Retro is a skinnable anti-aliased analog clock for your Pocket PC Today screen and your Smartphone homescreen.
features
Complete skinnability. With Retro skins, you can customize the clock canvas, hands, and their position. You can place the 3 standard moving hands (or more, or less) where you want to, and add other rotating features like an extra dial, etc...
Included skin editor. Retro comes with REdit, a small easy-to-use and useful tool, which you can use to make your own skins or edit third party ones.
Skin flexibility. Skins can have up to 30 independent layers that work just like in Photoshop and other graphics software.
Superior graphics quality. Retro enables flicker-free graphics that blend seamlessly with the background, per-pixel alpha transparency, and anti-aliasing on rotated layers. Retro looks better and is more customizable than alternatives, like non-freeware Spb Clock and MadBeetle Clock Plugin.
Real-time moving hands. Highly optimized code makes it possible to draw the seconds hand in real time with the minimum CPU usage, without making any compromise on the output graphics quality. Retro does not waste precious CPU and battery time when the Today screen is not shown, leaving them to the user.
Easy to use. Copy clock files ("clr" extension) into the Retro directory on your Pocket PC, select your clock skin and configure other basic options from the Today control panel, and you're ready to go.
Special effects. Retro enables you to create special effects on your clock, like shadows below the hands or near the canvas' borders, canvas-less or semi-transparent clocks that blend with the features of your Today wallpaper, clocks with glass translucency effects, etc...
download and install
Important note: Retro must be installed to the internal memory.
retro Retro for PPC
version: 1.07.02
release date: 04/03/2008
compatibility: WM5/6 Pocket PC redit REdit - clock editor
version: 1.07.04
release date: 11/26/2008
compatibility: Windows PC with NET Framework 2.0
links
changelog and other bits
upcoming features
  • maybe: alarm switching
known bugs
  • clock will not update when Today screen is visible but screen is locked
  • does not work correctly with non-square clock sizes, although the REdit preview works
version 1.07.02
  • fixed the bug that Retro did not animate properly when embedded in Wisbar Advance Desktop
  • added alarm hand that displays the hour of one of the system alarms
  • added 24-hour hand
  • added the shortcut to the system time properties (can be disabled)
  • added author information into the clock files
  • 15-20% drawing speed improvement
version 1.06c3
  • fixed slow application startup from Start menu
  • fixed WM5 compatibility
version 1.06c2
  • fixed CAB package for non-english devices
  • tweaked thread priority