Matt Galanto's Developer Page

Introduction

This page is dedicated to my various computer software projects. I have been creating computer software since I first learned it was possible back in like 7th grade (circa 1995). My first work was on an old Adam computer we had laying around the house. Once I ruined the BASIC cassette by accidentally putting it into the broken drive, I started coding on the family's DOS machine with GWBASIC. I spent way too many hours making a poorly coded text adventure game. When my family finally upgraded to the modern age in 1998 (our first Windows machine), BASIC was no longer a useful medium for me. It wasn't long before I found a program called Klik N Play from Clickteam. Using that, I made several terrible games. I later upgraded to Clickteam's Multimedia Fusion. Fortunately, I didn't make many awful games with MMF. Instead, I was moving onto more traditional software development environments. Sometime in high school, I had begun dabbling in PERL and created a fairly poor database program. In my defense, I had no formal training in computer science until college. I also wrote many programs for my TI-85 calculator using its basic language. I even wrote a version of Minesweeper for the TI-85. Senior year in high school, as part of the senior design projects they had us do, my group decided to make a game using C++, so I bought Sam's Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours and got to work. We spent all year working on a racing game that was never more than a car moving around a track. That same year, I took a class in Pascal (my high school was behind the curve on technology). I wrote Minesweeper in that language too. After learning C++, I began dabbling with writing extensions to the Multimedia Fusion program I used to use to make games. I actually became fairly good at it and made some extensions people actually found useful. College further developed and refined my skills. It introduced me to some other programming languages and technologies. By senior year, my senior design group was designing and coding a game based on the Mega Man series of games. Since college, I have dabbled with various little programs here and there, mostly for my own use, but occasionally I make something that I think others might find useful.

Games

Bumderland Games: These are all of the games I made in Klik N Play and Multimedia Fusion. The earlier ones are plain horrible but the later ones aren't so bad. This page also contains two BASIC programs I wrote.

Tools

Matt's MMF Objects: These are all of the extensions I made for Multimedia Fusion. Most are fairly useful.
Matt's MMF Files: These are a selection of files made in Multimedia Fusion. Some are tutorials. Some are finished programs. None are particularly useful anymore.
Universal High Scores Database: The UHSD is simple text-file-based database system for uploading and displaying high scores. It's actually not terrible if you ignore the gaping security holes. I didn't know much about security when I wrote this in high school.
ATI Remote Wonder Key Mapper: The Key Mapper is a plug-in for the ATI Remote Wonder software that allows you to map every key on the Remote Wonder to some action on your computer. The Key Mapper also supports sequences of key presses being assigned an action. I think this is a great plug-in that allows you to get the most out of your Remote Wonder.
USB HID Scale Reader: A simple program for reading the weight from some USB HID scales (like Stamps.com). It can actually be used to send/read data from most USB HID devices.
FLV Script Data Extractor: A command line program for extracting script data from FLV files.

College Projects

Visualization of Large Collections of Documents: This project was assigned to us. We had to make a program to search through documents and then display the results in some meaningful visual form.
Out There: Out There was a game based on the Mega Man series that we designed and coded for our senior design project. We never finished it, but some of the levels are playable.

Project Ideas

These are projects that I have been considering doing but haven't actually done yet. I may have started some of them but haven't gotten far enough to show much for my effrots.

Firefox add-on: I have an add-on for Firefox that I've written for my own personal use. It can take screenshots of predefined portions of a web page based on absolute coordinates or based on coordinates relative to a particular element of the web page. This is useful if you frequent any sort of broadcasting or video websites. It can also be used to download a video by right-clicking a thumbnail and choosing an menu option. I have been toying with implementing a generic cookie swapping functionality. I have also considered making my add-on available for download but I need to better organize and better generalize some of the functionality.
Generic GUI for command line interface programs: I think it's probably easier in general to write command line programs and then to add a generic GUI on top of it..

Abandoned Projects

These are projects that I actually started but abandoned due to a diminished personal interest.

SWF decompiler: I actually got fairly far in this project but I lost interest because I stopped caring about the SWF I wanted to decompile. I'll probably never resume this project due to the overhead involved in relearning the SWF file format.