fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (11/22/89)
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!!! ====================================================================== CONTENTS OF DISK 271 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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. ====================================================================== -Fred -- # Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA # 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!{nud,mcdphx}!estinc!fnf