Simon Tatham's less maintained software

This page contains free software that's not quite up to the same standards as the software I maintain seriously.

Historical things

This is all software which I used to maintain more seriously, and advertised it on my main home page, but stopped, because I don't have any use for it any more.

• Enigma: a block-pushing puzzle game. Originally invented by a friend; converted to a curses-based Unix game by me. I now consider this superseded by Chroma, which contains the Enigma levels plus two more sets of even harder puzzles, and can run on a much wider range of platforms.
• Bitmap fonts and font utilities for Windows, in particular converting between Windows binary font file formats and a simple text format that's easy to edit. I don't expect these to be very useful in the modern day because high-DPI displays make bitmap fonts much less usable than they used to be.
• A set of scripts to fake the obsolete HTML <keygen> element, for the sake of websites that still require it even though modern browsers have withdrawn it. I'm hoping fewer and fewer people will need this at all, as those websites catch up with the news!
• A patch to bash(1) that implements a third mode of job termination notification. I still think something like this would be a nice feature in bash, but I don't feel strongly enough about it to keep forward-porting the patch to every new version.
• ick-proxy, a disgusting utility for rewriting URLs in multiple web browsers. I don't even use this myself any more – the sites I most wanted it for have either gone away, or implemented server-side preference systems that make me not need it any more.

Unfinished things

Another category of "not well maintained" software is stuff I haven't brought up to production standards in the first place. Software in this category is mostly treated as symbiosisware: I develop it to meet my own needs, and publish it here in case it's useful to anyone else, but I'm not (perhaps "yet") committing to maintaining it seriously for other people.

• Technicality, a font family I drew for use in my own terminal windows, text editors, and window furniture. I'm not a great font designer, in the artistic or the technological domain, and this font definitely has things wrong with it.
• A collection of filtering programs which run a shell (or other Unix program) in a pseudo-terminal and have various filtering effects on the input and output of that program: remapping keystrokes, character sets or colours, suppressing shell input completely, deleting output that overprints itself, or recording the session to a file. Plus the surprisingly useful filter that doesn't make any changes.
• Mastodonochrome, my personal client for Mastodon. Text-only, running in a Unix terminal or Windows console; user interface modelled after Monochrome BBS which I already knew well. Also my personal "learn Rust" project.