fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (12/17/89)
Since my posting of the availability of disks 283-294, I have been
deluged with requests for copies of the announcement for disks
271-282. Apparently a large portion of the net missed getting copies
of this posting.
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Disks 271-282 are now available. Duplication and shipping to those
who have preordered disks begins tonight (Tues 11/21) and should be
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 271
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CPUStandoff This cute "computer wars" animation is Bob's entry to
the 1989 BADGE Killer Demo Contest. Lots of visual
jokes in this one. Binary only.
Author: Bob Janousek
LaserBoing This ray-traced animation with sound is Mike's entry to
the 1989 BADGE Killer Demo Contest. This "Amiga Boing"
ball is just loaded with energy! Binary only.
Author: Mike van der Sommen
CONTENTS OF DISK 272
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AmigaPunt A program designed to predict the performance of horses
in a race. The premise is that the factors affecting
a horse's performance, and ultimately the result of the
race, can be given a value. Binary only.
Author: Pierre A du Parte
Balloon This animation with sound effects is Dave's entry to the
1989 BADGE Killer Demo Contest. Binary only.
Author: Dave Schreiber
Spigot This ray-traced animation, using overscan HAM and sound
effects, is Eric's entry to the 1989 BADGE Killer Demo
Contest, where it won 6th place. Binary only.
Author: Eric J. Fleischer (Dr Gandalf)
CONTENTS OF DISK 273
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BattleForce A nicely done shareware game, submitted by the author,
that simulates combat between two or more giant, robot-like
machines. This is version 3.61, an update to version 3.01
on disk 205. Binary only.
Author: Ralph Reed
PennyWise An easy to use, flexible cashbook program using an Amiga
Intuition interface. It can be used to keep track of the
financial transactions of a cheque, bank, business, or
similar account. Shareware, binary only.
Author: Pierre A du Parte
CONTENTS OF DISK 274
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HP11 Emulates an HP11C calculator including the program mode.
Features an ON/OFF button that turns the calculator into
an icon that will sit and wait until you need it again.
This is version 1.1, an update to the version on disk 153,
and includes a few bug fixes and minor changes. Binary
only.
Author: David Gay
KeyBiz This little hack will make you think you have mice
scurrying around in the back of your computer. Includes
source.
Author: Mark Schretlen
LookFor A general "find that file" utility which is handy for
hard drives, multiple drives, and multilayered paths.
Includes source.
Author: Mark Schretlen
SlideMaster A slideshow program that can show any IFF ILBM picture,
including HAM, extra half bright, hires, interlace, and
overscan, using several different wipes. Also has an
ARexx port and is fairly small. Version 0.1, binary only.
Author: Aric Caley
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 1.3, includes source.
Author: Mikael Karlsson
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 2.0, an update to version 1.3 on disk 228,
and has a completely rewritten interface and an iconify
feature. Assembly source included.
Author: Werner Gunther
CONTENTS OF DISK 275
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Vt100 Version 2.9 of the original Amiga vt100 emulator with
kermit and xmodem file transfer. This version adds an
AREXX port, new script and AREXX commands, some bug
fixes, the ability to use custom external protocol
modules (not XPR), and support for zmodem. Update to
version 2.8 on disk 138. Includes source.
Author: Dave Wecker, Tony Sumrall, Frank Anthes,
and Chuck Forsberg
CONTENTS OF DISK 276
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Blit This animation is Richard's entry to the 1989 BADGE
Killer Demo Contest. An interesting feature of this
animation is that it uses the Copper to show the lower
right corner of the screen in Hi-Res, while leaving
the rest of the screen in Lo-Res. Binary only.
Author: Richard Addison
ClickDOS A "directory utility" type program which is reasonably
small, uses a single window on the Workbench screen
(which can also be iconified), does not rely on other
programs for most of its functions, and is very memory
efficient. This is version 1.10, binary only.
Author: Gary Scott Yates
DateRequester A module that provides Intuition based support for
soliciting a date value from the user. It supports both
point-and-click selection of date values and direct
entry of the individual components. It also includes
a standalone ARexx driven date requester program which
can be called from ARexx macro files. Includes source.
Author: Mark Rinfret
CONTENTS OF DISK 277
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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, and vectors.
Version 0.9, binary only.
Author: Dietmar Jansen and F. J. Mertens
Icon A high-level programming language with extensive facilities
for processing strings and lists. Icon has several novel
features, including expressions that may produce sequences
of results, goal-directed evaluation that automatically
searches for a successful result, and string scanning that
allows operations on strings to be formulated at a high
conceptual level. Icon resembles SNOBOL4 in its emphasis on
high-level string processing and a design philosophy that
allows ease of programming and short, concise programs.
This is version 7.5 of the public domain implementation of
Icon from the University of Arizona. It is an update to
version 6.0 from disk 81. Binary only.
Author: Ralph Griswold, Clinton Jeffery, et. al.
LabelPrint A program that allows you to easily print labels for
your disks. This is version 3.0, an update to version
2.5 from disk 238. Shareware, binary only (source
available from author).
Author: Andreas Krebs
LPE LaTeX Picture Editor is a graphical editor for producing
"pictures" for the LaTeX system, which may be imported by
LaTeX. You can draw boxes, dashed boxes, lines, vectors,
circles, boxes with centered text, and plain text. This
is version 1.1, an update to version 1.0 on disk 243, and
includes some new drawing tools, enhanced user interface
features, optimized code, and some bug fixes. Binary only.
Author: Joerg Geissler
WBAssign A small WorkBench program that creates AmigaDOS assignments
without having to open a CLI. Assignments may be made by
specifying a complete path (as supported by the CLI command),
or by specifying a path relative to the current directory.
This allows a program and its assigns to be moved easily.
In addition, WBAssign can create assigns specified in the
icon files of other programs located anywhere in the system.
This is version 1.20, binary only.
Author: John Gerlach Jr.
WBRes A program that allows WorkBench users to have resident
programs, as in the resident capability of WShell, the
ARP shell, and the WB1.3 Shell. Version 1.2b, shareware,
binary only.
Author: John Bickers
CONTENTS OF DISK 278
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AmigaTrek Three stories which are a parody of the Star Trek series,
with an Amiga flavor.
Author: Mike Smithwick
ASpice A version of the SPICE 2G.6 circuit analysis program
which has been modified to run in the Amiga environment.
The program arrays are adjusted to require one tenth the
memory of the DEC VAX version. Although this does not
usually put much of a constraint on circuit analysis,
some users who are used to the full mainframe environment
may have to be more aware of the memory demands of their
analysis. Requires a minimum of 1 MB memory. This
version neither supports nor requires the 68020 processor
or 68881 coprocessor. This is Amiga version 5.1, an update
to version 2.3 on disk 177. Binary only.
Authors: Many, see Documentation. Amiga port by Dan Warns.
Frag Two CLI utilities that show disk and file fragmentation on
AmigaDOS floppies. Includes source.
Author: David Gay
CONTENTS OF DISK 279
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Ash 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 1.0,
binary only.
Author: Steve Koren
MouseClock A clock and free memory display utility that generates
a small display tied to your mouse, using two hardware
sprites as the display area. Version 1.2, includes
source.
Author: Olaf Barthel
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 3.3e, an update to version 3.3d on disk 270,
to fix a serious bug in that version. Binary only.
Author: Mark Rinfret
MRPrint A detabbing print utility that sends text files to
either the printer device or the standard output.
Besides expanding tabs, it will also generate page
headers, line numbers, and new margins. Version 3.4,
includes source.
Author: Mark Rinfret
CONTENTS OF DISK 280
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Berserker A virus detection program that can detect various forms
of the common bootblock and link type viruses. Rather
than checking for a specific virus, it looks for conditions
that indicate a possible virus infection, thus it can
detect new strains of similar viruses. Version 3.0+,
includes source in assembly.
Author: Ralf Thanner
CM A celestial mechanics simulator with an Intuition
interface. You construct a layout of celestial bodies
and specify various parameters for the bodies and the
simulation. CM then animates the bodies according to
the laws of gravitational attraction. Setups may be
saved to disk to later reinact interesting scenarios.
Version 1.0, includes source.
Author: W. John Guineau
Graph A program that draws mathematical functions on a plane.
Text and axes may be added, and the result saved to
disk or printed. Uses a full Intuition interface with
multiple windows (one per graph), requesters, etc.
Version 1.0, includes source.
Author: David Gay
CONTENTS OF DISK 281
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Diff GNU diff and diff3 utilities, version 1.10. This
version provides all the features of BSD's diff plus
options to diff non-ASCII files, to ignore changes
that just insert or delete blank lines, to specify
the amount of context for context diffs, plus more.
This version of GNU diff is part of the RCS package
found on disk 282. Includes source.
Author: Mike Haertel, David Hayes, Richard Stallman
& Len Tower. Amiga port by Raymond Brand and
Rick Schaeffer.
DiffDir Compares the contents of two directories, generating
a list of differences to the standard output. Detects
files or directories present in one hierarchy but not
the other, file attributes that are different (dates,
flags, comments, etc), and differences in file size.
Version 1.1, an update to version 1.0 on disk 188.
Includes source.
Author: Mark Rinfret
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. Version 1.3, includes source.
Author: Olaf Barthel
LoadImage An IFF ILBM reader that accepts overscanned pictures,
allows you to scroll around in the bitmap if the picture
is larger than the current display, works on both PAL and
NTSC machines, supports color cycling using interrupt code,
and supports printing of image portions. Version 1.9,
includes source.
Author: Olaf Barthel
MRARPFile Extended ARP file support package that adds an orthogonal
set of routines which support generalized I/O with resource
tracking while using the ARP library. Includes source.
Author: Mark Rinfret
MRMan A package which contains an Amiga document reading system
similar to the "man" command on UNIX systems. It offers
a high degree of flexibility in the naming and placement
of document files on your system. This is version 1.0 and
includes source.
Author: Mark Rinfret
CONTENTS OF DISK 282
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PrintHandler A custom PRT: driver which offers easy single sheet support
as well as limited data spooling. Version 1.1, includes
source.
Author: Olaf Barthel
RCS The Revision Control System (RCS) manages multiple
revisions of text files. RCS automates the storing,
retrieval, logging, identification, and merging of
revisions. RCS is useful for text that is revised
frequently, for example programs, documentation,
graphics, papers, form letters, etc. This is RCS
version 1.2, and includes source (the source to the
GNU diff program used with this distribution of RCS
can be found on disk 281).
Author: Walter Tichy. Amiga port by Raymond Brand
and Rick Schaeffer.
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-Fred
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