Microsoft Plus! Patched Installers

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Microsoft Plus! Patched Installers

September 30, 2021 /
Microsoft Plus! was a series of bonus feature packages produced for various editions of Windows beginning with 95 and ending with XP. It hails from an era when collections of themes, utilities, and games could not easily be downloaded from the internet, and served essentially as an advertisement for the World Wide Web itself. "Like what you see? There's more on the internet!" was often Plus's call to action, and it was magical. While not all of Plus's contents have aged particularly well, some ...

Microsoft Plus! Patched Installers

FPAT (Frame Performance Analysis Tool)

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FPAT (Frame Performance Analysis Tool)

March 02, 2019 /
FPAT is a custom Frame Performance Analysis Tool written in modified JavaScript which provides detailed performance statistics and graphs in an elegant and highly flexible video interface. It is primarily intended as a utility for video reviews comparing GPU and CPU performance across models. The software is written in three components: 1) a converter to interpret performance data from other tools into FPAT format, 2) an experimental frame analyzer to generate performance data from video footage, 3) and ...

FPAT (Frame Performance Analysis Tool)

Scratcheroids!

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Scratcheroids!

December 17, 2018 /
Scratch is an online visual programming language designed to teach newcomers how to code. If you know me very well, you'll know I've often been critical of visual programming languages, citing them as being more cumbersome to learn and use than plain code. While Scratch isn't a total exception, it struck me as one of the better options out there, and so I set out to create something in it myself to find out. The result is Scratcheroids!—a simple, yet sophisticated interpretation of the classic Asteroids ...

Scratcheroids!

XGASOFT

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XGASOFT

December 12, 2018 /
XGASOFT is a middleware and game development studio I independently founded in 2017. Its name stands for International Game Arts, represented both by its diverse creative influences and its collaborators from all around the world. XGASOFT's mission is "telling stories with code"—using interactive technologies not just to entertain, but to impact and inspire. Its first product, VNgen, is designed to facilitate just that, putting the power of interactive storytelling in the hands of developers of all skill ...

XGASOFT

Vidsquish

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Vidsquish

December 12, 2018 /
Vidsquish is a graphical frontend for a collection of video processing libraries designed to offer compression, customization, and enhancement of videogame cutscenes—including some ultra-rare ones supported by few other tools. Featuring a powerful profile system, new games can be added to the roster of supported titles without modifying the underlying code, and new profiles can be created by the community as well. For those trying to save disk space, Vidsquish cuts down on the filesize of one of most ...

Vidsquish

Final Fantasy XV Radio Tuner

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Final Fantasy XV Radio Tuner

December 12, 2018 /
Based on Vidsquish, Radio Tuner is a frontend for a collection of audio libraries that makes it possible to import, export, and replace music from the hit JRPG Final Fantasy XV—specifically, music designed to play while driving the game's featured vehicle, the Regalia. As one of the first mods available for Final Fantasy XV, Radio Tuner was immediately popular among fans and was featured in a number of online media publications, including Kotaku, GeForce.com, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, GameWatcher, and many ...

Final Fantasy XV Radio Tuner