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DC Gamer Club / Any game gifts or freebies for a Ukrainian?

« on: March 14, 2022, 11:18 AM »

I'm sorry if this post isn't right for the forum. I know it looks like a soliciting (and probably is) but it's worth a try for me.

Right now I'm in a very hard situation with the war going on in the country. It brings enormous pressure to me -- the uncertainty of the future, the inability to escape Ukraine right now and so on. I try to cheer myself as much as I can but it's hard, given that I have some emotional problems. I feel that some personal attention would be good for the mood. Even though I know that happiness shouldn't depend on having things, it would help me right now.

So I am asking for any person who has financial capability and GOG account to help me cheer myself. If such a person has a desire, he or she can buy games on GOG and send me as a gift on my family's shared account shinkarom at gmail dot com. I would be very grateful. Preferably peaceful games. Receiving a gift is a pleasant feeling that shows that someone cares about you.

Thank you in advance.

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N.A.N.Y. 2020 / NANY 2020: Solar Date Calculator

« on: December 27, 2019, 07:04 AM »

This is a little fun app (for Windows though Linux users can use Wine and Mac users... some emulator) that calculates the number of days between two dates. The twist is that it calculates the number of days for every planet in Solar System according to its days length. Of course, if you're on Mars, the days are little longer. If you're on Mercury, not so much.

Screenshot:

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / N.A.N.Y. 2019 -- ScrabbleScore

« on: September 28, 2018, 05:35 AM »

This year, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you ScrabbleScore -- simple application that calculates your Scrabble word scores according to English language scoring.

It works on .NET Framework 4.6 and was created on Windows, so Windows runs it smoothly. It can be run on other OS (Linux with Mono, for example), but untested.

Just enter the needed word and look at the score. To mark letter as "double-letter" or "triple-letter", just put number 2 or 3 before it. To mark word as "double-word" or "triple-word", just put 2 or 3 at the end of the word. If there are several letters in a row, only the last one counts.

Screenshots:



Source code:

https://github.com/U.../ScrabbleScoreCSharp

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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / NANY 2018 Release: Preguntista

« on: November 28, 2017, 08:23 AM »

Preguntista is a simple software to automatically add Spanish inverted question (¿) and exclamation (¡) marks to your text and to copy it to the clipboard. In theory, this application should make your chatting in Spanish much easier. This application can also insert Spanish diacritics (but only to the end of the text).

Preguntista requires .Net Framework 4.7.

Screenshots:


Download:
Preguntista.exe (746 kB - downloaded 395 times.)

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Living Room / Can somebody buy me SimCity 4 on GOG (I return money with DonationCredits)?

« on: April 29, 2017, 01:41 PM »

I have some money on DonationCredits but there is no reasonable way that I can cash out these money to my Ukraine. Even PayPal isn't supported here. On the other side, all my life I wanted to have SimCity 4 legally.

That's why I propose to somebody who has an account on GOG and is willing to do the good deed. Send me as a gift SimCity 4 (I'll tell my account when we have a deal), and I return you money with DonationCredits.

According to GOG, the game right now costs $19.99. GOG also says that there are some restrictions in gifting: "Account cannot gift until 3 months after purchasing $10 worth of items". According to this, it's a countermeasure against resellers.

If you want to take part in this deal, tell me.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Easy Proportion

« on: January 18, 2017, 07:01 AM »

Here's my new software/training project to learn Borland C++.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Easy Proportion -- software to learn the whole value if you know the part of it in percents. It only supports integer values without floating point up to 1000000.



Here's file to download:

Easyproportion.exe (605 kB - downloaded 425 times.)

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / NANY 2017: Affirmator

« on: December 01, 2016, 07:47 AM »

NANY 2017 Entry Information

Application Name	Affirmator
Short Description	Use affirmations in your everyday life with the help of this small software
Supported OSes	Windows, maybe Linux and Mac using Mono
Download Link	Google Drive link
System Requirements	Windows, maybe Linux or Mac Net Framework 4
Author	Dmytro Shynkarenko

Description
Use affirmations in your everyday life with the help of this small software. Write affirmations in the textbox, each one on its own line, enter the number of times to show and press "Show". Then there will be message boxes shown with your affirmations. All you have to is to read these boxes. Simple, isn't it?

Features

• complete Unicode support
• ability to save to file and load from file list of affirmations
• can speak phrases aloud (SAPI5 voices are supported)

Screenshots

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Developer's Corner / I DARE YOU to make simple sport management game

« on: February 23, 2016, 11:36 AM »

For some time I have an idea in my mind to create a soccer management games a la open-source Bygfoot Football Manager. However, I don't have the guts right now to create it. But since not everyone has money to buy FM2016 and not everyone can invest enormous time and commitment to this huge game, I think the future is in simple and lightweight management games that can be played quickly.

Therefore, I DARE YOU to create simple open-source sport management game for PC (football, basketball, baseball, anything) that could be simple (but not too primitive). Ideally it would be the game where you can play a season in 5 minutes. Would be also great to have an ability to create and edit league files (to add countries, for example). Players could be fictional. And it better be open-source.

Do you accept the challenge? Do you dare?

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / NANY 2016 Pledge: PINCode Grapher

« on: December 09, 2015, 08:11 AM »

NANY 2016 Entry Information

Application Name	PINCode Grapher
Version	1.0
Short Description	Remember your PIN with the help of a chart
Supported OSes	Windows, other OSes using emulators
Description Remember your PIN with the help of a chart. Download Download file here: pincodegrapher.exe (3120.5 kB - downloaded 708 times.) Alternative link: Tiny Upload Features Can save image to the BMP file. Screenshots Usage Installation Just download the exe file and run it.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Wikirandia -- random Wikipedia page browser

« on: June 10, 2015, 08:20 AM »

I present my new application designed to benefit from Wikipedia "Random Page" access. The usage is very simple -- just click "Next Page".

You have to have installed Net Framework (at least 4.0) on your Windows computer to run Wikirandia. Or Mono, to run on Linux or Mac.

This is a first, very basic version. Comments and suggestions (and donations;)) are welcome.




!DOWNLOAD HERE!

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Quick Website Blocker

« on: April 13, 2015, 08:42 AM »

Quick Website Blocker

The software is designed to (yes, you're right) quickly block websites from visiting from the current computer. The software just adds line "127.0.0.1 [TAB] [website you have entered]" to the "system32\drivers\etc\hosts" path. You have to have administrator rights to perform this operation.

Using is simple: just enter website you want to block and click the button, then confirm the decision.

The software runs on Windows (tested on 7, should work perfectly on XP and Vista).

Changelog:
04.13.2015 - first version



quickwebsiteblocker.exe (1961 kB - downloaded 475 times.)

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Developer's Corner / How to receive donations for my software in Ukraine (without PayPal)?

« on: January 04, 2015, 08:50 AM »

I would like to create something so then to get donations for it. The most popular version is PayPal. However, PayPal DOESN'T work with Ukraine! So I ask what are some systems like PayPal that are able to send money in Ukraine. All I need is for the donators to be able to pay donations with their Visa/Mastercard. Do you know something like that?

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / NANY 2015 Pledge: Diaspana

« on: December 14, 2014, 10:33 AM »

NANY 2015 Entry Information

Application Name	Diaspana
Version	1.0
Short Description	Diaspana helps to copy Spanish diacritic letters and symbols to the clipboard.
Supported OSes	Windows, Linux (x86 and x64), OS X
Web Page	https://sourceforge....t/projects/diaspana/
Download Link	https://sourceforge....files/?source=navbar
System Requirements	Windows Linux OS X
Version History	1.0 -- Current version
Author	Link to Author's Profile page

Description
Diaspana helps to copy Spanish diacritic letters to the clipboard.

Features
Very good features are here.

Planned Features
None.

Screenshots


Usage
Installation
It's very easy.

Using the Application
Click the button, and the letter is copied to the clipboard.

Uninstallation
Simply delete the file.

Tips
None.

Known Issues
None.


Please test whether the application works on Lnux and Mac and give me the feedback.

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Developer's Corner / Is it wise for amateur to invest time in NET Framework languages?

« on: November 19, 2014, 12:51 PM »

I'm an amateur programmer so no business talk here (and no buying IDEs).

Currently I'm using Lazarus as my programming language and IDE. However, interface of Lazarus is pretty ugly so it's discouraging for me to use it.

I think about learning NET languages because Visual Studio is known to be easier for amateurs. Besides, it's going to be open source somewhere in the future. But I don't like Microsoft very much.

Is it wise to learn NET languages? Can their applications be run on Linux and Mac? I ask because people ask me to create apps for these platforms too.

What other languages can you advise me to learn? I considered Java but it's looks too hard.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / NANY 2015 RELEASE: Discounter

« on: October 23, 2014, 11:10 AM »

NANY 2015 Discounter

Application Name	Discounter
Version	1.1
Short Description	Discounter helps to calculate discounts quickly.
Supported OSes	Windows XP or later (don't know if it runs on Win 2000 or earlier). Can be run on Linux or Mac with the use of emulators like Wine
Web Page	No link at this time
Download Link	discounter.exe (2123 kB - downloaded 828 times.)
System Requirements	Windows OS ( software can be run on other systems with emulators) eyes
Version History	05.03.15 -- version 1.2 Added option to calculate multiple discounts, e.g. "merge" discounts 11.02.14 -- version 1.1. Added option to calculate first price, end price or discount. 10.23.14 -- first version
Author	Link to Author's Profile page

Description
Discounter is designed for the quick discount calculation. You just enter the price to see the any whole percentage discount in the list below.

Features

• can calculate discount for any whole number of percents;
• any price between 0 to 1000000000;
• can calculate first price, end price or discount;
• can calculate multiple discounts, e.g. "merge" discounts.

Planned Features
No planned features at this time.

Screenshots


Usage
Installation
Just copy the application wherever you want and run it.

Using the Application
Enter the price and scroll the list down to the amount of percents you interested in.

Uninstallation
Just delete the file.

Tips
No tips at this time.

Known Issues
No known issues at this time.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / You Can Relax Now v1.0

« on: October 16, 2014, 09:42 AM »

My first submission to dc.com. The software is titled "You Can Relax Now" and is created to show the amount of days since Mayan Apocalypse. It runs on Windows (XP, at least) but can be used on Linux, Mac e.g. with emulation software. Here is screenshot of the my app for the October 16, 2014.



You can download software here: http://s000.tinyuplo...08268638318335150391. By the way, if there is some Donation Coder hosting that can be used for my software, I would be very glad to use it.

It is written on completely free IDE titled Lazarus. Take a look on it.

Waiting for your feedback.
Sincerely yours, Dmytro.

P.S. Try changing the system clock.