fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (12/31/89)
Well, I made it to disk 300 in this decade with a day to spare!
Disks 295-300 are now available. Shipping to those who have preordered
disks begins tomorrow (12/31) and should be complete by Monday sometime.
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 295
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GnuGrep The grep program from the GNU project. Replaces grep
fgrep, egrep, and bmgrep. Currently does not expand
Amiga style wildcards, so if you wish to scan multiple
files you will need to use it with a shell that does this
for you. This is version 1.5, an update to version 1.3
on disk 204. Includes source.
Author: Many (see README file)
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 1.03 and includes source.
Author: Jonathan Forbes
MandelMountains
A program that renders three-dimensional images of
blowups of the Mandelbrot set. Includes several example
images. Version 1.1, shareware, binary only.
Author: Mathias Ortmann
CONTENTS OF DISK 296
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Comal Demo of AmigaCOMAL (missing only SAVE), an incremental
p-code compiler from Denmark. COMAL is a language with
the design goal of combining the modern structured
approach of Pascal with the ease of use and interactivity
of BASIC. There are versions of COMAL for IBM, VAX, CP/M,
C-64, Amiga and various European operating systems.
Includes a complete turtle graphics package. Is perfect
for education yet powerful enough for applications
programming. Version 2.0, binary only.
Author: Svend Daugaard Pedersen
Freddy Dan Dalgas Kristiansen
Patch A port of the very useful UNIX utility which applies context
diffs to text files to automatically update them. This is a
port of version 2.0.1.6 (patch level 12), which Eric has
dubbed Amiga version 1.0. It is an update to an earlier
version on disk 129. Includes source.
Author: Larry Wall, Amiga port by Eric Green
CONTENTS OF DISK 297
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Clean A small program written in assembly code, to be used
in conjunction with a cleaning disk, to clean your
floppy drive heads. Version 1.0, includes source.
Author: Dan Burris
DevKit A collection of C and ARexx language programs to
facilitate the software development process. With
DevKit, you can launch your compiler from within your
editor, have the cursor positioned on your errors, look
up the autodoc page for any Amiga function at a single
keystroke, find a system structure within the include
files, or find any function in the code you are writing.
Version 1.2, includes source.
Author: Peter Cherna
Elements Very nice interactive display of the the Periodic Table
of Elements. Can display a large amount of pertinent
data about a selected element along with a good deal of
general and miscellaneous info. This is version 1.3,
an update to version 1.2a on disk 253. It adds a non-
interlace mode and extend selection of two elements.
Binary only, shareware.
Author: Paul Thomas Miller
Hypno A "bouncing polygons" type program like Mackie, LineArt,
and Bezier. Includes source in C.
Author: Markus Schmidt
Jed A nicely done, intuition-based editor that is quite
user-friendly. Features word-wrap, auto-indent, newcli,
alt buffer, split-window, keyboard macro, help, printing,
and more. This is version 1.1, an update to version 1.0
on disk 180. Shareware, binary only.
Author: Dan Burris
SuperMenu An information display system you can use to quickly and
easily display text files (and sections of text files) with
the press of a button. Version 1.62, shareware, binary only.
Author: Paul Thomas Miller
WriteIcon Sample code that creates an icon using a compiled-in image,
the source of which can be created with Icon2C on disk 56.
Version 1.0, includes source in C.
Author: Dan Burris
CONTENTS OF DISK 298
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BBChampion This is BootBlockChampionIII, a very nicely done program
that allows you to load, save, and analyze any bootblock.
This is version 3.21, an update to version 3.1 on disk
244. New features include checks for five different LAMER
viruses and some other enhancements. Binary only.
Author: Roger Fischlin
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. Version 1.5, includes source.
Author: Olaf Barthel
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
2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 245. Includes source.
Author: Roger Fischlin
FileMaster A file editor like NewZap or FedUp, which allows you to
manipulate bytes of a file. You may also change the file
size or execute a patch. Version 1.11, includes source.
Author: Roger Fischlin
CONTENTS OF DISK 299
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Hangman A simple hangman program similar to one seen on some
UNIX machines. Currently runs only from CLI. Includes
source in C.
Author: Gary Brant
Rxil An ARexx interface library that makes it easy for programs
to implement a complete, robust ARexx interface with
minimal effort. Version 1.0, includes source.
Author: Don Meyer
SceneGenDemo Demo of a program called Scene Generator, that generates
very realistic looking landscapes. This program is an
enhanced, low cost commercial version, of the Scenery
program included on disk 155. This is version 2.03,
binary only.
Author: Brett Casebolt
Yacc This is a port of Berkeley Yacc for the Amiga. This
Yacc has been made as compatible as possible with the
AT&T Yacc, and is completely public domain. Note that
it is NOT the so-called Decus Yacc, which is/was simply
a repackaging of the proprietary AT&T Yacc. Amiga
version 1.0a, includes source.
Author: Bob Corbett, Amiga port by Eric Green
CONTENTS OF DISK 300
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SuperEcho A neat program to be used with Perfect Sound-like audio
digitizers that generates LIVE audio effects, including
Echos, Deep Voice, Squeaky Voice, Many People, M-M-Max
Headroom and much more. Binary only.
Author: Kevin Kelm
TACL An adventure player for games written with The Adventure
Construction Language, a commercial computer language.
Includes two sample games; one is text-only and the other
is text-graphic. Binary only, plus the TACL source code
that was used to write the graphic adventure.
Author: Kevin Kelm and Rhett Rodewald
TitleGen A simple script language program for generating vertically
crawling title sequences in any font and up to 500 lines
long. Good for video production. Version 1.6, binary only.
Author: Kevin Kelm
XenoZap A program that recursively descends into directories,
disabling the Xeno virus in all executable files that it
finds. Version 1.0, includes source in Modula-2.
Author: Kevin Kelm
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-Fred
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# Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA
# 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!{nud,mcdphx}!estinc!fnfjim@syteke.be (Jim Sanchez) (01/16/90)
I would like to know how much the fish disks cost. I know the catalog
disks are $3 but how about the others? Maybe I'm dense but it ain't obvious
to me.
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Jim Sanchez {sun,hplabs}!sytek!syteke!jim OR
Hughes LAN Systems, Brussels uunet!prlb2!sunbim!syteke!jimfnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (01/19/90)
In article <692@syteke.be> jim@syteke.be (Jim Sanchez) writes: >I would like to know how much the fish disks cost. I know the catalog >disks are $3 but how about the others? Maybe I'm dense but it ain't obvious >to me. Every disk has a price list in the GeneralInfo file. The current rates are: 1-9 disks $6 ea 10-49 disks $5 ea 50-99 disks $4 ea 100+ disks $3 ea "entire set" $2 ea (applies only to released disks 1-300) The price is determined by the quantity ordered, any mix of released or future disks, not by the number shipped each time new disks are released. -Fred -- # Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA # 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!{nud,mcdphx}!estinc!fnf