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RISC OS Software Page
A selection of links to essential software resources past and present. Obviously, we are not associated to any of the products featured and you are required to observe the conditions of use supplied with the software.
ARCHIVERS
A lot of files and programs available on the Internet are specially squashed or compressed (archived), so before you can use them you have to uncompress them.
The most popular compression method is called ZIP (though there are many others like Arc, Spk, Gzip, LHZ, etc.). Thankfully ZIP is in the public domain so there are many free programs around that can allow you to decompress any ZIP file, including any found on a PC or Mac machine.
The most common decompression program on the RISC OS platform is called SparkPlug by David Pilling.
While it can decompress quite a wide range of compressed software, there is a excellent piece of commerical software called SparkFS which can handle virtually every compressed format to be found and allows you to create your own files too.
There are also some free ZIP file creators to be found. The best on RISC OS is probably ZipEE based around the free ZIP module by InfoZip.
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!Sparkplug. |
V2.26 (86K) freeware decompression program by David Pilling.
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!ZipEE. |
V1.48 (190K) A freeware frontend for the InfoZip modules which allows you to create and unpack ZIP archives. By John Pettigrew.
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Latest 32bit Zip modules. |
V2.3 (302K) by InfoZip. Ported to RISC OS by Stefan Bellon.
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Zip by InfoZip is a command line Public Domain Zip compression program compatible with PKZIP/WINZIP (commerical programs used on a PC) files which allows you to create and unpack ZIP archives which appear with a '.zip' postfix on the Internet (It can also open PC '.exe' files). |
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Other useful decompression programs are:
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!Gzip | V1.2.3 (300K) A file containing Gzip, a program which allows unpacking of files with the rare '.gz' postfix that appear on some Internet sites. |
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!Tar | V1.2b (126K) Tape ARchiving software. Another popular archiving format.
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UnRAR. | (66K) by Stefan Bellon. yet another archiving format.
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LHarc. | by Nick Roberts. This is a UNIX Lha compression program (the Amiga platform tended to use this format). DtLHarc is also there and is the Desktop frontend for it.
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EDITORS
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StrongED. | An excellent text/programming editor by Guttorm Vik.
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Zap. | A very comprehensive editor of a huge range of textual type files.
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Impression Junior. | A simple word processor by Computer Concepts.
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INTERNET UTILITIES
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FTPc. | A good FTP client to enable you to upload/download files off the Internet.
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Netsurf. | A very good Web Browser in constant development.
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Oregano2. | A commerical Web Browser. Free trial version available.
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Nettle. | An excellent terminal and telnet client to enable webmasters to logon to their remote servers. NettleSSH can be found here. |
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SSHProxy. | (V0.19 32bit) Makes your Telnet Internet connection more secure
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SpamStamp. | Free Spam filter. Works with virtually all RISC OS email clients.
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Looking for information on the Internet, but you can't remember the Internet address? Try out our Super Search. You may like it.
GRAPHICS
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Creator. | One of the best (if not the best) and most comprehensive graphic file convertors. Ideal for making small GIF files in particular. © John Kortink.
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ChangeFSI. | V1.15 (Old faithful) Displays and processes many different foreign bit-map graphic images © Pace/RISCOS ltd.
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MakeJPEG. | (208K) If you want to make the best JPEG files... © Dave Thomas and The Independent JPEG Group.
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Spr2JPEG. | Converts Sprite files to JPEG files. More JPEG options than ChangeFSI © David Rodgman.
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Gamma. | (82K) Fast on screen colour correction for a RiscPC/A7000 © Rob Davison.
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Gamma V2.51. | (250K) Fast on screen colour correction for a RiscPC/A7000 and comes with a calibration image (same name as Gamma above, different program by Druck).
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Colour Calibration Chart. | With this chart you can calibrate your screen and Printer to show the correct Gamma and Brightness levels. © FujiFilm.
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More Colour Calibration pictures. | With these charts you can calibrate your Screen and Printer to show the correct Gamma and Brightness levels.
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InterGif. | Possibly the best animated GIF creator on this planet by Peter Hartley.
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Imagen. | (46K) Allows Clientside HTML imagemaps to be made © Justin Fletcher.
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