Developer tools

This is a user-friendly 3D games creator, which produces stand-alone executables. Although it is specifically suited for 3D games creation, you can use it to develop any kind of interactive virtual application, such as 3D demos, virtual 3D story books, virtual travels into custom scenery and so on. This program is intended for non-programmers who are keen on computer graphics. However, it is fully customisable, powerful and flexible, and so can be used by expert programmers as well.

Licence: Freeware version. Retail version has more functions.
Online: http://www.3drad.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Pentium 75, 16M RAM, 50M disk space, DirectX 8

Install instructions

		Windows

Based on Perl 5.6.1, this is an enhanced distribution, encompassing and taking advantage of the new features in Perl 5.6.1. In addition to the core binary code, this program includes a Perl extension installer and manager. The Windows package also includes Perl for ISAPI and CGI PerlScript. Perl for ISAPI is an IIS plug-in that enhances the speed of standard Perl. CGI PerlScript is an ActiveX scripting engine for Perl.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.activestate.com
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000, Linux, Solaris
Requires: Windows: x86, 35M hard disk space, Service Pack 5 for Windows NT, Microsoft Windows Installer 1.1 and Internet Explorer 5 for Windows 95/98 and NT, DCOM for Windows 98, DCOM and MSVCRT for Windows 95 Linux: x86, 35M hard disk space, 2.0 kernel, Web browser Solaris: sparc, 35M hard disk space, Solaris 2.6, Web browser

Install instructions:
The ActivePerl package includes online documentation. 
Note: False Virus Alert
Norton AntiVirus 2000 detects VBS.NewLove.A in the file ActivePerl-Winfaq12.html (part of ActivePerl documentation). ActivePerl does not have a virus in its documentation, a code sample for Microsoft Outlook triggers the virus alert. Symantec has been notified of this issue. 

Windows		Linux		Solaris

AppleScript is an easy-to-use scripting language that is as consistent across applications as the Macintosh graphical interface itself. It is designed to meet a wide range of user needs and levels of experience. This package contains user and developer documentation, AppleScript software, sample code and sample scripts for modifying or creating your own AppleScript scripts.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://developer.apple.com/sdk/index.html
Operating system: Mac OS
Requires: N/A

Install instructions

		Mac OS

This is a full-featured integrated development environment that is able to create Windows or DOS-based C/C++ programs using the Mingw compiler system (included with this package), or the Cygwin compiler.

Licence: Free software. GNU General Public Licence.
Online: http://www.bloodshed.net/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: N/A

Install instructions

		Windows

A 32-bit ANSI C++ optimising compiler for Windows, this program includes the latest ANSI/ISO C++ language support including the RTL and the STL framework with C++ template support. This compiler is the core of the complete Borland C++ application building program: C++ Builder 5.

Licence: Freeware. Non-supported version.
Online: http://www.borland.com/bcppbuilder/freecompiler/
Operating system: Windows 95/98, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Pentium, 32M RAM, 50M hard disk space, Service Pack 3 for Windows NT 4

Install instructions
Please take a moment to register this software at: http://www.borland.com.au/apc/registration. In exchange for your free access to C++ Compiler 5.5, Borland seeks permission to contact you in the future to ask a few questions about your experience with the product.

Here is a link to a very useful article: Using C++Builder Compiler

		Windows

As well as being a stand-alone tool, this program is an integrated component of Borland's C++Builder software. It is a popular debugger tool for C and C++ developers that can used with Borland C++ Compiler. It can be used to control 32-bit Windows application execution and to view the different aspects of the application at runtime. These include program output, source code, data structures and program values.

Licence: Freeware. Non-supported version.
Online: http://www.borland.com/bcppbuilder/turbodebugger/
Operating system: Windows 95/98, Windows NT/2000
Requires: N/A

Install instructions
Please take a moment to register this software at: http://www.borland.com.au/apc/registration. In exchange for your free access to Turbo Debugger 5.5, Borland seeks permission to contact you in the future to ask a few questions about your experience with the product.

		Windows

This product provides a team-based visual programming environment for development and deployment of voice and wireless data applications. It provides multiple methods for developers to optimise applications for use on a wide range of mobile channels. These include voice channels for all landline and mobile phones and wireless data channels for Pocket PCs, Palm devices, WAP, SMS and I-mode.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.covigo.com/
Operating system: Windows NT/2000
Requires: Pentium 500MHz,128M RAM, 200M hard disk space, Java 2 SDK 1.3.0 must be loaded on your system before installation

Install instructions

		Windows

A set of tools to assist developers in migrating applications from UNIX/Linux to the Windows platform, this product delivers the open source standard Red Hat GNU gcc compiler and gdb debugger on Windows. In addition, it provides for a standard UNIX/Linux development environment on Windows including APIs and command shells. The Cygwin.dll library (included) delivers the interesting subset of UNIX SVR4, BSD and POSIX APIs to enable quick ports of UNIX/Linux applications to the Windows platform.

Licence: Free software. GNU General Public Licence, X11 licence. The source for Cygwin is available at ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/cygwin
Online: http://cygwin.com/
Operating system: Windows 95/98, Windows NT
Requires: 75M hard disk space, Internet Explorer 5

Install instructions: The installation file below for Cygwin must be run directly from this CD. Do not download the file to your hard drive. Choose the run command from the Start menu, browse the contents of the CD and run \features\devtools\files\cygwin\setup.exe. At the setup screen choose install from local directory.

		Windows

For the complete programming novice, this is a great language to begin with. It is intended to be most appropriate for the hobby or student programmer. It consists of an integrated editor, compiler and debugger. It also comes with a graphical interface editor called FreeForm. This version makes it easy to write Windows software such as utilities, business applications and games.

Licence: Shareware. There is a limit on how large a program the user can compile in the unregistered version.
Online: http://world.std.com/~carlg/
Operating system: Windows 3x, Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires: Pentium, 8M RAM for Windows 3x, 16M RAM for Windows 95, 32M RAM for Windows 98, 64M RAM for Windows NT (Windows 2000 as yet untested)

Install instructions

		Windows

This guide contains tips, tricks and tweaks for optimisng, enhancing and securing Windows operating systems. This is all packaged in a convenient Windows HTML help file. It is a database used to store settings and options for the 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows. It contains information and settings for all the hardware, software, users and preferences of the PC.

Licence: Freeware
Online: http://www.winguides.com/registry/
Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000
Requires:

Install instructions

		Windows