Steven's programs
Unix programs
Utilities
An alternative to the widely available
top program written in standard
Bourne Shell script and that does not require special permissions to run or
for installation. Solaris only.
Programs for Acorn RISCOS machines
These programs will not run on Windows so don't even bother to download
them if all you have is a PC or Mac.
Applications
These are self contained, documented applications. Licensing restrictions for
each of these programs are described in the !Help files in the archives. Note
that the contact details may be out of date as to change them I have to
rebuild the archive - something I do rarely. Please use the contact details
on my personal page in preference.
Acclaimed as one of the best two Tetris games for the Archimedes. It features
single and multi-player games, power blocks and many other features. It will
run on all machines from RiscOS 2 to RiscPCs. It's described more fully on
its own page.
A very simple 3d maze game. You get placed randomly in maze and have to find
your way out. It should run on all machines from RiscOS 2 to RiscPCs. You can
download it here (Spark archive, 4k), or you can
read the !Help file.
A port of the Unix program xdaliclock. This program displays
an animated digitial clock in the icon bar where the figures melt from
one value to the next. Requires RiscOS 3. You can download it
here (Spark archive, 21k), or you can
read the !Help file.
This is my variant of the classic arcade game Defender. It's not complete
nor is it ever likely to be. So instead of it gathering dust on my hard
drive, I've tidied it up for release. It's not an acurate port of the
Defender arcade game, it just has vaguely reminiscent behaviour. It's written
in 100% pure hand-crafted ARM code so is smooth and fast. It does, however,
provide its own overscan screen mode (with a non-standard resolution) and
although it works fine on my monitor you may have difficulty. Complaints
are likely to be ignored as I am not actively maintaining this program. If
anyone would like to volunteer to take it over, then
contact me in the usual ways. This latest version of the
code has only been tested on RiscOS 3.5 on a RiscPC, but I believe it should
work on RiscOS 3 (as it was originally developed there). You can download
the program here (Spark archive, 20k) or you
can read the !Help file.
Utilities
These are small programs provided with minimum documentation. They are all
command line programs and have a poor user interface. All are copyright 1996
Steven Singer, freely distributable provided they are not changed, and are
provided "AS IS" with no guarantee of suitability for any purpose. No warranty
is given.
Modfind scans all directories from the current directory downwards printing
a list of all modules it finds. It records the modules' names, locations and
versions. Once the scan has finished it checks through its list. For each
module name it sees if there is more than one version present, if there is
it reports all of the older versions and gives the location of one of the
latest versions. This allows you to get rid of any out of date modules on
your disk. Warning: Make sure you know what you're doing before
updating modules. Just because two modules have the same name it,
unfortunately, doesn't mean they do the same job. In this case, replacing
one with the other is likely to cause programs to crash and may result
in damage. You have been warned and I accept no responsibility for any
damage caused. It can be downloaded here (BASIC
file, 3k)
This program got written after I kept seeing my hard disk space dissappear.
Usually the cause was that I'd downloaded some large file then forgotten to
delete it (or even forgotten that I'd downloaded it). This program scans
directories from the current directory downwards for all files over a
specified size that have been created with in a specified number of days. It
prints the names of the files and their sizes. I find a size of 100000 and a
time 3 days make good parameters. It can be downloaded
here (BASIC file, 1k)
This program takes a Postscript file and a drawfile written out by !Draw and
alters the Postscript file so that the bounding box matches the drawfile.
There's a bug in some versions of RiscOS (not sure if it's an OS bug or a !Draw
bug) that the bounding box written into the Postscript file is the full page
not the size of the diagram. The program also strips out the big white box
that gets placed under the diagram (the size of the whole page), it removes
saves and restores from the file and removes the ^D from the end of the file.
Generally, this makes the files EPS compliant enough to work with TeX's \psfig
command. This program expects the files it needs to be in the current
directory, it expects the drawfile to be called "DrawFile", the !Draw
postscript output to be called "Postscript" and it outputs a file called
"eps". The Postscript file must have been written out of !Draw whilst the
paper limits are set to portrait and are large enough to enclose the entire
drawing. It can be downloaded here (BASIC file, 2k)
Misc
Other programs.
A quite cute effect based on Lissajou figures. A good example of how short,
simple code can produce pretty effects. I wouldn't call this a demo as it
doesn't really stretch the machine's performance. The code contains the
license restrictions and several tweakable options near the start. It can be
downloaded here (BASIC file, 2k)
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