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!!!
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CONTENTS OF DISK 283
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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