Software for Windows

Windows applications
Personal Backup	DosPanel	BibTeX-Editor	R-Plot	FtpCopy

Software Development Tools for Delphi

• Delphi interfaces to the APIs for:
  • Windows Task Scheduler 2.0
  • Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
  • Windows Portable Devices
• Multilingual Delphi programs (GnuGetText for Delphi)
• Inspect and unpack InnoSetup archives (InnoUnpacker)

• Integrated Development Environment for 8051 Microcontrollers
• Conversion of graphics and text files

All programs provided are freeware and will run on Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 (32- & 64-bit).
Please note the license agreement.

Notes to users of Windows XP: Windows setups created with Inno Setup 6.1 will no longer run under Windows XP. In this case, the user must download the program package as zip archive instead (if available) and then unpack it manually. The executable files will run without any problems.

Note: The English version of this website is still under construction. As indicated in the sidebar on the left, some pages are at present available only in German.

Personal Backup

Personal Backup is a program for saving personal data to any destination folder. This folder may be located on a local fixed or removable drive, on a Windows network server or on an FTP server. It runs under Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 (32- & 64-bit), Windows Vista, Windows XP and the corresponding Server versions.

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DOSBox is an emulator for running DOS applications on various up-to-date platforms (e.g. Windows and Linux), enabling many old DOS game classics to be resurrected. The download is available from the DOSBox website. Detailed documentation can be found at DosBox wiki.

The program DosPanel is a graphical user interface for DOSBox. The user can make all required settings needed to start DOS applications in DOSBox without concern the somewhat crude syntax of the configuration file. Each DOS application can have its individual settings stored by the program.

The functions at a glance:

• Mounting drives for a DOS application:
• Any directory on the host system as hard drive
• Any host DVD/CD drive or ISO image as CD drive
• Selection of an application or DOS batch file with optional parameters to be started automatically when opening DOSBox
• A list of any DOS commands to be executed before starting the above application (e.g. changing the directory)
• Selection of an icon to be displayed in DosPanel
• Optional selection of a keymapper
• Selection of a manual (e.g. text or PDF) for the DOS application
• Additional comments

• Additional options: full screen and automatic closing of DOSBox
• Adjustment of the DOS user memory
• Adjustment of the emulation speed

Notes about installing the program

On Windows 7, 8, 10 and 11 just start the executable setup file to install the program. To do so the rights of an administrator are required. For older Windows versions (XP and Vista), the installation must be carried out by unpacking the zip archive provided.
Before starting DosPanel for the first time it is necessary to install the current version of DOSBox and run it once.

Configuration example to run Turbo-Pascal

Everybody wishing to use the popular Turbo Pascal IDE with 64-bit versions of Windows, can realize this very simply using DosPanel and DOSBox. The required configuration can be explained using the following example:
Create a directory TP on any drive (e.g. E:). Below this, create a subdirectory bin that will hold all binary files belonging to Turbo Pascal and separate subdirectories for the source files of each Pascal project. Copy this Batch file into the root directory TP. Then create a new DOS application in DosPanel for each project using the settings shown on the right. The entries for Name and Parameter specify the particular project subdirectory.
 

Languages:

• English and German
• German information about DOSPanel

Download:

Version 1.7.4 (December 2023)

Program setup (3.06 MB)	Zip archive with program	Sources are available from GitHub
SHA256 checksum 983E0387AE23E9A0179CDEAB1BCF74E6900B7E66D611C2EEF8FF42724C45477A
DOSBox Windows installer	DOSBox home page

WinBib is a program for editing and managing BibTeX files. It supports all entry types defined in BibTex, but is especially designed to manage the article type that is most used.

Overview::

• Editing of BibTeX entries
• Special functions for handling journal articles
• Tree-shaped index ordered by sources
• Automatic key generation
• Creation of new entries from articles saved as PDF file
• Versatile search functions
• Import of entries from other BibTeX files
• Export of entries to another BibTeX file
• Manually or filter orientated selection of entries for export
• Conversion of entries into HTML, RTF and CSV using user selectable templates
• Automatic download of articles
• Managing of locally-stored PDF files assigned to entries
• Languages: English, German and Hungarian (selectable)

Download - Version 2.5.3 (2014-20-20):

• Program setup (1.75 MB - MD5 checksum: 9fc1b0dd923ceea92e56e09314c04893)

R-Plot is a Windows program for presenting measuring data as X-Y diagrams, bar charts or histograms. Optionally you can add error bars, best-fit curves, computed functions, images, text and simple graphic objects. The number of charts per sheet and objects per chart are in theory unlimited.

On the desktop, two windows are displayed (as shown on the right). In the left one the graphical output is displayed. The right one is intended for editing the plot. The sheet can be sent to any Windows printer, inserted into another application using the clipboard and/or exported as Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) for insertion as an image into LaTeX documents.

The following objects are available:

• X and Y axes
  Linear, logarithmic and inverse scaling, automatic calculating of ticks, optional individual labeling, selectable properties of design
• Data curves
  Several markers for data points, optional with error bars, linear or spline interpolation, selectable properties of design, integrated data editor, import from files in CSV format
• Best-fit curves
  Linear regression or polynomial approximation using the Gauss algorithm, selectable sections, selectable properties of design
• Computed functions
  Simple formula input, selectable sections, selectable properties of design
• Bar charts
  Selectable width, offset and design properties
• Histograms
  Automatic calculation, selectable number of intervals, selectable properties of design
• Text boxes
  Multiline text with optional formatting and special characters, selectable font, border and background
• Comments
  Single-line, rotatable text with optional formatting and special characters, selectable font
• Legends
  Text with optional formatting and special characters, optional indication of data-point markers
• Results from best-fit curves
  Results from computing best-fit curves (see above) as text
• Lines
  Optional arrow heads, selectable color and line width
• Rectangles
  Selectable border and background
• Images
  Any pixel-formatted image (e.g. jpg or bmp)

Text, images, lines and rectangles can be moved on the plot using the mouse. Lines and rectangles can be scaled in the same way.

Online help

• Reference
• Quickstart
• Examples
  • Data curve with linear regression for a sub-range
  • Data curve with error bars and spline interpolation
  • Double-logarithmic plot with linear regression
  • Bar chart
  • Histogram with logarithmic scale

Download - Version 2.0.3 (2023-01-16):

32-bit version	64-bit version
Windows setup (3.18 MB) MD5: 76a1052074c4849b8c163a3e779b4193	Windows setup (3.46 MB) MD5: 175b6d9a0674d369118567bab77ad6d5
Zip archive with program	Zip archive with program
All examples as Zip archive	Source code on GitHub

FtpCopy is a program to copy files via FTP/FTPS. It is very useful for recurring operations like copying files to a web server for update.
You can configure different copy tasks under free selectable names. In addition, you can specify if all or only older files should be overwritten or if only files not existing on the FTP server should be copied. Configured tasks can be started interactively using the Windows GUI or by creating an appropriate desktop shortcut.
It is also possible to embed the program into a batch file, but for such an application the console program FtpRefresh, also part of the downloadable zip file, is better suitable. It will use the tasks configured by FtpCopy without popping up a desktop window. For more details refer to the enclosed description.

Download - Version 2.7.2 (2023-07-14):

Zip file with programs and description (3.67 MB)