Fortran Friends

Fortran Friends is a 'self-help' group of Fortran programmers using RISC OS systems mainly for running scientific programs. We offer support for Fortran programmers on RISC OS computers and the porting of Fortran applications to the RISC OS platform. We are investigating the free compiler GNUf77, and will make a front-end and set of libraries if there is sufficient interest and as soon as the worst compiler bugs have been corrected. We prepare camera-ready copy of scientific texts for publication; for example, the 3rd edition of the classic The 59 Icosahedra.

We have developed several applications in Fortran, shareware or demo versions of which are provided on this CD and on our Web site. Other interests described on our Web site, with examples of RISC OS code, are:

Church bell ringing;
Family and local history;
Crystallography and molecular display.

Contact details

Address:	Fortran Friends PO Box 64 Didcot Oxon OX11 0TH
Telephone:	01235 834357
Web:	http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/fortran/
Email:	fortran@argonet.co.uk

User group
Fortran Friends is also a member of the Association of Acorn User Groups and has its own specialist user group page on this CD.

Polyhedra modelling

Product name	Description	Latest version	Price (£)
PolyDraw	Interactive exploration of 140 polyhedra	3.25	20.00
PolyNet	Interactive creation of planar nets for polyhedra	1.17	20.00
Stellate	Makes stellations and duals of the uniform polyhedra	2.15	20.00
Discounts are available when ordering more than one of the above programs: £35 for two or £50 for all three (there is no additional supplement for a site licence)
Polyhedra data discs	Extra data discs for the above polyhedra programs (discs 1, 2 and 3)	N/A	10.00 per disc
Dodecahedral Calendar and Xmas Tree Decorations	3D Draw-format calendars and Christmas tree decorations to print out and construct	N/A	Free
All prices are fully inclusive to UK users; please add £1 P&P for EU countries, or £2 for the rest of the world

Fortran programming utilities

Product name	Description	Price (£)
Fortran compiler front-end	Compiler front-end marketed by Intelligent Interfaces Ltd, who also sell the best available RISC OS Fortran compiler. Note: The demo version provided here is a very early front-end; the version supplied by Intelligent Interfaces uses windows rather than menus.	See Intelligent Interfaces
Fortran libraries	Libraries allowing Fortran programmers to call RISC OS system functions from their Fortran source	Free
Note: the above software is intended only for use with Fortran release 2; the routines cannot be used with other compilers or by non-programmers

Scientific software

Product name	Description	Price (£)
PGPlot	A portable high-level graphics library Note: requires a Fortran compiler	Free
ORTEP III	Oak Ridge Thermal Ellipsoid Plotting program	Free
Struplo	Plots molecules as polyhedra and outline spheres	Free
Crystallography software	Interactive educational program describing 'Atomic Packing and Crystal Structure'	Free
These scientific utilities are all freely available for non-commercial use

Printing

Product name	Description	Latest version	Price (£)
LazyPrint	Printing utility (not a printer driver) for any Hewlett Packard printer which uses HP printer and graphics languages to plot text and Draw files on any HP device. The full version includes extra utilities such as 'thin line' to set all line widths on a Draw file to a specified minimum and 'CSV2Labels' to make address labels from a CSV file.	2.40	10.00 Shareware

Campanology

Product name	Description	Latest version	Price (£)
Call Change	Simulates call changes in bell ringing, complete with between five and sixteen animated ringers	1.05	Free