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Bananas Productions


Short list of what's available

First off: Vivaldi - a music package, similar in many ways to Tracker and Digital Symphony, but costing only 10 pounds. This is the Spark archived PD version, from which you cannot save files. Only the music editor and player is included - there is a sample editor, two sample synthesisers, a converter, and lots of samples and stuff with the full version. There are a few music files to go with it indexed on my site, and stored on Demon Internet's FTP server. Vivaldi can handle Tracker, SoundTracker and ProTracker files without conversion, too, and there are a few PD Digital Symphony converters around. Vivaldi also saves its music in its own compressed format.

Also there are the PD games Hedz, Bounder and Chicken which are all Spark archives. You will need to de-archive them before you can run them.

I've put up a simple (and slow) version of Lynx for Acorn machines in my FTP space. ArcLynx is a text-based offline HTML browser; it is supplied here as a Zip file containing an application and the source code. Note: This is a BETA version and is highly poo. If you want to finish it, go ahead, and let me know if you succeed.

Tasker allows up to 4 full-screen CLI prompts (with much better VDU command support than !Edit's Task Window). Mode changing is supported - sort of. The source code is included in the distribution Zip file.

Also available is SkullCSD - a Desktop utility / silly. It rotates a skull on the icon bar, and if you drag this SkullCSD icon to a Filer window, it sets that to be the current directory. It's a module, and takes up very little memory - about 10K, I think.

For those of you who liked Tasker, or use the command line a lot, here's a simple ripoff of Unix pico (a text editor). Note that this is not an official port, just a program which I have written to be similar. The C source code is included in the distribution Zip file.

Finally, there a few small applications and transient programs (mostly pointless), many of which mimic UNIX commands in some way, listed in the small apps index. Some of them are useful as debugging tools, too.

Short list of what's available

  • Vivaldi - a music package - plus lots of music
  • Hedz - PD game (Spark)
  • Bounder - PD game (Spark)
  • Chicken - PD game (Spark)
  • ArcLynx - offline HTML textual browser (Zip)
  • Tasker - full-screen CLI prompts in a window - source code included (Zip)
  • SkullCSD - set the current directory (Zip)
  • pico - CLI-based text editor (Zip)

Small utilities / transient programs