Miscellaneous
An assorted collection of items for your amusement or interest; this is where all the fun is to be found. There must be a law against pages this long.
Misc misc stuff
- Can Constructions
- Java Girl
A striking title typeface for Mac OS, UNIX and even Windows with some help from a font guru - Windows cursors
- Screenshot cursors
Some fake but authentic Windows cursors in PNG and Photoshop format, for inserting into screenshots that need the actual Windows cursor complete with shadow. Also included are cursors that are impossible to screenshot. - PMS 64 k SRAM storage drive
A trip down memory lane to call at the house of the precursor to today’s Flash memory drives. - SITI
The Search for Intra-Terrestrial Intelligence (here’s hoping!) - Colour blending foobars
- Personal Audio Display Device 2294
Classic Winamp skin - Random stuff
Has to go on the Web somewhere. - Worms Reinforcements goody
Like Star War, just the one. - Desktop pictures
Informative misc stuff
- Technical:
- Tech tidbits
- Un-Asked Questions – answers to technical questions that nobody seems to ever ask.
- Totally random tidbits
- Electronic music sample sources
- Forgotten graphical interfaces
A demonstration of some of the graphical user interfaces that have become largely forgotten - The Acorn BBC Microcomputer
A summary of the wonderful BBC Microcomputer The Operating System Specifications Project
A stillborn attempt to profile – with help from the community – basic technical information every major and interesting operating system in the world.- Anchor jump helper
A concept for more convenient use of fragment anchors on Web pages - Critter pics
Pictures of critters (obviously)
Anecdotal misc stuff
- My desk is possessed
Cue the Exorcist theme. - Excel woes
You are not alone. - How to check to see that a printer is online
The hard way. - The Phantom Internet
Strange goings on in cyberspace.
Horrible misc stuff
- public class Solve
or, “How you are really not supposed to code.”
Amusing misc stuff
- Asshat
An amusing IRC session log - Steveish language
Fun with mixed metaphors and re-invented words - Daft packaging
Some of the daft things that you find on packaging, particularly food - Assorted odd pictures
- Hawking and Arnie prank calls
A friend of mine known as the Arnie Prankster made a number of amusing prank calls to a British radio station; take a listen. - IRC quotes
Some of the fun and weirdness to be found in IRC - Amusing spam
I get a small enough quantity of spam that I pay some of it attention, and I get some rather interesting stuff – take a look. - Listing at the Ram and Buffer
Some 80s humour for those of the retrocomputing persuasion.
Try this misc stuff
- 15 = Q in this T
- Maths questions
Challenges to entertain the mathematically-minded passers-by - Have I Got Spam For You
- Flying into a fractal
A proof of concept video demonstrating flying into a fractal.
Software misc stuff
Programs that I have written, worked on or enjoyed in the past, available to download.
- Gold Digger
A description of the first ever commercial computer game I got, Neil Forsyth’s Gold Digger for the BBC Micro. - Gorillas Deluxe
My enhanced version of the old DOS game of Gorillas. - LSAIT Hangman
The language learning package I developed voluntarily for my secondary school in 1996-1997, for the Acorn Master Series microcomputer. - Evil Invaders (née IJK Invaders)
A nippy little space invaders clone by IJK Software for the BBC Micro that I cleaned up. - Lecture Battleships
A two-player implementation of Battleships written in OPL for the Psion Revo/Revo Plus and Diamond Mako palmtops. - LavaLamp
“Lava-Flow simulator” for Windows, or really, just a pretty picture generator.
Classic Mac OS stuff
- Avoiding reboots in Mac OS 8 and 9
Mac OS 8 and 9 do not need to be rebooted quite as often as you might think. - Browser Plugin Install Hack
Install browser plugins under classic Mac OS without Internet Explorer or Opera installed, using this 3 kbyte file. - Fetch Silly Cursors
A patch for Fetch 3.0.3 to replace the doggy activity cursors with easier-to-use animated arrow cursors. - Psion MacConnect
Information about and software downloads from the MacConnect connectivity suite for the Psion Revo, for stranded Psion Revo (and maybe 5/5mx) owners. - ShadowIRC plugins archive
A collection of plugins and their source code for the Macintosh IRC client ShadowIRC, for classic Mac OS; makes available plugins that were previously lost to 404s. - Appearance soundtrack
An Appearance soundtrack for Mac OS 8.5 through 9.2.2. - ‘
kind’ resource template for ResEdit
Soap box
- Destruct
Anyone want to revive this classic video game?