The following table summarizes the main features of several free utilities released by SZP; click on the name of the software to access a more detailed datasheet.

Re-Stick

Re-Stick® is a resident Windows utility, whose main purpose is letting you switch on the fly the maps loaded on UltraStik 360 joysticks (see www.ultimarc.com for details). This is accomplished by assigning an "action" to a key (on your keyboard) or to a combination of buttons (on your joystick). There are also additional actions: running a program, stuff keys in the buffer and so on. Every action can also include the selection of a specific window. To let you know what is currently loaded, Re-Stick plays a Wav file with the same name of the configuration whenever you change it; a set of standard configurations and corresponding Wav files is installed with the program. Map loading is performed by invoking in the background UltraMap.

SZ-Notes

SZ-Notes® is a tool for personal productivity that allows to organize and easily find information of any type, organized in categories which are completely configurable. Every topic can have its own alarm, to help you remember things and appointments. SZ-Notes® was written with the aim of creating a simple and flexible tool to save, search and organize information: you can consider it a sort of electronic notes, lightweight and easy to use. Information are organized in categories, that can be added and renamed at will. All the topics can be deleted, renamed, moved or copied to any category.

JoyEmu

JoyEmu is a TSR program that, when installed, poll joystick port and mouse and stuff keyboard buffer simulating keypresses according to device movements; keys to be stuffed, autofire rates, joystick sensibility and read mode, mouse sensibility are only a few of the many settings that can be changed. The emulator can also be removed when no more necessary. For easier configuration, an external program is provided: JoyCP. This Control Panel (that's what 'CP' stands for) allows to set parameters for emulation and save them to files for later use; it can also load previously saved configurations and update resident emulators with new settings; the intuitive interface can be operated with both mouse and keyboard.

EaSZy

EaSZy is a huge collection of Dos utilities, which includes programs to: encrypt, decrypt, split, merge, decode, search, delete, list and manipulate files and to create menus. Long file names are supported under Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000 and XP.

BLlib (Big-Little library)

This library was originally part of Bigoli, a universitary project aimed at the creation of a set of C++ functions for inter-process communication using TCP/IP protocol; the library was never finished, but since this module is useful on its own we decided to make it publicly available. BLlib is a C++ library that can be used to exchange alphanumeric and binary informations between machines that have different architectures, hence its name (Big-Little library).

FormRead

This program allows to read a form received as application/x-www-form-urlencoded which was sent through <form action="mailto:somebody@somewhere.on.the.web" method="POST">. "Read" the form is just one of its uses; actually, FormRead can be used to transform templates by replacing field names with the corresponding values received, or to produce an html representation of the received data. Without this program, if you wanted to process a form, you'd have to either write or dig up routines to translate the values of the form's fields from "URL encoding" to whatever your program required. This was a hassle in C, and a real pain in the shell. Which is where FormRead comes in. It decodes all the form fields and sticks them into your template for easy perusal by a shell script, a C program, a Perl script, or whatever you like, then executes whatever viewer or program you specify. FormRead can be used as a helper for Netscape Navigator, and is shipped with full source code that can be compiled with Borland C and GCC.

SourceMerge

This program can be used to maintain different versions of the same source code. It is especially useful for producing programs in different languages. Since it is very configurable, it can be adopted for many different languages: C, C++, Html, Assembly, Clipper. SourceMerge can be used on text files for Dos/Windows, Macintosh and Unix, even mixed (i.e. library file in one format, source file in another). Text files created have always the same format as the corresponding source file.

Joystick Library for Dos

This small package is aimed at those programmers who would like to add joystick support to some of their programs, but don't want to waste too much time over this feature. With just two functions, you can test the status of both joysticks, including fire buttons; joysticks with 2, 4, 6 and 8 fire buttons are supported.

SUD - Small Utilities for Dos

SUD is a collection of Dos programs that SZP created for personal use (SUD stands for Small Utilities for Dos). This collection includes programs to: search for a hexadecimal sequence; replace sequences of bytes with other sequences; extend or truncate files; merge sorted files; change video mode and blink status; show the pathname of a command in the path; set environment variables according to mouse position.

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