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!!!
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CONTENTS OF DISK 261
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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That's it for another week or so...
-Fred
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