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Click here for a background melody (by Mariah Carey), or here for my favorite clip of her marvelous voice.
Click here for instructions on boiling Crawfish, or here for my favorite wallpaper, or here for my family crest (Scottish),

OR if you know exactly which file you are looking to download, simply go here.


Stormy Weather Tracking :

Click to D/L Hurricane Tracking System, or FREQ STORM {700 kB Self Install} Click for CFS review
Sample Console Images: Gulf Map, Hemisphere Map, Tracking Chart or Statistics

STORM v3D is my Stormy Weather Tracking System, updated for 2007 { FREEware } a PD Port of the Original HURRTRAK.BAS published in July 1981 BYTE by John E. Bailey, PC Mods by Marty Smith, then further enhanced by me, for specific locations ONLY! Compatible with all DOS versions including Windows. Defaults to warnings for Lafayette LA (Visual and Audible), with History from 1851 thru 2006 (over 1,300 Storms), Statistical Analysis, Forecasting, Multiple Plots and a NHC/NOAA Interface to import future Track History (see TRACKS.DOC). Custom versions for other locales by request. Just execute Storm3D.Exe to Install! Alternately, the biggest change is a new statistics master file which can be upgraded simply by copying file HISTORY.MST to your Storm (C:\STM usually) folder.

Click to D/L Replacement for HISTORY.ZIP in Storm3D above *IF* running FreeDOS under Linux+DOSEmu only! {500 kB} AFTER installing Storm3D.Exe, simply UnZip into Storm folder (C:\STM usually) then execute INSTHIST.BAT. You can delete the REPORTS.ZIP file.

Click to D/L Executable ONLY for Pensacola, FL {54 kB Self installing}

Future NHC/NOAA Track History Updates can be obtained [here], Create file TRACKSyy.ATL directly in your Storm Directory then run TRACKS.EXE (see TRACKS.DOC).

The Official FAQ: Hurricanes, Typhoons and Tropical Cyclones by Christopher W. Landsea at NOAA can be found [here], an outstanding Online reference, also included in Text format in my Storm package above.

N.O.A.A. Home N.W.S. Home N.H.C. Home

DASD Vision :

Click to D/L DASD Vision x86/AT, or FREQ DVISION {114 kB Self Installing}

DASD Vision {tm} x86 v3.G (Apr 2001) is a Disk & File Maintenance tool(s) package for MS-DOS (v5/6/7/8.x) environments. The main program is an Interactive (light-bar type) File Manager with Auto DOS command execution. 100% compatible with any program due to zero memory footprint during shell. Directory structure shown AS IS with ALL Attributes & ALL Files indicated. Options for Sorting, repetitive Executions, Command Recall, Online Help, DASD Allocations, etc.
Compatible with Windows 3.x/95/98SE/NT4/XP/Vista, OS/2 Warp & Linux DOSEmu v0.98+, PD Freeware :)

SysReq TSR :

Click to D/L System Request TSR for stand-alone DOS {40kB}

SysReq is a DOS TSR to re-direct the Print Screen key to a file on the hard drive. In addition, the Alt+SysRq key will display the current value of the RTC (Real-time Clock). See SYSREQ.ASM for a technical description plus additional functions of the TSR. Assembly source code included. For stand-alone DOS ONLY! NO Windows ...
PD Freeware :)

M y   O t h e r   U t i l i t i e s

Miscellaneous Utility programs with Source code: x86 Assembly

Misc Supporting Software:

FDIMAGE.ZIP is here, a collection of Free and/or Public Domain Floppy diskette Imaging/Catalog system utilities for Boot and/or Data diskettes as well as Extraction from ANY supported HD/FD image file. Includes 2File, 2Floppy, CopyQM, FD144, FDImage, FDWrite, FloIma, LoadDskF, FDCopy, SaveDskF, RAWRead, RAWrite, RAWrite2, ResQFlpy, RWFloppy, ExtractI, ImageDisk, Img and documentation. (416 kB)

MHIDE97.ZIP is here, a collection of Free IDE utilities from Microhouse (1997) to Query, Swap, Save and Restore System areas (MBR, Partition Table, FAT, etc.) to Floppy/elsewhere (includes CMOS & Extended CMOS). (191 kB)
Note: The main programs (IDE/info, Save & Restore) are full-screen interactive type programs that will display everything one needs to know for each step. All work great with Drives up to 80 GB (tested). A set of "Help" files (*.txt) are also included for reference.

The best text editor ever written (IMHO) is PC-Write, so grab v2.55 here).

To bridge the gap between a DOS Packet Driver like PPPD and an Int14/Fossil driven Terminal program (with Zmodem transfers) get TelnetPort.

If you are trying to extract files from any .ARC type archive (and having problems) grab XArc.

Note: If DOS displays an error message about "BRun??.Exe not found", you need to download one of these: BRUN10.ZIP, BRUN20.ZIP, BRUN30.ZIP, BRUN40.ZIP, or BRUN45.ZIP. (Microsoft Compiler Basic Runtimes) UnZip, then move file BRUNnn.EXE to your DOS Path or application sub-dir where the error occurred.

Note: All .ZIP and .MP3 downloads can be authenticated using MD5Sums.Txt plus the Win/DOS program MD5Sum.Zip (For program x-x, type "MD5SUM x-x.zip >x-x.md5", then compare MD5 string/Hash in x-x.md5 to md5sums.txt).

Additional hard-to-find DOS utilities plus my favorite 16-bit Windows 3.x Internet packages can be found here, ALL Freeware, of course.

My Electronics Projects :

8-14 VDC, 1 Amp Power Supply Schematics { 25 kB Self Installing }
Appliance Leakage Tester Schematic { 25 kB Self Installing }, based on a working Prototype

Text version My Favorite Links :

The ART Of Assembly Language Programming, by Randall Hyde,
Your Name (.GIF) in Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics,
Test your Browser's Crypto strength,
Family-Crests.Org,

SETI@Home Help us find E.T. !

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