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Article	Description
Archive Index	List of archived articles
The Matrix Effect	A screensaver for Windows, which emulates the dripping green
Pocket Universe	Simulates galaxy collisions
FMC Synthesizer	FMC was a sample-generating software synthesizer for the Amiga, written in 1990. It featured freeform algorithms, which basically means you could create your own synthesizer
Interlace Demo	Interlace Demo is a program that uses the Amstrad CPC's video controller to interleave two different screens on the display. This implements a scan-doubling technique used by analogue broadcast PAL/NTSC standards to double the vertical resolution of the image
RawForge: RAW file processor	An abandoned project, Raw Forge was a tool for photographers whose cameras support CCD-native raw images
TFT-optimized graphics rendering	Showing a technique that cen bring extra detail to an image (without using sharpening) that exploits the sub-pixel characteristics of a display device
LogMe: Web Log Analyzer	Specialized log analyzer, designed to fill specific gaps in the design of other analyzers.

Update: Found programs - Amstrad CPC

I contributed many titles to the WACCI FSW library. I'd be interested to get a copy of the library (please use the Contact Form to get in touch), as I can't locate any of it on the Web, and have long since sold off my CPC and accompanying software. Examples include:

These can be found in the CPC Power archive.

DefFont (DEFFONT.BAS)

Fully-featured 8×8 Font editor, with merging, transformations, binary and basic input and output, all-mode previews, ...

AGE (AGE.BAS)

A basic windowed GUI, with list menus, drawn GEM-like windows with titles, text and graphics regions, and blit routines to preserve canvases. Used by many authors to upgrade existing FSW programs.

Lost programs - Amstrad CPC

Here's one I couldn't find:

Disc Menagerie II (DMII.BAS + .BIN files)

Upgrade of Alastair Scott's original app, including a conversion of fixed-address machine code (JP) to relocatable modules (JR), a unified module loader, and a layered windowed GUI. A pleasant interface was designed to run the modules, and the utilities' own interfaces were redesigned.