 'click' on it Comms !423State = Displays state of serial port !7Plus = The Author, John Ingrams, says this is an Archimedes version of the PC program 7Plus, so if you know what that is, you'll know what this is, if you don't.... 7-Patch = 1.03 Patches ArcTerm 1.06 to work under RO3 !Ansi2Text = As it's name suggests, converts ANSI files to text !AnsiEdit : 2.30 An editor by Darren Hillerby to allow ANSI files to be created on the Arc. With extensive examples. !ANSIshow = Displays ANSI files !AnsiText = Another ANSI to text converter !ArcANSI = A module to emulate the PC's ANSI driver !Arc100 = VT100 terminal emulator ARCBBS - Very good BBS. XMODEM, YMODEM, YMODEM Batch. User status NORMAL to COSYSOP. Shareware by Zeridajh Software. !ArcDoor ^ Lets you start an app when a modem connection is established, so it can be used as an auto-start for your comms program !Arctic ^ ARChimedes Terminal Interface to CompuServe. The best way to get access to one of the best services, and it even has good documentation! !AreaFix = This version by Richard Paddle !AT7Nums = From Paul Welbank, converts newer ArcTerm7 phone files into text files so you can make a printed list, etc. !AutoUUD ^ 1.00 By James Beech, a binary extractor for NewsBase !BBSview = Alows you to inspect ARCbbs menu and text files without pre-installing them in ARCbbs. BodgePkt ^ From Ainsley Pereira this forces the sender/receiver's address in a fidonet mail package !Chugga = 0.95 Compiles nodelists CipherEngine 0.66 This comprises the Cipher Engine/!Suremail from David Seery. This is a Module which both encrypts and compresses files in a form suitable for EMail. Uses 'digital signatures' for file as a tamper check !Connector ^ 0.77b VT102, ANSI and AVATAR terminal emulator using X- Y or Z- modem file transfer from Andreas Zieringer !Coster ^ 1.3 By Steve Loft, shows current call charges while you are online. Terrifying, isn't it! !DayNight = 1.30 Shows a map of the world indicating which sections are 'day' and which 'night' at any time !DialIt ^ 1.04 By Ian Young, this dials a phone number via your modem. Most comms programs can already do this, but some can't, or won't accept enough digits to dial via Mercury !DNSTester ^ 0.02 DNS lookup utility by Stewart Brodie !Download ^ 1.02 By Emmet Spier, lets you transfer textfiles from any source via the serial port !DTMF = 2.01I Allows phone numbers to be dialled directly from databases using the Impulse protocol !Extract and !Submit = 1.11 Lets you decode/post files as uuencoded tar files in UNIX compatible format FastDriver : Block driver by Hugo Fiennes gives three extra baud rates, 38400, 57600, 115200. A5000, A4, A3010/20, A4000 only !Fax ^ Suite of programs by Steven Kramer to send and receive faxes via a Class 2 fax-modem. Looks like it might be useful for people who only need to send the occasional fax !Grapevine = 1.32 terminal program from Julian Wright. I'm told that it's one of the best around but as I'm not a comms freak you'll have to try it yourself !GrSp>Ansi = A crude program to convert simple Mode 12 screens to ANSI !HS2Cost ^ Calculates cost of time spent online with HearSay !HsayBill ^ Calculates call charges from HearsayII logfile !IceManger : Improved Communications Enhancer by Carl Declerck. A module with SWIs to make using the serial port easier. Includes a simple terminal program Kermit = Archimedes C-Kermit. Very ancient now (the Help text refers to Arthur!) but some people still want to use it !Logga - 2.13 logs your time actually spent using the Arc !ModemUtil = 2.10 Another good terminal program from Paul Clifford of Doggysoft MPack = Two modules, MPack and MUnpack, for encodeing/decoding files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) format. Can also work with split uuencoded format !MultiTalk ^ About as simple as it's possible for a terminal to get Two windows open, type text in one to send it, received text appears in the other !NaixSChat = 1.01 A split screen sysop chat for RISCbbs !NewsFlash ^ 0.25 Multi-line BBS package by Chris Davis. The Author points out that the documentation is not complete, but it seems brilliant by the standards of most comms programs! !NListMgr ^ 0.95Bc Node List Manager by Steven Haslam !PGP ^ 2.3a Pretty Good Privacy. The famous Public Key encryptation program ported to the Arc by Chris Gransden and Paul Allen. Includes a desktop front end (v0.12) by Peter Gaunt !Reader ^ By Anthony Frost, a reader/replier for mail from ArcBBS boards !ReadNodes ^ Add-on for RiscBBS RiscBBS - Fully multitasking RISC-OS compliant Bulletin Board Server package which allows for a versatile BBS-setup !RI_Logger = Utility to log online time with multitasking terminals !RloginD ^ Remote Login Daemon, creates a Taskwindow linked to the serial port so you can execute CLI commands from a terminal !Rs232stat ^ Shows the state of the serial port !RUCP = A UUCP clone for the Archimedes. !SerialDev = Serial device driver !SLIPdial ^: 0.33 A script driven dialler and control program for !TCPIP by Graham Allan. Main use is to establish a connection with the provider and hand over to !TCPIP and then close down afterwards !TASK = A viewdata terminal !TeleDesk = 3.00 No instructions but it seems to be a complete desktop Teletext software package !Teletext = Teletext screen editor !TermHost ^ App from David Brain to allow a terminal to run a command line via the serial port. Also useful as a debugging tool !Term7Cost = Calculates cost of calls made using Arcterm7. I don't know if this means it only works with Arcterm7 or if it might work with other terminal programs !ToneDial - Simple program to directly dial a number if your exchange can accept tone dialling. !TouchTone ^ Plays dial tones through the computer's speaker. You can either click on the 'keypad' of type in the number !TransArc ^ A BBS mail exchange editor !TTFN ^ The Thread Following Newsreader by Robert Orwin !U2 ^ uudecoder/coder by Paddy Spencer who describes it as having 'more knobs and whistles than you can shake a stick at'. I assume this means that it works? !Unpost ^ A 'smart' uudecoder from Nick Craig-Wood UUD ^ 3.4 A CLI driven fast uudecoder !VHost = 1.01 Complete Viewdata Host system !ViewData = No instructions, but this looks like a complete terminal !ViewScr = Lets you view and/or print text saved to disc while online to a Viewdata service Viewscroll - A program to view and print viewdata frames and text saved from within Beebug's Hearsay. !Xfront = 1.04 A desktop frontend for the !X terminal program from Gnome Computers !ZAnsiDial = A dialler for the popular !ZAnsi program (B240) !ZAnsi = ANSI, VT52, VT100 and VT220 terminal emulation. Supports XModem and ZModem Compress !ArcAuto ^ program to make archiving a series of directories with ArcFS easier ArcExam ^ 0.10 Archived file examiner/recovery. Displays data about an archive to help you find out what is wrong. !ArcMirror = A utility which can be used in conjunction with ArcFS or SparkFS to create an archive which consists of just a directory structure. I gather that BBS's often want to do this (in fact PKZIP can do it on the PC). !AutoArc ^ 2.10 Makes archiving a series of files/apps using ArcFS much simpler. Allows them to be replaced by archives with the same name automatically. !BatSpark = Makes archiving files with !Spark easier. Allows an application to be arc'ed as a series of separate files. !Boo = Application to de-BOO files. With 'C' source code !CAIFS ^ 1.44 An archive filing system from Daniel Oram. This is fairly comprehensive and quite fast. It's not quite as easy to use as !ArcFS (you have to create the archive first and then compress it separately) but it does seem to work reasonably well, and with a registration fee of only £10 it's cheaper that either ArcFS or SparkFS, although I have had some problems with it. Not as good as ArcFS for commercial purposes but it might be worth considering for personal use !CFSaid ^ Checks that a CFS compressed file isn't longer than the uncompressed version and if it is it decompresses it !CFSCopier ^ A series of features to make CFS more convenient to use. !CFSCreate ^ From Tony Howat, creates a CFS directory in which everything you put is compressed !Cruncher ^ 1.13 Crunches/decrunches files !DeBOO ^ Program to decode BOO files from Steve Loft !FSC{-}CFS = 1.01 Allows you to switch between a CFS directory and the 'normal' version of the same directory. gzip = 1.2.3 GNU Zip. For creating/de'arcing ZIP files. I have successfully transferred files to/from a PC using this. Complete with 'C' source code. !ImpCompr = 1.00 App by Jonathan Marten to automatically compress or decompress Impression documents using !SarkFS. For example, the Manual for the application is an Impression document and takes 27K normally and only 12K when compressed. NOTE - you need !SparkFS to use this InfoZip ^ Beta release of Info-ZIP's Zip and UnZip. CLI only but quite fast and gives good compression. !MakeLZW ^ A desktop 'front end' for John Kortink's LZW modules. !MakeSFX ^ 0.23 A program I wrote to make self-extracting archives. It's actually used to create the catalogue and other archives posted on the APDL web site MPack ^ Two modules, MPack and MUnpack, for encodeing/decoding files in MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) format. Can also work with split uuencoded format !MultiArc = 1.03 Makes creation of archives consisting of many files/applications using SparkFS simpler !PackDir ^ 2.03 Archives directories into one very compact file, ideal for hard disc backups. !ScanCFS = Another utility to uncompress CFS files which are longer than the original, this time from B.D.Marsden SparkFSClk = Allows SparkFS to be used with directories that don't have filenames beginning with '!' !SparkInfo ^ 2.02 provides info on Sparked files !Squish = A module and desktop front end which provides simple file compression. Works best with sprites !SwapCFS = 1.02 Another utility to switch between CFS and the regular directory !UnArj ^ 2.30 DDE utility to decompress ARJ files. UnCFS ^ 1.20 An application by Cy Booker to drastically speed up Computer Concepts Compression Filing System. Once installed it's completely transparent to the user. UUcoder = A RM which acts as a very fast UUencode/decoder. !UUencode = 0.20 Program by Andrew Benham to convert files to UUcoded 7 bit format !UUdecode = 0.20 Again from Andrew Benham, decode files from UUcoded format !uuexplode = A uudecoder bases on UNIX kiss 1.0 and ported to the Arc. by Martin Glanvill. Includes C source code !x-files ^ Very useful image filing system by an anonymous author, despite the inclusion of all source code. Biggest advantage is it supports up to 256 character filenames and unlimited files per directory so it's ideal for storing all those old correspondence files. Biggest disadvantage is that compaction is poor, a file which increases in size is moved to the end of the image, and compaction only happens when there is about 30% of wasted space, but this isn't normally important in practice unless disc space is tight. Zip = File compressor Customise !3D On/Off : Simple app to switch on 3D icons for those who don't know how to do it from the CLI or in their !Boot file !3DPatch ^ This is ment to be an improved version of Ting Zwei Kuei's program by Matthew Bullock. However, it doesn't seem to work on my machine with RO 3.7 and there aren't any proper instructions so..... !ACHconfig : Desktop configuration program which lets you set some of the items missing from the RO3 Config program !AcornLogo : Puts the Acorn logon on the top RH corner of the screen !AltColors = A series of alternative desktop palettes !Arctune ^ Puts random funny (!) text in the Wimp startup screen !AutoFocus ^ Automatically gives the window with the mouse pointer over it the input focus !Banner ^ Program to display a 'banner' window on the screen. This !Bannerz ^ 1.02 A selection of 'Welcome' banners by John Noble can be done at start-up by including it in your !Boot sequence or at any time (eg. by running it from within another app.). Includes !BanEd which allows you to make your own banners !BeepError ^ 0.33 By Piers Wombwell this lets you assign sound samples to specified errors. You can therefore have different noises for the errors or types of error !BestDesk = A series of 'third party' items put together in a single package by Ryan Li !Decor8 ^ Icon sprites, new hourglass, system font, backdrop tile, etc. by Tim Willis !DeskFonts : App that replaces the System font with an outline font whenever VDU5 text is used, which means all over the desktop DeskPatch : Superb suite of customising programs which give solid 3D file dragging, slabbed icons, anti-aliased fonts on the desktop, specialised directory icons, some very attractive system sprites (the only ones I've seen so far that I prefer to the standard ones). Lots of other features. Needs Filer 1.64. DeskPatch-1 and Deskpatch-2 are included. I'm told that Deskpatch-1 works on RiscOS 3 but it wipes out the ADFS file icons on my A5000, however Deskpatch-2 doesn't. !Desktop+ : 1.51 Enables solid drags, fancy fonts in filer windows, named directory sprites, etc. !DragIcons : Another app to enable solid drags ErrorBeeps ^ Various interesting sound samples to replace the standard error beep !FancyDirs : Lets you have 'fancy' icons for directories which contain certain types of files instead of all those boring, identical 'folder' icons !FlDesk ^ Flossy Desk 3.00. Various utilities in a single task. Status display, bin, etc. FilerExt : A module from Greg Stewart-Nicholls to let you use anti- aliased fonts in filer windows !FinalLook ~ Gives solid drags, anti-aliased fonts, marbled windows, and perhaps other things, but the Author Matthew Godbolt, can't be bothered to say what it does so why should I? !FriedInsd ^ A 'banner' for people with PC cards - only works in 16 colour modes !Hello ^ Makes your computer politely wish you Good Morning, Good Afternoon or Good Evening when you switch on !Highway ^ A complete desktop/environment customising application by Bernard Veasey !Iconiser ^ Replacement iconiser (surprise!) from Peter Burwood. Main advantage is that it puts the icons on the RH side of the screen so they don't vanish below all the other windows !iconSprtz = I don't know why I hadn't thought of this! Drag spritefile to the IconSprtz icon and it's added to the Wimp Pool. Saves a lot of messing about when you're editing the application sprites etc. !IconThang ^ Lots of odds and ends. Auto switch from lo/hi res sprites on Mode change, display time and free RAM, launch tasks. !IconZ 2 : Application from David Jones to animate the Switcher icon. Comes with three animations or make your own !Judith ^ 1.43 Another iconiser replacement, this one puts all the icons in a scrollable window KillScreen : Kills the standard RO3 startup screen and can issue a CLI command to run one of your own if you wish !MakeNewer : An 'installer' for !NewerLook and it also contains the complete !NewerLook application. !Megaboard ^ 1.63 An enhanced backdrop for the Risc PC only by Sham Gardner with various advantages over the standard one. !NewBar - 1.20 Places icon bar within a movable window NewerBits = Improved sprites for ChangeFSI, Style, Maestro, Printers, plus some extra backdrop textures !NewerLook : 2.00 Andrew Clover's multi-purpose desktop customiser, now improved to work with the Risc PC. Lot's of improvemets, various types of sprite drags, improved pinboard, improved resource filer for pre Risc PC's, plus, of course, a variety of Wimp sprites (2D and 3D) and window tools, new hourgalss, nicer error boxes, replacement windows for the 'resident' apps, etc, etc. NewestLook : Complex desktop enhancer from Brian Bailey and seems to include a customised version of !NewLook as well as improved sprites for lots of other applications !NewFiler : A patch for filer 1.64 by Nick Jarman to make the filer treat directory names beginning with ascii 160 (the 'hard' space) as application directories so you don't need the '!' at the start of the name !NewIBar : Gives you a flashy marbled icon bar on pre-RO3.5 machines !OutLnWimp : Adds outline fonts and a RO 3.5+ style mode picker and more to RO 3.1 machines !Paint : New Sprites and Templates for RO3.1 !Paint !PinExtend : 1.14 Various improvements to the standard pinboard from Andrew Berry !PinFilter : Enhancements to the Pinboard by Andrew Kemp !PinLogo : Another app to put the Acorn logo on the pinboard !Pootah ^ Desktop environment for kids by Tim Willis !Punk ^ A rather more agressive switcher icon than the one provided by Acorn !RestoreBD ^ By Andrew Berry, restores the default backdrop after it has been changed !RotateSw = Puts a rotating Acorn logo on the icon bar !Setup : Application by Anthony Brion to let you have several 'setup' sequences in you !Boot application and to choose which one will operate. Paricularly useful if more than one person habitually uses the compuer but it could be used to provide alternative working environments for different tasks SolidDrag ^ By Paul Wilkinson, this is for people who prefer solid rather than transparent icon drags on their Risc PC. It intercepts calls to DragASprite and forces solid drags. !StyleDraw : A set of 'fancy' icons and sprites to make Draw look a bit prettier from Dave Thomas !SupaDesk ^ New 3D icons for Paint, Edit, Chars, Alarm, Draw, and their files plus new templates for free memory, task manager, etc. !TempOut : 1.30 From Chris Gilbert, modifies the ROMApps3D application in !NewLook to save RAM. !ToolBar : A user-configurable utility which lets you add a Toolbar to most applications that don't have one. !WelcomeA : An alternative desktop 'Welcome' screen from Cy Booker. You can, of course, create your own screens. Works on RiscPC too WelshRsrc ^ A set of Welsh language resources so that all the main apps can have menus and messages in Welsh !Widget : A collection of various peoples work. Lets you personalise the RFS amongst other things. !WinSave ^ A program by Ian Clarke which emulates a 'Windows' style save dialogue system. (Why change the best and most useful feature of RiscOS, ie. true 'drag and drop' file saving??) !WimpPatch : From James Ponder. Provides 'nicer' Error windows !zApp :~ By Peter Greenham replaces ROM Apps with a customisable version which is more like a normal filer window !ZoomerBox = Creates a nice effect when windows are opened or closed. Instead of just appearing a dotted line 'box' zooms from nothing to full size or visa versa Customise.Backdrops !AllChange ^ Program by Mike Smith to change a backdrop sprite at a predefined interval. Like a background slide show !Backdrips : 1.07 Desktop backdrop tiles !Backdrops : Patterned desktop backdrops. Unlike most of these which use a sprite this uses a repeated pattern so it works with non standard screen modes. 41 are provided and you can easily make your own. !Bars ^ Lots of 'bar' tiles for the backdrop !BdKing ^ Backdrop King by Andrew Lafferty. Dozens of different tiles in all shapes, colours and textures with programs for selecting them. Probably the most comprehensive and varied selection I've seen. !BDLogo ^ Puts an embossed Acorn logon on the desktop backdrop. The sprite itself and its position can be changed Clouds ^ A series of very good 256 col backdrop sprites bt Ryan Li !PasteUp ^ Series of backdrops and a program to load them !PhotoTex ^ Photo quality sprites for backdrops from Alasdair Bailey !PinIt ^ 'Bringing a bit of fifties bad taste to your screen' !Tiles : A series of 'tiles' for your RiscOS 3 16 or 256 colour backdrop !Tyla2 ^ 2.3 By Mike Williams, generates random tiled backdrops !Wackdrops ^ Various backdrops !WimpTiles ^ 25 backdrop and window tiles by Dave Thomas !XEarth ^ Backdrop made up of a globe and this can be viewed from any point above the equator and is shaded according to where the sun is at the current time Customise.Hourglass AnimateHG ^ A series of animated hourglasses from Dave Parr !Hourglass = 3.06 Alternative hourglass, quite nice !HourMake = 1.13 From Jon Ribbens to design your own hourglass. !HourMaker = A program from Simon Heys which lets you create customised Hourglass Modules !HourTest = 1.01 Lets you switch the Hourglass on and off. Intended for testing/viewing new hourglasses. Comes with three new hourglasses to play with. !MacWheel : 'Mac style' mouse pointer instead of the hourglass. !NewGlass ^ 1.01 A really nice high resolution hourglass from Andy George. Much better than the standard Acorn offering. !OurGlass ^ Another utility to let you design your own hourglass DaveThomas - A series of animated hourglasses Customise.IconSprite 22Sprites ^ Some interesting hi res sytem sprites !Bordered ^ A set of bordered icon sprited by Stuart Ford !Bubbles ^ Lo-res circular icon sprites !DDD = Dozens of 3D file icons for all types of files including many commercial ones. DeskSprs : Selection of file, tool and icon sprites. Some of these are very nice !GreySprte = A selection of sprites, most of which have a metalic look !IconSelec ^ Icon sprites from Daniel Horan Icons ^ Low res icon sprites by Adam Flowerday JW_Icons ^ Icon and Tool sprites from Jason Williams !MacDesk ^ A few icons to make your desktop look a bit Mac-like !NewIcon_1 = New file and desktop icons !NewIcon_2 = Rather garish file icons from Ioan Evans !NewSprits = Alternative system sprites NMicons = A selection of icons from Nicholas Metcalfe intended for standard resolution monitors Owen ^ Various icon sprites in lo and high res by Owen Smith !Pebbled ^ Some rather nice 'pebbled' 3D icons from Peter eastwood - the only trouble is there are no 'small' ones !RiscOS+ ^ Assorted icons from James Shiell SamBerry ^ Nice 3D style icon sprited by Sam Berry Customise.Pointers Various alternative pointers including a collection from Dave Thomas Customise.Toolsprites !3DIcons : Complete set of low resolution 'tool' icons to improve the appearance of your desktop 3DTools : A set of rather nice 3D tool sprites 3DTools2 : More 3D tool sprites !Customise : Several sets of Tool, file, radio, option etc. sprites with a 'selector' program from Glyn Furlong !Customise = Various new sprites and icons including new 3D window and file sprites, backdrops, tool sprites, etc. !Customize : Some programs by Mike Curnow to switch dithering, solid drags, and the FPA on and off !Customise : Selection of File and Tool sprites from Andrew Heckford !EdsWin4 ^ Marbled tool sprites and some icon sprites !IconSelec ^ Icon sprites from Daniel Horan Icons_1 : Complete set of tool sprites and many icon sprites !JstForFun = New borders for your Wimp windows. Some of these are quite nice. !KoolLook ^ Blue tool sprites by Ben Spencer !MegaIcons : Tool and file icons from Jon Alwyn !Megalook : A selection of very good icon and tool sprites from Matthew Gray, mainly for Hi Res monitors !NetLook ^ More tool sprites !NewLook : Hi res 3D tool icons again !NewTemps = More new tool sprites. !NewIcons3 : complete set of tool and file sprites for hi-res modes. !NewWindow : A complete set of file, icon and tool sprites Resources² : New templates etc for ROM apps and others. Although intended for RO3 you could use many of these with the RO2 versions as well !RiscOS3+ : Backdrops and tool sprites from Ian Jeffray. These come in 2D and 3D versions so they're suitable for lo res monitors as well as hi res !RndTools ^ Changes the window tools at random !Selector : Three sets of hi-res tool icons that you can switch between by clicking on a 'button' !SetIcons = Lets you switch between various sets of icons !Stripes ^ Stripey tool bars and backdrops !Tiny ^ Set of tool sprites with very narrow scroll bars. Useful to get the absolute maximum working area !Tools_1 : Three sets of lo res tool icons from Stuart Ford !Tools_2 : Six new sets of toolsprites from Hugo Mills in a nice application for selecting them !Whoop ^ Replaces the error beep with a noise that the name describes perfectly! WimPatch35 ^ Forces 3D type raised borders on all menus. This *ONLY* works on RO 3.5 so it's just for the Risc PC 600 Windows_1 : 15 new designs which change the window icons and scroll bars etc. ranging from the attractive to the bizarre. !Windows_2 : More hi res tool icons plus a backdrop sprite !Windows_3 ^ Two sets of tool sprites from David Parr XmasIcons ^ Well, it's nearly Christmas, so decorate your desktop Database AddressBk = A rather old, non desktop, address book database by Alex Hopkins. However it's easy to use and has an 'Arthur style' Wimp interface. Not the most up to date available but younger users in particular might find it preferable to more complex programs !AddressD = 2.01 A desktop address book from Alex Hopkins. This one's quite nice and has decent instructions !Addresses = 1.25 by Neil Walker and can sort on various fields !Address_1 = 1.02 Desktop address book database !Address_2 = 0.53 Straightforward desktop address database. !Albums = Catalogue for your records AlphaConv ^ By Simon Osborne, converts files from Clares 'AlphaBase' into CSV or textfiles so you can import them into other databases. !Ancestor+ ^ The long awaited family tree program, sucessor to Ancestry I, that Graham Crow was working on at the time of his death. We've been working very hard to get this finished in time to make this CD and the Wakefield show. It was to have been called 'Ancestry+' but threats by Minerva have caused the name change Birdlog = A twitchers database !CardBank = 1.02 Useful database. Modified to work with RO3 and filing systems other than ADFS !CardIndex = 2.20 Desktop database. Much improved version. Now works properly under RO3 and better than many of the other PD desktop databases available !CDindex = Catalogue for your CD's !CDtracker : 2.21 Comprehensive database for your CD's. Not only does it allow you to catalogue your CD (or tape) collection, with full search facilities, it can also (given suitable hardware) play them as well. Comes complete with a huge ready made database. Can import data from similar programs (including the popular !CDIndex and !Cassette) !Contents - The Author describes this as an 'item location management utility', ie. it keeps track of things. A bit difficult to explain briefly so try it and decide for yourself. !Database = Non desktop name and address database !DataBase = 2.60 Very nice desktop database by Raffaele Ferrigno. All the usual features and with three example databases. Can work with CSV files and the data files are (more or less) plain text so you can actually alter them with a text editor if you wish !DataDes = Advantage of this is that the database format is very flexible and the files are plain text !DataSuite = Not an application but a resource for use with the DataSuite system. It provides additional facilities for use with the DataVox system !DataWay ^ Straightforward database by Bernard Veasey. Shareware, with a £15 registration fee, the same as you'd pay APDL for a registered version of PowerBase with printed manuals etc, and it's just not in that class !DialCode = Lets you search for the place name if you know the dialling code and visa versa. !DiscIndex = 1.02 A rather nice disc cataloguing program from Neil Carson. Complete with C source code !DiscTrack : 1.00 Another good disc catalogue program from Ainsley Pereira. Has good search facilities to help you find files in the resulting disc database !DrawCat = 1.10 From Anton Mans, this lets you create a printed 'catalogue' of a collection of Drawfiles !EasiBase = 1.01 Straightforward desktop database with a few nice features. All the usual database functions. Fields can be text, integer, FP or date. Cards are designed using a 'FormED' type editor so you can make them just the way you want them. Has simple graph plotting feature. !EDS ^ Another Shareware database, by T.Humphrey. Billed as 'datadase, statistics and graph plotting package'. I'm a bit miffed because it insists on loading !Help when it runs. There may be a way to stop this but the only manual is Strong Help and I'm not going to mess about with that trying to find out how it works. It will have to be a lot better than my first impressions indicate to be worth the £20 registration fee. Perhaps it is, but I'm not going to struggle with that Strong Help manual to find out. !Ejones ^ A rather slow but pretty name and address database by M.O'Brien and J.Pullen !Family_1 = A simple 'family tree' program from David Breakwell. Not particularly sophisticated, but lets you input the data for each member in a standard database type format and it can then produce a Drawfile of the whole or part of the tree. Comes with two examples, one of which is a family tree of the various Acorn computers !Family_2 ^: 2.15 Nice geneology program from Denis Howe. Quite a comprehensive program. the whole 'tree' is shown on a desktop window and clicking on any name opens another window showing notes on that person. Various print and display options. Looks very easy to use. Can accept data in GEDCOM format. Comes with an example tree and some additional tools for handling GEDCOM files !Finder = 1.10 Program to 'find' things in data files. In practice it's a sort of 'shell' database that can work with text- based files. Several example files are provided including national vehicle number plates, international dialling codes, post codes etc. Since the files are text based you can make your own, which is the main idea !IdentiKey = 2.10 A 'tree' type database which allows groups of items to be catagorised !Informer ^ By Robert Armes, simple to use but fully featured card database. Looks as if it will do what most people need and comes with example files !Library = A simple non-desktop library catalogue program !Maxfile = 4.41 This program by Chris Wragg was originally written to run on the BBC computer but don't be put off by this as it has been extensively updated for the Archimedes. It's not a desktop program, but has all the normal database functions, sort, indexes, sub-files, etc. and is extremely easy to use. Because of this it's also ideal for use in education or for younger users. !MF->Edit = Converts files in Beebugs Masterfile format to plain text !Movie = 1.06 This was previously on B258 but it has grown too big for that disc. It is a large database of film info, including actors, directors, writers, and other stuff. The actual program is fairly crude but the data is all plain text files so you can easily add to it. If you are interested in films it's a must !Multifile = 1.18 A straightforward database 'ported' from the BBC/Master so it's non desktop and uses Mode 7 menus. However it's easy to use and comes with good instructions !MusicCat = A catalogue system for your records !PhoneDir = 1.06 From Jason O'Broin, lets you find an STD coder from an area or visa versa !QicAddres ^ 1.01 Useful utility by R.Lytton to search a database for an address and 'type' it at the cursor !RollerDex = Another desktop database. This might be quite good but the trouble is that the Author (Richard Peach) is one of those strange people who think that you shouldn't give proper manuals with a Shareware program until the user registers. As a result you are going to find it difficult to evaluate the program and so probably won't register. I find this annoying because it will probably result in another person saying 'Nobody's registered so Shareware doesn't work' !RugbyBase ^ By Tom Godber, for storing rugby team data !Simple = Simple desktop database. No instructions and the program is 'written' in Norwegian or something similar but very easy to use so you shouldn't have problems !Sounds = 1.02 Database for your record collection !STDfinder = From Julian Bristow, lets you find out the town from its STD code. As the data is in the form of a text file it's easy to edit/add codes. Comes with C source. !StockCtrl = 1.14 Stock control system by Stuart Ford. Up to 500 records per file with search and print functions. !Telephone = Telephone number database !TexBase = A port of a BBC program so non desktop. It's a sort of text database. It enables you to 'file' freeform text organised in pages and carry out various searches etc upon them. Contains a simple editor to create the data !Vicinity ^ 1.22 Fairly uninspiring desktop name and address database by John Wright, but it's easy to use and would probably serve most people's needs. A nice feature is that it can 'type' data into other apps. !VideoBase = 2.13 Database for video tapes. Improved version with better report generation and more output options plus keyboard shortcuts. !VSU-Base ^ Venture Scout database by Tim Wiser. Written to help organise a scout group and keep member records !Powerbase ^ 7.05 The most comprehensive and powerful Shareware database for the Archimedes. Has just about every feature you could need. Report generation, mail merge with Impression via Impulse, import/export CSV and can even incorporate sprites into databases. Latest version can keep a 'log' of changes made plus other improvements and bug fixes. Comes with several example databases. Latest version has a 'quick tutorial' based on a simple name/address database to help new users. Can handle mail-merge with Ovation or Impression Publisher/Style DeskUtils AddApps : 1.60 By Ron Clarke. lets you add applications to the Resources Filer. There are several of these but this appears to be the best so far !AppDock2 = 2.41 Neat utility from Martin Wuerthner similar to the one provided with NeXT systems. Puts a 'border' of buttons around two sides of the screen and these can have application icons on them. Clicking a button runs that app. Neater than the backdrop as the buttons are smaller and you can bring it to the front with a keypress. !ArmState = Replaces the Acorn icon at the rh end of the icon bar and displays the amount of free memory and state of the cache on ARM 3 machines. !Autoscrol = 1.00 Automatic window scroller. If you move the pointer near the edge of a scrollable window and click the window will scroll. !Backicon : 1.00 From Sam Kington this adds some functions to the Back icon. Clicking ADJUST brings the window to the front, and SHIFT-ADJUST, SHIFT-SELECT move it up and down the window stack one place !BlakHole2 ^ 4.01 Superior desktop dustbin with an animation on the icon bar. Lots of other features including file find, RMA utilities, etc BootA = A multi purpose 'front end' for non wimp programs. Enables them to behave like proper Risc-OS applications Comes with a variety of sample apps, eg. FileInf, SetType, Lock, Unlock, change LF to CRLF and visa versa, convert 1WP to text and visa versa, etc. !Caret ^ 1.02 As well as making the caret flash, if you click on the !Caret icon it forces the window with input focus to the front and puts the mouse pointer over the caret so yu can find it. Useful if you are still struggling with !Edit or !DeskEdit !CaretUtil = Nice program from Peter Gaunt to flash and find the caret, etc. !ClipBoard - 1.06 Copies the contents of one writable icon to another !CloseUp = Opens a window that shows a magnified version of wherever the pointer is. Useful with !Paint when working on a large sprite as you don't need to 'zoom' the whole window Config+ : A program from Sam Kington which adds various other options to the standard !Configure program !CoolSwtch : 1.05 Lets you switch between tasks with ALT-TAB rather like Windows !CtrlBox ^ A 'desktop toolbox' by Dave Thomas which gives keyboard shortcuts for many common operations. !Cycle = From Stephen Burke, this lets you 'cycle' through the window stack with a keypress, bringing the bottom window to the top !DeskDump = 1.00 Grabs desktop screen as a sprite !DeskSpace ^ Another 'virtual desktop' app. It has one feature that you will either love or hate. When you move the mouse pointer to the edge of the screen the screen changes to the virtual desk on that side. Potentially very useful but it can be rather a pain if you want to get at a window that's just off screen Dir2Res ^ By Mark Collier, lets you transfer directories to the Resource Filer !DragIcons : Another app to enable solid drags !DragWind ^ By Thomas Hawtin, with the addition of certain keys this lets you drag and adjust a windows size and position with the mouse pointer anywhere in the window so it doesn't need to be on top of the stack !Events ^ By John Miskin, just tells you how long it is to various preset dates, eg. how many days to Xmas !Examine = Best desktop 'magnifier' I've seen. Has a variable zoom which can also work in reverse. !FastDesk = A very simple idea. The program can be made to 'remember' all the 'iconsprites' so that they can all be loaded in one go. This saves the delays when a directory containing applications is opened for the first time and the filer loads all the sprites. !Faster ^ Module which turns 'Faster' on in all Filer Action menus !FlashCar ^ Another one of those apps to flash the caret. !FreeK ^ Shows free memory, time and date in a neat little window at the top RH side of the screen or on the iconbar !FreeMemo = Sits on the icon bar and tells you how much free memory you have left. !FreeMem = 1.05 Another one of those little 'free memory' icons !FreeRAM = shows you how much RAM you've got left !FIHelp ^ Replacement for the standard !Help app by David Rushall. Main feature is that the help appears adjacent to the mouse pointer instead of in a fixed window !Grabber = Grabs a desktop window as a sprite !HourExt : 1.10 From Sam Kington this adjusts the Hourglass colours if the palette changes IClear = Icon Clear. This is supposed to make it easier to delete all the text in a writeable icon. Personally I've never had any difficulty pressing CTRL-U, but it does have the advantage that if you change your mind you can restore the original !IconCLI - Lets you issue *commands from the Icon bar !Indicator = CPU usage indicator with a meter display on the icon bar !InfoBar = Module which displays date, time, free memory, etc at the left hand end of the icon bar above the drive icons so it doesn't use up any screen space !KFree ^ yet another one of those little apps to tell you how much free RAm you have. This one's by Richard Sage !Kysmet = 0.92 Meant to move drive icons to a stack at the left hand side of the screen instead of having them along the icon bar. However it doesn't scan filing systems automatically or restore things properly when you quit. The manual is incomprehensible gobbledegook so it's almost impossible to make any sense of it. I leave it to you to decide if it's worth the trouble of trying to work out how to use it *** updated Jan 97 *** Instructions are still more c**p than substance but at least it's possible now to make some sense of them. I still don't like it very much but it is now possible to use it !Larger - 1.36 Adds a number of useful features to the desktop LimitF12 ^ Repeated on this disc, stops use of the F12 key so no-one can get access to the CLI or open a TaskWindow !Mace = 1.9 Module Area and CLI Front End. Provides a Wimp front end for the CLI !Mangify = 0.51 Nice Desktop magnifier. Written by SICK so, as usual, the instructions are written in gobbledegook but it's intuitive to use so you don't have to read them !MoreIBar = More Icon Bar from Sam Kington. This gives you a 'second' icon bar which is a small, scrollable, vertical window in the bottom left hand corner of the screen. It isn't a 'real' icon bar, of course, and doesn't behave exactly like one, but it does save you having to scroll the real icon bar if you have a lot of tasks loaded !MultiDesk ^ 1.13 By Julian Smith, gives you up to 8 different desktops which you can switch between. You can even move the windows on the non-current desktops. Lots of other features and invaluable for people who can't use very hi res screen modes or who have to switch between tasks !MultiScrn ^ Utility from Michael Ellis to extend the desktop. The RO3 desktop lets you move windows outside the visible area. This prog lets you have several 'views' of the desktop, some of which can be of this 'outside' part NoError ^ A module that automatically removes an error message from the screen after five seconds to save you wearing yourself out pressing RETURN or clicking on OK !Opener = Just opens directories which are dragged to its icon. I couldn't think of any reason for including this (why not just hold down SHIFT if it's an application?) until someone pointed out to me that some disabled people have trouble with this, so here it is! !Palette : 1.45 Much improved version of Acorn's Palette utility from James Ponder witj lots of extra features - shows the current Mode number, contrast and brightness controls, up to 16 palettes available, modes can be selected with hotkeys, screensaver, etc. !Pause ^ By A.Riskin, stops the Wimp until you press SPACE !PrintFile = Opens a 'Printer' window !ProgCalc = 1.01 Simple programmable calculator !PseudoApp - 1.00 Allows you to have a 'pseudo application' in a directory which, when you click on it, runs the 'real' app which can be somewhere else !PtrCopy = Copies the character under the pointer to input focus when you press ALT-COPY. Only works with System font. !QuickCLI - 1.00 For people who can't bear to let go of the mouse for even a second - click on the icon to get the CLI instead of pressing F12. (No - I don't know why!) !ReadFile = Opens a VDU window. Useful if you have !Edit loaded but want to see what text will look like in a Command window !ReDraw = Main use is to force a screen redraw if the system sprites change for any reason, but it can also perform an 'iconsprites' command if you drag a spritefile to it ReduceDrag : 1.10 From Oliver Betts, lets you cancel a Wimp Drag using the Escape key. Includes source code in Basic Assembler so you can modify it. !Reminder = Just reminds you at intervals to save your work 'just in case'. Of course, commercial programs don't inexplicably crash do they (!), so you don't need this... !Resizer : Useful utility from Nick Jarman to add Resize icons to every corner of a window so you can expand/contract it in any direction instead of just from the bottom RH corner. !Resources : From J.Robbins, adds apps to the Resources filing system !ResROM : A similar program to add apps to the Resource filing system from Ian Jeffray !RFSreg ^ An easy way of adding to the ResourceFS !RPCinfo ^ Sits in the icon bar and shows time, date, free RAM, etc. plus various other useful odds and ends. !RPCutil ^ Redreshes the screen when you hit a hot key !RPCpal ^ RO 3.1 style palette utility for the RPC. Makes it easy to change the Wimp palette on later machines !Runner ^ By Ian palmer, lets you configure filetypes to be 'run' by apps that don't normally respond to file-clicking, eg. ChangeFSI !SACache ^ Lets you disable some functions of the cache so programs that run too fast with it on are OK without being too slow as happens if you switch it off completely !SaveDesk ^ By Nick Jarman, remembers all the icons on your backdrop and replaces them the next time you start up, so you don't have to bother to save them manually !Saviour = 1.20 More sophisticated 'auto save'. This simulates pressing the F3 key at predefined intervals. As this is the 'Save' key in many desktop apps it will either save automatically or open the 'Save' window to remind you !Scicalc = 1.06c Good calculator with all the usual scientific functions including sin, cos, tan, log, root, not, and, or, eor plus expression evaluation using brackets. !ScrnScrol ^ Another one of those 'multi-desktop' programs by David Sharp. It's meant to scroll automatically when you move the mouse off the edge of the screen, but it behaves very erratically with S/ARM, I suspect because it's polling mouse position too often and not pausing long enough for you to move the mouse back on screen again !ShortCuts ^ 1.05 Multi-purpose desktop utility from Jon Henning Bergane. Lots of features, key shortcuts (including ALT keys), mode selector, play Tarcker/DS tunes, notepad, mouse speed, sound on/off, and others !Shutdown+ : 1.40 An enhancement of the standard Shutdown sequence but it offers the option of a complete re-boot instead of just a restart. !SmallTask : An alternative Task Window from Thomas Newcomb that sends its output to a sprite instead of a textfile so most VDU commands work. !StrngCche ^ Switches the cache on/off with a hot key press. Even before the StrongARM there were lots of these about, but it's particularly relevant for SA machines because some games will only load with the cache off, but then you can't get to the CLI to switch it on again !SysBeep = 1.28 Lets you set the pitch, duration and volume of the 'beep' sound TaskBASIC ^ This sets a new filetype for Basic programs which will run them in a Taskwindow when you double-click on them !TaskFront ^ Sits on the icon bar and Runs programs dragged to it in a Task Window, so you can use all those old utilities without having to set directories etc. Very handy !TskMaster = 1.32 Several facilities including '*' commands from within the desktop, start tasks from menu, open directories, speaker on/off, free memory display, save/restore CMOS RAM, ARM 3 cache control, and can act as a desktop 'front end' for Squash. !Utopia ^ An app with various utilities by David Sharp. Display time, mouse co-ords, free mem, icon num, etc, flash caret, virtual desk, and various others !VirtuDesk ^ Another program to create a 'virtual desktop'. Probably the best and easiest to use I've seen !VMode - 1.3 Replacement for !Edit as a taskwindow driver !WinCtrl = 1.03 Lets you move and scroll windows that don't have scroll bars or resize icons etc. !Windower ^ From Felix Andrew this lets you move windows up and down the stack, resize them, close them, etc. by using various keys instead of the mouse !WinTool = Various features to control windows with the keyboard so that window order can be changed. !Xhelp ^ A simple 'hypertext' reader from Dirk-Willem van Gulik. It's not the best I've sen but it is fairly easy to use and also simple to write your own texts. this might be useful in schools or similar environments for creating 'help' texts for programs etc. !ZapTop ^ Just closes all the windows. Ideal for getting rid of all the clutter DeskUtils.Diary_Note !Agenda ^ 4.2 Nice desktop diary from Raffaele Ferrigno. !Cal ^ Very good desktop diary and calender from Ian Palmer !Calenary ^ Extremely good desktop diary and Calendar from Ian Palmer !Calendar_1 - 1.00 Suprisingly it's a calendar. You can view it in a desktop window or print it !Calendar_2 = 1.03I Application for creating calendars via CC's Impression using their ImpulseII protocol. Comes with five sample calendars. !Diary_1 ^ 1.00 Quite nice desktop diary from Nic Regan !Diary_2 ^ By Keith Theobold, creates a diary as an Impression document in various formats and for any year. !DoodlePad = Provides a 'writeable' backdrop on which you can 'doodle' with the mouse. Unfortunately it's a Mode 12 sized 'pad' so there's a gap around the sides in other modes !Event_1 ^ Nice desktop calendar/diary by Marc Leary !Event ^ Diary program from ExpLAN computers, previously sold commercially but now released as Freeware !Filo ^ 2.83 Billed as 'a desktop FiloFax' by Keith Theobald, and that's exactly what it is. Latest version has lots of extra features to make it into a very useful program !Journal ^ Desktop diary from Robert Seago !Journo ^ Diary program. NOT for recording dates, appointments, etc, but DIARY in the original meaning, for keeping a record of what happened during the day. !NoteBook = A very simple desktop notepad !NoteBook = A useful desktop notepad from R.Peach !NotePad = 1.30 The first desktop notepad I've seen that's actually worth using. By Steve Tudway and Andy Piper !Notepad ^ 2.10 Yes, it's another one of those desktop notepads, this time by Stuart marshall !Organizer ^ 1.31 Complete personal orgainser by Chris Morison. Lots of features, calendar, diary, diary, address book, alarm, and more. Probably the best available !PhonNotes ^ A very simple program from Ben Carter to help you do what it says, make a quick note when you are on the phone !Plan94 = Rather nice desktop year planner/diary. The whole year is displayed in a single window !Planner ^ Creates an A4 year planner as a Draw file ready for printing !Post-It ^ A simple desktop memo, rather like a post-it note stuck on your monitor !Ripelli ^ Desktop calendar that can have pictures to make it just like the one hanging on the wall (you could even have THAT type of picture if you wanted, I suppose) DeskUtils.Keyboard !AllChars ^ 0.20 Another 'Chars' style utility. Main advantage of this one is that it covers the entire character set including codes 0-31 so it's useful for inserting control codes into text as well as characters 128-255 !ALT-Keys ^ Re-installs the International Keyboard nodule if it has been unplugged. AVSChars ^ Multi-font 'Chars' type program by Chris Wymark. Has some nice features, but the redraw of the main window is painfully slow even with a S/Arm, so it's almost unusable on an ARM2 !ButtonBar ^ Places a window on the screen with 'buttons' which, when clicked on, simulate a keypress. You can define these buttons to suit any application. Samples are provided for Edit and Impression but you can easily make your own. !DesKeys ^ Just puts a large window on screen which represents the keyboard. Clicking on a 'key' in this has the same effect as pressing the key. Unfortunately it misses out the function keys and numeric keypad but it would probably be very useful for someone who was handicapped as it would enable them to 'type' using the mouse. Works on RiscPC but assumes a 'standard' Acorn keyboard layout !DrawStrip = Produces Draw files of keystrips. Comes with several keystrips but you can easily make your own. Some BBC ROM applications also come with keystrips produced with this. !FuncKeys ^ A rather nice function key strip from Simon Hatliff which installs itself just above the icon bar. Includes definitions for many popular apps (Artworks, Draw, Draw+, Edit, Impression, Poster, etc.) and you can easily write your own for others !German ^ Allows the German accented characters to be entered into the keyboard buffer by clicking on them in a small window. You could use !Chars but this is much neater !Internat - Acorn International Keyboard Handler !KbdInfo = Draws a picture of the keyboard and gives info about INKEY and internal key numbers. Easier than looking up the manual !KeyFix ^ Lets you have the equivalent of a 'shift lock' key. This would be invaluable to disabled users. !Keys = 1.1 Lets the Fkeys issue commands to the OS while operating within RiscOS !KeySpeak = Each key 'speaks' its name when pressed !KeyWindow = 1.52 On screen function keystrip. Useful if you don't have a keystrip holders but does more than that. You 'press' keys by clicking on them with the mouse and it keeps track of up to 32 keystrips, opening and closing them automatically as you load, use and quit applications !key_click ^ Makes a (horrible) noise when any key is pressed !Macros ^ Hotkey keyboard macro program from Paul Clifford. Up to 20 definable macros, each with up to 180 characters. !MathChars ^ Useful program by Hugo Mills which is similar to !Chars except that it only displays the 'maths' characters in a given font so you don't need to have a window big enough to display all the characters. !Mousky ^ Nice multi-font 'Chars' type app from Michiel van Schaik !QuickType ^ Macro program by Peter Bagnall to let you allocate strings to every ALT+key combination !Quote ^ Intercepts keypresses and substitues other characters. It's main purpose, as the name implies, it to try to 'pair' quotation marks, etc. !RapidKeys = Puts a button bar representing the function keys down the RH side of the screen. The keys display the functions performed in the current application and several are provided. As the definition files are plain text you can easily make your own. 'Pressing' the key with the mouse is equivalent to pressing the actual function key !Se_Macros = Program from Mike Barnes to insert often repeated phrases into the keyboard buffer with a mouse click !ShiftKeys ^ Lets you 'press' the Shift, Alt and Ctrl keys by clicking on buttons. Makes mouse operations which need simultaneous keypresses easier for disabled users. !Smilies = 1.03 Inserts those little strings into keyboard. !Strip = For people whose fingers are permanently hooked into mouse-clutching shape lets you simulate pressing function keys etc. by clicking on a keystrip above the icon bar !WordEnter = 1.13 Lets you enter frequently used words or phrases into the keyboard buffer by clicking on a menu !WordBook ^ 1.10 Again by R.Lytton, this will 'type' words, phrases or sentences. Useful if you need to repeatedly the same phrases. Easy to create lists of words and phrases !YouWhat2 ^ No, I don't know why it's called that, but people who use 'Help' file readers instead of putting the instructions in a nice text file can't be expected to be rational. This inserts messages into the keyboard buffer and was intended to be use to insert a 'signing off' message with a modem, but you could probably find other uses for it !XChars ^ By far the nicest !Chars substitue I've seen by Martin Wurthner. !ZoomChars ^ Another variation on the !Chars theme from Neil Walker DeskUtils.Mouse !AutoMouse - Mouse movements via the cursor keys !Coord ^ 1.00 Display mouse coordinates in a small window !Cursor = Move the mouse pointer with the keyboard and control the pointer shape. |CursCtrl = Another app to control the mouse via the cursor keys. !Gambara = Opens a window to show mouse pointer position, state of mouse buttons, window under the pointer, etc. Lefty ^ A Module that I wrote to reverse the action of the Left and Right mouse buttons (Select and Adjust). Intended for left-handed people who prefer to have a left-handed mouse !MAccurate ^ Very simple program by David Sharp to move the mouse using ALT + arrow key !MChange = 1.10 Another mouse speed utility from John Reed. Nice and easy to use and you can type any speed, so it's not just limited to 1-5 !Mickey ^ Another utility to display the mouse x/y co-ordinated, but the best feature is its ability to set the 'origin' so it can display the pointer position relative to any point you choose rather than the absolute position !Mileage = Shows the distance your mouse has travelled !Mouse = Sets mouse speed from a desktop window. Big advantage is that it can set the horizontal and vertical steps separately, very useful for sprite or template editing. !MouseCtrl = Mouse speed control from the desktop !MouseII : 2.00 Much improved version of Andrew Heckfords Mouse program. Lets you set mouse step, pointer wrap, cursor control, and can switch to a large brightly coloured pointer for the 'visually challenged' !Mousky ^ Nice multi-font 'Chars' type app from Michiel van Schaik !MouseOff = From Martyn Rose, lets you move the mouse off the screen. As with RO3 you can move windows off screen this lets you get to the scrollbars and buttons which might otherwise be just out of reach. !MouseStep = 2.00 Change mouse step from the desktop !Mousey = Displays X-Y co-ordinates of the mouse pointer !MouSpeed = 1.10 Controls of the speed of the mouse using hotkeys, very useful as it doesn't appear on the icon bar and you don't have to 'click' on anything to change speed. The only (minor) problem is that it uses ALT+(number) to switch speeds. With RO2 this was OK but RO3 assigns characters to these keys. However, using CTRL+ALT+(number) solves the problem! !PCMouse ^ By Michael Kircher, a Module that let's you use a PC style serial mouse !PtrWrap = 'Wrap around' for the mouse pointer. As it moves off the screen on one side it reappears on the other. !Rat = Invaluable utility from Michael Coe to toggle the mousestep between two user-configurable rates. As the rates aren't limited to the !Configure options of 1 to 5 this lets me switch between a slow rate for !Paint and !Templed and my usual 8, which I can't do with !Configure !Scaler = As you move the mouse faster so the amount the pointer moves increases. Very useful for fine work !SerialMse = 2.00 A module from Stuart Tyrrell which lets you use a PC style serial mouse. !SlowPtr = Another mousestep utility which slows down the mouse when you hold down SELECT and ADJUST. Useful for dragging objects in some applications but you'll have to edit the program to set the 'fast' speed to the one you prefer as there's no external configuration !Warfarin = 1.10 Emulates the mouse with the cursor keys or other keys defined by the user. Very useful. !Wrap = Lets the mouse pointer 'wrap around' like the Mac. so that when it moves off one edge of the screen it reappears on the other. DiscUtils !2048 ^ 1.10 Counts the true disc space used by a directory taking into acount the directory itself and the sector size of the disc !ACopy ^ 1.40 Disc copier !AddDos ^ 1.02 Adds DOS file extensions to a group of files !ADFSExtra2: 2.27 Improved version of ADFSExtra with additional facilities requiring RO3 !ADFS_Aid = A skeleton ADFS filing system that can let you save your work if the ADFS crashes !All ^ 0.45 Multi-purpose utility. Lock/unlock files, trash, file info, DOS map, etc. !AutoFast ^ By Neil Walker, another module to automatically force 'faster' on filer operations. Includes source code !BlockSize ^ 1.12 Utility by Darren Salt which counts the actual disc space used by by files/directories taking into account the sector size/file allocation unit of the disc. !Broom ^ Quickly wipes all data from a (DD only) floppy disc !CDEject ^ Opens your CD drawer, saves all that hard work pushing the button! !CDSpeed ^ Measures the speed of your CD drive, by Peter Tiechmann !CD_Type ^ By Martin Sperl, modified by Mike Martin, this patches CDFS to let it show lots more DOS files as the equivalent Acorn filetypes !CDViewer ^ A replacement CDFS filer by Jeremy Poulter to give various additional features !Chopper ^ 0.12 A program I wrote to 'chop up' large files so they can be put onto floppy discs and then joined up again. Very easy to use. Lots of people have asked for something to do this, so here it is. Now includes a cut-down program !Joiner which can be distributed with split files and SPLIT.EXE and SPLICE.EXE to do the same thing on a PC so that vry large files can easily be transported between PC and Archimedes *** updated June 96 *** !ClearDisc ^ Wipes out any deleted files on a floppy disc so they can't be recovered !ClickDir ^ Useful program to set the CSD !Clone = 3.00 Protected disc copier. Will only copy discs with 'simple' protection !Coeden ^ By Barry Wicket, apparently the name is Welsh for 'tree', and this program produces a nice graphical representation of the tree structure of a disc. You can then run files from this scrolling window. Unfortunately there's no way to save this file so it's use is rather limited !Compare = File compare program by Neil Walker !Compare2 ^ CLI program to compare two files by Ainsley Pereira !CopyCalc = Calculates number of discs you need to backup a hard disc !CopyOpts ^ Speeds up moving files on the same disc by renaming them instead of copying/deleteing whenever possible !Counter = Shows both the size of a file or application and the amount of space it actually takes on a disc. You can save a list of data for a disc as a text file !DeepCopy2 = Disc copier !DeskZoom = 1.21 Amalgamates the !Boot files of a disc into a single file to speed up filer disc access Direction : Displays the current Path before the CLI '*' prompt like the 'prompt $P$G' command used in DOS. Seems to work on all the filing systems I've tried it on !Dirkiller - Lets you lock/unlock/wipe directories !DirSet = Sets the CSD to the last directory used !DirStack ^ Remembers the last fifteen directories that were opened and lets you select them from a menu. Saves a lot of work if you close a window and then need it again. !Disable = 1.00 Lets you disable all Delete/Wipe commands so that files can't be accidentally deleted. !DiscBlank ^ Conceals the contents of an 800K floppy by hiding the catalogue and replacing it with a dummy. This can make the disc look empty. When you want to use it the program will restore the proper catalogue !DiscEdit + Disc sector editor, works on MSDos discs too !DiscEdit ^ By Chris Poole, the first good Desktop Shareware disc sector editor that works on all floppy disc types and all filing systems, including large format hard discs. If you want a 'dedicated' editor with lots of features rather than a quick look using Zap this is the best I've seen. But it doesn't stop at being just a good sector editor. It also has tools to help with deleted file recovery, bad directory repair, map repair, and various diagnostic utilities. If you have a copy of !Zap then run it before you use this program as it can make use of the ZapRedraw module for fast screen update. This may not do everything that fsck does but it's a *lot* easier to use and is a proper, unrestricted, Shareware application (don't forget to send your registration fee!). !DiscEdit2 = Non desktop disc sector editor from Ting Zwei Kuei. Seems to be based on Adrian Look's 'DiscEdit' but works with hi density discs (though not on the Risc PC). !DiscEdit3 ^ Another version of the old non-desktop disc sector editor modified by Chris Rodliffe, but this one works on the RPC !DiscListr ^ Fairly crude program to create a CSV file of the contents of a series of floppy discs. !DiscLook ^ Sits on the icon bar and acts like any other drive icon. By selecting from its menu you can transform it into the equivalent of any drive icon. The only practical use I can think of for it would be if you have lots of drives and the ones on the left vanish off screen when you have several apps loaded. The DiscLook icon could then substitute for one lost off screen !DiscScan ^ Another program to create a database of the contents of floppy discs. !DiscInfo - 1.11 Extensive disc information !DiscMedic = 0.92 Good desktop disc sector editor from Tim Browse. Seems to work OK on all well behaved filing systems that I've tried it with, although it did seem to get a little confused on my A5000 with SCSI, ADFS and IDEFS hard discs !DiscSpace = Displays a graphical indication of disc usage showing the amount of disc space used by each directory !DiskClone - RM disc copier !DiskTree = Program to distplay a simple 'tree' of a disc's structure. Only works on currently logged drive and there doesn't seem to be any way to save the data to disc !DropBox ^ By Ian Clark, sits on the icon bar and acts as a repository for any files dragged to it when it's too awkward to open a filer window !EasiFiler ^ 1.02 By Craig Burton, replaces the Resource Filer and, although still allowing access to it, also allows access to all your other apps. !EaziCopy = 1.0 Makes multiple copies of unprotected discs !FastMove = Very good application by Felix Andrew to speed up 'moving' files from one directory to another. It's a module so it works automatically in the background. !FCoreProt = By Andrew heckford, dismounts a disc if you close it's filer window with the Menu button. Saves crashing Filecore with RO2 !FileAid = 1.06 A program with various useful functions including a dustbin, screensaver, and assorted file operations like access, set CSD, date stamp, set type !FileFind ^ 1.02 Good file finder by Gerald Hartmann FilerFix ~ For RO 3.1 filer this let's you hit the CTRL key AFTER you've opened a filer window to stop reading all those !Boot files !Finder = A directory opener/startup application by Guido Steiner. Unfortunately all the instructions are in German so if anyone would care to send me a translation.... FixDisc ^ By Kevin Bracey, tries to fix problems with disc map, broken directory, etc. FlopFS ^ By Hugo Feinnes, this is an unsupported filing system for Floptical drives. Includes formatting software. !FreeDisc = Another app to show free space on the current drive on the icon bar. !FreeIcon = Constantly shows amount of free space on the disc in drive :0 !FreeSp200 = Just show the amount of free space on ADFS::4 fsck = fsck will attempt to fix the map and directory tree and re-link the files. Can also give extensive data about a disc. Also includes 'eliminate' which will delete the actual file without removing the details from the map. Absolutely invaluable if you have a broken directory or some other defect on a disc (hard or floppy). If this happens not only can you not 'get into' the directory you can't even delete it!. Although eliminate doesn't fix the fault it does 'give back' the disc space used even if fsck can't fix the problem. These programs are CLI driven and should be used with caution. I used them to repair two 'bad directories' on my hard disc without problems but be careful. Anyone who has a hard disc should not be without this. Fudge ^ Rather useful Module from an anonymous Author. Allows apps to look as if they are being run from ADFS::0 even though they are really on your hard disc. Lets you run lots of games and other protected software from a hard disc which would normally only run from floppy. Might also work with some third party hi density drives which often won't run protected software !HardApps ^ By Owain Cole and Chris Wymark, lets pre RPC owners have a ROMapps directory where all the apps appear just like on the RPC !HDSpeed_1 = Simple but effective program to asses HD speed. Only really useful for comparisons but works on any filing system (even works with floppies) !HDspeed_2 ^ 1.10 The definitive hard disc speed test program (but then I would say that, wouldn't I). This will really find out how good you hard disc/interface is !Helios ^ 2.00 Task launcher/* command executor from Kenny Guy !LinkFS ^ An image filing system that redirects all calls made to it to the 'real' filing system, thereby allowing you to have files or applications apparently together while actually on different drives !Links = Program from Brian Brunswick to set up Unix style 'soft links' on your disc. These are 'pointers' to an object stored elsewhere so they 'look' like the actual object and can make it appear that you have multiple copies of some utilities without the need to actually do so. !LongFiles : 0.10 From Jason Tribbeck, this will let you have up to 55 character filenames on almost any filing system. I've only tried this briefly but is seems to work OK, but do read the instructions carefully first. You also really need a hard disc so that the filename 'cache' can be saved before you shut down MagFS ^ Again by Hugo Feinnes, this is a filing system for magneto-optical drives. Includes formatting software. As it is designed to work with almost any SCSI device it will operate with Syquest or fixed drives and has the additional advantage of allowing you to have more than four drives on the SCSI bus. MapMan ^ 0.49 Map Manager by Holger Klingspohr, another app to try to fix a bad map !Memorizer = 1.00 Very useful utility from Ben Summers which can 'remember' what directories you've been using so you can re-open then from a menu instead of having to start again right from the '$' directory because you've just closed the one you wanted... !MoveFiles ^ Module from Ben Gershon that tries to move files rather than copy/delete whenever possible and also prevents directories from being recursively copied into themselves !Multiback - Makes multiple copies of a disc !OakSCSI = 1.10 A Wimp inteface to the Oak SCSI card so you don't have to use the CLI to set the various parameters. As it seems to translate the options into '*' commands it should be fairly robust and work with most versions. !OpenDir = Opens a directory if you drag it to the !OpenDir icon. Would probably be very useful to anyone who is disabled and has difficulty opening application directories ie. using the mouse while holding the SHIFT key. !Options = Lets you change the copy options from a menu !Organize ^ Directory opener - drag a directory to the icon to add it to the menu !OverFiler = This works with most Filecore based systems and lets you copy/move files and the drive icon can display the name of the disc in the drive. Takes a bit of fiddling to set up (you need to find out the icon number of the drive icon) but most people will only need to do this once. (Unfortunately not me, I change hard drives more often than some people change their socks!) !Partition = 3.09 Replacement for Acorns scsifs that allows several partitions as different drives. With assembler source so you could modify it for alternative scsi filing systems. !PowerCtrl ^ By Paul Wilkinson, another app to spin down an ADFS hard drive and (possibly) shorten its life !ProCopy ^ 2.59 The best multiple disc copier. Will do everything you want to make lots of copies of a disc. Can format, verify, save disc images to your hard disc, operate in single tasking or background modes, load disc images from a menu, etc. Works with Acorn 640K, 800K or 1.6mb and DOS 720K and 1.44Mb and 1.7Mb. If you are running a club or user group and can't afford a £2000+ autocopier this not merely useful, it's absolutely essential Fully registered version available - see Commercial cat. Can now work as a continuous disc formatter for Acorn or DOS discs and 'dump' a disc to the RAMdisc or 'grab' the RAMdisc as a disc image, which makes updating and maintaining distribution discs much easier !Q-Format = Not a quick formatter', it just *wipes the disc, which is faster. However it's still a lot slower than backing up a blank disc but I was asked for it so.... !QuickDir : 1.00 Speeds up navigation about hard discs by allowing you to move about the directory tree without needing to open a filer window on each intermediate directory. !RAMcram = 2.20 Lets you change the size of the RAM disk while it has files on it. Invaluable !RamDisc² = 1.01 Potential life-saver from James Aylett. When you shut down this copies the contents of the RAM disc to a safe place on your hard disc, when you next boot up it will put it all back again, so (provided you always shut dowm properly) you don't loose the contents of the RAM disc when you switch off. If, like me, you use a RAM disc as temporary storage and for other odds and ends and sometime switch off without remembering to save it..... !RAMstore ^ 1.01 By Andrew Berry, this saves the contents of your RAM disc when you shut down and reloads it when you boot. The disadvantage of this compared with RAMdisc² on B298 is that it takes up a place on the icon bar, on the other hand it does seem slightly better !SectCopy ~ A disc image copier (800K and 640K only) which will skip over any defective sectors. Main use is to let you recover as much data as possible from a damaged disc. Files will contain garbage where the defective sectors were but for some types of file (eg. text) this could be less serious than losing all the data !SetDir = Sets and maintains the CSD !SmartDir ^ 0.23 By Tony Houghton, lets you set the attribute for the directory viewer for individual directories so some can have large icons, some small, and others full info SpeclCase ^ 0.04 A Module which tries to display filenames in DOSFS and CDFS windows with 'normal' filenames instead of all upper case !SoftCorn = Improved version of !Dup disc copier !SoftLinks = Another program for creating soft links on your hard disc from Martin Wurther !SpinDown ^ By Andrew Berry, spins down a hard disc on drives which support it. You are advised NOT to do this with 3.5" drives as modern drives are not designed to be stopped and repeated starting and stopping can seriously shorten their life. !SymLinks ^ Creates 'symbolic links' so that files and applications on your hard disc can appear to be in more than one place !SysUtils - 2.30 !Tiger : 4.11 Useful program from Graham Crow. The name is derived from 'Big Cat', because its main use is to allow you to have a description of up to 110 characters (a whole line) which is displayed in a window by !Tiger. Particularly useful for displaying info about documents, letters, etc. I use an app like this on my PC and it saves a lot of browsing when looking for a particular letter. !TopSave ^ Saves a file to the top level directory viewer opened if you just type a leafname in a SaveAs window !Transient ^ Creates a new sub-directory each day so you can keep work in progress neatly filed !TreeSize ^ By Martin Fox, draws a diagram showing the space used by each directory on your hard disc !TrueCopy ^ Non desktop multi-format disc copier !TurboCopy = A quick disc copier which also keeps a log of copies made !WhichDisc = Shows the name of the current floppy disc in a small window at the bottom left of the screen. This is re-read at a (configurable) interval ar you can set it so that it is only read when you choose. !WinSave ^ Program by Ian Clarke to emulate a 'Windows' style save dialogue system. (Why change the best and most useful feature of RiscOS, ie. true 'drag and drop' file saving?) !Wiper = File/directory deleter !Workspace ^ By Graham Crow, lets you configure up to 20 different working environments and choose between them DiscUtils.Backup !Backup = 1.06 VERY simple program by Neil Walker to backup a section of a hard disc to floppies. As it only works with up to 10 discs it's only suitable for comparitively small amounts of data. !Backup3 = Hard disc backup utility. !Back_It ^ Just copies a series of files/directories to a 'backup' directory. Ideal for keeping a record of the development of a program. !BF_Join ^ Two simple program to split/join large files to a series of floppies !ClicBack = 2.99 Superb hard disc backup program from Steve Spry. Allows full, differential or incremental backups either to floppies or another hard disc (Syquest?). Lots of other features including data compression, partial restore, etc. It's Careware (£10 registration) and it is now unrestricted so you won't forget to register, will you? As all proceeds go to the Cancer and Leukemia In Childhood Trust (hence the name) it's even less forgiveable than usual. Latest version has several bug fixes (now handles Image files correctly so will back up your PC partition) plus many new features inlcuding a 'don't compress' list so it won't waste time trying to compress things like Archives. !HardBack ^ 1.11 Comprehensive Hard disc backup and restore from Theo Markettos !HardCopy ^ 2.02 A simple backup utility from Phil Norman !HDBackup - Another simple backup parogram !HDBackup ^ A hard disc backup program by Andreas Schubert. It makes use of Frank lancaster's tar to do the work and so can compress data !Keeper = Simple but versatile hard disc backup program from Serio Monesi. Can 'run' a selection of command files to make it easy to back up small parts of your hard disc frequently. !LZWBackup ^ A very simple backup program by Ian Prideaux which uses John Kortink's LZW modules for compression !ObjBackup = Backs up certain objects to floppy disc. Useful for making regular backups of 'changeable' files you are working on (documents, programs, artwork etc) !TapeFS = 1.09 A 'crude' filing system designed to drive a cartridge tape drive. Written for Acorn SCSI system but may work with others. 'Alpha test' and so not a finished product but the Author may make source code available to anyone interested in developing it further tar = Not a normal Tape Archiver but a general purpose archiving program. As it can archive to floppy discs and can split the archive over several discs it can be used for hard disc backup. Can compress if required. Lots of features. CLI driven so not a desktop program DiscUtils.Bins !Bin = Straightforward desktop dustbin !BlakHole2 ^ 4.01 Superior desktop dustbin with an animation on the icon bar. Lots of other features including file find, RMA utilities, etc !DustyFREE ^ Desktop dustbin by Graham Crockford. Unfortunately it's crippled, restricted use, shareware (which means is isn't Shareware) so I doubt if anyone will bother to use it. !Mycop ^ Desktop bin that sits where you put it instead of on the icon bar !Snglarity ^ What happens when a Black Hole gets smaller - a replacement for the popular Black Hole II for people who just want a small wastebin SuperTrash ^ Quite nice desktop dustbin from Miles Carter !Toilet ^ Another bin. Makes a noise like a flushing toilet !TrashCan ^ 1.01 Nice bin from Stephen mansfield !Trash = Another bin !TrashFS - Another 'dustbin'. I'm told this works but I can't get it to operate properly with RO3 though it seems OK with RO2 !WasteBin = Good desktop dustbin - no frills but works well !YABU ^ Yet Another Bin Utility by Ben Spencer. probably best for floppy only systems as it uses the RAM disc as storage DiscUtils.Bootup !BackLoad : Continues the !Boot sequence as a background task !BootCtrl = Lets you switch the !Boot application on your hard disc on and off. BootMenu : As the name suggests, offers a choice of Boot sequences !BootPass = Useful App by Spiro Harvey to allow you to have several levels of boot sequence, each of which is protected by a password. Could be very useful in schools. !BootPlus ^ 3.1 Multi user password and !Boot editor by Malcolm Ripley for RPC !DeskStart = A desktop 'startup' program that performs a similar function the the usual *desktop -. Advantage is that it multi tasks so you don't get a 'orrible blank screen while things are loading and it displays a status window which tells you just what is happening. FloppyBoot ^ 1.00 A utility from Raoul Sargent which allows hard disc users to boot from a floppy disc if there is one in the drive, rather like DOS. If there's no disc in drive :0 it boots as normal. Useful if you want to change your boot sequence for a particular application or for debugging !MakeBoot = A program from Disk Alstein to create and edit your startup sequence. Looks very easy to use for those who don't feel confident to write their own 'boot' application. Complete with instructions/messages in English, German and (I think!) Dutch. !MultiBoot ^ By Phil Norman, lets you have lots of alternative Boot sequences by holding down different keys !MultiBoot ^ I'm not too sure about this but it's a multi-option RPC boot utility by Peter Daniel. I'm always very suspicious about people who think the purpose of !Help files is to demonstrate how clever and witty they are !MultiObey = Lets you multitask Obey files. Particularly useful for Boot sequences or other long-winded tasks as it enables you to see what's going on !QSetup ^ Another program to give you a choice of boot sequences !RAMstore ^ 1.01 By Andrew Berry, this saves the contents of your RAM disc when you shut down and reloads it when you boot. The disadvantage of this compared with RAMdisc² on B298 is that it takes up a place on the icon bar, on the other hand it does seem slightly better RPCBoot ^ A user configurable !Boot replacement for the RiscPC !RPCBootEd ^ By Olaf Krummow, helps set up your RPC !Boot files !Start : 1.2 An application from Raffaele Ferrigno to start up tasks. ideally this should be run from the !Boot app on your hard disc. DiscUtils.Catalogue !CataDir2 ^ 1.01 Creates a textfile of the contents of a directory !Catalogue = 1.13 Produces a catalogue of your floppy disc collection. Unfortunately the instructions are all in German but the program 'text' is in English and it's easy to use although non desktop. !DirList - 1.03 !DirSpool - Creates a text file of a directory listing !DiscCat = 3.10 Makes a catalogue of your discs. !DiscIndex = 1.02 A rather nice disc cataloguing program from Neil Carson. Complete with C source code !DiscTrack : 1.00 Another good disc catalogue program from Ainsley Pereira. Has good search facilities to help you find files in the resulting disc database !DiskBase = 0.65 Another floppy disc contents database. This one's quite good with lots of features including the ability to catalogue the contents of ArcFS/Spark archives !DiskCat ^ 4.6 By Raffaele Ferrigno. Reads floppy disks to make a database of their contents. Has search facility and can print records !DiskLib = 2.0 Creates a Library database of your floppy disc collection by reading the data from the discs. Can print out lists of disc contents, etc. !DiscListr ^ Fairly crude program to create a CSV file of the contents of a series of floppy discs. !DiscScan ^ Another program to create a database of the contents of floppy discs. !FileCat = 2.10 Produces a catalogue of your disc collection in CSV or plain text format ready for loading into a database (eg Pipedream, Powerbase etc) or WP. !Indexer = 1.00 Another disc catalogue program, produces a text file of the root directory of all your discs !MultiCat = A simple disc cataloguer which catalogues EVERY file on the disc with its full pathname DiscUtils.Foreign ARMASPI ^ ASPI drivers for PC card. You need these to run some PC hardware like scanners, removable media drives, etc, !DFS = A desktop DFS filer by Richard Averill. Possibly not so essential now but I know at least one person who's just traded in his faithful Model B for a Risc PC. !DFSreader ^ 0.01 A filing system for DFS discs. Won't double step so if you've got 40 track discs you'll need a 40/80 switched drive. I've used this extensively and it works very well. !DFSView = Simple DFS disc viewer. There are better programs but if you just want to copy a few files from a DFS disc this will probably do !DOSmapper ^ A very simple app to add DOS filetypes to DOSmap. Includes sprites for the files. !MacHFS ^ 1.04 Program to transfer files from Apple Mac discs. Only works Mac->Arc and only with 720K or 1.44Mb (if you have the hardware). Much improved from the earlier non- desktop version. It now uses a filer-like window although it doesn't work like a conventional filer, mainly because of the strange way that Mac discs are organised with 'forks'. However it's a LOT cheaper than the alternatives and it will let you get the data off a Mac disc. Hopefully the Author will continue to improve it so that we will no longer be forced to pay the outrageous prices asked for the commercial products. QL_Utils - Read QL discs, convert screens, etc. !Yadfs ^ 2.5 Yet Another Disc Filing System to read DFS (BBC) discs by Chris Corbett. Can read/write Acorn or Watford (61 file catalogue) discs, 40 or 80m track, single or double density. Seems to be the best one yet. DiscUtils.Menus !AcornMenu ^ Slightly strange disc menu system by Alan Trewartha. It does have the advantage that it doesn't take up much screen space !ATool ^ Very nice Shareware application launcher from Anthony Plassaras. It puts a user configurable 'button bar' along the top of the screen. each 'button' has menus, and these can open directories, launch tasks, etc. Registration is a bit expensive, but then this is probably the best program of this type I have seen. Seems to work on everything, including Risc PC. !Bar ^ Very simple menu bar to launch up to twelve tasks by David Barker !BlakHole2 ^ 4.01 Superior desktop dustbin with an animation on the icon bar. Lots of other features including file find, RMA utilities, etc BootMenu : As the name suggests, offers a choice of Boot sequences !BootSuite ^ 2.11 A comprehensive utility by R.Chasmer which can be installed to a hard disc and enables several users to each have their own customised boot up procedure with a password. Can also keep a log. Lots of features and would probably be ideal for us in a business or school. !CurlBack ~ An alternative application launcher from William Waghorn. Whenever you put the mouse pointer in the TL corner of the screen a menu appears with your most commomly used files/applications !DescFiler ^ Another menuing system by Simon Hatliff. Not particularly easy to set up but has some very useful features !DirCtrl = Puts directories on the icon bar so you can open them by clicking on them. Each directory can have its 'options' set individually, so you can have directories containing applications showing large sprites, those with lots of files showing small sprites, etc. Each directory can be password protected, as can the application itself, so by 'hiding' directories inside the !DirCtrl application you can protect them !Director ^ 0.11 Nice tool from Nick Craig-Wood which lets you create menus of commands and icons. Lots of features and worth trying, especially if you have a complex HD structure !DirMenu = 0.24 Useful app which, when you click MENU on the title bar of a filer window, displays a menu tree of the path of the window. This lets you 'move' back up the tree to any other directory without 'passing through' all the intermediate directories. Invaluable if you have a large hard disc with complex directory structures. !DiscStore = 1.20 This is similar to the many HD application launchers except that it is designed to be used with floppy discs. !DMen ^ 1.65 DeskMenu from Ian Clark !EaziEdit = Another application menu/launcher !ExtraBar ^ Another top-of-the-screen menu bar by David McCormack !FileFlick ^ Simple and compact menuing system by Chris Morison !Filer- : This produces a menu tree of your hard disc when you click Menu on the backdrop. Various other functions to make it easier to move about on a hard disc. !FishFS ^= 3.00 A sort of directory-opener by Phil Norman. Puts icons on the icon bar which can be opened by clicking on them. Easy to customise !Goodmenu ^ By David Barker, opens a small scrollable window to which you can drag files, apps, etc, and then you can run them from this. Sounds like just another menu system but it's quite neat and an ideal place to put things temporarily without splattering them all over the backdrop and then being unable to find them !Guest ^ I quite like this. It lets you have lots of applications apparently installed on the icon bar, but they aren't really there, they are just 'ghosts', under control of !Guest. When you click on one of them (or drag a suitable file to it) !Guest will 'run' it just as if the program was installed. The advantage is that all those icons aren't using any RAM, so you can appear to have many apps installed without gobbling up huge chunks of memory !IconDir = 0.11 Opens directories, runs programs, etc rather like !Menon. If you have previously used !Menon try this, it's *much* better in almost every way. !Initiate ^ Very simple task launcher by Stuart Marshall !KwikLoad = Application launcher !Menon = 2.06 The famous disc menu and task launcher. If you have a large hard disc with a complex directory structure then you probably need this !MenuBar ^ By Graham Crow, an absolute essential for every hard disc user. Far superiour to Blinds, it was previously sold by BeeBug but now completely re-written with lots of new features. Briefly, it puts a bar acrross the top of the screen with lots of pull-down menus which can launch tasks, load files, open directories, etc. Each bar can have up to ten menus, and each menu up to 30 items. You can also have as many as 30 separate bars and switch between them, so you can set up different systems for different tasks and have the things you need for that task readily available without a complicated, cluttered, system. This program is highly recommended (it's the only one I've bothered to install myself), so much so that APDL will be selling it, fully registered complete with a printed manual (see the Commercial catalogue). !MyMenu ^ Menu system similar to !Director by Richard Atterer !PullUp ^ By Terry Adams, put a bar on top of the icon bar with various pull-up menus !Star = icon bar menu !TinyObjs = Lets you put all sorts of filing system 'objects' on the icon bar !ToolBar ^ Very simple application launcher by David Thomas !TreeMenu ^ This provides a full hierachical menu of a hard disc. It has lots of features and seems very good, although the instructions are a bit vague on some points !Usr_Sel = 1.11 Another directory-opener file-selector from James Aylett. Not very sophisticated but quite ueful. !WimpBar ^ Yet another toolbar, this time by Steven Smale and quite good. Lots of configuration options. DiscUtils.Protection !Crypt = 1.00 A file encryptor from Stephen Early that uses two separate passwords to encode a file !Cypher ^ 2.00 Useful file scrambler, quite useful if you want to keep your files safe from prying eyes !DirLock ^ Locks directories so you can't get into them from the desktop between specified times !FileSafe ^ 1.70 Useful file encrypter by Glyn Snowden !HDLock ^ 2.00 Very good program by John Lageu to restrict access to parts of a hard disc. It's not absolutely secure but is primarily intended for use in schools to prevent students rummaging about where they shouldn't. I'm told it's also ideal for restricting younger brothers/sisters Invisible ^ Hides files by changing their sprites to a mask and giving them names consisting of just hard spaces !Lcrypt - 1.00 File encrypter !Locked = Simple app to lock harddisc until a password is entered !Lockit = Designed to make a piece of software useable on only one computer. If, like me, you believe that software protection is the last resort of the inept, then you will wonder what possible good it could be, but it could be useful to lock a program to a particular machine in a school and hence stop pupils 'borrowing' it !MaSK ^ This is a security device which will hide a file 'inside' an image or sound sample. Not only is the data very difficult to unscramble, as the original image/sample will still 'work' no-one will even know it's there. NoLook - If you put these files in an application directory no-one can look into the directory !Padlock - 1.00 Prevents unauthorised access to directories Password = Hard disc password application. !ProCrypt ^ Fast file encrption program by Dave Ferguson !Protect = Can protect up to 21 directories from unauthorised access. Works with Image filing systems as well so can protect archives (ArcFS, SparkFS, etc.) and DOS partitions as well as conventional directories. Protector2 - Protects discs and hard discs from unauthorised access !PROtek = Hard disc protection program from William Cooke !RPFS = Creates 'read protected' directories. This stops the directories from being opened without a password, but if they are applications they can be Run in the usual way. !Safe - Simple file encrypter/decrypter !Scramble = A file encrypter from Rick Crook. !Scramble = File encrypter from Paul Vigay. A feature is that if you enter the wrong password when trying to unscramble the file it will be destroyed, so use with caution (and DON'T forget the password!) !Shield = Another program by Ben carter to password protect a hard disc !TimeLock = Another hard disc protector, but it only prevents access to a directory between certain times. The idea was to stop kids getting into the 'Games' directory at school when they should have been working, but I'm sure there are other uses WProtect = 1.01 Can protect whole discs applications or files from deletion/corruption Education !2DWaves = Simulation of 2 dimensional waves !Angle ^ By Richard Sharpe, desktop program to help children learn about angles AMedia1 ^ Arc Media 1. Hypermedia info (text and NASA images) on the Solar System. Move between 'pages' by clicking on coloured 'key' words. Extra feature allows you to backtrack last three 'pages' viewed AMedia1 ^ Arc Media 1. Hypermedia info (text and NASA images) on the Solar System. Move between 'pages' by clicking on coloured 'key' words. Extra feature allows you to backtrack last three 'pages' viewed !Anagram - Simple Anagram generator !Architype = 0.30 "An excellent touch-typing tutor". Now has timed lessons and locked exercises to prevent 'cheating'. Infinite number of lesson and exercise files permitted and they can all easily be user-edited. New version introduces large print exercises. !Assist_1 ^ Prints a customised periodic table. Data can include atomic number, mass, boiling point, melting point, density, oxidation states, radioactive isotopes, atomic radius, covalent radius, ionic radius, atomic volume, electronegativity, first ionisation energy and electron structure. Graphs showing trends can also be printed !Assist_2 ^ Creates printed worksheets based on the chemistry topic of balancing equations. Numbers, reatants or products can be missed out depending on the preferences set. Select from six layout effects. !Assist_3 ^ Produces a printed worksheet for science AT4. Topics covered: Earth and Space, Electricity, Electronics, Energy, Forces & Motion, Light and Colour, Motors and Generators, Sound & Waves. Within each topic a variety of worksheets can be generated including, crosswords, anagrams, word searches, missing vowels and True or False questions. Choose from six layouts !Atmospher = 1.02 A diagram of the various parts of the Earths atmosphere in a scrolling desktop window !A>B>C ^ "The concentrations of the three components A,B, and C are calculated for the system consisting of two sequential non reversible first order reactions during the specified time period, and the resulting concentrations can be displayed graphically." !Birthday ^ Helps you prepare an A4 poster of the events connected with someones birth date, eg. famous people with the same birthday, historical events on that day, etc. !Bottle ^ Word puzzle like Hangman but bottles are knocked over instead of drawing the scaffold. Hints also available !Branch = A 'branching' database. Items are classified and found by questions that can be answered by a simple 'Yes' or 'No'. Ideally suited for children because it's very easy to find the item(s) that fit the category you want without even realising you are searching a complicated 'tree'. !Brownian = 1.30 A simulation of Brownian motion Cambridge = A multi-tasking emulation of the imaginary "Cambridge Microcomputer' used for computer studies !ChiSquare ^ 1.02 By Robert Seago, does simple statistical Chi-Squared tests, which I gather has something to do with genetics !Chords ^ Useful 'interactive chord dictionary' for guitarists by Andrew Bennet with over 180 chords !Cloze ^ A nice idea. Various words are 'removed' from a paragraph of text and you have to try to work out what they are from context CO2effect = A program by Bandy Ridgwell which is a global warming simulation. It can plot and display the likely effects of the various 'greenhouse' gases. Results are displayed graphically and can be saved. This is a 'cut down' demo version, but the only restrictions are that some parameters are fixed and cannot be varied. the full version is available from teh Author for the very modest price of £10. This seems like a comprehensive simulation and would be very useful as a teaching aid !Convert = 1.01 Program to convert various units. Fahrenheit/Celsius, kW/BTU, Ft-Ins/Metres, Miler per Hour/Metres per second. !Converter = Simple desktop units converter by Ewen Roberts. Metres/ft, cm/ins, km/miles, gals/ltr, gm/oz, kg/lb. !Converter ^ 1.01 By Ian Palmer, the best measurement converter I've seen. Can convert liear measure, area, volume, mass, time, force, pressure, energy, power, viscosity and temperature in many different units too numerous to mention. Can also convert combinations of units, eg. metres per second to miles per hour. !CV+ ^ Helps you create a CV, including a scanned photo. Control over layout and fonts is provided. !Cycles = Draws a graph showing the period doubling of the logistic map equation !Distil = This was the winning entry for the 1990 Institute of Chemical Engineers student computing competition and simulates distillation column operation !D_Turtle ^ A simple desktop Turtle Graphics program. Works on the RiscPC provided you use a numbered mode. Supports all major commands as well as procedures, sound effects and sprites. Background graphics can also be imported !EarthData ^ A sort of geographical database which creates lots of menus containing info on most of the countries, eg. cities, population, area, government, etc. !EasyAnim ^ By Nicholas Marriot, very easy to use desktop animation package. Originally intended for primary school children, so it might even be possible for some adults to use it without problems. Has its own editor to create and alter the frames which can then be 'played'. With examples !Epochs - 1.31 Shows the geological epochs !Fourier = 1.20 Draws Fourier diagrams. !FourST = 1.50 Little animated display of Four Stroke cycle !Fuse = 1.00 Helps you decide what fuse a domestic appliance needs. You choose the appliance and power consumption and then the fuse you think it needs. The program then shows whether it's too small (the fuse blows) or too large (you have caused a fire). !Gauss ^ Simultaneous equation solver from Richard Sharpe !Genotype = 4.00 I'm not quite sure what this program by Toby Smith does. The Author says that it creates the 'Monohybrid crosses that any course in genetics will throw at you'. Since I've never taken a course in getetics and there's a complete lack of any more detailed description of what it's actual function is I'll just have to hope that prospective users will understand. !German - Allows the German accented characters to be entered into the keyboard buffer by clicking on them in a small window. You could use !Chars but this is much neater !Gravity = Uses Newton's law of gravity to display the interaction between a number of objects bouncing around the screen. !Grid_Eur ^ Shows a map of Europe and asks questions about the positions and relationships between places. The idea is to teach grid references and compass directions !Grid_Afr ^ Ditto Africa !Grid_UK ^ Ditto U.K. !Guess ^ Word guessing game - guess the word the computer has selected. As you keep guessing help is given as to which letters are/not in word and their postions !HowMany ^ 1.01 Again from Robert Seago, illustrates a technique used to estimate the number of animals in a population in a closed environment !Kinetic = 1.30 A simulation of the Kinetic Theory LimitF12 ^ Not strictly an educational program but I'm sure any I.T. teacher will see the value of this. It stops the use of the F12 or CTRL-F12 keys so the user can't get access to the CLI or open a TaskWindow !Link ^ Quiz game for two or three players based on the 'block buster' game. Database can be customised so you too can ask for a 'P' please! !Lissajous = 1.00 A lissajous function plotter by Mike Curnow MC_Chem ^ Desktop multiple choice quiz. The subject is chemistry, but the questions are all simple textfiles so you can alter or add to them or write complete new ones MC_Phys ^ Ditto physics. Topics include acceleration, circuits, EM waves, energy, colour, heat, forces, magnetism, work, vectors, pressure, radioactivity and refraction MC_Maths ^ Multiple choice maths quiz including: formulae, geometry, percentages, measurement, standard form & simplification !Mole ^ 2.00 A molecular modeller from Simon Kilvington. Can save the models as Draw or Sprite files as well as its own file format. With lots of examples !MoleDraw ^ A molecular drawing package by Simon Kilvington. Works rather like !Draw but with special features to make it much easier to produce drawings of chemical structures. Output is in the form of standard Drawfiles so they can be used in other applications. !MolecDemo - Demo version of Molecule drawing program !Monarchs ^ Displays English monarchs !Moon = Similar program for the moon !Motor = Animation of a four cylinder engine showing the four cycles. It's non desktop and rather crude but the cycle is clearly demonstrated with valves opening etc. !Mturtle ^ Straightforward turtle graphics program !NCradle = 1.10 Demonstration of Newtons Cradle !OS_Symbol ^ Asks various questions about the symbols used on maps Phy_Sym ^ Tests knowledge of symbols used in physics PTable ^ Displays info about periodic table !PCMdemo = A program to demonstrate Pulse Code Modulation Physics = A series of programs from the Dept of Physics and Astronomy at Glasgow uni. Ten programs in all on a variety of subjects. I won't describe them in detail because if you're involved in this field you will want to try them for yourself !Planets = Another gravity simulation, operates in a desktop window !Plug = 1.00 Rather nice program to teach you how to correctly wire a 13 amp plug. You have to drag the three wires to the correct terminals !PTable = 2.06 Displays the periodic table and gives information on all the main elements !ReadEase ^ By Richard Wareham, calculates the 'reading ease quotient' of a textfile. Useful for finding out if text is suitable for use by younger children !RasMol ^ 1.20 A full multi-tasking port of the popular molecular graphics program by Roger Sayle. The Acorn version is by Martun Wurther. Includes various examples and scripts. !Reveal = 1.20 A simple desktop puzzle designed for use in schools (it was actually written for a school in Dumfries). !Roman = 1.00 By Ian Knox, converts decimal numbers to Roman !SciGraph = Creates a Drawfile of a scientific graph !SciModel = A nonlinear least squares curve fitting application !SciTrans = Allows transformance of 'x' and 'y' fields in the previous programs !Seismic = Sampled microseismic sounds from naturally fractured granite from the Cambourne School of Mines Also some sprites of images derived from a Borehole Televiewer. !Shopper = 1.58 Teaches children to handle cash. The pupil is offered items to buy and selects the required coins to pay for them. Simple graphics based user interface which draws the actual coins. The pupil just enters the answers by clicking on a calculator type keyboard. SoftChoice - A 'Clearview' hypertext from Dave Walsh to help you decide what software you need. Mainly intended to help teachers, IT co-ordinators, etc. !SolarSys ^ By David Pratt, desktop program which gives quite extensive info about the planets !Spell = Gives practice in the 'look, cover, copy' method. !SSystem = 1.10 Animated view of the Solar System. !Stargazer ^ 7.0 By Steve Ellwood, very good star plotter with real time update of the viewing window. Lots of features and the data is in the form of a textfile so more expert users can edit it to add data for additional objects !Stream1 ^ 1.02 By D.Robinson, calculates length of wetted perimeter and cross sectional area for a river cross section !Sun = Lets you plot the position of the sun at any tile of day !SWave = 1.52 Demonstration of standing waves !Tables ^ 1.20 From Richard Sharpe, a very good desktop Tables practice program. It draws a grid with numbers along each axis and you fill in the answers. Keeps a log of results. !Telescope ^ By Martin Dale, gives info about the objects in the solar system and general astronomical data. The observer's position and date can be varied !TempConv - Converts Fahrenheit to Celsius !Trent ^ 1.02 Another app by Robert Seago to find the index of quality of a freshwater lake or river. Based on a system developed by Severn Trent Water !Two ST ^ 1.50 Little animated display of Two Stroke cycle !Turtle = Very simple 'turtle graphics' program !Turtle = Turtle Graphics program from Mike Charlton. !Type = 1.4 Designed to give you typing practice though it isn't a typing tutor !TypeTute = Very simple typing 'practice' program. TypeWrite = Simple non desktop typing tutor !Wave = 1.52 Draws sine waves WelshRsrc ^ A set of Welsh language resources so that all the main apps can have menus and messages in Welsh !Where_Eur ^ A similar program to the above but asks about the positions of geographical features, cities, etc. !Where_Afr ^ Ditto Africa !Where_UK ^ Ditto U.K. !WordTest ^ Tests knowledge of numbers between 1 and 100 in a variety of languages !Zoo = 1.20 Nice 'game' from Raffael Ferrigno. It's actually a simple 'expert system' demo but the idea is that the computer has to 'guess' the type of animal from the answers you give to a series of true or false questions. Could probably be improved into a useful teaching aid Battle of hastings - Lots of material collected by Jim Fanning on the subject of the battle of Hastings. Includes scanned photos, including several of parts of the Bayeux tapestry, maps, a Genesis application and some textfiles of notes and information. aimed at national Curriculum Key Stage 2 or 3 Beginners ^ A comprehensive beginners guide to the Archimedes written by Dave Walsh. This uses the Hypertext system 'ClearView' so it's very easy to use and you don't need any great understanding of the Arc to use it (which would rather defeat the purpose of the whole thing). Ideal for schools where it can be used as a learning aid for beginners or a 'reminder' for the more experienced. Highly recommended for all new Archimedes owners. Bodiam - Another school visit from Jim Fanning. This time it's to Bodiam Castle in East Sussex. Contains Spritefiles of scanned photos plus a Genesis application. Castles - A series of pictures, including scanned photographs, notes, and two Genesis applications aimed at National Curriculum Key Stage 3 History. t deals with various aspects of castles, their construction, fighting, etc. plus a pictorial record of a visit to Lewes castle. This was all compiled by Jim Fanning of Tideway School, who hopes to add to it with visits to more castles Churches - A collection of Genesis applications, pictures and text files from Jim Fanning relating to History, Key Stage 3. Study Unit 1. It includes material about medieval churches and abbeys, a 'walk through' guide to Southease church in East Susses, and a guided tour of Battle Abbey Earth in Space - A huge collection of facts, Drawfiles, pictures, and several !Powerbase databases about the Earth and Space put together by Edmund Richardson. Romans - A 'Genesis' project from Dave Walsh describing the Romans in Britain. Complete with lots of illustrations and aimed at Key Stage 2, although there is a lot of text which might make it difficult for children who are 'developing' readers. Scouts - Two genesis spplications, lots of pictures, and some scout-related stories. This disc also includes the compilation 'Joining the Cubs'. All put together by Jim Fanning of the 1st Peachaven & Telscombe Cliff Group. (The Genesis Browser is included) Southease - A three disc set from Jim Fanning of Tideway School. Mainly compiled by the pupils of the school, it relates to NC History, Key Stage 3, Medieval Realms. It concerns vists to Southease and contains material relating this to a study of a Doomsday village. There are scanned photos, plus several Genesis applications !Stuarts - A rather nice 'Magpie' application by A.Shelton. Covers the Monarchs and various events (Petition of Right, Civil War, Plague, Great Fire) and famous people. Obviously this is not done in great depth, but what is covered is done well. Normally I don't like Magpie and Genesis very much because they are so slow and clumsy, but this really is a very usefil teaching aid. !Tudors - Similar to the above but covering the life and times of the Tudor monarchs. TideMills - Another project from Jim Fanning of Tideway School. As usual this comprises some text files, scanned photos and two Genesis applications. The project is all about the local area, and includes some historical notes and maps. Although this may not be of direct interest to people outside the area it does act as a very good example of how students can use the computer to collate the results of field trips and other studies to produce a computer project Waterloo ^ A series of plans, eye witness accounts and other descriptions, documents and illustrations about the Battle of Waterloo, collected by D.Morfitt Educate.Admin Journal ^ A series of A5 Drawfiles that can be printed directly or used in DTP documents. they provide ready made pages for students to enter their homework !Marks ^ 2.11 Teachers mark book. Allows up to 13 sets of marks to be recorded for up to 34 students. Works out averages, relative positions, etc. Very simple to use. Can now give output in CSV format as well as a text file so data can be exported to other databases NRA ^ A series of Style/Publisher templates for NRA documents. This might save you a lot of work reinventing the wheel !Report ^ Program by Robert Lytton intended to help teachers prpare reports for the National Curriculum. Lets you select phrases and then 'types' them wherever the caret is. !RoA = 2.00 A program by John Lageu to print out student Records of Achievements. Data is input in the form of a CSV file which can be the output from almost any database. !Timetable ^ 1.05 Nice school timetable program by Markus Bäurle. I've seen more sophisticated ones but this lets you set the number of rows/columns and does the job. Who needs more? !RA ^ Electronic registration system and Records of Achievement for use by schools. ROA is part of an assessment scheme which provides targets for students to aim at. Plus a Genesis application explaining the system and the Science National Curriculum as Pipedream files and a way of logging attainment using Pipedream. Educate.Bible !Seek ^ A 'bible search' program by Mike Williams. Lets you search through the King James Bible for any words and then produces a list of all the verses that contain that word or words. This list can then be saved. Educate.Games Hangman ^ Best version I have seen. A bulldozer pushes the letters into place. Keeps the player in suspense until the end. MagicWords = Another 'guess the words' type game. Pink Mog ^ An educational adventure game. Lots of questions that you have to answer on a variety of subjects. !Quiz ^ 1.11 Non desktop trivia quiz game by Martin Rose. At present the questions are DATA statements in the program but if this was changed it would probably have some educational use. Quizland = An educational quiz game with questions on English language, history, geography, maths and natural science. !Quote3 ^ A sort of 'board game' where you have to answer multiple choice questions on quotations to move forward. Now all the questions are in the form of text files so it's a LOT easier to write your own. This game could therefore now be considered for educational use. StarMath ^ Very good game which teaches maths. Enough excitement to keep children interested. !Starters ^ 'Consequences' style game !Wordiz ^ 1.1 Two player word guessing game Educate.Language !Dis-le = A French language tutor from the people who brought you !Sprich. It uses sound so it 'speaks' in French and a multiple choice quiz. Can also use earphones instead of the speaker for use in the classroom. !Dis-le version 3 This now has the full 2,200 GCSE word list and various other enhancements, training mode, multi-choice quiz, spelling tester, dictionary, word search, etc. All these enhancements, especially the large number of sound samples required for the huge word list, have made the complete package quite a bit larger, nearly 7Mb in fact !FrVb_Test = French Verb Test from Graham Campbell. A non desktop program that asks for French translations of English verbs. Not fancy but works well. There is not much data with the program but the questions are in the form of simple text files so you can easily make your own. !Heure - Tell the time in French LatinGram ^ This is actually a book, made up of textfiles, separated into 39 chapters, and is a comprehensive course on Latin grammar. It's very well written and easy to read, but I can't find an author's name anywhere. Much better than any of the standard textbooks I can remember. !LingoMast ^ 1.42 Another language tutor from Nigel Caplan. Not as comprehensive or sophisticated as Sprich but you can easily expand the vocabulary yourself !Palabras ^ Program for A level Spanish students which acts as a dictionary/phrase book by Tony Gibson !Sprich = Superb Shareware German language tutor which uses speech. Registration is only £5 and there are other versions for Chinese, Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish etc available from the Authors. Highly recommended. !VerbMast : A comprehensive program from Nigel Caplan which displays verbs in a desktop window. This version has german and French but others will be available !Verbs - Translates verbs between French and English !Vokabel = I think this is a German language tutor but as all the instructions are in 'foreign' and it's thirty years since I last used German.... Educate.Manuals Desktop ^ Four Drawfiles. Three are 'maps' of the menu structures of !Draw, !Edit and !Paint, and the fourth is a general map of the filer, Task Manager and other main desktop menus. These are very useful to newcomers to the Acorn desktop as it enables them to have a compact printed chart showing the main menu structures and functions. Logo Manual - The Complete Guide to Logo by Dave Walsh. These are described as 'workcards' and make up 100 A5 cards, but in fact it's a huge Impression document in several files totalling over 1.8Mb, so I suspect that the adjective 'complete' is fairly accurate. Nicely illustrated and laid out, it's obviously intended as a complete manual and tutorial for use in schools. It was actually written for RM Logo, but it should apply to almost any 'brand', and Logo is a farily standard language. However, because it is not supplied as hard copy you can easily make any changes required for the version you are using. Start Write help cards - 108 Drawfiles by Alan Shelton designed to be printed and turned into Help Cards for the popular Start Write package. There are also three Index cards for the package. The advantage of this system over a conventional printed manual is that the cards can be used by several children at once. They have lots of screenshots and were written by a teacher using the program in a real classroom so are designed to be as helpful and useful as possible. Talk Write help cards - 123 Drawfiles similar to the above and anain by Alan Shelton but for Talk Write. Four 'classroom guides' by Robert Lytton. Each consistes of a series of booklets in Impression Publisher/Style format which can be printed out by busy teachers and will save them lots of time getting things 'up and running' with minimum fuss. They cover the computer itself and many popular applications used in education. Adventure Covers Arc Ventures, Badger Trails, Betsi, Crystal Rain Forest, Darryl the Dragon and Time Detectives ROMview 'A key to the Desktop'. An easy to read guide to the Acorn desktop. Will save hours of pouring over manuals for those poor unfortunate teachers who are not familiar with Acorn computers (or who have been used to Macs or PCs and don't realise how SIMPLE it all is with an Acorn) DTP Covers My World, PenDown and Splosh Data 2 Covers DataCard, DataFind and DataPick Educate.Maths !AngleConv = 1.04 Converts between deg, Rads and Grad. !AutoSheet ^ 1.40 Extremely useful program by Alisdair McDiarmid. It can produce maths worksheets in a variety of types and levels of difficulty with all parameters controlled by the user. These are in the form of Drawfiles so they can be saved to disc and printed out as often as required. Extremely easy to use and an invaluable aid for any teacher. !Cubic = A program from Mike Williams to solve cubic equations. !Engine = An engine power calculator !Equator = 1.00 Solves quadratic equations. !ExprEdit = From G.Buxton, this is used to edit mathematical expressions which can then be exported as Draw or Sprite files so thet they can be either printed or incorporated into documents. Supports basic arithmetic functions plus square root, power, and brackets !Factors - Calculates the factors of a number !FigureIt = 1.00 Intended to give insight in different number series. Explores primes, Fibonacci series, squares, triangle numbers, etc. Aimed at Key Stages 2,3,4, Attmt Target 5 !Fit = Two programs from Mike Williams, FitLine and FitPower. they try to fit the best straight line through a number of points and the best power function to a number of points respectively !Fraction = Desktop program to convert decimal numbers to fractions. !Funcy2 = 2.02 Very comprehensive program from Richard Blythe to plot graphs of function. !Integrate = 1.01 evaluates definite integrals !Locus ^ 1.12 Formula based mathematical graph plotter by Richard Sharpe. Probably the best available at any price. Lots of features, can accept input in a variety of ways including direct formula (it also has a library of ready-to-use formulae) and CSV. Despite its complexity it's very easy to use and was written by a teacher for use in schools both as a teaching aid and a serious statistical and analytical tool. With good manual and a tutorial. Locus is Shareware and is available as a pre-registered package from APDL with a laser printed manual. See the Commercial catlogue for details. !MathGraph = Another program to draw scientific graphs !Maths = 1.00 Non desktop function graph plotter by R.H.Thornburrow When I first tried this program it wouldn't run at all but I've cleared some of the obvious bugs and most of the functions seem to work. In theory it should run on a BBC or Nimbus as well but I've only tried it on the Arc. MC_Maths ^ Multiple choice maths quiz including: formulae, geometry, percentages, measurement, standard form & simplification !MulDiv ^ Simple non desktop multiplication and division tester !Numbers ^ A program from Rischard Sharpe for messing about with numbers !Numeric ^ 1.03 From Graham Hick. Calculates integrals of functions, bonded intervals and derivatives plus other features. !PI = Calculates pi to a set number of digits !Quad ^ 2.20 Tries to solve quadratic equations !RPI ^ Calculates the infalation of a price based upon the Retail Price Index. Ths data included is from 1925 to 1990, but I have modified the program so it's now an external text file so you can easily extend it. !Solver ^ Quadratic equation solver from David Bradshaw !Statistix ^ 1.02 Program by Robert Seago to perform statistical analysis. Can take input data in the form of a CSV or Text file or it can be entered directly. Only a limited number of functions are supported !Trig = A program to find any value in a triangle (length, angle) given the other required information. Enter all the known details and it will try to calculate the item you want. Maths Worksheets - Several discs full of maths worksheets for KS 2 and 3. These are in the form of both Eureka and Drawfiles. In the words of Dave Walsh the sheets cover numbers and the Four Rules in a systematic way. Unlike other ways of making worksheets, these are task analysed to the skill you are teaching / practicing eg. carrying tens or decomposing; problems in written form; mathematics investigations; probability studies etc. Educate.Network !ArcCount = Shows users free space on SJ fileserver !awServer ^ 0.05 An 'experimental' fileserver !awSpooler ^ A spoolimg printer server !CV ^ Helps network managers view usage on their systems. Mimics SJ Research *CV EcoTimeOut ^ Helps eliminate 'No Reply' errors caused by large files !Eyeball = Lets you 'grab' a screenshot from a machine that is connected to yours via Econet. If you're supervising pupils I'm sure you can think of 1001 uses for this !Free ^ Helps network managers view usage on their systems. Mimics SJ Research *FREE !FS ^ A fast (or so it says) fileserver !Lockout and !Unlock = Companion programs to stop/enable terminals on an Econet network from receiving 'notify' messages. !Machines ^ Lists machines on Econet !NetCtrl = 1.15 From James Aylett, a network manager to help you to control a network from a master computer !NetChat ^ Econet chat program !NetSim :~ Patches the Econet module to fool it into thinking the network hardware is there and installs netFiler !NetTime ^ Reads the Fileserver clock and sets local times to match !Network = 1.19 A network manager by Stewart Brodie with various features !Newusers ^ Displays all the users on a network and lets you do variuos things to them (the Authors words, not mine) !Notify ^ Allows immediate communication between Econet stations !SimNet = 1.02 Complete network manager from Chris Corbett. Looks like a very useful package, and the main feature seems to be extensive password management for groups of users. It's a Shareware program and contains good documentation Educate.Text Various text files, including Magna Carta, Maastricht, The Communist manifesto, german and Japanese surrender documents of WWII, lists of British and French monarchs and US presidents, Us Constitution, etc. Emulation !BBox64 ^ Breadbox, functional but slightly restricted version of a program from Pulse Computers in Germany !Breadptch ^ Patch for Breadbox to emulate floppy discs and printer port Cambridge = A multi-tasking emulation of the imaginary "Cambridge Microcomputer' used for computer studies !ColEm ^ 0.14 ColecoVision Emulator by Marat Fayzullin, Acorn Port by David McEwen CPC Emulator - A slightly restricted version of the program by Mark Rison. Main restrictions are that it can't print or save snapshots or screendumps and there's no sound, but you can use it to play games, andquite a lot are provided with it. !CPCEmu ^ 0.50 By Andreas Stroiczek. Includes a program to transfer CPC disc images. Only problem I've found is on a S/Arm the keyboard repeat is too fast so you have to tap keys quickly or you ggeeettt ttthhhiisss !D64FS ^ By Andreas Dehmel, an image filing system for C64 disc image files !Frodo ^ Acorn port if the PD C64 emulator, actually looks better than Breadbox, with lots of docs and a few sample programs !Fmsx ^ 1.5 MSX emulator by Marat Fayzullin, Port by David McEwen !Gameboy ^ 0.56 by Purple Monchichi. New version runs on S/Arm and works with even more games !GBoyEm ^ By Paul Clifford, a version of Purple Monchichi's emulator that runs in a (scalable) desktop window !GBDK ^ 1.1 Gameboy Development Kit by Paul Clifford. With this you can write games for the Gameboy in either C or Assembler. Libraries and examples are included, and there's good documentation. HP11C = 1.0 Comprehensive emulation of HP11 programmable calcr. Does everything the HP11 does. With examples programs !HPCalc = Emulation of Hewlett Packard HP15C scientific calculator MAME ^ 0.28.0 Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. In case you've never heard of this it's a project to create an emulator for all those full-size arcade games machines. This version has been ported to the Arc by Gareth Long. Now you can play the original versions of the games and not the immitations ported to other platforms. The bad news is it really needs a RPC with S/Arm. !MGear ^ 1.32 The Portable Game Gear and Master System Emulator, Acorn port by David McEwan !Miracle ^ Fast Sega Master System Emulator by Richard Talbot-Watkins !MZX = 1.10 A 48K Sinclair Spectrum emulator. This apparently works very well (I've never owned a Spectrum so I can't test it properly). Can multitask or operate in single tasking mode for speed. Runs at about 60% of Spectrum speed on an ARM2 machine, around normal speed with an ARM2.5 and too damn quick with an ARM3. Now works on RiscPC !MZXface = 0.02 From Andrew Clover, this alows you to cheat whith many Spectrum games by using the Multiface 'pokes' which were published in many Spectrum magzines. Included is a text file with a large selection of cheats !Player1 ^ Front end for MAME !Sega ^ 0.71 Emulator for Sega's Game Gear and Master System consoles, capable of running over 95% of the games available for these platforms SNES95 ^ SNES9X is a powerful Super Nintendo emulator, with Super FX and other coprocessor support. Best results are obtained with a StrongARM based Risc PC, especially for the more complicated games and larger ROM images. At least 8Mb of RAM is needed. !Spconv = Converts betwwen various type of Spectrum 'snapshot' files so they can be imorted/exported to and from MZX !Stella ^ Multi-platform Atari 2600 VCS Emulator by David McEwan !Trash80 = A TRS 80 emulator from the same Author as !Woz. Once again I don't know anything about this computer but I've tried a few simple Basic programs and it seems to work quite fast !UAE ^ Unix Amiga Emulator. Original version by Bernd Schmidt, ported to the Risc PC by Peter Teichman. Needs a RPC with at least 12Mb !ISheet = 2.6/4.5 Convert BBC Intersheet ROM to run from the Arc desktop like IWord. New version has some bug fixes and now works with the Archimedes version (ISheetII). !IWord = 2.6/4.3 Converts Archimedes disc based version of Interword to run from the desktop like a normal RiscOS application. Installs on the icon bar and responds to file-clicking !View = 2.2 Ditto View ROMs. Works with A3, B3 etc. and the Archimedes version of View. Puts function keys in the 'right' place and makes the '£' key work properly. !VSheet = 2.2 Ditto View Sheet ROMs !VStore = 2.2 Ditto View Store ROMs !WordWise = 1.2 Converts Archimedes version of WordWise+ to run from the desktop. Now works with Watford 40 and 80 column versions !Woz = An Apple IIe emulator. This package does most things but doesn't include the Apple ROMs. If you have a IIe then it contains instructions for 'porting' them and the Author will supply copies on disc if you give PROOF of ownership of a IIe but otherwise you'll have to get them !Z80Tube ^ 4.00 From J.G.Harston, a complete Z80 second processor emulator. Works like 65Tube. Plus several extras including a Z80 disassembler. On a RiscPC this seems to run a lot faster than the original second processor so it should be pretty quick on any ARM 3 machine and adequate on even an ARM 2 FileUtils !Access = Sets file attributes !ARMedit ^ For PC card dusers, lets you edit PC textfiles using an Acorn editor and access Acorn drives from inside the PC environment !Attribute = 1.31 Allows recursive setting of file attributes !Case2Case ^ 1.50 Nice program by Robert Lytton to change the case of names and automatically set filetypes of DOS files. !Chopper ^ 0.21 A program I wrote to 'chop up' large files so they can be put onto floppy discs and then joined up again. Very easy to use. Lots of people have asked for something to do this, so here it is. Now includes a cut-down program !Joiner which can be distributed with split files and SPLIT.EXE and SPLICE.EXE to do the same thing on a PC so that vry large files can easily be transported between PC and Archimedes !CheckSave = Useful module from Peter Arnold which checks to see if a file would be overwritten by a Save operation and asks for confirmation if this is the case !Compare = A file compare program from Neil Walker !Convert = Now we all have RO3 (well, nearly all) and don't use apps like DosFS and PCDir any more we have to 'manually' convert the PC LF/CR to a LF when importing/exporting text files. This program does it automatically. !CRC = Calculates a 32 bit CRC value for a file !CSVedit ^ 0.02 By Bernard Veasey, lets you modify CSV files, remove fields, change separators, etc. !DelBoot ^ 1.03 Removes !Boot files which just contain 'IconSprites .!Sprites' or other non essentials. Saves 1K of disc space for each file removed and speeds up the filer DiffUtils ^ A port of the GNU Diffutils 2.7. This is a CLI program which compares two files and gives info about their differences. !Disable = 1.00 Lets you disable all Delete/Wipe commands so that files can't be accidentally deleted. !DragCom ^ Carries out the required command on a file or files Exist - Finds out if a file exists !FileAct = 2.12 Makes a command 'act' on files !FileFind ^ 0.5 Best file locator I've seen for the Arc. Very easy to use on any filing system. Can search any path and all you need to do to set the start location of the search is drag a file to the !Filefind icon. !FileKill ^ Deletes files. Unlike 'dustbins' this does not copy the file to a 'bin' by just forces it's deletion, so it's ideal if you are SURE you want to delet it or for use with floppy-only systems !FileMatch ^ By Sanjay Pattni, searches directories for files which match the search criteria. Can also execute commands on matched files !FileSee = Displays files in 'dump' format in a desktop window. !FileSplit = 1.01 From Ainsley Pereira, lets you split very large files over several floppy discs so that you can transfer them between machines. !FileSys - 1.01 Shows the current filing system !Filetree ^ 1.01 Creates a Drawfile showing the file tree structure of a disc. Each file is shown with a 'filetype' sprite and the diagram is divided into pages. If you have a large hard disc, you can end up with a *LOT* of pages. *** Modified to work with SA *** !FileTypes ^ 3.06 A sort of database of hundreds of filtypes. Drag a file to the icon and, if it understands it, it will tell you all about it !FileUtils - 4.07 Various utilities from discs and files !Filextras = Various extra file commands to set filetypes, CSD, access, wipe files,etc. !Filter = Lets you to filter certain characters from a file (eg. remove control codes from text files) or replace them with others !Filters = Adds patches to the Filer. Most useful is to force the filer to ask for confirmation before deleting files (if you turn on confirm in the Filer window it asks for confirmation before copying as well - which is a bit tedious). Can also set CSD and perform an 'iconprites' !Find = 1.0 Desktop file finder - only works for ADFS FRE = 0.10 Find Regular Expression(s) Given a regular expression (RE) and a list of files it finds the files that contain it !GuessType - 0.27 Tries to guess the filetype of a file !HexEdit = 0.94 view/edit any type of file byte by byte !ImageFree ^ Useful app by Dave Thomas which will display the free space on an image filing system like a PC image file !ImageProt : 1.01 This module will stop you deleting a non-empty Image file. Extremely useful if you use Image files as compressed directories. It will also stop you deleting your 50Mb DOS partition by mistake!! !Info = 1.03 information display system. Allows viewing of text, Draw and sprite files from one application !InfoFile = Gives Info about files and directories !KilleRam = Wipes all the files off the RAM disc. Saves deleting them manually before resizing, also show free space on RAMdisc !Memphis = 2.11 RAM filing system that uses the RMA sprite area for its data. This gives a dynamically variable RAM disc which can have up to 30 character filenames. This version has lots of other features, especially it can create a 'slave' filing system on a disc in which you can use the longer filenames. !MultiObey = Lets you multitask Obey files. Particularly useful for Boot sequences or other long-winded tasks as it enables you to see what's going on !NameTidy ^ 1.15 By Wayne Drury, and meant to tidy DOS filenames, set filetypes of DOS files, etc. Appalling instructions in a hypertxt reader and an awful pane window to set options, but somebody might like it! !NewSet-Ty ^ 1.03 Nice app to set filetypes from a menu by Emmet Spier OpenFiles ^ Simple utility that gives info about all open files and lets you close any you no longer want open !PretyFile ^ Renames those ugly upper-case filenames !QZap ^ 0.20 Desktop disassembler. Not as comprehensive or powerful as !Dissi or !Disassem but a useful tool for examining machine code applications and simpler to use. With C source code. !raFS ^ 1.13 Filing system by Richard Atterer that lets you use long filename and more than 77 items in a directory !ReName ^ Another one of those useful little programs that you won't need very often, but when you DO it saves you lots of frustration. This renames a series of files with any name you wish follwed by a numerical suffix 01, 02, etc. !Renamer ^ Useful if you port files from a PC. Changes those 'orrid and ugly upper case names to nice, pretty, Acorn ones in lower case with a capital first letter. Works recursively through directories and has a substitution list so it can substitute certain names. eg README could become ReadMe. !RenameF ^ 1.20 By D.S.Marshall, renames a group of files adding a numeric suffix. Useful when copying from CDs etc. !Reverser ^ 1.20 Useful program by Peter Naulls to convert DOS, Unix, etc. filename to more Acorn-friendly names !Settype = 1.01 Sets filetypes !Shredder ^ A file destroyer by Peter Jones. When files are deleted the data is still on the disc, but this program actually overwrites it as a security precaution if it's something you don't want anyone else to be able to recover Split/Join = Helps move large files from a PC to an Archimedes by splitting the file over several discs on the PC and joining it back up on the Arc. Could be very useful if you want to transfer large database files etc. Consists of a PC .EXE file and a command line driven Arc. utility !Splitter = Splits up large text files into smaller sections. Unlike most file splitters it's designed only for text files so it has various features specific to this !StripCase ^ Strips file extensions from DOS filenames and makes them lower case !Suite = Various utilities from Neil Walker, force deletion of files/directories, set filetypes, displsy text files, speaker on/off, set CSD, show time, ARM 3 cache on/off. !TextFind ^ The basis for this has been lying about on my hard disc for ages, and then last year I tidied it up to use as a search engine for the Archive magazine CD. Now I've done a bit more work to make it 'presentable'. Basically, it searches textfiles for a string or keyword and produces a list of the places where found. !TidyApp = If you just hate all those people who use upper case filenames you will probably like this. It 'tidies up' the 'standard' filenames to the proper case, eg. changes !RUN to !Run, !BOOT to !Boot etc. !TidyDisc = From Anthony Brion this performs two main tasks. First it renames 'standard' files with nicely formatted names - eg, !SPRITES to !Sprites, !runimage to !RunImage, etc. (upper case filenames are a real pain on the Risc PS with an outline font in filer windows). The other purpose is to uncompress !Boot, !Sprite, GIF, TIF etc. files compressed with CFS which don't take up any less disc space but slow up disc access !TypeFind = 2.01 A rather good program for guessing the filetype of untyped files. Its main use is for identifying files downloaded from BBS's or ported from PC's etc. !WhatFile ^ Simple app to give info on files which may not have a filetype alias set. !Wiper = File/directory deleter !Yermassa ^ Billed as 'yet another filetype setter to clutter up your icon bar' from Franz Philipps. Actually, it's rather good, lets you select the type you want from a large menu and the app. icon shows the type that the file will be changed to File_Trans !BBCTape = Helps you port programs from your old BBC computer to the Arc via the serial port !BBC<->Arc = A serial link to transfer files from a BBC/Master. This is the first 'proper' program to do this that I've seen, all the rest have been *very* crude. !NC-100 ^ 0.20 Serial link for Amstrad NC100 notebook computer. Can also print via the Archimedes printer and convert between Amstrad Address Book files and CSV, Tab or plain text. !Psion_1 = Utility to transfer files to and from the Psion Organiser !Psion ^ Psion link program and some utilities RSlink = Allows you to link the Arc up to a serial device for transferring text files from one machine another. !S2P ^ By Andrew Sellars, copies data received at the serial port to the printer port. Useful for printing from notebook computers that only have a serial post. Need Hugo Feinnes block drivers !SerialDev = Serial device driver !TermHost ^ App from David Brain to allow a terminal to run a command line via the serial port. Also useful as a debugging tool !Transfer ^ By Ben Spencer, lets you link two machines together via the serial port for file transfer, 'chat', etc. !UnixTrans ^ A Module to translate UNIX filenames into Acorn compatible ones !Z88 ^ 3.50 Link your Z88 to the Arc. Works at up to 19,200 baud. Can save files as an 'Archive' or individually. Converts between Z88/Arc Basic. Now acknowledged as the standard Arc-Z88 transfer program and most users say that it is better than Z88 Link. !Zap = Oh no... Another program called !Zap. This one's a file transfer program for the Z88. It's not as good as the one on B228 (but then I would say that) but it works OK. FontUtils !ASCiXpand ^ Like Figlet this produces enlarged text for headings in various formats but it's a more complex program with lots more fonts and options. !Atlanta ^ 1.46 Shareware font manager by David McCormack. Looks like a very good package, very versatile with lots of features !FastFont = A utility which reads your Font List and creates a Module which will drastically speed up reading of the font list. With C source. !FastSpool ^ 0.20 Program by Andreas Dehmel which speeds up data transfer via the printer port on later (bi directional port) machines. Speeds up printing with a laser printer !Figlet ^ 2.00 Handy program for producing large text. Ideal for headings, signatures, etc. It was used for most of the APDL catalogue file headings. !FontCombi = 1.00 Program from Andrew Heckford to allow font directories to be included/excluded from Font$Path !FontConv = 1.44 converts PC WFN fonts to RiscOS outline fonts !FontCtrl = Helps you to configure your system to get the best out of the font manager !FontDir = 1.00 Controls the font directory and avoids problems with too many fonts for some apps !FontDisp - 1.10 shows a summary of all the font families, styles and weights, bitmap converter and more !FontDraw = Takes a string of characters and converts it to a Drawfile using a chosen font !FontEd ^ 0.32 Acorns Font Editor. A bit old now and only works with RO 2 fonts but I don't know of anything better in PD or Shareware. If you do, please tell me. This can't produce RO-3 type kerned fonts but, unlike earlier versions, it won't crash if you load a RO3 font. Acorn permit this to be distributed under licence but point out that they no longer support it, so if you do have any problems or queries please don't ask them. (This is the version which works on S/Arm) !Fonter = 1.00 Prints a sample of text of any chosen font showing all the characters available. !Fonter = Helps you to adjust the spacing between letters in a font. Very useful if you have converted a PC font to Arc format and the letters are not correctly spaced !FontFix - 1.04 Strips out the unwanted rubbish in fonts ported from other machines !FontLstr = Displays a list of all, or a selection of, the fonts available. Can save the list as a text or Impression file FontMenu = 1.16 RM to create multi-level font menu which can be shared by applications !FontMgr2 ^ 0.15 Very good Font Manager from Andrew Lindesay. lets you put your fonts in groups and switch the groups in and out of use at will. Seems to work OK in Risc PC. Includes good documentation in text and Impression Style format and a utility to convert from previous FostMgr1 format. !FontMsg = Scans the !Fonts directory and creates a message file so fonts aren't scanned when you boot as the references are taken from the message file. This makes the operation much faster than usual. !FontMsgs : Another program by Darren Salt to speed up font directory scanning !FontPrint = Yet another font tester by David Wilkins !FontSafe ^ Stops games programs setting the font cache to 0 and so making the Risc PC desktop run like a snail FontSelect = 1.02 Places fonts in various groups within the !Fonts directory so you can decide which ones apps 'see' avoiding the 'too many fonts' problem !FontTest = 1.00 Another font print testing program by Mark Bright !KeyCaps = 1.00 Displays a font in a desktop window. MkBitMap = 2.00 Application by Cy Booker to make a bit maps of fonts which speeds up font access. !Novelty ^ Directory in which you can put all those rarely needed fonts so they can be switched in or out as you want them !PixelFont ^ By Richard Atterer, turns 16 colour greyscale sprites into bitmap fonts which can be used as a system font, in Zap, etc. !PSfont ^ Converts outline fonts into data which can be downloaded to a Postscript printer so you can use your Archimedes fonts with a Postscript laser. !SwitchF ^ By Richard Atterer, lets you switch between various sets of fonts TurboFont = A similar application to do the same thing !TypeShow ^ By David McCormack, displays a font in a desktop window so you can remind yourself what it looks like. Very useful if you've got lots of fonts !WFNBoss = Converts WFN (Corel Draw etc) fonts to Archimedes. Not very fast but then you only use it once for each font !WhichFont : Simple app from A.R.Miskin to add font directories to the Font Path FontUtils.SystemFont !BBCFontEd = 1.04 Nice desktop system font editor from Graham Hick. !FEd = 8x8 system font editor. There are lots of these but this one's quite good. !FontChoos = Choice of 25 System fonts with an application to select them !ChrEd ^ 2.07 Nice system font editor/designer by Darren Salt !mkBBCfont = Useful little utility to convert a System font file into a series of sprites, one for each letter SysFont = A program that can be used to make any System font (and there are plenty on this disc!) into a Module which can be used with the *Alphabet command PLUS over 450 8x8 system fonts of all types. Fractal !ArcAut = Good 'cellular automata' program. Input is in the form of script files which produce the display. !Browse = A series of fractal images !FracLand2 = 2.14 A program for generating and 'playing around with' fractal landscapes !FracPaint = 2.70 Superb desktop fractal generator from Michiel van Schaik. Very comprehensive and comes with a large selection of palettes and examples !Fractal and !FracPal = The definitive fractal generators by Mike Curnow. !FracVist2 = FracVisit from Joyce Haslam !Hodge = 1.01 Cellular automata in a small desktop window from Warner Hepping !Juliana++ = Modified version of Jan Vleitink's original program from Robin Watts and Jamie Lockier !Landscape = Great fractal landscape generator from Malcome Banthorpe !Lyapunov = Simple Lyapunov program based on an idea published in Scientific American !Mandel3D = Makes 3D versions of the images produces by !Mandy !Mandy = Mandlebrot generator from Rischard Attrill !MandysBit = A floating point program from Robert Templeman !Martin - 1.0 Uses algorithm discovered by Dr.Barry Martin. Very simple and fast !Maze = Maze generator from Jan Vibe !Menger = Another program from Jean van Mourik !M_Traj = 2.00 This program from Joyce Haslam attempts to discover where the points which 'escape' from the usual mandelbrot set go to !Penrose = A program to display various Penrose tiles. Complete with C and assmbler source code !Scape = Very nice 3D Mandlebrot landscaping program from Martin Hesketh !Tesseract = A four dimensional (!) cube display from David McQuillan !TripATron = 1.50 A series of fractal type graphics displays. The Author says it's ideal for parties (I think the name suggests what *type* of parties!) !Wibble = Very interesting program from Alistair Tunbull. I'm not going to describe it, try it for yourself !WimpFrac = Nice desktop fractal program from Hendrik Pedersen. Not very quick but allows you to adjust most parameters (including the palette) and produces some great images, especially in hi-res modes PLUS four discs of fractal related goodies from the Archimedes Fractal Group GraphChart !AGP ^ 1.72 Archimedes Graph plotter by Ben Harris. A Wimp program to plot graphs of functions. Can plot two graphs on the same axis which is useful for comparison. Can save output as its own filetye for realoading or as a Drawfile. Fast and very easy to use !Chart = Produces charts for !Draw from data. Can also print the charts. !ChartDraw = 3.00 Program from Chris Johnson to Produce charts in a variety of formats. Pie charts, graphs, etc. !Funcy2 = 2.02 Very comprehensive program from Richard Blythe to plot graphs of function. GNUplot ^ 3.4 The famous interactive function plotting program This is an extremely powerful (though not very user friendly) package, and I am sure that most people who need it will have experience of it on other platforms !Graff = 1.01 Another program to display a graphical representation of an equation from Dave Thomas !GraphDraw = 2.52 Excellent desktop graph drawing package from Chris Johnson. Has all the functions you would expect and is very easy to use. Good instruction text and two example graphs. Can save data in CSV, Tab and various other formats. !Grapher ^ 3.25 By Tom Hughes, not nearly as comprehensive as Locus but again it's simple to use, but input can only be typed in directly. !Graph = Program by Mike Curnow to create a graph from a script input file !Graph = 1.16 Desktop graph plotter. Can save output as a CSV file but can only print the graphical result (via RiscOS PD's) and not save it as a Drawfile like some others !Locus ^ 1.12 Formula based mathematical graph plotter by Richard Sharpe. Probably the best available at any price. Lots of features, can accept input in a variety of ways including direct formula (it also has a library of ready-to-use formulae) and CSV. Despite its complexity it's very easy to use and was written by a teacher for use in schools both as a teaching aid and a serious statistical and analytical tool. With good manual and a tutorial. Locus is Shareware and is available as a pre-registered package from APDL with a laser printed manual. See the Commercial catlogue for details. !MathGraph = Another program to draw scientific graphs !Maths = 1.00 Non desktop function graph plotter by R.H.Thornburrow When I first tried this program it wouldn't run at all but I've cleared some of the obvious bugs and most of the functions seem to work. In theory it should run on a BBC or Nimbus as well but I've only tried it on the Arc. !PieDraw = Nice little app from Mike Williams which produces a Drawfile pie chart from a simple text input file. Ideal for producing charts ready to incorporate into DTP docs. !SciGraph = Creates a Drawfile of a scientific graph !SciModel = A nonlinear least squares curve fitting application !SciTrans = Allows transformance of 'x' and 'y' fields in the previous programs !TAU ^ By Tim Birks, a desktop graph presentation package. Main feature is the ability to produce nice looking Drawfiles from input data Graphics 3Dcycle2 ^ By Daniel Mossop, displays a selection of auto stereograms and also cycles the colours to help releive the boredom. 3D_Graphic ^ 0.03 Module with various SWI's for vector graphics. There are a couple of short demos with it. I don't know where it came from as there's no name or Copyright message AIM 3.15 ^ Archimedes Image Manager, a very powerful image processing package !BMPSprite ^ 1.01 By Darren Salt, converts BMP format files to and from Sprites and Clear files. !ChangeMod = Lets you change the screen mode of a sprite !ColourMap = 1.00 Demonstrates colours as RGB, CMYK and HSV. Useful if converting files ColourTest = Generates a Drawfile showing 256 colours. Very useful for testing colour printers or checking how colours will look on a mono printer ColourTrn3 - A RM to allow colour 'dithering' to mix colours and give you extra colours on the screen !Deform ^ Produces 'smeared' spritefiles !Detail = This alows you to display and manipulate images. Works with CLEAR files and sprites and up to 24 bpp. Can grab a screen, change the palette, etc. This is a partially crippled version of a commercial package (the distributors describe it as 'Shareware' which shows how ignorant they are of the Shareware principle) but it is useful 'as is' !DotScene ^ Really a sort of demo of scrolling a scene made up of dots. Source code isn't included but the actual routines are CALLed from Basic !Draw2Spr ^ App by Ian McLaren to convert a Drawfile to a Sprite !DrawGrab = Converts a DrawFile to sprite. Seems to work OK with some files and not so good with others !DrawLink - Links ASCII text files into a format suitable for inclusion in !Draw/!Draw+ as a text area !DrawLots = Creates Drawfiles of various geometrical shapes. Can save a lot of time because Draw itself can't do this !DrawRot ^ Useful app by A.Miskin to generate patterns and borders from a drawfile !Drop = Rotates DrawFiles about 2 axis in 3D. A bit slow but it works OK !DUAModule ^ By James McQueen, an alternative to Acorn's Drawfile module to display and process Drawfiles with various additions and improvements. Includes an example program using the module to display and print Drawfiles !DUBModule ^ Again by James McQueen, this module has lots of SWIs to help you create Drawfiles easily from your own programs. Several example programs are supplied !EasyAnim ^ By Nicholas Marriot, very easy to use desktop animation package. Originally intended for primary school children, so it might even be possible for some adults to use it without problems. Has its own editor to create and alter the frames which can then be 'played'. With examples !ExPal ^ 1.01 Extracts the palette from a GIF, IFF or Clear file and converts it to a Drawfile !Gamma ^ Very useful colour correction program for the Risc PC by Rod Davidson. A must for anyone who does any serious graphics work or uses a colour printer and wants to see on-screen what will appear on the paper. GDpatch = This 'patches' the GDraw Module from Artworks to make it much faster !GenStatic ^ Generates 'static' effect which can be used to overlay a spritefile !Grab = 2.02 Saves a copy of the Wimp sprite pool to disc !Grabber = Interrupt driven screen grabber. Ideal for games screens !Grabber = 1.03 Another screen grabber with the same name, this time by G.J.Lee !GraphPlot = 1.21 Desktop graph plotter. !GreyEdit = 2.00 A utility to process 256-level greyscale images. !HackSpr ^ 1.00 Adjusts poorly converted 16bpp sprites to true 8bpp colour !Image ^ 1.70 24 bit image processing package by Ian Palmer. Can alter colour range, filter image, resize, rotate, merge images etc. Can read sprites (including 15bbp and 24bpp), Clear files, PBMPlus, GIF and JPEG. Image doesn't need to hold the file in RAM but can operate from disc, so you can manipulate an image larger than available RAM *** updated Sep 97 Now S/Arm compatible *** !Jewel = A Joint Photograph Expert Group image compressor and decompressor based on release 3 of the Independent JPEG group work !Marble ^ A non desktop program to produce 'marbled' sprites. You can alter the parameters to give different textures and colours. These can be used for all sorts of things but they're also good for desktop backdrops so you needn't be restricted to the ones provided by Acorn !Mask = 1.11 Lets you select certain items of a sprite or CLEAR file isolate them. This lets you do things like changing or erasing objects or certain types or morphing Comes with utilities for splitting up large CLEAR files, renaming sprites, and an Animator program !ModeConv = A sprite mode converter !Morpher : !MorphDes and !MorphRun from Jason Howat. These can perform 2D morphing and produce Acorn Replay files. Unfortunately no instructions or examples !Morpheus = A morphing program from Henrik Pedersen which produces a sequence from two 256 colour spritefiles. This is a cut- down version of the full program which has lots of additional features, however it is functional OptPal ^ Optimum Palettes by Andreas Dehmel. Tries to create a dithered sprite with up to 8bpp from a 32bpp sprite !OW ^ Creates an 'Other Worldly' version of a sprite picture !PalMaker ^ By Richard Goodwin, lets you create and edit 256 colour palette files for sprites !PickAPic ^ 1.15 Program by Hugh Eagle to let you browse through a disc or discs of Draw, Sprite, or Poster files and pick out the one(s) you want to use. This new version has many new features. It can process Artworks files, archives in SparkFS, ArcFS, etc. format, 'new format' Drawfiles, and can handle rotated text and transformed sprites in Drawfiles. It will also now multitask during long operations, plus lots of other improvements. Various other enhancements are proposed but these depend upon feedback from users. Although PickAPic isn't Shareware, if you like it I strongly suggest you send a contribution to the Author as he suggests that this will encourage him to spend more time on it's development. !PieChart ^ By Andrew lee, simple program to produce a pie chart as a Sprite. Not as complex as a graph drawing package but ideal for producing a quick chart for a DTP doc. !PixEffect ^ By Jim Jeffery, gives a sprite a 'stained glass' look !PixelPal = 2.10 Helps improve 16 colour sprites by showing colour combinations needed to produce extra shades by dithering !Pottery ^ 2.10 Interesting program from Richard Seago. Works like a potters wheel. As you draw a line in one window so a shaded 3D object is drawn in the other. This resembles the effect that would be produced if the lines you have drawn were to be used to 'mould' a rotating object. The resulting image can be saved as a sprite. This would probably be a very useful and quick tool for producing sprites to be used in games !PhotoFilr ^ Can display a miniature of a picture in a filer window instead of the normal file icon. Lots of other features. Needs RO 3.5+ !Sascha ^ 2.04 by Maarten Seinen, converts a sprite into text. Works best with black and white sprites. Computer operators used to spend the night shift doing this with mainframes! !Shade ^ Converts colour sprites to greyscale !SortSprit = 1.11 Sorts sprites in a file into alphabetical order !SprEd ^ 1.1 Changed the Mode of a sprite !SprShift ^ By Mike Dickens, modifies a sprite so the 'edges' don't show when it's used as a tiled background !SpriteFix = Converts sprites saved from specialised modes into the nearest 'standard' screen mode SpriteGen = Sample programs for creating a series of sprites for animation etc. !SpriteMde - Allows you to change the Mode of a sprite !SSort ^ Sorts sprites in a SpriteFile into alphabetical order !TargaInfo ^ 1.00 Gives info about Targa files !TexPix ^ By Kuldip Pardesi, converts a sprite to one of those pictures made up of ascii characters !TextDraw - 1.06 Converts graphics in the form of Textfiles, containing commands like DRAW, MOVE etc. to Drawfiles !Texture ^ Creates simple textured sprites for backdrops etc. !TexturGdn ^ 0.47 Texture Garden by Tim Tyler. A powerful program to generate all types of 'textured' sprites. These can be used as backdrops, Web page backgrounds, in fact anywhere you might need a textured effect. Uses script files as input and lots of examples are provided as well as a comprehensive manual !Thumbnail ^ 1.50 Superb program from Ian Palmer to display a series of miniature versions of pictures so you can find the one you want quickly in a similar manner to PickAPic. Support for Sprite, Draw and Artworks. new version is S/Arm compatible and includes a 'read only' version that you can put on distribution discs !Thump ^ 1.21 Real time thumbnail browser by Rick Hudson. Unfortunately the only documentation is in Strong Help format and I'm not going to struggle with that to find out what it can do !TIFFinfo - Provides information on TIFF files !Tilings ^ By Tom McLean, this produces diagrams created by placing complex shaped tiles in regular patterns. Lots of shapes are provided, and the patterns produced can be used for 'real' applications such as floor/wall tiling, or just as art !VDUobject - 1.02 converts VDU sequences into a Drawfile !ViewObj ~ 1.00 A fast 3d object viewing program !WindowRd ^ Window Reader. Just grabs the window the pointer is over as a sprite. Ideal for illustrating manuals etc. !Wowpix = For producing those weird 3D images Graphics.Conversion !009_FF9 ^ Converts sprites made by EasiDraw to standard sprites and visa versa !ArchiCPC ^ 2.60 Converts Amstrad CPC Multiface screens to Sprites !Art2Spr ^ By Tony Houghton, converts Artworks and Draw files to sprites. Needs the !AWviewer program (see B157) !Atari-Scn = Converts Atari Neochrome files into Arc screens !Beeb-Scrn = Converts between BBC mode 0,1,2,3 or 5 screens and Archimedes equivalents !BMPSprite ^ 1.01 By Darren Salt, converts BMP format files to and from Sprites and Clear files. ChangeFSIx ^ By David Rodgman, lets you specify what filetypes will run/be loaded by ChangeFSI !Clear2TGA = 1.00 Converts 24bpp Clear format files to 24bpp Targa !ClearInfo = 1.02 Gives info on Clear files !Creator ^ 3.22 An Converts Arc sprites or Translator 'Clear' files to GIF, TIFF, AIM, PBMPlus or JPEG !DJPEG = 1.01 From John Tytgat. Converts JPEG files into PBMplus files which can be read by John Kortinks 'Translator' !D2Sprite ^ By Sham Garner, converts Drawfiles to sprites !Draw2Spr ^ App by Ian McLaren to convert a Drawfile to a Sprite !DrawShape ^ 1.06 Again from Darren Salt, this takes path objects from Draw and moulds them to fit between two other paths dxf2draw ^ Converts DFX files to Draw, inludes C source !Dxf-CGM = By Keith Sloan, converts between DXF and CGM Metafile formats. The Author points out that this program is not complete and cannot cope with complex constructs. !EPSobject = Converts EPS format files as used by Corel Draw, Aldus Freehand, Adobe Illustrator etc. into vector objects suitable for use in !Draw !ExPal = 1.01 Extracts the palette from a GIF, IFF or Clear file and converts it to a Drawfile !FYEO2 = 2.01 For Your Eyes Only. Viewer for JPEG, GIF and now PPM and Targa files which is an alternative to Translator or ChangeFSI. Unlike Translator it works within the desktop and it's a lot faster and simpler to use. On the other hand the fact that it works within the desktop means it's forced to use the Wimp palette. The answer - get both! 2.00 seems more 'robust' than earlier versions which sometimes crashed if there was a problem with the image. !GIF->JPG : GIF to JPEG file converter GIF2RPC ^ 1.02 From Cy Booker, this converts high quality GIF files to 32K colour Spritefiles !GreyToRGB = 1.02 Combines three 8bpp Clear or AIM files to a single 24bpp Clear file so you can combine Red Green and Blue images into a true 24bpp image. Can also alter colour values so you can produce 'weird' images !InterDraw ^ A program to interpolate Drawfiles by Rosemary Miskin Jpeg2Spr ^ By Tony Houghton, converts JPEG to sprite. Needs RISC-OS 3.6 or better !JPG->GIF : Converts JPEG to GIF !HackSpr = 1.00 Adjusts poorly converted 16bpp sprites to true 8bpp colour output !IFFinfo = 1.00 Provides basic info on ILBM IFF files !JFIF = A desktop 'front end' for ChangeFSI which enables it to handle CJPEG and DJPEG files. Although ChangeFSI can do this it can otherwise only do so from the command line !JPEGit : 1.10A Extension to !ChangeFSI to give JPEG compression. You need the RO3 version of ChangeFSI to use this !MakeGIF = 2.05 A program from John Kortink to convert Arc sprite or Clear files to GIF. Now largely superseded by Creator but this program may be simpler to use if you don't need all it's facilities !MakeIFF = Non-desktop program to convert Arc sprite files to IFF !MakeJPEG = 1.04 Converts GIF, PBM or Targa file to JPEG or visa versa !MakePCX = Converts 2, 4 or 16 colour sprites to PCX format images. Complete with C source code !MakeTIFF = 2.05 Ditto for TIFF files. NetPBM ^ Archimedes port of the Portable Bitmap Toolkit. This can convert between many image types (Sun, MacPaint, MGR, GEM, Gr.3 Fax, Degas, ,GIF, IFF, PICT, QRT, MTV, AutoCAD, TIFF, HP L/jet, etc., etc.). !Prescribe = Converts objects in a Drawfile into PreScribe-II commands RandJPEG ^ 1.00 Again from Cy Booker, this time to convert JPEG files to 256 colour sprites. NB. This program requires RISC-OS 3.6 or better !RGB_Spr = 1.00 Converts 24bpp RGB description file into a sprite !Spr2Jpeg = 1.07 A Sprite <> JPEG conversion program from David Rodgman. Needs ChangeFSI, and of course later versions can operate with JPEG files anyway !Sprte2IFF = 0.52 Converts a Spritefile to IFF format. !SwiftJPEG ^ 1.00 A fast JPEG viewer for RISC-OS 3.6 or better. Will work with RO 3.5 if you have a copy of the new SpriteExtend module !Surface ^ A 3D surface plotter. Can produce 'pictures' of a variety of shapes. !TargaInfo = 1.00 Gives info about Targa files !TexturGdn ^ 0.47 Texture Garden by Tim Tyler. Produces textured sprites using various complex algorithms. The 'input' for these is taken from a script file, and lots of sample scripts are provided. The tiles are ideal for backgrounds for the desktop or web pages !TIFFinfo = 1.00c Gives info on TIFF files !TIFFinfo - Provides information on TIFF graphics format files !To24bpp = Lets you use ChangeFSI to converts a 24bpp 'foreign' file to one of the new 16 or 24 bpp spritefiles. If you don't have a RiscPC then ChangeFSI can't do this within the desktop !Translatr = 8.00 Converts pictures from ST, Amiga, Mac, PC and other foreign formats to Arc format. Will handle most 'native' Arc formats as well as many types of sprite, including Watford and Pineapple Digitiser, Render Bender, Pro- Artisan, Wild Vision etc. !TText-Spr = Converts Teletext screen to a sprite. !ViewObj ^ This is by the same authors as Virtual3D and is related to it. It enables 3D objects to be viewed and rotated !Virtual3D ^ This is a demonstration of a 3D graphics library by Wilco Dijkstra and Mattijs van Delden. You can create 'worlds' and 'drive' or 'fly' around them. It's main uses will be for games and an example is provided. There's lots of potential for anyone interested in writing games. !Waster ^ DDE utility to remove left hand wastage from sprites in Spritefiles or Drawfiles !WinIcon ^ By Michael Foot, converts 'Windows' icons (.ICO) to Acorn sprites. Includes lots of sample icons !Zippo ^ 1.04 A converter for Clear files from Dave Thomas. Will convert to AIM, BMP,HSI, Irlam, MTV, QRT, Sun, TGA and V12 formats. Graphics.Displsy !AnimView2 ^ 1.30 An application by Gary Lee to show a 'film' of sprite files in a small desktop window. With several examples. !CAViewer = A rather useful program from Dean Sivell to display Draw, Sprite, Artworks, Tablemate or Equasor files. Not only is it a lot quicker and less fussy that messing about with the original applications just to look at the file, it also saves you having to have !Paint, !Draw, etc. running if you just want to browse !Cobbler = An application from Emmet Spier for use with the Multipod which lets you digitise a Mode 21 image if you have less than 4Mb of RAM. Needs a copy of 'Translator' (B012) !Deep4All : Displays 24bpp 'deep' sprites on non-RiscPC machines !DiaSchau ^ 0.92 Plays MPEG, FLI, ARMovies, animated GIFs and displays all graphics formats supported by ChangeFSI !DiscPlot = 1.02 Displays a Spritefile directly from disc in a window. Uses almost no memory so you can look at a large sprite when memory is limited. !Display - Displays Draw files !DrawPrint ^ 1.01 by James McQueen a utility to view/print Drawfiles. !EasyView ^ Fast Sprite, JPEG and Drawfiles display for RO 3.5+ !FastFLI ^ Very good FLI file player by Peter Teichman !JView = A JPEG file viewer from ARM's Tech which is very much faster than either ChangeFSI of Translator !LoadImage : Just displays a sprite in a window. !Megumi ^ 2.00 By Dirk Krumbholtz, image viewer for ECC, GIF, JPEG, MAG, PI, PIC, PNG !MPEG = 2.0.6 A MPEG movie file player by Paul LeBeau based on the player from Berkley Uni, California !Multi = 1.22 A program from Alun Jones to display sprites created in any mode on a standard monitor !MultiShow ^ I think this is a viewer for JPEG, GIF, etc. files but the author is so busy waffling about other things he forgets to say !NoPaint ^ Display and manipulate sprites in a SpriteFile !PicView = Very good program from Simon Hatliff tp display sprites in a desktop window. Saves all that messing about with Paint to view a sprite !PlayAVI = 1.00 Program by Paul Gardiner to play films for Microsoft's 'Video for Windows' package !ReplayGIF ^ Player for animated GIFs by William Gibbons !SESanim ^ Displays animated GIFs and sprites !ShowDraw = Displays Drawfiles in a desktop window. If you drag a directory containing lots of Drawfiles to the display window they are shown one at a time in sequence !ShowPic ^ By Jochen Lueg, slide show program to display up to 500 sprites in succession in a random order. Can also show a short text description of each picture. Needs a RPC and ChangsFSI !SprDisp = Displays a large sprite on the screen. The sprite can be larger than the screen so it's useful for looking at very large sprites if you don't have a hi res monitor. !SpriteFS = 1.08 Lets you view the sprites in the System Sprite area !SprView = Another app to dsplay a large sprite on the desktop by Joss Smith !Tumblweed ^ Front end for Acorn's Slideshow that works with ChangeFSI Internet Acornet ^ Acornet is a suite of software which will allow you to use the Internet over a dial-up connection. It is not a single application, but a convenient meshing together of a number of applications written by many people. !Addr>Web ^ 'an application for making a Web Page with hot links to your address text file'. I don't know what this means, but the author refers to Voyager so I assume it's intended to be used with that !ArcWeb ^ A Web browser !ArgoBill ^ 1.10 Displays on-line charges from the Voyager Internet Suite !autoHTML6 ^ By Graham Campbell, converts a textfile to a basic HTML file with standard header etc. Can also convert some codes to HTML tags for centering, underlining, etc. !Binkley ^ 2.17 The instructions for this, as with most of this type of program, are written in what is, to me, a foreign language because I don't use BBS/Email. However I'm told it's very good and if you need it you'll know what it is! !BM ^ The Info box says this is a TCP/IP mail reader by Jonathan Naylor, but no documentation !DeltaNet ^ 1.18 FTP/HTTP/Finger/Auth/NTalk Server by Chris Poole !DemConfig ^ 0.2 From Colin Hogben this is intended to make it easier to configure !TCPIP, !NewsBase, !TTFN a,d !SLIPdial for use with Demon. You enter all the details in a single window and it configures all the apps in one go !EasyMail ^ Off line mail reader by Mark Veary written using S-Base !FidoMail = 1.70 This appears to be a sophisticated EMail program by Thomas Olsson but although there's lots of documentation none of it says what it actually DOES! !Forger ^ Lets you select one of ten signatures to append to your mail in Voyager !FreeDial ^ 0.22 Dials your Internet Provider, logs in, and sets up your internet sortware !FreeNet ^: 0.13 A TCP/IP stack by Tom Hughes and matches the SWI calls provided by Acorn's TCP/IP suite !FreeNews ^ 1.00 The first full release of the Freenet NNTP news fetcher !FreeTerm ^ 012b Terminal emulator by Tom Hughes/Tony Howat for any TCP/IP stack that supports Acorn sockets interface !Gopher ^ A 'first attempt' at a Gopher client by Anthony Frost HTMLtools ^ Allows HTML pages to be created and edited in Impression Style or Publisher. !HTML² ^ 2.01 Comprehensive HTMP macro insertion tool by Richard Goodwin. Not only are there *lots* of macros - they're user definable, so you can add even more !HTMLscan ^ 1.17 Adds height and width tags to HTML files, reading them from the GIF or JPEG files. It's a DDE tool so ideally you'll need the FrontEnd module !HTTP ^ This is billed as an HTTP fetcher for ArcWeb. It has no instructions and doesn't seem to do anything once it's installed, so I don't no what it does or how it does it C source code is included !IRClient ^ 0.15 Internet Relay Chat System from Matthew Godbolt KA9Q<>RUCP = Two programs to let !ReadNews and !RUCP read and write KA9Q format files !Kanji ^ 4.00 A reader for 2-byte encoded Japanese emails and news postings !MailBot ^ This searches a mailbox and sends a reply to every message in the mailbox with a specified file. The Author, Tony Howat, has provided a very good Manual, both as plain text and an Impression document !Mailer = 1.01 Alows you to read your Email/BBS files at leasure !MailList ^ Mailing List Robot by Maurice Hendrix. Lots of documentation, none of which seems to explain what it does or how it does it! !Mailq = A utility to show mails/news queued for RUCP !Messenger ^ 0.31 A mailer/newsreader for use with NewsBase !ModemHack : From C.Syntichatkis, has a variety of useful items to speed up processes while connected to the Internet !MultFetch : 0.02 Multiple fetcher for ArcWeb by Robert Orwin. This one DOES have some instruction, albeit brief !NetReader : 0.10 From Paul Vigay, an app. for offline reading of usenet/EMail messages !Newsbase ^ An application to deal with Email and Usenet. Unfortunatel the instructions are in StrongHelp format so you'll have to struggle with that instead of being able to read them properly !PPP ^ 2.00 PPP driver for Acorn's TCP/IP stack by Sergio Monesi !PrintWeb ^ I'm not sure what this is, if it works, or if anybody cares. It's by Stewart Brodie, who has supplied a very comprehensive copyright document but ****er all else. It just says 'Split web pages' in the Purpose slot in the Info box. All I can guarantee it will do is use up a place on the icon bar. !ReadNews = 0.24 A newsreader by Julian Wright to complement RUCP. !Rot13 ^ An 'utterly useless' Module from Sam Kington (his words) which Rot13 encrypts anything you type SendMail ^ A very small program by Thomas Aeby that acts as an interface between mailers and LL delivery programs !Signature : 1.04 A program which uses Public Key encryption to sign and check signatures attached to EMail so you can validate them and ensure that they haven't been altered !Signpost ^ HTML browser from Andrew J Pullan and James A Pullan StartPack ^ Most of the bits you need to get started on the internet in one package. !Tagz ^ 1.04 Good HTML macro insertion tool by Thomas Baldwin !TLDC ^ Program which matches Top Level Domain Codes to the countries they represent !unHTML ^ At last! A utility by Mike Williams to convert those useless HTML files to plain text, Publisher/Style, or Draw Textarea format so that you can actually DO something with them !Validator ^ 0.21 Validator for HTML files by John Alldred !VoyCost ^ 0.09 By Dave Ward, helps you keep track of your phone bill with the Voyager software !WebGif2 ^ 2.30 Very good sprite/GIF converter by Ian Jeffray. Supports interlacing and masks WebGifs - 785 assorted GIFs of all types to help you with your web pages. There are all types, from assorted buttons, balls, lines and arrows to larger images !WebGopher ^ 0.33 Beta test version of a program which can be used with any WWW browser compatible with ArcWeb fetcher protocol to access resources via 'gopher'. The Author admits that there are bugs, but it is functional !Webite ^ Part of Doggysoft's Termite Internet suite which has been released as PD. It is a cut down version of the web browser for viewing file off-line. This is really just a way of getting a free ad distributed for termite, so it should perhaps be put in the Commercial section, but it is a useful HTML reader so I will include it here !WebSize ^ 1.08 By Justin Fletcher, another program to add width and height tags to a HTML file !Webster ^ 0.16 HML browser by Andrew Pullen. Very easy to use !WimpLink ^ 1.02 Self contained mail package for use with Fidonet type networks by Remco de Vreugd !XSpark = An archive server for the #N A I X#-ware Xmail suite. As the Author (Steven Haslam) says, if you don't know what that means (me!) you don't need it NB. Needs !Spark. Also includes !XSparkFS which uses !SparkFS Life 3dLife = Fascinating 3D version of life !ArcAut = Good 'cellular automata' program. Input is in the form of script files which produce the display. !BreederCA = A program for genetically breeding Cellular Automata rules. In effect a much enhanced variation on 'Life' !Bugs = A good (non desktop) version of Life with lots of options. !Hodge = 1.01 Cellular automata in a small desktop window from Warner Hepping !MacroLife = Very comprehensive package from Chris Taylor !Microcosm = 1.01 An adaptation of the famous 'life' game which allows many different types of creatures. !PV_Life = From Paul Vigay, the game of Life - on the icon bar !RISCLife = From Henrik Pedersen Magazines Aliquid Novi - First issue of a magazine by Edmund Richardson. Over 100 articles and lots of info and reviews of PD software. It's HTML based (why re-invent the wheel) and includes a browser, so you can either use it 'as supplied' or use your own favourite browser. Highly recommended Aliquid Novi Issue 2 - Quite a bit bigger than Issue 1, this time it fills two 800K or a single 1.6Mb disc. The 1.6Mb version can be run from the archive on the disc, though it's faster from a hard drive, but you will need to copy the 800K version to a hard drive CoreDump 1 One interesting item is a discussion on fitting two MEMC's to enable you to have 8Mb of RAM in an A310 (and probably an A400 as well). Also a piece on doubling the speed of a 486 PC but I wouldn't advise you to try this unless you're prepared to scrap the motherboard if it fails. CoreDump 2 Improved user I/face. You can now switch the sound off (well, turn down the volume to zero) and the 'dissolving scroll' adds a nice touch. Articles on programming the VIDC, ARM code, a DIY 30Mhz A5000 (sound plausible) and how NOT to speed up your A3000. Folding5th No, I don't know why it's called that and I can't be bothered to find out. This is a magazine which is supposed to contain articles on non computer related topics. Owing to the fact that it uses Genesis and the 'links' are either scrambled or it's just incompetently written I couldn't even *find* the articles so I don't know what it's like. If you are one of these strange people who actually like Genesis/Magpie then you might want to take a look (perhaps you can make it work!) Lunchtime1 The first issue of Lunchtime magazine. This is a rather unusual disc magazine because it has articles on a variety of subjects - except computers! Most of these are humorous without descending into either smutt or 'in jokes', which does rather make a change. Lunchtime2 Second issue of Lunchtime magazine. Lunchtime3 Third issue of this interesting mag (subtitled 'Edward's Revenge'). Includes an Interview with God. Presumably because it's a non-computer oriented mag they didn't think Bill Gates would be appropriate. Lunchtime4 'Yul Brynner's Memorial Toolshed'. No, I won't tell you why it's called that - you'll have to read it and find out. Once again there's a lot to read. The user interface is improved so the text area is bigger and the colours are nicer too. Lunchtime continues to improve and shows no sign of the contributors running out of ideas. Lunchtime5 'Wardrobe Racing for Foreigners'. Even bigger and better than the previous issues. Nothing more to say, is there? Lunchtime6 It's that mag again with even more amusing and intelectual (!) items. The best yet, and although it's been a long wait it was worth it. NewDawn1 Issue One. A variety of items and some good and informative articles. Published by Quantum and contributors include Tom Cooper who has written some of the best PD games for the Archimedes. Also includes two original games. I have reviewed several disc based magazines in the past, normally costing about £3 per issue, and this is the by far the best of any that I have seen- and it's PD. If this high quality continues I shall try to include all future issues. NewDawn2 It has so I have (see above). If anything it's better than the first issue, mainly because there are more 'outside' contributions. Opinions 1 Reviews of FontFX, poster and various PD programs Opinions 2 Reviews of Pipedrean 4 and various PD, plus various other articles Opinions 3 More reviews and an article on outline fonts. Opinions 4 Improved user interface. Various reviews and an article on Watford Electronics. This is obviously a personal opinion but it reinforces my own and that of many others who have dealt with them. I suggest you take note. Optic 1 Phibe Optic. Not very exiting and the screen mode used dissapears off the edge with a VGA monitor. Optic 2 Second version. Not much improvement except that you can now see the screen. The System font used is still unreadable. PttP Power To The Programmers. Disc-based games magazine from Coin Age aimed at Arc. enthusiasts. Filled with a number interesting articles and well worth a look. This is aimed mainly at games programmers or those that want to learn how to write games and is therefore fairly technical. Queen Fan Newsletter A quarterly newsletter for fans of the group Queen. Included here are issues 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20. There are various items about the group and each numbered archive contains the quarterly newsletter. Each archive has a suffix which is the number of the QFN issue and contains one newsletter. At present this starts at 16 because all previous newsletters have been paper only, but some earlier issues MAY become available. If you want earlier ones please write to the Editor of QFN. The more interest shown the more likely he is to make them available Note that although the contents of of these discs may be freely read and used by the **purchaser** it is NOT 'Public Domain' and is distributed with the permission of the Editor of QFN, David Parr Spectrum1 A new disc magazine from the people who brought you the 'Riscy Game' flight simulators. I'm not going to go into detail about what's in it, if you like disc magazines then try it and see for yourself. Spectrum2 Issue two of 'Spectrum' magazine. Reasonable balance of articles about PD software, computers, and various other topics (even footbal gets a mention - how low can they get!). The software is quite good too, although it can be a bit quirky - you use the mouse to select items but then the arrow keys to scroll the text. Still, it's probably one of the best disc mags around, disregarding 'specialist' mags only Lunchtime equals it. Spectrum3 The user interface is much improved (easier to use and faster) and this issue is a great leap forward. Lots of interesting contents, all non technical, and as well as reviews of many commercial products there are also short reviews of dozens of PD games. Now works perfectly on the Risc PC (issue 2 needed Game On). Highly recommended. Thumper1 Thumper Issue 1 Interesting new magazine with various articles including info on drum programming for Soundtracker writers, help and examples for Persistence of Vision, a Repton type game and some fictional stories. Thumper2 Thumper issue 2 Better than the previous issue with improved interface. Still a bit thin on content but shows a lot of promise. Includes a few PD applications and some short Tracker tunes. TipTop1 Issue 1 A magazine from Tim Willis which is intended to be a continuing review of Archimedes PD. The content is a bit sparse on text so there is very little 'real' information about the programs reviewed, but on the other hand it compresses well so it doesn't take up too much disc space. The main problem is the display interface. This is actually a desktop package from Musbury Consultants and *would* be very good except that if 'it' decides it doesn't like the current screen mode it changes it. I end up with a %^&&$y awful flickering Mode 13 screen and have to change to something more suitable. Unforgivable in a commercial package from people who should know better but not the fault of the magazine. TipTop2 Issue 2 Similar to the first issue but with about double the editorial content. Virtuality Sample Issue. The 'PD sample' of Virtuality magazine which has now merged with Illusions. It has quite a lot of reviews and other articles but it's biggest fault is that it uses !Magpie. This makes it slow and cumbersome and very difficult to get hard copy of bits you are interested in. Kalaeidoscope A 'sample' issue of a proposed new disc magazine. Doesn't look bad but, as usual, they've chosen to use fancy graphics so although the disc is crammed full (there isn't even room for a copy of ArcFS which you will need) the editorial content is not very large. The proposed 'proper' version will have 3-4 discs and cost £3.50-£4.50. Personally I have a strong objection to 'professional' (?) programs that remove my RAM disc, alter my mouse speed and don't properly restore the system font, so I'm not impressed. Music !ACH_Strkr = 2.00 Desktop Tracker/STracker player with various controls which also allow you to listen to individual samples of a tune !Active ^ 1.02 Provides an indication os how busy the computer is when a tune is playing !APTracker = 2.00 Very good Tracker player/editor/creator from Andrew Pepperell. Seems to have all the features you would expect plus (very unusual for anything to do with music) good instructions. This isn't my field but it appears to be a very good program and I suggest you give it a try. !au2snd ^ A program from Jason Howat to convert uLaw samples to Armadeus format. Includes C source !BassPlay ~ CD player by Chris Davis !CDaudio ^ A player for audi CDs by Ray Middleton. This has various improvements over the standard player, including the ability to remember the tracks on a CD and play them in the sequence you choose. !CDPlay ~ This one by Leo White is quite good with lots of features CDremote ^ Module by Matthew Bloch to allows 'hot key' combinations to play CDs so you can use it outside the desktop !CDtracker : 2.21 Comprehensive database for your CD's. Not only does it allow you to catalogue your CD (or tape) collection, with full search facilities, it can also (given suitable hardware) play them as well. Comes complete with a huge ready made database. Can import data from similar programs (including the popular !CDIndex and !Cassette) !Chords ^ Useful 'interactive chord dictionary' for guitarists by Andrew Bennet with over 180 chords !ClownPlay ^ 0.21 Desktop player for Coconizer tunes by Gareth Boden. Works OK, but the control window looks like something copied from an A***a, ugh! !DeskVu_2 = Desktop vu meter !DeskVu_8 = Ditto !DSJukeBox = 1.30 'Juke box' style desktop player for Digital Symphony !DSP = From Arm's Tech a bar/scope display DXEN ^ A desktop Xenakis (??) Tracker player. One sample file is provided. No proper instructions but I believe these files are native to some weird toy called the Amiga. !FlexiCD ~ Another CD player by Andrew Baker !Harmony ^ Plays most Acorn format music files with a Playlist, ie. you drop the files onto the icon and it plays them, or you can save/load a playlist file. !ITM = Interactive Technoligies Music System. In effect, a desktop tracker player !Liss = 1.03 From Warner Hepping, this displays Lissajoux figures modulated by the voices playing. MatrixTRK - A new song player which promises much higher quality than others (including, acording to the !Help file, Digital Symphony). It uses its own file format (which is fully described) and comes with tools to convert from Scream Tracker 3 format. MusicSDP ^ 1.01 From James Ponder, this gives some quite nice graphics displays in time to any music that is playing !OT2 ^ 1.51 Octa Track. This looks like a desktop music editor. Unfortunately there are absolutely no instructions and no address for the Author. It *seems* to work on the RiscPC but owing to aforesaid lack of info I can't try it properly. However, as it's a straightforward Wimp program it should be easy to find out how it works. Comes with lots of sample tunes and voices and info on the format used for the tunes !Oscillo = An audio oscilloscope by Christian Ghezzi which displays audio signals. It actually works by displaying the changing contents of a preset memory location, so it should be able to work with most types of sound sampler (provided you know which memory location to monitor). !PlayerMod = 1.24 Another good soundtracker player by Nick Smith !PDTracker = 4.52 Probably the nicest tracker front end by Simon Hatliff. Full of features and can queue up to 512 tunes. Unfortunately with this version the author has chosen to provide instructions in StrongHelp format instead of the previous text file, so you'll have to struggle with that instead of printing them and reading them at leisure. !PlayTrack = 1.06 A very comprehensive Tracker/Soundtracker player with lots of features, full control of sound, vu meter, display sample waverform, save tune as RM, etc. !PMS ^ Not what you think, it stands for Phillip's Music Scribe, a program for typesetting high quality music !ProTrack = 1.11 Superior tracker player from BASS !Q2Track : 1.01 Cue to track. A superior Protracker/Soundtracker player. As well as the usual functions it has a (non desktop) display of waverforms, VU meters, and lots of other features, including 'user preferences' which can be saved to disc. By Ian Scott and Lovell Fuller !QuickCD ^ Another CD music player by Chris Jackson. !RiscTrack ^ 2.35 Another multi format music player with lots of bells and whistles by Ian Clark !RMCreate = Creates a voice Module from a stereo Tracker module. !SampleCD ^ 1.12 By Paul Wilkinson, this samples audio data from a CD and converts it into various Acorn compatible formats !SmartCD ^ 1.13 This is s CD player with lots of features. As well as playing/cataloguing audio CD's it can play the music from many games CD's !Stretch ^ This is a *very* crude program to increse the play length of a sample by Benjamin Bommer. The author admits that it introduces a lot of distortion, but then that's not entirely unwelcome. STSpeedP : Module to automatically issue a *playspeed command as you switch between screen modes so music speed doesn't change !STtoRhap = 1.00 Converts a SoundTracker file or module and converts it to Rhapsody format. THSound ^ By Tony Houghton (imaginative program name, eh?) this is a module which lets you play lots of samles without having to load each as a separate Module. Would probably be ideal for games, etc. !TrackConv = 3.00 Converts Tracker files to other formats. eg. Amiga Soundtracker to Archimedes Tracker, Coconizer to Soundtracker !TrackCTRL = 2.00 Gives you control over Tracker modules from the desktop !Trackeys ^ 4.00 Hot Key control of Tracker player by Michael Richards !Trackster ^ 1.00 By Dave Thomas, this is intended to rip patterns or sequences from Tracker modules so you can examine them (or 'borrow' them?) !Transpose = Program from Tony Gibson to raise or lower the pitch of a soundtracker !Trk_Print = Again from Tony Gibson, prints Patters, Samples or Sequences from a Tracker !Unsgn>Wav ^ By Mark Collier, converts raw sound sample to PC WAV file !YATI = 2.99 'Yet Another Tracker Interface', a desktop front end for the Tracker player module Music.Midi !ArcMidi = 0.22 A MIDI sequencer written by L.Frederiks. !BeatBox ^ MIDI tone/pattern player !In-Out ^ 2.00 Makes a MIDI Out port behave like a thru port to reduce lead swapping !Midi ^ Displays the contents of the sample MIDI file for anyone who's interested !MidiPlay = 0.5 CLI driven application by Stephen Goldthorpe. Plays MIDI files in formats 0 and 1. The (short) !Help file refers to GEM so I suspect it's an ST port. Comes with C source so someone could probably rewrite it as a 'proper' Arc application. !MIDISequ = A MIDI sequencer from Tony Gibson. Looks like a very useful program !MIDItest ^ Checks your MIDI system is correctly set up and carries out a few simple tests !MoniMIDI - I don't know what this does but I think it's meant to monitor the MIDI player in some way !Monolith ^ 3.05 MIDI player by Rob Smith !NoMIDIc = 0.24 I have no idea what this does, except that it's something to do with MIDI and it's written by Keith parks. If the Author can't be bothered to describe his own work.... !ReMIDI ^ 0.56 Desktop MIDI player by Michael-Dennis Biemans. Looks like a useful package as it doesn't need any extra hardware. Lots of controls and options. !Riff ^ 0.01 generates random repeating patterns on a MIDI instrument !SY77Link = 1.10 From Cristian Ghezzi this lets you transfer voices between your computer and a Yamaha SY77 or compatible synthesyzer. SY77Voices = A colletion of over 60 voices for the Yamaha SY77 compiled by Cristian Ghezzi Music.Coconizer Two versions of Coconizer plus dozens of songs and hundreds of voices. Printing !AddLabel = 1.00 *very* simple program to print a name and address onto a label using a DM printer !Ctzn_120D ^ Rather old(ish) program from AMF to let you insert codes into a textfile to use effects like bold, italic, underline, super/sub-script etc. with a Citizen 120D printer. There are probably lots of these still around but the program has been written so it can easily be modified to work with other printers !DrawPrint ^ 1.01 by James McQueen a utility to view/print Drawfiles. !Envelope = Simple program to address an envelope. !FanFold ^ A program by Andrew Ayre to ensure that textfiles aren't printed over the perforations of fanfold paper. It also lets you set top and bottom margins. This is done by line counting so it will work with any printer and paper size. !InitDM = Lets you set fonts, etc. Modified for use with KXP1124 InlayPrnt = 2.05 Cassette inlay printer but this one can be output as a Draw file !Jet_Text = 2.60 Text printing utility by D.Bower for printers using the HP PCL codes, which includes the Deskjet family and many others which emulate it - ie. most lasers. Lets you print text in 'native' text mode instead of 'graphic' mode used by the Acorn PD's so it's *much* faster !LazyPrint ^ 2.05 Printer app. for most Hewlett Packard laser printers by D.Crennell. It prints textfiles using the 'native' HP fonts which makes it a *lot* quicker than with the standard printer drivers. Can also print Drawfiles !LC10codes ^ A *very* crude program but a very simple and useful idea. It creates lots Data files which contain codes to switch printer effects on and off. These are set for the LC10, but you can make your own for any DM printer. If you are writing text in !Edit etc. you then just drag one of these files to the Edit window and the code is inserted into the text at the cursor. Crude but effective! !OnePrint ^ Very simple (and again rather crude) program to print a short piece of text on a DM printer. Main use would be for addressing an envelope, printing a label or memo etc. !Pantone ^ These are files for Artworks which create a list of 'professional' Pantone or TruMatch spot colours. !Planner - Creates an A4 year planner as a Draw file ready for printing !PrintEmul = This was originally on an earlier disc. It tries to display a file created by PrinterDM when it printed a graphics file !PrinterTx = Text only printer driver !PrintFile = Opens a 'Printer' window !PrintSet = 2.01 for Epson printers. Lets you select various printer fonts and facilities from a menu. !PrntDiary = Prints a 'desk diary' with a month on each page. Days can have personalised entries anniversaries, birthdays, etc. !RiScript : This is a Postscript previewer. It can display most PS files and can also save the display as a Drawfile. This looks like a potentially useful tool, but unfortunately the documentation is pathetic, and I don't have time to try it extensively. Strip = 1.00 Module to intercepts printer control codes and stop them being sent to the printer. Useful when sending text files, DUMP's, or other files that may contain non-ascii characters to a printer !TextMax ^ Puts printer control codes into text so that you can use special effects in a text editor (Edit, Zap, etc) Unfortunately it's set up for a particular Epson printer and there doesn't seem to be any simple way to change it !TextPrint = A text file printer from John Lageu !TxtPrint+ = 2.06 Text file printer driver which can reformat, repaginate, print Basic program listings etc. Ghostscript ^ This is a variation of the Postscript (TM) language. The program is a full RiscOS implementation and as well as the main application and the standard UGLYR font there are equivalents to Charter, Times, Zapf Chancery, Avante Guarde, Bookman, Courier, Helvitica, Hershey, Palatino, Symbol and Zapf Dingbats. Printing.Labels !DiscLabel = 3.02 Prints disc labels !Label = 2.11 Comprehensive label printer by Jonathan Martin. Works with most sizes of labels 1, 2, or 3 wide and text can be entered directly in a window or from a file !Labeller - 1.00 Disc label printer !Labeller+ = Simple label printer by Ben Brown. Not as sophisticated as most others but easy for a single label/envelope !Labels = 3.1 Simple database/label printer by Rafaele Ferrigno. The description 'simple' is the Author's, not mine, in fact it's quite comprehensive. This has just been extensively updated (it was previously called Label) and includes a program to convert files from the earlier version. !MailLabel - 5.22 A nice utility to print sticky labels or envelopes. Uses RiscOS printer drivers and fancy fonts !PrintLbls = 1.12 A label printer that can use fancy fonts. Takes it's input from a CSV file so can use output from most databases, spreadsheets, etc. This was written by Steven Haslam primarily to work with Powerbase but as it's a useful program in its own right I've put it on this disc as well for those of you who don't use Powerbase !ProLabel = 1.08 Comprehensive disc label designer/printer which supports outline fonts and pictures (drawfile or sprite). Program !3Ddemo : A short program to illustrate the 'R' parameters which can be used in the validation string on a RO3 Template to produce those 'fancy' icon borders 3D_Utils ^ 1.07 Module from Michel Grimminck to provide some fast swi's for drawing 3D graphics in 256 colour modes. As well as being much faster than the OS (especially for dithered objects) it has useful swi's to rotate objects and draw in perspective. As all these swi's can be easily called from Basic it makes it possible to use vector graphics without machine code. As well as good documentation there's a demo app in Basic Adhesive ^ Useful tool by George Taylor which lets you share code between programs. Procedures are grouped into 'objects' rather like the Shared C Lbrary. You could do something similar by writeing a Service Module, but Adhesive objects are faster (no SWI decoding) and easier to construct and expand AmpCalc = 1.79 Utility from Ainsley Pereira with lots of useful functions. Converts SWI number <-> name, ascii code/char, convert SWI names in Basic program to numbers, plus various BBS/Modem utils Arm3Detect = Routines in C, Basic and assembler to detect if an ARM3 chip is present !ARMCode = 1.07 Instruction investigator. Lets you 'fiddle' with each bit of an instruction and find out the effects BootA = A multi purpose 'front end' for non wimp programs. Enables them to behave like proper Risc-OS applications Comes with a variety of sample apps, eg. FileInf, SetType, Lock, Unlock, change LF to CRLF and visa versa, convert 1WP to text and visa versa, etc. Checksum = 1.01 Generates a checksum for an executable and appends some code to it. Helps prevent unauthorised 'hacking'. !CheckTemp = Shows the sizes of template definitions in a Template file !ConvTmplt = 6.00 Program by Cy Booker to help programmers use anti- alias fonts in text icons, convert Interface validation strings to RO3, see which icons are outside the windows extent and insert 'secret messages' into template files !CreateApp = 1.04 Helps create an application shell by selecting many of the options from a menu !DAssemble = Very simple desktop assembler by Majid Anwar. There are plenty of these about, most far more powerful than this, but it doesn't 'install' itelf on the icon bar and takes only 32K, so it's very useful if you just want a 'quick peep' at something Disassem ^ By Darren Salt, this patches the Debugger module so it can disassemble the ARM7 instruction set !DisAssem = 3.22 Desktop dissasembler, has some nice features. Can save disassembled code in text, Basic or AAsm format. !Disass = Simple disassembler as a Module so it can be used from the CLI outside the desktop !Dissi - 2.04M Desktop disassembler which can produce source code from any machine code application or module DragASprite: 2.02 A module from Andrew Clover which improves on Acorn's. It's quicker than the original, allows dragging of 256 colour sprites, better semi transparent drags, and has various configurations. DragSprite = Info on and an example of the 'DragASprite' SWI in RO3 DrLink = 1.27 Alternative to Acorns Link. You willl need this if you have some sort of compiler but don't have a linker. Dynamite ~ 1.15 Module from Straylight which provides a dynamic area in the RMA for Modules to use without causing fragmentation. This already exists on the RiscPC but not other models. Dynamite creates a dynamic area and implements a shifting heap which can be compacted !FileEx ^ File Examiner. Lets you examine and alter the contents of any file !FormEd : 3.56 From Darren Salt, a much improved version of the Risc Squad's much improved version of Acorn's FormEd. !FormExpnd ^ 1.10 This alters a template file in such a way that it can be loaded by your program and, instead of all the windows being created, you can create them only when they are needed, and delete ones no longer required !FormSize = Tells how much space is required for 'Wimp_LoadTemplate' Formula = The description says 'it generates Macro-assembler code from high level-language-like Commands, which are enbedded in other Macro-assembler code'. Documentation is *very* vague, and it appears to need the TLA assembler to compile the code (see B209). GoingDown ^ Small utility, with source, to check if a program is being run from read only media GraphDemo = Three Basic programs from Cy Booker to demonstrate dithering and colour pickers !HourMake = 1.13 From Jon Ribbens to design your own hourglass. !HourMaker = A program from Simon Heys which lets you create customised Hourglass Modules !IconFlags = Calculates Icon Flag word for all the options available. !IconNo ^ Very simple app which just shows the number of the icon the pointer is over. There are more complex ones but when writing code for button clicks that's all you need Interface = 2.0 RM with lots of commands to make your windows and menus easier to design and more attractive. !KillTask = Aid for Wimp programmers. If a task goes into some sort of infinite loop and locks up the system (this couldn't happen to you, could it...?) press CTRL-ALT-DEL and the current task is killed, returning control without RESET. !ListIt ^ Simple desktop disassembler MakeSWI = Simple Basic program that creates a file of Equates of all available SWI's in form suitable for AAsm, C or Wingpass assembler !MenuEd - Helps make the most out of the RISCOS menu system, makes using fonts and sprites in menus much easier !Menus = Version of David Andrews Menu Editor modified by Paul Hobbs to work under RiscOS 3.1 MenuUtils = A Module that helps you create Menus easily from Basic without the need to write your own PROCs. !MsgCheck ^ 1.00 Checks message files for token repetition !OurGlass = Another utility to let you design your own hourglass PaneDemo : This is from Ian Jeffray of Risc Developments and is a demonstration (written in clearly commented Basic) of how to use Panes in desktop windows. This isn't very well described in the PRM's and I've seem so many badly constructed windows that fall apart on hi-res screens.... !PC256 = Converts the standard 256 desktop colours to COLOUR and TINT. Useful of you want to reproduce one of these colours in a non desktop program such as a game !PollMask : By Ian Scott, one of those little tools that you always meant to write, but somehow never had the time. It simply calculates the value of the mask required for Wimp_Poll. PopUps = A module which provides shared resource of windows for desktop application. These are the type of windows that are almost always used by Wimp tasks (Info, SaveAs, Colour Picker, Print Dialogue, etc), so they can be used by several tasks and not have to be defined by each individually. Very easy to use from any language and with extensive documentation and demos. !ProgUtils ^ SWI translator, expression evaluator and ARM instruction decoder from Dave Thomas !PtC = 1.8 Pascal to C. A DDE utility to convert Pascal source code to equivalent C !Res2Temp ^ By Kevin Bracey, converts Resource files to Template files !ShellC = Written as a desktop window in which to run Acorn C v3 but functions as a general purpose CLI shell window Short = A simple program from Sam Kington to compact messages by using the Risc OS internal dictionary ShowFont = A short Basic routine by Cy Booker to draw text in any font anywhere on the screen, designed to be incorporated into your own programs. !SprGrab ^ Very useful program which can grab windows, menus, the icon bar, etc. as sprites. Ideal for illustrating manuals SpriteGen = Sample programs for creating a series of sprites for animation etc. !SWIConv2 = Nice SWI name<->number converter. A feature is that the 'converted' item can be inserted into the keyboard buffer which makes it easy to 'type' the name/number into your editor when writing programs. SWIMod = A module which can convert SWI numbers to names and visa versa, list all the SWI's used by a module etc. !SWIst-num = A desktop app to convert a SWI number to a string or visa versa. Saves looking up the PRM's SWITrace - Lets you trace the execution of SWI calls. !TaskKill = 1.26 Nice Module from Paul Clifford to kill the current task. Not only is this invaluable for programmers (those who don't have a Risc PC) it's also the only way out when you run one of those badly written Demo's or games that don't have a proper 'exit' and then remember that you'd forgotten to Save chapter 46 of your novel !TempGrab = Lets you 'grab' a window off the screen and saves it as a sprite. Useful for illustrating Manuals etc. !TemplEd ^ 1.32 Template editor. I would have said the best, though you should also take a look at !WinEd. As well as letting you choose the templates you want to edit from a list it has a statistics window giving info about them (including size of indirected data) plus grid lock which makes lining up icons easier. When creating/editing icons you select features from a window instead of going through all those menus. Lots of keyboard shortcuts and supports Interface, MenuUtils etc. !TemplRip ^ 1.00 Grabs windows and local sprites from an application Can save a lot of time when designing your own THHeap ^ 1.20 Tony Houghton's Heap management modules. Trapdoor ^ A simple but effective algorithm for creating passwords Useful ^ A series of Modules by Nicholas Kingsley to perform tasks often required by programs. VectorView ^ Displays the addresses or the main vectors !Virtual = By Brian Brunswick and Nick Smith. A replacement for the TaskWindow which emulates virtual memory so that a task running in this window can be made to believe it has up to 24Mb available. Obviously only programs which can be run in a Task Window can be used so it's effectively restricted to CLI tasks but this does mean that 'memory hogs' like the GNU C compiler can be run without massive amounts of memory. It's not very efficient and you obviously need plenty of spare (fast) HD space. With C/AASM source code. !VMM = Virtual Memory Management module with SWI's to enable programs to use a hard disc as virtual memory. With demo files, written in Basic so they're easy to follow, which illustrate its use !WhichCol? = Shows the Colour and Tint of the pixel the mouse pointer is over !WimpExt = 2.18 Wimp Extensions from Jon Ribbens. A module with a lot of SWI's to make programming the Wimp much easier. Has calls for most of the things you need to do to create a Wimp program. Good documentation that doesn't assume an extensive knowledge of the Wimp. !WimpStart ^ By Ron Swinhoe, a crude 'shell' program for people who haven't learned to program the Wimp. Lets you get past the first hurdle by putting the icon on the iconbar, but stops a long way short of what is really necessary to produce a functional program. However, it might be useful to complete novices. WimpSWIVe ^ Examples and suggestions by Andrew Clover for trapping SWIs. This is sometimes necessary if you want to replace a built-in routine with your own code or to find out what's going wrong when debugging !Wimpy = 1.00 A utility by Andrew heckford with a series of tools for programmers. Template array/indirected data calculator, SWI name <-> number translation, Wimp keycode calculator, plus the ability to 'spy' on other apps and find out info on windows, icons, etc. !WincePie ^ 1.1 By Alan Baker, gives extensive info about the window and icon the pointer is over including dimensions, handle, flags, etc. !Wincode = 2.00 Lets you design a window and then displays the various parameters so you can incorporate the design directly into your code without using templates. !WindowEd ^ New template editor. The author says it's based on TemplEd, which it closely resembles. Worth a try !WindRaw = 1.00 Template to Draw file converter !WinEd ^ 2.82 Very good template editor by Tony Houghton. At least as good as TemplEd and possibly better. I haven't got used to it yet but it does have some advantages. One nice feature is Preview. This lets you play around with it, click on the buttons, drag it about and scroll it, without changing the definition, and saves you the trouble of putting it back in its default setting before saving the file. Good manual in text and Impression Publisher format. All serious programmers should try it. WinSup = Module to improve Heap management and help avoid problems with heap management which can cause modules to crash ZRegister ^ A Module from John Kortink. Tasks 'register' their use of a Module and when none are using it the Module is deleted, freeing up space in the RMA. Often this can't be done by the task as it won't know if some other task is using the Module !Zephyr ^ Program for displaying text in a window, but its main use is as a debugging tool because it can receive and display text messages, so by including code to do this in your program Zephyr can display info while your program is running, and it does it very nicely, too, using fancy fonts and colours if you want. Pascal_tut = from Conorado Systems and similar to the C Tutor. Not so many pages or examples as Pascal is much simpler. Mainly aimed at the PC and Borlands Turbo Pascal in particular but as it's fairly basic stuff this isn't important. Program.Animation !Animate = From Tony Gibson this lets you design sprites for use in games. These can be viewed in an animated sequence so you can get a good idea of how they will 'perform' CodeMaker = This is an application from Frank Lyonnet of ARM's TECH. Given a Mode 13 sprite it produces code to display it. This code is a textfile in AAsm format, designed to be assembled and linked with C, etc. However, because it's a textfile you could easily convert it to Basic Assembler format !Extractor = Program from Andrew Jackson to 'extract' the unwanted data from a standard sprite, leaving only the raw data suitable for use in fast sprite plotting routines. GameSuite = A collection of tools and utilities from Andy Southgate. The main ones are - FastSprite A module for fast plotting of sprites. It's twice as fast as the OS routines but gives the non expert programmer a much quicker system. Sprites can be created with !Paint and then converted into the format used by FastSprite. Includes a short demo application. Stasis Provides sound support for games programmers. Amnesia Lots of utilities including memory management, etc. Program.Assembler 6502-XAss ^ 0.72 Cross assembler for the 6502 by Thomas Giesel. Looks very good, and although originally developed for writing code for the C64 it would be ideal for old BBC programs 68KAsm ^ An assembler for the Motorola 68000 and 68010. It will now be possible for Archimedes owners to write machine code programs for A***a and A***i computers without needing to actually TOUCH the things. You could also write programs for Mac's without spending about £300 for an Apple assembler. !ARMmaker = A new AOF or Binary single pass assembler by Steven Haslam which can handle floating point instructions. Mainly for use with the DDE but can be used on it's own to produce 'stand alone' code. Source code syntax is similar to the DDE assembler. A not very readable but reasonably detailed manual is provided. !AS ^ 1.23 Assembler by Nicklas RÖjemo intended to be used as part of Acorns DDE package to assemble AOF files for linking with C or Pascal. This fills a major gap in Acorn C which lacks an inline assembler. Includes full C source !ASM ^ Nice looking assembler by Andrew Hunter. All the features you would expect, local labels, macros, #includes, etc. Syntax is similar to Basic assembler so easy to port code !ASM ^ Rather good full function AOF assembler by Nick Roberts !asm05 and !asm11 = These are cross-assemblers based on the Motorola Freeware assemblers for 68HC05 and 65HC11 processors. They need DDE Utils to work properly but they can be used from the CLI without it. Comes with C source and full docs for the originals but limited Archimedes docs and some examples. The complete DOS versions are also included. !BAX ^ Basic Assembler Extensions by Ben Dooks. Various extensions and additions to the Basic assembler if you really must use it extASM : Extended Assembler. This is a useful Shareware package which can also assemble to AOF format ExtBas ^ Module from Adrian Lees which patches Basic in RO3.1 and RO3.5 to add FP and ARM 610/700 instructions to the Basic assembler !FP_Prog = A Basic procedure library to let you use FP opcodes in Basic assembler programs !LabelChk = 1.24 Checks Basic assembler program for duplicate labels. Longutils ^ Series of functions to add floating point to the Basic assembler !MiniASM ^ Assembler that uses Basic assembler to do the work !QuickSrc = Produces a short Basic Assembler program of a 'Module header' and saves you the trouble of remembering the correct offset for all those important pointers SAsm = 1.74 Multi-File ARM code Macro Assembler. With comprehensive manual on disc and examples. with improved Macro's and symbol x­ref and can be run from the RMA as a Module. Has extra directives to help it to be run from within the desktop. Registered version allows the use of an external macro library. Can now produce an assembler listing file and lists of all labels and the duplicate label list can be sent to files. Can now access previous or next sets of Local lables. Includes a new Desktop front end so it can now operate entirely within the desktop. TASM = Table driven cross-assembler for 8 bit micros with tables for 8048, 8051, 6502, 8085, Z80, 6805, 6800/01 etc. With documentation and examples. Note - you need a C compiler TLA = A simple procedure based single pass AOF format assembler. Primarily intended for writing modules to be linked with 'C' without paying the high price for Acorns DDE assembler Program.Basic Algorithms ^ Four short Basic programs demostrating various algorithms. These can all be 'hacked' for use in your own programs. The first has four sort routines, Heap, Shell, Quick and Select, the second three different searches, Brute Force, KMP and Boyer-Moore. There are also programs to demonstrate the use of the 'simulated annealing' technique and searching for the complex zeros of and arbitrary function of one variable using the Muller method. (Don't ask, I have no idea!) !Applise ^ One of those apps for disguising Basic code as an Absolute app. Unlike some this works with SA BAS2C ^ A Basic to C source converter by an unnamed author. Strange as it seems it actually works, and the program itself was apparently self-compiled! !BasConv = From J.harston this converts between standard BBC Basic, Z80/PC format BBC Basic and text !BasDT ^ Interactive BASIC debugger by Dick Alstein !BasCrunch = 1.02 Basic cruncher by Ragnar Hafstaa. Not as comprehensive as !BC but it's quite fast and works reasonably well, although programs sometimes fall over when you try to compress variable and/or function names. BasEntry = Basic library Routines by Hugo Mills equivalent to argc and argv in C !Basic86 = Program to convert Basic 86 as used on the RM Nimbus and Z88 to true BBC Basic !BASICHelp ^ Displays the HELP text for keywords in a desktop window !BasicLib = Actually a library of Functions to assemble floating point instructions using the Basic assembler. The best of these that I have seen !BasicTask : Application to launch single tasking Basic programs with output trapped in a Task window !BasicText ^ By Jon Ribbens, converts tokenised Basic to Text and visa versa BasicUtils = Collection of short Basic programs to perform various tasks. Includes an assortment of disc readers which may be of interest to programmers who need to read/write non standard formats !BasTxt ^ Converts between tokenised Basic and text. Very useful for including examples in docs or printing !BBC-GW = 1.40 Non desktop program that tries to convert BBC basic programs to GW Basic. Of course many programs can't be converted but this often works with straightforward ones !BC : 1.69 Very comprehensive (and fast) Basic compressor and cross-referencer. The output is much smaller (which also helps it to run faster) and it is almost impossible to 'hack' because of the methods used. A comprehensive manual is provided as a textfile and a Publisher document. !Blib II = 1.07 Basic Library manager. Comes with a set of libraries, full documentation and an example program. The Author describes it as 'a sort of Basic linker' as unlike the normal Basic Library it only appends the routines required to the 'core' program. An essential utility for the Basic programmer. !BSquasher = 1.18 A Basic squasher from Mohsen Alshayef. Unfortunately it's billed as 'beta test' and although it works there aren't any options, so it's 'all or nothing'. The problem is that it sometimes produces code which won't work, giving 'missing variable' errors Condense ^ Compression module by William Gibbons. Particularly useful for compressing sprites, screens etc. for games CrunchFix ^ By Jim Hawkins, helps fix the problems with programs compressed with the BASS cruncher that stops them from running with S/ARM !DeRem = Simple app to strip out the REM's from a Basic program DRWimp = A series of Basic programming aids and a library of routines from Andrew Ayre !EventShell = 2.04 A major programming tool by Paul Hobbs. It consists of the !ShellSys directory which contains various 'library' utilities which are used by programs in a similar manner to the RiscOS !System directory. This lets you write Wimp applications in Basic without needing to write all your own routines to handle the Wimp, fonts, response to Wimp events, etc. If you don't have the PRM's this is essential. Has many new features and is much more powerful and easier to use than the original. Includes a dedicated debugger and several example applications written using !ShellSys which not only act as demos but perform useful functions. With documentation as text files, an Impression document and in StrongHelp format. An extremely useful package and is highly recommended to anyone who wants to program the Wimp, especially if you don't have the PRM's !FP_Prog = A Basic procedure library to let you use FP opcodes in Basic assembler programs !GW-Q = 1.00 Converts a GWBASIC program to QBASIC format. This has the additional advantage that QBASIC files are plain text so you can look at them in an Arc text editor !MakeApp2 = 1.00 Disguises a Basic program to look like compiled code. A much improved version by Dick Alstein and is based upon Stuart Hickinbottom's original. MathsFuncs = A series of Basic Functions which can be used to simplify complex real number problems NPLib = 1.11 A comprehensive Basic Library from Chris Coe of Norsoft Productions. This has lots of procedures and functions to perform most of the tasks required when programming the Wimp. NOT for novices since it assumes a basic understanding of Wimp programming ShadowLib ^ A nice Basic procedure library from Simon Osborne !Shrink = Basic program compactor !SpeedySWI = Changes textual SIW's in a Basic program to numeric equivalents to make the program run faster. !Squish = 2.38 Basic 'squasher' by Kevin and Stuart Swinton. Seems quite good but is *very* fussy about syntax and gets thoroughly confused with multiple-entry FN's and PROC's !StrongBS ^ Comprehensive Basic program compressor by Mohsen Alshayef !StrongMan ^ Useful little desktop app that gives info on icon button types, borders, window flags, menu flags, poll mask, etc WimpRes ^ Series of routines, tools and demo programs that will be of use to anyone learning to program the Wimp Program.C AndyLib ^ A collection of routines to aid writing Wimp programs by Andy Armstrong !ArmMUL = From Dean Sivell this uses shifts and adds to produce multiplication. C source code is included and it would be useful to include these routines in your own code for fixed multiplication !BugView = 0.65 App from Nickvan Someren with a library of routines which you can add to your C code. The main application then displays debugging info via Wimp messages C++Lib = A modified library for GNU C++ 2.4.5.with all the ANSI C library routines included as 'extern C' so they will link properly with code compiled using C++. I understand that source code is available but it is not included. CCompile - a desktop front-end for Acorn's ANSI C compiler v.3 C_Utils = A library of C routines. No real documentation although you should be able to work out what's what from the header files. Contains a version of getopt and regular expression routines from the Free Software Foundation plus a profiler DNSquery ^ A library of routines to provide DNS lookups mkproto = Useful utility for C programmers. Creates a file of prototype declarations of all the functions in your source files. By #include'ing this file they will be automatically declared HeaderGen ^ 1.10 By Frank Fohl, generates header files of C and Assembler source files !Imagine ^ 1.10 A project management utility from R.F.Windley. This is intended to be used as a replacement for the Desktop C Make utility with lots of extra features to make compiling projects easier IndentSrc ^ A RISC-OS port of Unix indent, which automatically formats C source code. Makatic ^ 2.10 A set of command line tools by Julian Smith to automate much of the management of C. C++ and assembler projects. !NetLib ^ Billed as 'the programmer's interface to FreeNet', this is a function call libary for C programmers Rink ^ 0.10 A much simpler (and perhaps easier to use) run time linker from Ben Summers. Sockets ^ 3.00 Acorn's C library for Internet TCP/IP sockets Spirit ^ Replacement for the RiscOSLib supplied with Acorn C. Not every function of RiscOSLib is mirrored, but most are, and it looks very useful. Perhaps not as comprehensive as DeskLib, it would be a lot easier to modify existing code to use Spirit than convert to Desklib, so even for DeskLib users it's useful !Stripper = Removes comments from C source. Useful if you're running short of disc space or want to pass on your source code but want to make it as awkward as possible for anyone to understand it (not difficult with C anyway!). StubsHack = Lets you redirect calls to malloc, realloc, calloc, free etc. to your own routines at runtime. very useful for debugging if nothing else. Also includes ** HeapGraph ** which makes the program send info about memory allocation calls to a file. Source is included ToolLib ^ 1.13 A library of functions by Paul Field for OSLib/Toolbox programmers. Lots of extremely useful looking additions and enhancements. UnixLib = 3.6e A complete replacement ANSI compliant C library from C.Rogers for use with Acorn ANSI C versions 3 or 4. Incorporated a subset of the UNIX system call interface and some System V and 4.3 BSD C libraries. Absolutely invaluable if you are porting UNIX programs to the Arc. C_Tutor From Conorado Systems. More than 100 pages of text laid out as a book with about a hundred short example 'C' programs. Written with the PC in mind and transferred from three PC Shareware discs. As it deals with basics rather than advanced programming almost everything is applicable to 'C' on any computer. C++_Tutor = From Coronado Systems. Again ported from the PC but as 'C' is meant to be portable this shouldn't really be a problem. Comes with lots of short example programs. As the only C++ compiler at present is the GNU version (B194) and that needs a LOT of memory there might not be a massive demand for this but if you do have the GNU C++ it's going to be much cheaper than buying a book in order to find out what all the fuss is about. DeskLib = 2.14 A set of ANSI C and Assembler files which add to and/or replace parts of the libraries supplied with Acorn DDE C. This has been compiled by a team of people including Jason Williams, David Pilling, Tim Browse, Keith Marlow etc. so it is a professionally produced library which will (hopefully) be added to and improved. If you program in C on the arc then you NEED this, don't struggle with the libraries supplied with Acorn's C Desk 3.00ß ^ Version 3 of the DeskLib C library, but it has been supplied separately as code written for earlier versions may not be compatible. The main reason is the much better error handling, and it was impossible to improve the old version while retaining backward compatibility. !Vista ^ By David Allinson, this is a library of C++ functions for both Easy C++ and Acorn C++. Includes full source code and examples. WackyTalky ^ A comprehensive real-time linking system which creates a new type of RM that can make assembling/compiling/linking much faster and easier. GNU C++ ^ Version 2.7.2 of the Free Software Foundation C++ compiler. It's a real memory hog. Ideally you need some sort of VMM or 8Mb. However it includes both the C++ compiler and a 'standard' C compiler. The standard compiler works very well with 4Mb and is faster and better than the Northcroft compiler (Acorn C). It compiles to standard AOF format so can be linked with files produced with other Acorn compilers. Comes with Unix libraries and a copy of a RiscOS library which was intended to be used with an earlier version and is NOT fully compatible, although many parts could be recompiled or altered, and so provides much useful material. Program.DDE AOF Utils = Three utilities for Acorn Object Format files. Suppress or Retain global names and Analyse the file !BackThrow = 'throwback backthrower', ie. takes files created by the DDE throwback system and feeds them back to the DDE Utils module so you can break off in the middle of compiling a large program and continue later. !DataToAOF = 0.07 Useful DDE tool by Paul Fidler to convert most types of Data file to AOF format so you can link them with other DDE object files !DisasmAOF ^ From George Saliaris, a disassembler for AOFs which produces output in Objasm format. Very useful for finding out why some bits of your 'C' program run like a snail !FDA = A DDE file disassembler decaof = C source from Andy Duplain for a program to imitate Acorn's decaof utility that is part of the DDE. Fronts = Really three DDE utilities, Data2Asm, Sprite2Asm and Temp2Asm. As their names imply these enable Data, Sprite and Template files to be converted to a format compatible with AOF and so suitable for linking with DDE assembler or comiped languages !Mnemosyne = A set of DDE tools to help find memory 'leaks' in programs and to locate memory-hogging functions by monitoring malloc/free/etc calls !OC = This is a DDE utility to remove most comments and whitespace from C source. The resulting code is just about unreadable, but it compiles OK. Probably useful if you have limited disc space available (but keep the original safe!) !Peek = Another DDE disassembler. !Utils = DDE utility to enable the use of OS commands within the desktop. Program.Debug !AmpDebug : 1.00 A desktop debugger by Ainsley Pereira. Consists of a module which enables programs to report their status so you can insert calls to this in your code !DBAssist = 1.02 Debug Assist from Keith Hall. By adding a special routine to your program this will display info about critical variables while the program is running. Examples are shown for use with 'C' or Basic. Error = A module from Armen Software to trap Fatal errors. It obviously can't stop the error happening but it will try to prevent the Task from quitting. This means that with most Basic programs you can still keep your data intact which gives you a chance to find out what went wrong! !Handles = Displays the handles of the window and icon under the mouse pointer !InfoScoop = When you hit the SHIFT key this displays info about the object the mouse is over in a scrollable window. Even better, you can save the contents of this window as a text file. IntModule = 1.10 A module by Steve Hoare which tries to stop the current task with a specified keypress. Can be used to kill a runaway program without pressing RESET. Complete with source code so you can modify the key(s) !Memory = Simple but useful desktop MZAP by Peter Millerchip !Messy ^ Again, very straightforward but useful debugging tool. Displays the last five messages sent around the desktop !Monitor = 1.00 A program that allows you to disassemble, search or execute machine code programs. Can single step programs and alter code with an in-line assembler. No completely bug-free but works for most 'normal' code and can save a lot of eyestrain staring at your source code trying to find out why the %$#@&'ed thing keeps crashing !Obey = Simple app which displays the OS variable Obey$Dir in a desktop window. Can help to track down problems with complex !Run and !Boot sequences Prot0 = Two simple Basic program to help recover from a crash if a program runs wild and corrupts Page Zero RecErrors ^ Records all error messages in a file !Snoop - 1.00 Lets you snoop on various wimp parameters from the desktop !Spy = Interrogates Wimp applications and finds out window handles, task id's etc. !Status = 1.03 Monitors Wimp messages and displays them in a desktop window !TaskMsg ^ Potentially a very useful tool from James Ponder. It lets you send messages to tasks, so, for example, you can put commands in your !Boot app to load files into editors and do other things not normally possible. !Trace = A utility from Pete Goodwin which allows Basic variables to be output to environment variables. This means that if the Task crashes the value of the variable is preserved. !Tracker ^ No, nothing to do with music, but a tool which displays special debugging information output by a program being tested. !VDUStream ^ Captures all characters written to the VDU in a file. Very useful as a general debugging tool of for recording 'printed' error messages !Velocity ^ Show the number of Wimp Polls attained. Ideal for finding out what's slowing up your desktop. I recently used this to find an obscure bug in MenuBar that was sometimes causing it to grab Null polls !VecScope = Monitors the machine vectors. Useful for finding out what's going on while a program is running. !WimpAid = A1.1 Useful little program from Graham Crow to show various info about the Window the mouse is over !WimpDebug = 1.21 Debugging tool for Wimp applications !WimpInfo = 1.00 Fron Dick Alstein, another app to give info about the object the mouse pointer is over. This one also displays various useful things about the icons as well !WimpLook = 1.01 Displays info about other windows and icons on the desktop. Just move the mouse pointer over any icon or window to find out all about it !WimpMon = 1.34 An application to monitor events passed by the Wimp. Extremely useful debugging tool !WinLook = 1.09 Yet another one, this time from David Gilbert Program.Hacking FindBL = A program to find all the branches to a certain address in a program. Can be used to disable all calls to a certain piece of unwanted of faulty code in a program where you don't have the source !GHZap : Searches through program code and disables all those 'UpdateMemC' calls put in by incompetent programmers which crash the machine with RO3. !Hunter = Another 'hacking tool'. Searches through code for a particular item or mnemonic. Particularly useful for those 'UpdateMC' calls beloved of Demo programmers which crash the computer with RO3 Strings ^ Tries to display any text strings in a file. Useful for finding messages in code !TemplRip ^ 1.00 Grabs windows and local sprites from an application. Can save a lot of time when designing your own Program.Language ADA = A port of the Free Software Foundation ADA translator and interpreter based on version 1.11.2. ported by Peter Burwood. Includes library and DDE controls. There is extensive documentation but this refers mainly to the UNIX version, although, there is quite a bit of Acorn specific stuff as well !AForth = Forth compiler from Mads Meisner-Jensen. Looks quite good. Some documentation but familiarity with the langue is assumed !APL = 1.1 An Archimedes release of the Advanced Programming Language. As usual with APL little documentation is provided other than system specific items. You are expected to buy the Manuals from the Authors !ARMForth = A desktop Forth compiler by Rob Turner of the University of Hull. Unlike many this has good manuals and some example programs. Will even run from floppy disc. Compiles to ARM code and has an inline assembler. !ArmBob = 1.03 This is a port by G.C.Wraith of David Betz's Bob 1.5. Bob is an object-oriented language with a syntax aimilar to C++. It is really intended as an 'easy introduction' to OOP for people alradey experienced with C or Basic. Because it is intended as a teaching tool the documentation is good BCPL = Like the Pascal compiler this has been released as 'public domain' as Acorn no longer wish to support it. There's no proper documentation and it's CLI driven but it does come complete with source code as well as the executables. This program is rather old and predates the AOF format so unlike Pascal it can't produce 'linkable' files but the advantage is that it compiles directly to executable code so you can use it on its own. I've never used BCPL so I don't know how good it is but I'm told that it works well and is fairly 'stable'. As BCPL is actually the precursor to 'C' it's probably a very good (and cheap!) starting point it you are new to compiled languages. !BinProlog ^ Port of the BinProlog interpreter by Al Slater. Docs in TeX format Bison = 1.20 A port of the GNU project parser generator which is the GNU version of UNIX yacc FLEX = 2.30 Fast lexical analyser generator. A tool for generating programs which recognise lexical patterns in text. Creates output as C source code !Forth = 1.20 Implementation of FORTH with a compiler into ARM code. Comes with several examples though little descriptive text. See also TILE Forth on B095 !Forthmacs = A rather nice looking Forth compiler from Hanno Schwalm. This has a good tutorial which dosn't assume any previous knowledge of Forth. It seems to have lots of features, including a debugger GAWK = GNU port of the AWK programming language. Includes full 'C' source code GNUst = GNU Smalltalk v 1.1.1 Billed as a 'reasonably faithful implementation of Smalltalk-80'. Includes a 'tutorial' which, although it assumes familiarity with compuer languages, would enable anyone moderately proficient to use the program GNU_Scheme = This is version 4e1 of the GNU Scheme interpreter. It includes various additional bits and pieces including some Archimedes extensions and demos, plus extensions for Turtle graphics. Also included is JACAL, which is a symbolic algebra package designed to work with GNU Scheme. I don't know anything about Scheme but I would anticipate that, like most other GNU ports, it will be extremely powerful and comprehensive. !Gofer = 2.28 The documentation for this says it's 'a Haskell-like functional programming language in the style of Orwell and Miranda but adds an overloading system and proper continuation-based I/O to the Orwell system taught at Oxford'. So there! - Oh yes, it's by Mark Jones, this port is from Bryan Scattergood and there's nearly half a megabyte of documentation plus full C source code. GRS = programming language - GRS is an object oriented language which supports metaclasses and meta level programming in an incremental environment HOPE = Imperial Colleges HOPE language. With user manuals. HUProlog = Humbolt Prolog. Again with full C source code. Icon = An implementation of the Icon programming language for the Archimedes ported by Paul Moore. Supports large integers, co-expressions, keyboard functions, system() etc. Includes about 350K of documentation, mainly by Ralph Griswold plus the source code. !J = 3.4a The J programming language is very similar to APL. Once again very little descriptive documentation is provided. However !J does multi task in the desktop !lcc ^ ANSI C compiler ported by Reuben Thomas. Small and fast, though the code isn't particularly good. However, it will run on smaller machines where trying to use GCC isn't practical. Could probably even be run from floppy !LittleST = A port of Tim Budd's Little Smalltalk by Geoff Lane. The Author admits it's crude and probably contains bugs but it appears to work. C Source included. !MUMPS = An interactive interpreter for the MUMPS language by H.H.Verweij. This is a database programming language. It doesn't multi-task but it does support more than one running program internally. With extensive documentation Pascal ^ Acorn have have released this as Freeware 'as is'. To use it you need the Desktop 'C' package. As it uses C libraries it can access C functions and the string routines are C compatible so you can link together objects written in C, Pascal and Assembler. !PascalS : A port of the Pascal S compiler/interpretter. Almost no documentation (although source code is included) and appears to to be unattributed PERL = 3.0 Practical Extraction and Report Language. An interpreted language optimized for scanning text files, extracting information, and printing reports based upon that information. Combines the best features of C, SED, AWK and SH. Full manual in TeX format plus an ascii version and complete C source code. SBProlog = 3.1 Archimedes port of SB-Prolog system written for UNIX in the Dept of Computer Science at the University of Arizona. Comprehensive manual and a few example scripts plus C source code. TILE_Forth - A 32-bit implementation of the Forth-83 Standard, XLisp = 2.1d Version of Lisp from Tom Almy. Based on the version on B150 from David Betz with various enhancements and bug fixes. Contains full documentation and 'C' source code XScheme = 0.22 Version of Scheme programing language for the Archimedes by David Michael Betz. Complete with full C source. I don't know how good it is because I have no experience of Scheme and although there is a good Manual this assumes previous knowledge of the language, however it looks like a thorough implementation. Raytrace !3DEditor : 2.16 Provides an interactive front end for raytracers like QRT. A major upgrade from the earlier version with several example files and a full Manual as a large Impression document DBW_Render = 2.00 Desktop ray tracer. This was ported from the Amiga and contains a selection of examples and the full 'C' source code. It is actually the program upon which many others programs are based. DKB = 2.12 The first major 'PD' raytracer. Written by David K Buck and ported to the Arc by John Kortink. Many of the later programs are based upon this. I was asked for this by an ex Amiga user who has seen the light and where this is a popular program. CLI driven program so not as easy to use as QRT but still highly regarded. !ECQRT = 1.02 Converts Euclid files to QRT FracTrace - 2.28 displays fractals by raytracing !QRT = Quick Ray Tracer 1.5c Easy to use image generation system. Comes complete with manual and a number of examples. Not as comprehensive or powerful as POV or RayShade but much easier to use and so ideal for the less experienced. !Ray3D ^ 2.00 This is a new program from Robert Taylor. It is a development of the program that appeared in Archimedes World last year. It has a graphical front end which creates a file for the RayShade program (also supplied). It ios therefore very easy to create complex 3D images without needing to write complex scripts. Probably not as powerful as POV but *much* easier to use PoVray = 1.00 Probably the best PD/Shareware ray tracer currently available. Follow up to DKB Tracer. Arguably as good as similar commercial packages. The docs mostly refer to PC/Amiga versions so some of the references, particularly to filenames and directory structures, are different for this version. Although some complex images can take hours to render (particularly with an ARM2) POV multitasks in the Desktop so you can carry on with other things while it's working !Model = 2.00 Used to create scenes for POVray. This lets you 'draw' a scene and !Model then turns this into a script file for POV PoV 2.2 = This is Acorn version 1.5, equivalent to PC version 2.2 of the Persistance of Vision raytracing package. There are so many enhancements and additions that I shan't even attempt to list them. The earlier version has been retained, mainly because it was a full desktop multi-tasking application whereas the new program is CLI driven, ported directly from the PC version, so it's not so 'Acornised' as version 1.0. You don't need to use it from the command line because it has a desktop front end which does all the hard work for you, but this does mean that it's not multi-tasking (although you can stop part-way through and carry on later). Although there are obviously differences in the source file syntax because of the extra features it can also accept 'old type' source files so you can still use your old scenes. PoV 3.00 ^ Version 3.00 and even bigger. As with v2.2 it doesn't have a Wimp interface so it's more difficult to use than the earlier version or Rayshade. However, it's got lots of new features. RayShade = 4.00 Now a multi tasking Desktop program instead of command line driven. Perhaps not as good as PoV but still very good. Screen !Camera = Takes a 'snapshot' of the screen as a sprite !CustomVDU + 1.24 A mode selector and creator(?) but no instructions. !EasyMode : A screen mode editor/creator from Gary Lee. Intended for people who understand how the Arc screen modes are set up and is NOT for the novice. If you want to write a Mode Module it can save a lot of time fiddling with parameters !EasyMode ^ An improvement on the Mode Picker for the Risc PC. Instead of a small window with menus for colours and resolutions it gives a 'proper' selection window, plus mode selection by 'hot key' !Interlace - (2.15) Allows the use of multisync modes on a standard monitor by interlacing !MakeModes ^ Acorn's mode creator for the Risc PC !Mode = 1.04 Described by the Author as 'the most technically advanced screen mode changer known', ie. click on it to change mode !ModeBar = 1.1 Simple mode selector which lets you choose from up to five screen modes !ModeDef = 1.00 Mode definer. Creates a RM for a new screen mode to your own definition !ModeMan = 1.32 A desktop Mode selector !ModeUtil = 0.11 Lets you give names to your favourite screen modes and select them from a menu. !ModeView = Simple program to replace the Palette icon with one which shows the current screen mode !MultiEmul = 1.01 Displays a hi res sprite on a lo res monitor !MultiScrn ^ Utility from Michael Ellis to extend the desktop. The RO3 desktop lets you move windows outside the visible area. This prog lets you have several 'views' of the desktop, some of which can be of this 'outside' part !MultiSync = Another module which lets you display modes 18, 19, 20 and 21 on a normal monitor !OldModes = For Risc PC users only, add a menu of 'old style' mode numbers to the mode picker so you can just select them when using badly behaved software then needs a 'standard' mode instead of having to type in the number !Palette+ = Screen mode info QMC = 1.00 Quick Mode Change, makes it easier to change between modes from the desktop Schwoosher : Lets you create very large screen modes where the screen you actually see is a 'window' onto the full screen. The most unusual feature of this program is that although it's from SICK as much as 25% of the instructions are concerned with explaining the program and it's possible to understand them! !Scrnmode = 3.00 Opens a window showing all available screen modes. You can then select the required mode by clicking on it !ScrnScrol ^ Another one of those 'multi-desktop' programs by David Sharp. It's meant to scroll automatically when you move the mouse off the edge of the screen, but it behaves very erratically with S/ARM, I suspect because it's polling mouse position too often and not pausing long enough for you to move the mouse back on screen again !Selector - 256 colour selector !SnapShot = 1.00 Takes a 'snapshot' of the desktop with all the windows, menu's etc. !Switcher = Just lets you 'switch' between two screen modes of your choice. As most people ue one of two modes 99% of the time this does what's required with the minimum of fuss. !UniMode2 : 2.00 This looks like a very comprehensive screen mode creator. There is extensive documentation, not only for the program but also for the VIDC, including a lot of stuff from the PRM's !VIDCmodes = The program which accompanied the Atomwide Video Enhancer now placed in the 'Public Domain' so you can use it to enhance your own display if you have a later model with a multisync monitor !WinScreen ~ Lets you have several desktop 'screens' and switch between them. Much better than programs like 'Largeness' which can get a bit confusing. If you don't have a hi-res monitor but want a bbiiggg desktop this will be useful Screen.Blankers !ACHSave : 1.01 Useful screen saver from Andrew Heckford. Doesn't take much RAM and can 'fall back' to the standard RO3 blanker if there isn't enough RAM available to operate. BlankCtrl = Easy control of the RO3 screen blanker. Saves having to load !Config to enable/disable it !BurnIn = Screen saver !DarkHorse = 1.03 Nice screen saver with some good graphics screens. All functions are 'user configurable' and you can write your own screens. As it only loads one screen at a time it uses a lot less RAM than most of the alternatives. The program contains twelve screens complete with source code. Several more 'packs' are available as 'Individual' items (see DH_pack...) !DimWit - a Desktop screen saver !Hangfire = Good screen blanker. Comes with a selection of pretty pictures or you can make your own. !Horizon ^ By Daniel Herd, billed as 'the ultimate screen saver' !Lifeguard = Another last screen saver. After ages without any there are now dozens. Quite nice with some interesting screens. !Lunch = 0.32 Out to Lunch - screen blanker !Saviour ~ Simple screen saver which displays a starfield when on. !SmallSave ^ A 'small, fast, screensaver' from Andrew Berry. Works OK and doesn't hog either too much RAM or a place on the iconbar Screen.NewModes !BigModes = Four new 800x600 screen modes for multisync monitors with 2, 4, 12 or 16 colours by Martyn Thorpe DeskModes = 2.1 Creates new 16 colour modes with 84, 88, 92 or 96 columns and 32, 33, 34 or 36 lines. Ideal for desktop with standard monitor ModeMods = Two modules giving a total of nineteen new modes between them in 2, 4, 16 or 256 colours Sound !Compress = 1.50 A sample compressor/decompressor from David Radford. Helps reduce the enormous amount of disc space taken up by high quality sound samples !Control = Another last program to control the internal speaker !DSEdit = 1.04 Raw digitised sound editor. Comes with a selection of examples from Monty Python and BlackAdder. !EasySound = 0.01 Program by G.Lee to play sound samples !Effex = Paul Mason's acclaimed sound sample player/editor. Can cut and paste, mix, and add special effects !Fanfare ^ Program to play sound RMs by R.Swetman !Flux ^ 1.30 Billed as a 'sound to light display' this program from Peter Knight plays DSym or Tracker/Protracker files and then displays some nice graphics effects in time to the music !HDSamples : 0.87 Hard Drive Samples. A sound sample player that works direct from disc so it doesn't tie up huge amounts of RAM with large samples. Although it is primarily intended to work from a hard disc it will work from any type of drive, even over a network Also included s !HDSmerger which joins samples together !Play = 1.01 This appears to be a sample player (no instructions) from John Sinclair !Player = Non desktop program to play tunes. Also Splits the tune up into its constituent parts so they can be manipulated. !SampConv = 2.13 Contverts between many commonly used sound sample formats. Copes with many 'foreign' types as well as native Archimedes. !SampleChk = Some ported sound samples don't have a length exactly divisible by 4, which can cause them to crash. This tries to fix the problem !Say = Speech synthesis program. Just type the text in a desktop window to hear it. !ShowTrack = 1.02 Combines functions of an oscilloscope and 64 band spectrum analyser to display output of background music players. Really needs Arm 3 but works with slower machines at lower refresh rate !Sound = 2.1 From Richard Brain. I think this is a program to manipulate sound samples but as the Author couldn't be bothered to write any instructions I can't be bothered to try it. Hopefully someone will find it useful !SoundCon ^ Sound sample format converter by Rick Hudson. Converts between Audio IFF, Armadeus, ARMovie, Sun Audio, Audioworks, VOC, RIFF Wave, raw sound, etc. SOX ^ SOund eXchange. This is a CLI driven utility ported from the PC. It converts sound samples between different formats and can handle Sound Blaster, .VOC, IRCAM, SUN .au, DEC .au, AIFF, HCOM, Soundtool, and others. Can also carry out various other operations on the files. Documentation is a bit cryptic because it's not been 'Acornised', but is understandable. Includes C source !SpeakCtrl = Switches the speaker on and off !Speaker = Another speaker on/off program !Speaker = Very simple program to turn the speaker On or Off. It doesn't actually load, just runs from disc and changes its application sprite to tell you if the speaker is On or Off. !Spectr+ = Does a rough power spectrum estimation !STModFix = Another program to try to fix problems in ported Soundtrackers from Carl Declerck !StopST = Just stops tracker modules !STrename = Renames Tracker modules !SysBeep = 1.28 Lets you set the pitch, duration and volume of the 'beep' sound !Trk_Print = Again from Tony Gibson, prints Patters, Samples or Sequences from a Tracker !Volume = Controls the volume Sound.Samples Hundreds of assorted sound samples in a variety of formats from raw digtised samples to ready-made Modules. Technical !AnyRC ^ Very useful program from P.E.Marshall. It calculates two resistors (E12 or E24) required to make an intermediate resistance. Parallel and serial options are given. !A>B>C ^ "The concentrations of the three components A,B, and C are calculated for the system consisting of two sequential non reversible first order reactions during the specified time period, and the resulting concentrations can be displayed graphically." ACL - Linear circuit filter analyser ArmSI = 3.46H Improved version of SI which shows the type of computer and equipment and calculates speed index etc. !AutoPCB = Program by Pete Goodwin to create a Drawfile of a double sided PCB with autorouting. The input is in the form of a text file. No instructions but the methods can be seen from the examples provided. Complete with C source. BogoMIPS ^ This displays the machines speed in Bogo MIPS. Probably of immense use to the 'my computer is better than your computer' mob but no good to anyone else. Still, it does come with the C source code .... !Circuit ^ Rather good desktop program by J.Robbins for drawing circuit diagrams. Can save the circuit as a Drawfile for printing. Large library of components. Very easy to use. !Divvie ^ 1.27 2D By Dirk-Willem van Gulik, displays phase flow diagrams !Engine = An engine power calculator !IsoMass ^ 1.30 By Chris Johnson, calculates from a chemical formula the abundance of each of the isotopic masses and displays the data both as a listing and as a bargraph. !Layout ^ 1.10 Very professional looking desktop PCB design package by Bernhard Walter. As well as its own format designs can be saved as Drawfiles for printing etc. PCB = A complete PCB designing package !Resistor = Draws a picture of a resistor with the appropriate colour codes from your specified resistance/tolerance from James Hunter !RasMol ^ 1.20 A full multi-tasking port of the popular molecular graphics program by Roger Sayle. The Acorn version is by Martun Wurther. Includes various examples and scripts. !RiscPCB ^ Very good PCB designing package from T.Swanborough RLaB ^ Our Lab. A *VERY* powerful package released under the Free Software Foundation licence. To quote, it 'brings the power of stable matrix maths tools plus a stable data plotting facility together' It's CLI driven (normally run in a Taskwindow) that uses a structured language for input. This can be either typed in directly or as a file. There are built in functions and these can also be user defined. Output can be either to the terminal (ie. the Taskwindow) or can be sent directly to GNUplot, which will give a graphical display. Documentation is provided as lots of text files, many of which relate to other versions, and a 50 page short manual supplied as DrawFiles. !RPCalc : Reverse Polish Calculator from Circle Software. Anyone old enough to remember the original Sinclair pocket calculator (about a quarter of a century ago) will know what RPN is, and will not thank anyone for reminding them. Still, it is a fully functional calculator. RS232Opto ^ This is an Impression document (with a Text version) which explains how to construct a serial port opto- isolator. Ideal for school projects, ensures they don't blow up the computer if something is connected wrongly !Spectro ^ 1.22 A mass spectrometer simulation by Richard Sharpe !Spectrum ^ By Robert Seago, shows information about the electromagnetic spectrum !Statisix ^ 1.02 Program by Robert Seago to perform statistical analysis. Can take input data in the form of a CSV or Text file or it can be entered directly. Only a limited number of functions are supported ScanMemory = Scans all available RAM and reports on the location of the main areas, fragmentation etc. It *just* works on the RiscPC but makes too many assumptions to work properly. !Spectro = Billed as a Mass Spectrometer Simulation from Richard Sharpe. !BSpice = Berkeley Spice 3A6, Arc port by FKW and ETJ van de Pol as BSpice v1.24. The famous ciruit simulator from the Electrical Engineering dept of the University of California. !Nutmeg = 1.00 A program to take the output from Spice and create diagrams using the data. TextUtils 1wpTXT = 1.03 by Andrea Gall, convert text to and from 1WP format !AMFSpell = 1.76 A 65,000+ word spelling checker, very quick and easy to add words to the dictionary which can be expanded by the user. A good alternative to David Pillings program as it's PD. !Analysis ^ Program by Giovani Lo Conti to analyse text files. Can produce various outputs, concordances, KWIC, KWOC, readability, statistics, etc. !Antiword ^ Program by A.J. van Os to read Microsoft Word files !ArcOutline = 1.04 A 'text outliner' which can be used to 'design' a piece of writing. Allows up to eight 'levels' of ideas which can be displayed as required !AsciiMate ^ Program by Malcolm Knight to convert 'foreign' format text files. There are lots of options and 'swap' facilities and you can save a configuration for each type !C»Impress - 2.00 Two apps for converting text files and 'C' files to a format suitable for use in Impression !Change = Changes EOL characters when importing/exporting text files from PC's. Can also change the spaces to the correct character for 1WP if required. !ChangeTxt ^ Program by Daryl Sims to convert between Acorn, PC a,d Mac formats. Can change CR/LF, character sets, expand Tabs, strip special characters, and will try to guess the format of an untyped file. !ColText = 1.51 Reformats text files into two or three columns !CSVtoText - Converts CSV format files as used by many spreadsheets to text !CutLF ^ A fairly crude program by Chris Rodliffe to remove unwanted blank lines from double-spaced textfiles. !Cvrt ^ 2.01 From Terje Larsen, converts a textfile from one alphabet to another. Main use would be for 'Acornising' files imposted from PC's, Mac's, etc. It's table driven, and conversions are provided for several sets, but the table is a simple textfile with a full explanation of how it's made up so you can easily make your own tables !Diction = Simple Desktop spelling checker. Doesn't check text, you type in a word. Easy to add new words !DrawLink - Links ASCII text files into a format suitable for inclusion in !Draw/!Draw+ as a text area !Edit2Imp = 1.00 prepares text to be loaded into impression EdToAscii = 1.30 Program to convert text to and from Edword format. !FanFold ^ A program by Andrew Ayre to ensure that textfiles aren't printed over the perforations of fanfold paper. It also lets you set top and bottom margins. This is done by line counting so it will work with any printer and paper size. !FormatTXT - Formats text files with page breaks, headers, footers etc. with any page width and length !FormText ^ Utility from Tony Houghton to format text files. It can insert page breaks, margins, headers, footers, and a contents page. Ideal for producing nicely formatted manuals. (Subtle hint to PD/Shareware Authors). !German - Allows the German accented characters to be entered into the keyboard buffer by clicking on them in a small window. You could use !Chars but this is much neater !Han-D = The Author says that this is called Han-D because he thinks it is and because !PuncuationRemover won't fit. It removes certain types of punctuation from text files. !ImpChars2 = 2.20 A version of ImpChars improved and 'jazzed up' by Cy Booker. Allows selection of any character from any installed font. !Italicer - 1.0 Creates an italic version of a font. JGPsuite = This appears to be a set of programs including a 'Risc compliant' text editor and printing utilities. Unfortunately the Author has chosen to write the instructions in the editor format which makes it somewhat difficult to work out what it does. !Justify ^ Makes a text file fully justified with a straight right margin by padding the text with spaces. Personally I find justified text very difficult to read, but it does make it look prettier if you think that's important !Letter = Program to create a 'letter on a disc'. Text can have fancy fonts and incorporate graphics !Lipsum ^ By Tony Howat, generates 'convincing' text which can be used to demonstrate layouts, etc. !LongRead ^ 0.44 Very useful program by Ben Harris which displays a textfile in a window. Main advantage is that it doesn't load the whole file but just caches a part of it, so you can read files which are far too big to fit into RAM !LooknFind ^ 0.5 By Robert Lytton, searches through files of defined types for a 'phrase'. !MakeCSV = Takes a formatted text file and converts it to CSV format. Useful if you want to transfer data tables from a document to a spreadsheet !MakeDict = Pieces together the files that make up the dictionary in !WordHound to let you edit it on a 2Mb machine !Make_Text = 1.00 Program by John Lageu to convert files with lots of embedded control codes (eg. 'Smart' files or WP files) to plain text by stripping out all the control codes. Also removes leading and trailing spaces. µemacs = 3.11 The unix text editor with full 'C' source code including the Wimp specific files. MiniHound = Desktop thesaurus with over 30,000 keywords, which is a lot more than 'Desktop Thesaurus'. OK from floppy but best from a hard disc. Will work from a RAM disc but as it takes over 700K of disc space plus about 180K to run you need at least 2Mb to use it this way. !NewChars2 = Improved version of 'Chars' which can also select fonts !PCconvert = 1.11 Useful app from Simon Osborne to convert Wordstar format files into Archimedes style ascii. It can also perform other functions (eg. cr/lf transformation) to act as a general purpose PC textfile converter. !PDF ^ RISC OS port of the pdf reader for X written by Derek Noonburg. Reads a Adobe(R) Portable Document Format (PDF) file and displays this in a window. !PDF ^ 0.64 Leo Smiers port of the program to display Adobe Portable Document Format files. !PDF ^ 0.64 Leo Smiers port of the program to display Adobe Portable Document Format files. !PD-Impres = Pipedream to Impression data transfer utility !PipIn = 0.94 Pipedream <--> Interword file converter, also converts PD files to text and 1WP format. Can be used with Z88 as well PowerSrch = Based on the series of articles in 'Archive' on Searching and Replacing by Michael Houlder. Includes sample application to find all the various styles in an Impression document. !Quote ^ Intercepts keypresses and substitues other characters. It's main purpose, as the name implies, it to try to 'pair' quotation marks, etc. !Rambler ^ Another dummy text generator, this time by Mike Williams !ReadEase ^ By Richard Wareham, calculates the 'reading ease quotient' of a textfile. Useful for finding out if text is suitable for use by younger children !ReadFile = Opens a VDU window. Useful if you have !Edit loaded but want to see what text will look like in a Command window !ReadLarge ^ 0.02 Displays text files larger than available memory. Ideal for reading novels etc. in older machines !RTFtoHTML ^ By Paul Gee, converts RTF v1.4 files to HTMP docs !RTFreader = 1.1 Extracts text from a RTF (Ritch Text Format) document !RTFwriter = 1.1 Converts a plain text file into RTF !Spell = A simple desktop front-end for CC's !SpellMod. Can check individual words or a etxt file, when it produces a list of probable mis-spelt words. Obviously you need CC's !SpellMod to use it. No substitute for David Pilling's program but if you have a copy of !SpellMod... !Stationer ^ 3.1 By Julian Robbins, creates headed stationary !StrongEd = 3.52 "Excellent text editor". !StrongHelp gives lots of help on Assembly, Basic, SWIs and more. Now back as Shareware after an abortive attempt at being sold commercially, hardly surprising as it was £29 more expensive than Zap. Now it's only £10 dearer. However, I still prefer Zap. Obviously no lessons have been learned because there's still no proper Shareware message, just 'send me a tenner' at the bottom of the Banner window (!), and still no documentation, only !StrongHelp, which although excellent is no substitute for a proper Manual. Also the left hand characters in the StrongHelp menu windows are 'clipped' on a RiscPC so you can't read the items properly. !StrongEd ^ 4.55, plus StrongHelp 2.10. I still don't think it's as good as Zap, but this version does seem stable on the RPC. Has now copied many of the more advanced features of Zap, and I admit it does look prettier. One thing it doesn't seem to have is Zap's huge number of bitmap fonts. I don't know if it's possible to change the font with StrongED, I don't like the one it uses and I can't find any references to fonts in the only documentation available (StrongHelp format only so you can't search it for keywords!!) so I assume it can't. There are StrongHelp files on this disc for StrongEd, Basic, Filetypes (very brief), Machine (pre RPC only), Assembler and VDU !Styles - 1.05 Allows Styles to be set in Impression Junior in a similar way to Impression !Tabs = Application for intelligently removing or inserting tab characters in text files !TextFind ^ The basis for this has been lying about on my hard disc for ages, and then last year I tidied it up to use as a search engine for the Archive magazine CD. Now I've done a bit more work to make it 'presentable'. Basically, it searches textfiles for a string or keyword and produces a list of the places where found. !TextForm ^ A text file formatter from Briam Widdas !TextInfo = 1.12 Gives info about text files, counts number of characters, words, sentences and lines !TextMax ^ Puts printer control codes into text so that you can use special effects in a text editor (Edit, Zap, etc) Unfortunately it's set up for a particular Epson printer and there doesn't seem to be any simple way to change it !TextPort ^ lf/cr translator. Includes a DOS equivalent !TextThing ^ By Victor Markwart, strips top bit set and control characters from textfiles !Transform = 1.00 Takes a CSV file and transforms it so that each row becomes a column. !Twin = 1.2 Converts Acorns Twin text editor into a RM !TXT2Text ^ Yet another one of those apps to convert between text files with CR/LF's and LF's only. !TxtPrint+ = 2.06 Text file printer driver which can reformat, repaginate, print Basic program listings etc. !unHTML ^ At last! A utility by Mike Williams to convert those useless HTML files to plain text, Publisher/Style, or Draw Textarea format so that you can actually DO something with them !WannaKern ^ By Barry Wickett, lets you use kerned text in Draw WordChk = 0.03 A spelling checker module by Geof Lane. It is mainly intended for use with 'technical' words which are not included in the data provided with normal spelling checkers although it can be used as for 'normal' text. It is not particularly user-friendly but it is small and because it's a *command driven module you could write your own Basic program to interface with it if you wish. !WordBook ^ 1.10 Again from R.Lytton, this will 'type' words, phrases or sentences. Very useful if you need to repeatedly the same phrases. Easy to create lists of words and phrases !WordCount : From James Freeman, this does what its name suggests, it counts the words in a text file. !Wordhound = The more advanced version of Mini Hound. As well as the normal thesaurus function it can find 'sound alike' words and link with Impression via the Impulse protocol as well as a dictionary function. As with Mini Hound it's Shareware but the registration fee of only £5 entitles you to use both programs. !WriteLeft ^ Ovation Applet to reverse the direction of writing for use with Hebrew etc. text which runs from right to left !Zap ^ 1.35 Superb text editor from Dominic Symes. In my opinion FAR superior to StrongEd. Supports Basic programs, good undo, 'learn' facility, handles 'tabs' sensibly, runs Basic programs, most features (including keys) user configurable, etc, etc. So many features I'm not even going to attempt to list them. Can even edit files in byte/word format or show them as disassembled code. Very fast. Can edit Basic programs as a text file, colour in Basic and 'C' modes, and each type of file can have its own, user defineable, 'mode'. Forget StrongEd, DeskEdit, etc. this is THE text editor for the Archimedes. v1.30 has lots of improvements, including a large choice of bitmap fonts for you to select from. These are especially useful in hi-res screen modes as they are much easier to construct (tools are included) and faster than 'painted' fonts. The most omportant changes are that it's now 'fully' RiscPC compatible and makes use of the additional features available on the new architecture machines. It can also load extension modules 'on the fly' so you don't have to load ones you don't normally use until you actually want them, There's even a special Zap mode for SAsm now (thanks to James Freeman) so you can edit assembler files in glorious colour. !Zap 1.40 -9 ^ This has been included as an additional item instead of an updated version of B318 because although there have been some improvements they're not major and it's grown to the point where it's not really possible to run it from floppy any more. If you don't have a hard drive it would probably be better to stick with 1v35 on B318. TeX = ArmTex version 3.141 with LaTeX 2.09. TeX is a professional typesetting program especially suitable for typesetting technical or mathematical material. Many technical documents are written using TeX and, when supplied on disc, are often in TeX format. Not a package for someone who needs a 'quick fix' or a WYSIWYG DTP package. TeX was 'ported' from UNIX and is not particularly easy to use but, once mastered, it can produce superb printed output and do things that Impression and other DTP packages cannot emulate. With a package of this size and complexity you obviously need a hard disc and it will take around 15Mb. So far as I am aware this version wotks perfectly (even I have been able to test it!) and seems OK on the Risc PC. Utilities AC = Another system usage accounting program !ACH_ResFS : 1.00 A replacement for the Resource Filer which enables some apps (eg Config, Alarm) to be password protected so small prying fingers can't thoroughly scramble your setup. Would probably be VERY useful in schools AddSprites ^ Very useful Module from Andrew Clover. This stops other applications from overwriting your desktop sprites with their own 'improved' ones. Have you ever had your nice, hi-res, fancy icons wiped out by someone else's idea of how your desktop should look - this will stop it !Alert = Gives you an indication when a task that 'hogs' the processor has finished. !AntiTask - Forces desktop to stop multi-tasking and run a single program !Apphelp - Provides a Help utility for an application !ArcTools : 0.72 General purpose toolkit with memory and disc editors, search and dissasembler, plus other functions. This seems to be a very powerful package. It's not a Wimp program but is a RM and '*' command driven. Arm3Cache = Nice module by Mike Harrison to switch the cache on/off with hotkeys. Left ALT/CTRL for OFF, ALT-Shift for ON !Atchoo = With ARM 2 machines this speeds up the System ROMs, with an ARM 3 it turns the cache on or off. !Autotype ^ By Nick Smith, this useful app takes any text file and inserts the characters one by one into the keyboard buffer. As well as it's main purpose of 'typing' pre prepared text into a comms program this could have other uses, eg. inserting text into a database, DTP program, or anything that requires text to be typed !awd ^ Archimedes Window Dump. Grabs the window the pointer is over as a sprite with a 'hot key' combination !BitFlip : Lets you get at some of the bits of CMOS RAM that other CMOS editors can't reach !Blinker = 1.00 Makes the caret blink so it's a LOT easier to find !BuffStuff = If you drag a file to the BuffStuff icon the filename appears at wherever the input focus happens to be. Most editors (well, all GOOD editors) can do this for themselves but if you've got one that can't.... !Cassette : 1.32 Program from Mark Bright/Malcolm Knight to print cassette inlays. !CLIdetect = Very simple program to temporarily disable the CLI. Stops students (!) pressing F12 and doing things you don't want them to !CLIguard = Lets you inspect and get help from Modules if you are one of those people who are terrified of leaving the desktop. !CMOS = The nicest CMOS RAM saver/restorer I've seen by James Hunter !CMOS_FS ^ Good CMOS RAM saver/loader by James Robinson !CMOSsave = Another program to save your CMOS RAM !CMOSSave = Another CMOS RAM saver. Saves the entire RAM to disc !CoolSwtch : 1.05 Lets you switch between tasks with ALT-TAB rather like Windows !DialCode = Lets you search for the place name if you know the dialling code and visa versa. !DynKill ^ Program by Robert Kendrick to kill Dynamic Areas and release memory allocated to crashed apps !FastTask ^ This program from Sam Kington is *supposed* to try to learn about the tasks you use and let you start them from the keyboard or tying in the task name. It seems very fragile and I get lots of error messages (it seems to leave files open and then complain about it). !FontSafe ^ Stops games programs setting the font cache to 0 and so making the Risc PC desktop run like a snail !FreeRMA = Tries to free up RAM in the RMA !GHZap : Searches through program code and disables all those 'UpdateMemC' calls put in by incompetent programmers which crash the machine with RO3. !IconDel = 1.03 From Robert Adamson, this is invaluable if you constantly open directories on applications and fill up the Wimp Spritepool with icon sprites. It opens a window shaowing all the sprites and allows you to delete the ones you no longer want, thus releasing the RAM !iconSprtz = I don't know why I hadn't thought of this! Drag spritefile to the IconSprtz icon and it's added to the Wimp Pool. Saves a lot of messing about when you're editing the application sprites etc. InlayPrnt = 2.05 Cassette inlays again but this one can be output as a Draw file IntModule = 1.10 A module by Steve Hoare which tries to stop the current task with a specified keypress. Can be used to kill a runaway program without pressing RESET. Complete with source code so you can modify the key(s) !KillSprs = Deletes sprites in the Spritepool duplicated in ROM. Lets you restore default sprites if they have been changed. !LastTime = Displays the last time the computer was used. Put it in your !Boot file and find out if anyone has been tampering !Letter = Program to create a 'letter on a disc'. Text can have fancy fonts and incorporate graphics !LineEdit - 2.30 For editing CLI commands !LookOut ^ Very useful little program which can kill a defined task or tasks as soon as they start up. Lots of uses, especially in schools to stop things from being run !MemoryPie = Displays memory useage as a pie chart !MenuBar ^ By Graham Crow, an absolute essential for every hard disc user. Far superiour to Blinds, it was previously sold by BeeBug but now completely re-written with lots of new features. Briefly, it puts a bar acrross the top of the screen with lots of pull-down menus which can launch tasks, load files, open directories, etc. Each bar can have up to ten menus, and each menu up to 30 items. You can also have as many as 30 separate bars and switch between them, so you can set up different systems for different tasks and have the things you need for that task readily available without a complicated, cluttered, system. This program is highly recommended (it's the only one I've bothered to install myself), so much so that APDL will be selling it, fully registered complete with a printed manual (see the Commercial catalogue). !ModFiler = Nice app from Brian Marsden to control Modules from the desktop. Can give info, Kill, Unplug, Save, etc. !ModKiller = Lets you kill some of the least used modules. Don't ask me why you can't just press F12 and type RMKILL , some people seem to want to do everything with the mouse !ModuleHp = Displays the Title and Help strings of a Module. !ModulInfo = 1.42 Simple program to display info on a Module. Saves loading it into 'Zap' to get the version number etc. !NoIcons ^ Particularly useful if you only have 1Mb. It stops the filer loading all those iconsprites every time it sees a new app, which uses up more RAM in the wimp spritepool !PostCalc ^ This program is meant to calculate the postage cost of a packet but it's out of date and has a few bugs. However, if you do need it you may be able to alter the rates as they're in DATA statements near the start of the program. !PtrWatch ^ There are lots of desktop magnifiers, but this one by Ben Dooks is onbe of the best, and unlike many others it's very fast and works in Risc PC screen modes !Read OCR = A 'trial' character recognition program. Works with sprite files from scanner !RemoveDA ^ This is a utility by Dave Thomas to show any Dynamic Areas in use on the Risc PC and give you the option of removing them. !Repress'n ^ By Andrew Ward, re-instates system directory datestamp if it's changed so you don't have to re-install programs convinced by this they've been copied to another machine !Resource : From Terry Adams, allows you to put files into the Resource filing system and it also lets you 'rip out' resource data !RiscTimer : Keeps track of computer usage. Records the amount of time the computer is switched on and the time it's actually being used for the last 28 days RMAManager = Tries to 'tidy up' all the empty random blocks in the RMA left when modules are KILLed or give up their workspace so that they can be returned to the main pool. Can make quite a bit of RAM available if you have been loading/killing various modules !RMbroom = Another program to try to tidy up the RMA !RO2_4all : This is a bit of a 'bodge' but it might let you run a RISC-OS 2 app that won't work with RO3 !rsynth ^ This is (or so it says!) a text to speech translator based on a klatt synthesizer. It does work (eventually) but I don't think it will be of any serious use as it is. however it contains a lot of material that might be of use to someone who wants to try to develop it further !RUSure? : Have you ever hit Shift/Ctrl/F12 by mistake and shut down the computer? This useful app intecepts the call and asks if you're SURE you want to shutdown BEFORE it's too late. !Saviour = 1.20 More sophisticated 'auto save'. This simulates pressing the F3 key at predefined intervals. As this is the 'Save' key in many desktop apps it will either save automatically or open the 'Save' window to remind you !Sleeve ^ Cassette sleeve creator by Sidney Dine. Can save files or export them as Drawfiles for printing etc. !SloFilter ^ This reduces the number of NULL polls received by a task, which lets you slow down a task which is carrying out background processing of some sort, thereby allowing other tasks to have more time to work. !SlotSize ^ Forces any application that starts up to use the Wimpslot you define and not the one in the !Run file. RiscPC users will find this useful to check if the reason a program won't run is that the Wimpslot is set too small without needing to change the !Run file Slowmo ^ 2.19 Module that slows down any program. !SystemVar ^ Again from Andrew Berry, lets you read and edit any System variable !TaskFront ^ Sits on the icon bar and Runs programs dragged to it in a Task Window, so you can use all those old utilities without having to set directories etc. Very handy !TaskKill = 1.26 Nice Module from Paul Clifford to kill the current task. Not only is this invaluable for programmers (those who don't have a Risc PC) it's also the only way out when you run one of those badly written Demo's or games that don't have a proper 'exit' and then remember that you'd forgotten to Save chapter 46 of your novel !task ^ By Alun Jone, this is a replacement for the TaskWindow. Instead of acting within the desktop is works 'full screen', and so is a lot faster !TaskLog ^ From Graham Crow, keeps a log of how long you spend using various tasks. Useful for professionals, especially writers !TaskMon ^ By Geoff Williams, monitors the use of tasks and keeps a logfile so you can see how much time you've spent working (and how much playing Lemmings!) !TaskMsg ^ Potentially a very useful tool from James Ponder. It lets you send messages to tasks, so, for example, you can put commands in your !Boot app to load files into editors and do other things not normally possible. !UniqueID = Program to read and display the machine ID that A3010's, A3020's, A4000's and A5000's have. It won't stop someone nicking your beloved but it will ensure you can identify it if it's recovered. !Usage = 1.00 CPU usage utility that shows CPU activity in a window on the icon bar but, most usefully, you can open a desktop window showing the percentage of time the Wimp is spending with each task. !UserPort = Allows rudimentary control of the User Port from the desktop !Virtual = By Brian Brunswick and Nick Smith. A replacement for the TaskWindow which emulates virtual memory so that a task running in this window can be made to believe it has up to 24Mb available. Obviously only programs which can be run in a Task Window can be used so it's effectively restricted to CLI tasks but this does mean that 'memory hogs' like the GNU C compiler can be run without massive amounts of memory. It's not very efficient and you obviously need plenty of spare (fast) HD space. With C/AASM source code. WatchMEMC ^ A Module from Nigel Jones to look out for all those naughty UpdateMEMC swi's that incompetent games/demo programmers use and which screw up your computer. ZRegister ^ A Module from John Kortink. Tasks 'register' their use of a Module and when none are using it the Module is deleted, freeing up space in the RMA. Often this can't be done by the task as it won't know if some other task is using the Module Books As well as the books actually listed here there are many other texts such as lists of words in various languages, technical textfiles, dictionaries, humour, political, film and TV etc. The following list is the file or directory name followed by the title and author. After this is a list of the works of individual authors. Aesop Aesop's Fables - Gutenberg version Aladin Aladin and the Wonderful Lamp AliceWLand Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll AllFlesh The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler Arabian The Arabian Nights by Sir Richard Burton Ben_Hur Ben Hur by Lew Wallace Beowulf Beowulf, translated by Francis B Gummere BurntNjal The Story of Burnt Njal, a traditional Norse saga CantTales The Caterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer CompletAng The Complete Angler by Izaak Walton FrankStein Frankenstein by by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Gulliver Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha by Henry W. Longfellow HumanBond Of Human Bondage by W.Somerset Maugham Iliad The Iliad by Homer JaneEyre Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Last_Mohic The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper LittlWmn Little Women by Louisa May Alcott LookGlass Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll LordJim Lord Jim by Conrad MaddngCrd Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Northwind At The Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald Odyssey The Odyssey by Homer Pimpernel The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy PilgrimPro The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Pompeii The Last Days of Popmeii by E.G.Bulwer-Lytton RedBadge The Red Badge of Courages by Stephen Crane RobCrusoe Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe RobinHood Robin Hood by J. Walker McSpadden SilasMarn Silas Marner by George Elliot WmnWhite The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins WuthHeight Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte Gibbon The Decline and Fall of the Roaman Empire by Edward Gibbon Roget Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition BkMormaom The Book of Mormon Bible King James Bible Jane Austen Lady Susan, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility John Buchan The Thirty Nine Steps, Greenmantle, Prester John, Mr Standfast Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of the Island, Anee of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea Edgar Rice Burroughs Thuvia Maid of Mars, The Gods of Mars, A Princess of Mars, The Warlord of Mars Charles Dickens Two Idle Apprentices, The Battle of Life, A Child's History of England, The Chimes, A Christmas Carol, The Cricket on the Hearth, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Hard Times, Holiday Romance, Hunted Down, The Lamplighter, Mudfog & Other Sketches, To Be Read At Dusk, George Silverman's Explanation, Sketches by Boz, Sketches of Young Couples, Sketches of Young Gentlemen, Sunday Under Three Heads, The Uncommercial Traveller, Barnaby Rudge, David Copperfield, Dombey and Son, Our Mutual Friend, Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers L. Frank Baum The Emerald City of Oz, Glinda of Oz, The Marvelous Land of Oz, The Lost Princess of Oz, The Magic of Oz, The Patchwork Girl of Oz, Rinkitink In Oz, The Scarecrow of Oz, Tik-Tok of Oz, The Tin Woodman of Oz Hans Christian Andersen 129 stories from the master children's storyteller. Including such favourites as The Emperor's New Suit, The Ice Maiden, The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Pea, The Red Shoes, The Snow Man, The Ugly Duckling, and The Snow Queen. Rudyard Kipling The Jungle Book, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rewards and Fairies, Kim Jack London The People of the Abyss, To Build a Fire, The Call of the Wild, The Iron Heel, Selected Klondike Short Stories, The Sea Wolf, Son of the Wolf, White Fang, and Selected Stories. Mark Twain Extracts from Adam's Diary, A New Crime, Political Economy, A Ghost Story, My Watch, Niagara, The Great Revolution in Pitcairn, Pudd'nhead Wilson, Tom Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective, Mark Twain's Speeched, What is Man?, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, Tom Sawyer Robert Louis Stevenson Across the Plains, Catriona (sequel to Kidnapped), Memoir of Fleeing Jenkin, The Inland Voyage, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, The Master of Ballantyne, The Silverado Squatters, In the South Seas. Herman Melville Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, Moby Dick E.Nesbit Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet, The Story of the Treasure Seekers Edgar Allan Poe Three Sundays in a Weeek, Cask of Amontillado, Angel of the Odd, Domain or Arnheim, Thou Art The Man, The Assignation, Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Ballon Hoax, Berenice, Black Cat, Bon-Bon, The Business Man, Colloquy of Monos and Una, Conversation of Eiros and Charmion, Criticism, Devil in the Belfry, Diddling, Eleonora, Four Beasts In One, The Gold-Bug, Why The Little Frenchman Wears His Hand In a Sling, Hans Phaal, Hop-Frog, Fall of the House of Usher, Imp of the Perverse, Island of the Fay, Tale of Jerusalem, King Pest, Duc de L'Omlette, Landor's Cottage, Landscape Garden, Ligeia, Lionizing, Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Loss of Breath, Descent into the Maelstrom, Man of the Crowd, Marginalia, Mystery of Marie Roget, Mellonta Tauta, Mesmeric Revelation, Metzengerstein, Morella, Morning on the Wissahiccon, MS. Found in a Bottle, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Mystification, Never Bet The Devil Your Head, Oblong Box, Oval Portrait, X-ing a Paragrab, Pit and the Pendulum, A Predicament, Premature Burial, Purloined Letter, Tale of the Ragged Mountains, Masque of the Red Death, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade, Shadow, Silence, The Spectacles, The Sphinx, System of Dr.Tarr and Prof.Fether, Tell-Tale Heart, Man that was Used Up, Facts in the Case of M.Valdemar, Von Kempelen and his Discovery, William Wilson, Words With a Mummy, How To Write A Blackwood Article, plus over forty poems, including Annabel Lee and The Raven. Sir Walter Scott The Bride of Lammermoor, Ivanhoe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) Second Stain, Three Students, Six Napoleons, Adv of Abbey Grange, Hound of the Baskervilles, Adv of the Beryl Coronet, Black Peter, Blue Carbuncle, Bascombe Valley Mystery, Bruce-Partington Plans, Cardboard Box, Copper Beeches, Crooked Man, Dancing Men, Devil's Foot, Dying Detective, Empty House, Engineers Thumb, Final Problem, "Gloria Scott", Greek Interpreter, His Last Bow, Case of Identity, Diss. of Lady Frances Carfax, Charles Augustus Milverton, Missing Three-Quarter, Musgrave Ritual, Naval Treaty, Norwood Builder, Noble Bachelor, Orange Pips, Golden Pince-Nez, Poison Belt, Priory School, Red Circle, League of Red Headed Men, Reigate Puzzle, Resident patient, Scandal in Bohemia, Sign of Four, Silver Blaze, Solitary Cyclist, Speckled Band, Stck-Broker's Clerk, Man with the Twisted Lip, Valley of Fear, Wisteria Lodge, Yellow Face and, of course, the story that introduced Sherlock Holme, A Study in Scarlet. Plus bibliographies of book titles and a list of works by other Author's in which Sherlock Holmes appears. Tacitus The Annuls, Histories Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina, War and Peace Jules Verne Around The World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Virgil The Eclogues, The Georgics Herbert George Wells Ann Veronica, The Door in the Wall, The Invisible Man, When the Sleeper Wakes, The Time Machine, Tono Bungay, The War of the Worlds William Shakespeare AllsWell_1 Alls Well the Ends Well - version 1 AllsWell_2 Alls Well the Ends Well - version 2 AntonyCleo Anthony and Cleopatra AsYouLike1 As You Like It - version 1 AsYouLike2 As You Like It - version 2 ComedyErr1 The Comedy of Errors - version 1 ComedyErr2 The Comedy of Errors - version 2 Coriolanus Coriolanus Cymbeline Cymbeline GentVerona The Two Gentlemen of Verona Hamlet Hamlet, Prince of Denmark Henry_4_1a Henry IV part 1 - version 1 Henry_4_2a Henry IV part 2 - version 1 Henry_4_1b Henry IV part 1 - version 2 Henry_4_2b Henry IV part 2 - version 2 Henry_5_1 Henry V - version 1 Henry_5_2 Henry V - version 2 Henry_6_1a Henry VI part 1 - version 1 Henry_6_2a Henry VI part 2 - version 1 Henry_6_3a Henry VI part 3 - version 1 Henry_6_1b Henry VI part 1 - version 2 Henry_6_2b Henry VI part 2 - version 2 Henry_6_3b Henry VI part 3 - version 2 Henry_8_1 Henry VIII - version 1 Henry_8_2 Henry VIII - version 2 Henry_8_3 Henry VIII - version 3 J_Caesar_1 Julius Caesar - version 1 J_Caesar_1 Julius Caesar - version 2 KingJohn King John KingLear King Lear LoverCompl A Lovers Complaint LoveLabLos1 Love's Labour's Lost - version 1 LoveLabLos2 Love's Labour's Lost - version 2 Macbeth (The Scottish Play) Measure Measure for Measure Merchant_1 The Merchant of Venice - version 1 Merchant_2 The Merchant of Venice - version 2 MidSummer A Midsummer Night's Dream MuchAdo_1 Much Ado About Nothing - version 1 MuchAdo_2 Much Ado About Nothing - version 2 Othello Othello PassPilgri The Passionate Pilgrim Pericles Pericles, Prince of Tyre PhoenixTur The Phoenix and the Turtle RapeLucrec The Rape of Lucrece Richard_2a King Richard The Second - version 1 Richard_2b King Richard The Second - version 2 Richard_3a King Richard The Third - version 1 Richard_3b King Richard The Third - version 2 RomeoJul_1 Romeo and Juliet - version 1 RomeoJul_2 Romeo and Juliet - version 2 Sonnets1 The Sonnets - version 1 Sonnets2 The Sonnets - version 2 Tempest The Tempest Timon_1 Timon of Athens - version 1 Timon_2 Timon of Athens - version 2 TitusAndr1 Titus Andonicus - version 1 TitusAndr2 Titus Andonicus - version 2 Troilus Troilus and Cressida TwelfthNig Twelfth Night T_Shrew_1 The Taming of the Shrew - version 1 T_Shrew_2 The Taming of the Shrew - version 2 ShksprVar Inc. Passionate Pilgrim, Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music, Love's answer, Phoenix and the Turtle VenusAdon1 Venus and Adonis - version 1 VenusAdon2 Venus and Adonis - version 2 WintrTal_1 A Winter's Tale - version 1 WintrTal_2 A Winter's Tale - version 2 WiveWinds1 The Merry Wives of Windsor - version 1 WiveWinds2 The Merry Wives of Windsor - version 2