!Mixer - is a sound system i.e. API library for convenient usage of sound and music in your games and demos. So with this library (as DLL) you can easily use sounds and tracker music through DirectSound.

!Mixer features:
• 8/16 bit stereo/mono output.
• Mixing frequency up to 48000 kHz.
• Of course loading and playing modules.( S3M, Xm, MOD)
• Low-latency (I hope) SFX mixing. (WAV 8/16 bit mono. Your own samples)
• Linear interpolation.

CAS (CoolSoft Audio Stream) is a wave compression technology. It is intended for compression samples, effects etc. The high decompression speed allows you to store compressed sounds in memory and decompress them when needed either before playing or in realtime. You can freely use CAS in your programs, the latest version of codec and file format description is available on this site. If you want to manually decompress CAS please click here.

CAS parameters:
- compression rates - 4..6 (for most samples - 5..12)
- decompression speed - more than 20Mb/s on modern processors

Palette editor is a tool for creating and optimizing any palettes. The main features are:

• supporting of VGA, Photoshop or custom palette formats;
• adjustments, such as brightness, contrast and gamma correction;
• optimizing for specified 24-bit bitmaps;
• optimizing for custom gradiental lighting/fog;
• building lookup table for gradiental lightning/fog.

If you want to create good 256c graphics for any game including lookup tables, the best and easiest way is using the Palette Editor-II.

Data maker is a resource manager/compression utility. Everybody knows that the usage of few big resource files is much better than many small files. Sometimes (if access time isn't critical) you want to have your resources compressed. It's also important to prevent unauthorized acces to resources, so it should be encrypted. All mentioned is supported by Data Maker:

• data compression with LZW method;
• simple encryption (much stronger when using with compression).

Data Maker is consist of two parts: Data Manager and Compression Library. Data Manager is required to create and edit data files, while Compression Library is source code for using data files in particulat programs. Souce code is available for Borland Pascal, Delphi, TMT Pascal and Virtual Pascal.

3D-Modeller is a 3D editor for polygonalized models used for realtime rendering in games or demos. Modeller is best for handling static hierarhical models with high precision. The main primitive is triangle, but you can use flat tetrangles if you want. Triangles stretched on vertices. Vertices grouped into points. Points grouped into groups, linked to pivots. Pivots formed the whole model hierarchy. A model can use multiple textures, where texture coords stored in vertices.

This utility is very useful under Win9x. It allows you to kill any process in memory just like Ctrl+Alt+Del but with the following advantages:

• It displays ALL processes
• It kills process IMMEDIATELY, while Ctrl+Alt+Del terminates only no-responsible processes in 20 sec.

So, it's good idea to assign a hot key to activate Process Killer and use it instead of Ctrl+Alt+Del.