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- DESKTOP UTILITIES
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- 1These are just for fun:
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- !Aquarium
- 3This is a fantastic animated fish tank that sits behind the
- 3desktop.
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- 1Arcwanda
- 3Floating Arc logos.
- 3J.Tate.
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- 1!BackImage
- 3An Archimedes logo floats around and behind windows on the
- 3desktop.
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- 1!BackTrude
- 3Trudie floats around your backdrop.
- 3Joris RÖling & Ferdinand Oeinck 1989.
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- 1!BallGame
- 3A very small game on the desktop.
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- 1!BulWinkl2
- 3An updated version
- 3Jon Noble.
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- 1!DfPdWanda
- 3A Datafile Wanda!!
- 3J Tate.
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- 1!Diver
- 3Divers swimming around your desktop.
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- 1!Fire
- 3A small desktop, icon bar silly.
- 3D Robinson.
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- 1!Flasher
- 3A keyboard LED flasher!!
- 3Deunan Knute.
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- 1!Flasher1
- 3This will help you find the caret if you lose it.
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- 1!Fourier
- 3This opens a window which contains a very nice graphical pattern
- 3which changes between two states.
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- 1!Heli
- 3An animated pointer. Yes it’s a helicopter.
- 3Jon Noble. Nice one Jon.
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- 1!IconZ 2
- 3This little gem should cause the switcher icon to swirl around in
- 3a friendly manner.
- 3David G Jones.
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- 1!InVadE
- 3Blast the invaders with your pointer!!
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- 1!Invert
- 3A headstand module by Martin Simmons.
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- 1!Muncher
- 3A pacman type character eats your windows!!!
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- 1!StickyBD
- 3Another sticky backdrop for your Arc.
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- 1!Swallow
- 3Watch you desktop screen being swallowed!! But by what????
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- 1!ArcWolf
- 3Thunder, lightning and the cry of a lone wolf.
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- 1!BackImag2
- 3An A3000 logo floats around the desktop.
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- 1!Ball
- 3A bouncing ball in the desktop.
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- 1!Bullets
- 3Your monitor is shot to bits with bullet holes.
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- 1!Babyblues
- 3A pair of eyes follow the pointers every move.
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- 1!BackPic
- 3A very pretty lady is stuck to your desktop.
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- 1!Cookie
- 3Hundreds of random messages. Original version by David Pilling.
- 3This version is by Jonathan Marten. v 1.10.
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- 1!Deskwar
- 3A tank drives up and down your iconbar firing shells and running
- 3over buildings that you put in its path.
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- 1!DeskDuck
- 3A high quality sprite of a duck swims up and down the top of the
- 3iconbar.
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- 1!Dy_Stort
- 3Watch your window distort and disappear.
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- 1!Jimmy
- 3A lone, thirsty Scotsman in his own window. Can you give him a
- 3pint?
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- 1!WeirdThin It is strange.
- 3Joris Röling & Ferdinand Oeinck.
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- 1!365Days
- 3A small program gives a comment on the world.
- 3Alan Wriggler
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- 1!Acorn
- 3Replaces the warning triangles in the WIMP error windows with
- 3green acorns.
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- 1!Azumith
- 3A ridiculously silly random limerick generator.
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- 1!Ball
- 3The Ball Re-Animated by !FOZ!'92 of The Yorkshire Boys.
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- 1!Beauty
- 3The Beauty of fractals demo. A raytraced fractal landscape with
- 3a rotating green moon all in a multi-tasking window. Very good.
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- 1!BouncyNut
- 3A great little demo that was written for one of the Acorn User
- 3shows by Stu and Brian the cat. Try using the function keys,
- 3mouse buttons, keys 1,2,3,3,r,g,b and the arrow keys. More info
- 3can be found in the Basic !Runimage file.
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- 1!Crumble
- 3crumble is very, very useful. With this application you can
- 3expect 20 billion colours on screen at once, 3000 by 3000
- 3resolution, 20 gigbytes of ram and an annoying little colour
- 3mixer which follows the mouse.
- 3RAJ.
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- 1!Hello
- 3Add this to your boot file for a welcome.
- 3D Robinson.
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- 1!Moody
- 3Moody, a zany program. Brightens up the desktop!
- 3Pete Goodwin.
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- 1!OpenSezMe
- 3This program says "Open sesme!" whenever you open a directory.
- 3David Lidyard.
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- 1!Proverb
- 3Instant proverbs.
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- 3!Spraycan
- 3The writing on the wall is now on your Arc.
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- 1!Silly
- 3redefines the WIMP sprites and templates.
- 3Andrew Webb.
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- 1!Spots
- 3This program will draw 'spots' at random positions on your
- 3screen.
- 3Robin Moffatt.
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- 1Spraycan
- 3An annoying thingy!!
- 3Jim Whitehead.
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- 1!Warp
- 3You've heard of desktop sillies, well this is a desktop stupid.
- 3This programme has been carefully designed to be of absolutely
- 3no use to anyone.
- 3Ian Wallace.
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- 1!Deskballs
- 3A pair of green balls with the Arc logo bounce around the
- 3desktop complete with sound effects. Mode 15 Only.
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- 1!DeskDuck+
- 3This time you can feed the duck, send it to sleep and it also
- 3quacks.
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- 1!Door
- 3Sound effects of a creaky door every time you open or close a
- 3directory.
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- 1!Oric
- 3An attempt at an ORIC emulator!!!
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- 1!Reveal
- 3Holes appear in the desktop to reveal the PCB
- 3of your Arc.
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- 1!Robot
- 3Another animated sprite for the iconbar.
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- 1SHARKS2
- 3JAWS returns to a desktop near you.
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- 1SinkorSwim
- 3Loud sound sample.
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- 1!Blob
- 3A Blob destroys your desktop by leaving a green trail after
- 3itself and screams every time it hits the sides of the screen.
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- 1!Boot
- 3This is the surprise on the discs.!!!!!!!
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- 1!DeskBug
- 3My favourite on this disc. The desktop changes colour and bugs
- 3walk around. It’s all good fun.
- 3Ran Mokady. Version 1.00. (Try using the mouse to turn the
- 3monitor off).
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- 1!Docs
- 3Some very silly text files.
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- 1!Flasher
- 3Click on this and then look at your keyboard LED’s.
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- 1!Jumper
- 3A woolly sheep jumps up and down in the iconbar area.
- 3Richard.G.Hallas. Version 1.00.
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- 1!Mutant
- 3It may look safe but watch it mutate.
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- 1!Trotter
- 3Some of the music and the yellow van!!
- 3Mimic Auditus.
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- 1!Yow
- 3Words of wisdom from that cat!!!
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- 1!RedDwarf
- 3Load this up and from time to time you will hear the crew of Red
- 3Dwarf with their special kind of humour.
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- 1!Splodge
- 3Strange patterns are produced with this program which uses
- 3Cellular Automata to get the required results.
- 3John Hedley. Version 2.2.
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- 1!Windows
- 3Three windows open and close, each containing a great picture.
- 3Author unknown.
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- 1Dance
- 3Three very neat match stick men dance on the iconbar.
- 3This is great.
- 3Lee McGinty. Version 1.00 (Shareware).
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- 1!Dolphin
- 3The best desktop application yet. A jumping dolphin. It’s great.
- 3Paul Kerry and Gill Harper.
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- 1!TellTime
- 3Click on its icon and it will load in the correct modules and
- 3talk the time in hours, minutes and seconds.
- 3Patrick Cornwell.
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- 1!KangaKoe
- 3Another brilliant desktop silly that features a mole and a
- 3KangaKoe!! This is one not to miss. The masters of the Arc.
- 3Jan Tijmen van Gulik and Dirk-Willem van Gulik
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- 1!Locomo
- 3This has to be the ultimate in desktop sillies. An full
- 3technicolor motion picture of a train robbery complete with
- 3scrolling credits. Everyone should have this.
- 3Jan Tijmen van Gulik and Dirk-Willem van Gulik
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- 1FPower
- 3This module is pointless. It draws flowers on the screen.
- 3(and on the printed page if you're printing while it's active)
- 3Pretty, but pretty pointless, I'm sure you'll agree.
- 3Ben Summers. v0.05.
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