DECWindows Archive - New Additions - 19xx

For each software, you'll find the category, the author(s), the licence, the minimal version of compilers and VMS (tested by me) for VAX & Alpha. Each kit contains generally full sources and documentation plus binaries (object and executables) for both VAX and Alpha unless the contrary is specified.

Pour chaque logiciel, vous trouverrez la catégorie, l'auteur, le type de license, la version minimale de compilateur et de VMS (que j'ai testé) pour VAX et Alpha. Chaque kit contient en général les sources complets ainsi que la documentation, plus les binaires (objets et exécutables) pour VAX et Alpha.

This set of GUS compatible patches is a complement to the set described in Timidity 0.2i section . You first need to install these original patches before to install this update.

This set gives you improved instruments (gloken, clavinet, musicbox, church, concertina, odguitar, violin, marcato, choir, tuba and others). You also have alternate banks with lots of sound effects (banks 1 to 9, 16 & 72) and alternate drumsets (9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 24, 25, 48, 49, 50, 53, 56) added to original drumsets (0, 8, 40). You'll re-discover some of your midi files

These patches were grabbed from the fantastic archive of Masano Izumo (33 Mbytes worth of patches !!) available from the Timidity++ Web page and from the EAW archive.

13-JUN-1999 : new set of configuration files with more complete drumsets 49 and 50, drumset 127 and various mods.

28-JUN-1999: New ethnic patch set and mods to gsdrum25, mazpat, release and sfx patch sets; various mods into configuration files.

30-JUN-1999: Reedorg patch was missing from timidity_new_samples archive. You can dowload now the corrected version (however, timidity-1999-patches must be installed after timidity_new_samples to have correct version of config files).

19-JUL-1999 : New real acoustic guitar, new Santur (Dulcimer), new Harp and some other mods relative to EAW Patches version 5.

4-SEP-1999: New version of Violin patche. New sustain.cfg config file to manage sustain time. Some tweaks to config files.

9-OCT-1999: Massive udpade consecutive to the release of EAW patches version 6. New gong and tabla patches, new Roomkixk and Revcym, Snareroll, Ocarina, Scratch1 & 2, Newage, Mutetrum, Epiano1 & 2 and lots of new SFX. New verison of configuration files

19-DEC-1999: Massive update consecutive to the release of EAW patche version 7. New harp, sqrclick and slap patch.New bubbles1 patch. New helicopter, harmonca, tenorsax, soprnsax & recorder. New version of configuration files.

Timidity 1999 patches from CNAM

TiMidity++ Web Page

TiMidity New Samples from CNAM

The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine library. It has been developed to provide TT support to a great variety of platforms and environments.

Freetype 1.2 from CNAM

Freetype Project Web Page

This new and enhanced version of Timidity can play in real time MIDI and MOD files (plain or zipped files). GUS patches as well as SoundFont are supported (I've not tested SoundFont yet). Events and effects supported:

    NoteOn/Off, KeyPressure, Program, ChannelPressure, Pitchwheel,
    ToneBank, ModulationWheel, MainVolume, Panning, Expression,
    Sustain, Portamento, DataEntry, ReverbEffect, ChorusEffect,
    RPN+/-, NRPN, RPN, AllSoundsOff, ResetControllers, AllNotesOff,
    Mono/Poly Part, RandomPan, KeyShift,
    TempoChange, Lyric, InsertText, KARAOKE-Part(@KMIDI),
    MasterVolume, MIDI-Reset, SystemExclusiveMessages

Two visual interfaces are supported : dumb and full screen VT100
Two audio cards supported: AMD 8 bit and Microsoft Compatible 16 bits stereo

The lyric and Karaoke extensions are very nice, the lyrics are displayed synchronously with the music, even in dumb and VT100 interfaces !!

Improvements into voice reduction algorithms to give better sound quality with a reduced CPU usage.

Two GUS patches are provided with the source kit, but you'll soon need to download sound samples. Scroll up a little this page to find them.

Timidity++ 2.8.0 from CNAM

TiMidity++ Web Page

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Reference Library (Libpng 1.0.5 and zlib 1.1.3)

Png 1.0.5 from CNAM

PNG Web Page

  WaoN is a Wave-to-Notes transcriber, that is, the inverse of '
  timidity' (and its descendants timidity++, and timidity with Gtk+).
  ("WaoN" also has a meaning of harmony of notes or chord in Japanese!)

Waon makes intensive use of Discrete Fourier Transforms via the FFTW library. I've ported under VMS FFTW v 2.1.2 (not difficult, just a recompile). FFTW sources and object libraries are provided with Waon kit. BTW, the result is fine and Waon is really (with some playing with parameters) able to produce a midi file sometimes very close of the original (if you only have one instrument).

Waon 1.0a from CNAM

Waon Web page

FFTW Web Page

The DrFermi tabulator program is a program to convert an ASCII file containing music notated in tablature (tabulature) using certain conventions (very close to those of Mario d'Alesio Tab Notator) to a MIDI file. That file can subsequently be played using a sequencer or a midi player.

Tabul V 1.0 from CNAM

Tabul Home Page

Lame is a program which can be used to create compressed audio files. (Lame aint MP3 encoder). These audio files can be played back by popular mp3 players such as mpg123. Many options are available to balance quality and speed.

Lame 3.50 from CNAM

Lame Web Page

Vim is an almost compatible version of the UNIX editor Vi. Many new features have been added: multi level undo, syntax highlighting, command line history, on-line help, filename completion, block operations, etc. There is also a Graphical User Interface (GUI) available under X Window.

Vim 5.5 sources from CNAM

Vim official site

Vim on VMS site

Vim 5.5 binaries from CNAM

This new and enhanced version of Timidity can play in real time MIDI and MOD files (plain or zipped files). GUS patches as well as SoundFont are supported (I've not tested SoundFont yet). Many new effects are now available:

   ChannelPressure, ModulationWheel,
   Portamento, ReverbEffect, ChorusEffect, RPN+/-,
   Mono/Poly Part, Lyric, KARAOKE-Part(@KMIDI),
   and SystemExclusiveMessages

A VT100 interface is available if you are tired of the dumb interface. The lyric and Karaoke extensions are very nice, the lyrics are displayed synchronously with the music, even in dumb and VT100 interfaces !!

Improvements into voice reduction algorithms to give better sound quality with a reduced CPU usage.

Two GUS patches are provided with the source kit, but you'll soon need to download sound samples. Scroll down a little this page to find them.

Timidity++ 2.5.1 from CNAM

TiMidity++ Web Page

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

New with V 0.90: PDF 1.3 partial support, new "backward" & "forward" buttons, zoom menu.

Xpdf 0.90 from CNAM

Xpdf Web page

This new and enhanced version of Timidity can play in real time MIDI and MOD files. GUS patches as well as SoundFont are supported (I've not tested SoundFont yet). Many new effects are now available:

   ChannelPressure, ModulationWheel,
   Portamento, ReverbEffect, ChorusEffect, RPN+/-,
   Mono/Poly Part, Lyric, KARAOKE-Part(@KMIDI),
   and SystemExclusiveMessages

A VT100 interface is available if you are tired of the dumb interface. The lyric and Karaoke extensions are very nice, the lyrics are displayed synchronously with the music, even in dumb and VT100 interfaces !!

Two GUS patches are provided with the source kit, but you'll soon need to download sound samples. Scroll down a little this page to find them.

Timidity++ 2.2.0 from CNAM

TiMidity++ Web Page

Mpeg audio layer 1, 2 and 3 real-time player. It's a near fully rewritten version based on the mpegaudio (FHG-version) package.The DCT algorithm in the synthesis filter is a rewritten version of the DCT first seen in the maplay package, which was written by Tobias Bading (bading@cs.tu-berlin.de).The rewrite was neccassary, because the GPL may not allow this copyright mix. The mpegaudio package was written by various people from the MPEG/audio software simulation group. The maplay is under GPL .. You can find the original source code and the mpegaudio package on: ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de

It is only available with OpenVMS Alpha systems with a 16 bits sound card and MMOV (MultiMedia services for OpenVMS) installed (Alphastations 200, 250, 255, 500, 600). The support of Ensoniq cards (PWS, XP900) is scheduled in a few months with a new version of MMOV.

This version is a little faster than previous (0.59O) and some bugs with audible impact are corrected (see CHANGES. file).

Mpg123 0.59R from CNAM

Mpg123 Web Page

GIFLIB is a package of portable tools and library routines for working with GIF images. You can find the latest version at the GIFLIB home page

GIFLIB 3.0.2 from CNAM

GIFLIB Web Page

GV allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a better user interface for the Ghostscript interpreter. Please note that gv is derived from Tim Theisen's ghostview 1.5.

This distributions includes XAW3D and XMU libraries.

13-JUN-1999: Bug fixed to allow viewing of gzipped ps files with large bitmaps (thanks to Jerôme Lauret).

GV 3.5.8 source from CNAM

GhostView Web Page

Ghostview Screenshot

GV 3.5.8 exe (VAX VMS 6.1) from CNAM

GV 3.5.8 exe (Alpha VMS 6.2) from CNAM

This new and enhanced version of Timidity can play in real time MIDI and MOD files. GUS patches as well as SoundFont are supported (I've not tested SoundFont yet). Many new effects are now available:

   ChannelPressure, ModulationWheel,
   Portamento, ReverbEffect, ChorusEffect, RPN+/-,
   Mono/Poly Part, Lyric, KARAOKE-Part(@KMIDI),
   and SystemExclusiveMessages

A VT100 interface is available if you are tired of the dumb interface. The lyric and Karaoke extensions are very nice, the lyrics are displayed synchronously with the music, even in dumb and VT100 interfaces !!

Two GUS patches are provided with the source kit, but you'll soon need to download sound samples. Scroll down a little this page to find them.

Timidity++ 2.0.2 sources from CNAM

TiMidity++ Web Page

Timidity++ 2.0.2 from CNAM

XEphem version 3.2 is an interactive astronomical ephemeris program for X Windows systems with Motif. It provides many graphical views as well as quantitative heliocentric, geocentric and topocentric information for Earth satellites, solar system and celestial objects.

May 10 1999 update: Bug related to GSC catalogs cache directory corrected, thanks to Klaus.Schneider@leica-geosystems.com (related files: FSMENU.C and GSC.C)

Xephem 3.2 sources from CNAM

Xephem 3.2 binaries from CNAM

Xephem Web Page

Xephem 3.2 Screenshots

This is a Tamagotchi emulator (you know, that silly LCD game from Ban Dai).
This version is still not complete. For example the pet won't die when it
should... Etc. Under development...

Xtamaga binaries provided are statically linked against QT 1.33 (I've made a quick VMS port of this framework, but I cannot distribute it actually). Sources are also provided but are useless now, unless you port QT on VMS yourself :-)

Xtamaga 0.2 from CNAM

Xtamaga 0.2 Screenshots

ImageMagick, version 4.2.1, is a package for display and interactive manipulation of images for the X Window System. It is written in C and interfaces to the X library, and therefore does not require any proprietary toolkit in order to compile. Although the software is copyrighted, it is available for free and can be redistributed without fee.

The ImageMagick image display program can display an image on any workstation screen running an X server. It can read and write many of the many of the more popular image formats including JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD. In addition you can interactively resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work. In addition to the image display program, ImageMagick also has command line programs that perform many functions and efefcts.

ImageMagick 4.2.1 sources from CNAM

ImageMagick Web Page

Mesa is a 3-D graphics library with an API which is very similar to that of OpenGL. To the extent that Mesa utilizes the OpenGL command syntax or state machine, it is being used with authorization from Silicon Graphics, Inc. However, the author makes no claim that Mesa is in any way a compatible replacement for OpenGL or associated with Silicon Graphics, Inc. Those who want a licensed implementation of OpenGL should contact a licensed vendor.

Since version 2.0 Mesa implements the OpenGL 1.1 API specification.
Only a few features are not yet implemented:

        trimmed NURBS
        line and polygon antialiasing
        glGetPolygonStipple function
        glGetTexImage

Mesa 2.5 and later includes Mark Kilgard's GLUT library (GL Utility Toolkit).
GLUT is built automatically on systems which support it.

To obtain the latest complete release of GLUT please visit
http://reality.sgi.com/employees/mjk_asd/glut3/glut3.html

Mesa 2.5 from CNAM

Oonsoo is a solitaire card game. The goal of the game is to arrange twelve suits of cards, in order, onto twelve playing decks. When the game starts, one card face down and one card face up is dealt to each of the playing decks.

Oonsoo 1.1 from CNAM

Oonsoo Web Page

Oonsoo 1.1 Screenshot

Rosegarden is a free integrated musical notation editor and MIDI sequencer for Unix & VMS X11 platforms, with specific support for Linux PCs and SGI IRIX workstations.

This kit is an Xaw3d simple support update (by relinking against static Xaw3d libraries) and contains executables and modified files from the original distribution.

Rosegarden 2.1 Xaw3d from CNAM

Rosegarden Web Page

The asclock is a clock written to emulate the date/time application on the NEXTSTEP(tm) operating system. asclock supports multiple languages, military and AM/PM time formats, program execution, and the shape extention to X-Windows.

Asclock 1.0 from CNAM

Asclock 1.0 Screenshot

Html 3.2 compliant version of Mosaic Web browser. Features full table support, font colors and sizes, image animations, progressive display etc ...

Mosaic 3.2 from CNAM

Mosaic 3.2 official ftp site

This new and enhanced version of Timidity can play in real time MIDI and MOD files. GUS patches as well as SoundFont are supported (I've not tested SoundFont yet). Many new effects are now available:

   ChannelPressure, ModulationWheel,
   Portamento, ReverbEffect, ChorusEffect, RPN+/-,
   Mono/Poly Part, Lyric, KARAOKE-Part(@KMIDI),
   and SystemExclusiveMessages

A new VT100 interface is now available if you are tired of the dumb interface. The lyric and Karaoke extensions are very nice, the lyrics are displayed synchronously with the music, even in dumb and VT100 interfaces !!

Two GUS patches are provided with the source kit, but you'll soon need to download sound samples. Goto the audio page to find them

10-FEB-1999: update of AAA_VMS.NOTES file and add TIMIDITY.CFG config file.

Timidity++ 1.2.1 sources from CNAM

TiMidity++ Web Page

Timidity++ 1.2.1 from CNAM

There are 72 tiles, two of each combination of six colors and six shapes.
At the start of the game, there are six tiles on the board representing
each shape and color.  To place an additional tile on the board, you
must match at least one adjacent tile according to the following rules:
  - To match a single tile, you must match either the color or shape.
  - To match two tiles, you must match one shape and one color.
  - To match three tiles, you must match two colors and one shape OR two
    shapes and one color.
  - To match four tiles, you must match two colors and two shapes.

Resurrection of an old port found on the DECUS X11R4 Alpha Distribution

Ishido 1.0 from CNAM

Ishido 1.0 Screenshot

Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects interactively under the X Window System. It runs under X version 11 release 4 or higher and requires a two- or three-button mouse. file specifies the name of a file to be edited. The description of objects in the file will be read at the start of xfig.

The binary kit provides VAX and Alpha executables as well as all libraries (Jpeg, XPM, Xaw3D, XMU and Xfif object library) needed for relink.

Xfig 3.2 sources from CNAM

Xfig 3.2 Screenshot

Xfig 3.2 binaries from CNAM

NEdit is a standard GUI (Graphical User Interface) style text editor for programs and plain-text files. Users of Macintosh and MS Windows based text editors should find NEdit a familiar and comfortable environment. NEdit provides all of the standard menu, dialog, editing, and mouse support, as well as all of the standard shortcuts to which the users of modern GUI based environments are accustomed. For users of older style Unix editors, welcome to the world of mouse-based editing!

Nedit 5.0 sources from CNAM

Nedit 5.0 Screenshot

Nedit 5.0 binaries from CNAM

xmfm is a file manager that shows files as icons in panes. It divides the display of a directory into three areas, executable files, directories and ordinary files to distinguish between them. When a file is selected a range of actions can be performed on it. This is configurable on a per user basis. xmfm also allows arbitrary programs to be run from within it.

Now ported under Alpha/VMS (by Jerome Lauret). Old VAX C object files are always available. This version was tested under Motif 1.2, but XMFM is able to be built under older DECW/Motif versions.

Xmfm from CNAM

Xmfm Screenshot

   CTWM is an extension to twm, that support multiple virtual screens,
 and a lot of other goodies.

   You can use and manage up to  32 virtual screens called workspaces.
 You swap  from one workspace to another by  clicking on a button  in an
 optionnal panel of buttons (the workspace manager) or by invoking a function.

   You can custom  each workspace by choosing  different colors, names
 and pixmaps for the buttons and background root windows.

   Main features are :

       - Optional 3D window titles and border (ala Motif).
       - Shaped, colored icons.
       - Multiple icons for clients based on the icon name.
       - Windows can belong to several workspaces.
       - A map of your workspaces to move quickly windows between
         different workspaces.
       - Animations : icons, root backgrounds and buttons can be animated.
       - Pinnable and sticky menus.
       - etc...

Ctwm 3.3 from CNAM

Ctwm 3.3 Screenshot

Angband is a "graphical" dungeon adventure game using textual characters to represent the walls and floors of a dungeon and the inhabitants therein, in the vein of "rogue", "hack", "nethack", and "moria".

Angband 2.8.0 from CNAM

Angband Web Page

Angband 2.8.0 Screenshot

xbattle is a concurrent multi-player battle strategy game that captures the dynamics of a wide range of military scenarios. It is based on X windows, which you must have installed to run this game. Players play from separate displays, and commands are executed concurrently, i.e. the players do not take "turns", they all issue their commands simultaneously. There can be any number of players, and each player is assigned to a color team (or black, white & gray for monochrome monitors). The game board is a matrix of squares that can be occupied by colored troops, and the aim of the game is to eliminate the enemy from the board by attacking squares occupied enemy troops.

Xbattle from CNAM

Xbattle Screenshot

Reve is a version of the popular Othello game. It contains graphical interfaces for SunView, X11 and XView. Now available for Alpha VMS, but some bugs remains (the main bug, Reve cannot coontinue to play whe the player (or the computer) must pass.

Reve 2.01 from CNAM

Reve 2.01 Screenshot

Spreadsheet for X. Modifed version of "sc 6.22" that runs under X. Has support for mouse, Lotus files, 5 different graph types.

(Re-release with Alpha/VMS support of an old port).

Xspread 2.1 from CNAM

Xspread 2.1 Screenshot

NEdit is a GUI style plain text editor for workstations with X Windows and Motif. It is widely considered to be among the best GUI based editors available for Unix systems.

Nedit 4.02 from CNAM

Nedit 4.02 Screenshot

Jet-Set Willy is a game for X11, based on a similar game existing on Amstrad or Spectrum. You are Willy, and you must collect all the items dispersed in your huge mansion before you are allowed to go to bed (there are 175 items to find, in 132 rooms). Unfortunately, unfriendly things are in your way, and some items are hard to reach. VAX & Alpha binaries are provided.

Jetset 1.0 from CNAM

Jetset Screenshot

Spider 1.1 from CNAM

Spider 1.1 Screenshot

Xblackjack is a MOTIF based tool constructed to get you ready for the casino. It was inspired by a book called "Beat the Dealer" by Edward O. Thorp, Ph.D. of UCLA. A number of important statistics are maintained for display, and used by the program to implement Thorp's "Complete Point System" (high-low system).

Beginners can learn a basic strategy which doesn't require counting. The best strategy employs a simple card counting technique which can be used to distinguish favorable situations. Avid players can learn to compute Thorp's high-low index, which takes the number of unseen cards into account.

Re-release with Alpha VMS binaries (old VAX binaries are always here)

Xblackjack 2.1 from CNAM

Xblackjack 2.1 Screenshot

sunclock is an X11 application that displays a map of the Earth and indicates the illuminated portion of the globe by drawing sunlit areas dark on light, night areas as light on dark. It also displays the current date and time. Re-release with Alpha VMS binaries (old VAX binaries are always here)

Sunclock from CNAM

Sunclock Screenshot

The dclock program displays the time in digital format only. The time is updated on a per second basis or on a per minute basis. This program is nothing more than a wrapper around the dclock widget not associated with any particular widget set. Re-release with VSM Alpha binaries (old VAX binaries are always here)

Dclock from CNAM

Dclock Screenshot

xclock program displays the time in analog or digital form. The time is continuously updated at a frequency which may be specified by the user.

Xclock from CNAM

Xclock Screenshot

The purpose of xscreensaver is to display pretty pictures on your screen when it is not in use, in keeping with the philosophy that unattended monitors should always be doing something interesting, just like they do in the movies. However, xscreensaver can also be used as a screen locker, to prevent others from using your terminal while your are away.

This version features 70 graphic demos (plus 12 3D OpenGL demos). The OpenGL demos were built with Mesa-GL V 2.2 library available at the DECwindows Archive for VAX and Alpha, but you can use or rebuild Xscreensaver version 2.34 without Mesa-GL. Demos executables are no longer provided (due to their size), but you can easily relink from the provided object files (available for both VAX & Alpha). See the README.VMS file for details.

XScreenSaver 2.34 from CNAM

XScreenSaver Web Page

XScreensaver Splash Screen

Mesa-GL 2.2 from CNAM

This is a nice little game with color graphics and sound (not available now for the VMS port) for your system with color X11. It was first released as "Mirror Magic" in the year 1989 on the Amiga (with ports on other computer systems).

Mirrormagic 1.4 from CNAM

Mirrormagic Screenshots

Jester is an X-based board game similar to Othello. It can be played head-to-head on the console or by a single player against the computer. jester allows you to waste valuable time that could otherwise be spent playing Solitaire.

Jester 1.0 from CNAM

Jester 1.0 Screenshot

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

Notes: Only the Gimp kernel is working well actually. Plug-ins are not available, even for reading or writing file formats other than the default format XCF.

The Gimp Web Page

The Gimp 1.0 Screenshot

Nighthawk is a tribute to one of the most playable and contagious games ever written- Paradroid by Andrew Braybrook.Nighthawk was named after the second ship (level) of the original game.

Nighthawk 1.0 from CNAM

Nighthawk Web Page

Nighthawk Screenshots

Daemonic X labyrinth is a labyrinth game under X11 that is played directly with the mouse pointer: the walls block the pointer's movement on the screen. The goal of the game is to retrieve the four colored squares: to retrieve a square, it is sufficient to move the pointer over it, and it will disappear. However, to make things more infuriating, the squares have to be taken in the following order: red, yellow, green and blue. When the blue square is obtained, the game is won.

Xlaby 2.01 from CNAM

Original distribution

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

Xpdf 0.80 from CNAM

Xpdf Web page

Xpdf 0.80 Screenshot

Mpeg audio layer 1, 2 and 3 real-time player. It's a near fully rewritten version based on the mpegaudio (FHG-version) package.The DCT algorithm in the synthesis filter is a rewritten version of the DCT first seen in the maplay package, which was written by Tobias Bading (bading@cs.tu-berlin.de).The rewrite was neccassary, because the GPL may not allow this copyright mix. The mpegaudio package was written by various people from the MPEG/audio software simulation group. The maplay is under GPL .. You can find the original source code and the mpegaudio package on: ftp.tnt.uni-hannover.de

It is only available with OpenVMS Alpha systems with a 16 bits sound card and MMOV (MultiMedia services for OpenVMS) installed (Alphastations 200, 250, 255, 500, 600)

Mpg123 0.59ofrom CNAM

Mpg123 Web Page

This game was originally written by Yoshihiro Satoh of HP. I have made a modest attempt to replicate Domain/JewelBox under X. Jewel is a game much like Domain/Jewelbox which is a puzzle game like Tetris. It is played by controling the motion of blocks which continue to fall from the top of the screen. One can move them left and right, as well as rotate the jewel segements. The object is to get the most points before the grim reaper ends the fun.

Xjewel 1.6 from CNAM

Xjewel 1.6 Screenshots

xlock locks the X server till the user enters their password at the keyboard. While xlock is running, all new server connections are refused. The screen saver is disabled. The mouse cursor is turned off. The screen is blanked and a changing pattern is put on the screen. If a key or a mouse button is pressed then the user is prompted for the password of the user who started xlock.

Xlockmore 4.12 from CNAM

Xlockmore Web Page

Xlockmore 4.12 Screenshot

Xmcd is a full-featured CD Player utility package including xmcd, a CD Player for the X window system using the Motif graphical user interface; and cda, a command-line driven, text mode CD Player which also features a curses-based, screen-oriented mode. Both utilities transform your CD-ROM or CD-R drive into a stereo CD player, allowing you to play audio CDs on your computer.

Xmcd 2.3 from CNAM

Xmcd Web page

Xmcd 2.3 Screenshots

Html 3.2 compliant version of Mosaic Web browser. Features full table support, font colors and sizes, image animations, progressive display etc ...

Mosaic 3.1 from CNAM

Mosaic 3.1 Screenshots

Sapphire is an acoustic compiler: a program which takes a representation of sound as a text file and generates the sound from it, rather like a ray-tracing package takes a text representation of a scene and generates a picture from it. Sapphire has a large range of objects from which your sound can be built, including envelope shapers, filters, oscillators, sample playback modules, and arithmetic operators. These can be 'wired' together into sounds of arbitrary complexity. Complex sounds just take a bit longer to build.

Sapphire 1.0 from CNAM

SOX (also known as Sound Tools) translates sound samples between different file formats, and performs various sound effects.

Sox 12.15 from CNAM

Sox Web Page

XPaint is a color image-editing tool that features most standard paint program options. It allows for the editing of multiple images simultaneously and supports various formats, including PPM, XBM, TIFF, etc.

Xpaint 2.5.3 from CNAM

Xpaint Web Page

Xpaint 2.5.3 Screenshots

Snd is a sound editor modelled loosely after Emacs and an old, sorely-missed PDP-10 sound editor named Dpysnd. It can accomodate any number of sounds at once, each with any number of channels. Each channel is normally displayed in its own window, with its own cursor, edit history, and marks; each sound has a 'control panel' to try out various changes quickly, and an expression parser, used mainly during searches; there is an overall stack of 'regions' that can be browsed and edited; channels and sounds can be grouped together during editing; edits can be undone and redone without restriction ('unlimited undo');

Snd 2.1 from CNAM

Snd Web Page

Snd 2.1 Screeshots

The kit contains ISO Mpeg original audio encoder and decoder (Distribution 10, 1997). Only the encoder is ported under OpenVMS, optimised decoder already existing (mpeg3play and mpg123).

Mpeg Audio Encoder Dist 10 from CNAM

Ghostscript is an implementation of Adobe Systems' PostScript (tm) language, which is in turn similar to Forth. Gs reads files in sequence and executes them as Ghostscript programs. After doing this, it reads further input from the standard input stream (normally the keyboard). Each line is interpreted separately.

Gs 5.10 source from CNAM

Ghostscript Web Page

Gs 5.10 exe (VAX VMS 6.1) from CNAM

Gs 5.10 exe (Alpha VMS 6.2) from CNAM

Gs 5.10 fonts and PS files from CNAM

Implementation of an ISO/IEC DIS 13818-2 codec. It converts uncompressed video frames into MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video coded bitstream sequences, and vice versa.

Mpeg2 1.2 from CNAM

ISO Mpeg Web Page

Xmcd is a full-featured CD Player utility package including xmcd, a CD Player for the X window system using the Motif graphical user interface; and cda, a command-line driven, text mode CD Player which also features a curses-based, screen-oriented mode. Both utilities transform your CD-ROM or CD-R drive into a stereo CD player, allowing you to play audio CDs on your computer.

Xmcd 2.0 from CNAM

Xmcd Web page

The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine library. It has been developed to provide TT support to a great variety of platforms and environments.

Freetype 1.1 from CNAM

Freetype Project Web Page

XV program displays images in the GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PBM, PGM, PPM, X11 bitmap, Utah Raster Toolkit RLE, PDS/VICAR, Sun Rasterfile, BMP, PCX, IRIS RGB, XPM, Targa, XWD, possibly PostScript, and PM formats on workstations and terminals running the X Window System, Version 11.

XV 3.10 A2 exe (VAX VMS 6.2) from CNAM

XV 3.10 A2 exe (Alpha VMS 6.2) from CNAM

XV 3.10 A2 source from CNAM

John's World of XV 'n' Stuff

XV 3.10 A2 Screenshots

This is GTK+ version 1.0.1. GTK+, which stands for the Gimp ToolKit, is a library for creating graphical user interfaces for the X Window System. It is designed to be small, efficient, and flexible. GTK+ is written in C with a very object-oriented approach.

This is a VMS port of the stable GTK version suitable for Gimp 1.0

Gtk+ 1.0.1 from CNAM

Gtk+ Official Web Page

XAnim is a program that can display animation/video/audio files of various formats on systems running X11.

Xanim 2.70.7.0 from CNAM

Xanim Web Page

Xanim 2.70.7.0 Screenshots

Perf Meter 2.4 from CNAM

Phil Ottewell's Public Domain Software ports to VMS

Perf Meter 2.4 Screenshot

This package contains C software to implement JPEG image compression and decompression. JPEG (pronounced "jay-peg") is a standardized compression method for full-color and gray-scale images. JPEG is intended for compressing "real-world" scenes; line drawings, cartoons and other non-realistic images are not its strong suit. JPEG is lossy, meaning that the output image is not exactly identical to the input image. Hence you must not use JPEG if you have to have identical output bits. However, on typical photographic images, very good compression levels can be obtained with no visible change, and remarkably high compression levels are possible if you can tolerate a low-quality image.

Jpeg 6B from CNAM

Original jpeg distribution by ftp

Some updates in TiMidity Sound Samples (GUS format). Configuration files are in New Samples file.

TiMidity Instrument Samples from CNAM

TiMidity New Samples from CNAM

Glenn Trigg's Page

Toivonen's TiMidity Home Page

PMX can help you typeset a musical score if (a) you have MusiXTeX version 0.396T or later installed and (b) your score has from one to seven staves (or voices) per system. The goal of PMX is to facilitate the efficient production of scores and parts that have an almost professional appearance. It can do all the work involved in setting up \notes-\enotes groupings, selecting groups of notes to be beamed, defining beam heights and slopes, spreading the entire piece evenly over a specified number of systems, and inserting extra spaces where needed to make room for accidentals, flags, dots, and new clefs.

To run PMX, you can use PMX.COM script (there are 2 passes of PMX and 3 passes of MusiXTeX).

Pmx 1.3.7 from CNAM

PMX Web Page

PMX Sample Output

MusiXTeX is a set of TeX macros to typeset polyphonic, orchestral or polyphonic music. MusiXTeX is an evolution of MusicTeX macros.

MusixTeX T98 from CNAM

MusicTeX is a set of TeX macros to typeset polyphonic, orchestral or polyphonic music.

MusixTeX 5.20 from CNAM

Gifmap provides a means of easily putting image collections on the Web. It recurses through directory trees, building HTML pages and imagemap (GIF or JPEG) files to allow the user to navigate through collections of thumbnail images (somewhat similar to 'xv') and select the images to view with a mouse click.

Gifmap 1.54 from CNAM

Gifmap 1.54 Screenshot

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Reference Library (Libpng 0.98 and zlib 1.0.8)

Png 0.98 from CNAM

PNG Web Page

Rosegarden is a free integrated musical notation editor and MIDI sequencer for Unix & VMS X11 platforms, with specific support for Linux PCs and SGI IRIX workstations.

Rosegarden lets you compose under the editor and play your music via the sequencer. Very nice tool to create your own MIDi files !! You also can print scores via MusicTeX or PMX output (MusicTeX and PMX are available on the archive)

Rosegarden 2.1 from CNAM

Rosegarden Web Page

Rosegarden Screenshots

VMS port of the X11R5 versions of MIT XAW and XMU libraries.

X11R5 Xaw & XMU from CNAM

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

Version with VMS 5.5-2 and pre-Motif DECWindows support by Wolfgang J. Moeller

Xpdf 0.7-wjm from CNAM

Xpdf Web page

The goal of xsokoban is to push all the round objects into the score area of each level using the mouse or the arrow keys. The arrow keys move the player in the corresponding direction, pushing an object if it is in the way and there is a clear space on the other side.

Xsokoban 3.1 from CNAM

Xsokoban 3.1 Screenshot

Xtron is a simple one or two player version of the old classic TRON. The game is simple: avoid running into walls, your own tail, and that of your opponent.

Xtron 1.1a from CNAM

Xtron 1.1a Screenshot

Battalion is a giant monster game where you are a giant monster fighting to survive against the military while causing as much destruction as you can.

VMS versions were built with MESA-GL 2.2 library. On Alpha, you can try to build with Open3D (DCL scripts are provided) but it crashes at run-time with my version.

Battalion 1.4 from CNAM

Battalion 1.4 Screenshots

Move the snake around the screen and eat food. The snake grows in length as you eat. Avoid hitting the fence, eating lethal mushrooms and rotten food, and biting your own tail.

Snake 4.1.0.9 from CNAM

Author's Web Page

Snake 4.1.0.9 Screenshots

Xjig 2.4 from CNAM

Xjig 2.4 Screeshot

Xpat2 gives you the ability to play various solitaire card games. The version built is the Motif version with XPM rounded cards. There is also an Xlib version (not tested on VMS).

Xpat2 1.04 from CNAM

Xpat2 1.04 Screenshots

3D Pong is an X-Window game for 1 or 2 players. It's a 3D game based on the first arcade game, "Pong." Like "Pong," it's a game played with a ball and paddles. The object is to hit the ball and get it in the other player's goal. Use your paddle to deflect the ball and keep it from getting in your goal.

3DPong 0.2 from CNAM

3DPong 0.2 Web site

3Dpong 0.2 Screenshot

XAtaxx is a strategy game based on Ataxx, a popular arcade video game. It is a game of position and movement. The object is to have the most pieces of your color on the board at the end of the game.

Xataxx from CNAM

Xataxx Screenshots

Xlincity is a city simulation game, very similar to Simcity, available for Linux and various Unix systems, and now for OpenVMS VAX & Alpha.

You are required to build and maintain a city. You must feed, house, provide jobs and goods for your residents. You can build a sustainable economy with the help of renewable energy and recycling, or you can go for broke and build rockets to escape from a pollution ridden and resource starved planet, it's up to you. Due to the finite resources available in any one place, this is not a game that you can leave for long periods of time.

By default, the games uses a 640x480 geometry, but you can use a full screen geometry with the -d option (IT IS wonderfull !!)

Xlincity 1.09 from CNAM

Lincity Web Page

Xlincity 1.09 Screenshots

This is a nice little game with color graphics and sound for your Unix or VMS system with color X11. You need an 8-Bit color display or better. It is not recommended on black&white systems, and maybe not on gray scale systems.

If you know the game "Boulderdash" (Commodore C64) or "Emerald Mine" (Amiga), you know what "ROCKS'N'DIAMONDS" is about.

Rocks'n'Diamonds 0.9b from CNAM

Rocks'n'Diamonds 0.9b Screenshots

Caribbean Stud is a X11/MOTIF based gambling game.

Caribbean Stud from CNAM

Caribbean Stud Screenshot

Aview 1.1 from CNAM

Asci Art Project Web Page

Aview 1.1 Screenshots

AAlib is an Ascii Art rendering library. The current OpenVMS port works only with X11 driver but no curses. You need an X11 display to view ascii art :-)

AAlib 1.0 from CNAM

Asci Art Project Web Page

AAlib 1.0 Demo Screenshot

XAnim is a program that can display animation/video/audio files of various formats on systems running X11.

Xanim 2.70.6.4 from CNAM

Xanim Web Page

Mpeg3play is an Mpeg audio layer2 and layer3 real-time player. It normally uses the audio device for playback, but can also decode the MPEG input bitstream to an AIFF file if an output file is specified using the -o option.

It is only available with OpenVMS Alpha systems with a 16 bits sound card and MMOV (MultiMedia services for OpenVMS) installed (Alphastations 200, 250, 255, 500, 600)

Mpeg3play 0.96 from CNAM

The Solaris Helpers Page

Jazz is a full size MIDI sequencer providing many edit functions as quantize, copy, transpose, graphical pitch editing, ... multiple undo. It has two main windows oprating on whole tracks and single events. There are special functions like GS sound editing and random rhythm generation.

Jazz Uses wxWindows graphic library (v 1.67 is available under OpenVMS). One limitation : the wxhelp system is not actually available for OpenVMS. Jazz is using wxhelp for implementation of contextual help, and therefore Jazz help doesn't work on VMS. However, a formatted Jazz documentation is available into [.DOC]JAZZ.DOC

Jazz 2.6b from CNAM

Jazz Web Page

Jazz 2.6b Screenshots

wxWindows is a C++ framework for developing multi-platform, graphical applications from the same body of C++ code. Currently supporting Motif, Open Look and MS Windows, a Mac port is under development.

WxWindows 1.67 binaries (VAX VMS 6.1) from CNAM

WxWindows 1.67 binaries (Alpha VMS 6.2) from CNAM

WxWindows 1.67 sources from CNAM

wxWindows Web Page

Ghostscript is an implementation of Adobe Systems' PostScript (tm) language, which is in turn similar to Forth. Gs reads files in sequence and executes them as Ghostscript programs. After doing this, it reads further input from the standard input stream (normally the keyboard). Each line is interpreted separately.

Gs 5.03 source from CNAM

Ghostscript Web Page

Gs 5.03 exe (VAX VMS 6.1) from CNAM

Gs 5.03 exe (Alpha VMS 6.2) from CNAM

Gs 5.03 fonts and PS files from CNAM

The purpose of xscreensaver is to display pretty pictures on your screen when it is not in use, in keeping with the philosophy that unattended monitors should always be doing something interesting, just like they do in the movies. However, xscreensaver can also be used as a screen locker, to prevent others from using your terminal while your are away.

Xscreensaver 2.07 from CNAM

TiMidity is a MIDI to WAVE converter that uses Gravis Ultrasound(*)-compatible patch files to generate digital audio data from General MIDI files. The audio data can be played through any sound device or stored on disk. On a fast machine, music can be played in real time.

You need MMOV 2.0 (multimedia Services for OpenVMS V 2.0) to play midi files in real time on good contidions on your Alphastation (and SYSNAM privileges to connect to Multimedia server; timidity is linked /notraceback to allow image installation with SYSNAM privilege).

I've added the AMD audio device support (taken from Xlockmore source distribution). The result is not very good but however on Alpha its audible. It also run on VAX but you need a very fast one !!

Timidity 0.2i from CNAM

TiMidity Web Page

TiMidity Base Samples from CNAM

TiMidity Instruments Samples from CNAM

TiMidity Drums Samples from CNAM

TiMidity Wow Samples from CNAM

TiMidity New Samples from CNAM

Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files. (These are also sometimes also called 'Acrobat' files, from the name of Adobe's PDF software.) Xpdf runs under the X Window System on UNIX, VMS, and OS/2.

Xpdf 0.7 from CNAM

Xpdf Web page

mpeg2play is based on mpeg2decode, (C) 1994, MPEG Software Simulation Group

  - plays MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 video bitstreams on 8 bit color X displays  
  - plays system layer (MPEG-1 only) streams, audio being ignored
  - high quality ordered dither algorithm
  - high speed interlaced to progressive scan conversion
  - speed is about 90% of Berkeley's mpeg_play (somewhat platform and
    stream dependent)
  - NCSA Mosaic compatible (as external viewer for video/mpeg)

Mpeg2Play 1.1b from CNAM

gv allows to view and navigate through PostScript and PDF documents on an X display by providing a better user interface for the Ghostscript interpreter. Please note that gv is derived from Tim Theisen's ghostview 1.5.

This distributions includes XAW3D and XMU libraries.

GV 3.43 source from CNAM

GhostView Web Page

Ghostviev Screenshot

GV 3.43 exe (VAX VMS 6.1) from CNAM

GV 3.43 exe (Alpha VMS 6.2) from CNAM

Ghostscript is an implementation of Adobe Systems' PostScript (tm) language, which is in turn similar to Forth. Gs reads files in sequence and executes them as Ghostscript programs. After doing this, it reads further input from the standard input stream (normally the keyboard). Each line is interpreted separately.

Gs 4.03 source from CNAM

Ghostscript Web Page

Gs 4.03 exe (VAX VMS 6.1) from CNAM

Gs 4.03 exe (Alpha VMS 6.2) from CNAM

Gs 4.03 fonts and PS files from CNAM

ImageMagick, version 3.8.5, is a package for display and interactive manipulation of images for the X Window System. It is written in C and interfaces to the X library, and therefore does not require any proprietary toolkit in order to compile. Although the software is copyrighted, it is available for free and can be redistributed without fee.

The ImageMagick image display program can display an image on any workstation screen running an X server. It can read and write many of the many of the more popular image formats including JPEG, TIFF, PNM, GIF, and Photo CD. In addition you can interactively resize, rotate, sharpen, color reduce, or add special effects to an image and save your completed work. In addition to the image display program, ImageMagick also has command line programs that perform many functions and efefcts.

ImageMagick 3.8.5 sources from CNAM

ImageMagick Web Page

ImageMagick 3.8.5 Screenshots

ImageMagick 3.8.5 VAX binaries from CNAM

ImageMagick 3.8.5 Alpha binaries from CNAM

xlock locks the X server till the user enters their password at the keyboard. While xlock is running, all new server connections are refused. The screen saver is disabled. The mouse cursor is turned off. The screen is blanked and a changing pattern is put on the screen. If a key or a mouse button is pressed then the user is prompted for the password of the user who started xlock.

Xlockmore 4.02 from CNAM

Xlockmore Web Page

This is a re-release of ACM 4.7 for VMS, source only, with modifications ti support build with DEC C 5.2. The old version with VMS binaries is also available.

ACM is a LAN-oriented, multiplayer aerial combat simulation.  Main design
objective was to provide source code that could be easily compiled and
executed on a wide variety of platforms.  To that end, acm is written entirely
in C, exploiting the programming features of Unix, X11, and the BSD socket
interface.

Players engage in air to air combat against one another using heat seeking
missiles and cannons.

ACM is implemented as two programs.  The first, named "acm", is a small
program that, when invoked, starts a flight session on a given workstation.
The second component, named "acms", is a server process that manages the
multiplayer environment.  It also manages the flight simulation and
display management that is required.  Most players will prefer to run the
acms process on a back-end server system on their local area network.  Players
at client workstations can then invoke the acm program to begin play.

ACM 4.7 sources from CNAM

My page (in french) about flight simulators

ACM 4.7 Screenshots

ACM 4.7 previous version with binaries from CNAM

France 3.4 is a 3D world for Flight 3.1 featuring a lot of airports, radio navigation aids and goodies found in France : 7 airports near Paris (with Orly and Roissy CDG international airports), the Atlantic coast from Hendaye (near Spain) to Noirmoutier with airports, coast, rivers, islands, harbours, etc ..., Toulouse international airport, Clermond-Ferrand airport with the old volcanos called "Puys" and so on ...

France 3.4 from CNAM

My page (in french) about flight simulators

France 3.4 Screenshots

Xmorph is a digital image warping program, also known as a "morphing" program. It runs under the X Window System, using the X library, X toolkit, X miscellaneous utilities, and the Athena widgets, all of which are publically available from MIT, and part of the typical X installation. It is written in ANSI C.

Xmorph loads, saves, warps, and dissolves images, and loads, saves, creates, and manipulates control meshes which determine the warping. Xmorph has help pages built into it, so no external documentation is necessary.

VMS binaries provided are statically linked against XAW3D library

Xmorph from CNAM

Xmorph Screeshots

XPM (X PixMap) is a format for storing/retrieving X pixmaps to/from files.

Here is provided a library containing a set of four functions, similar to the X bitmap functions as defined in the Xlib: XpmCreatePixmapFromData, XpmCreateDataFromPixmap, XpmReadFileToPixmap and XpmWriteFileFromPixmap for respectively including, storing, reading and writing this format, plus four other: XpmCreateImageFromData, XpmCreateDataFromImage, XpmReadFileToImage and XpmWriteFileFromImage for working with images instead of pixmaps.

This new version provides a C includable format, defaults for different types of display: monochrome/color/grayscale, hotspot coordinates and symbol names for colors for overriding default colors when creating the pixmap. It provides a mechanism for storing information while reading a file which is re-used while writing. This way comments, default colors and symbol names aren't lost. It also handles "transparent pixels" by returning a shape mask in addition to the created pixmap.

XPM 3.4J from CNAM

Hangar made of various object derived from original world or hangar flight objects. Some are rather interesting, especially two gas balloons. The Archimede force is unknown under Flight, and I was forced to emulate it via a vectored thrust bound on a nozzle (like the ones on the Harrier AV8-B, controled with F9-F10). When the nozzle is vertical, you have a good approximation of a balloon launch. With a little pitch, you have simulated the wind (or the motors of the Zepplin). Some alternate pilot view are implemented (you can see them with PF4 Fn combination, the default view is retreived with PF4 F1)

Objects available are: A balloon, a zepplin, Supercopter (Air Wolf), an autonomous pilot, new versions of Bofors AA batteries, a Mosquito and a V22 Osprey with spinning propellers, an armed RV-4, a Crusader and a Typhoon.

Hangar 1.2 from CNAM

My page (in french) about flight simulators

This program "solves" the n-body problem, and displays the results on the screen. It starts by putting a bunch of stars on the screen, and then it lets the inter-body gravitational forces move the stars around. The result is a lot of neat wandering paths, as the stars interact and collide.

XStar can be used to animate the root window, as a screen saver or just to display stuff in a regular window.

Xstar 2.2 from CNAM

Xstar Screenshots

XPaint is a color image-editing tool that features most standard paint program options. It allows for the editing of multiple images simultaneously and supports various formats, including PPM, XBM, TIFF, etc.

Xpaint 2.4.7 from CNAM

Xpaint Web Page

(Digital, OpenVMS and DECwindows are trade marks of Hewlett-Packard Company).

(OpenGL is a trade mark of Silicon Graphics, Inc)

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