Charcoal Design News

RBGL 1.6 and RBGL Sprites 1.2 Released

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:26:11 GMT

We've released major updates to RBGL and RBGLSprites, including better performance and some exciting new features...

RBGL Sprites v1.1 Released

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:07:11 GMT

We've just released RBGL Sprites 1.1, a major update to our open source 2D game engine for REALbasic.

RBGL Sprites v1.0 Released

Sat, 11 Jul 2008 17:49:23 GMT

We've just released RBGL Sprites 1.0, a replacement for the now-deprecated REALbasic SpriteSurface control, used for making 2D games in REALbasic.

RBGL v1.1 Released

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:12:11 GMT

We've just released version 1.1 of RBGL, our open source graphics library for REALbasic that leverages the OpenGL library on Mac OS and Windows for hardware accelerated graphics.

REALunit

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:20:46 GMT

We've added REALunit, a new open source unit testing framework for REALbasic to our open source software page.

MagiCal 1.1 Released

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 02:21:14 GMT

We've just released a major update to our popular MagiCal menu bar clock and calendar. Almost every feature has been enhanced and polished - even the icon!

Parsing and Tokenizing Libraries

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:26:13 GMT

We've added new open source libraries to our REALbasic source page, including classes for tokenizing and parsing complex formatted strings such as programming languages and structured data.

New Bug Tracking System

Mon, 23 Mar 2007 01:30:07 GMT

We've overhauled our bug reporting and feature request systems with a brand new interactive bug tracking database.

Subscriber 1.1 Released

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:11:01 GMT

Subscriber 1.1 is now out of beta, and comes loaded with a few new goodies including full support for Intel macintoshes, and a shiny new icon!

PicTiles on MacZot

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:25:39 GMT

Our Popular puzzle game PicTiles will be appearing on macZOT this weekend, at the special discount price of $9.99!

Review on Apple Matters

Fri, 28 Feb 2007 21:55:39 GMT

Apple Matters has posted a review of our freeware utilities MagiCal and Shades, along with a mini-bio of Charcoal Design's founder and chief software engineer Nick Lockwood.

PicTiles 1.1 Released

Thu, 02 Feb 2007 00:35:31 GMT

We've just released a major update to our popular PicTiles puzzle game, which includes Intel processor support, as well as many other enhancements.

MagiCal 1.0 Released

Sat, 06 Jan 2007 18:31:14 GMT

We've just released MagiCal, a FREE menu-based clock and calendar program for Mac OS X. MagiCal provides a range of time and date display options, and can operate in conjunction with, or as a replacement for, the system menu clock.

Shades 1.1 Released

Sat, 18 Dec 2006 01:29:47 GMT

We've just released a major update to our popular Shades application, which includes many new features requested by our users.

Shades 1.0 Released

Sat, 24 Nov 2006 06:45:47 GMT

We've released a new software product called Shades. Shades is a FREE utility for adjusting monitor brightness on your Macintosh. It can be used as a compliment to the built-in brightness controls of many Macintosh machines, offering a greater dynamic range and finer control.

Open Source

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:15:29 GMT

We've added a new open source page to the software section of our site. We believe that open source software is a great way to encourage innovation and progress within the developer community, and for this reason we have decided to provide the source code for our in-house tools and experiments...

Pink for October

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:11:06 GMT

Pinkforoctober.org has been set up in order to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research. Like many others, Charcoal Design will be adopting a pink hue for the duration of the month of October...

Web Site Relaunched

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:22:21 GMT

We hope you all like the new-look site. After languishing in development hell for several years, and after several redesigns which never saw the light of day, Charcoal Design is now officially open for business. The new site features a number of enhancements, which we will be adding to over the next few weeks...

Pipette 1.0 Released

Sat, 07 Oct 2006 22:00:11 GMT

We're proud to announce the release of a new product called Pipette. Pipette is a FREE utility for web developers and digitial artists that allows you to take colour readings from anywhere on the screen, and return the colour value in the right format for pasting into Photoshop or any web page. Download it now...