spareTIME
spareTIME is the organizer for your ST! Based on version 1.03 by Markus Mayer, the new version offers a completely redesigned and clean GEM interface, better support for multitasking systems, printing via GDOS and several new or optimized functions. The old version of spareTIME has been tested by almost all Atari publications and has been rated very positive throughout (ST-Computer/ATARI-Inside 11/97, Revolution 9,10/97 and ATOS). spareTIME is shareware.History
In the 90's various organizer programs were developed for the Atari - no doubt influenced by Lotus Organizer. spareTIME by Markus Mayer was one of them, other programs were CALPPT, XAIRON and Organizer. All of them offered a simple calendar with appointments and reminders. As this was the pre smartphone era, none of them had sync capabilities to mobile devices.
New developer
Markus Mayer was publicly looking for a new developer for his program spareTIME. I wasn't a spareTIME user (or any other organizer), but I contacted him and took over development of this shareware application. This was the first time I had to work with another developer's code base. The program is written in C. Fortunately, the code was quite good - Markus commented his code and prepared a package including a list of known bugs, to-do list and messages during the last beta test.
Modernizing
spareTIME already had plenty of good features, but the user interface was old-fashioned. So I looked at various GEM libraries to update the program. WinDom was a contender, but in the end I decided on cflib. Cflib doesn't have the most features, but it offered all I need without getting in the way i.e. it didn't require major rewrites of the code.
| spareTIME 1.15 | |
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| Release date | 2020-03-07 |
| Systems | Atari ST/TT/Falcon |
| Languages | |
| Programming language | Pure C + cflib |
| Download | spareTIME 1.15 |
spareCALC
I wanted to do another project with the cflib, so I started spareCALC as a bonus program for registered users of spareTIME. It's really more of a demo program, including a simple retro calculator, a calculator for your star sign and an equation solver. The latter was the C version of a program I previously did in GFA Basic. For this public release I cleaned up the source, removed unneccessary includes, updated the English resource and released the source code. You'll need cflib and Pure C to compile the program.
| spareCALC 1.15 | |
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| Release date | 2020-03-07 |
| Systems | Atari ST/TT/Falcon |
| Languages | |
| Programming language | Pure C + cflib |
| Download | spareCALC 1.15 |