Acorn legacy FTP Site

The Acorn public FTP site contained a variety of charge free software, upgrades and updates, together with technical documentation for all Acorn computers. This ranged from the old 8 bit computers right up to the top of the range Risc PC's.

Please read the ReadMe file for a more detailed description of the contents of this FTP site. The contents of this site are not a complete copy of the Acorn public FTP as certain items such as Corporate Press Releases that are no longer relevant have been removed. The majority of the IPR assets of Acorn are now owned by Pace Micro Technology plc. However all enquiries regarding the usage of the contents of this site should in the first instance be addressed to RISCOS Ltd.

The following list indicates the contents of the original FTP site. Not all the links indicated are active at the present time.

Charge-free RISC OS Software for 32-bit machines

This section is divided into 3 further sections:

Patches

This directory contains a couple of patches that aim to improve your computer's performance.

Releases

There is a lot of software in this section, for up to date information please read the ReadMe file.

The most commonly requested files from here are:

Self Extracting !SparkPlug This can be used to dearchive the files on this site. Download it, filetype it as BASIC and run it to build !SparkPlug.
!ChangeFSI Version 1.15 (21 Feb 1996) of the image translation and processing package.
!Printers Version 1.53 of the Printer Manager complete with the matching Printer Definition Files.

!Printers Version 1.67 of the Printer Manager now with support for USB Printers including Canon BJ-S520, BJ-S450, BJ-S330, BJ-S530D, BJ-i550, Epson EPL5800 and HP DJ850c.
Manual for Pop-Up !Printers 1.67
!MakeModes Create and customise Risc PC monitor definition files
pccard Utilities and updates for the Risc PC PC card.
networking Network managing utilities and new versions of the network driver modules.
RISC OS 3 Universal Boot The Universal Boot sequence for RISC OS 3 users. (!Boot only) 2.8MB Archive.
RISC OS 3.5 The RISC OS 3.5 Hard Disc contents in an Archive.
RISC OS 3.5 The RISC OS 3.5 Hard Disc contents in an Disc Image version.
RISC OS 3.6 The RISC OS 3.6 Hard Disc contents in an Archive.
RISC OS 3.6 The RISC OS 3.6 Hard Disc contents in an Disc Image version.
RISC OS 3.7 The RISC OS 3.7 Hard Disc contents in an Archive.
RISC OS 3.7 The RISC OS 3.7 Hard Disc contents in an Disc Image version.


Third Party

Various demos and updates from 3rd party developers.

Assorted documentation for 32-bit and 8-bit machines

Including Customer Services Application Notes and back issues from Acorn User magazine's Customer Hotline column.

Charge-free Software for 8-bit machines

Software and other binaries for Acorn's old 6502 based systems.

Charge-free Software for RISC iX machines

Software and other binaries for Acorn's RISC iX based systems.

Acorn Field Change Orders (FCOs)

Various Acorn Field Change Orders which may be useful to anyone repairing or attempting to update old Acorn computers.