£5 in a product called Virtually Free. RISC OS Select and Adjust In May 2001, the company launched RISC OS Select, a subscription scheme allowing users access to the latest OS updates. These upgrades are released as soft-loadable ROM images, separate to the ROM where the boot OS is stored, and are loaded at boot time. By providing soft-loads, physical ROM costs are eliminated and updates are able to be delivered with accelerated speed and frequency. It has also allowed the company to subsidise the retail price of ROM releases, which are generally a culmination of the last few Select upgrades with a few extra minor changes. In May 2002 the final release of Select 1 was shipped that included; DHCP client Multi-User support and logon Preview versions of new printer support and networking with AppleTalk In November 2002, the final release of Select 2 was shipped that included; Support for CMYK sprites Hardware support for the scroll wheel on PS/2 mice Support for the window manager tools to be in a configurable order RiscStation hardware support is now in the kernel In June 2004 the final release of Select 3 was shipped that included: Cut and Paste supported in writeable icons (textboxes) The filer can display image thumbnails Button and other icons can now support rounded borders The sprite format now supported an alpha channel A recycle bin An improved version of !Paint, the bitmap editor, to support the alpha channel sprites Also in June 2004, RISCOS Ltd released the ROM based version 4.39, being dubbed RISC OS Adjust. (The name was a play on the RISC OS GUI convention of calling the three mouse buttons 'Select', 'Menu' and 'Adjust'.) RISCOS Ltd sold its 500th Adjust ROM in early 2006. Features introduced in 4.39 include user customization of the graphical user interface. Further release under the Select scheme were made under the RISC OS Six branding, mentioned below. The A9Home The A9home, released in 2006, uses version 4.42 Adjust 32. This was developed by and supports 32-bit addressing modes found on later ARM architectures. RISC OS Six In October 2006, shortly after Castle Technology announced the Shared Source Initiative, RISCOS Ltd announced RISC OS Six, the next generation of their stream of the operating system. The first product to be launched under the RISC OS Six name, was the continuation of the Select scheme, Select 4. A beta-version of