fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (02/15/90)
Disks 311-320 are now available. Shipping to those who have preordered
disks begins tomorrow (2/15) 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 311
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CRobots A game based on computer programming. Unlike arcade type
games which require human input controlling some object,
all strategy in CRobots is condensed into a C language
program that you design and write, to control a robot
whose mission is to seek out, track, and destroy other
robots, each running different programs. All robots are
equally equipped, and up to four may compete at once.
Version 2.1w, binary only, source available from author.
Author: Tom Poindexter, Amiga version by David Wright
Echo Echo is a replacement for the AmigaDOS or ARP echo command.
This version provides easy color setting or positioning for
all echo'ed strings. Completely compatible with the AmigaDOS
and ARP echo commands, all your old batch files should work
correctly. Version 1.08c, includes source.
Author: George Kerber (based on echo by Garry Glendown)
Etime Etime will display the elapsed time between events. This is
useful in scripts to display the elapsed time between the
beginning and ending. Many options including color and time
displayed as hh:mm:ss or total seconds. Version 1.05c,
includes source.
Author: George Kerber
Fortune Fortune will ramdomly display a 'fortune' selected from the
fortunes file (supplied). The 'fortunes' file is easily
modified or added to by the user, using any text editor.
Fortune provides color and speech by user option.
Version 2.04c, includes source.
Author: George Kerber
Incr Incr will easily allow the user to keep a total count of
any event run from a batch file. Incr will take a number
from a file, increment it by one and display the result.
The new count is written back to the file. Version 1.04b,
includes source.
Author: George Kerber
PKAZip The PKWare ZIP tool for the Amiga. Provides functions
to create, examine, extract, test, modify, display, and
print files which are in the ZIP compressed format
Uses a full Intuition interface with no CLI support.
Version 01.00, binary only.
Author: PKWARE Inc, Amiga version by Dennis Hoffman
Udate Udate is a replacement for the AmigaDOS date command,
containing many options similiar to the UNIX date command.
Udate will allow you to set the date and time via prompts
or directly from the command line, will display any part
of the date or time using the options in any color desired,
and will also make an automatic adjustment of your system
clock for Daylight Savings Time so your computer will be
one less clock you will ever have to set twice a year for
DST. Version 1.15c, includes source.
Author: George Kerber
CONTENTS OF DISK 312
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ChinaChallenge A game similar to Shanghai or Mahjong. The goal is to
remove all parts of the pile, the so called Dragon, step
by step. This dragon is composed of 120 different game
pieces. You can always find four pieces displaying the
same picture or chinese symbols. Binary only.
Author: Dirk Hoffmann
LHArc An archive program like Arc and Zoo, with a heavy emphasis
maximum compression for minimum archive size, using LZHUF
compression. This is version 1.10, an update to version 1.0
on disk 289. Changes include 20-50% faster compression,
17% faster decompression, file sorting, more efficient use
of memory, a new progress indicator display, and some bug
fixes. Binary only.
Author: Paolo Zibetti
Moonbase You must guide a lunar lander to ferry cargo from an
orbiting space station to bases on the surface of the moon.
You get cargo and fuel for the lander by docking with the
space station. The goal is to complete all the assigned
cargo deliveries, and to destroy as few landers as possible
in doing so. Binary only.
Author: Jim Barber
TrackSalve A trackdisk patch which removes all known bugs and patches
the trackdisk task to allow various enhancements, such as
reading good sectors from partially bad tracks, write
verification, write protect simulation, and turning off
clicking. Version 1.0, includes source in C and assembler.
Author: Dirk Reisig
CONTENTS OF DISK 313
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UUCP An implementation of uucp for the Amiga, including mail
and news. This is Matt's version for the Amiga, based
on William Loftus's Amiga UUCP 0.40 release with news
code from his 0.60 release, and months of work by Matt
to make fixes and add enhancements. This is version
1.03D, an update to version 1.00 on disk 310. Includes
source.
Author: Various, major enhancements by Matt Dillon
CONTENTS OF DISK 314
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A68k A 68000 assembler originally written in Modula-2 in
1985 and converted to C by Charlie Gibb in 1987. Has
been converted to accept metacomco-compatible assembler
source code and to generate Amiga objects. Includes source.
This is version 2.61, an update to the version on disk 186.
Author: Brian Anderson; C translation and Amiga work
done by Charlie Gibb
Zc A full K&R C compiler based on a port of the Atari ST
version of the Sozobon-C compiler. Includes the C compiler
main pass written by Johann Ruegg with fixes and enhancements
by Joe Montgomery and Jeff Lydiatt, a cc front end written
by Fred Fish with enhancements by Jeff Lydiatt and Ralph
Babel, an optimizer written by Tony Andrews, an assembler
written by Brian Anderson and Charlie Gibb, a linker written
by the Software Distillery, generic include files, and a C
runtime library written by Dale Schumacher and ported by
Jeff Lydiatt. This is version 1.01, an update to disks 171
and 193.
Author: Various, see documentation.
CONTENTS OF DISK 315
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AmigaFox A text processor with graphics capabilities. Version
1.00, binary only.
Author: Michael Wust
Drawmap A program for drawing representations of the Earth's
surface. Can generate flat maps, mercator maps, globe
views and orbital views. This is version 2.0, an update
to version 1.0 on disk 229. Enhancements include
dropshadows, user text entry and placement, improved
event processing and better looking mouse pointers.
Includes source.
Author: Bryan Brown
Surf Generates bezier surfaces of revolution. Will produce some
amazing pictures of wineglasses, doorknobs, or other objects
one could turn on a lathe. Includes the capacity to map IFF
image files onto any surface that it can draw. This is
version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 170. Changes
include support for data file formats that can be translated
to input files for various 3D modeling programs, an increase
in the number of grey shades available, and the capability of
modifying the endpoints of segments. Source included.
Author: Eric Davies
CONTENTS OF DISK 316
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Formulae An implementation of basic propositional formulae
manipulation routines in Scheme (Scheme is available on
disk 149). Uses only essential procedures so it should
run under any Scheme. Includes source in Scheme.
Author: Gauthier Groult and Bertrand Lecun
Iff2C Yet another IFF ILBM to C converter. Two unique features
are the ability to generate comments representing the
actual image, and the planepick computation. This is
version 0.30 and includes source.
Author: Gauthier Groult and Jean Michel Forgeas
IntuiSup A shared library which implements extensions to the Amiga
operating system and graphical environment. Includes
several example programs that make use of the library,
including building a nifty file requester from the
library's user interface routines. Version 1.15, binary
only. Source available from author.
Author: Gauthier Groult
Life Another version of Tomas's Life game. Includes a torus
option, an option to perform calculations with the processor
rather than the blitter, and more. This is version 5.0, an
update to the version on disk 306, and is about 15% faster.
Includes source.
Author: Tomas Rokicki
SmartIcon This shareware program, submitted by the author, is an
Intuition objects iconifier. Version 2.0 is still limited
to iconifying windows, which is still very handy. It adds
a new "iconify gadget" to each window, that when clicked
on, iconifies the window into an icon in the ram: disk.
This is version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 214.
Includes source.
Author: Gauthier Groult
Vectors A simple program to test how fast the Amiga can draw lines.
Includes two versions, 1.0 and 1.1, each of which performs
tests slightly differently. Includes source.
Author: Gauthier Groult and Jean Michel Forgeas
CONTENTS OF DISK 317
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StillStore A program designed for freelance, corporate, and broadcast
television. It loads and displays IFF images of any
resolution interchangeably from a list file or as inputted
directly (I.E. random access). The user may easily skip
forward or backward one or more pictures in the list. A
"generic" display is always just a few seconds away. The
program can be used "on air" with no concern that a pull
down menu will suddenly appear in the viewable area. It
also provides for a precise cue for changing windows or
screens. While the main purpose is to load "news windows"
of 1/4 screen size, StillStore can also handle full-sized
and overscanned images. Also includes slide show modes and
a screen positioning feature. Stillstore is written in the
Director language from the Right Answers Group. Version 1.2,
binary only, source available from authors.
Author: R. J. (Dick) Bourne and Richard Murray
Uniq A text processor which compacts repeated adjacent lines.
Intended to be used with a sorted file to print unique
lines, or repeated lines. Behaviour and options like UNIX
version. Version 1.1, includes source.
Author: John Woods, Amiga port by Gary Duncan
CONTENTS OF DISK 318
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CNewsBin This is part 1 of a C News distribution for the Amiga.
This part includes all the binary and text files necessary
to set up and run C News. Part 2 is available on disk 319
and contains the source.
Author: Various, Amiga port by Frank Edwards
Lhwarp A program which will read tracks directly from your floppy
disk, compress them using adaptive huffman encoding, and
output them to a file. The resulting file can be used by
lhwarp to reconstruct an image of the original disk. This
is version 1.21, an update to version 1.20 on disk 305.
Binary only.
Author: Jonathan Forbes
PKAZip The PKWare ZIP tool for the Amiga. Provides functions
to create, examine, extract, test, modify, display, and
print files which are in the ZIP compressed format
Uses a full Intuition interface with no CLI support.
This is version 1.01, an update to version 1.00 on
disk 311. Binary only.
Author: PKWARE Inc, Amiga version by Dennis Hoffman
WaveMaker WaveMaker is intended to give beginning music and physics
students a "hands on" feel for how complex waves are made
by adding a harmonic series of sine waves. A fundamental
and up to seven harmonics are available. The resulting
waveform can be displayed on the screen or played on the
audio device using the keyboard like a piano. A game mode
is also provided. Version 1.1, includes source.
Author: Thomas Meyer
Xoper Very comprehensive program to monitor and control system
activity. Monitor cpu, memory usage, ports, interrupts,
devices. Close windows, screens, show loaded fonts or last
Guru code number. Clean up memory, flush unused libraries,
devices, fonts. etc. and a whole bunch more! Spawns its own
process. A very handy background task to have loaded.
This is version 2.2, an update to version 2.0 on disk 274.
Changes include mostly bug fixes and some minor enhancements.
Assembly source included.
Author: Werner Gunther
CONTENTS OF DISK 319
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AHDM Amiga Hard Disk Menu. When placed in your startup sequence,
AHDM offers a ten page menu, each page having up to ten
possible actions. By double clicking on an action, that
action will execute any legal AmigaDOS command, program,
or script file. This allows you to interactively select
which programs you wish to start or packages to install
at boot time. Version 1.1a, binary only, demo version
that only supports 2 pages of actions.
Author: Scott Meek
CNewsSrc This is part 2 of a C News distribution for the Amiga.
This part includes all the source for C News and the UUPC
package that it uses. Part 1 is available on disk 318
and includes all the binary and text files necessary to
set up and run C News on the Amiga.
Author: Various, Amiga port by Frank Edwards
Mathtrans A very small library which replaces the mathtrans.library
distributed by Commodore-Amiga, for those who own an
MC68881/82 floating point unit. Calculation speed of
some functions is increased up to 15 times. Version 1.1,
includes source.
Author: Heiner Huckstadt
CONTENTS OF DISK 320
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AmigaTrek A continuation of Mike's Amiga Trek stories, which are
parodies of the Star Trek series, with an Amiga flavor.
Earlier stories are on disk 278.
Author: Mike Smithwick
AmiOmega Amiga port of the Omega game. Omega is similar to hack
or rogue, but is much more complex. There is a city,
several towns, a wilderness, lots of dungeons, a multitude
of monsters, lots of spells, magic items, etc. There are
several quests to complete. All in all, it is an excellent
game. Requires 1Mb or more of memory. Amiga version 1.0,
binary only.
Author: Laurence Brothers, Amiga port by Rick Golembiewski
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That's it for another few weeks...
-Fred
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