Software

Fabien Chevalier has developed The WebDruid, a software for generating statistics reports for web sites. The WebDruid is based on Bradford L. Barret's The Webalizer. Beside some nice new features like User Flow charts, multi-language support during runtime and better search engine support it comes already with support for the W3C log file format which is used by Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS). This makes The WebDruid interesting for Windows Web Servers.

FreeReport is the free version of a commercial reporting software for Delphi. It is very powerful but it has a problem: It needs the VCLDB-Package which is not included in the Personal Edition of Delphi (At least Delphi 6 Personal, maybe Delphi 7 Personal is also affected).

This Python class generates names in the quality of the planet names used in the classic game Elite. The algorithm used in this class comes from the Mote Project.

Click here for a demo.

Download: namegen.py

This Python script generates a 3D galaxy from a number of parameters and stores it in an array. You can modify this script to store the data in a database or whatever your purpose is. THIS script uses the data only to generate a PNG with a 2D view from top of the galaxy.

The algorithm used to generate the galaxy is borrowed from Ben Motz The original C source code for DOS (including a 3D viewer) can be downloaded here: http://bits.bristol.ac.uk/motz/tep/galaxy.html

Download: galaxygen.py

During my work on a mission editor for Lucasarts X-Wing Alliance I fiddled a little bit with the images stored in the CBM file format. Thanks to the specs from Code Alliance I was able to read these files. I have written a small viewer which can display the images and animations and save them as Windows Bitmap files.