Welcome to e-forlaget.net — containing parts of e-forlaget.no in English
e-forlaget™ means literally "The e-Publishing House"
We publish cute computer programs and odd electronic music!
Please scroll our site and see for yourself...
All programs and music available from our site are protected by copyright, but free of charge ("freeware").
[ Read all about nasty warnings when downloading our programs and our limited warranty]
Our exe files are temporary suspended for downloading. Please stay tuned...
e-forlaget™ has developed several computer games and useful programs. They are mostly published in Norwegian, with a few exceptions listed below:
SecretMessage is a program for friends and lovers and others interested in writing secret messages to one another. The program both encrypts and decrypts text messages with an advanced key in real time, and you may also protect your message
with a password of your choice. Only a receiver with SecretMessage installed on his/her computer is able to read your message, and only if he or she knows the optional password. On top of that, the program file itself can be protected by password, so you may
rest asure your private messages remain private.
SecretMessage may even create QR codes of short texts (for instance internet addresses) and phone numbers. QR is short for Quick Response, the square black and white patterns that especially smart cell phones may scan and save and use. Our QR
codes are made with the program.
Magic Button calculates which number or date you are thinking of (no less...)! It is fun for both young and old, and you are also encouraged to solve Magic Button's mystery...
The program is published in both English and Norwegian. On initial startup you may select your preferred language. Only if you want to save your preferred language, the text file magic.ini is created.
The program is yours, to have and to hold, but protected by copyright.
Although in Norwegian only, the numbers and mathematics are international, so we encourage you to try out minneKalkulator, translated "memoryCalc(ulator)". It is a small Windows calculator with all basic functions and with extended memory. You
may save up to 5 formulas with the MS button to be re-used later with the MR button. If you need to store even more formulas or results, you will first have to delete at least one formula with the MC button.
In addition to the four elementary, mathematical operations of aritmethic (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division), the memoryCalculator also have easy ways of submitting (pi) and 2(pi). You may also calculate sine, cosine and arc tangent, and use
absolute value to remove negatives. You may round results to the nearest number or truncate to the nearest digit and calculate squares and square roots. You may even decide the numbers of decimals in (pi) and results. By right clicking the function buttons,
that function will be put directly into the formula. By right clicking a parenthesis button, you may enclose the formula in parenthesis.
The menu item "Rediger" translates to Edit and has a copy and paste function. Sorry to say, also the help file is in Norwegian only.
Our award winning shareware computer game Spell-IT is no longer downloadable, sold or supported. New versions of Spell-IT are available in Norwegian only ("Finn ordet"). We
apologize for any inconvenience.
e-forlaget™ is an ODD Music publisher, both online and as downloadable computer programs. ODD can also be found as an artist on Discogs, including several
unofficial releases.
ODD became interested in electronic music and synthesizers when he first listened to "On the Run" (Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd), Jean-Michel Jarre: "Oxygene",
Tangerine Dream's "Phaedra" and especially their album "Rubycon", later also Klaus Schulze (RIP) and Vangelis (RIP). He bought his first synthesizer in 1980 and has made many hours of music, inspired by the great musicians mentioned, but not without a distinct personal touch, both rhythmic monotonous and melodious. He is not a musical scholar, but improvised in several layers to a pre-programmed sequencer. All music composed, performed, mixed and recorded by ODD (1985-1987). On "Sound Roses" he also plays traditional Norwegian folklore music together with a friend... In ODD's own words:
What I want to achieve with my music, is to describe the beauty I experience during my days on earth, the undescribable mystery of our being. This is intense, and the expressions will have to comply with the impressions. Because beauty really is beyond description, at least I try to indicate and touch it, give associations to the real thing and hopefully reach the same strings and feelings in other souls. What I want, is to give kindred spirits hints of my own joy, my own sadness, a fantastic life adventure!
With these fundamentals, the musical result may be private and personal, maybe important and effective for me alone. This potential danger worries me only through my need to share my life experience with people I know and love, and others interested. The main reason is to convince myself of a true and genuine essence in the music I create. Such contemplation of my own navel is the opposite of cynical egotism in my experience. The maturation of my personality through arts is a condition to function satisfactorily socially and within myself.
I am more fascinated with rhythm patterns than melody lines. My music bears obvious evidence of this attitude. Even though a melody is better capable of instant beauty recognition, a sequencer pattern can plough deeper into the listening soul, through the seeming monotony and the almost transparent changes in modulation, tempo and timbre. When listening to my odd music with an open mind, you may find or co-create mental landscapes and colors or dream dramatic scenes inside your spirit, even when awake. Enjoy!