This is a branch of the X11 terminal emulator unicode-rxvt (itself a branch of the rxvt terminal) with several modifications to make it more useful for Roguelike development, as well as BBSing. It has 512 user-defined colours, uses Unicode fonts, can report all keyboard and mouse events (not just characters pressed), and is still a full-fledged terminal emulator.
This is a convenient little hack based on GNU iconv. Unlike that utility, which converts files, TTYConv converts interactive sessions, performing two-way conversion and taking care of other issues with interactive sessions.
In 2003, I was presented with a lovely Logitech optical mouse (an MX500). It had a wheel (not an ubiquitous feature then), no fewer than eight buttons, and an excellent 800 cpi resolution. Unfortunately, Linux would see it as a 400 cpi device, and two of the buttons would echo the wheel motion. A bit of quick research on the web uncovered the sage advice ‘you can't do anything about the extra buttons, live with it’. It also uncovered a list of vendor-specific USB control commands for Logitech mice (proving yet again that the majority of Linux users are no longer producers but ― at best ― consumers).
For a few years, back in simpler times, I used Jon Atkins' imwheel to get X11 to understand the many buttons on my old Primax mouse. Traditionally, X11 only allowed for up to six buttons, and mine had eight (two were used for wheel events, as always). Imwheel allowed me to translate the buttons X11 didn't know about to key events (but not before I hacked it a bit).
I have had a homebrew moon phase calculator for various LiveJournal (and similar) sites for a while. It's come to my attention that to this day, no-one does this. Strange, considering so many cultures base so much around the moon and a lunar calendar (unlike the solar Gregorian Calendar in prevailing use all over the world). So, without further ado, behold the moon phase calculator in S2!
RSAR treats datasets by removing attributes that are unnecessary for a classification task. It performs greedy feature selection using various versions of the QuickReduct algorithm. It is useful in reducing redundancies in nominally-valued (i.e. discrete) datasets for exploration or as a preprocessing step to training machine learning algorithms on the data.
DungeonMaker makes complex random dungeons according to the designer's specifications. They can be as random or as deterministic as you want. The complex, organic look of the generated dungeons comes from the use of Artificial Life techniques: tunnels and walls are built by a-life creatures moving around the map. This is a modernised build of the library, packaged for modern distributions of modern operating systems.
This small Python program converts ANSI art to raster images. It simulates a PC's text mode using different VGA soft fonts (or EGA, or the CGA ROM font) and renders colourful BBS graphics, affectionately known as ANSI (after the ANSI.SYS MS-DOS driver that rendered them back in the day).
