K's cluttered loft - Software

The WebDruid for Windows

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Sat, 26 Jun 2004 15:31:00 +0200

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.

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VCLDB-Dummy Package for Delphi 6 Personal

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Wed, 01 Jan 2003 15:27:00 +0100

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).

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Name Generator

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Sun, 19 May 2002 15:15:00 +0200

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

Galaxy Generator

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Sat, 18 May 2002 15:23:00 +0200

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

CBM Viewer

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:39:00 +0200

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.

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Threedee

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Sat, 28 Jul 2001 15:02:00 +0200

Oh, I'm a lucky one. I found a lot of old source code in an old backup archive and I was able to recover my first nearly working 3D engine written in Delphi. It was far from completion but already impressive if you have in mind that I am not a mathematic genius. It features drawing of points, lines and planes, simple lightning effects and is completey object oriented. I never implemented 3D plane clipping but 3D line clipping is already implemented. If I find the time I want to rewrite the whole thing to a platform independent C++ library.

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Droid

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Sat, 28 Jul 2001 14:37:00 +0200

Droid Screenshot

During my time at the GBA Bonn - I think it was 1996 - Ingo and I have developed a small computer game for a school work. Originally the teacher wanted us to develop a project written in C. But C was boring and so we have written the game Droid mainly in Assembler. I have developed a 2D graphic engine using the historical video mode Mode X, which was 320x400 with 256 colors. Ingo has written an event handler which allowed us to do simple multitasking. Only a very little part of this project was written in C, but the teacher was impressed enough to give us the best score.

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CrossHacker

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Sat, 05 Feb 2000 15:10:00 +0100

CrossHacker ist ein Zusatzprogramm für Peter Mandrella's Pointsoftware CrossPoint. Das Programm shuffelt und grabbt Taglines, Tearlines und Origins. Das Grabben kann sowohl automatisch beim Einlesen des Eingangspuffers nach einem Netcall, als auch manuell durch das Drücken einer mit CrossHacker belegten Taste geschehen. Das Auswählen bzw. Shufflen von Tearlines, Taglines und Origins geschieht nach dem Editieren einer Nachricht oder automatisch vor einem Netcall. Zusätzlich zu diesen Grundfunktionen kann CrossHacker die InterNet-Adressierung durch automatisches Anfügen der Gateway-Adresse vereinfachen.

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Tank Time

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Sat, 05 Feb 2000 14:56:00 +0100

Tank Time Screenshot

Vor langer Zeit, als langsame Rechner noch für schnell gehalten wurden, Spiele wie Doom unspielbar über den Bildschirm ruckelten und Netzwerkkarten eine Seltenheit waren, erfreuten uns die kleinen Spiele, die man mit mehreren Spielern auch auf langsamen Rechnern spielen konnte. Eines der beliebtesten war wahrscheinlich Tank Wars von Kenny Morse, wo mehrere Spieler versuchten mit ihrem Panzer die Gegenspieler vom Berg zu bomben. Dieses Spiel, und die etwas unangenehme Spielsteuerung, brachte mich dazu mal selbst so ein Spiel zu programmieren und Tank Time ist das was dabei raus kam.

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Mercron

nospam@example.com (Klaus Reimer) — Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:50:00 +0100

Einige Zeit verbrachte ich als ein Magier namens Cever im Online-Rollenspiel Meridian 59. Im Laufe dieser Zeit ist ein kleines Programm entstanden, welches die Uhrzeit des Spiels in angenehmer Form darstellt.

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