bsittler's Home Page

(Formerly http://www.geocities.com/bsittler/ or http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/9405/)

Note: some other software I have written is available elsewhere.

Some free software I have written (or improved) is available for download. The source code for Trade and cdr_compress is in the public domain; VS Bomber and SMOKE-16 Version 1 are distributed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2; the source code for MyMan and my_getopt is distributed under a BSD-style license.

I once contributed to TuxNES as well.

MyMan - Version 0.7.0

MyMan is a text-mode videogame inspired by Namco's Pac-Man. It has been ported to a variety of operating systems using the following for user interaction: ncurses, PDcurses, XCurses, sysV-curses, S/Lang slcurses, Win32 console, raw stdio and termios, GGI, Allegro, aalib, libcaca, TWin, and Carbon. New: Massive overhaul of the configuration and build system, and began the refactoring that should eventually make this code easier to port and maintain; now with over 200 different game variations and more than 30 different display styles; the default game variation has changed.

NOTICE: Future announcements and releases will be found on the MyMan home page hosted by SourceForge.

File	Description
myman-0.7.0.tar.gz (gzip'ed tar)	The source package, distributed under a BSD-style license.
myman-0.7.0-i386-mingw32.zip (ZIP archive)	A binary package for 32-bit Windows using the Win32 console for user interaction.
myman-0.7.0-powerpc-apple-darwin8.0.dmg (Disk image)	A "fat" binary package (both 32-bit PowerPC and 32-bit Intel) for Mac OS X using Carbon for user interaction.
myman-0.7.0-i486-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz (gzip'ed tar)	A binary package for Debian 4.0 (32-bit Intel) using raw stdio and termios for user interaction.
myman.tgz (155K gzip'd tar)	Older public-domain `C` sources and executables for Linux/ncurses (libc5/libc6 and ncurses4) and DJGPP/PDCurses (DOS/Win32.)
myman.zip (158K ZIP)	The same older public-domain version as a ZIP file.
myman.png (2K PNG, 640x516)	Ancient screenshot
myman.txt (4K text)	Description of the older public-domain release

SMOKE-16 Version 1 - Release 20020728 [2002.07.28]

SMOKE-16 Version 1 is a 16-bit RISC-ish virtual machine I designed, simulated, and wrote development tools for. The tools and simulator require gcc, and have been used under DOS, Linux, and several other operating systems.

File	Description
smoke16.tgz (356K gzip'd tar)	GPL2'ed `C` Sources
README	README from SMOKE-16 distribution
a_out.txt	Description of SMOKE-16 "a.out" object-file format
opcodes.txt	Description of SMOKE-16 instructions and calling conventions
portable.txt	Description of the SMOKE-16 portable character encoding.
magic	Magic numbers for SMOKE-16 executables and object files.

VS Bomber - Release 0.3 [1998.10.08]

VS Bomber is a videogame bearing a slight resemblance to HudsonSoft's Bomberman and DynaBlaster games. It uses the excellent (and free) Allegro games-programming library by Shawn Hargreaves, and has been built under DOS and Linux (using XWinAlleg.)

File	Description
vs0_3.zip (235K ZIP)	GPL2'ed `C` Sources and DOS Executable built with DJGPP
vs0_3.txt (2K text)	Description of this release
vs0_3.png (21K PNG, 640x480)	Screenshot

Trade [2000.01.31]

I loved playing Star Traders/Star Lanes on the Kaypro 2x. Recently someone asked me about this game, so I copied it off the old CP/M floppy and improved it quite a bit for the PC. The file trade.zip (81K ZIP) includes both the original and improved versions. Program sources (in BASIC and TurboBasic) and executables (for DOS) are included. If you get a black screen or strange garbage on the screen at start-up, press the TAB key twice.

Note: I didn't write this game, I just modified it and built executables.

It seems Brian "Beej" Hall once wrote a game called starlanes (gzip'd tar) for Linux/ncurses. It even supports color!

my_getopt - Version 1.5 [2006.12.29]

I needed a command-line argument parser compatible with GNU getopt, getopt_long and getopt_long_only on machines where the GNU C library was unavailable, so I implemented GNU-style argument parsers from scratch.

File	Description
my_getopt-1.5.tgz (13K gzip'ed tar)	ANSI C sources, documentation and an example program.
README	Description of this release.
LICENSE	BSD-style license under which my_getopt is distributed. Does not apply to the example (which is in the public domain) or manual page (see getopt.3 for details)

The my_getopt package grew out of the SMOKE-16 distribution, which includes a GPL'ed version of the argument parser.

cdr_compress [2000.07.11]

I like listening to classical music, but sometimes I'm in a noisy environment where the large dynamic range of 16-bit CD audio is unusable. In coöperation with my father I wrote a simple dynamic-range compressor in C. It processes audio tracks in raw CD-Recordable format, and has an adjustable compression/expansion ratio and look-ahead to avoid noticable level changes. The file cdr_compress.c is a portable C implementation of the compressor, suitable for compiling and running on a wide variety of platforms (it requires ANSI C and UNIX-style getopt().)

bsittler@gmail.com