DivNull Software has become responsible for building the Mac OS X release of Anathema, a java-based manager for the Exalted role-playing game. The job consists of turning a Java application in a double-clickable Mac app.
While much of Anathema is not particularly Mac-looking, DivNull will work to make it more so. A post on an Exalted-based forum tracks problems found during the process so far, and their solutions.
After creating five related themes for the phpBB forum software used by an Exated forum, DivNull is releasing them to the public and abandoning them in place.
After a few days of a very bad third beta, the fourth beta test of Omnihedron (v1.0b4) is now available.
The in-progress Win32 version of Omnihedron has been converted into an open source project. It’s source code is now available through SourceForge.
Some new list data for use with Omnihedron has been released by Paizo, the publishers of Dragon magazine. These data provide critical hit tables.
After asking for, and quickly receiving, permission from both the author and Wizards of the Coast, an Omnihedron conversion of Jay Treat’s tables to generate character names using Old English roots and meanings is now available. Mr. Treat’s tables appeared in issue #72 of Dragon Magazine. The tables implemented by this file are ©Wizards of the Coast and are used by permission.
This data set highlights some of Omnihedron’s more subtle power, as the tables follow an interesting logic. There are different tables for the start and end of the name being generated; however, you roll on the table for the end first. Some, but not all, of the end results can also be used in the start of a name. If you hit one of these entries, you make a random roll to see if you use it as the start or the end, and then fill in the rest with a roll on the other table. While most “list rolling” software wouldn’t be able to do this, Omnihedron handles it easily.
The lists may be downloaded on the Omnihedron lists page.
The next beta test of Omnihedron (v1.0b2) is now available.
The next (and last) version of the Win2k File Dialog Customizer is now available for download. This version corrects a few minor bugs.
The standard file dialogs in Windows 2000 contain a bank of shortcut folders that allow you to jump to certain directories instantly. This could be a very useful feature, except that the folders chosen by Microsoft for these shortcuts aren’t anything that most poeple would actually use. The Win2k File Dialog Customizer allows you to edit the registry settings that control these dialogs.
The first beta of the Win32 version of Omnihedron is now available.