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Current Projects

Paint Shop Pro file support for The GIMP

Information on this project can now be found in the Projects section.

Synaesthesia

I have started to update Synaesthesia 1.4 to run on 24bpp X11 displays. It has still some bugs related to dynamic memory, but once these are fixed I will patch version 1.5 for verification of stability and submit the changes to the original author.

Old Projects never 100% finished

Partition support for SCSI devices with 2kbyte sectors

Though there exist at least two patches to enable access to the complete device (called Superfloppy format in the documentation for the Fujitso MO tools), partitions are not supported. Changing fdisk and implementing the needed kernel-support has been dropped by me but I still use a variant of my patch in the 2.0.36 system currently running and have not had a look into the 2.2 Linux kernels concerning the 2k sector topic yet.

Here's the kernel patch. It includes one of the original 2k patches and is for the 2.1.26 kernel though I did most of the testing with version 2.0.29. It should be able to handle `standard' MSDOS partitions (primary/extended). It's a bit verbose by now to be able to switch off before something evil might happen.

I'm running this with a Fujitsu M2513 Magneto-Optical Disk Drive.

XOSView

I added a view for disk activity along with some minor changes to the layout. This is not even used by me at the moment but if you are interested tell me and I'll send the changes I've done - if I find them.