fnf@fishpond.uucp (Fred Fish) (10/24/90)
Disks 381-390 are now available. Shipping to those who have preordered disks begins Thursday (10/25/90) and should be complete by the weekend. Note that you can get a copy of the catalog (2 disks) of the complete library contents by sending either Two new blank disks with no labels (you'll get back different disks because yours will just go into the "bulk blank disk pool") and $1 to cover postage and mailer or $3 for disks, postage, and mailer to: Fred Fish Catalog Disk Requests 1835 East Belmont Drive Tempe, Arizona 85284 USA Thanks to all who submitted new and interesting material. If you submitted something in the past and it has not yet appeared in the library, please feel free to resubmit it, particularly if it was several months ago. I sometimes hesitate to include material submitted more than about six months ago because of some vague feeling that as soon as I include version 1.01 submitted many months ago, I'll see version 5.23 posted on usenet. For those wishing to submit material for possible inclusion in the library, here are a few simple guidelines that will make my job of organizing the material MUCH easier and GREATLY increase your chances of having the material accepted for inclusion: 1. Don't submit bootable disks or disks with any other sort of proprietary material included, since I then have to go examine each file to decide if it is distributable or not, and if not, what effect removing it might have. 2. Organize the distribution in a manner similar to my disks. I.E, place all files related to a particular submission under a single directory on the disk. If there is more than one submission per disk, it's ok to to place each submission in it's own directory. 3. Try to write a simple entry for my "Contents" listing that summarizes your submission. It should be about 3-10 lines, and include the current version number, the version and disk number of the most recent version (if any) that was last included in the library, whether or not source is included, and an "Author" list. 4. Ensure that your submission will run correctly from it's subdirectory and if necessary, supply a script runnable from workbench (via :c/xicon) that makes all necessary assigns, copies fonts and libraries, etc. Thanks!!! ====================================================================== CONTENTS OF DISK 381 -------------------- SKsh A ksh-like shell for the Amiga. Some of its features include command substitution, shell functions with parameters, aliases, local variables, local functions, local aliases, powerful control structures and tests, emacs style line editing and history functions, I/O redirection, pipes, large variety of built-in commands, Unix style wildcards, Unix style filename conventions, filename completion, and coexistence with scripts from other shells. Very well documented. Version 1.6, an update to version 1.5 on disk 370. Includes several important bug fixes and a few minor new features such as command line cut and paste. Binary only. Author: Steve Koren CONTENTS OF DISK 382 -------------------- CrossDOS A "tryware" version of a mountable MS-DOS file system for the Amiga. This is a software product that allows you to read and write MS-DOS/PC-DOS and Atari ST formatted disks (Version 2.0 or higher) directly from AmigaDOS. This tryware version is a "readonly" version, which does not allow any writes to the disk. A fully functional version is available for a very reasonable price from CONSULTRON. This is version 4.00b, an update to version 3.05b on disk 252. Binary only. Author: CONSULTRON, Leonard Poma Msh An Amiga file system handler that handles MS-DOS formatted diskettes. Version "1.30" (Release 1 patch 3). You can use files on such disks in almost exactly the same way as you use files on native AmigaDOS disks. This is a fully functional, read/write version, that supports 8, 9, or 10 sector disks of 80 tracks, and should also work on 40 track drives and hard disks with 12 or 16 bit FAT of any dimension the FAT allows. Update to version "1.5" (Release 1) on disk 327. Includes source. Author: Olaf Seibert CONTENTS OF DISK 383 -------------------- LHArc An archive program like Arc and Zoo, with a heavy emphasis maximum compression for minimum archive size, using LZHUF compression. This is version 1.21, an update to version 1.10 on disk 312. Binary only. Author: Paolo Zibetti LibraryKiller A small utility that allows you to remove libraries that aren't used any more. Version 1.0, includes source in assembly. Author: Roger Fischlin MandelMountains A program that renders three-dimensional images of blowups of the Mandelbrot set. Includes several example images. This is version 2.1, an update to version 2.0 on disk 354. The most significant enhancement for this version is that is is two to three times faster due to inclusion of a specially tuned fixed point arithmetic package. Shareware, binary only. Author: Mathias Ortmann Pcopy An intuition based disk copier for AmigaDOS disks featuring high speed diskcopy with write verify, data recovery from damaged tracks, full multitasking compatibility, and a user friendly interface. This is version 2.11, an update to version 2.0 on disk 243, with new data recovery routines and some minor bug fixes. Binary only. Author: Dirk Reisig CONTENTS OF DISK 384 -------------------- Contact Demo version of a "pop-up" program for managing personal contacts. Allows you to keep a name and address list along with phone numbers and comments. Can print mailing labels with a couple of mouse clicks (supports PostScript printers). Names and address can be "clipped" into other programs such as word processors, and Contact can even dial your modem for you. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Craig Fisher, CMF Software Elements Very nice interactive display of the the Periodic Table of Elements. Includes general row and column information, plus a test mode where the program asks specific questions about the selected element or row/column. This is version 2.3, an update to version 2.0 on disk 368. Binary only, shareware. Author: Paul Thomas Miller NorthC A freely redistributable programming package containing all the programs required for developing in C. Based on the Sozobon Ltd C compiler, Charlie Gibb's assembler, the Software Distillery's linker, and portions from other sources. Steve has pulled everything together and added some enhancements in the process. This is version 1.2, an update to version 1.1 on disk 353. Changes include extra examples, many bug fixes, further documentation and some improvements. The environment is supplied compressed and unpacks to two disks. Partial source is included. Author: Steve Hawtin, Charlie Gibbs, Sozobon Ltd, The Software Distilary and many others. CONTENTS OF DISK 385 -------------------- MortCalc Yet another loan calculator, but this one was written with accuracy in mind. The monthly payments times the number of months should balance the total principal plus interest, to the cent. Version 2.5, freeware, source included. Author: Michel Laliberte XLispStat A statistical program based on David Betz' XLisp. It does some of the most advanced dynamic statistical graphics, included brushing, linking, and 3D rotations. Menus and requestors can be created dynamically with simple lisp commands, and treated as lisp objects, so that the program could be used for many other non- statistical purposes, such as interactive expert systems. XLisp-Stat has an ARexx port so that an editor may be used to prepare lisp programs and send them directly to XLisp-Stat to be executed. Commands, as character strings, may also be sent from XLisp-Stat with the lisp command, "arexx". All graphics produced may be saved to files in IFF format. This version of XLisp-Stat (v.2.1, release 1) has been ported to the Amiga by James Lindsey, from the Mac version supplied by Luke Tierney. Requires a numerical coprocessor (M68881/M68882) and an M68020/M68030 processor. This disk contains the executables, manual, and lisp files. The sources can be found on disk 386. Author: David Betz, Luke Tierney, James Lindsey CONTENTS OF DISK 386 -------------------- Statpack Demo version of a statistics and data manipulation program. Version 3.2, binary only. Author: James Lindsey XLispStat A statistical program based on David Betz' XLisp. It does some of the most advanced dynamic statistical graphics, included brushing, linking, and 3D rotations. Menus and requestors can be created dynamically with simple lisp commands, and treated as lisp objects, so that the program could be used for many other non- statistical purposes, such as interactive expert systems. XLisp-Stat has an ARexx port so that an editor may be used to prepare lisp programs and send them directly to XLisp-Stat to be executed. Commands, as character strings, may also be sent from XLisp-Stat with the lisp command, "arexx". All graphics produced may be saved to files in IFF format. This version of XLisp-Stat (v.2.1, release 1) has been ported to the Amiga by James Lindsey, from the Mac version supplied by Luke Tierney. Requires a numerical coprocessor (M68881/M68882) and an M68020/M68030 processor. This disk contains the sources. The executables, manual, and lisp files can be found on disk 385. Author: David Betz, Luke Tierney, James Lindsey CONTENTS OF DISK 387 -------------------- BlitterSand An interesting cellular automata program that gets its roots from a "sandpile". Intriguing to watch. Includes assembly source. Author: Mike Creutz ExtFuncProc External Function Process. Allows execution of any library function from simple tasks even if these functions require a process environment. For experienced programmers only because there isn't any documentation written yet but only an example. ExtFuncProc is used by GMC. It runs under KS 2.0. Binary only. Author: Goetz Mueller GMC A console handler with command line editing and function key support. GMC provides extended command line editing, function key assignment in four levels, extended command line history, online help for functions in the handler, and an iconify function. This is version 9.2, an update to version 4.0 on disk 291, with many new features, including an output buffer (dump to printer and window), filename completer, script function, undo function, prompt beeper, pathname in window title, close gadget for KS 2.0, etc. Shareware, binary only. Author: Goetz Mueller H2I Translates C include files into assembler include files. Useful for programmers that use both C and assembler code in the same program. Helps to keep the structure definitions consistent. Version 1.1, shareware, binary only. Author: Goetz Mueller MandAnim A Mandelbrot Animation program that allows you to easily generate series of lo-res/16-color pictures. Features full mouse and/or keyboard operation, zooms, auto-save, high (cheat) speed, iconization, etc. The generated pictures all remember their positions and settings so they can be re-loaded. Version 1.1, binary only. Author: Ekke Verheul. MandelBlitz Very fast Mandelbrot plotter with lots of handy functions such as color cycling, zoom, special palette control, file requestors and more. Version 1.0, binary only Author: Nico Frangois Menu A fast-access menu system configurable via a script file that allows the user run selected programs. Version 2.0, binary only. Author: Stefan Mvrnhag NTSC-PAL Two programs that give A500/A2000 owners with the new ECS 1Mb Agnus installed the ability to boot into either a NTSC or PAL environment. *Very* useful for both NTSC and PAL owners alike. Version 1.1, includes assembly source. Author: Nico Frangois Wreq Replace "pop-up" requestors with line-oriented requesters (similar to those found in an MS-DOS environment) that can be easily handled from the keyboard. If there is no interactive console for the process, the requester won't appear. Includes assembly source. Author: Tuomo Mickelsson CONTENTS OF DISK 388 -------------------- Calc A shell style, command-line calculator. Calc does not have a fancy keypad display as many other calculator programs do. Instead, it is capable of taking its input from a file, the keyboard, or a command line and output- ting its results to a file or the screen. It can also apply a single equation to all of the values stored in a file (or files). It handles all common mathematical expressions, can optionally predefine physical constants and store variables. Version 2.0, binary only. Author: Bill Dimm DClock A "Dumb Clock" utility that displays the date and time in the Workbench screen title bar. This is version 1.27, an update version 1.12 disk number 325. Many more useful enhancements/bug fixes, including an ARexx interface. Includes source. Author: Olaf Barthel DIEd A full-screen ANSI editor including an animation utility. Provides PAL and NTSC compatibility. Many useful features such as horizontal and vertical block cut/pasting operations, line/block/screen centering, save defaults and more. Version 2.4, binary only. Author: P-E Raue Free Display how much free space (bytes or blocks) you have on any or all of your mounted disk volumes. Runs from CLI only. Based on "Free" by Tom Smythe on Fish Disk 66, but totally rewritten and enhanced. Version 1.01, includes source. Author: Daniel Jay Barrett KeyMapEd Allows you to change the KeyMaps used with SetMap. This is a full featured editor providing support for normal, string and dead keys. The keyboard represented is from an A3000/A2000/A500 but it is fully compatible with A1000 keyboards. This is version 1.1i, an update to version 1.02 on disk number 193, binary only. Author: Tim Friest SnoopDos A utility for monitoring AmigaDOS calls. In particular, it allows you to see what libraries, devices, fonts, environment variables or startup files a program is looking for. Very useful when you're trying to install a new application. Version 1.0, includes source in C. Author: Eddy Carroll CONTENTS OF DISK 389 -------------------- Kick Another screen hack, specifically for A500/A2000 owners. I don't want to spoil any surprises but reportedly causes some machines to crash. Binary only. Author: Tony Solomon, Paul Fortin Plot A 3-D function plotting program with provisions for coordinate translation on both axes, parametric equations, and standardized notation of the pow function (x^y -- which now works as specified.). This is version 5.1, an update to version 4.1 on disk 175, with some enhancements and bug fixes. Binary only. Author: Terry Gintz PolySys An extended version of the 0L-system (string rewriting) described in The Science of Fractal Images (edited by Pietgen and Saupe). The basic algorithm has been expanded and modified extensively, and looping commands similiar to those found in other Turtle graphics systems (Logo, etc) have been added. Support for three-dimensional drawing, with perspective, is also included. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Terry Gintz Retab Useful command-line "tab-to-space" and "space-to-tab" expansion utility. Several command-line options to specify size/settings and the ability to protect material enclosed by delimiters (quotes, brackets, carats, etc.) from expansion. Version 1.03, binary only. Author: Paul Klink ZPlot Graphs formulas based on 4-D complex number planes. ZPlot currently supports the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, and Phoenix curves, with over 500 mapping variations. The math functions supported include sin(z), sinh(z), z^z, e^z, z^n, sqrt(z), cos(z), cosh(z), tan(z), tanh(z), log(z), ln(z) and n^z. Version 1.3d, binary only Author: Terry Gintz CONTENTS OF DISK 390 -------------------- Flip Allows you to quickly and easily switch between various screens. Can close screens, pull them up, and activate windows. Has the unique feature of sorting screens in a way that all title bars are visible at one time. This is version 2.0, binary only. Author: Lars Eggert ReadmeMaster A nifty little database for finding those programs that you know exist somewhere (???) in the AmigaLibDisk library. Maintains a keyword dictionary of the Contents descriptions that allows searching by disk number, program title, author's name, or some other descriptive word. Currently supports disks 1-360, an update to the version on disk number 163. Binary only. Author: Harold Morash SetClock A utility to set or read the hardware clock on a Spirit Technology memory expansion board. Works in a manner similar to the SetClock utility which is supplied by Commodore with Amigas that have hardware clocks as standard equipment. Includes source in PCQPascal and assembler. Author: Willi Kusche SM Small utility to center the display. Recoded version of "ScreenShift" by Anson Mah (Disk 88), only half the size. Includes source. Author: Anson Mah, Lattice V5.04 recoding by Oliver Wagner ====================================================================== -Fred -- # Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA # 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!mcdphx!fishpond!fnf