Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Robin Hood 10

If you want to try Robin Hood with a setup, you may download Setup.ex_ and rename it to .exe in order to start. The Password is: thor, the same for the setup that you would download after donate. Donate now and you'll have the full version without time constraints and with autoupdate. Thank you!
Fresh Demo!
> download 32 bits <
and add the fresh _hidecursorIDLE 32 from nightly builds, working perfectly 'till 29 Apr; however the site will be updated even sooner :)

> download 64 bits <
and add the fresh _hidecursorIDLE 64  slightly overcharged version, 100days into 2013! ;)

news:
Global:
> CTRL+ALT(+SHIFT)+F10
- starts (or terminates) _hidecursorIDLE

Window:
> CTRL+WIN+(ALT+)T
- gets the name of the process
- (or) the name of the class
and place it in the clipboard

(files).ini:
- secondary instruction to give different orders to secondary spawned processes in multiprocess applications (e.g. Chrome)
- CPU_Control

long version:
Why Robin... it's about redistributing resources with a smile! And not governmental, mind you :) Towards your best application that is. Why 10? Because I've just happened to change the reload/unload shortcut unto CTRL+ALT[+SHIFT]+F10 in order to make it more universal no matter what app you are running. Also I've added CTRL+ALT+1,2,3 in the same vein as CTRL+Win+1,2,3 for the priorities, this one working for the affinities:
1 - __FOREGROUND_HALF_Affinity / (SHIFT) __FOREGROUND_ONE_Affinity ; half means half of your processors
2 - __ALL_Affinity ;
3 - __BACKGROUND_HALF_Affinity / (SHIFT) __BACKGROUND_ONE_Affinity

Please note that the .ini files are there for you to play with them, and that the apps presented inside are tuned to work perfect for one HT processor (2 logical ones). That automatically scales for 1 proc and should be perfect for more, but when you want total control, you are encouraged to experiment.

I've been able to squeeze the power from an old rig and made it work with ALL the latest games and with good frames per second. Ah, the programmers these days... if you don't have the videocard resources for the most prominent games of the hour - I'd like to recommend two lovely games for the lesser videocards. Combined, they could give you even more gameplay fun than Deus Ex's latest installment for example.

Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood [Download] (hey, even win 98!) and Frozen Synapse. The former, stealth and tactics - is full with gestures, reminding that the best technology there is appears first in games. The latter is more for the hardcore gamer, but with the tip that you have to move fast and stealth not the other way around, it might take off the frustration edge. Its story is a cyberpunk gem, unlike many "refurbished new" from today. Of course my app is able to squeeze more speed at the AI computing turn, and you are encouraged to experiment with the newly introduced "secondary" instruction - for giving separate orders to secondary processes spawned by the main app.


Also for now you may find that we address a certain Cpu_Control app for setting/remembering custom process/processor affinities. While the path to it might be different, my app... RobinHood would take it on the fly and automatically write it down in .ini. All you have to do is having it launched once, and then ctrl+alt+esc. Optionally you may use another app to keep/remember the affinity of procs, all you have to do is modify in .ini where CPU_Control.exe is mentioned, with the name of the process involved.



Have fun :)

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