It can send text you paste in, quiz you on a not-yet-customizable-enough set of characters, keep score, and also can (if you allow it to) let you send CW using your shift key (it doesn't work all that well -- hey my name's not Begali.)
Other useless features: flash your caps lock LED in time with the dits and dahs, Farnsworth spacing, left/right balance, very compact user interface, extremely bad Japanese localization (my specialty).
Requires Mac OS 10.5 or later
.acm music files and
.mus playlist files.
In theory it should work for all games that use the Interplay formats. Originally I ported
ABel's C++ code (from acm2wav.exe) to Objective-C. The next version uses
libacm compiled into the binary
(shared libraries are evil).
ACMPlayer can also export .acm and .mus files to AIFF.
Originally I had hoped to produce a QuickTime plugin, but I did not know how to reconcile the slight nonlinearity of
.mus playlists (i.e. "epilogues", or different endings
depending on how far into the playlist you are) with QuickTime. So this application lets you
play an epilogue at the next available stopping point. AIFF exports always choose the final
epilogue (longest resulting file).
Please note that releasing this code may be taken as an infringement of Interplay's IP/trade secrets/patents, so I would not be terribly surprised if I received a cease-and-desist notice. Get it while you can!
I rewrote it recently to require Mac OS 10.5 or later, so I could have fun using a Quartz event tap instead of a timer to detect a change in keyboard status. This thing now uses insignificant system resources.
I use the System Prefs "Accounts" pane to add the program as a Login Item to my account. So, yes, I use this program on a daily basis at work.
- Here's a geenormous (420 KB) screenshot with the alert on screen.
- GitHub
Blugs was released late enough in the OS X transition, and was not open-sourced soon enough subsequently, to survive. It was used in a few products, and was apparently up for consideration as the SuperCard List Engine. The Blugs source code is released under the very permissive ZLib License. It is in no way a supported product.
That being said, here are the download links.
- Blugs 1.2d4 final release
- Blugs 1.2 "What's New" Technote
- Blugs user manual 1.1 (PDF 464K, horribly outdated)
Translation: MOSCH -- Mac OS Classic Handles -- is a stupid 2-day fun programming project.
Basically you get resizeable memory refs that can be passed around to different routines and resized without breaking the reference. (Compare and contrast with
realloc()'s behavior.)
I tried to reproduce all relevant portions of the Classic/Carbon
Memory Manager. Of course the Mac OS handled memory in a very different way
back in the Bad Old Days, so there are a lot of architecture-specific
routines like CheckAllHeaps() that are simply no-ops in MOSCH.Download MOSCH for fun and profit, if you like reading uncommented code.
As always, suggestions and job offers will be warmly received.
The Stockpile Manager is a replacement for the Apple's Collection Manager (which was part of the ill-fated QuickDraw GX). This was hot stuff back in 1997, but Core Foundation and AppKit have kinda taken the steam out of this particular project.
Now where did I put my CodeWarrior t-shirt?