27th June, 2009 PocketZax released for Windows Mobile

After recently picking up a new Windows Mobile device, I was disappointed to find that there weren't any Z-Machine Interactive Fiction interpreters that worked well. There were a couple of existing options, but neither of them looked good or worked properly on my device, particularly when operating in landscape mode.

I therefore decided to set about creating an interpreter that would do everything I needed. And PocketZax is it. Now you can play all those classic adventure games, back to Infocom's greats such as Zork and Enchanter, right up to the huge selection of recent titles created using the Inform compiler.

PocketZax is released as freeware and is compatible with all devices running Windows Mobile 2003SE or later.

6th June, 2009 Tile Fall released for Windows Mobile

Over 12 years after the release of the original version, I have today released another new version of Tile Fall. This time it's a Windows Mobile version of the game, and it's released as freeware.

My main reason for writing this was actually to learn how to develop Windows Mobile software; Tile Fall seemed like a sensible starting point as I'm rather familiar with how it works!

Although there are of course already lots of similar games available for Windows Mobile, I hope you will give Tile Fall a try. I'm rather pleased with some of its features, including some pretty graphics, automatic screen orientation detection on supported devices (like the HTC Touch Diamond/Pro and Samsung Omnia), nice animations, etc. It's definitely my favourite version of the game so far. It should work on all devices running Windows Mobile 2003 SE or later, and supports resolutions from 240x320 up to 480x800 -- full details on the game page itself.

Give it a try and see what you think. Have fun!

11th October, 2008 TellyPrompter v1.5 released

Version 1.5 of TellyPrompter is now available. This version contains some small improvements and fixes, including the ability to view channels from other regions, automatic storing of you window positions and remembering whether you were using the programme List or Grid view when restarting. Full details are on the TellyPrompter page.

As always, you can upgrade your existing version quickly and easily by selecting Help / Check for Updates from with TellyPrompter. The new version will be downloaded and installed automatically.

17th September, 2008 TellyPrompter v1.4 released

Version 1.4 of TellyPrompter is now available. This version adds region and category information to the channel list, provides new options to copy and email programme details, as well as a number of further useful options. Full details are on the TellyPrompter page.

As always, you can upgrade your existing version quickly and easily by selecting Help / Check for Updates from with TellyPrompter. The new version will be downloaded and installed automatically.

12th September, 2008 Visual Studio 2008 support added for ADCollectionsVisualizer

I have now added support for Visual Studio 2008 to ADCollectionsVisualizer. New downloads for the automatic installer, binaries and source files are available from the ADCollectionsVisualizer page.

10th September, 2008 ADCollectionsVisualizer v1.2 now available with support for Generic collections

Another update to my ADCollectionsVisualizer extension for Visual Studio 2005 is now available. This version adds support for all of the System.Collections.Generic classes.

As before, the source-code is included with this release so if you are interested you can download and examine how it all works.

13th August, 2008 TellyPrompter v1.3 released

Version 1.3 of TellyPrompter is now available. This version contains a number of enhancements to the search functions, allowing whole word and phrase searches to be used in your criteria as well as the option to ignore repeat showings of programmes.

Other enhancements include a change to the startup Notification window so that if full descriptions are switched off, the programme subtitle is still displayed and the description can be seen by hovering the mouse pointer over the programmes.

This version also finally fixes the "Parameter name: s" bug which several people have reported to me. If you've had problems with that in the past, please try again with this new version.

There are several other minor fixes and enhancements which can be read about in more detail on the TellyPrompter page.

As always, you can upgrade your existing version quickly and easily by selecting Help / Check for Updates from with TellyPrompter. The new version will be downloaded and installed automatically.

31st May, 2008 TellyPrompter v1.2 released

Version 1.2 of TellyPrompter is now available. Unfortunately the listing provider used up until now had slowly started dropping channels until there were very few left, so this version of TellyPrompter switches to using the Radio Times feed. This increases the channel count up to approximately 170, more than double the previous count.

There are also several smaller features, such as notifications when new channels become available, being able to print the listing data, and the list and grid auto-scrolling to the current programme.

You can get the new version by downloading it from the TellyPrompter page, or by selecting the Help/Check For Updates menu item in the previous version, which will download and install the update automatically.

3rd February, 2008 TellyPrompter v1.1 released

Version 1.1 of TellyPrompter is now available. The main new feature is a rather neat programme grid, which displays all of your channels together so that you can view the whole day's viewing in one place.

Smaller features include real-time updates of the programme list and grid displays, and a new "check for updates" feature to make upgrading easier in the future.

25th January, 2008 TellyPrompter v1.0 released

I have just released the first version of a new freeware application which TV fans in the UK may find useful.

TellyPrompter is a TV listings guide and reminder service, covering 70 UK TV stations and 10 radio stations. Its main purpose is to allow you to configure flexible reminders for programmes you are interested in watching. TellyPrompter will then notify you of all forthcoming programmes each time you start your PC.

You can also use it to browse the next week of programme listings and to perform searches through all of the listings.

There are lots of options and different ways of using the application -- for more information and to download, see the TellyPrompter information page.