Here you can find all my applications for SymbOS.
Because of SymbOS and Quigs i learned about how to develop for SymbOS. I never been a very skilled programmer on my MSX machine but because of Quigs I was able to write my own applications! All my application are written in Quigs, which looks a bit like the .net language. I'm very thankfull to Trebmint (Developer of Quigs) and Prodatron (Developer of SymbOS). Without them I was never able to makenew applications for SymbOS. They learned me about programming and Z80 retro machines in general. Most of my applications are full of code snippeds from Trebmint. He learned me how to use Quigs! Besides that Prodatron And Trebmint became my friends and we talked hours and hours about life and computers. Thanks for that guys! I hope the list of applications will be bigger and bigger in future! |
My APPS for Download:
Sym4Row [19.10.2014] is the first app i wrote for SymbOS using SymStudio. SymStudio was very beta at that time. It was very cool that with help of Trebmint I was able to write my first application. It is a very simple application, where you can drop the coins using the right mouse button. | |
Tetris [03.04.2015] Was my second application. It was written in SymStudio. Tetris is using paint objects and it was the first application that was reseizeble to fit the best in every resolution. I had a lot of help from Trebmint which helped me thinking like a programmer. | |
Columns [07.10.2016] This application written in Unify. Unify was released after SymStudio. Columns is based on imageboxes. It was a bit more advanged then Tetris and it is optimized for 4 colors as well. It uses different imagesheets for 4 colors which is detected during startup of the game. | |
Performance Counter V1 [08.10.2016] As SymbOS was supporting different brands of Z80 machines the idea was to compare different machines in their perfomance. With this program you can compare your machine with other Z80 machines. It was written in Unify. It does CPU and GFX calculations | |
Simple Messenger [01.12.2017] Simple messenger was the first network application written in Unify. At some point network was introduced in Unify. There are 3 versions of Simple Messenger. One supports peer to peer connection the other is client-server based. network.symbos.org:280 is hosting the server side. There is also a windows chat client for use on a modern PC./span> | |
SymbOS IRC [05.03.2018] After Simple messenger was introduced the idea was to build a compatible IRC client. Resulting in the first IRC client for SymbOS. Do the lack of Multiline textbox (at that time) the application is somewhat limited but still can handle 4 chatrooms at the same time. It works the best against chat.freenode.net:6667 | |
SymBUS Remote [13.04.2018] Just for fun i decided to host a TCP server port on the SymbOS machine. By connecting to this port using telnet you can have some control over your SymbOS computer. (Start Application, Open MessageBox, It is very limited but it was to proof that you could execute applications remotly by using other network machine. | |
BattleShip [16.05.2018] Battle Ship was the first network multiplayer game for SymbOS. The game has a very small chat window so players can interact during the gameplay. | |
Snake [23.07.2018] Battleship was more a turn based network game. Because of that i wanted to try a more "moving" multiplayer game. The snake game is in a way is still "turn" based but little faster in switching. This game has 10 levels. The gameplay is a bit limited and boring but it was more to proof that something like this would be possible on a 8-bit homecomputer. It can be played as single player as well. The idea is to grow as big a snake can be and get the most points. | |
FM Radio [01.02.2019] After TMT-Logic released special hardware to decode/play MP3 music (Sunrise) and to play FM Radio there was a need for an application in SymbOS. This application can only be used when you have the SE-ONE hardware from TMT-Logic. This application was the last Unify application bus was re-written in Quigs for support reasons. | |
DAB+ Radio [05.05.2020] This was my first Quigs application. Quigs is the latest and new development toolkit for SymbOS. (It is really cool!) After TMT-logic released the FM Radio (SE-ONE) people asking for a DAB+ radio. After TMT-logic released the hardware I wrote the DAB+ application for SymbOS which allow you to listen to Digital Radio and save your station list to disk. | |
SymbOS Email [01.01.2021] Quigs was released with disk-access and multiline-textbox which was not avilible in Unify/SymStudio. Developing a Email client for a 8 bit machine was always a dream for me! This is by far my biggest project/application. SymbOS Email supports POP3/SMTP and Base64 for authentication. It "Only" supports plain text. This Email client works the best between SymbOS machines. However if you are lucky you can receive emails on a modern machine as well. I worked a couple of years on this project and it is far from perfect as it is almost impossible to support all kind of modern Email (MINE) protocols. So i decided to keep it as simple as possible. Beaware that not every modern email client supports textbased emails. It is also wise not to connect to you daily production email server as nowdays emails are sometimes very big and this will for sure crash your SymbOS machine! Filedownload is supported but there is no (working) base64 file converter at the moment for SymbOS. | |
VDP Adjust [01.10.2021] This tool is for Yamaha VDP's like the G9K (v9990) to adjust the center of your screen on your monitor. If you put thisthis tool in the startup menu it will set (and save) your screen adjustment during startup. This application was written in Quigs. It is the first Quigs application that supports the "quick launch icon" in the taskbar. | |
Flappy Bird[04.05.2022] Because the latest release of Quigs is supporting G9k, Flappy Bird was born. It is a small game for SymbOS that is running in patternmode (FullScreen). Trebmint was adding support for the G9k in Quigs and this game was a proof of concept to show different Z80 SymbOS machines are able to run the same game on different hardware using the same G9k and OS | |