fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (12/15/89)
Disks 283-294 are now available. Duplication and shipping to those who have preordered disks begins tonight (Thursday 12/14) and should be be complete by this weekend. Look for disk 300 by the end of the year! 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 283 -------------------- Bref A cross reference program for AmigaBASIC code. Generates a list of the BASIC code with lines sequentially numbered, plus a table showing all variables and labels used in the code, and the line numbers where they were used. Created from the CREF program on disk 166, which was written by Mike Edmonds and Joel Swank. Version 1.01, includes source. Author: Dick Taylor CWDemo Demo version of a pop-up utility to control the color register assignments of Intuition custom screens. This is version 3.2, an update to version 3.1 on disk 238. Binary only. Author: Kimbersoft FullReset A program to get rid of all viruses, vector modifying programs, and residents, by forcing a specific reset. Binary only. Author: Jurgen Klein MarbleSlide The aim of this game is to build a slide on a 10 x 11 board of pieces that move around, allowing the marble to reach the goal piece. You play against time. Also includes a board editor so you can build custom boards. Binary only. Author: Peter Handel SensoPro You try to remember and mimic the sound/color sequence played by the computer. Each time you get it right, another sound/color is added to the sequence. Great practice in case you ever find yourself in a "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" experience. Binary only. Author: Peter Handel WatchMan A little screen hack inspired by "EyeCon" on Sun systems. Includes source. Author: Jonas Petersson CONTENTS OF DISK 284 -------------------- ARPTools A group of small utility programs requiring ARP, that have been created to address some deficiencies of the ARP CLI environment, especially to exploit the potential offered by non-named pipes in the ARP shell. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Fabio Rossetti Back Two programs to assist users of Matt Dillon's Backup/Restore program in making error-free VERIFIED backups onto floppy disks. Also useful as a trackdisk device example. Includes source. Author: Stephen Vermeulen Dme Version 1.38 of Matt's text editor. Dme is a simple WYSIWYG editor designed for programmers. It is not a WYSIWYG word processor in the traditional sense. Features include arbitrary key mapping, fast scrolling, title-line statistics multiple windows, and ability to iconify windows. Update to version 1.31 on disk number 169, includes source. Author: Matt Dillon FileTest This routine is used to recursively descend the file system tree from a specified directory location, reading the files into memory (if they will fit) as it goes. Useful as a complete test of file system integrity. Includes source. Author: Stephen Vermeulen IconTools Here are some tools for icon tricks. Note that these tools are really hacks because they exploit some areas of the .info files that the current version of WorkBench does not clear or reset upon loading the icon. There are three programs here which allow WorkBench drawer windows to appear in non-standard colors and allow you to move the position of the file name text to anywhere in the icon's graphic. Released to the public in the hope that 1.4 will allow more flexible user customization of the WorkBench appearance. Includes source. Author: Stephen Vermeulen RecurDir A recursive directory program that is useful as an aid in ZOOing files in nested directories. Allows one to easily ZOO the complete contents of a disk. Includes source. Author: Stephen Vermeulen CONTENTS OF DISK 285 -------------------- AvailMem A small free memory counter that continuously displays the amount of free chip and fast memory in bytes (as opposed to K). Version 1.03. Includes source. Author: Dave Schreiber DynaShow A program and example image using a dynamic HiRes technique to display up to 4096 colors in high res with overscan. Dynamic HiRes uses a different 16 color palette on each scan line. Version 1.1, binary only. Author: NewTek 'Liner 'Liner is a freely distributable outliner. It can be used to create outlines of any length, in a number of different formats, and can save the outlines as straight text for export to other programs. Version 1.32. Includes source. Author: Dave Schreiber MSizer A program that allows you to resize a window from any corner when holding down the left mouse button and the left Amiga key. Includes source. Author: Khaled Mardam-Bey Plasma A plasma cloud generator program that uses the extra halfbrite mode. Plasma clouds are a special form of fractal which show very smooth color gradations. Version 1.f, includes source. Author: Roger Uzun Rubik Translation to C of a Rubiks Cube solver program originally written in Basic by John Murphy. Includes versions to do an "unwrapped" 2D solution, and a more visual 3D solution. Version 0.0, includes source. Author: Roger Uzun CONTENTS OF DISK 286 -------------------- CCutils Eight small CLI utilities that use the cclib.library shared library. Includes a program to display disk usage on your menu bar, a program to check the integrity of IFF files, a program to remove shared libraries from memory if they are not being used, and more. Binary only. Author: Robert Albrecht EW Patch for Intuition OpenWindow() and CloseWindow(), creating a Mac-style frame whenever a window is opened or closed. Very short, includes source in assembler. Author: Oliver Wagner FastDisk A disk optimizer providing two ways of optimizing. Originally written by Thorsten Stolpmann. This is version II, now featuring an Intuition interface, ARP support, bug hunting, and Lattice C compatibility, done by Oliver Wagner. Includes source in C. Author: Thorsten Stolpmann and Oliver Wagner S220to8SVX Converts sound samples from a Roland S-220/S-10/MKS-100 to 8SVX IFF 8-bit samples. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Dieter Bruns Txt2Exe This program takes a text file, creating a runnable command which will output the text. Allows various operations to be done on the text. Binary only. Author: Oliver Wagner Uedit Version 2.5d of this nice shareware editor. Has learn mode, a command language, menu customization, hyper text, and other user configurability and customizability features. Binary only, shareware, update to version 2.5b on disk 254. Author: Rick Stiles CONTENTS OF DISK 287 -------------------- DAsm A multipass, symbolic, macro assembler for multiple target machines, including 6502, 68705, 6803, and 6811. Supports conditional assembly, addressing mode overrides, arbitrary number of named segments, pseudo-ops for repeat loops, data generation, etc. Version 2.12, includes source. Author: Matt Dillon FullView A text viewer that uses gadgets at the bottom of the screen (thus can display text 80 columns wide), opens up to the full height of the Workbench screen, has fast scrolling, and can work with compressed files (file compression program included). Shareware, binary only, source available from author. This is version 1.1, an update to the version on disk 242. Author: Jonathan Potter JPDirUtil A directory-utilities type program with many built-in commands, and 16 customisable gadgets. User configurable in many ways. Can be iconified to Workbench screen. This is version 1.11, binary only. Author: Jonathan Potter MouseCoords A small assembly utility which shows you the current position of the mouse pointer. Can be "jumped" to operate on any screen. Includes source in assembly. Author: Jonathan Potter OSK A software keyboard, which allows you to type using the mouse. Can be made to send keystrokes to any window, and can be iconified. Includes source. Author: Jonathan Potter PopDir A small utility which "pops open" to help you look at the contents of a particular directory on demand. Version 1.6, an update to version 1.4 on disk 204. Includes source. Author: Jonathan Potter Unshar This program extracts files from Unix shar archives. It scores over similar programs by being small and fast, handling extraction of subdirectories, and recognising a wide variety of `sed' and `cat' shar formats. Version 1.1, includes C source. Author: Eddy Carroll VirusX Version 4.0 of a popular virus detection/vaccination program. This is an update to version 3.20 from disk 216. Includes a check for the new Xeno virus. Author: Steve Tibbett, Dan James, Jim Meyer ZeroVirus A fully integrated virus checker and killer, with bootblock save and restore features. Finds both bootblock and file based viruses. Uses Brainfiles to recognise viruses, and has "on-line" Brainfile editing facilities. Can be iconified to Workbench screen. This is version 2.01, an update to version 1.3 on disk 242. Binary only. Author: Jonathan Potter CONTENTS OF DISK 288 -------------------- DiskSpeed A disk speed testing program specifically designed to give the most accurate results of the true disk performance of the disk under test. Automatically updates and maintains an ASCII database of disk results for tested disks. This is version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 251, with a few new features and a cleaner user interface. Includes source in C. Author: Michael Sinz PlotData2D Plots data onto a custom user defined screen and window, reading the plot and screen/window definitions, along with the X and Y data pairs, from a disk file. Supports linear, log-log, and semi-log axis plots. The data can be plotted with lines, symbols, or both. Includes numerous example plots. Version 1.0, includes source in Fortran. Author: Robert C. Singleterry Jr. Scripit A script language that allows you to automate actions you would normally have to do manually. Scripit can do anything that you do manually, by either the mouse or keyboard, by using a set of commands that instruct Scripit to simulate specific mouse or keyboard actions. Also has an ARexx port, so it can be driven by ARexx allowing ARexx control over programs that do not have ARexx ports. Includes both a recorder to generate scripts and a player to execute them. This is version 1.20, binary only. Author: Khalid Aldoseri CONTENTS OF DISK 289 -------------------- AmiGo A Go board and player for the Amiga. You can play against another human, against the Amiga, or have the Amiga play itself. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Todd Johnson, Stoney Ballard Atree A disk utility which imitates similar utilities widely available on IBM compatibles (PC Tools, Xtree, QuickDos, etc). The intent is to allow the user a graphic representation of the entire directory structure on a disk device, including the files in each directory, and the capability of moving quickly through the tree to a directory to access its files. Version 1.7, binary only. Author: Don Schmidt LHArc An archive program like Arc and Zoo, with a heavy emphasis maximum compression for minimum archive size, using LZHUF compression. This is Amiga version 1.0 (compatible with MSDOS version 1.13). Binary only. Author: Paolo Zibetti Orbit Plots the ground trace of satellites on a map of the earth, using the orbital elements for some 130 satellites, from a list which is updated every two weeks on Compuserve. Version 1.2, binary only. Author: Timothy Middendorf TreeWalk A command for visiting all the files of a subtree of an Amiga file system, testing every file in the specified subtree against a supplied "filter" expression, and if the file passes through the filter, to issue the specified command with that file as one of the arguments. It is designed to be reasonably fast, robust, and not use a lot of stack space or any other critical resources. Includes source. Author: Mike Meyer CONTENTS OF DISK 290 -------------------- DPlot A simple display program for experimental data, with the goals of supporting paging through lots of data and providing comfortable scaling and presentation. This is version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 237, and incorporates several significant enhancements. Binary only. Author: A. A. Walma IPC An IPC (Inter-Process Communication) package, with the goal of creating a standard for IPC on the Amiga that is flexible enough to handle the widest possible range of applications. The protocol used addresses different problem areas than ARexx, and emphasizes different aspects of the communication process, such as fast communication and preservation of data structure. Includes source. Author: Pete Goodeve and Peter da Silva KillReq A small program which disables Intuition's AutoRequest function. In particular, this prevents AmigaDOS from putting up system requesters, which is useful if you are operating your Amiga remotely and can't use the mouse to click CANCEL. Unlike similar utilities which affect only a single CLI, KillReq disables ALL requesters. This is version 1.0 and includes C source. Author: Eddy Carroll Xicon Xicon lets you use icons to call up scripts containing CLI commands. This is version 2.5, an update to version 2.01 on disk 157. New features include automatic selection of the correct execution directory, the option to have keyboard interaction, and the use of IF, ELSE, etc DOS commands. Binary only. Author: Pete Goodeve CONTENTS OF DISK 291 -------------------- GMC A console handler with command line editing and function key support. GMC provides extended command line editing, function key assignment in four levels, extended command line history, online help for functions in the handler, and an iconify function. Version 4.0, binary only. Author: Gotz Muller Keyboard Functions to translate RAWKEY Intuition messages into usable keycodes. Includes source. Author: Fabbian Dufoe Sim A simulator for register-transfer nets, which are used to describe hardware systems. This version also provides a compiler to define new devices in addition to Sim's internal devices. This is version 4.2, an update to version 4.0 on disk 229. Binary only. Author: Gotz Muller 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 1.2, an update to version 1.0 on disk 279, where it was called ash. Binary only. Author: Steve Koren CONTENTS OF DISK 292 -------------------- Devstat Assembly code example of locating and listing information about all mounted devices. Includes source. Author: Fabrice Lienhardt FileRequest Assembly code example of a file requester. This is version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 173, where it was called FileSelect. New features include 3 speed scrolling of filenames and ghosting of unavailable devices. Includes source. Author: Fabrice Lienhardt MultiPlot A package for making 2D plots conveniently. Tim Mooney wrote the original program, which was then enhanced by Alan Baxter with a nicer user interface, support for the PLT: device, and support for file conversions. Rich Champeaux and Jim Miller wrote the PLT: handler which emulates a plotter by accepting HP-GL commands, creating a raster image, then dumping it to any preferences supported graphics printer. This is version XLN and includes source to MultiPlot. Update to version 1.2 on disk 231, where it was called just "Plot". This version is 2D only. Author: Alan Baxter, Tim Mooney, Rich Campeaux, Jim Miller CONTENTS OF DISK 293 -------------------- ClockDJ A utility which combines a clock, mouse accelerator, screen blanker, window manipulator, function keys, and macros into a single program, written in assembly language for maximum efficiency. Includes an ARexx port. Version 4.07, binary only. Author: David Jenkins CrcLists Complete CRC check files for disks 001-292 using the brik program. These were made directly from my master disks. I have switched to brik, from the crc program used to make the lists on disks 133, 146, and 173, because it has more features and because source is available. This is an update to the lists on disk 233. Author: Fred Fish CONTENTS OF DISK 294 -------------------- DNet A link protocol that provides essentially an unlimited number of reliable connections between processes on two machines, where each end of the link can be either an Amiga or a Unix (BSD4.3) machine. Works on the Amiga with any EXEC device that looks like the serial.device. Works on UNIX with tty and socket devices. Achieves better than 95% average throughput on file transfers. This is version 2.10.13, an update to version 2.0 released on disk 220. Includes sources for both the Amiga and Unix versions. Author: Matt Dillon FmsDisk A file based trackdisk simulator, useful for creating a floppy-like partition on your hard disk (so you can diskcopy to a floppy) without actually having to create a special partition for it. Also useful for testing new filesystems and such. Supports up to 32 units, with either the old filesystem or the new fast filesystem. Includes source. Author: Matt Dillon -- # Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA # 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!{nud,mcdphx}!estinc!fnf