fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (03/06/90)
Disks 321-330 are now available. Shipping to those who have preordered
disks begins tomorrow (3/7) and should be complete by this 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 for postage and a 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:
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:IconX) that makes all
necessary assigns, copies fonts and libraries, etc.
Thanks!!!
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CONTENTS OF DISK 321
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DezHexBin An intuition based programmers tool to convert integers
between decimal, hexadecimal, and binary. Very small.
Version 1.1, includes source in assembly code.
Author: Michael Djavidan
IconJ IconJ significantly enhances the IconX program, and is
100% compatible. It allows scripts to be executed by
double-clicking the script's icon. Abilities include
joining the script with the icon file itself, or calling
it from any directory or disk, executing either AmigaDOS
or ARexx scripts, outputing to any file or device, running
interactive scripts and scripts that contain conditionals,
and creating relative console windows. Includes a utility
called AtatJ which attaches or detaches a script to/from
an icon file. Version 1.0, includes source in JForth.
Author: Rich Franzen
Ifs An Iterated Function System viewer which graphically
displays iterated function systems and allows the user
to interactively create the affine functions that define
such systems. An IFS can represent complex pictures very
compactly. Simple IFSs can describe an infinite number of
different and interesting fractal displays. Includes a
number of displays that the author and others have
discovered. Version 1.5, includes source in C.
Author: Glen Fullmer
Planets Some routines ported to the Amiga by Bob Leivian, that
compute the location of the planets (as viewed from a
specific point on the earth) and the phase of the moon,
for an arbitrary date and time. Includes source.
Author: Keith Brandt VIII, Jim Cobb, F. T. Mendenhall,
Alan Paeth, Petri Launiainen, Bob Leivian
Turtle A shared library of "turtle" functions for drawing in a
RastPort. Includes source in assembly and C.
Author: Thomas Albers
UnixDirs A program which intercepts calls to dos.library to add
the UNIX style '.' and '..' syntax for current and parent
directories, respectively, to file and path names. I.E.,
you can refer to files in the current directory as './foo'
and files in the parent directory as '../foo', or any
combination of the two. Includes source in assembly.
Author: Murray Bennett and Mark Cyster
Whereis Another "find-that-file" utility. Whereis searches on your
(hard-)disk for a file(name) and displays the path to that
file. Some features are case independent search, wildcards,
interactive mode (cd implemented), can display size and date
of files, always abortable, can archive filenames for "ZOO"
(like fnams/recurdir), and no recursive procedures. Includes
source in C. Version 1.18 (2-15-90).
Author: Roland Bless
CONTENTS OF DISK 322
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Gwin This is version 1.0 of GWIN. GWIN or Graphics WINdow is
an integrated collection of graphics routines callable
from C. These routines make it easy to create sophisticated
graphics programs in the C environment. One-line calls give
you a custom screen (ten types available), menu items,
requestors, text, circles, polygons, etc. GWIN is a
two-dimensional floating point graphics system with
conversion between world and screen coordinates. GWIN
includes built-in clipping that may be turned off for
speed. Use of color and XOR operations are greatly
simplified. Many examples of the use of GWIN are
included in an examples directory. Examples include
line/bar graph program, geographic mapping program,
SPICE 2G.6 graphics post-processor, and others. Extensive
documentation is included.
Author: Howard C. Anderson.
CONTENTS OF DISK 323
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ColorTools Three tools that manipulate the colors of your screen.
Binary only.
Author: Dieter Bruns
CZEd A complete midi package for use with all Casio CZ
synthesizers. Contains a full fledged sound editor, a
split simulator for CZ-101/1000/230S, a bank loader and
a memory dump for CZ-1. This is a formerly commercial
package now released as shareware. Binary only.
Author: Oliver Wagner
LinkSound Two examples of functions that you can link with your
own code to produce a short musical "beep" or a sound
that is similar to striking a drum. Includes source.
Author: Dieter Bruns
Show A very versatile program to display IFF ILBM files.
Features realtime unpacking scroll, smart analysis of any
IFF file, total control over display modes, simple
slideshow processing, pattern matching, and a dozen other
options. Only 9K. Version 2.0, binary only.
Author: Sebastiano Vigna
CONTENTS OF DISK 324
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ANSIEd Demo version of an ANSI screen file editor. It allows
you to easily create and modify a screen of ANSI-style
text/graphics on the Amiga. The standard ANSI color set
(red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white) and text
styles (plain, boldface, underlined, italic) are provided,
along with some simple editing and drawing functions.
This demo version has the save features disabled. This is
version 1.3.0, an update to version 1.2.0aD on disk 221.
Binary only.
Author: Greg Epley
DiskFree An small iconifiable intuition program that shows the
amount of free space available on all mounted disk
devices, both numerically and graphically. Version 1.0,
shareware, binary only.
Author: Dieter Kuntz
DPFFT An enhanced version of DPlot from disk 290. DPlot is
a simple display program for experimental data, with the
goals of supporting paging through lots of data and
providing comfortable scaling and presentation. The
enhancements for DPFFT include addition of a Fast Fourier
Transform (FFT), display of a customized amplitude and
phase spectrum, a prewhitening capability, and a Welch
window for spectral smoothing. This is version 2.1,
binary only.
Author: A. A. Walma
Mailchk A mail client for Dnet, which will inform you of any new
mail and will give the choice of viewing, deleting, or
printing a message. Version 2.01, includes source.
Author: Stephane Laroche
Tetris A PD clone of the popular Tetris type games. Written
completely in assembly code. Very fast and responsive.
Includes full source.
Author: Andy Hook
CONTENTS OF DISK 325
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Batchman A program that allows the user to execute CLI programs
and batch files simply by clicking on a gadget. It can
be used as the center of a turnkey system, where the
user simply clicks on gadgets to launch applications.
Version 1.1, includes source in Modula-II.
Author: Michal Todorovic
DClock A "Dumb Clock" utility that displays the date and time
in the Workbench screen title bar. Uses only about 2
percent of the CPU time and about 10Kb of memory. Also
has an alarm clock feature and audible beep for programs
that call DisplayBeep. This is version 1.12, an update
to version 1.5 on disk 298, with many enhancements and a
few bug fixes. Includes source.
Author: Olaf Barthel
DoRevision This program implements easy creation of source code
revision headers (very similar to the log headers to
be found at the top of the Amiga 'C' include files).
Version 1.0, includes source.
Author: Olaf Barthel
FAM A File Access Manager for the Amiga that allows multiple
ARexx programs to access a buffered version of a directory
in a consistent and serialized manner. It buffers all the
names, dates, sizes and so on, for quick access. This is
version 1.1 and includes source.
Author: Darren New
FarPrint Debugging functions for programs which don't have any
links to their environment. FarPrint consists of two
major parts; a harbour process open to receive and
distribute messages and requests, and a set of C functions
to be linked into any program wishing to communicate with
the FarPrint main process. This is version 1.5, an update
to version 1.3 on disk 281, and adds a shared library as
well as linker libraries for both Lattice and Aztec C.
Includes source.
Author: Olaf Barthel
KeyMacro A keyboard macro program, configurable via a text file,
that also supports hotkey program execution. You can map
up to eight functions to each key, including keys such as
cursor keys, the return key, etc. Version 1.0, includes
source.
Author: Olaf Barthel
LifeCycles Some sort of biorhythm type program. No docs included.
Version 2.0, binary only.
Author: Michal Todorovic
MemGuard MemGuard is a MemWatch-like program which has been
rewritten in assembly language for maximum speed and
efficiency. Unlike MemWatch MemGuard does not run as
Task in a dummy loop but rather as a low-level interrupt
routine which is capable of trapping memory thrashing even
before exec might know of it and even while task switching
is forbidden. In fact the low-memory area is checked each
frame. Virtually no processing time is wasted, the
interrupt routine does the check in about half a raster
scan line's time. This program was contributed by Ralf
Thanner, who spent three weeks programming & debugging it.
In this program Ralf uses some very delicate tricks to
let his interrupt routine work with Intuition alerts.
Version III, binary only.
Author: Ralf Thanner
RexxHostLib This is a shared library package to simplify the ARexx
host creation/management procedure. Rexx-message parsing
is also included making it possible to control ARexx from
programs such as AmigaBASIC (can you imagine AmigaBASIC
controlling AmigaTeX?). Includes source.
Author: Olaf Barthel
CONTENTS OF DISK 326
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CBDump This is a CLI utility for those who are working with the
Amiga's clipboard device. It's sole purpose in life is
to dump the current contents of the clipboard to stdout
or by redirection to a pipe or a file. Useful for
testing and interfacing with programs that do not support
the clipboard. Source included.
Author: Stephen Vermeulen.
DispMod One of the series of ROBBS (Rexx Object Building Block
System) modules by Larry Phillips. DispMod is a display
module that only understands ARexx messages. It allows,
under program control, the display of text and the
acceptance of keyboard data. Version 0.11, includes
source.
Author: Larry Phillips
Itb This program converts an icon to an IFF picture (brush)
file. It handles both single and alternate image (animated)
icons. This is version 1.10 which adds a colour palette to
the previous version from disk 85. Version 1.10, binary
only.
Author: Stephen Vermeulen.
MicroTerm A very small, very simple, almost brain-dead terminal
program. Primarily useful as an example of how to talk to
the console and serial devices. Version 0.1, includes
source.
Author: Stephen Vermeulen.
NeuronalNets Some programs for playing with Neuronal Nets using
Hopfield and Hamming algorithms. Binary only.
Author: Uwe Schaefer
PopScreen A small hack to pop a hidden screen to the front from the
CLI. This was written to allow the author to use VLTjr
with other programs that also use custom screens. Source
included.
Author: Stephen Vermeulen.
Snap A tool for clipping text or graphics from the screen,
using the clipboard device. Snap finds out character
coordinates automatically, handles different fonts, keymaps,
accented characters, and more. Version 1.4, an update
to version 1.3 on disk 274. Includes source.
Author: Mikael Karlsson
VSnap This is an enhanced version of Snap 1.3, submitted by
Steve Vermeulen, which adds the ability to save clipped
graphics as IFF FORM ILBM's to the clipboard, so they can
be imported to other programs that understand IFF and the
clipboard. I have dubbed it VSnap, since the official
1.4 Snap is also included on this disk. Includes source.
Author: Mikael Karlsson, enhancements by Steve Vermeulen
CONTENTS OF DISK 327
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ARTM ARTM (Amiga Real Time Monitor) displays and controls
system activity such as tasks, windows, libraries, devices,
resources, ports, residents, interrupts, vectors, memory,
mounts, assigns, fonts and hardware. Includes both a PAL
and an NTSC version. This is version 1.0, an update to
version 0.9 on disk 277. Binary only.
Author: Dietmar Jansen and F. J. Mertens
MM An implementation of the game Mastermind. In this game
you must try to guess a color combination which the amiga
sets via a random generator. There are 6 colors which can
be set in any combination. Includes source.
Author: Dietmar Jansen
MRBackUp A hard disk backup utility that does a file by file copy
to standard AmigaDOS floppy disks. Includes an intuition
interface and file compression. This is version 3.4, an
update to version 3.3e on disk 279. Binary only.
Author: Mark Rinfret
Msh An Amiga file system handler that handles MSDOS formatted
diskettes. 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.
Includes source.
Author: Olaf Seibert
Softfont Converts portrait soft fonts for HP LaserJet compatible
laser printers to landscape format. Includes source.
Author: Thomas Lynch
CONTENTS OF DISK 328
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AnalytiCalc A full featured system for numerical analysis and
reporting. Includes a spreadsheet, graphics programs,
documents and facilities for performing many commonly
needed functions. Features include an 18000 by 18000
cell spreadsheet using virtual memory, random access
to other saved spreadsheet formulas or values, easy
save or merge of partial sheets, up to 400 windows on
screen, ability to drive any cell from external macros,
built in matrix algebra, random number generation,
date arithemetic, and much more. This is version
V24-01a, an update to version V23-2A on disk 176.
Binary only.
Author: Glenn Everhart
Hames Some miscellaneous programs from Chris Hames. DirWork
V1.01 is a fast, small, simple efficient DirUtility.
FSDirs V1.3 is a floppy accelerator program. VMK V27
is a small virus detector/killer that knows about 27
different viruses and can detect new ones. NoInfo V1.0
stops programs from producing ".info" files. Binaries
only.
Author: Chris Hames
RoadRoute A trip planner that takes a list of cities and a list
of known routes between cities, and generates the distance
and time required to reach your destination. This is an
update to version 1.0 on disk 251, with an expanded
datebase of cities and roads for New Mexico, Texas,
Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Louisiana,
Arkansas, Missouri, Colorado and Mississippi, added by
Fred Mayes and Gary Delzer. Includes source.
Author: Jim Butterfield, Fred Mayes, Gary Delzer
CONTENTS OF DISK 329
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CPU Two programs, one in C and one in assembler, which
check for CPU type. This version can detect 68000,
68010, 68020, and 68881 processors. Includes source.
Author: Ethan Dicks, based on WhatCPU by Dave Haynie
DiskSpeed A disk speed testing program specifically designed to
give the most accurate results of the true disk perform-
ance of the disk under test. Automatically updates and
maintains an ASCII database of disk results for tested
disks. This is version 3.1, an update to version 2.0 on
disk 288, with some source code cleanups and stress tests
for CPU and DMA. Includes source in C.
Author: Michael Sinz
Empire This is a complete rewrite, from the ground up, in
Draco, of Peter Langston's Empire game. Empire is
a multiplayer game of exploration, economics, war,
etc, which can last a couple of months. Can be
played either on the local keyboard or remotely
through a modem. This is version 1.33w, an update
to version 1.0 on disk 118, and includes many changes
and enhancements. Binary only.
Author: Chris Gray, David Wright, Peter Langston
FileSystems Displays AmigaDOS disk devices with information about
the head geometry, BufMemType, and the lower level
exec device. Includes source.
Author: Ethan Dicks
OnePlane Removes the highest number bitplane from the WorkBench
screen. Normally used to take Workbench screen from
2 bitplanes to 1 bitplane. This allows CON: style
devices to scroll text faster. Includes source.
Author: Ethan Dicks
CONTENTS OF DISK 330
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Mostra A very versatile program to display IFF ILBM files.
Features realtime unpacking scroll, smart analysis of any
IFF file, total control over display modes, simple
slideshow processing, pattern matching, and a dozen other
options. Only 14K. This is version 1.0, an upgrade to
the Show program on disk 323, and adds SHAM, double
buffering, faster decompression, color cycling, TeXdocs,
startup files for easy customizing, and complete WorkBench
support through ToolTypes and Style icons. Binary only.
Author: Sebastiano Vigna
Palette A tool which allows you to change another program's
custom screen colors. This is version 1.1, an update
to the version on disk 55. New features include checks
for WorkBench startups, checks for HAM, Half Brite, or
more than five bitplanes, and more graceful exits.
Includes source in assembly.
Author: Randy Jouett, CJ Fruge, Carolyn Scheppner,
Charlie Heath
Vt100 A vt100 emulator for the Amiga, which also supports
various file transfer protocols like kermit, xmodem,
ymodem, zmodem, etc, has an Arexx port, can use
custom external protocol modules, and more. This is
version 2.9a, an update to version 2.9 on disk 275.
Includes source.
Author: Dave Wecker, Tony Sumrall, Frank Anthes,
and Chuck Forsberg
XprKermit An Amiga shared library which provides Kermit file
transfer capability to any XPR-compatible communications
program. Supports version 2.0 of the XPR Protocol
specification. Version 1.5, includes source.
Author: Marco Papa, Stephen Walton
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