Software
In the following, you may find some software packages I wrote or contributed to.
Applications
Nibbly2025 (v1.0.0)
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game intro
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settings screen
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)
export dialog
palette browser
interpolation
pattern-based extrapolation
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)
a tree
a 3D Sierpinksi triangle
filled Sierpinksi triangle
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)
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high scores
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)
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rendering example #2
rendering example #3
rendering example #4
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)
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“Mandalas” is an interactive tool for generating what nowadays is called “Mandalas”.
Master of Tiles (v1.0.0)
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game intro
high scores
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)
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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)
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example #2
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
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 (v0.16.0)
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
UrMoAC is a tool for computing accessibility measures.
TAPAS is an agent-based demand modelling application.
SUMO is a microscopic open source road traffic simulation package to which I contributed to between 2001 and 2015. You may as well find some articles about
SUMO in the
blog.
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.
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