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!!! ====================================================================== CONTENTS OF DISK 301 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 ====================================================================== -Fred -- # Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA # 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!{nud,mcdphx}!estinc!fnf