- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- Visual Money. Smart and Ambitious. — All software developers know: There are certain areas in the market where one would never try to compete — there are some Old, Greedy Huge-Budget and Long-History Monsters out there already, and «you’ll-never-bit-them». The trick is -there is a small share of presumptuous developers who still try to take their steps in such markets — and they win! (Much more often than you might think, actually.) Sometimes they even…
- VBto 2.30, Visual Basic No More — For its time, Visual Basic 6 was an excellent tool. It was easy to learn, write and read, had reasonably good visual forms designer, allowed easy usage of ActiveX controls... Unfortunately, those times have gone. Now, there is .NET, there is VC++ MFC, there are other IDE with form designers, like Delphi. There is no place for good old VB6. Old projects are to be translated to new environments, but it is not an easy…
- Visual SQL Designer. Ease Your Work With Data. — Visual SQL-Designer is powerful software that can easily create complex SQL queries for any database. With this useful tool, you will be able to construct the most part of necessary queries using just visual interface of the user. That is really convenient. Now, when you have got Visual SQL designer, you do not have to spend hours creating queries, whether you are good at SQL or have no idea of what it is. Visual SQL…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- Multis 6.6, The Essence Of Tetris — Since its invention in 1985, Tetris puzzle game has gone through zillions of remakes, ports to various platforms (even cell phones in the last years), design changes and even changes of the game itself. The «Classic» Tetris with seven classic bricks, still keeps its popularity, but we’ve seen and played several successive versions with the changed shapes, or different initial states or other rules. None of them can repeat the…
- AutoWallpaper - a kaleidoscope of wallpapers with stunning visual effects — If you are a proud owner of a shop or a multi-monitor system, you may eventually want to use your monitors to decorate your display case or workplace. A single panoramic screensaver or synchronized switching of several wallpapers would be ideal for a vivid demonstration, but setting it up using standard OS means is quite problematic, if not impossible. If you would like to breathe new life…
- TETCOLOR 2 - a new life of the good old Tetris concept — If you were a kid once, you definitely know what Tetris is. This genius game was invented way back in the days when computers were only evolving into what we see today on our tables. However, the concept was so wildly popular that it spawned hundreds of clones and basically laid the foundation of today’s casual games genre. If you still get nostalgic of the times when you spent endless hours playing Tetris, you should check…
- @SwIt Printfil: Console Applications Make Friends with Windows Printers — There is not much in common between DOS and USB — one knows nothing about the other. So, if you use those good old DOS programs, and you happen to print from of them on a matrix printer — make sure your technicians don’t «evacuate» that noisy box during an upgrade; or else the printing may become a major challenge; at least, until you get the Printfil utility. It adds just…
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