fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (11/08/89)
Disks 261-270 are now available. Duplication and shipping to those who have preordered disks begins tonight (Tues 11/7) and should be be complete by this weekend. I have also completed disks 271-274, but am holding off on releasing them until after this weekend, when I hope to have another set of ten (271-280) complete. These disks contain a number of the BADGE Killer Demo Contest entries, including the two disk set Sentinel and the two disk set VAUX-Killer. I have decided not to include any more of the multi-disk demos in the normal AmigaLibDisk series, but instead to set up an alternate series for these larger demos, picture disks, electronic bibles, etc. Further info should be forthcoming in a few days. I will continue to occasionally include smaller demos in the normal AmigaLibDisk series, but will be much more selective about the material than for the new alternate series of disks. 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 261 -------------------- CopDis A copper list disassembler that can be run from the CLI or linked with and run directly from an application program. This is version 0.0a and includes source. Author: Karl Lehenbauer ShowBiz A fun animation with mice, a dancing alligator, a sheep on a trampoline, and more. Includes source in "director format". Author: Robert Corns XprZmodem An Amiga shared library which provides ZModem file transfer capability to any XPR-compatible communications program. This is version 2.0, an update to version 1.0 on disk 236. It adds support for XPR spec version 2.0 capabilities, including automatic download activation, better user interface for setting options, improved transmission speed, and other minor enhancements. Includes source. Author: Rick Huebner CONTENTS OF DISK 262 -------------------- Indent This is version 1.1 of GNU Indent, a C source code formatter/indenter. Especially useful for cleaning up inconsistently indented code. Includes source. Authors: Developed by the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Illinois, Urbana, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. GNU version by Jim Kingdon, Amiga port by Dan Riley. Jumble A quick "brute force" program for solving for anagrams. Not very elegant, but gets the job done. Includes source. Author: Mike Groshart Lotto Lotto is designed to replace your user group's old shoebox full of membership numbers and names and add some pizzaz to the process of drawing for doorprizes at club meetings. Includes source. Author: Mike Groshart QMouse A very small mouse accelerator (4K) written in assembly language, but with most of the features of its larger cousins. Not related to QMouse on disk 49. This is version 1.6, shareware, binary only. Author: Lyman Epp QView A very small file view program (only 3K) written in assembly language, but with most of the features of its larger cousins. Version 1.1, shareware, binary only. Author: Lyman Epp WorldDataBank A project using geographical data, declassified and made available by the CIA under the Freedom of Information Act, to draw a Mercator projection of any area of the Earth that you would like to inspect, in various degrees of magnification. Also includes a program that displays a "satellite view" of any region. Version 2.0, includes source. Author: The CIA, Mike Groshart, Bob Dufford CONTENTS OF DISK 263 -------------------- Sentinel A large ray-traced animation created with Turbo Silver SV, Deluxe Photolab, Deluxe Paint III, and the Director. It consists of approximately 60 to 70 frames of animation, rendered during a period of about three and a half weeks. This is Bradley Schenck's entry to the 1989 BADGE Killer Demo contest, and won first place in the contest. Because of its size, it has been split across two disks. The rest of the files are on disk 264. Requires 3Mb or more of memory to run. Author: Bradley Schenck CONTENTS OF DISK 264 -------------------- Sentinel A large ray-traced animation. This is Bradley Schenck's entry to the 1989 BADGE Killer Demo contest, and won first place in the contest. Because of its size, it has been split across two disks. The rest of the files are on disk 263. Author: Bradley Schenck CONTENTS OF DISK 265 -------------------- VAUX-Killer A very funny animation which won 2nd place in the 1989 BADGE Killer Demo Contest. Because of its size, the demo is split across two disks. The other files are on disk 266. Two floppy drives, or a hard disk, are strongly recommended. Binary only. Author: Roger Curren CONTENTS OF DISK 266 -------------------- VAUX-Killer A very funny animation which won 2nd place in the 1989 BADGE Killer Demo Contest. Because of its size, the demo is split across two disks. The other files are on disk 265. Two floppy drives, or a hard disk, are strongly recommended. Binary only. Author: Roger Curren CONTENTS OF DISK 267 -------------------- Diglib An Amiga device independent graphics library for fortran applications. This is an enhanced and debugged version of a public domain library, the development of which was sponsored by the US Government. This library is required for part of the Matlab package, also included on this disk. Includes source in FORTRAN. Author: Hal Brand, Craig Wuest, James Locker Mackie A versatile cli/macro-key initiator based on POPCLI with a unique method of "screen-blanking". I won't say more, just try it! This is version 1.3, an update to version 1.2 from disk 189. Now includes automatic generation of different patterns and some bug fixes. Includes source. Author: Tomas Rokicki Matlab A FORTRAN package (MATrix LABoratory) developed by Argonne National Laboratories for in house use. It provides comprehensive vector and tensor operations in a package which may be programmed either through a macro language or through execution of script files. Supported functions include sin, cos, tan, arcfunctions, upper triangular, lower triangular, determinants, matrix multiplication, identity, hilbert matrices, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, matrix roots, matrix products, inversion, and more. Amiga specific features include workbench startup, polar plots, contour plots, enhanced plot buffer control, and algorithmic plot display generation. Includes source in FORTRAN. Author: Cleve Moler, Jim Locker CONTENTS OF DISK 268 -------------------- Doctor_A This animation of Amiguy on the basketball court is Marvin's entry to the 1989 BADGE Killer Demo Contest. The animation source (for SculptAnimate-4D) is available from the author. Author: Marvin Landis Klide This line art demo is Jerry's entry to the 1989 BADGE Killer Demo Contest, where it won 4th place. Klide uses line mode blitter code which is capable of rendering short vectors at a rate up to 15,000 lines/second. Binary only. Author: Jerry Kallaus OnlyAmiga This demo is Rob's entry to the 1989 BADGE Killer Demo Contest, where it won 9th place. It demonstrates sound, multitasking, HAM color, the blitter, and more. Binary only. Author: Rob Peck CONTENTS OF DISK 269 -------------------- Calendar A program that generates calendars in any one of 10 standard formats for any year after 1900. Binary only. Author: Pierre A du Parte ChessTutor Chess tutor is a program designed to introduce novice chess players to the basics of the game. Shareware, written in AmigaBASIC. Author: William Jordan PropGadget Example code for using proportional gadgets, written in assembly code and C, that can be called from your own application. Includes source. Author: Jerry Trantow RadBoogie This demo, which won 7th place in the 1989 BADGE Killer Demo Contest, uses almost all features of the Amiga extensively, including the copper, blitter, sprite hardware, 68000 machine language, and preemptive prioritized multitasking. Includes source. Author: Dave Quick, Mark Riley, Tomas Rokicki ShowDisk A useful program that graphically shows the map of sectors used on floppy drives by one or more files. The mapping is color coded so you can identify what sectors are used by the various directories and files. Includes source in assembly language. Author: Bernhard Meisner SpinPointer While going through some musty archives I found this little gem that got overlooked before. It is a short source module that provides a "busy" indicator replacement for the standard mouse pointer. Includes source. Author: Mark Rinfret CONTENTS OF DISK 270 -------------------- ColumnSet A text filter program that takes as input a file with one word per line and produces a file with these words laid out in the same order in even columns, as many as will fit across the output screen or page with at least one space between columns. Includes source in Modula-2. Author: Kent Paul Dolan 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 3.3d, an update to version 2.4 on disk 170. Binary only. Author: Mark Rinfret TooMuch3D This animation is Jim's entry to the 1989 BADGE Killer Demo Contest, where it won 10th place. It is a warning to those of you who spend too much time in front of your computer monitors. Binary only. Author: Jim Robinson ====================================================================== That's it for another week or so... -Fred -- # Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA # 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!{nud,mcdphx}!estinc!fnf