This page is maintained by
Thomas Bending,
and was last modified on 23 September 2007.
Comments, criticisms and suggestions are welcome.
Copyright © Thomas Bending 2008.
Torus 1.4 is a program for the Palm handheld computer that searches the TORUS tune database for a given shape sequence and displays a list of matches and the details for each tune, as shown in these screenshots. It's cunningly designed so that you can look up a single tune quickly using only the hard keys, without needing the stylus at all. To use the program you'll also need to install TDBlib, my small shared library of useful things. You can download both together as a zip file (15kB).
The tune data is stored separately as a MobileDB database called TorusDB, and the main Torus database is available in this format as a zip file (50kB). MobileDB is one of a number of simple database formats for PalmOS: I chose it because the basic packages to deal with it are free. MobileDB Lite (404kB) allows you to view (but not edit) MobileDB databases on the handheld, and MobileDB_PC (222kB) runs on a Windows PC and converts a CSV file to the MobileDB format. Both these packages are by Handmark, who also provide CSV converters for other operating systems, and sell a full database editor for the handheld. However, you do not need to install any of these packages to use Torus 1.4.
Warning: Version 1 of TDBlib, and hence Torus 1.3, contained a number of bugs. Please do not use these versions, but replace them with Torus 1.4 and TDBlib 2 as above. Note that deleting the old TDBlib 1 may require a soft reset (indeed this was one of the bugs). Sorry for any inconvenience caused.
You may also be interested in my other Palm software.
Torus 1.4 and TDBlib are distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence, and come with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. They are free software, and you are welcome to redistribute them under certain conditions. See the GNU website for further information.
These programs have been tested on various Palm platforms, but I can not guarantee that they will work on any particular device.
This page is maintained by
Thomas Bending,
and was last modified on 23 September 2007.
Comments, criticisms and suggestions are welcome.
Copyright © Thomas Bending 2008.