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This is a complete mirror ‘driver package’ for the CH430/CH431 USB to Serial chips.
We use these CH430 chips on nearly all our projects and products which have USB<->Serial/UART communication/integration.
This driver is also needed for many “Arduino®Clones” and/or “Chinese Arduino® Boards“, this is currently one of the most popular (cheap) USB to serial/UART chips used.
IMPORTANT:
Read the information in the product tab for detailed information regarding these drivers and the supported chips.
Download Size: 6.2MB
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This is a file which is often reported missing when trying to run applications written in Visual Basic 6 on newer operating systems like Windows 10.
The COMCTL32.OCX file is the library which ‘delivers’ the Windows Common Controls and is (was) provided by Microsoft. However in newer versions of Windows this file is no longer present.
Some older programs (which otherwise still run fine on newer Windows versions) do however still depend on this file being present on your system in order to run properly.
NOTE: Please read the information and instructions bellow on how to use/install this file before downloading it.
Download: 1.3MB
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This is a link to the official download page of the XNA Framework Redistributable 3.0
Some of our legacy (and even recent) projects and/or products (still) use the XNA Framework to utilize Xbox (360 and One) controllers in our applications, games and even drivers.
Currently these redistributables are still being offered by Microsoft itself, and thus you should download them from their website
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This is a link to the official download page of the XNA Framework Redistributable 3.1
Some of our legacy (and even recent) projects and/or products (still) use the XNA Framework to utilize Xbox (360 and One) controllers in our applications, games and even drivers.
Currently these redistributables are still being offered by Microsoft itself, and thus you should download them from their website
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This small program/script can be used on your R36S/R36H retro console running on Linux (ArkOS) to install Add-on ‘systems’. This program will add the systems to the Emulation Station Configuration automatically, and you are also able to remove the systems with this program
Adding the XNL Ft. system/category gives you the possibility to install all the tools/programs I’ve released into their own category in your Emulation Station main menu. This prevents you from having to go to Options->Tools->XNL Tools ever time you want or need to use one of my programs, tweaks or utils. You can of course also just install them in /roms/tools/XNL Tools, however personally we like to keep our tools/programs a bit more organized 😊.
The Apps system/category basically allows you to put any .sh script into the folder /roms/apps and run it from the Emulation Station main menu. Some of my releases will actually require this system/category, but you can also install (or make) your own Linux/Bash start scripts in this category/system.
Current Version: 1.0
Please read the additional information bellow!
Download: 173KB (SH/Bash Script + some theme files)
A .sh script is basically an open-source script which you can just run as-is on your (in this instance Linux) machine/console. You can run it, but for example also open it in Notepad++ and view/edit the code directly.
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This program can be used to assign additional storage space to the Linux/ArkOS partition on your SD-Card by taking it from the ROM’s partition. This can (and will) be extremely useful when you want to install additional packages, drivers, development tools or any other add-ons which are installed directly into Linux (instead of being a ROM/game on your ROM’s partition).
It’s highly recommended to read more about the why and how bellow 😊
Current Version: 1.0
Download(s):
Program: 792KB
Source: 1.08MB
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This small program/script can be used on your R36S/R36H retro console running on Linux (ArkOS) to create screenshot of Terminal based applications and scripts. This is for example useful when you have developed a program/tool which uses Dialog as user interface and you want to show some screenshots on your website/github, in your video, for manuals or tutorials etc.
Current Version: 1.0
Please read the additional information bellow!
Download: 15KB (SH/Bash Script)
A .sh script is basically an open-source script which you can just run as-is on your (in this instance Linux) machine/console. You can run it, but for example also open it in Notepad++ and view/edit the code directly.
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This is our (unaltered) backup mirror of the STM32 Flash loader by ST.
This flasher can be used to flash the bootloader onto XNL STAR-3 Boards, XNL STAR-3-MB Boards, STM32 Blue Pill board and (many) other STM32 Microcontrollers
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This is a backup mirror to ensure that you always have access to the version/bootloader which we recommend. Make sure to check the Information Tab to see if the original author has a more recent version!
Download Size: 35MB
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These are the Visual Basic 6 SP5 runtimes which where required when installing (or running) applications developed with Visual Basic 6 on older operating systems.
Since we still have some (vintage) computers running operating systems like Windows 98 (SE), Windows 2000 and Windows XP and are sometimes still using projects needing these runtimes we decided to make them available for those legacy projects if uses needed them.
IMPORTANT NOTE
You do not need to install these runtimes from Windows Vista and up (including Windows 10!), because since Windows Vista these runtimes are integrated into the operating system!
Download: 1MB
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These are the Visual Basic 6 SP6 runtimes which where required when installing (or running) applications developed with Visual Basic 6 on older operating systems.
Since we still have some (vintage) computers running operating systems like Windows 98 (SE), Windows 2000 and Windows XP and are sometimes still using projects needing these runtimes we decided to make them available for those legacy projects if uses needed them.
IMPORTANT NOTE
You do not need to install these runtimes from Windows Vista and up (including Windows 10!), because since Windows Vista these runtimes are integrated into the operating system!
Download: 1MB
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This small program/script can be used to detect if your retro console running on Linux (ArkOS) is compatible with my R36 programs, scripts, drivers etc.
Current Version: 1.0
Please read the additional information bellow!
Download: 11KB (SH/Bash Script)
A .sh script is basically an open-source script which you can just run as-is on your (in this instance Linux) machine/console. You can run it, but for example also open it in Notepad++ and view/edit the code directly.
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This is our mirror of the XNL STAR-3 Bootloader bin file.
This bootloader can (also) be used for:
– XNL STAR-3 Boards
– XNL STAR-3-MB Boards
– STM32 Blue Pill boards
– Most other boards using an STM32F103C8
– Most other boards using an STM32F103CB
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This is a backup mirror to ensure that you always have access to the version/bootloader which we recommend. Make sure to check the Information Tab to see if the original author has a more recent version!
Download Size: 13KB
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These are a mirror of the (USB) drivers for the XNL STAR-3 and several other STM32 based boards.
These drivers can also be used for:
– XNL STAR-3-MB Boards
– STM32 Blue Pill boards
– Most other boards using an STM32F103C8
– Most other boards using an STM32F103CB
Download Size: 22MB
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20 years ago (as of 2024) I wrote TextSpec 2.0B which was used to count words, characters and lines in a pasted (plain) text. Simply because lots of people I knew back then didn’t had Microsoft Word on their home computer, or they just wanted a small (quickly starting) tool to get this information about a piece of text fast and efficiently.
In honor of the 20 year old version I decided to completely rewrite TextSpec from scratch in .NET with a lot more features, accuracy and other improvements.
Interested in what this new modernized version has to offer and why I decided to rewrite it again? Make sure to check the information bellow for more details 😊
Download: 396KB (Program/Binaries)
Download: 470KB (Source Code)
