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This page lists changes to my web site that happened within a year of the most recent update.

Date	Alterations
14th March 2010 (MTB)	It's here at last! After months of work, release 3 of the Music Ripper's Toolkit has escaped, incorporating a converter for Fire and Ice music. Also, exactly one year after the last release, Cogs has received an interim bugfix.
27th January 2010	Fixed broken links to Simon P. Bullen's page on GeoCities, which was closed by Yahoo.
26th January 2010	Improved handling of output failures in the ScreenGrabber front-end's 'Save script' facility.
25th January 2010	Removed backup directories generated by the GNU patch utility from inside the public distributions of ScreenGrabber and CBLibrary.
15th January 2010	Fix link to the Center for Inquiry website so that it breaks out of the frameset.
25th December 2009 (MTB)	Merry Christmas everyone! I present to you World of Shards, a hot new contender for best song on the website.
23rd December 2009 (MTB)	Urgent bugfix for MBBack - everyone must upgrade.
17th December 2009 (MTB)	Trivial.
16th December 2009 (MTB)	The new version of Magic Mushrooms has been belatedly uploaded.
3rd December 2009 (MTB)	A non-MBBack related update, at last: This year's Digital Symphony remix of a seasonal song is now available.
2nd December 2009 (MTB)	I sincerely apologise, but they just keep on coming: yet ANOTHER new release of MBBack.
30th November 2009	I have tweaked my Rienzi WAD again in an attempt to make it more playable and less liable to run slowly or exceed limits in early versions of the game engine.
28th November 2009 (MTB)	Yet another new release of MBBack. I really mean it about this one being the last for a while. XUTime is now available under the GNU license.
25th November 2009	Break out of this frameset to the GNU web site.
23rd November 2009 (MTB)	Major new release of MBBack. This, Cogs, DrawComb and BAABE are now available under the GNU General Public License.
18th November 2009 (MTB)	After an embarrassingly long period of time, a new Digital Symphony tune, 'Fresh', is now available for download.
15th November 2009 (MTB)	Whoops. Bugfix for the new release of MBBack.
14th November 2009 (MTB)	Surprise, surprise. A new version of MBBack already.
5th November 2009	Site-wide changes to stop abusing the `<CITE>` element.
4th November 2009 (MTB)	Two new software releases today - BAABE, a free advanced new text adventure interpreter, and MBBack, a rather nice backdrop randomizer. On a somewhat more prosaic note, by incessant request, Demon Base has been slightly tweaked.
21st October 2009	CBLibrary now incorporates functions to open and close additional messages files. Updated the ScreenGrabber front-end to use them for its key names file.
18th October 2009	I have fixed an obscure bug in ScreenGrabber and a misleading option button label.
17th October 2009	Two more minor fixes for CBLibrary.
16th October 2009	Sneaky fix for a new bug in CBLibrary. You love it.
15th October 2009	After a sickeningly long gestation period, another public release of CBLibrary. I picked apart gratuitous module interdependencies, fixed a couple of bugs, wrote a lot of SWI veneers, brought together my existing code for dealing with RGB triplets, and finally tidied up the Makefile madness.
11th September 2009	Fixed a couple of stupid regressions in ScreenGrabber: one which affected compatibility with RISC OS 3.1 machines and the other which made it useless on Iyonix PCs.
9th September 2009	Yet another public release of CBLibrary, this time in support of a fabulous new version of ScreenGrabber. Incorporates a useful new general-purpose string transformation function.
6th September 2009 (MTB)	Re-encoded Drift, which seems to have been horribly truncated at some point in its existence.
3rd September 2009 (MTB)	Fixed another broken link, this time to Zarquon's Manifesto.
30th August 2009	New versions of Textseek and CBLibrary are now available for download.
14th August 2009 (MTB)	Removed link to Quantum Software's desktop backdrops, which have unfortunately gone the way of the dinosaurs.
17th July 2009	Really uploaded new version of Textseek. If you want something done properly then do it yourself (sigh).
16th July 2009	New version of Textseek: now with support for ignoring /SVN directories (by request).
2nd July 2009 (MTB)	Second release of the Music Ripper's Toolkit. New version of Tribal Beat, and two new tracks uploaded. Since it seems to be open season on the website content, the awful DigitalCD skins have now gone.
2nd July 2009	Depersonalised website and removed some content.
22nd June 2009	Another new public release of CBLibrary (now sensibly handles requests for data associated with multiple entities, clears up properly upon deregistration of listeners, and returns an error if the clipboard is empty). Also, Harriet has fixed a minor bug in her Textseek application.
17th June 2009 (MTB)	Uploaded a very old tune by the name of 'Stardust Symphony' which was written in May 2007 and really should have been there when the music page was created. I even had a blurb written. Not sure what happened there!
15th June 2009 (MTB)	Four new tunes have been uploaded - 'Chippin'', 'Pointless', 'Country Dance' and 'The Flying German'. The MP3 versions of these four now have ID3 tags - I will do the rest of them when I can be bothered. A selection of Marsquake levels are also now available. Martin's and Harriet's email addresses have changed - updates site-wide accordingly.
15th June 2009	I have released a new version of my C library for RISC OS programmers, mainly to fix an embarrassing flaw in one of the error-checking macros.
6th June 2009	Uploaded an updated version of my Curriculum Vitae.
5th June 2009	Modified the descriptions of Star Fighter 3000 and Apocalypse to reflect prevailing opinion on Wikipedia which seems to be that Shoot 'em up games are typically 2D and allow only limited freedom of movement.
2nd June 2009 (MTB)	First release of the Music Ripper's Toolkit, incorporating SF3KtoProT.
1st June 2009	Temporarily removed my Curriculum Vitae, because it is several years out of date.
25th April 2009	Martin recently composed a new piece of music named 'Wormhole Travel II'. I have converted it to MP3 format and uploaded both that and the original Digital Symphony file.
20th April 2009	Further titivated my Rienzi WAD in Doom Builder.
18th April 2009	Released a slightly improved version of Rienzi after feedback on the Doomworld forums encouraged me to get Doom Builder working. Removed a duplicate link to Fish! on the page of Doom WAD files.
17th April 2009	I have finally finished polishing the second half of an ambitious Doom WAD that was first advertised in the long-defunct 'Work In Progress' section of this web site in March 2000 (and last mentioned in the guise of 'Mountain Monastery' in January 2006). I haven't released a brand new map of my own since Fish in May 2003! I also recently wrote a very silly poem about Doom editing (or is it?).
17th March 2009	Martin has provided new versions of his utility for combining Draw files and his Spirograph simulator. Apart from the usual crop of bug fixes, the highlights seem to be that he fixed dragging to the icon bar when saving files, and that these applications can now be internationalised by translating their messages.
26th February 2009	Mended all the broken links to David Pilling's web site (domain name changed).
22nd February 2009	Martin has slightly improved and publicised his version of Magic Mushrooms.
18th February 2009	Martin has produced a RISC OS version of Neil Raine's classic platform game for the BBC microcomputer - Magic Mushrooms!

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