five75 project
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Five75
Possibly a dumb name, but regardless, this is a project to develop third-party software
for the operating system Haiku, including an IDE and a photo-editor. All software is
free software under the GPL, and is intended to complement the default install of the
Haiku base image.
I am using Haiku full-time and am attempting to fill in some of the gaps in application
support as I see them. I hope that this work will be useful to others and help support
the Haiku project.
The apps currently on the list are as follows:
- An IDE/Programmer's Editor
Haiku comes out-of-the-box with both PE and vim, and there are other IDEs available,
but I did not find any of these sufficient for serious development work. I have written
an Editor/IDE, currently named Sisong, which is somewhat similar to the
Win32 editor Notepad++.
- Intr~Doodle
An online game, a screensaver, and a living doodle: Intr~Doodle is a
little bit of each. With Intr~Doodle you can sketch anything you want
in real-time on a persistant virtual canvas shared with other Haiku users.
(Get binary from Haikuware).
- Photo-Editor
I have code I wrote for a Photoshop clone, working name "Ophyrus", which was written in C for Win32.
It was in beta stage and reasonably usable when I aborted the project due to it becoming
too complex to keep track of. It would need to be refactored into C++ to reduce the complexity
and all the Win32 code converted to Be API, then development on it can continue. I think there's
some good code in there and it's probably worth reviving, especially since one of the main reasons
I reboot into Windows is to use Photoshop.
- Assembly-level debugger
I am considering writing an assembly-level debugger, similar to OllyDbg. I am not
sure if there is anything like this already.
- Assorted games
I am porting some of my SDL games to Haiku. The biggest news
here is CloneKeen, which is actually at a higher
version (8.4) than the latest Windows build (8.3), so you can tell people that Haiku
gets new games before Windows. Links coming soon.
- SDL patch
I didn't write SDL obviously, but there is a bug in the stable version (1.23)
on BeOS-like platforms that can break your fullscreen by selecting the wrong resolution.
But the good news is I patched it, and you can find pre-built binaries and source files
here. (Intended for those who don't want to mess
with attempting to compile SDL 1.3 from the SVN, which has a different, but also effective,
patch to do the same).
- SeaTone
SeaTone is a program that makes arcade-style sound effects using sound synthesis.
You can see the old Win32 version here.
Anyway, I intend to go back over the code and update it to Be API, then re-release
it as open source (is currently just freeware).
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