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The only adverse consequence of using various servers to store the
all-important FILES is simply that - that they are on different
servers.
Therefore this page directs you to the server which most suits your
needs.Below is a list of topics grouped by server, plus the
appropriate Pork to Bacon link.
Of course to get the most out of this resource you should explore the
whole of Pork to Bacon.There is a large variety of goodies for all
to use, from full programs to simple noises and web-graphics, with
all sorts of add-ons, dlls, components and tips on the way.
Have fun with Pork to Bacon.Best wishes,
Greg Fox
2) Duke Nukem - The Underground Arsenal - a very big and complex Duke level which is more like an episode in its scale.It's for version 1.5 (Atomic) and is aimed at single players.Find out more at the site. It's a good one.
3) Diana Fox MIDIs - some music written by my Mother.Nice stuff - sort of like the music played at COMA.There are also a few by me(GF), and these will possibly increase.I'm not a massive fan of MIDI really, but sometimes it can be good.All 'contemporary music'.
4) Exclusive Spectrum Software - plenty of it too; there's a graphics program which I'm quite proud of - very useful for UDGs and general graphics and uses some of David Webb's excellent 'Supercharge Your Spectrum' routines, which I shall port to the emulator in full soon with documentation.If you can find the book, it's superb - published by Melbourne House.Other software includes an amusing Snailracing game which is also available in PC QBASIC (the one which comes with DOS), and a few RPGs written with a novel engine - most of these have ludicrously poor music but are actually quite playable - there will be new ones occasionally when I can spare enough time to write the blessed things; Sinclair BASIC isn't exactly visual or object-oriented, even with all the machine-code and the extra speed of the emulators.
5)
Music Reviews - mostly pretty biased in favour of 'difficult'
music - 
I tend to be quite partisan, with a bias towards on the one
hand Throwing Muses/Kristin Hersh and on the other Xenakis/Nono.There's
a copy of my Master's Thesis on Hans Werner Henze's amazing cult album
'Stimmen'.
6)
MP3 Music - just two pieces here: 'More Jonny' and 'Bloody';
Try them out, especially if you already like Pork to Bacon music.
Here's the link:
1) Diana Fox/Greg Fox Paintings - my trashy GCSE jobs and my Mother's far better efforts.Download the lot and use them as wallpaper.Also new Picture Gallery of music stuff, etc.
2) MP3 Music - lots of it too: 'Estuary Erotica', 'Dark Blow', 'Overture to Electric Spring 1995' and 'Meritocracy' all online and downloadable for free.Try these if you are into weird or different music, especially the kind of thing played at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival or on 'Hear and Now' or the Peel Show on BBC Radio.
3) Throwing Muses pictures - a few scans you won't see anywhere else - these should grow steadily over the next few weeks.
4)
Delphi software
- soon to be published, including a Brag game, an HTML editor,
a couple of JavaScript Wizards and maybe a couple of components.
Also plenty of tips and tutorials soon(next few days and then more and
more as time passes.)
Here's the link:
1) Delphi Software - music education and general utility software written with the excellent Borland Delphi 2.0 Developer's Edition.Get Interval Test, Netpad and more from Geocities.
2) MP3 Music - two ten-minute ensemble pieces I wrote whilst at University, played by the excellent (and usually working professional musicians when not playing student pieces - a unique privilege to work with them) FIREBIRD Ensemble conducted by the amazing Barrie Webb.Download for free but DO NOT sell these or anything else from Pork to Bacon - we don't make profit from any of this and the power of the internet is in its anarchic emphasis on freeware.
3) Windows, Programming, etc. Tips - tried and tested stuff for Windows 95, Borland Delphi 2, and a few other things.
Here's the link:
What is Pork to Bacon? : a software collective specialising in all sorts of random things which we give away over the 'net to whoever wants them
Why Pork to Bacon? Are you carnivores or something? Or Pigs maybe? : It's a reference to an increase in affection.Like a relationship which starts out as a pork and ends up as the thing in the expression 'to save one's bacon' - a progression from triviality into significance. In other words a typical pretentious Foxism.There are plenty at the sites!
Who is this Greg Fox anyway? : I am a British bloke in his twenties who dosses about with computers a lot and programs in Delphi, a bit of C and previously a lot of BASIC.I have a Master's in Music Composition from Huddersfield University, who used to be a poly but have a tip-top reputation for music, plus my tutor was Christopher Fox, which I'm proud of.Check out his music when you get the chance.I love Throwing Muses and twentieth-century 'classical' music, whether it's hardcore stuff like Xenakis or Gerald Barry or quite conservative but beautiful stuff like Poulenc or Martinu.I'm also a fan of the amazing book 'How to be a complete bastard' by Ade Edmondson, which everyone should buy.
Is your software safe to use? : we hope so; it was all tested fully, and Delphi is pretty robust and includes all sorts of exception-handling and stuff.It's all BETA software, however, and if shit happens we can't be blamed.Be careful running ANYTHING you get off the 'net, but our stuff should be 100% safe 99% of the time and when it's not, the worst I envisage happening is that the program will not work in some way.As far as I know ALL of the add-ons and data-type files are 100% safe.
What is an MP3 for God's sake? : it's a highly-compressed audio file which ignores stuff people can't hear.It's very effective, and you use WINAMP or something similar to play them.Try www.winamp.com - also I tend to zip mine so as to avoid ActiveX - not that I have anything really against it, it's just nicer to use Winamp for MP3s, so you'll need Winzip or PKUnzip or something to 'unzip' things - actually you need that for most of our wares.
What kind of computer was your material tested on? :
a Cyrix (don't all spit at once - they're good) 6x86 200Mhz with
64Mb RAM and two hard disks - basic ESS soundcard and Cirrus Logic
SVGA graphics.An old but highly functional system running the last
Win95 (ie.the FAT32 one) with all sorts of add-ons and stuff and
a good working DOS version with all that goes with that.
So basically everything at Pork to Bacon will run at least on the
above - probably much less for most of it.
Copyright : if anyone has issues, email Greg Fox at the address given at the head of this document and the issues will be resolved. In particular, if you are a musician in an MP3 and don't want them distributed let me know.There's no question of me ever charging anyone for these files, so I can't pay anyone anything, and the performances were almost all workshops or free concerts, but if anyone is ashamed of working with amateurs/unknowns and wants their performance removed, this can be discussed.If anyone wants acknowledgement, this will gladly be provided, and any links anyone wants too, so long as they're not pornographic or illegal in some way.
Updates : most of the software is complete, but occasionally it may be updated.More certain is that new things will be added from time to time.Check this page for news on updates if you'd rather do so than refresh all four sites each time.
Netpad 2.0 final update for now - working to optimum efficiency.
Throwing Muses simple wallpaper (small)
Quick links to the Pork to Bacon Web-Sites:
Just my opinion - submit a list if you're cool enough!!
