This page is the main index for APDL downloads all sorted by subject. Just click on the CD boxart for a product to be taken to that products page, where you can download a copy of the application, download or read the manual or just get more information on the product. You can download any (or all) of these products free of charge for personal use.

Also available from this page is the APDL PD library which includes almost 1200 'discs' of content. Each 'disc' is now supplied in a zip file, which should only be opened using a dearchical tool running on RISC OS. There are nearly 1000 games, almost 1500 applications, over 4000 pieces of clipart in Draw and Paint format. You will also find books, tech demos, relocatable module sound samples, programming utilities and a lot more besides.

Finally you can browse the entire 9 volumes of the updated RISCWorld magazine. That's over 1100 articles about RISC OS and includes reviews, software development, graphics, education, DTP and much more.

PD Library and RISCWorld Magazine

PD Library The biggest and best PD library for RISC OS. Everything in the library is available for immediate free download. All files are in RISC OS Spark archives.	RISCWorld Magazine Updated 2026 The best (well I would say that wouldn't I - Aaron) magazine covering Acorn and RISC OS. Over 1100 articles covering all aspects of RISC OS. Published from 2001 to 2010.

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Commercial Products you can download

Music & audio editing
AudioWorks Sound and Audio editor	Music Maestro Sounds, Instruments, Drums & more	Rhapsody 1 Music notation for first generation Acorn RISC computers
Rhapsody 3 More advanced music notation and editing with MIDI	Rhapsody 4 Professional level music notation and editing with MIDI	ScoreDraw Produce professional formatted music from Rhapsody 1,2 and 3
Hobbies
Ancestor+ Family history with GEDCOM	FairIsle Knitting designer	Nightsky Astronomy and object identification
CrossStitch Sovereign Crossstitch design with Anchor and DMC colours
Graphic Enhancers for Series One Acorn RISC Computers
ViVID20 ViVID (VirtualVIDC) for series one machines with VIDC enhancer module	ViVID5000 ViVID Enhancer designed for the Acorn A5000
Font Editors & Utilities
Dr Fonty The font editor for the hobbyist	EasyFontPRO Award winning font manager	FontFiend Pro editor and designer with PostScript support, auto hinting & more
FontFX 6 DataStore's classic font manipulation tool	TypeStudio Textual effects for desktop publishing
DTP & Graphic Design
Celebration Design Cards, posters, banners and more	DrawWorksXL Adds an amazing array of facilities and tools to !Draw	MrClippy The singing (yes, really...sorry) and dancing clipart manager for RISC OS
Phantasm The colour companion for ArtWorks
Software Development
EasyC A great introduction to C and C++ Programming	WIMPBasic Fast and easy development of multi-tasking applications	InformED Quickly create illustrated on screen manuals
Educational Utilities
ClassDesks A simplified desktop for RISC OS	DeskLock Locks down the desktop to restrict access to !Boot, Configure, Star Commands & more	Report Generator Easy report generation for educationists
Desktop and Storage utilities
HardDisc Companion The essential utility for harddisc and SSD storage	SparQ Drivers Support for removable SparQ drives on 26bit versions of RISC OS	Virtualise Virtual Memory for RISC OS 3 and RISC OS 4
Recycler The clever recycle bin for RISC OS
3D Design and Rendering
Illusionist Design and render in three dimensional space	Render Bender Ray Tracing package for RISC OS 3	WebFX3D Quickly produce three dimensional textual graphics for the web
Composition & Photo Editing
Composition The increadably powerful image manipulation and editing tool with scripting language	ProArtisan 2 Image editing for first generation Acorn RISC computers	ProArtisan 24 Full 24 bit photo and image manipulation
Studio24 Digital Painting and Photo Retouching
Spreadsheets and Tables
Schema 2 The most powerful spreadsheet for RISC OS	TableCalc Quick and simple spreadsheet and table designer
OCR (Optical Character Recognition)
Sleuth OCR for first generation Acorn RISC computers	Sleuth 2 OCR for RiscPC, A7000 & newer machines running RISC OS	Sleuth 3 OCR for RiscPC, A7000 & newer machines running RISC OS
Fun and Games
Desktop Repton Remastered collection of Repton games for the young, old, and anyone in between	StarFighter 3000 Remastered for StrongARM RISC PC
Networking
ClipNET Network client for Mr Clippy	SerialNET The cheap and simple networking system for RISC OS 3