fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (01/22/90)
Disks 301-310 are now available. Shipping to those who have preordered
disks begins tomorrow (1/22) and should be complete by about midweek.
I will be leaving to do booth duty at UniForum, but my elves will be hard
at work. EST is sharing a booth with SoftScience Corp, so any Amiga fanatics
may be able to catch me there.
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 301
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Aquarium A program for searching through a special database
containing information about the contents of the
library, in order to find programs that match a
specified list of conditions. Includes a database
of disks 1-300, and a program to add the contents
of future disks to the database. Binary only.
Author: B Lennart Olsson
IffLib A ready-to-use library to perform various manipulations
on IFF files. Includes a sample IFF viewer and a utility
to save the front screen as an IFF file. This is version
16.1, an update to version 15.3 on disk 173, and includes
a couple of bug fixes and some new features. Binary only.
Author: Christian A. Weber
UeditUpdate This is a partial update to the 2.5d version of Uedit on
disk 286. It includes only the UES executable, which has
had patches d1 through d4 applied. Disk 286 is still needed
for a complete Uedit shareware distribution. Binary only.
Author: Rick Stiles
CONTENTS OF DISK 302
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Chop A program which uses a hotkey to chop a displayed screen
down to a temporary maximum of 4 planes in lo-res or 2
planes in hi-res, allowing the processor full speed access
to chip memory. Only the displayed screen is affected, the
program painting the screen continues to work with the full
color palette. Unchoping the screen puts everything back
to normal. Version 1.0, binary only.
Author: Nico Francois
DiskTalk A cute little program, like "muncho" on disk 137, which
plays digitized sound samples when you insert or remove a
floppy disk. Samples are saved as IFF sound files.
Version 1.0, binary only.
Author: Nico Francois
MiscUtils Some small sound and screen hacks. Includes source in C.
Author: Jorrit Tyberghein
PPMore Another "more" like utility. This one reads text files
that have been crunched with PowerPacker, thus saving space
at the slight expense of some time to uncrunch the text.
Version 1.3, binary only.
Author: Nico Francois
ProgUtils Some miscellaneous programming utilities and examples.
Includes source in assembly code.
Author: Jorrit Tyberghein
QuickHelp A utility that helps you make and display your own help
files for commands. Disk space usage is minimized by
using PowerPacker to crunch the help files. Version 1.2,
binary only.
Author: Jorrit Tyberghein
RollOn A "Soko-Ban" like shareware game, submitted by the author.
Includes both English and German versions, a level editor,
and digitized sounds. This is version 1.1, binary only.
Author: Tobias Eckert
Selector A program that helps you assemble programs on a boot disk
and start them in a user friendly way. Version 2.5,
binary only.
Author: Nico Francois
TurboMandel A fast mandelbrot program, written in a mix of C and
assembly language. You can select between using floating
point or integer calculation. Other features include a
full intuition interface, cycling capabilities, extensive
color control, a user definable iteration depth, fully
implemented zoom, a 3-D display mode, support for extra
halfbrite as well as interlace and hires, IFF load and
save, accuracy selections, and more. Version 1.0,
includes source in assembly and C.
Author: Marivoet Philip
CONTENTS OF DISK 303
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CPM A program to compute mandelbrots via the Continous
Potential Method, as described in the book "The Science
of Fractal Images" by H. O. Pietgen and D. Saupe. It is
used to make 3-dimensional pictures of the mandelbrot
set. This is a batch mode type program so several images
can be generated, one after the other, without any human
interaction. Includes source.
Author: Lars Clausen
DEM A program to compute mandelbrots via the Distance Estimator
Method, as described in the book "The Science of Fractal
Images" by H. O. Pietgen and D. Saupe. It is used to make
high resolution black-and-white images. This is a batch
mode type program so several images can be generated, one
after the other, without any human interaction. Includes
source.
Author: Lars Clausen
Demon This program implements the Demons cellular automaton as
described in the August, 1989, issue of Scientific American.
Using extremely simple rules it exhibits rather complex
behaviour. Includes source.
Author: Lars Clausen
FixIcons A program to scan through all files in a given volume or
directory, looking for project icons and changing their
default tools according to instructions given in a script
file. Version 1.2, includes source.
Author: Lars Clausen
IceFrac A fractal generator using the Diffusion Limited Aggregation
algorithm, as described in the book "The Beauty of Fractal
Images". This is version 2.1 and includes source.
Author: Lars Clausen
Rocket Another program in the long tradition of screen hacks.
This one zeroes in on your mouse pointer. Binary only.
Author: Lars Clausen
ScreenZap A utility that forcibly removes screens and windows from
your system. Useful to get rid of zombie screens or windows
that have been left around by aborted or buggy programs.
This is version 2.3 and includes source.
Author: Lars Clausen
SnowFall Another program in the long tradition of screen hacks for
the amiga. Watch the snow fall, get blown around by the
wind, and collect in realistic heaps. Includes source.
Author: Lars Clausen
CONTENTS OF DISK 304
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Circles A circles pattern generator, reminiscent of one of the
early Amiga demos. Version 1.1, includes source in C.
Author: Joel Swank
DocSplit A program to split the 1.3 autodoc files into individual
subroutine files. One file is created for each subroutine,
with the name created by appending ".doc" to the subroutine
name. Version 1.0, includes source.
Author: Joel Swank
Gears A program to calculate and display the gears of a multispeed
bicycle. Works for bicycles with 3 to 21 gear combinations.
Version 1.1, includes source.
Author: Joel Swank
IRA Allows easy calculation of future values of investment.
Enter the beginning investment value, annual percentage
rate, annual deposit amount, and number of years, to
compute the future value. Version 2.0, includes source.
Author: Joel Swank
Lines A color line pattern generator, adapted from Mackie.
Version 1.1, includes source.
Author: Joel Swank
Mean18 Two custom golf courses for Mean 18.
Author: Joel Swank
Multic Formats a single column of input into multiple side by
side columns. Includes source.
Author: Joel Swank
PageCnt Counts and displays the number of form feeds in a file,
along with the length of the longest line. Version 1.0,
includes source.
Author: Joel Swank
Skel A skeleton workbench application that makes writing
workbench programs easier. Provides routines for main,
initialization and termination, gadget and menu handling,
argument processing, help window, about requester, etc.
Version 1, includes source.
Author: Joel Swank
SuperRetLab Prints return address labels 3-up on single-wide 3.5 inch
by 7/16/ inch label stock. Can print up to 5 lines per
label. Version 1.1, includes source.
Author: Joel Swank
Verify Walks a directory hierarchy reading all files, reporting
any files that can't be entirely read. Version 1.2,
includes source.
Author: Joel Swank
CONTENTS OF DISK 305
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Fenster A program which can operate on windows owned by another
program, to close them, change their size, refresh gadgets,
move the window to the background, etc. This is version
2.1, an update to version 2.0 on disk 298. Includes source.
Author: Roger Fischlin
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 1.20, an update to version 1.03 on disk 295.
New features include much faster compression/decompression,
a 32-bit CRC, and two additional compression methods.
Binary only.
Author: Jonathan Forbes
Mackie A versatile cli/macro-key initiator based on POPCLI with
a unique method of "screen-blanking". I won't say more,
just try it! This is version 1.4, an update to version
1.3 from disk 267. Includes fixes to work with latest
WShell and the new 'never' keyword. Includes source.
Author: Tomas Rokicki
Obsess Obsess-O-Matic is a real-time puzzle game like Tetrix
where the object is to fit the falling pieces together
to form complete horizontal rows. Features such as burning,
exploding, and invisible pieces enhance game play. Other
features such as a puzzle piece editor are included in the
version available directly from the author. This is
version 1.0, shareware, binary only.
Author: Wayne Phillips
PrFont Prints a sample of each font from the fonts: directory.
Draws one line of each font on a custom hires screen,
which can be printed. Version 1.3, includes source.
Author: Joel Swank
Reversi Plays the classical reversi game on an 8 x 8 square field.
Version 2.0, an update to version 1.2 on disk 245. Includes
source in assembly language.
Author: Marc Fischlin
SpaceLog A database containing data for all of the man related space
missions of the United States and the Soviet Union that were
related to the development of manned space flight, from the
beginning of the space age to the present (368 missions),
listed in chronological order. Includes an AmigaBASIC
program to manipulate the database. Version 1.54, binary
only.
Author: Gene Heitman
CONTENTS OF DISK 306
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Life A new version of Tomas's Life game. This version includes
a new torus option, an option to perform calculations with
the processor rather than the blitter, and a couple of
other minor changes. This is an update to the version on
disk 131, includes source.
Author: Tomas Rokicki
RexxPlPlot A library of C functions useful for scientific plotting
on the Amiga. The library is Lattice C compatible.
Contour plotting, three dimensional plotting, axis
redefinition, log-log plotting and multiple subpages are
a few of Plplot's features. The plots can be displayed
on a monitor or sent to a graphics file for subsequent
printing. This is RexxPlPlot version 0.3, an update to
Plplot version 1.00 on disk 222. New features include
an ARexx interface, support for IFF output, support for
PostScript output, support for Preferences, some new
functions, bug fixes, and more. Includes source.
Author: Tony Richardson, Samuel Paolucci, Glenn Lewis
and Tomas Rokicki
Tree A very simple directory tree traversal program, written
primarily as an aid to creating zoo archives and disk
backups. Has options to exclude certain directories or
files with specific extensions. Includes source.
Author: Tomas Rokicki
CONTENTS OF DISK 307
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DissiDemos Demo of Midi Sample Wrench, which provides pro sample
editing features for owners of musical samplers.
Version 1.1, binary only.
Author: Jeff Glatt
FileIO A disk based shared library to make filename selection easy
for load and save routines using an Intuition interface.
This is version 1.5, and update to the version on disk 257.
Now includes the ability to select multiple filenames and
fixes some bugs in the 1.4 version. Binary only.
Author: R. J. Mical, Jeff Glatt and Jim Fiore
Samp Documentation and interface library for an IFF FORM
"SAMP", 16-bit sampled sound file format. This format
allows more than one waveform per octave, and the lengths
of different waveforms do not have to be factors of 2.
Includes a utility to convert 8SVX files to SAMP format.
Version 1.0, binary only.
Author: Jeff Glatt
CONTENTS OF DISK 308
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FReq A general purpose file requester, which was designed to be
easy to use and fast, with a built-in ARexx port allowing
you to use it from ARexx scripts or applications with ARexx
ports. Version 1.0, binary only.
Author: Jeffrey D. Wahaus
ScreenShare A library and support programs that enable applications
to open up windows on other applications' custom screens.
For example, your editor may want to open a window on
your terminal emulator's screen so you can compose a
message while still being able to see the contents of
the terminal's screen. Both applications must cooperate
for the screen sharing to work. This is version 1.21,
an update to version 1.2 on disk 246. Includes source
for interface portions.
Author: Willy Langeveld
StarBlanker A screen blanker that replaces your display with a randomly
chosen animated starfield. Version 1.00, includes source
in Modula-2.
Author: Chris Bailey
Vlt VLT is both a VT100 emulator and a Tektronix (4014 plus
subset of 4105) emulator, currently in use at SLAC
(Stanford Linear Accelerator Center). Although the VT100
part was originally based on Dave Wecker et al.'s VT100,
many enhancements were made. Features include use of ARP,
an ARexx port, XMODEM 1K/CRC and Kermit protocols, support
for additional serial ports, external file transfer protocols
(XPR), a "chat" mode, and scrollback/review/history buffer.
It comes in two versions, one with Tektronix emulation, and
one without. The Tektronix emulation allows saving IFF files,
PostScript files, and printing bitmaps to the printer. This
is version 4.428, an update to version 4.226 on disk 257.
The major change for this update is a rewrite of the
Tektronix emulation to support almost all of the Tektronix
4105 escape sequences. Binary only.
Author: Willy Langeveld
CONTENTS OF DISK 309
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Bind A binding (glue) library builder. Takes a standard
'.fd' (function definition) file and generates a binding
library for the functions defined in the '.fd' file.
Version 1.2, an update to the version released with
midilib on disk 227. Binary only.
Author: Bill Barton
Csh Version 4.00a of a csh like shell derived from Matt
Dillon's shell, version 2.07. This is an update to
version 3.03a on disk 223. Changes include ARP pattern
matching, improved search command, some new commands
like 'basename', some new options, bug fixes, and an
ARexx port. Includes source.
Author: Matt Dillon, Steve Drew, Carlo Borreo, Cesare Dieni
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 1.3, an
update to version 1.2 on disk 291. Binary only.
Author: Steve Koren
CONTENTS OF DISK 310
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Mon A machine code monitor/debugger program for the Amiga
which is re-entrant and can be made resident. This is
version 1.24, binary only.
Author: Timo Rossi
UUCP An implementation of uucp for the Amiga, including mail
and news. This is Matt's version 1.00 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 Dillon to make fixes and add enhancements. Includes
source.
Author: Various, major enhancements by Matt Dillon
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-Fred
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