fnf@well.UUCP (Fred Fish) (03/25/86)
I was hoping to be able to announce the availability of 20 library disks by now, but "real world" pressures have prevented me from putting the polishing touches on the last 3, so it's only 17 at the moment. It will probably be a couple weeks until I can get back to finishing up the other three. Since it has been a while since the last posting, I have decided to post this update to the library list at this time, rather than wait for the additional disks to be finished. WHAT'S AVAILABLE ---------------- There are "do-nothing-useful" examples of various capabilities of the AMIGA, real development tools, editors, languages, games, and other odds & ends. Also included are machine readable form of many of the examples (received directly from C-A sources) out of the official AMIGA manuals, including the 1.1 ROM Kernel Manual. HOW TO OBTAIN DISKS ------------------- First, check with your local dealers and user groups. Many already have the earlier disks. Since these disks can be copied freely, and widespread distribution is encouraged, they propagate out to central distribution points fairly quickly. If you just can't wait, or can't find copies locally, I am willing to make these disks available for the cost of media, mailing materials, postage, and miscellaneous expenses (like wear and tear on my drives). My goal is to get as much software as possible into the hands of people that can use and enhance it, and make the AMIGA the success it deserves to be. Each disk contains all source necessary to recreate the executables provided. All programs are currently compiled with the latest Lattice C and/or Manx C compiler available at the time of release. In a very few cases (noted in the description) the code will not compile or run for some reason, but was considered interesting enough to include anyway. Almost all executables are known to run on the latest kickstart/workbench combination available at time of release. Disks are typically 85 to 95 percent full. HOW TO ORDER ------------ To order, send a list of the disks you want, and $10 per disk, to: Fred Fish 345 Scottsdale Road Pleasant Hill, Ca. 94523 (415) 685-7295 (Sorry, I can only return calls collect.) ucbvax!unisoft!fnf well!fnf lll-lcc!unisoft!fnf Time and other jobs permitting, all disks will be mailed via first class mail within 5 days of receipt of order. (Tips may help speed the process :-) Feel free to order more the the current number of disks available. Excess funds will be placed "in escrow" (refundable at any time) and drawn against for automatic mailings of future disks as they become available. I hope to add at least two to four disks per month to the library. Given that I have a database of about 300Mb of freely distributable software to draw upon, that should be a fairly easy goal to accomplish. DISTRIBUTION CRITERIA --------------------- To the best of my knowledge, materials in this library are freely redistributable. This means that they have met one or more of the following conditions: (1) The materials contains explicit copyright notices permitting redistribution. (2) The materials were posted to a publically accessible electronic bulletin board and did not contain any copyright notice. (Such materials will be removed if it is subsequently shown that copyright notices were illegally removed.) (3) The materials were posted to a widely disseminated electronic network (such as usenet), thus implying that their author/poster intended them to be freely distributed. This applies only if they contain no notice limiting distribution. (4) The materials contain an explicit notice placing them in the public domain. This is not the same as condition (1). ====================================================================== Itemized contents of the library disks follows, in reverse order for the benefit of those that already have early releases. ====================================================================== CONTENTS OF DISK's 18-20 (tentative) ------------------------ This is a brief description of some of the larger items that I have targeted for release on one of disks 18-20. Some are nearly complete, and only need some final testing. Others still need to get past the compile stage. This is for general info only, I can't guarantee release, or when, at this time. tvx A relatively portable editor, with both vi and emacs emulation modes. Compiles and runs, but needs some more work before release. xlisp 1.6 David Betz's xlisp. Compiles now, but still need to resolve a few globals and test it. Don't expect it to be too hard, just take some time. cpp Decus C Preprocessor. Works and will preprocess itself. Intended to work with my new cc for Manx C, to provide a more capable preprocessor in the Manx environment. cc A new version of my C compiler unix-like frontend, set up for Manx C. Will integrate support for the Decus C preprocessor to enable the "-P" cc option, and also allow compilation of source that makes more use of preprocessor functions than supported by Manx C. fine art Some of the best of available art from the leading Amiga artists. This will probably fill an entire disk. jukebox Some digitized sounds and a program to play them. CONTENTS OF DISK 17 ------------------- This is a copy of a H.A.M. (Hold And Modify) graphics demo disk received from a vendor that is producing hardware to capture such images, and software to process them. It is unchanged except for: 1) The volume name has been changed to AmigaLibDisk17. 2) This file (README.list17) has been added. 3) The standard library README file README.dist has been added. 4) The 'showilbm' program has been added to allow viewing of the two monochrome pictures (dozer.hires and robert.lores) without requiring Deluxe Paint. 5) The supplied 'readme' file has been augmented with information received on hardcopy along with the disk, and a note has been added about how to use the showilbm program. CONTENTS OF DISK 16 ------------------- This is a copy of the Amiga Developer's IFF disk, received directly from Commodore-Amiga sources, with permission to place in the library and redistribute. It is unchanged except for: 1) The volume name has been changed to AmigaLibDisk16. 2) This file (README.list16) has been added. 3) The standard library README file README.dist has been added. CONTENTS OF DISK 15 ------------------- Blobs A simple graphics program, reminiscent of the unix "worms" program, but in color of course. Author: Peter Engelbrite Clock A simple digital clock program designed to be small and to live completely in the screen title bar, where it is out of the way. Author: Mike Meyer Dazzle An eight-fold symmetry dazzler program. Really pretty! Author: Peter Engelbrite Fish "A demo program which runs an AnimOb in a double buffered screen with sequence cycled animation". (Basically shows a fish "swimming" across the top of the screen). Author: Catherine Wagner (posted by Barry Whitebook) Monopoly A really nice monopoly game written in AbasiC. Follow the directions in the file "InstallationGuide" to produce a bootable games disk. Author: David Addison OkidataDump Okidata ML92 driver and WorkBench screen dump program. Does both alpha and graphics. Untested (I don't have the printer). Author: Raimund Gluecker Polydraw A drawing program written in AbasiC. Author: David Addison Polyfractals A fractal program written in AbasiC. Author: David Addison CONTENTS OF DISK 14 ------------------- This disk contains the first ever public release of two new pieces of code, "dex" and "termcap". Also, this is the first disk in the library that includes executables produced with both the Manx and Lattice C compilers, whenever possible. This greatly helps to isolate bugs. amiga3d Shows a rotating 3 dimensional solid "AMIGA" sign. This is an updated version of the program released on disk number 12, and now includes full source. Author: Barry Whitebook @ Commodore-Amiga beep Source for a function that generates a beep sound, like CTRL-G on a VT100 terminal. Author: Samuel Dicker @ Commodore-Amiga dex Program to extract documentation in a human readable format inside source files, and produce nroff style output for manuals and other such external documents. First ever public release. Author: Fred Fish dimensions Programs to demonstrate three and four dimensional graphics. Not quite sure how else to describe them! Author: Anselm Hook filezap An updated version of the file zap utility first released on disk number 10. Can be used to patch any type of file. Nice, and VERY useful. Author: John Hodgson gfxmem An updated version of the graphical memory display program first released on disk number 1. Watch your machine's memory usage change dynamically under use! Author: Louis Mamakos gi Converts DPaint brush files to C source files "necessary to create an Image structure, including height, width, depth, and color information, as well as the array of data which represents the bit planes of the image". Author: Mike Farren pdterm A simple terminal emulator that does ANSI or DEC VT-100 emulation in 80 cols by 25 lines. Version 1.21. Author: Michael McInerny shell A simple csh style shell with history and some other goodies. Still needs some polishing and enhancement, but is quite nice as it. Thanks Matt!!! We've really needed something like this for a long time. Now if you would just do a ksh version instead... Author: Matt Dillon termcap A (mostly) unix compatible implementation of a termcap library. First ever public release. Author: Fred Fish CONTENTS OF DISK 13 ------------------- It is a grab bag of basic programs, mostly untested. No speekee basic so if these don't work, call someone else. CONTENTS OF DISK 12 ------------------- Note that this disk contains a number of programs apparently available only in executable form. I am not real happy with this trend, but had no way of getting in contact with the authors who posted these programs to various BBS's to request source. I have no reason to believe that any of these executable only postings contain any deliberate "misfeatures", but you should always use such programs cautiously. amiga3d Shows a rotating 3 dimensional solid "Amiga sign". No source available, executable only (downloaded from a Denver BBS) Author: Barry (bart) Whitebook of C-A ArgoTerm Yet another terminal emulator program. However, this one is written in macro assembler, so should be of interest to anyone doing serious assembly language development. Version 0.20 Author: Jez San arrow3d Shows a rotating 3 dimensional wire frame arrow. No source available, executable only (downloaded from a Denver BBS) Author: Steve Beats of C-A ld4 Another directory listing program using some graphics style output. Executable only, no source available. (Downloaded from a Denver BBS) Author: unknown IconExec These two tools allow execution of a program from an & SetWindow icon without having to recompile the program. Author: John Toebes VIII images Miscellaneous DPaint and digitized pictures, in iff format. Some are rated R. SetAlternate Merge the images from two icons to produce one icon with a primary image, and a possibly completely different image to display when selected. Author: John Toebes VIII StarTerm Another terminal emulator program. ASCII and XMODEM support, telephone dialer, function keys, load file stripping, text file conversion, full/half duplex, Author: Jim Nangano and Steve Plegge CONTENTS OF DISK 11 ------------------- dpslide A slide show program for displaying graphic images which are in the iff format, such as output from the Electronic Arts Deluxe Paint program. Allows the user to select the display time for each slide and the method of bringing the slide up to the screen, and then removing it. Double buffers images to improve smoothness of display. Executable only, no source available. Author: Paul Biondo pictures Miscellaneous DPaint and digitized pictures, in iff format. CAUTION: Some are rated R. CONTENTS OF DISK 10 ------------------- conquest You control an interstellar empire, decide which star systems to explore, which planets to colonize, etc. The computer will also be building its own empire and competing with you for resources. The one with the greatest population at the end wins. Executable only, no source. Downloaded from Denver BBS. Author: Unknown, ported to Amiga by Rob Shimbo dehex Simple little program to convert hex format file into a binary file. Reads lines of hex characters on stdin and writes 8 bit dehex'd bytes to stdout. Author: Fred Fish filezap Patch program for any type of file. Executable only, no source available. Author: John Hodgson fixobj Strip extraneous garbage off end of object files transferred with xmodem. Does not require preknowledge of actual file length, uses knowledge of Amiga file structure. Author: John Hodgson iff Routines to read and write iff format files. Includes program to display iff files made by DPaint. Also see the DPSlide program on disk 11. Author: Jerry Morrison, Steve Shaw, and Steve Hayes ld I presume this stands for "list directory". Lists contents of specified diretory or disk, using inverse video and colors to group objects by type. Author: Dave Haynie ls Minimal implementation of UNIX ls. Demonstrates use of UNIX style filename pattern matching code. Author: Rick Schaeffer sq.usq Squeeze and unsqueeze, from the CPM world. Works, but "compress" from disk 6 runs almost twice as fast and produces even smaller files. Author: R. Greenlaw, Amiga port by Rick Schaeffer trek73 A Star Trek game. This one is just crying out to be Amiga'ized by some ambitious hacker. Authors: Many, see comment in main.c yachtc Dice game. Author: Sheldon Leemon CONTENTS OF DISK 9 ------------------ moire Draws moire patterns in black and white in a borderless backdrop window. Currently only runs with Lattice C version 3.02, when compiled with 3.03 crashes the system. Author: Scott Ballantyne MVP-FORTH Mountain View Press Forth, version 1.00.03A. A shareware version of forth from Fantasia Systems. Runable from the workbench, comes with icons and such. If you use this, you should send a contribution to Fantasia Systems / Mountain View Press. proff Another text formatting program. This one is significantly more powerful than any of the others previously distributed on these disks. setlace Program to toggle interlace mode on and off. When used with a black background, and amber or green characters, produces a nice CLI environment. Author: Bob Pariseau, Nov 85 skewb Not quite sure what this is supposed to be, it was downloaded from a bbs with no documentation. C'mon folks, at least put a three line description at the start of your programs! Author: Raymond S. Brand sparks Graphics demo that draws a "moving pathway", adding to the front and removing from the tail (sure is hard to come up with verbal descriptions of these things!). Author: Scott Ballantyne CONTENTS OF DISK 8 ------------------ Contains the source to "Hack", a popular UNIX game ported to the AMIGA by John Toebes. Please read all the associated README files before redistributing with changes. Also, if you appreciate John's work, help support it by sending a small contribution. Courtesy of John Toebes, 120 H Northington Pl, Cary NC. 27511. CONTENTS OF DISK 7 ------------------ The "Hack" games disk, derived from sources on disk 8. Version 1.0.1. This also contains some icons and other files that are not reproducable from the contents of the source disk (number 8), so number 7 and number 8 should really be ordered as a set. Both disks are almost full. It's huge! CONTENTS OF DISK 6 ------------------ compress Compress reduces the size of the named files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv coding. The amount of compression obtained depends on the size of the input, the number of bits per code, and the distribution of common substrings. Typically, text such as source code or English is reduced by 50-60%. Compression is generally much better then that achieved by Huffman coding (as used in "pack") or adaptive Huffman coding (as used in "compact"), and takes less time to compute. Great for saving disk space, or reducing transmission time over phone lines! Also includes "btoa" and "atob" for converting binary files to ascii, and then back to binary (for transmission over links that do not support 8 bits). Author: Thomas Spencer, with improvements by others dadc A digital computer impersonating an analog clock impersonating a digital clock. Author: Perry S. Kivolowitz microemacs An upgraded version of microemacs originally distributed on disk number 2. I don't have an exact list of changes but the new executable is about 25% larger, so there must be something in there! One enhancement is that some functions are now also bound to function keys. Author: Dave Conroy, with enhancements by Jack Roose. mult Mult reads the input comparing adjacent lines. In the normal case, the second and succeeding copies of repeated lines are output, and the remainder of the lines are removed. Repeated lines must be adjacent in order to be found. Options are present to output the first of multiple lines, for comparing adjacent lines by field only, and for specifying the field separator character. Kind of the opposite of the Unix "uniq" program. Author: Dennis Bednar scales Demonstrates use of the Audio functions in the ROM to produce four voice sound. It uses a simple waveform (sawtooth) with no amplitude control (ie, envelope) or frequency variation (ie, vibrato), but these can be easily implemented. Also includes considerable documentation on audio device. Author: Steven A. Bennett setparallel Allows the CLI user to dynamically change any particular parallel port parameter. Author: Keith Stobie and Tom Pohorsky setserial Allows the CLI user to dynamically change any particular serial port parameter. Author: Keith Stobie and Tom Pohorsky sortc A quicksort based sort program, using separate driver and sort modules. Originally from a DECUS C distribution. Claims to be fast, but when operating entirely out of ram takes 93 seconds to sort its input file, sort.c, while AmigaDos's sort takes only 43 seconds under the same conditions. Author: Dave Conroy, Martin Minow, and Ray Van Tassle stripc Strips comments and extraneous whitespace from C source files. Useful for compacting the C header files to increase usable disk space. Author: Chris Metcalf CONTENTS OF DISK 5 ------------------ cons Console device demo program with supporting macro routines. Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85 freemap Creates a visual diagram of free memory. Comes with custom icon so can be run from workbench screen. Author: Robert J. Mical input.dev In combination with hander.interface.asm (supplied), lets a user trap keyboard or mouse events before they get to Intuition and if desired, install new (phony/ generated/other-devices-mouse-simulations) into the input stream. Handler.interface.asm is needed to convert the calling sequence performed by the input.task for the input stream management into something that a C program can understand. Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85 joystick Shows how to set up the gameport device as a joystick. Reports parameters received from joystick hooked to right port. Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85 keyboard Sample program to demonstrate direct communications with the keyboard. Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85 layers Shows use of the layers library, used by Intuition to create windows (layers handles all overlapping drawing areas and keeps things straight, sending to the back, bringing to the front, making larger/smaller, etc.) Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85 mandelbrot Latest and greatest mandelbrot program. New features include the ability to save images in "iff" format, for reading into Deluxe Paint or other programs that use iff. Also includes code from GraphiCraft to handle color palette and change colors at will. Many additions by RJ Mical. Author: Robert French mouse Shows how to set up the gameport device as a mouse so that hooking up the mouse to the right port gives access to mouse information. Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85 one.window Produces a window with a console attached. Does graphics in the top half and limits the console activity to the lower half. Author: Rob Peck 12/18/85 parallel Demonstrates access to the parallel port. Author: Tom Pohorsky 12/1/85 printer Shows how to open and use a printer, does a screen dump of the workbench screen if there is a graphics-capable printer attached. Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85 print.support Printer support routines. Currently won't compile, missing a header file "local.h". Author: unknown proctest Sample code to create a process, set up message ports, pass messages, etc. Author: Rob Peck 1/4/86 region Demonstrates how a drawing area can be split into linked rectangular regions. Draws a rectangle in a single playfield display, then draws "Behind a Fence" several times behind an apparent fence in the rectangle. Only works under Lattice Ver3.03. Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85 samplefont A sample font that produces clubs, hearts, spaces, and diamonds as its four characters. Shows precisely what is contained in an Amiga font. Author: Unknown serial Demonstrates access to the serial port. Requires an external terminal connected to the serial port. Author: Unknown singlePlayfield Creates and displays a 320 by 200 by 2 bit plane single playfield display. Completely covers Intuition's display, but gives the system back at exit. Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85 speechtoy Latest and greatest version of Dave's cute speech demo program. Comes with custom icon so can be run from a workbench screen. Author: Dave Lucas speech.demo A much simplified version of speechtoy. Also includes exec support functions for extended IO requests, CreateExtIO() to allocate and initialize a new IO request block and DeleteExtIO() to free an extended IO request block. Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85 text.demo Sample program that asks AvailFonts() to make a list of the fonts that are available, then opens a window and then prints a description of the various attributes that can be applied to the fonts, in the font itself. Previous versions were released as "whichfont". Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85 timer Simple timer example program. Includes dynamic allocation of data structures needed to communicate with the timer device, as well as the actual device IO. Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85 trackdisk Demonstrates use of trackdisk driver. Useful example of "raw" disk read/write. Author Rob Peck 12/1/85 CONTENTS OF DISK 4 ------------------ banner Prints horizontal banner (across screen). From Decus C distribution of several years ago. Author: Unknown bgrep Another grep like utility, also using the Boyer-Moore algorithm. Author: Roy Mongiovi and Arnold Robbins bison A replacement for unix "yacc" command. This is from the GNU (GNU is Not Unix) effort, and was obtained from the Free Software Foundation. Compiles and links (with some effort) but currently crashes the machine. Needs work, but will probably be worth it. Author: Bob Corbett and Richard Stallman bm A grep like utility using the Boyer-Moore algorithm. Author: Peter Bain grep Decus grep (Get Regular Expression and Print). Useful for finding strings in files. Author: Unknown kermit This is an absolutely ancient kermit, who's only saving grace is that it is small and quite portable. On the AMIGA, there is no connect mode, only send and receive. You must log into the remote machine via one of it's local terminals and point it's kermit at the appropriate serial line connected to the AMIGA. Author: Unknown, but it is so hacked up it doesn't matter by now. MyCLI Another CLI for the AMIGA. Author: Mike Schwartz mandel A Mandelbrot set program. Author: Robert French, with additions by RJ Mical CONTENTS OF DISK 3 ------------------ gothic Gothic banner printer. Prints DOWN the page, rather than across, so arbitrarily long banners can be created. Send EOF (CTRL-\) to end input. From a Decus C distribution several years ago. Author: unknown roff A "roff" type text formatter, roughly following "Software Tools" version. Somewhat upwardly compatible with unix "nroff" command. Author Ken Yap ff A very fast text formatter, controlled exclusively by command line arguments. Author: Gary Perlman & hordes of students cforth A highly portable forth implementation. Lots of goodies. Author: Allan Pratt xlisp A nice little lisp implementation. Compiles and links ok, but something in the Lattice C setjmp/longjmp code prevents it from currently running. Might be easily fixed. Version 1.4 Author: David Betz CONTENTS OF DISK 2 ------------------ alib Object module librarian. Author: Mike Schwartz cc Unix-like frontend for Lattice C compiler. Author: Fred Fish dbug Macro based C debugging package. Machine independent. Provides function trace, selective printing of internal state information, and more. Author: Fred Fish make Subset of "unix" make command. Useful, but does not have many of the features of the full make, much less the newer "augmented make". Author: Landon Dyer make2 Another make subset command. Author: Marc Mengel microemacs Small, relatively portable version of emacs. Has keyboard macros. No extension language. Author: Dave Conroy portar Portable archiver. Used to bundle text file up into a single file for transmission as a unit, or otherwise handling as a single file. "Portable" because the code itself is portable and because the archive format is very simple (uses ascii headers to separate files). From Decus C distribution. Author: Martin Minow xrf C cross reference utility. Originally from Decus C distribution. Author: Bob Denny CONTENTS OF DISK 1 ------------------ amigademo Graphical benchmark for comparing amigas. Author: Charlie Heath (MicroSmiths) amigaterm Terminal emulation program with xmodem upload/download capability. Author: Michael Mounier balls Simulation of the "kinetic thingy" with balls on strings where only the end balls move (quick, can YOU come up with a better description?). Anyway, cute. Author: Perry Kivolowitz colorful Shows off use of hold-and-modify mode. Posted to usenet by Robert Pariseau. dhrystone Dhrystone benchmark program. Author: Reinhold Weicker (Ada version) Rick Richardson (C version) dotty Source to the "dotty window" demo on the Workbench disk. Posted to usenet by Dale Luck. freedraw A small "paint" type program. Free drawing, boxes, filled boxes, etc. Author: Rick Ross gad "Fun with Gadgets". Demonstration program for use of gadgets. Author: John Draper (Aka "crunch") gfxmem Graphical memory usage display program. Watch your machine's memory usage! Cute and useful. Author: Louis Mamakos halfbrite Sample program that demonstrates "Extra-Half-Brite" mode on latter AMIGA's with new VLSI chip. Allows 64 colors in low-res mode, rather than 32. Posted to usenet by Robert Pariseau. hello Demonstrates creation of a simple window, "hello world". Posted to usenet by Eric Lavitsky. latffp Shows how to access the Motorola Fast Floating Point library from Lattice C. Also demonstrates the tremendous speedup obtained. Author: Larry Hildenbrand palette Sample program for designing color palettes. Author: Charlie Heath trackdisk Demonstrates use of the trackdisk driver. Useful example of "raw" disk read/write. Author: Rob Peck requesters Sample program and documentation for building and using requesters. John worked REAL hard to dig out all the information in this one! Author: John Draper (aka "crunch") speech Sample speech demo program. Stripped down version of "speechtoy". Author: Rob Peck speechtoy Another speech demo program. Cute. You have to see this one. Be sure to click gadget that pops up the face. Author: David Lucas -- =============================================================================== Fred Fish (415) 644-1230 ext 242 ucbvax!unisoft!fnf well!fnf ===============================================================================