What's new?

This page lists changes to my web site that happened within a year of the most recent update.

Date	Alterations
28th April 2008	Harriet has released a new version of DDF2HTML, a utility that converts Impression DDF ('text with styles') files into HTML suitable for publishing on the web or sending documents to computer users who don't own a copy of Impression.
24th April 2008	Apparently the earlier version of Midnight Starlight was not meant for distribution, so I have replaced it now that Martin has finished this track. Apparently all the instruments were synthesised in a home-brewed program that he wrote himself. He has also sent me his biggest and most ambitious Doom WAD yet. Maybe I should rename this site as 'Martin's corner of the web'!
6th April 2008	Martin reminded me that I forgot to upload an MP3 version of his remix of the song 'Mad World'. He has also sent me a weird little track entitled Midnight Starlight and fixed the vaunted leap-year calculation in his XmasTime program. Meanwhile, I have been working on my unfinished Doom WAD.
27th March 2008	Fixed a broken link to Zarquon's Manifesto.
26th March 2008	Martin has composed three new music tracks in Digital Symphony, including one named 'Drift' which I think is his best yet. Atmospheric and purposeful, it is reminiscent of the kind of incidental music in games such as Goldeneye 007 on the Nintendo 64 (one of my favourite console games).
2nd March 2008	Fixed a broken link to the application note which describes the drag and drop protocol.
10th February 2008	My brother Martin has composed and remixed many more music tracks in Digital Symphony, which I have converted to MP3 format and uploaded for your delectation. There is also a new archive containing all of his music in its original tracker format, for the benefit of those with a compatible music player.
27th January 2008	I have extended my C library to include an API-compatible re-implementation of Acorn's flex library, on top of Simon P. Bullen's fortified memory allocation shell. During the resultant stress-testing, I fixed a few memory-related bugs.
9th December 2007	Added an incidental link to my brother's account on deviantART, an online community where he shares his fractal art and photographs.
10th November 2007	Martin has composed a stomping, stonking, new piece of music named 'Ice Rings'. I used GrabSound and Shine to convert it from Digital Symphony to MP3 format, and you can download the result here.
21st October 2007	Site-wide changes to use vertical line (\|) separators instead of solidus (/).
13th October 2007	Added a link to Jared Tarbell's Gallery of Computation. I have also removed my geek code from the introduction page; I don't believe I fit the archetype of an " asocial, malodorous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality of a cheese grater" (which may be why I put '?' in so many of the categories). If I were a real geek then I might actually be clever.
7th October 2007	I have tweaked my Bazound application for compatibility with version 3.02β of AppBasic, and in the process fixed an embarassing bug. I also revamped the 'Downloads' page to give more information about each archive, and added a new section 'Sound and music', which mainly consists of Martin's Digital Symphony compositions. I discovered that I had neglected to upload his remix of the Galaforce music, which he sent me in July. Apparently this was inspired by the Heartcore version.
23rd September 2007	Harriet has reverse-engineered one of the ancient WIMP front-ends to PGP 2.x, to give it a new lease of life as a front-end for Stefan Bellon's RISC OS port of the GNU Privacy Guard. Meanwhile, Martin has written a customizable program to generate random mazes and composed a percussive new music track named Tribal beat.
10th September 2007	New public release of CBLibrary to support new versions of my SFSkyEdit and SFColours applications. Highlights include structure and macro definitions to describe the polygonal graphics file format used by Star Fighter 3000 and a new module to pre-calculate trigonometric tables for fast look-up of sine and cosine values.
8th September 2007	Corrected a corrupted tag in my online version of the drag and drop application note.
12th August 2007	Added the TV series Futurama and the Norfolk Broads to my page of favourite things. Martin has updated his collection of graphical BASIC programs.
13th July 2007	Martin has updated his page of Asylum levels to use cascading style sheets, like the rest of this web site. Harriet has sent me updates of two of her lesser-used applications, for distribution.
18th June 2007	Dissatisfied with the previous version, itself less than a month old, my brother has made yet another update to his Type program. I have just been watching a television programme about the battle of Stalingrad. You really wanted to know both of those things didn't you?
11th June 2007	Martin has updated his two Doom authoring reference documents, with a few minor corrections to the linedef specials and sector types and a whole new section in the texture alignment tutorial. He has also created a WAD file that helps illustrate most of the concepts in the tutorial. In other news, I have converted 11 pieces of music that Martin composed in Digital Symphony to the popular MP3 audio format. The resultant files are up to 40 times bigger than the originals, but may bring his music to a wider audience.
25th May 2007	Added an explanation of the quotation at the top of the front page.
19th May 2007	Martin has sent me a "brand-spanking-new, all-singing, all-dancing" version of his Type program, and I have duly uploaded it along with an animated screenshot. It doesn't actually sing, it just makes a sort of tapping noise.
14th May 2007	Fixed a stupidly broken link tag on my page of favourite things. Perhaps that will teach me not to update my web site at 2 am!
11th May 2007	Added a photo of a pet rat named Audrey to my page of favourite things.
5th May 2007	Updated the incomplete postal address given in my CV.

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