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MP3 Jukebox
AmiTunes
SMBMounter
The CR System
Clockport Splitter
InstallerGen

 
 
 

Atoms-X 
Atoms-X is a remake of an old game called Atoms I had on the Amiga years ago. It was written by a reader of one of the Amiga magazines of the time and they gave it away on their cover disk. Something reminded me of it recently, and I had a quick search for it. It turns out there are a couple of basic clones for Linux and Android, but none for the modern Amiga. So I decided to write my own version which is fully Workbench-friendly, and to include a computer opponent, something the original never had. Read more...


 
 

InstallerGen
InstallerGen is a tool for creating basic installer scripts for the AmigaOS Installer using a simple and comfortable GUI. The hope is that it will help more people release Amiga software with proper, user-friendly installer scripts, and take some of the legwork away from developers intending to write their own scripts from scratch. Read more...


 
 

MP3 Jukebox 
My current project. A Hi-Fi separates unit which can play MP3s from an internal hard drive, can be used with its own small LCD text display, or can use a TV for a better view of playlists etc. Based on an Amiga 1200 motherboard, laptop hard drive and the great MAS3507D DSP MPEG decoder chip. Read more...


 
 

AmiTunes
A key part of the MP3 Jukebox project mentioned above is the software that runs the show. It started out solely for running the jukebox, but it's grown into a stand-alone player in its own right. Not only does it run on the low-end, MAS- player equipped jukebox hardware, but does a good job all the way up to software decoding and library managing under OS4.1 update 1. Read more...


 
 

SMBMounter
SMBMounter is a simple little front-end for the immensely useful SMBFS, a little command line utility for mounting SMB shared in AmigaOS. It runs as a commodity, keeps a list of your favourite shares, and mounts and unmounts them with a click. Read more...


 
 

The CR System
Ah, the mammoth project I started when I was still in school in 1998, aged 16! I can't remember at this stage what the CR stands for... This is a custom home automation system I started building and making up as I went along, depending on what parts I had lying around or could acquire from scrapped equipment. Based on a donated Amiga 600 (thanks Nick!), it could control a bank of relays to turn on or off the light, lamp, stereo, and any other equipment plugged into it. It could also open and close the blinds, and use any of these functions as a result of a multitude of different triggers. Read more...


 
 

Clockport Splitter
Years and years and years ago, long before Windows had a Start button, the engineers who designed the Amiga 1200 gave it a small internal expansion port which was designed simply to allow users to add a battery backed-up clock to keep track of time when the machine was turned off. To achieve this, they put it right on the computer's bus and gave it DMA ability. Some time later some clever engineers saw the potential to use this port for something other than a clock, and all of a sudden a multitude of clever expansions, from sound cards to USB controllers appeared. The problem then was that there was only one of these ports in each machine, and I wanted to use two of these clever devices. Enter my clockport splitter! Read more...