A Rough and Ready Aid - updated

 I have now made a more complete version of this. It's still not as polished as I would like. It may be the last version of this. My experience with the Chorda affair has rather drained my will to do any more with it. And to be realistic very few people are going to be interested anyway!


https://www.mediafire.com/file/jrg4276yzor7knr/Orba_Alternatives_V1-2.zip/file



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