List of RISC OS bundled applications

A number of RISC OS bundled applications are delivered with purchased versions of the operating system.^[1][2] Some are provided in ROM or pre-installed on hard disk or equivalent, with others being supplied on removable media such as SD card.

This is a sub-article to RISC OS.

Such applications vary between versions.

RISC OS bundled applications

Typically bundled with the OS

Title	Purpose	First inclusion (OS version)	Vendor
Access+	peer to peer network management application	V3.60	Acorn
Alarm	clock, with alarm functionality	<=V2	Acorn
Blocks	Tetris clone		Acorn
Calc	basic calculator	V1 (Arthur)	Acorn
Chars	character insertion	V1 (Arthur)	Acorn
ChangeFSI	bitmap graphic conversion and enhancement		Acorn
Clock	analogue clock	V1 (Arthur)	Acorn
CloseUp	screen magnifier		Acorn
Configure	customise computer settings	V1 (Arthur)	Acorn
Draw	vector graphics editor	<=V2	Acorn
Edit	text editor, support for editing tokenised BASIC programs	<=V2	Acorn
Flasher	locate the caret		Acorn
FontPrint	font conversion (Acorn to Postscript)		Acorn
Help	context-sensitive help	V1 (Arthur)	Acorn
HForm	hard disc formatter	V1 (Arthur)	Acorn
Hopper	game similar to Frogger		Simon Foster
Madness	desktop toy		Acorn
Maestro	simple scorewriter, with playback	<=V2	Acorn
Magnifier	screen magnifier		Acorn
MemNow	live memory use display		Acorn
Meteors	Asteroids clone		Neil Raine
MineHunt	mine sweeper clone		Paul LeBeau
Paint	basic pixel-based drawing	<=V2	Acorn
Patch	application compatibility patcher		Acorn
Patience	card game	<=V2	Acorn
PrintEdit	printer definition editor		Acorn
Printers[1]	printer manager		Acorn
Puzzle	sliding puzzle	<=V2	Acorn
ResetBoot	restore machine to factory ship state		Acorn
SciCalc	scientific calculator		Acorn
ShowScrap	locate temporary files		Acorn
SparkFS[2]	file compression		David Pilling
Squash	file compression	<=V3	Acorn
T1ToFont	font conversion (Postscript Type 1 to Acorn)		Acorn
Usage	system monitor	<=A3010 (on floppy)	Ran Mokady
BBC Basic V & VI	programming languages, with inbuilt assembler	All versions?	Acorn

Bundled with specific hardware, including optional software packs

Title	Purpose	First inclusion (Machine model)	Vendor
BookMaker[2]	address book
CDVDBurnLite[1]	optical disc burning		hubersn Software
Fireworkz[2]	office suite		Colton
FTPc[1]	FTP client
Lander	demo version of the game Zarch		Acorn
LanManFS[1]	network file system
Mailman	basic email client		Acorn
Oregano[1]	web browser		Oregan Networks
OmniClient[2]	desktop front end to network file system
Update Watcher[1]	upgrade manager		Castle Technology
PDF[1]	Xpdf port (PDF viewer)
Writer[1]	cut-down version of EasiWriter		Icon Technology
65Host	BBC Micro emulator		Acorn
65Tube	65C02 second processor emulator		Acorn
1st Word Plus	word processor	A3010 Learning Curve[3]
Amazing Maths	education	A3010 Learning Curve[4]	Cambridgeshire Software House
Acorn DTP	desktop publishing[citation needed]	A3010 Learning Curve[3]	Acorn (with others)
Doris The Dotty Dog	education	A3010 Learning Curve[4]	Sherston Software
Explore With Flossy The Frog	education	A3010 Learning Curve[4]	4Mation
Genesis Plus	presentation program	A3010 Learning Curve[3]
A Mouse in Holland	education	A3010 Learning Curve[4]	4Mation
PC Emulator	PC emulator, with DR-DOS	A3010 Learning Curve[3]
TalkWrite	word processor	A3010 Learning Curve[4]	Icon Technology
Selected games [1]	gaming	A3010 Learning Curve[3]

References

1. Williams, Chris (May 9, 2003). "Iyonix Review Part Two". Drobe. Retrieved January 23, 2012. All the usual RISC OS Applications are there, in ROM or on Disc [...] Writer [...] Oregano 2 [...] CDBurnLite [...] Iyonix Update Watcher [...] LanManFS [...] Zool [...] FTPc [...] PDF [...] Printers [...]
2. Mellor, Phil (February 5, 2005). "Iyonix: first birthday review". The Icon Bar. Retrieved February 2, 2012. In the Apps folder you'll find the usual suspects - Alarm, Chars, Draw, Edit, Help and Printers, along with some other regularly used applications - BookMaker, CDBurnLite, FireWorkz, OmniClient, Oregano 2, PDF, SparkFS, Squash and Writer+.
3. Acorn Computers - The Learning Curve, Getting Started
4. Drage, Chris (January 6, 1995). "Easing up the early learning curve". Times Educational Supplement. Retrieved December 30, 2011. The software titles include: TalkWrite (a speech version of Icon Technology's successful StartWrite), a Sherston Naughty Story (Doris The Dotty Dog), including the book Gemini (pelmanism), Amazing Maths from Cambridgeshire Software House and 4Mation's Explore With Flossy The Frog and Mouse in Holland.