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Well, it looks like this has survived the server move I've just done

If you don't want to use LCDproc (LCDd), then you can drive a Matrix Orbital LK202-USB-24 directly in PERL. Although, I'm sure LCDproc should do everything you need anyway...

I've now started rebuilding a friend of mine's Marcos Mantula.

As an intellectual exercise, I ported ArcCommand to MacOS.

I've moved my server, and also uploaded some new ROM images.

You can now download MP3 versions of the music I've written for both the Preliminary Designs and Passport To Tomorrow albums. I've also announced the start of my third album - 08:13:21.

I'd decided to put all my pictures in an archive, and extracted all the (nice) pictures of my cats I'd not shown before. Here they are.

Okay, so it may not look like I've been doing much - I have done a bit more to ACED, but my current thing is to get a lot more experience with Lightwave modelling - by recreating a certain album cover.

I've decided to upload some of my Lightwave images.

Since I'm finally going to drop the "chios.org.uk" domain name, I've made a copy of the Cloe notes.

I decided to get myself a GP2X to play with.

I decided earlier in the month what my next kit car will be. It'll be the Aeon GT³ - and I've set up a web site.

I've set up two HTTP acceleration servers for this domain - you should get better access to the server.

I went on a test drive of the Aeon car that I'm probably going to build next.

I found some pictures of the Acorn Stork.

Thanks to the WayBackMachine, I've recovered the computer case I made. I've also grabbed some new and old pictures of my cats.

Now FireFox is available for RISC OS, it's time I upated my site to use CSS. If you want the old site, it is available from here - although it is not being maintained.

I've been playing with MPEG video files. Here are the notes of my experiments.

Two A9 ROM images are now available for download from the RISC OS ROM Images site.

I came across a funny sign today, so decided to stick it here.

We use these GPRS modems at work, and they have a tendancy to beep. A lot. Here's how to silence them permanently

I've been looking at what to get for my next kit car.

The Adjust ROM image is now available for download from the RISC OS ROM Images site.

I've been working on a music playroutine for Equinox that has evolved into a sequencer project.

I've got two cats, and I thought it was about time I uploaded some pictures of them.

Actually, I need a new playroutine for Equinox music - which has ended up as being a sequencer project instead.

so I've moved a lot of my stuff to the loft. Since some of it is obscure, I thought I'd take some photos of it beforehand.

This is something that I've been working on - a game called Equinox that I started in 1992, and restarted it in 2002. Note that the DNS may not have propagated immediately...

My other kit car now has some more pictures available.

Although I've been too busy building my other car and trailer, the Steel Cobra images are now back up.

The RISC OS ROM Images section is now available again.

I've found a slightly later backup of my web site, so I'll be transferring data from it.

Thanks to Redbus and their lack of power management, I've had to revert to an old copy of the site. Pretty much everything else has now gone :(. I do intend to recreate as much as possible, and also redesign it as well.

I bought some kittens today.

My other kit car now has some pictures available.

This was added as news on 24 Apr 2002, but happened at that date. Information is available from Acorn Arcade. Please disregard any ArcCommand messages after this line.

Available here, it's the latest version of the game in RISC OS, Windows and Linux guises. The pages have also been updated.

I found this loafing on my hard drive that I'd written about 8 years ago...

My version of Peter Irvin's Starship Command is available from here.

You can now download Dune II (Acorn version) from this site.

VoiceCon 0.08 has been released, with features such as device drivers, URL opening, improved recognition, improved profile systems.
It has been a while since anything worthy enough to put on my site, but I do have a number of projects that I am working on which should be released during the year.

CalPOP3 is now available for download. It is a replacement for Voyager's POP3 fetcher, based on some code that I had kicking around.

I wrote these pages a while back, but haven't linked to it. There are some more images to go in there, when I have time. This is the main reason for me being so quiet in development...

WindowRd has been slightly updated, and is available for download. WindowRd is a program I wrote 4 years ago to capture RISC OS windows and so forth so that they can be used in menus. This version has been updated to allow 32bpp windows to be captured without errors when loading into !Paint.

DesPass is a simple program that allows you to create DES encrypted passwords suitable for uploading to web servers, such as Apache-based web servers (but should work with others). There are instructions for use with ArgoNet's servers.

LongFiles 3.00 beta has been finished, and is now available for download. The key feature is automatic support for RISC OS 4, in that discs formatted for RISC OS 4 will not use the LongFiles extensions.

You can now download example files for Sonor and Sonor Jnr from the Sonor download directory.

VTi (now Argo Interactive) have given me permission to allow full copies of some software that I wrote for them a few years ago. These are Sonor, Sonor Jnr, Talking Canvas Junior and Desktop Tracker. They are available from http://www.tribbeck.com/sonor/. Please note that there is no support available for these programs.