What’s New

May 2002
Vast and numerous improvements to Bridge, particularly in the AI for bidding, although playing has also been improved. The bidding screen now shows what the computer would bid in your position (and why). Also included is scoring (best of 3 rubbers) including vulnerability and slam bonuses.

The latest round of upgrades has hit rInstaller, which has progressed to Version 2 and gained a few new features, as well as suffering a complete overhaul of the underlying file structure. The most important of these features are the ability to automatically register OCXs at install time, and shared file support. Not much change to look at, but anyone who has a version 1 beta would be well advised to upgrade.

November 2001
The finishing touches are being applied to my latest piece of utility software, a text-only (virus free!) email reader. This is currently undergoing testing on my own Red Corona email address. Also, at Red Corona a new product, PDFPoint, to help you build PDF presentations.

October 2001
Finally up and running is the latest web design company, RedCorona.com. For a small fee I'll build any old site, even one like this! On this site itself, R II goes through the latest upgrade cycle, gaining a few extra functions and multiline function definitions.

August 2001
I've been working hard lately! New additions to the site include R II, the first stages of an APL-like interpreter; the CSS Stylesheet Editor (distributed on the Causeway site for greater distribution), which lets you easily produce your very own stylesheets for websites; and finally the most recent version of my rInstaller install set creating program, which enables you to pack up and distribute anything from a collection of text files to a full-blown application.

Also interesting in the Java section is the bridge game; test yourself against the skills of my computer players. This is getting gradually cleverer as time goes on.

Page and site © Richard Smith 2001
Please send any comments to richard@redcorona.com - thank you.