Web Favorites
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Sound Links
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| Sound Controllers | Fun, informative, and serious sound research by Perry Cook. |
| MP3 Tools | Two excellent MP3 applications. MP3DirectCut is an MP3 frame editor that allows you to cut, edit, change the gain, etc. on any MP3 file with no decompression. Very nice! 1by1 is a great MP3 player. It’s easy to use and has a small memory footprint. Check ‘em out. |
| The vOICe | An amazing JAVA applet that allows you to hear a picture as sound. It was developed as a publicly demonstrable part of a system used to help blind persons "see." |
| Tom Erbe’s Web Site | Great compositions and audio tools, including the infamous "SoundHack." More recently he’s been porting his projects to JAVA so everyone can enjoy the fruits of his labors. |
| Richard Lerman’s Audio Art Site |
Interesting recordings, many done with inexpensive Piezoelectric elements. |
| MPEG Audio | A good way to keep up with the changes in MPEG audio specifications, etc. |
| Monkey’s Audio | A free, open source, lossless audio compression and decompression utility. |
| JASS | The Java Audio Synthesis System (JASS) is a fun, realtime synthesis engine developed with Java by Kees van den Doel . The site includes some great examples for how to use JASS. |
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Miscellaneous Links
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| Orisinal Games | Fun, non-violent browser-based games. |
| Shields UP! | Find out how vulnerable your machine or server may be by trying out this free utility. |
| House Ear Institute | Support safe hearing. |
| Atari Adventure | A very cool version of the original Atari "Adventure" game done entirely in Flash. Impressive. |
| Swedish Chef Page | If you’re a Muppet fan you have to see this. The site even includes video excerpts of the Swedish Chef. |
| ORI Applied Computer Simulation Labs (ACSL) |
I can’t help but be excited about the ORI ACSL work in the area of virtual training to improve human performance, as I’m part of the development team. |
| Active Worlds | An online virtual reality community that keeps growing. It’s not Snowcrash yet, but it’s happening. |
| Yellowstone Volcano Observatory |
Information and data about North America’s largest volcanic system. |
| Andy’s Anagram Solver | A free online utility that finds anagrams for any specified word. It even supports English, Dutch, and French languages! The word "anagram" produces around 100 unique phrases, for example. My overall favorite anagram for "anagram" is "agar man". |
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Game Development Links
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| ScummVM | A link to the main site for SCUMM, which is LucasArts’ (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion) system. SCUMM is an open source virtual machine that has been used for many games, including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Sam and Max, and more. |
| Adventure Game Studio | Adventure Game Studio allows you to create your own point-and-click adventure games, similar to the early 90’s Sierra and Lucasarts adventures. It consists of a free, easy-to-use development environment and runtime engine. |
| Allegro | Allegro is a game programming library for C/C++ developers distributed freely, supporting the following platforms: DOS, Unix (Linux, FreeBSD, Irix, Solaris, Darwin), Windows, QNX, BeOS and MacOS X. It provides many functions for graphics, sounds, player input (keyboard, mouse and joystick) and timers. It also provides fixed and floating point mathematical functions, 3D functions, file management functions, compressed datafile and a GUI. |