Free watcom software for windows

DISLIN for Open Watcom wcl, wfl 9.4 gives you the ease when displaying data graphically. It is intended to be a powerful and easy to use software package for programmers and scientists that does not require knowledge of hardware features.

The software is available for the programming languages C, Fortran 77, Fortran 90, Perl, Python and Java. DISLIN can display graphic information directly on graphic terminals or store them in metafiles. The supported display types are VGA, X Windows, Windows API and Tektronix. The supported file formats are GKSLIN, CGM, HPGL, PostScript, PDF, SVG, WMF, PNG and TIFF.

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A compression tool for audio files, similar to mp3 format FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec being in fact similar to the MP3 format but lossless, which means that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality.
This is similar to how Zip works, except with FLAC you will get much better compression because it is designed specifically for audio, and you can play back compressed FLAC files in your favorite player (or your car or home stereo, see links to the right for supported devices) just like you would an MP3 file.
FLAC is freely available and supported on most operating systems, including Windows, "unix" (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, OS X, IRIX), BeOS, OS/2, and Amiga. There are build systems for autotools, MSVC, Watcom C, and Project Builder.
The FLAC project consists of:
- the stream format
- reference encoders and decoders in library form
- flac, a command-line program to encode and decode FLAC files
- metaflac, a command-line metadata editor for FLAC files
- input plugins for various music players
Main features:
- Lossless: The encoding of audio (PCM) data incurs no loss of information, and the decoded audio is bit-for-bit identical to what went into the encoder. Each frame contains a 16-bit CRC of the frame data for detecting transmission errors. The integrity of the audio data is further insured by storing an MD5 signature of the original unencoded audio data in the file header, which can be compared against later during decoding or testing.
- Fast: FLAC is asymmetric in favor of decode speed. Decoding requires only integer arithmetic, and is much less compute-intensive than for most perceptual codecs. Real-time decode performance is easily achievable on even modest hardware.
- Hardware support: Because of FLACs free reference implementation and low decoding complexity, FLAC is currently the only lossless codec that has any kind of hardware support.
- Streamable: Each FLAC frame contains enough data to decode that frame. FLAC does not even rely on previous or following frames. FLAC uses sync codes and CRCs (similar to MPEG and other formats), which, along with framing, allow decoders to pick up in the middle of a stream with a minimum of delay.
- Seekable: FLAC supports fast sample-accurate seeking. Not only is this useful for playback, it makes FLAC files suitable for use in editing applications.
- Flexible metadata: New metadata blocks can be defined and implemented in future versions of FLAC without breaking older streams or decoders. Currently there are metadata types for tags, cue sheets, and seek tables. Applications can write their own APPLICATION metadata once they register an ID
- Suitable for archiving: FLAC is an open format, and there is no generation loss if you need to convert your data to another format in the future. In addition to the frame CRCs and MD5 signature, flac has a verify option that decodes the encoded stream in parallel with the encoding process and compares the result to the original, aborting with an error if there is a mismatch.
- Convenient CD archiving: FLAC has a "cue sheet" metadata block for storing a CD table of contents and all track and index points. For instance, you can rip a CD to a single file, then import the CDs extracted cue sheet while encoding to yield a single file representation of the entire CD. If your original CD is damaged, the cue sheet can be exported later in order to burn an exact copy.
- Error resistant: Because of FLACs framing, stream errors limit the damage to the frame in which the error occurred, typically a small fraction of a second worth of data. Contrast this with some other lossless codecs, in which a single error destroys the remainder of the stream.

A free C++ IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users Code::Blocks is designed to be fully configurable and very extensible.
Built around a plugin framework, Code::Blocks can be extended with plugins. Code::Blocks even includes a plugin wizard so you can create your own plugins! (Free SDK downloaded separately)
Finally, an IDE with all the features you need, having a consistent look, feel and operation across platforms.
Main features:
- Open Source! GPL2, no hidden costs.
- Cross-platform. Runs on Linux or Windows (uses wxWidgets).
- Made in GNU C++. No interpreted languages or proprietary libs needed.
- Comes in two presentations: Standalone, and MinGW bundle
- Devpack support (optional)
- Extensible through plugins (SDK available in the downloads section)
- Compiler-related features:
- Multiple compiler support:
- GCC (MingW / Linux GCC)
- MSVC++
- Digital Mars
- Borland C++ 5.5
- Open Watcom
- Compiles directly or with makefiles
- Predefined project templates
- Custom template support
- Uses XML format for project files.
- Multi-target projects
- Workspaces support
- Imports MSVC projects and workspaces (NOTE: assembly code and inter-project dependencies not supported yet)
- Imports Dev-C++ projects
- Integrates with GDB for debugging
- Interface Features:
- Syntax highlighting, customizable and extensible
- Code folding for C++ and XML files.
- Tabbed interface
- Code completion plugin
- Class Browser
- Smart indent
- One-key swap between .h and .c/.cpp files
- Open files list for quick switching between files (optional)
- External customizable "Tools"
- To-do list management with different users