fnf@well.UUCP (Fred Fish) (01/04/86)
<sacrificial line for the non-existant line eater!> Are you a non-official developer, or tired of complaints about no software available for the AMIGA? Then you will probably be interested in the library of freely distributable software I am putting together. So far, I have four disks ready for distribution, and two more in the process of testing. 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. I have decided to make these disks available for the cost of media, mailing materials, postage, and miscellaneous expenses. I'm certainly not going to get rich off this, or even come close to covering my time involved in downloading and testing all this stuff. 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 Lattice C compiler. 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 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. -Fred (415) 685-7295 (Sorry, I can only return calls collect.) ucbvax!unisoft!fnf well!fnf lll-lcc!unisoft!fnf 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 accessable 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). To obtain a list of all disks currently available in the AMIGA library, and ordering information, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to: Fred Fish 345 Scottsdale Road Pleasant Hill, Ca 94523 A small service charge is made to cover the cost of disk, mailing materials, postage, and associated miscellaneous expenses. CONTENTS OF DISK 1 ------------------ amigademo Graphical benchmark for comparing amigas. Author: Gary Girzon 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 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 files 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 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 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 TENTATIVE ITEMS FOR FUTURE DISKS -------------------------------- Pacman An AMIGA'ized version of the pacman distributed in net.sources.games. objdump A program to dump object modules in a human readable format. battlestar An adventure type game. body A program to extract ranges of lines from files. boggle A simple game. compress Program to compress/decompress files for space saving and transmission via modem. ctags A tags file generator. Might be integrated with microemacs. diff A differential file comparison utility. hanoi Solves towers of hanoi. sort Another sort program. today Prints current date in VERY verbose form, including phase of the moon (REALLY!!). -- =============================================================================== Fred Fish (415) 644-1230 ext 242 ucbvax!unisoft!fnf well!fnf ===============================================================================