Horses for Courses
These are the main apps I use on the three platforms available in this house. There are others that I use occasionally, some of them, such as calculators and screen grabbers, available on whichever machine I happen to be using. Almost all these apps are free – the few that aren’t cost pennies. I don’t buy expensive apps – in particular, not Microsoft Office. I use LibreOffice instead!
| R a s p b e r r y Pi | !Draw | Vector graphics (see SVGSamples for some illustrations I did in !Draw, and converted to SVG using my !XP1Dr2SVG). |
| !NetSurf | Some email, some web surfing, ROOL | |
| (!Moonfish) | Sharing the Pi’s files with the Mac. (M1 Mac Mini Ventura 13.4 can’t see it.) | |
| (!Omni) | Accessing files on our NAS. (The NAS died and I haven’t got a new one yet. File transfer is by USB stick for the present) | |
| !XP1... | Various apps of my own, mostly to do with drawfiles or fonts & conversions to non-RISCOS formats, but also doing funny things to all sorts of files, both RISCOS and other types – see RISCOS for details of those available publicly. | |
| BASIC | Mostly writing more of those apps; odd bits of programming. | |
| !Zap | Writing & editing BASIC and Assembler programs, html for my website, & taking a look at the internals of any kind of file. | |
| !FontEd | (Formerly, maybe again one day, but probably not) Designing and editing fonts. | |
| !Paint | (Rarely) Mostly just taking screenshots or designing icons for apps I write. | |
| !ChangeFSI | (Rarely) Converting Sprites to .jpg for use on my website. | Mac | Firefox | Internet |
| Safari | Checking my own website’s compatibility | |
| Libre Office | DTP, Spreadsheets | |
| Atom | Writing html for my website, other plain text tasks | |
| XnView | Viewing & converting bit images, some bit image editing | |
| The GIMP | Serious bit image editing, with layers etc. | |
| (FileZilla) | Formerly: Uploading to my website (not needed with Hostinger - straight from Firefox now) | |
| Audacity | Editing & converting audio files | |
| FontForge | Editing fonts, importing my own fonts from RISCOS via !XP1FontEd | |
| QuickTime | Editing & converting video files | |
| MuseScore | Writing & editing music files | |
| (MorphX) | Merging and/or distorting bit images (doesn’t work on recent Mac OSes) | |
| (Hugin) | Stitching bit images (doesn’t work on M1 Mac Mini) | |
| Panorama Stitcher Mini | Stitching bit images | |
| PC | Nothing now | Everything I used to use a PC for I can now do as well or better on the Mac or the Pi.
Goodbye Microsoft, and good riddance. No, Mac isn’t perfect either, but it’s somewhat less intolerable. |