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Tiny apps

zakur

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http://www.tinyapps.org/

To qualify for TinyApps, a program must:
  1. Not exceed 1.44mb
  2. Not be adware or spyware
  3. Not require the VB/MFC/.NET runtimes. Also, preference is given to apps which are 100% self-contained, requiring no installation, registry changes, etc.
  4. Preferably be free, and ideally offer source code. Shareware will only be listed if there is no freeware alternative.
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So it cant rely on VB runtime? Meh...

I like to write a lot Excel macros, but the macros can be technically considered fulfledged programs in themselves that have a definite purpose. Like that one time I wrote bible-code software to export text to a spreadsheet (only 87kb).
 
I'm trying the OffByOne tiny browser right now. It's a lot faster than Mozilla Firefox, though it has some peculiarities. The "View New Posts" function for the JREF forum takes you to the search page, rather than straight to the new posts. Considering I've been using it for a grand total of, oh, ten minutes, it's not too bad. The one thning I really miss is that it doesn't support the scroll wheel on my mouse. Back to using the thumb slider.

Beanbag
 
1.44 MB is HUGE when you aren't using very many pictures or sounds.

Hell, the 'install' size of the software I work on comes mainly from... that's right, pictures. Oh, and those 4 excel files... man those are huge.
 
I remember when whole operating systems fitted on a 1.44mb floppy.

Funny how the shrinkage of hardware has been mirrored by the bloating of software.
 
Soapy Sam said:
I remember when whole operating systems fitted on a 1.44mb floppy.

Funny how the shrinkage of hardware has been mirrored by the bloating of software.
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My first computer was a 16K Tandy color computer, and it could do a lot. I upgraded to 64 later, and among the things that would then run on it was a very well implemented version of Zaxxon, a 3-d arcade game, all written in machine language.

For a while I subscribed to a couple of CoCo magazines, and one of them had a contest for 1-line BASIC programs (which limited them to 256 characters as I recall). Somewhere on a tape I probably still have some of these, including a pretty challenging slalom ski game, which generated random text-based trees and rocks on a scrolling board.
 
Aye. Them were days.

Tell programmers of today that-
(ALTOGETHER)
They won't believe you!
 
Alkatran said:
1.44 MB is HUGE when you aren't using very many pictures or sounds.

Hell, the 'install' size of the software I work on comes mainly from... that's right, pictures. Oh, and those 4 excel files... man those are huge.
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Tiny apps and porn are mutually incompatible. You can figure out for yourself the market consequences.
 
I used to use Galttech's EZ Viewer which is 540KB, and self-contained (one executible--no installation; in fact, it will run from a floppy). Not freeware though. http://www.galttech.com/ezviewer.html

I see that the TinyApps site lists Irfanview which is also a good application. I use that from time to time.

I think the little e-mail flag thingy that use to ship with Netscape 4.x would qualify.
 
At my last job we were on our own for various quickie programming support. One time, we needed a program to compare sets of monthly files and create new files detailing types of changes. Just for the hell of it, I wrote it in assembly to see how small I could make it. The code was 363 bytes. Of course, I threw a few semi-user-friendly prompt and status strings in there that made the final EXE file 924 bytes.

I also had a TRS-80 Model I Level I with 4K of RAM. Amazing to think it would actually run useful programs at all. Since it was interpreted BASIC, though, I guess that's kind of like 'requiring VB runtimes' since it relied on the presence of the BASIC interpreter in ROM.
 
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