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Software hosted by Drobe: Your guide

Published: 5th Nov 2007, 23:07:20GMT Source: drobe.co.uk
By the Drobe news desk

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A round-up of users' mini-websites on drobe.co.uk

A while ago drobe.co.uk began offering free web space to readers with login accounts. Now it appears a number of you good people are making use of this free resource, so here's a round up of the best mini-websites. If you want some free web space to host RISC OS-related projects, create a free account or otherwise login and get stuck in. Drop us an email if you run into problems or if you've got something new to tell us. And so, in no particular order:

jymbob: Home of the Cretin IRC client and six insane desktop themes.
govind: Details of a book produced using RISC OS.
alanb: Three games: Bubble train, Primate Plunge and SDLThrust.
stoppers: The RISC OS Look and Feel project, which aims to bring various RISC OS desktop metaphors to the GNU/Linux world.
adrianl: Geminus and Aemulor author Adrian Lees' personal website, featuring a volume control utility, a source code renaming tool, two utilities that flag up naughty software trying to access memory they shouldn't, a module that protects the RISC OS 5 kernel from dodgy software, his simple low-level debugger, and an alpha version of his Cino DVD player.
jeffd: Various programs including a port of 3D first-person shooter Doom and related game files, a 32bit version of the vintage ArmBe editor, a patch to allow game Twin World to run on the Iyonix, a Sudoku creater and solver, and a utility for Tom Tom satnav owners.
hegelia: Music produced using RISC OS.
davidb: The original port of the OpenGL-like Mesa 3D engine ported to RISC OS and a Python GUI library also for RISC OS.
sascott: Sword-fighting action game Cavern Duel, overhead-tank game Tank Duel, a Birds of War manual, a page design utility, a processor cache control tool, and two BBC Micro games.
stewy: The home of WIBLI, a utility that adds customisable floating toolbars to your favourite desktop applications.
aw: Information on BBC Micro game Dominion, created in 2004, and released this year for free.
rpozz: A treasure trove of oddities and utilities, including a telnet server, a program that can create self-extracting encrypted archives, and a virtual desktop application.
pdm: The home of the DrWimp OLE Elixir library and documentation.
snig: A Bloglines notifier and an XML tree viewer.
peter: THis site includes CSP, a fun little graphical silly, what appears to be a lazy task-switching memory tester, and a program to slow down ShareFS connections between an Iyonix and RiscPC to increase reliability.
cogs: The home of SuperFPEm, an optimised module that provides floating-point math operations on FP-less ARM processors.

Thanks to everyone who has put their webspace to good use.

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AW (+2.0) 5/11/07 11:38PM	Thanks for the recogntion.
davidb (+2.0) 6/11/07 12:12AM	I hope people find my old stuff useful. I'd rather upload my unmaintained RISC OS specific software to Drobe than maintain pages for it elsewhere.
jeffd (+2.0) 6/11/07 8:45AM	Thanks for the mention
jymbob (+2.0) 6/11/07 9:39AM	"insane" is a matter of opinion (o: I tend to find the blue and grey themes quite pleasant, although I'm using something else at the moment. Thanks for both the mention, and for all the other interesting bits and bobs listed. More info about Cretin can be found at http://riscos.info
Snig (+2.0) 6/11/07 1:16PM	Wow. I'd completely forgotten I'd uploaded software onto the Drobe web space.
Stewy (+2.0) 6/11/07 5:44PM	Well, I've discovered some interesting applications thanks to the article! And it's encouraged me to return to some of the add-on toolbars that I've been meaning to release for a while. I've got one for the Filer (for those who like that sort of thing!), an update for ArtWorks, an update for the new Easi/TechWriter, and also a toolbar for Zap which is something several people have requested. Thanks for the webpace!
sascott (+2.0) 7/11/07 2:18AM	Thanks for the mention Drobe. That reminds me, I need to update the version of Cavern Duel there. It's currently on my main site only.
Hairy (+1.0) 7/11/07 4:06PM	Looked at adriansI site as was interested in the volume control app, but clicking on the link produces a 404 error Brian
neilwhite (+1.0) 7/11/07 7:10PM	I cant belive my site with links to my borken web server and crazy animated gifs didnt make the list... I am truly devistated to be left from this acolade
Fuzzy 15/11/07 4:31PM	Hey Neil, they also forgot to include my annoying dancing duck fest page, you always liked to tell me how much it bugged you. :-0
neilwhite 17/11/07 9:53AM	my website works again now! hooray, only had to kick my bruvs ass about 5 times to get him to copy in the configure scripts
neilwhite (+1.0) 17/11/07 9:57AM	thinking about it if this is the best, then we need a list fo the worst so me and fuzzy get a look in
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