Legacy software

Some old software I wrote back in the day, almost all of which is for RISC OS machines.

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HTML3

A RISC OS macro inserter for creating web pages.

A theme manager for RISC OS

Legacy RISC OS desktop background generator.

Sound and icon themes for the Vixen theme manager

Using a Matrix Orbital MX2 (LK202-24-USB) under Linux from Perl

<link>	Desktop themes Although RISC OS allows you to load new toolbar sprites, icon sprites and change pinboard images, there's no program to handle complete themes. Until now.
<link>	FadeBack v0.03, 3rd July 2002 Create nice pinboard backdrops: lots of fade types, edit colours, load colours, load and save palette files... [Image]

18.10KB

Slash suite v1.00, March 1997

CutSlash and AddSlash - add and trim DOS extensions to and from RISC OS files

8.82KB	FontSet v1.00, October 1997 Quickly set desktop font when writing WIMP applications
5.23KB	BST v0.02, August 2000 Automatic switching between GMT and BST
2.24KB	MouseClick v1.00, December 2001 Adds *command to simulate mouse clicks at x,y coordinate. Handy for quick automation programs.

418.87KB

Elite v1.14h, September 1998

Modification to make it run on later RISC OS machines

<link>	HTML³ v3.55, January 2002 Advanced HTML macro inserter for easy Web and WAP site creation [Image]
<link>	LinkSure v0.91, January 2005 Link checker, works on local and remote pages, and on WML, PHP etc. files.
93.97KB	POPCheck v0.05beta2, April 2001 Checks for mail in your POP3 mailbox(es). In collaboration with Jon Ripley
95.28KB	port v1.01, February 2005 `*port [number\|name]` returns textual info about a network port number or name, e.g. that port 80 is for Web traffic. So you don't have to remember all those ports when programming.
1652 bytes	WhoIs veneer v1.01, January 2000 Do WhoIs lookups with the ANT Suite prog without having to remember all the servers for each top level domain.
29.98KB	Figlet2 v0.01, March 2002 Front end to Stefan Bellon's Figlet port.

<link>	Voyager Themes v0.10, July 1998 Image and Sound themes, including the SoundTheme VIXen module.
61.36KB	VoyScan v0.01, August 1999 All-in-one version of PostScan and NewsScan which should even work on unofficial mail and news progs. Allows you to look at and delete the outgoing mail and news queues before sending your messages.
70.10KB	EManage v1.03, September 2002 Posty manipulation tool - play with sigs, flags files etc.
19.83KB	CounterMaker v1.02, October 2007 Generate HTML code for Argo^W Orpheus Internet's webcounter
96.35KB	MicroSpell v1.00, August 1996 VIXed version of David Pilling's check-as-you-type spelling module

563.92KB	Photodesk textures v1.00, August 2001 Around 50 PhotoDesk-friendly textures - greyscale, 128x128, tiling - from simple lined indents to photographic plant, decay and stonework images. [Image]
506.83KB	Photodesk textures 2 v1.00, November 2001 29 additional PhotoDesk-friendly textures - greyscale, 128x128, tiling.
220.68KB	PalMaker v1.02, November 2003 Create 256 colour palettes with ease. As seen on Acorn User CD 13 (with the appallingly badly-written example file, sorry about that...)
88.71KB	16PalMake v1.02, November 2003 16 colour palette editor
17.81KB	ColGrab Initial Beta Release, April 2000 Grab colour definitions from any point on the desktop (now included in other programs such as FadeBack)
25.74KB	Vantage Colours v1.00, June 2003 Alternative colours for use in Cerilica's Vantage.