Applications

Red Feline Spreadsheet

Red Feline Spreadsheet will be a spreadsheet application for PalmOS, licenced under the GNU General Public Licence. It is in the very, very early stages of development and it available on the web mostly to provide me with an off-site backup in case of fire or theft.

Currently however it is only a very simple application shell but it has an about box that conforms to the Palm user interface guidelines!

This project was started when I started to lose interest in TDR Racing and at much the same time my girlfriend (soon to be my wife!) bought me a Palm M125 for my birthday. This is my first Palm programming project. Basically although there are several spreadsheet applications for the PalmOS to the best of my knowledge they are all both non-free and unable to interoperate with free software operating systems such as GNU/Linux. In theory the spreadsheet itself should not actually be very difficult (though fitting a spreadsheet into a 160x160 screen may not prove too easy). The hard part will be getting the conduit to play nicely with OpenOffice and Gnumeric.

Games

TDR Racing

TDR Racing is a old fashioned top down 2D racing game just like your grandmother used to make. It is written in C++ using SDL to provide graphics features. TDR Racing is free software licenced under the GNU General Public Licence.

TDR Racing was writen and tested on a GNU operating system (RedHat 7.1). It has not (yet) been ported to other Unix-like operating systems but does not do anything gratuitous to make it difficult to use on other platforms.

Please be aware that TDR Racing is very much a work in progress. It should build and run but since the game engine has not been completed it is currently useless to non-programmers so please don't waste your time with it unless you want to play with the source.

The Risk Arena

The Risk Arena is a version of Risk written in Java. Features include network play and foolish computer players. It is very easy for the Java programmer to write some less foolish players if they wish to do so. The software is quite playable by not all the rules are fully implemented (there are no cards). There needs to be a couple more days work to get all the rules inplemented and a few more to finish the GUI. Whether they will ever get done depends on a number of factors. I accept both patches and encouragment. Something along the lines of "I was looking at the Risk Arena the other day, please finish it" is perfectly acceptable.

There used to be full home page for the Risk Arena but it is now very out of date and has therefore been removed. That too may return one day.

Utilities

PDC - The Programmers Desktop Calculator

PDC is a desktop caclulator in the 'bc' style with features designed for programmers. It does not support floating point maths but does provide all the C operators (logical, bitwise, shifts etc.) and implements ISO C operator precedence. Additionally functions are available to perform population counts and byte swaps.

PDC is written in YACC and C and is free software licenced under the GNU General Public Licence.

Unlike the spreadsheet and TDR Racing, PDC more or less finished and has the potential to be very useful. During my working life I use this tool a lot as my job tends to involve quite a lot of bit bashing.

• pdc-0.9.tar.gz
  Added mssb and dxb (decimal, hex, binary output) functions, modified ascii to neatly handle non-printable characters and squashed a few bugs.
  
• pdc-0.8.1.tar.gz
  Allowed , to be used as a (non-printing) seperator and fixed the command line expression support to be a little less brain dead (thanks to Paul for setting me straight on that ...), added support for a whole bunch more operators and fixed a few lexer bugs.
  
• pdc-0.8.tar.gz
  Readline (command line history) support added, command line expression evaluation added.
• pdc-0.7.tar.gz
  Added bitfield function, introduced bits (an alias for decompose), reworked the help system.
  
• pdc-0.6.tar.gz
  Support for character constants, added ascii function, added decompose function.
  
• pdc-0.5.4.tar.gz
  Initial release.