PD Utilities listing

Seeing as the main PD demos list takes rather a lot of space, here are the useful and otherwise utilities that have been produced and called freeware by various people. There is also a list of PD games plus some other things.

The names that have (+D) after or are called '+D something' will only work on Disciple or +D disk systems, or emulators that will emulate these interfaces very well (can't promise success for emulators). Also, +3 means it will only work on a +3 - usually because its a disk utility. Here's a key to those weird symbols I've inserted in the list anyway.

KEY TO TYPES

* = Snapshot (so +D/Spectrum-emulator required)
# = Available via ftp as a .SNA or .Z80 ZIPped snapshot from various sites
128 = Needs a 128K Spectrum/emulator which does it ie a 128/+2/+3/+2A or Z80 emulator/XZX?

  1. @ 007 Disassembler
  2. @ Automatic Muse
  3. @ BASIC Fractal drawer
  4. @ BASIC program renumber
  5. @ BetaDOS bug fixer (+D)
  6. @ Char Press (Text character compressor)
  7. @ Clear-all! (Wordmaster util)
  8. @ +D Boot (autobooting menu for quick prog select/load)
  9. @ +D Recover (undeleter disk util)
  10. @ +D Toolkit (Very good disk utility, can copy with 128K)
  11. @ Dataspread (currently non-finished, V0.3)
  12. @ Define a key routine
  13. @ Dictionary (definitions of computer words)
  14. @ DiscEditor (+D)
  15. @ Disc-Kit (+D) (Spirit) (disk utility)
  16. @# DOS copy/+D (converts files from MS-DOS DD to +D)
  17. @ DT Tool+ (+D -> tape copier)
  18. @# E-Sampler (sound sampler)
  19. @ File Compressor (tape-tape copier, not +3/+2A)
  20. @ FileTest 2 (+D) (check the integrity of files on a disk)
  21. @ Fireview 2 (terminal emulator for VTX500)
  22. @ G+DOS bug fix (+D)
  23. @ Ghost! (128k -> more compatible 48k emulator)
  24. @ Grids (grids for UDG designing)
  25. @ H.Q.Press (A code compressor of some sort)
  26. @ Key-define (define keys for playing games routine)
  27. @ Leaver (leaves sections of BASIC in mem, deletes rest)
  28. @ Logobend (distort screens by definable sine-wave patterns)
  29. @ Mad 2 monitor (m/c debugger)
  30. @ Mem usage (reports on memory used by Vars/BASIC)
  31. @ Mikropol Screen Compressor
  32. Mikropol Code Compressor
  33. @ Music Synth 48K (3 channel tunes on 48k beeper!)
  34. @ OpusCopier (+D) (copies single/all files from opus disk -> +D)
  35. @ Opusload (+D) (loads Opus format disks on +D, manually)
  36. @ PC .SNAprun (+D) (loads & runs .SNA files from MS-DOS DD on +D)
  37. @ Pixlogo 2 (Orson of U.Minds) (draw out logos pixel at time so they can be redraw)
  38. @ PKLite (the memory compressor)
  39. @ PKHuff (Huffman memory compressor)
  40. @ Printer screen dump
  41. @ Red Alert (to see if anyones been at your computer)
  42. @ Reflector (draws text using small circles & reflects it)
  43. @ Sampletracker 2 (CMB) (like SoundTracker with samples)
  44. @ Sampletracker 2 Compiler (CBM)
  45. @ Screensaver (but nothing else can be used with this)
  46. @# Soundtracker - V1.1 (BZYK) (128K music writer, I also have a collection of songs for it)
  47. @ Soundtracker Compiler - V1.2 (BZYK) (so you can play tunes from above without loading the above)
  48. @ SpecTerm 6.01 (terminal emulator(s))
  49. @ Speedload (tape loader/saver util)
  50. @ ST Ripper (Zack) (rips off Soundtracker songs)
  51. @ Subbuteo scoreboard (goals/score recorder for subbuteo)
  52. @ Sprog, The (BASIC programming tools)
  53. @ Summer Monitor (m/c monitor)
  54. @ Syntax (+D) (Convert tape/m-drive BASIC syntax to +D)
  55. @ Thingi (+D) (MF style menu for +D snaps, undelete command)
  56. @ TomPacker (Busy/Sapo soft) (code compressor, better than Turbo Imploder.)
  57. @ Transit (+D disk-tape/tape-disk/tape-tape copier)
  58. @ Turbo Imploder (code compressor)
  59. @ Turbo Tools (BASIC programming utils)
  60. @ Typeliner graphics alphabets (needs the Typeliner from PCG)
  61. @ Ultra-208 (+3) (disk formatter, 208K per side)
  62. @ UniScroll (make your own m/c definable scroller)
  63. #@ Voice Manipulator 2 (Sound sampler originally from Crash)
  64. #@ YS Megabasic (BASIC extension & better editor)

As with the other PD list, this is obviously not ALL the programs around and whenever I get the time to write up things and the site gets updated, it may grow but, no promises).

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File last updated: 19 May 1995

Author: John Garner / jmg7@ukc.ac.uk