Graue's sock drawer: work-in-progress programs

These computer programs are one or more of:

• unfinished;
• newer, not-yet-released versions of programs on my main page;
• things I wrote for myself that I doubt many people will have a use for, so I'm not releasing them any more publicly than this.

They are available as source code only. Some have links to darcs archives where I work on them. The page name comes from a friend's quip that he doesn't release most of the code he writes because it's "like a sock drawer".

If you're interested in anything here, let me know, because that'll probably encourage me to work on it more. All the code is in the public domain unless it says otherwise.

• Torrentize (darcs) (November 17, 2007) is a command line program for creating BitTorrent metafiles from a file or a directory. Its main attraction is an extremely convenient interface, basically in the form "torrentize trackers dirs". If I get a polished release out, I'll put up a feature matrix comparing it to other CLI .torrent generators. It's already clearly superior ;)
• BlockMan (darcs) (September 27, 2007) has been released before. This new version has a few fixes. I have not released it because there are more things to fix still.
• Synth (darcs) (May 28, 2007) is a collection of programs for generating and changing audio, meant to be connected with pipelines. Nothing too fancy, but a great swiss army knife for sound, since you can pipe its output right into a sound card. Includes gain, panning, delay, compressor, limiter, saturator, exponential distortion, waveform and white noise generators, basic reverb, and filters.
• XA (darcs) (January 4, 2007) is an uncreative name for a few programs dealing with the Sony ADPCM (also known as XA) audio format, used for the music of some PlayStation games. Contains a decoder, encoder, and extractor.
• Plat (darcs) (December 30, 2006) will be a platform game someday. As of now, it has graphics and you can move around, but since it lacks any objective, it's little more than a tech demo.
• Chipedit (darcs) (October 5, 2006) is an editor for Chip's Challenge game levels. Specifically, it targets the Lynx emulation in Tile World. It works for my own use, but it is a little rough around the edges, and it will only properly save levels for the "pedantic Lynx" game mode. It uses Allegro, so it should run on any operating system Allegro supports, including Windows.
• Track3 (darcs) (October 4, 2006) is a tracker for Unix terminals, so far only supporting sound output on OpenBSD and NetBSD. I have used it on three albums, but it is still rough around the edges and unfinished. Recently I added support for the Bohlen-Pierce tuning system.
• Track2 (darcs) (July 17, 2006) is a tiny offline tracker-style program, converting text files into mono music made of square waves. It's fun to play with, although I have not used it on any albums.
• Itcomp (darcs) (June 6, 2006) creates Impulse Tracker .it files with samples and a song name you tell it.
• Imgsine (darcs) (April 20, 2006) uses additive synthesis to generate funny sounds out of grayscale images.
• Mazegen (April 8, 2006) is a set of two programs for generating mazes: one using depth-first search, the other Prim's algorithm.
• Robot Escape (darcs) (April 8, 2006) has its own website with an older version. This one has more levels, music, and visual themes, among other improvements, but I'm not totally pleased with this version yet, so I haven't turned it into a release.
• Platypus (darcs) (March 28, 2006), originally written in QuickBASIC for DOS, is a tile-based platform game, with a slight hint of a puzzle element in addition to action. It can be built using SDL video (this works on Windows), curses, or vt100 terminals without curses.
• Text Maze (March 2, 2006) is a small (382 lines of C code) text-based maze game, using the curses library.
• RPN2 (February 17, 2006) is a small stack-based programming language. It was designed to be easy for me to implement in a small amount of code (668 total lines of C), not to be powerful, fast, or easy to program in; it is none of the above.