software products for productivity and / or fun

Windows:  95/98, 2000, Me, XP

. . . about us

rpsoft 2000 is really the programming entity for these software programs. While the sales of these programs are new, copyrights and software from this operation date back to 1984. Software since 1984 been an odd mixture of utilities and fun - productivity programs plus video games. Well, one cannot be serious all of the time, can they?  The original software was done in assembly language first for the Commodore 64 computer and then for the Atari ST computer. Early software varied from a three dimensional race game to a full fledged assembler / disassembler /editor for the M 68000 processor.

So, what does music have to do with Blackjack have to do with utility programs have to do with assemblers?  Well, they do relate.  Each of these items has a mathematical basis.  And one could easily say the expertise of rpsoft 2000 programming is into mathematical modeling.  While Blackjack is indeed a fun game, it definitely has a mathematical side when one considers best plays and odds calculations.  rpsoft 2000 has done Blackjack simulations twice - once in 1984 and once recently.  Expect to see more on this.  The hint charts for example, in the Blackjack game were developed by rpsoft 2000 from 36 billion hands of Blackjack play simulation.  Well, no one said this was simple!  But math modeling in fact is somewhat fun for some of us.  As for the game?  Well, if the Blackjack author has truly been a fan of Blackjack in real life for over 20 years, one can expect that the game would be both fun and representative of the real thing.  For those interested in Blackjack, as I am, there is a free Blackjack information section included here that you may wish to visit.

Music is similar in many ways.  Many of us appreciate the art of music.  And some of music in fact is indeed creativity and still more is convention.  However, much of music also has a mathematical basis.  If you have not yet read the free section here on music regarding simple chord theory, you might want to look at it.  Much of chord theory is simply mathematics - with of course a few conventions thrown in.  However, even when we understand the mathematics, memorizing thousands of combinations of chord fingerings are beyond most of us - well, at least beyond me.  Hence musicord was invented mostly for my own usage, in dealing with the many chord possibilities and chord fingering possibilities.  Like many of the programs here, it was later improved and readied to be shared with others.

And the utility software programs?  None of those began either with the intention of sales.  Each were done because of a need - a missing program that seemed to be needed to make life more reasonable. Emailaddy began due to constant misplacing and losing of email addresses.  Now using it, that problem is gone.  As the ad states, I only now lose the email addresses that I want to.  Membank began as an assist to online banking.  In fact the .qif portion of it for check downloads I think is a real time saver.  The idea of downloading checks on line sounds great, until one day when one actually does it and sees that their 32 checks are each merely labeled "check" and that there of course is none of their personal expense account information associated with it.  Ho Hum.  A lot of typing even after the download!  Well, membank can fix a lot of that.  It does for me, for example.  It makes check downloads of .qif files the easy thing it was supposed to be, by acting as an intermediary to add information easily.  And as an aside, membank also does a great job of handling www addresses along with password names and passwords.  Not sure how everyone else remembers on- line passwords. Membank makes that easy.   The convert program just takes something that should be simple in the first place - metric / weight / volume / and other conversions and keeps it simple by adding convenience.

Where to next?  Well there still are a few rpsoft 2000 software programs that have been developed and used for years.  They will need to be cleaned up, tested and added to the collection. As for Blackjack, please note the comment above that major Blackjack simulations have been done by the team here.  That information will be made available both in book form and e-book form in the coming months.  Much of that information has already been sent into the US copyright office.

Beyond that?  Since those are really not plans, but merely finishing off things in progress - what is next?  Hard to tell.  However, rpsoft 2000 has always been into mathematical modeling.  Our vision has also been to not merely make something for sale - but to first make something that fills an honest need - and then secondly worry about selling it.  We will continue that vision.  We will no doubt be doing more.  However, we will try to ensure that whatever we do adds to the world and is not simply added for profit only.

Another one of our goals is to keep the price low enough for our products such that rpsoft 2000 programs will never be that bad of a gamble. Also readme and help features accompany the software. Please trust that the price is far, far, lower, than the difficulty in programming and putting together these programs. However, I truly hope that you enjoy the programs here.

Legal:

rpsoft 2000 is now a US registered trademark.  rpsoft 2000 has 13 US copyrights received or pending.

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