Legacy software
Some old software I wrote back in the day, almost all of which is for RISC OS machines.
HTML3
A RISC OS macro inserter for creating web pages.
RISC OS desktop themes
A theme manager for RISC OS
FadeBack
Legacy RISC OS desktop background generator.
Voyager Themes
Sound and icon themes for the Vixen theme manager
Matrix Orbital (Linux)
Using a Matrix Orbital MX2 (LK202-24-USB) under Linux from Perl
Desktop
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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. |
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FadeBack v0.03, 3rd July 2002
Create nice pinboard backdrops: lots of fade types, edit colours, load colours, load and save palette files...[Image] |
Filer
18.10KB |
Slash suite v1.00, March 1997
CutSlash and AddSlash - add and trim DOS extensions to and from RISC OS files |
Utils
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. |
Games
418.87KB |
Elite v1.14h, September 1998
Modification to make it run on later RISC OS machines |
Comms
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HTML³ v3.55, January 2002
Advanced HTML macro inserter for easy Web and WAP site creation[Image] |
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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. |
ArgoNet
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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 |
Graphics
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. |
Linux
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Matrix Orbital v0.01, February 2005
A sort of how-to on using the Matrix Orbital MX2 under Linux, especially from Perl. Includes example programs. |