2018/11/14

Huge "break", bugfixes

It took me almost two years to squeeze some more time out of other things and come back to fixing a number of minor bugs and inconsistencies in facTotum.
There will not be a changelog, because there are no major changes - and because I just don't have the time for it. The relevant fixes amount to 31, but many more happened in the background, where they won't affect the user-experience.

This version was updated to make use of Qt 5.11, which means that compatibility with Windows XP is gone. If somebody really needed it, please contact me.

Downloads

facTotum currently runs on:
  • Windows (7 and newer, Vista isn't tested)
  • Linux (tested on Xubuntu 18.04)
If you want to try out facTotum for yourself, here are the download-links for the current version:

Windows: facTotum v0.7.0-beta46 (Mediafire)
Linux (32 Bit): facTotum v0.7.0-beta46 (Mediafire)
Linux (64 Bit): facTotum v0.7.0-beta46 (Mediafire)

Both versions can be extracted into the same directory, should you want to use a single installation of facTotum with multiple operating systems.

Have a nice day. :)
- tcl

2016/12/26

Christmas is Worktime


After a little bit of feedback on reddit.com/r/emulation and additional input from other sources, I invested some time into fixing bugs and polishing the user interface. This post will contain some examples of the most recent work as well as links to the newest version of facTotum.
Thanks to anyone who provided feedback!

The window used to manage the scripts that gather information from various websites got a fresh, non-makeshift design.

Should the need arise to pass a lot of commandline-parameters to a program.

Finally, a shortcut that saves you from having to navigate the menu containing the scripts over and over (bottom left).


Downloads

facTotum currently runs on:
  • Windows (XP and newer)
  • Linux (tested on Ubuntu 14.04, Xubuntu 16.04, Mint 18, Fedora Workstation 25, Manjaro XFCE 16.10, Debian/Sid w/ XFCE, Arch w/ some additional packages)
If you want to try out facTotum for yourself, here are the download-links for the current version:

Windows: facTotum v0.7.0-beta44 (Mediafire)
Linux (32 Bit): facTotum v0.7.0-beta44 (Mediafire)
Linux (64 Bit): facTotum v0.7.0-beta44 (Mediafire)

Both versions can be extracted into the same directory, should you want to use a single installation of facTotum with multiple operating systems.

Have a nice Christmas!
- tcl

PS: If somebody feels generous and wants to honor the thousands of hours of work that went into this program, feel free to send a little tip via PayPal to "thEClaw <dot> tcl <at> gmail <dot> com"

2016/12/15

What is facTotum?

Note: Further posts of this blog may appear in English or German.
Also: Updates to the software will happen, posts in this blog are optional for me, though.

History

A long time ago, in a forum I had come to love and frequent, I stumbled upon a post asking for a programmer who could realize a pretty clearly sketched out concept with a fairly minimalistic UI. The only (slight) hurdle, that others had come across before me, was that the program should not require the user to install any third-party software. At that time I had just gotten my feet wet working with Qt, so I decided to take on the task - nothing beats learning-by-doing.

The piece of software that was supposed to be able to launch other software (it was intended for games/emulators but can technically be used for many more purposes) became a pet-project of mine. Now, several years later, I decided to release it to a hopefully slightly larger audience.

There are a lot of smaller features to facTotum right now, but at its core it presents you with a table of entries (each with whatever information you may have added and whatever images you wanted to display along with the entry), each of which can launch a multitude of other programs - or not. You decide.

So, what is it?

A fast, simple and portable program-launcher.

I don't want to go into too much more detail in this post, but I definitely want to link you to some introductory videos and some screenshots I asked users to supply me with. The first video is a little more elaborate and was recorded on Windows 7, the second one is very short and was recorded on Manjaro XFCE.



Downloads

facTotum currently runs on:
  • Windows (XP and newer)
  • Linux (tested on Ubuntu 14.04, Xubuntu 16.04, Mint 18, Fedora Workstation 25, Manjaro XFCE 16.10, Debian/Sid w/ XFCE)
If you want to try out facTotum for yourself, here are the download-links for the current version:

Windows: facTotum v0.7.0-beta43 (Mediafire)(Google Drive)
Linux (64 Bit): facTotum v0.7.0-beta43 (Mediafire)(Google Drive)

Both versions can be extracted into the same directory, should you want to use a single installation of facTotum with multiple operating systems.


Screenshots

The authors (outdated) roguelike-collection





An emulation-frontend





Another emulation-frontend




A game-launcher





A collection of TV-series





Have a nice day!
- tcl

PS: If somebody feels generous and wants to honor the thousands of hours of work that went into this program, feel free to send a little tip via PayPal to "thEClaw <dot> tcl <at> gmail <dot> com"