Acorn, ARM and RISC OS Page

Note: These pages have no longer been modified since 2003, except for typo corrections, URL updates, and other minor changes.

Introduction

If you don't know what an Acorn is, you may read Stanislas Renan's introduction (in French), his presentation of the ARM (in French), an article on the ARM (by Paul DeMone), another article on the ARM (published by Electronics Weekly), and my page on RISC OS.

My Risc PC configuration...

ARM Assembler

StrongHelp manual (63 KB) for the ARM assembler, in French. Updated on April 4, 1999.
My programs to calculate pi Armpi 3 and Armpi 4.
Eratosthenes sieve, optimized for the Risc PC with StrongARM.

RISC OS

Here are my contributions for RISC OS. You can also see a table summarizing the main ones.

StrongHelp manual (13 KB) for the modules. Updated on July 18, 1996.
Some small programs (27 KB) with their ARM source, and a help file in English and in German. Updated on May 25, 2003.
TopIconBar (application/module, 12 KB) with its ARM source. Allows to bring the icon bar to the foreground with the mouse. Note: some versions of the window manager have a similar feature built-in; do not use this module with them. Help file in English, French and German. Updated on May 8, 1999.
AutoFocus 2.01 (application/module, 23 KB) with its ARM source. No need to click on windows any more to get the focus! This module has a special support for panes, dialogue boxes (with writable icons) and block selection. Read the help file before trying it! Help file in English, French and German. AutoFocus needs Andrew Clover / Andrew Booker's WimpSWIVe module.
If you have AutoFocus 1.18 or earlier, please upgrade! There is an important pointer corruption in these versions and data at the low addresses of your machine may get corrupted.
Updated on February 25, 2003.
DMPatch (9 KB). Patch for RISC OS 3.7 that allows you to choose the frame rate from the Display Manager. Help file in English, French and German. Note: the RISC OS 4 Display Manager has a frame rate menu, thus this patch is useless under RISC OS 4. Updated on May 8, 1999.
WatchTV 1.7 (application, 20 KB) with its ARM source. A small application allowing to watch TV (or, more generally, video images) full screen for the owners of an Eagle M2 card (and a TV tuner). Miller's algorithm (Siggraph 84) is used to improve the image quality. Help file in English, French and German. Updated on August 11, 2001.
TitleMenu 3.04 (application/module, 23 KB) with its ARM source. This utility allows you to bring up a menu consisting of a directory and its ancestors by clicking on the title bar of a window with the Menu button, in order to open such a directory. The leaf directory is either given by the window title (filer window or an editor window) or the application directory; in the latter case, the !Help file is added to the menu if there is one, to get help on the application. Help file in English and in French. Updated on May 25, 2003.
ShiftResize 3.00 (application/module, 10 KB) with its ARM source. If you click on the toggle size icon while the shift key is pressed, the icon bar will not be obscured. A bit of the CMOS memory allows to invert this behaviour. This patch allows to change this bit and extends this feature to any kind of resize. Help file in English and French. Updated on May 25, 2003.
Nice 2.01 (module, 9 KB) with its ARM source. Nice is a small utility that provides a very simple priority system on Wimp tasks, a bit like under Unix. I wrote it because the RC5DES client was slowing down my machine, and Nice solves this problem quite well. Help file in English only. Updated on May 25, 2003.
You may want to read an article on Nice, in French I wrote on April 15, 1999 for ARMada News number 17.
NewsFilter 2.02 (application/module, 7 KB) with its ARM source. This module allows to filter news and/or mail raw files when you click with Select on Pluto's Debatch button. An example written in Perl is supplied: it fixes the sig separator of articles posted with Outlook Express and provides other filters. Updated on May 17, 2003.
Local Display 2.00 (module, 7 KB) with its ARM source. This module allows you to set the filer display options locally. Warning! This module has been written for Filer 1.97 (RISC OS 4.02) and may cause severe damage if you use it with an incompatible version of the filer. Updated on May 25, 2003.
Header files (as they aren't supplied with the sources). Updated on August 11, 2001.
Perl script which. Updated on September 13, 2002.
Translation into French of raFS 1.16 and FTPc 1.31b2. New!
New !Unicode encodings. Copy the Encodings directory onto the one in !Unicode to update it (without removing the old one). New!
ViNCe 1.28 (application, 296 KB) with its source. Port of the VNC client from AT&T by Henrik Bjerregaard Pedersen, now maintained by me. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License. For the changes, see the ChangeLog file. Updated on February 23, 2005.
As of version 1.19, ViNCe uses the APCS-32 (and is 32-bit compatible); module SharedCLibrary 5.34 (or later) is therefore necessary.
In case of problem, you can also download older versions.

Configuration

My bindings for Zap 1.35 (old bindings). Updated on December 23, 1997.
My bindings for Zap 1.44 (new bindings). Updated on August 24, 2002.
My DOSMap's. Updated on April 1, 2003.
My SmartCD+ catalogue (version with SmartCodes) - 131 KB. Updated on November 6, 2001.