Software
In the following, you may find some software packages I wrote or contributed to.
Applications
Nibbly2025 (v1.0.0)
Nibbly2025 is a remake of old 8bit/16bit games named Nibbly or Super Nibbly.
You are Nibbly, a cute snake that has to collect (eat) all the gems within a level, without biting yourself.
Play and solve 100 Nibbly levels, most of which you have not seen before. Revive your Nibbly passion!
PaletteWB (v2.0.0)
PaletteWB is a Windows application for generating, manipulating, and conversion of colour palettes.
It supports saving palettes as images and generating animated colourcycling gifs.
ALSOG (v1.0.0)
ALSOG (external web site) parses, interprets, and renders Lindenmayer Systems.
It supports context sensitive as well as stochastic and parameterized L-Systems.
The results are visualized in 3D using openGL and may be saved as pictures or as 3D-objects.
BrainBreak (v1.1.0)
BrainBreak is a tile/puzzle game for the c64 with several surprising features.
It uses hires multicolour graphics and comes with 100 exciting, brain-breaking levels that can be extended by using the included editor.
BrainBreak can be played on the original machine as well as using emulators.
BibPres (v1.1.0)
BibPres is a JavaScript module (“widget”) for an interactive rendering of a BibTeX publications list at HTML web pages.
It uses a JSON-representation of the BibTeX list, a converter is enclosed. It works with most modern browsers.
BibPres is currently being replaced by bib2x (see below).
“Mandalas” (v1.0.0)
“Mandalas” is an interactive tool for generating what nowadays is called “Mandalas”.
Master of Tiles (v1.0.0)
Master of Tiles is a simple puzzle board game for for the Commodore c64 and 1 player. The game was written by the Benjamin (Pumpkin) Bommer, back in the early 1990s, but never actually got released until now.
Tempo120 (v0.6.0)
Tempo120 is a racing game written using Python/pygame during the bpb (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung) game jam 2023. The game jam's topic was mobility.
You may find the game on github.
ShaderWB (v0.2.0)
ShaderWB is a tool for a fast shader development. Something where you can just type your shader code and get immediate feedback.
Currently, ShaderWB is in a pre-alpha state. It works, you can hack shaders. You can save and load them but the functionality is still quite limited.
Libraries and Tools
gresiblos (v0.6.0)
gresiblos is a simple blogging system written in Python. It generates static HTML pages from optionally annotated text, markdown, or HTML files.
My blog runs on gresiblos.
degrotesque (v3.0.0)
degrotesque is a “web type setter” written in Python. It replaces plain ASCII-representation of some symbols by a proper, nicer representation.
c64tools (v0.20.0)
c64tools come with tools for char packing, charset extraction and memory visualisation for Commodore c64 application development.
optionslib_java (v1.2.0)
optionslib_java (github project page) helps in processing command line options including type checking and configurations — Java-version.
optionslib_cpp (v1.2.0)
optionslib_cpp (github project page) helps in processing command line options including type checking and configurations — cpp-version.
db2qthelp (v0.2.0)
db2qthelp converts DocBook books to QtHelp projects.
db2qthelp is currently under development.
bib2x (v0.4.0)
bib2x is a tool for parsing and processing BibTeX files.
bib2x is currently under development.
DLR Projects
Legacy
Some applications I developed are outdated as better solutions for the respective problem exist or because of legal issues. Please find them below, for your interest.
- st2gif is a command line tool for converting Atari ST images (.neo, .pi1, .pi2, .pi3) to .gif.
- BluBot — a meta search engine with natural language processing and visualisation I contributed to that has unfortunately been abandoned.
- Well, yes, some decades ago, I was developing some programs for the Commodore c64 and the Commodore c16.