Programs and documentation

All programs come with source code.

RISC OS software:

  BASIC Task 1.01: 33K
Start BASIC in a TaskWindow.
Written in BASIC.
I often find myself popping into BASIC just to test a bit of code, and I finally got fed up with opening a TaskWindow and typing "basic" each time, and so BasicTask was born.
Version 1.01 now has the ability to run some non-multitasking code in a TaskWindow.
Last updated 9^th February 2025.
 

  WebP to Sprite Convertor 1.01: 2040K
Converts between WebP image files and RISC OS Sprites.
Written in C.
This is a suite of 3 command line programs for converting WebP images to RISC OS Sprites and vice versa:
• spr2webp converts from Sprite to WebP;
• webp2spr converts from WebP to Sprite;
• webpinfo which provides information on WebP images.
There are 4 applications provided to make it easy to use the command line programs in the Desktop:
• !Spr2WebP, which provides a Desktop front end to the command line program spr2webp;
• !WebP2Spr, which provides a Desktop front end to the command line program webp2spr;
• !WebPInfo, which provides a Desktop front end to the command line program webpinfo;
• A TransLoader, !TransWebP, which enables applications which use Computer Concepts’ FFG protocol, such as Ovation Pro and PrivateEye, to load WebP files as Sprites.
Last updated 8^th October 2024.
 

  QOI to Sprite Convertor 1.02: 495K
Converts between Quite OK Image (QOI) files and RISC OS Sprites.
Written in BASIC and Assembler, RISC OS can now read and write the new QOI image format invented by Dominic Szablewski.
In the download are 4 programmes:
• A Wimp application, !Qoi2Spr, which also runs in a TaskWindow and can convert between Sprites and QOI files;
• A TransLoader, !TransQOI, which enables applications which use Computer Concepts’ FFG protocol, such as Ovation Pro and PrivateEye, to load QOI files as Sprites;
• A PhotoDesk converter, !3QOI, which enables PhotoDesk to load and save QOI files;
• And an ImageFileConverter module, ConvertQOI, for RISC OS 4 and 6.
Further information on the QOI image format can be found at qoiformat.org.
Last updated 4^th February 2025.
 

  Matrix Screen saver 1.03: 21K
RISC OS 4/5 Screen saver.
Written in BASIC and based on code by Jacob Sorber (youtube.com/watch?v=K8dCh3ZMLN8) this provides a Matrix style screen saver for RISC OS.
Last updated 19^th September 2023.
 
  CLOC 1.00: 34K
BASIC program to Count Lines Of Code.
Written in BASIC, CLOC is a command line program which counts blank lines, comment lines and physical lines of code in 17 programming and scripting languages:
Ada, ASM, Awk, BASIC, C and C++, Charm, Forth, Fortran77, Lisp, Lua, Makefile, Obey and TaskObey, Pascal, Python, Squeak.
It provides statistics on the numbers of blank lines, comment lines and code lines in files that it recognises as these language files.
CLOC is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
More information available
Last updated 17^th January 2021.
 

 CRC-32 1.00: 9K
BASIC program to calculate 32 bit CRCs.
Last updated 26^th February 1999.
 

 CD Menu 1.13: 12K
CD Menu for use with !Director.
Allows the naming of CD tracks and improved CD Filer menu.
Last updated 5^th November 1999.
 

 NewSet 1.03: 7K
Module to prevent changes to Aliases.
I have a number of different applications that load the same file types, this is particularly true of graphic filetypes.
Most of the time I want my favoured application to load those particular file types, so I find it extremely irritating when another application decides to deal with that file type itself.
So having been frustrated for long enough (these magazine CD's with their own version of !ARCFS and a read only Fresco has been the final straw) I've finally managed to get round to do something about it. Hence this module.
Last updated 20^th September 2000.
 

 Shape Screensaver 1.00: 14K
RISC OS 4 Screen saver.
This was written after a request in argonet.acorn.misc from a program submitted by Peter Young.
Or if you don't have RISC OS 4, then get this version.
Last updated 7^th April 2001.
 

 preLogo 1.04: 69K
Pre-Desktop Welcome screen load screen. Written in ARM Assembler.
Having seen a new PC recently which hid the POST test bits behind a logo, I thought I can do that.
And so here it is, a logo to hide all those Pre-Desk messages that flash up.
 
Appears to work correctly under RISC OS 4.02
It is now 32-bit compatible, but does not seem to work in the Iyonix !Boot structure for some unknown reason
Last updated 23^rd May 2005.
 

 WimpPoll 1.01: 5K
Calculates the Wimp Poll mask value. Written in BASIC.
All of the Wimp Poll mask calculators that I have seen require you to tick the events that you don't want to receive.
In this version, you tick the events that you want to receive, which is a bit more natural I think.
 

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