Welcome to The Happy Cat's Home

This is where you can find out about some of the development projects I've been working on recently.

Projects

The following programs are available:

Gun Wing - a simple little vertical shoot-em-up that I've been writting in Blitz3D. Not quite finished yet, but a demo is available. Used to be called Eridani.
Ptolemy - an interactive map for CRPGs that allows you to easily add, edit and find locations. A map for Morrowind is also available.
SafePad - a text editor that saves encrypted files.
Poop 2 - a basic contact list organiser designed with a USB flash drive in mind.
Hestia - a filecopy/backup utility designed to let you use a USB flash drive to easily transport files back and forth between PCs.
Saturn - a task tracker that I use to keep track of what needs to be done for each of my development projects.

The Microsoft .Net Framework

Just a quick warning that the stuff I've been developing recently (with the exception of Gun Wing) has all been written with the Microsoft .Net Framework. I use .Net because it's what I use at work every day and I find it very efficient to develop with. If you don't like or want .Net then I'm afraid these programs aren't for you.

Support

I should also point out that most of these programs (with the exception of Gun Wing, and possibly Ptolemy) were written for my own use. So, while I'm happy to accept bug reports and feature requests, I'm afraid there's no guarantee that they will be acted upon. Also, I'll try to offer what support I can, but I won't always be able to respond promptly.

News

31 January 2007

There's a new demo of Gun Wing (formerly called Eridani). It's nearly finished now. Get the new demo on the Gun Wing page.

22 January 2007

Saturn v1.6 available. Main addition is a new SQL Server mode. More details on the Saturn page.

20 June 2006

Saturn v1.5 available. Details on the Saturn page.

20 April 2006

Saturn v1.4 available. Lots of new stuff - details on the Saturn page.

24 March 2006

Saturn v1.3 available. Lots of additions and an upgrade to .Net 2.0 - details on the Saturn page.

16 February 2006

Saturn v1.2 available. Lots more additions - details on the Saturn page.

27 September 2005

Redesigned the site's style sheet.

15 September 2005

Saturn v1.1 available. Lots of additions - details on the Saturn page.

8 August 2005

Eridani Demo now available.

Saturn released. Saturn is a task tracker that I use to keep track of what needs to be done for each of my development projects.

20 May 2005

Hestia v1.3 available. Added ability to pick which backups to perform (more details on the Hestia page).

7 April 2005

Hestia v1.2 available. Fixed a silly bug in the unzipping code (more details on the Hestia page) and added the ability to ignore files based on their file extensions.

Ptolemy v1.4 available. Added spoiler locations. Locations that are deemed to be spoilers (for the Morrowing map that means any locations not named on the paper maps included with the game) can be hidden by de-selecting the Show Spoiler Locations option in the View menu.

4 April 2005

Ptolemy v1.3 available. Set "Force System Video Memory" option to on by default. Feedback from Morrowing Summit suggests that it's a lot more compatible that way.

1 April 2005

Hestia v1.1 available. Adds support for zip files (more details on the Hestia page).

Ptolemy v1.2 available. Fixes a bug which could cause saved maps to be invalid (details in the Version History on the Ptolemy page).

30 March 2005

Ptolemy v1.1 available. Fixes a couple of bugs (details in the Version History on the Ptolemy page).

Poop v2.1 available. Fixes a bug in the birthday/anniversary reporting (details in the Version History on the Poop 2 page).

25 March 2005

Initial public releases of Ptolemy, SafePad, Poop 2 and Hestia.