Daedelus, this audio converter looks like something I may need, thanks.

There's a nice one in the list called dBpowerAMP. It's free except LAME MP3 expires after 30 days, it has to be registered to reopen. If you're using OGG for your music files(which you really should be), then that doesn't matter.

There's a read/write codec, available, for just about every audio format you'd probably ever need.

Sounds nice, will definitely look it up.
Found this one while doing a search today: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Haven/4386/
Here some info about it:

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FractMus 2000 is a Win32 application that creates Fractal/Algorithmic music using mathematical
algorithms from chaotic dynamics, fractals, number-theory and cellular automata. Its features include:
full midi-file support, sixteen independent voices, complete control of midi parameters
(instrumentation, voice dynamics, channels, etc), 12 note-generating algorithms, 15 predefined
musical scales (with the possibility of creating user-defined ones), 11 predefined note
durations (plus user-defined ones), melody manipulation support (inversion, etc), composition assistants (Composition Maker, Composition Randomizer, Transposer,) full online-documentation/help and more.

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Best is, it is totally free!

I think Nadester or another mod should restructure the whole list, because paragraphs like audio/video/authorware/security/encription etc. shouldnt be intermingled for clearness.

Here are some new contributions:

www.acidplanet.com/tools/?p=acid&T=6420

Acid XPress - free "small brother" of Sonys Acid music software. Basic sampling application similar to Magix Music Maker, EJay and/or fruity loops. Its free and if you dont have the others, maybe this is what your are searching for.

www.acidplanet.com

Originally meant as community for Sonys Acid (and - Xpress), this platform grows over its horizon: hundreds of indipendent artists present here their music (also musicvideos) mostly done in their free time, produced purely as a result of fun and creativity. Some sell their stuff, most users showcase their tracks. Nearly EVERY genre and subcategory is located there and quality is ranging from amteur to real professional tracks. If you found something that fits into your game, just ask them, be polite and nice. Mosts artist appreciate something like this and I doubt that everyone is forcing you to pay them high fees, maybe nothing. I think there should be no problem with use in freeware products or shareware.. so maybe you dont pay anything when you guarantee advertisement for them in your game. I had success there, so you should do so as well when your polite. I really like that site, I often download stuff from there (free, just registering is needed) and hear it on my MP3 Player.

www.peoplesound.com

The same as Acidplanet, but its more a platform for small artists that want to sell their music. But maybe you get also success there. I like the "mood" category feature and the "sounds like.." feature very much

www.1001freefonts.com

Well, this is quite popular: 1001 fonts offers hundreds of fonts that are mostly free (its rare, but some are shareware haha, well.. most are free and in the disclaimer of each font you can read what to do if you want to use it in a commercial way. Even if you do freeware I would ask the author. Most authors just wanna see where it is used, so be polite and you get it for free.

www.anatomyatlases.org/atlasofanatomy/index.shtml

This is really great, its a free anatomy book with lots of incredible pictures. www.anatomyatlases.org offers also other anatomy and medical ebooks for free, but I picked this one because I'm used to work with it for several months now for my own studies and its useful when it comes to modeling because you know everything after looking into it.

Cheers
Christian Behrenberg

Right Click MP3



Professional font collection with real time preview (free)

dafont

FREEWARE --- GUIGenie - http://www.guigenie.cjb.net/

Originally meant for JAVA GUI authoring, this tool can easily serve as image generator and design tool for prototype GUIs, menus, whatever.

Here is a screenshot of a debug menu which I built with GUIGenie and ported then to A6, featuring drop down lists, radio buttons and buttons. Virtually every GUI element can be emulated with A6, remember that. So we need no cheap "programmers art" anymore for prototypes and it also saves a lot of time, because its coordinate system is the same as A6's and we dont need to cook our own images... changes can be easily done when GUI elements are moved or resized..

3D World Studio - http://www.leadwerks.com/

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3D World Studio is the map editor of choice for use with DarkBasic Pro, Torque Game Engine, Blitz3D, and other 3D engines. The program is ideal for game environments, 3D presentations and other commercial applications.

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This is a 3rd party level editor. The creator wishes to directly support the 3DGS format and may even hook into the map compiler, so this is looking like it will be a viable alternative to WED(for those who have issues with it). It's a commercial product, but a full demo is available, so you can decide whether it's worth it for you.

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3D World Studio Features



Editing
Extremely fast object manipulation and drawing, designed for efficiency.
Select and texture objects or object faces.
Stretch, position, mirror, flip, and rotate meshes.
Automatic UV mapping.
UV mapping tools, including justify and fit to face.
CSG operations include carve, hollow, split, and extrude face.
Configurable entity system.
Adjustable viewports.
Accurate grid snap.
Draw selection boxes.
Export to .x, .map, .dbo, or .dif.
Browse meshes by thumbnails.
Manage and browse thousands of textures and meshes.
Extremely small compressed file format.
Edit multiple objects' properties at once.
New brush primitives including arches and tubes.
View detailed statistical information including polycounts broken down by object type.
Texture lock freezes brush texture coordinates.
Select a texture by picking a surface.
Multiple undo levels.
Export .map and compile to Torque .dif in one step.









Meshes
Referenced meshes.
Load .x, .obj, .md3, or .gls meshes.
Shadow-mapped meshes with gile[s].
Adjust scale to fit meshes without distorting vertex coordinates.









Lighting
Complete lighting for brushes, meshes, and terrain.
Calculate lightmaps, vertex lighting, and uniform lighting.
Support for translucent and masked surfaces.
Control settings per object for casting and receiving shadows.









Terrain
Smooth-blended layered terrain.
Support for large-scale terrains.
Adjustable terrain subdivision.
Automatic edge turning.

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I'll be updating the master list with a few of the new suggestions sometime this weekend. No idea when it will get updated, but the RTF will be submitted to a mod sometime in the next day or so.

Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/

An excellent multi-platform, multi-protocol, instant messaging client. It is highly configurable, and it has an aesthetically pleasing UI.

http://www.zymic.com/

Some basic tutorials covering:
Photoshop techniques, Cinema 4D, PHP, HTML, CSS

Also (for free):
web Templates, Fonts, Logos, photoshop brushes, PHP scripts, Javascript menu creator, etc..

** List Updated 1/26/06