We will soon be moving! Don't know exactly where or when, yet. The new place will offer a couple hundred thousand words, more pictures, and a blog style. Really no choice about the blog thing... that's just the way it's all going. Oh, and that's where we'll introduce the new ASCIIcat™ release. Check back here for time and place and your invitation; formal dress is optional.

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Books, utilities, fonts, things to see and download. Design and writing for print, the Web, PDF, WinHelp. C/C++ and Assembly programming. Highest quality screen and terminal emulation fonts.

ASCIIcat™ - Indispensable reference book used by hundreds of thousands of writers, programmers, illustrators, editors, and Web designers. Print your own high-res, high-quality reference.
More about ASCIIcat Free.

"Dream Cycles" Synopsis - Exciting and refreshing new novel, now available for review. Here, we describe the book, including synopsis, summaries, notes about the times, and spoilers.
"Dream Cycles" Synopsis

"Shenandoah Justus" - Sometimes it seems that I only do technical writing, conversational humor, "Alice In Wonderland" knock-offs, and animal stories. Here's something quite different. It's a short story, a monologue to be read aloud. This is not for young children! It's the first draft, and before you even think about using it for anything at all, you'd best be asking me first, pardner. On a hot desert night, a long, long time ago...
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"Explorer's Guide To The HP 95" - It's 1991, The Simpsons and Dougie Houser are on TV, David Letterman is grumbling, President Bush is in the White House, and The Rolling Stones are on tour. Oh, and Hewlett-Packard is in the news for contributions to, uh, computing. Settle back and have a look at this book about HP's inimitable palmtop computer. If received well, there are more. 53,000 words. Free.
Get explor95.pdf (498KB)

"Elspeth and Twigg" - Tales from the forest, in the woods by the trees, which is where our story takes place. The place to go when a hundred acres just won't do.
Visit Elspeth and Twigg

FileExt PDF - Book with more than 2909 file types used by today's applications. Small fee.
Get fileext.pdf (220KB)

Equipment available - A mint-condition Olympus OM-2 35mm single lens reflex, two lenses and flash. 16mm Bolex Rex motion picture camera with three lenses and many accessories, plus the original leather carrying case. A classic Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1. Microsoft MASM in the box.
More about equipment available

HTMLcat™ - New standard HTML guide. Reference and tutorial about writing Internet documents. More about HTMLcat.

Bin2Inc - Tool builder's tool. Convert any data to C/C++ or Assembly code, add to data files and applications. Free for personal use. More.
Get bin2inc.zip (17KB)

Console fonts - Screen fonts for programmers and writers. More. Small fee.
Get console.zip (42KB)

Screen Gothic font - Smaller, yet more readable Windows title bar font. More. Free.
Get scrgoth.zip (8KB)

DOS-Window fonts - Replace Windows' Terminal font. Work around Windows limitations and get more from text applications. More. Small fee.
Get svgados.zip (18KB)

r_help - Load a help file if it isn't running; if it is running, switch to it. Free.
Get r_help.zip (5KB)