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iStat wireless 1.0
iStat wireless - monitor wireless network strength with a striking design and two different views more>> To accompany use of the JACT Cambridge textbook for beginners in Ancient Greek, Reading Greek. This program includes all the learned vocabulary from the textbook, allows this vocabulary to be sorted and consulted in ways likely to be useful to students and teachers, and creates flashcards. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher.<<less
Memento Mori 1.0r3
Memento Mori began as an independent study while the developer was studying graphic design at the University of Kansas more>> Memento Mori began as an independent study while the developer was studying graphic design at the University of Kansas. It was designed as a face that would be able to imitate Ancient Roman carvings, but without the feeling of "near perfect" quality that the computer renders. For this, I designed four different but subtle versions of each letterform, which are accessible from the same font to achieve a hand made look. Most people will hardly notice the differences between the letters, but closer examination will reveal the differences: slant, weight, stress, serifs, and widths. There are no lowercase (as the Romans didnt have lowercase), but a Small Caps suitcase has been included. With the small caps, you will be able to create logotypes (the NT and the RI in the title above). Refer to the key chart documentation on how to access all the characters. Additionally, for an example of how this typeface can be used, take a look at the sample image included in this archive.
Because of the complexity of this typeface, it should only be used with programs that have kerning abilities. Typing a letter to your mother with Memento Mori on the word processor of your choice will produce horrendous results. This font is happiest when used in programs like FreeHand, Illustrator, or Quark Xpress. Due to the large number of letter combinations, it would be very difficult to make specific kerning pairs.
System 7.0 or later.
Letter Invaders X 0.1
Letter Invaders, based on the now ancient arcade game Space Invaders, is designed to help improve typing skills (and therefore increase your chances of getting some sort of RSI) more>> Letter Invaders, based on the now ancient arcade game Space Invaders, is designed to help improve typing skills (and therefore increase your chances of getting some sort of RSI). The idea is to blast aliens out of the sky as they attempt to land on and "kill" you. Since this is a game to improve typing skills, the aliens are words selected randomly from the dictionary. You blast the aliens out of the sky by typing them correctly.
Mac OS X 10.1 or later.
Temperance 1.01
Temperance is a very flexible and effective tool which is named for the ancient Greek virtue of restraint. more>>
Temperance 1.01 is a very flexible and effective tool which is named for the ancient Greek virtue of restraint. Temperance is a no frills easy on the eyes theme designed for everyday use. Lacking distracting scroll bars and buttons, it uses color where it counts.
Requirements: Shapeshifter 1.1
Diogenes 3.0.10
Diogenes is a tool for searching and browsing the databases of ancient texts, primarily in Latin and Greek more>> <<less
Crystal Cave Christmass Treasure 1.0
Search long-lost treasures in pitch black caves, pyramids and dark tombs of ancient temples in this wonderfull puzzle game! more>>
Huge gemstones were sheltered from the sunshine for eons of time waiting for those who are brave. You as an intrepid tomb seeker must resolve puzzles of pharaohs, aztecs, fight kings and show courage in many adventures to get them all.
Crystal Cave is a supreme family-fun puzzle game. You have to collect all crystals from ancient lost tombs. Challenge your brain!
Crystal Cave Christmass Treasure is a freeware clone of the game Crystal Cave Gold. The game contains 26 levels and 10 train levels (from Crystal Cave), with lots of logical riddles as well as action elements. Use boulders, different types of rocks and teleports to get gems and to escape from monsters. Great fun for the whole family!
Hammer of Thyrion 1.4.4 Pre6 / 1.4.3
Free and open source port of Ravens Hexen II source more>> Free and open source port of Ravens Hexen II source
Hammer of Thyrion is a cross-platform port of Ravens Hexen II source. It is based on an older linux port, Anvil of Thyrion.
HoT includes many bug fixes, opengl improvements, improved sound and video modes, and documentation among many others.
NOTE: Hexen II source, and the Hammer of Thyrion source port, are free
but the game itself is not: you must have an original copy of the
game released by Raven Software and Activision.
Main features:
- Support for Hexen II, Hexen II demo, Portal of Praevus mission pack and HexenWorld.
- Cross-platform code: Tested on Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and Windows. The software renderer version is tested on QNX. Other unices should also work. There are seperate ports to MorphOS and PalmOS.
- Tested on 32 bit and 64 bit platforms.
- In-game resolution changing for both opengl and software renderers. Instant fullscreen/windowed toggling on X11 (unix).
- OpenGL enhancements including multitexturing, glow effects, working brightness control, text and hud size changing on the fly, translucent console background, console background stretching, colored lights and support for external lit files, fixes for texture cache and model mesh cache mismatches.
- Fully network-compatible with Ravens 1.11 windows version as well as with other Hexen II ports. Can load and play games saved with Ravens 1.11 windows version.
- The same binary handles both original hexen2 and the mission pack.
- The same hexen2 binary transparently handles both v1.11 (hexen2) and v1.12 (mission pack) style progs.dat files.
- Fullscreen intermissions and help dialogs.
- MouseWheel support.
- Improvements and fixes to the HexenC game code.
- Improved sound support: A selection of three different sound drivers (ALSA, OSS and SDL) for Linux. FreeBSD is supported with OSS and SDL, OpenBSD and NetBSD are experimentally supported with sunaudio and SDL.
- Working music volume controls and on the fly selection of CD or MIDI music.
- Full user directories support under unix: all users have their own configuration files and game saves.
- Improved console functionality (inline editing and tab completion), and a maplist command.
- Ability to delete saved games from within the game.
- Several hexen2 utilities (hcc: the hexenc compiler, and other mapping tools) are maintained and are being kept up to date.
- Several hexenworld utilities (hwmaster: hexenworld master server, hwmquery: tool for querying hw master servers, hwrcon and hwterm: rcon tools) are maintained and are being kept up to date.
Enhancements
- bumped the hexen2 engine version to 1.22, and hexenworld engine version to 0.22.
- fixed the broken software renderer binaries from C++ compilers with x86 assembly enabled (do not use the bool keyword of C++).
- compilations using the gcc-4.4 development versions were tested.
- added support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.
- added support for 64 bit windows versions (x64) using mingw-w64.
- opengl: fixed an issue that changing resolution from within the game might crash on Windows Vista.
- stricter checking on the values pulled out of .wav file chunk headers.
- renamed model_t to qmodel_t in order to avoid conflicts on solaris.
- fixed the "mirrored prints" problem of hexen2 console at high resolutions.
- fixed the colored prints of hexenworld console.
- fixed array going out-of-bounds (utils/map.c) and bogus maybe used uninitialized warnings (sbar.c) from gcc-4.3.
- fixes to the SVGALib driver. it is functional now.
- fixed bug #2176384: in windowed mode, when you save using the menus, the game used to quit the menu without grabbing the mouse properly.
- increased the buffersize for sdl audio. made it to print a little more detailed info at startup.
- launcher, patching: rewritten the inter-threads log printing and fixed the erratic crashes on smp systems. launcher version is 1.0.4 now.
- hexenworld master server: unknown packets are properly output as hexdump. hwmaster version is 1.2.6 now.
- other minor fixes.
- 3dfx gamma hacks are disabled by default at compile time (see the Makefile).
- killed compatibility with user directories from HoT-1.4.0 and earlier which didnt operate with a data1 subdirectory. they are ancient history now.
- added initial support for standalone free contents (mods) as an extra patch.
- added extra testing code to support midi when using sdl audio (extra patch).
- utils, qbsp: accept more than one wad file specified in the value of the "wad" key. the wad file names must be separated by a semicolon. spaces are allowed in the file names. quoted paths arent allowed.
- utils, qbsp: the absolute paths in wad values are not touched, ie. the paths beginning with a / on unix or with a drive specifying string like "C:foo ar.wad" on windows. all other values with no path information or relative path information are prefixed with the project path. this fixes the issues reported for qbsp usage from within worldcraft.
- added back some unused code for future reference. removed some truly dead code.
- minor documentation tidy-ups.
AEgyptian Transliteration 1.0.0
AEgyptian Transliteration is an application supporting you to study the basics of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. more>>
AEgyptian Transliteration 1.0.0 is an application supporting you to study the basics of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs. You can browse the list of hieroglyph characters, studying their transliterations and pronunciations. You can also do tests to check your knowledge of character data.
Ask The Buddha 1.0
A great Yahoo widget that brings to you Buddhas answers. more>> A great Yahoo widget that brings to you Buddhas answers.
The ancient wisdom of Asia combines with the simplicity of the Magic 8 Ball in this fortune-telling Widget. All you have to do is to ask the Buddha a question, rub his belly with a click of the mouse, and automatically an answer will be revealed.
Disclaimer: If this Widget is used to make decisions concerning investing money, neither SongLi nor The Buddha are responsible for any financial losses you may suffer as a result of an answer.
System requirements:
- Yahoo! Widget Engine

JACTVocab 2.0
JACTVocab is one of the most advantageous tools to accompany use of the Ancient Greek beginner textbook Reading Greek. more>>
JACTVocab 2.0 is one of the most advantageous tools to accompany use of the Ancient Greek beginner textbook "Reading Greek". Now updated for the second edition of "Reading Greek." This program includes all the learned vocabulary from the textbook, allows this vocabulary to be sorted and consulted in ways likely to be useful to students and teachers, and creates flashcards. Good for students learning the vocabulary; good for teachers writing quizzes.
Enhancements:
- Completely updated to match the second edition of the textbook.
- Updated for Leopard and Snow Leopard.
- Fixed printing bugs that emerged in Leopard and Snow Leopard.
- Added optional animations when moving from card to card (best on Snow Leopard).
- Requires Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) or higher.
MacYiKing 0.62
MacYiKing - Explore the ancient Chinese classic Book of Changes more>>
Completly freeware for non-commercial use.
Enhancements:
- new icon
- trigram graphics
- simple divination "how-to".

iXiangQi 1.0.1
iXiangQi is considered as an interesting and fantastic arcade game. more>> iXiangQi 1.0.1 is considered as an interesting and fantastic arcade game. Xiang Qi, or Chinese chess, is the most popular board game in China, and it is very challenging. iXiangQi program allows you to enjoy playing this ancient Chinese Chess game with your favorite Mac.
Enhancements:
- Pieces hard to drag -UI bug fixed
- UI improvement - bigger piece footprint
- New feature added - Take Back Move
Requirements: Mac OS X 10.4.10 or later.
SkyChart Updater 3.6.4
SkyChart Updater - Sky simulation planetarium & telescope control more>>
SkyChart is also a telescope control program, supporting all of the leading computer-controlled telescopes available on the market today. SkyChart lets you enjoy the benefits of computer-aided observing: see where the telescope is pointing on your computer screen, or slew the telescope to any object in the sky with a single click of the mouse.
Note: SkyChart Updater is only available for registered users.
Main features:
- Accurately reproduces eclipses, transits, and occultations - as seen not only from Earth, but also from any place in the solar system. Watch the Moon orbit the Earth as seen from another planet, or witness the passage of a comet through the solar system as if you were riding on the comet!
- Shows you the sky from beyond the solar system, and lets you watch the celestial scenery change as you move. View the constellations from hundreds or thousands of light years away!
- Animates the sky forward or backward in time over thousands of years. Watch the celestial poles precess; see the constellations shift as the stars move over the millenia.
- Supports leading computer-controlled telescopes from Meade, Celestron, and other manufacturers. See where the telescope is pointing on your computer screen; slew the telescope to any object in the sky with a single click of the mouse. SkyChart III even has a "red screen" mode to preserve your night vision when working at the telescope!
- Includes two fully-customizable object databases. The Standard database is installed on your hard drive and contains 400,000 stars, plus tens of thousands of star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. The Large database resides on the CD-ROM, and contains everything in the Standard database, plus over 19 million additional stars, and 1 million more galaxies. Import your own database files to add new comets, asteroids, stars, planets, or deep-sky objects. Any existing object in the database can be edited, even the constellations!
- Renders star images and planet surfaces in 32-bit color with data derived from NASA spacecraft imagery. Print high-resolution finder charts in black and white or color; or export images in many different file formats like BMP, GIF, JPEG, PICT, TIFF. Save animations as GIF files viewable in any web browser!
- Computes positions of the Sun, Moon, major planets, their moons, dozens of comets and asteroids to within milli-arcseconds of their values in the Astronomical Almanac. Investigate historical events like eclipses and conjunctions that happened centuries ago, and accurately reproduce what ancient peoples saw.
- Computes and displays the positions of Earth satellites from standard NASA/NORAD two-line element satellite orbit files using the full-precision SGP4/SDP4 satellite orbit models. Follow the International Space Station across the sky, or predict a satellite passage in front of the Moon.
Enhancements:
- This release brings the code base of the English-language version up to sync with the newly released Spanish-language version. A number of changes were made to support better internationalization/localization:
- The decimal-point character is now locale-specific; decimals are displayed as "," in European locales, and "." in North America. (The computers regional settings are used to determine the locale.) Decimal points in text import files and settings files are always assumed to be the US (".") decimal-point character, for consistency. [Note: this functionality is only present in the Windows version of SkyChart III; were still trying to make it work on Mac OS X.]
- All strings in data files, and settings descriptions in settings files, are converted to Windows Latin-1 encoding before being written to disk. This ensures that accented and other european-language characters will translate properly between Mac and Windows.
- A case-sensitive search for an object name is now sensitive to both case and diacritics (e.g. accents, umlauts, etc). When case is ignored, diacritics are also ignored - e.g. a search for "Jupiter" will also find "Jpiter", and a search for "Saturn" will also find "Sturn".
- In the chart legend, the full names of deep sky objects are being displayed, instead of abbreviations.
- In the "Object Info" window, a number of text strings and buttons were rearranged. The object type for the Sun is now displayed as "Star"; for the major planets as "Planet"; for moons as "Moon". The star type for single stars is now simply listed as "Star".
- For years outside 1600 - 2100 A.D., the program uses new expressions for the precession of the equinox provided by W. M. Owen of JPL. These new expressions should provide realistic results for a much wider interval of +/- 500,000 years from J2000. (The previous expressions "blew up" and displayed highly unrealistic results after roughly 10,000 years from J2000.) For the time period 1600 - 2100 A.D., the previous (IAU 1976) expressions for precession are still used.
- Previous versions of the Windows installer for SkyChart III installed a 16-bit version of the uninstall application (UnWise.exe). This update replaces it with the 32-bit version.
- Fixed a crash in the Mac OS X version that occurred when moving the mouse inside a progress-bar dialog.
- Removed timing code in the Mac OS X version that was causing a performance-profiling dialog to appear sporadically.
- The Mac OS X version of SkyChart III can now launch properly on Macs with 2.0 GB of RAM or more installed. The Mac OS X installer/updater application should no longer display a warning on Macs with more than 2.0 GB of RAM. (This warning can safely be ignored, however.)
- The Mac OS X version now has the main windows "close" button enabled; clicking it quites the application. The "Quit" menu command has moved from the File menu to the "SkyChart III" menu, for better conformance with Apples Mac OS X interface guidelines.
Qin 1.0
Qin - icons inspired from Chinas first Qin dynasty more>>
- Application:"An ancient sword cross with a Chinese lance"
- CD and CD-alt:"Chinese coin"
- Documents:"Bamboo slip"
- Finder:"Qins war flag"
- Safari:"An ancient compass"
- User:"Qin Shi Emperors hat"
Age of Mythology Updater 1.0.1
The age of mythology. A time when heroes did battle with monsters of legend and the gods intervened in the affairs of mortal men more>> The age of mythology. A time when heroes did battle with monsters of legend and the gods intervened in the affairs of mortal men. Age of Mythology is the latest real-time strategy game from Ensemble Studios, the creators of the best-selling Age of Empires and The Age of Kings.
Guide one of nine ancient civilizations to greatness by commanding all aspects of your empire. Advance through four distinct ages. Use mythological creatures like Minotaurs and Cyclopes to bolster your armys strength. Immerse yourself in the beautiful world created by the games revolutionary new 3D engine.
Age of Mythology 1.0.
Version 1.0.1:
- Quite a few of the changes in the updater help improve GameRanger support. In addition, the following specific changes were made:
- The initial connection process for GameRanger games is much more reliable now, especially when running behind a router.
- Added support for GameRanger Premium.
- Online games now work from dial-up connections.
- Startup movies are skipped when launching GameRanger games.
- The 1.01 version is now network compatible across all different language versions. English, French, and German versions can play network and online games.
- Both "delete" keys (the large one and the small one above the arrow keys) will now destroy units and buildings.
- Cmd-Shift-P will pause the game (useful for laptops).
- Occasionally the installer will leave a few files with truncated file names. The application now looks for these and renames them at launch time.
- Fixed a crash bug that occurred when you looked at the Help page for certain units (the "Giant Killer Einherjar", for example).
- Fixed a bug where units that have been hurled through the air (from a meteor attack, for example) would sometimes stop right above the ground and stay there, helplessly flailing away.
- Fixed a bug where you could garrison units inside of the hero unit Amanra.
- Removed a few PC-specific items from the Options screen.
- Fixed the warning for saving over existing files for save games.
- Added support for the middle mouse button, which cycles through latest notifications.
- Added support for saving and loading files with "extended" characters with accent marks (this is mainly for foreign versions).
- Slight performance improvements.