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!ArcAssist
A utility for speeding up the archiving of files.

!Packdisc v0.13
!Packdisc is a program to clean up yor harddisc. It will increase the free space on your Discby rearranging files and directorys there. On my 2GB Harddisc I've saved about 50MB of free space.

!PDF
!PDF is a viewer for Adobe? pdf files. A lot of files on the internet now days are in this format, so this view is worth a download

FileCore Image Filing System
FCFS allows you to create, read and restore images of FileCore discs. This means that you can copy a whole floppy or hard disc image to your hard disc and then access it as if it was a directory on your hard drive

Ghostscript
Ghostscript is a a fully functional PostScript language interpreter available for most platforms. Take a look at http://www.ghostscript.com/ and http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ for more details

Steffen Huber's CD Utilities
This site includes software such as ReadAudio (CD Audio Grabber), PlexSpeed (Set the speed of your Plextor CD Drive), CDToWav (Convert Raw CD data to wav format) and finally CD Burn (CD Aurthoring Software)

Avisoft Compare
The !Compare application enables files to be compared and differences listed in a variety of formats quickly and easily

HardBack backup software
HardBack is a hard disc backup utility which allows you to protect your data from unforeseen events

PackDisc free space optimiser
This program can potentially increase the free space on any FileCore based filing system. !PackDisc rearranges which files share fragments with each other in such a way as to minimise the remaining wasted space.

PCR13 - Jan de Boer
Patches software to work with StronARM machines

QuikBoot
QuikBoot is a simple but effective application which will boot applications and directories. If you drag a directory to the icon, every single application inside the directory and sub-directories will be booted

RISCOS Ltd developer site - public
This site provides some resources for general users of RISC OS

File Find
This utility is used for finding files and contents of files. It searches recursively into the specified directory for the given filename

Musus Umbra's Command line Utilities
Most of these utilities were written to fulfill a specific need at a specific time. I do, however, always try to make such things as general as reasonable, so it's quite possible that something here may interest you

TronDoor
TronDoor is the latest addition to your BBS. It is a really smart game, which is basicly Tron, but has the added option of playing against the Sysop! Yes! Playing from remote computer to the Sysop's computer

WritableUtils
Provides additional features for writeable icons. It allows keys to be remapped to new codes, also it provides an interface to the global clipboard so that data may be transferred to and from other compliant applications

DiffBin
A utility to compare binary files, reporting on where differences occur, and re-synchonising afterwards

MakeLSFX
MakeLSFX is a public domain RISC OS command line utility to enable the creation of RISC OS self extracting zip files of up to 2GBytes in size



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