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Well, it's very very very late, but Dungeon Mapper is now on Github in my own repo area. I'll see if I can at least get into a phase where it can be built on modern systems and accept pull requests, but who knows what else will do with it …

This is just a heads up that the ROTT, Xargon and Shadow Caster mapping and resource extraction scripts have been upgraded to support Python 3.x versions. They should again be easily usable on modern OSes and Distributions. All three projects have been configured on Github in suitable repositories.

A firmware/python pairing to control playback on a Music Player Daemon (MPD) instance using an Arduboy.

To create the most recent Jazz Jackrabbit maps, I leverged and then horribly mangled the code from the OpenJazz project. This post provides downloads for my patch, the resultant source code, and a brief description on how to use it and what I did.

Files

jazzmapper.patch (8.4 kb …

This is a script I wrote to generate an image gallery HTML file for a given folder, or for the Steam Screenshots folder. It will, by default, show the full resolution original image, so it can be useful for browsing a folder of moderate-sized images without having to rely on …

After finding most instructions for downloading Steam grid view images to be out-of-date, and same goes for the only grid view downloader I could find, I wrote my own.

I also put together a quick library that can create a dictionary of Steam applications on a given profile based on …

Converts all mid files in a path to WAV.

About and Dependencies

This is a series of Python scripts to generate maps of Xargon, as well as extract most of the Xargon image resources. These scripts require the Pillow fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL) and Python 3.x. This was tested with Python 3.9.2, but …

About and Dependencies

This is a series of Python scripts to generate Isometric views of Shadow Caster maps, as well as extract most of the Shadow Caster Resources. These scripts require the Pillow fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL) and Python 3.x. This was tested with Python 3 …

About and Dependencies

This is a series of Python scripts to generate Isometric views of Rise of the Triad maps, as well as extract the complete contents of DARKWAR.WAD. These scripts require the Pillow fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL) and Python 3.x. This was tested with …

So, I started using Banshee as my primary music player, but I noticed that it can shuffle by album, it cannot save a static playlist of the shuffle (so I can pick up where I left off). Since it has very nice M3U import/export capabilities, I decided to create …

A precise and keyboard-driven program for recording grid-based dungeon maps.