Windows Public Download Files
The files listed in this section are programs written by me that are available for general public download. These are freeware unless explicitly stated otherwise.
The windows programs are all written in various exremely old versions of delphi (I think I ported them as far as version 5) and are no longer actively being maintained.
Source code is no longer available; still looking for some old backups on CD I may have somewhere but all active sourcecode was lost when I was burgled (they took all the external drives, which included my backup drive, both mirrors of the backup drive, and the external drive that contained the backup clonezilla images for my dev machine, which they did not steal because it was sitting there with the case poped open waiting for to to put in a new internal drive, they did steal the old broken internal drive sitting on top of the machine the idiots). Oh, and I have uninstalled Delphi as well anyway so am not looking for the source code too hard... wish I still had an old copy of Kylix though.
Standalone Databases
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Recipe Database 2MB .exe windows installer
(PDF manual available)
This is a recipe database, origionally written in 1999 for DOS (asm/pascal) that has since been ported to Delphi. It is designed for my home batchelour use with its main goal being a good search facility; ie: I can find any recipe with bacon and asparagas that takes less than twenty minutes to cook and is an appetiser. It does not have calorie counters or shopping lists. You will need 30MB free to install this program due to the size of its existing database (over 700 recipes pre-installed).
The entire database can be dumped out as static html pages (example here).
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VHS and DVD catalogue 1MB .exe windows installer
A video and DVD catalogue program. It provides searches on recorded information (ie: all movies with Sandra Bullock that are science fiction and are less than 90 minutes in length). It also provides a user tracking database (and reporting system) so you can track who you lend your videos to, how long they take to return them, what their borrowing preferences are etc.
Note: this windows application uses windows registry keys under HKEY_USER/Software/Dickinson
Also the entire database may be- exported as linked HTML pages (unfortunately with the windows \ for directories used in the pages so it breaks under *nix systems so no example available online, if you have a windows machine yourself there is an example dump here from 2008 that could be used under windows)
- or exported as commands to create and load a MySQL database, and there is a functioning PHP/MySQL web application that provides about 95% of the functionality of the windows app to use the database, plus extra few extra features in the web app (as I decided to enhance the origional dump as nothing but a mysql database to include something that could also use the database).
Unfortunately this is such an old app the PHP4/5 code is incompatible with PHP7, so I have removed the link to download the php application until I one day get around to converting it to support current releases of php.
Miscellaneous Utilities
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Display Pictures in an HTML page 325K .exe file (really usefull)
I wrote this in response to the amount of pictures I kept getting e-mailed as attachements, now I just detach them to a directory and run this program over them to create an html page that displays them all. It will search for GIF, BMP, JPG and JPEG files to include in the page.
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Home Grocery Inventory 200K .zip file
This is a small grocery inventory. It keeps track of what items you have and as long as you remember to use it each time you use something shows what needs to be re-purchased. Can produce a shopping list. If you use my old contacts program it will share that contacts database rather than creating its own, if you don't (and I no longer ship it) it will just create its own. There is more information available.
Note: this application uses windows registry keys under HKEY_USER/Software/Dickinson
Archived Stuff
Some old DOS text based text adventure games. I did not write these and have no idea where they origionally came from or even if they have any sort of copyright, but these are over 20yrs old now and only of interest to old timers like me. They are DOS games so will need to run in DOS application such as DosBox, although it may be possible Windows7/10 still support 8086 binary code from the shell prompt.