Pino's Bare Page

Contents

• Personal Information
• My Free Software
• Resident programs
• Utilities
• Games
• Software for programmers
• My Favourite Freeware/Shareware
• Contact Information

Personal Information

Name: Pino Navato
Home Town: San Giorgio a Cremano, near Napoli (Naples), Italy
Main Interests: Computer programming (Java, Pascal, C, Assembly), technical writing (read my articles), digital photography, music, movies.
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My Free Software

Resident programs

KEYBIT Lite v7
A very small driver (480 bytes!) for Italian keyboards with very useful and original features.  Its asm source can be easily adapted to other keyboard layouts.  AMIS-compliant.  Size: 64 kB.
 

AltMenu v2
A very small TSR (192 bytes only!) that allows you to activate the menu bar of any DOS program by simply pressing the Alt key.  W/asm.  Size: 25 kB.
 

Utilities

CD-Bench v2.1
Small, fast and reliable benchmark for CD-ROM drives.  High resolution timing (0.1 ms), 99% of asm code, 100% freeware.
Many people think that the data transfer rate of CD-ROM drives is constant from the beginning to the end of the disc, but this is true only for old-and-slow models.  CD-Bench is the only benchmark that reads the disc in six different points and displays six results, so you can see if and how the speed varies.  Size: 14 kB.
 

NoBlanks v4.1
Converts spaces to TABs or vice versa, also removes blanks from the end of lines.  Now supports Windows95 long filenames.  Very fast.  Size: 12 kB.
 

Games

Nim v1.0 for Win95 
Mathematical game based on binary numbers.  You play against the computer with seven difficulty levels.  The lowest levels are useful to learn binary numbers in a funny way, the highest ones are an exciting challenge. Size: 217 kB.
 


Grid Poker v1.1 
Not a gambling but a strategy game for one player: dispose the cards in the 5x5 grid trying to obtain, on rows, columns and diagonals, the typical poker's combinations.  Available in Italian only.  Size: 39 kB.
 

Software for programmers

Easy Fonts v3.1 for Windows
Automagically converts TrueType fonts to the CHR format used by Borland languages. The conversion is instantaneous!  Shareware.  Size: 25 kB.
 

Easy Fonts v2.0 for DOS
Converts ANY graphic font to the CHR format used by Borland languages.  The conversion is semi-automatic and takes a few minutes.  Shareware.  Size: 93 kB.
 

LCD-style CHR fonts
Four LCD-style fonts in CHR format for Borland compilers.  Freeware.  Size: 4 kB.
 

CRT Lite
Modified version of the BP7 CRT unit (smaller and bug-fixed).  Freeware, w/src.  Size: 10 kB.
 

Easy PCX v1
Pascal library to show/make PCX files using the BGI.  It works in ANY graphic mode having 2, 16 or 256 colors (SVGA too!).  W/src.  Size: 30 kB.
 

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My Favourite Freeware/Shareware

This is a list of third party programs I like very much.

• FAR Manager
  "THE" Commander clone for Win32.  It has a built-in FTP client and a built-in editor capable of handling huge files. It's a Windows console application.  Warning: it's like a drug!!  Shareware.
• WinRAR
  A great packer from the same author of FAR Manager.  Much better than WinZIP.  Shareware.
• M.A.M.E.
  The Multiple Arcade-Machine Emulator.  To play again with Ms. Pacman, Bank Panic and hundreds of other old and funny games.  It's like a time-machine that brings you 20 years back.  Freeware w/src.
• UltraEdit-32
  A fully featured text editor.  Shareware.
• UPX
  The Ultimate Packer for eXecutables.  UPX supports a number of different executable formats, including Win95/98/ME/NT/2000 programs and DLLs, DOS programs, and Linux executables.  GNU freeware.
• MemTest
  A program to test your RAM memory.  It is written with knowledge of system bus, cache and main memory of 80486, Pentium and Pentium Pro (Pentium II) processors.  Freeware.
• Old good DOS stuff
• Franck Uberto's RAM disk v1.9i
  Small and resizable RAM disk.  The only one you can install from the command line!  Size: 73 kB.
• Fast Boot v2.13
  What an interesting name!  Isn't it?  Size: 22 kB.
• Hiew v6.76
  The hackers' viewer/editor.  A MUST for any hacker.  Size: 690 kB.
• PictView v1.94
  Ultra-fast viewer/converter for GIFs, JPEGs and over other 40 graphic formats.  Size: 106 kB.
  Visit the author's home page for more info and FTP sites.
• HD-Copy v2.0a
  My favourite disk copying program.  It's the only one with a "sector analysis" frame that gives you interesting info about the magnetic surface: I use it also to verify floppies reliability.  Size: 82 kB.
• HTMSTRIP v9.11
  The best HTML-to-ASCII converter.  Size: 130 kB.

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Contact Information

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Real hackers comment their programs with plain ascii text files
(anonymous hacker)