fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (09/13/89)
Disks 237-244 are now available. All preordered disks were duplicated,
packaged, and mailed by this last weekend.
Note that you can get a copy of the catalog (2 disks) of the complete
library contents by sending two blank disks and $1 for postage 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.
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CONTENTS OF DISK 237
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CLIPrint An example of printing to the CLI from assembly code.
Includes source (of course).
Author: Jeff Glatt
CType Another text file reader, but this one is small, reasonably
fast, and includes bi-directional scrolling, search, go to
a given percentage, and printing capabilities. Version 1.0,
includes source in assembly.
Author: Bill Nelson
DPlot A simple display program for experimental data, with the
goals of supporting paging through lots of data and
providing comfortable scaling and presentation. Version
1.0, source available from author.
Author: A. A. Walma
ILBMLib A shared library (ilbm.library) to read/write IFF files,
derived from the EA IFF code, along with various
enhancements. Includes examples of using the library
from C code, assembly code, or BASIC, along with source
for examples and interface code.
Author: Jeff Glatt
ParOut Shows how to allocate and communicate directly with the
parallel port hardware from an assembly language program.
Includes source.
Author: Jeff Glatt (original C code by Phillip Lindsay)
Speed A performance benchmark useful for comparing Amiga
processing speeds. Performs 10000 iterations of some
selected groups of 68000 instructions while using the
DateStamp time function to record how many ticks it takes
to complete. This timed duration is then compared against
two known prestored times, one for a stock A2000 Amiga and
one for an A2620 enhanced A2000. A relative comparison
is calculated and displayed. Version 1.0, includes source
in assembly language.
Author: Jez San
CONTENTS OF DISK 238
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CWDemo Demo version of a pop-up utility to control the color
register assignments of Intuition custom screens.
Version 3.1, binary only.
Author: Kimbersoft
DMouse A versatile screen & mouse blanker, auto window activator,
mouse accelerator, popcli, pop window to front, push
window to back, etc, widget. Includes DLineArt, a screen
blanker replacement program for use with DMouse. This is
DMouse version 1.20, an update to version 1.10 on disk
168/169. Includes source.
Author: Matt Dillon
LabelPrint A program that allows you to easily print labels for
your disks. This is version 2.5, an update to version
1.9 from disk 210. Shareware, binary only (source
available from author).
Author: Andreas Krebs
NGC Yet another virus check program. Checks the bootblock on
all inserted floppy disks and reports nonstandard ones.
Checks the jump tables of all resident libraries and devices
and reports suspicious entries. Version 1, includes source
in assembly.
Author: Ulf Nordquist
Pyth A program to draw the Tree of Pythagoras. Version 1.1,
includes source.
Author: Andreas Krebs
Steinschlag A tetris like game (Steinschlag means "Falling Rock")
submitted by the author. This is version 1.8, an update
to version 1.5 from disk 221. Binary only.
Author: Peter Handel
CONTENTS OF DISK 239
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This is disk 239 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library.
It contains Forth programs from the JGoodies #1 disk, from Delta Research
(the makers of JForth Professional 2.0). All of the material has been
placed into a subdirectory (JGoodies). Below is a listing of
subdirectories under JGoodies, and their contents.
Brunjes Various tools submitted together by the author. StringPkg
is string package for both Forth style and NUL terminated
strings. Date&Time are handy tools for getting and printing
formatted date and time. Utils are utilities used by the
other files. CursorControl is an example of moving the text
cursor. SpaceOrEscape is a handy word for pausing or
stopping program output. Includes source code.
Author: Roy Brunjes
Evolution This program graphically simulates the evolution of a
species of "bugs", the insect kind. Bugs, represented by
moving blobs, eat bacteria represented by single pixels.
They mutate, compete for food, reproduce and pass their
mutations to their offspring. Fascinating example of
graphics and software simulation. Standalone image and
source code.
Author: Russel Yost
FFT Highly optimized Fast Fourier Transform tools for digital
signal processing. The FFT can be used to compute the
frequency spectrum of a complex signal. It is useful in
a variety of different applications. Floating point and
integer versions. Mixture of high level and assembly
language code. Includes source (requires JForth).
Author: Jerry Kallaus
Guru Handy "guru" number interpreter (well, handy after reboot
anyway!). Tells you what "81000009" means, for example.
CLI usage only. Standalone image with readme file. Source
code included.
Author: Mike Haas
H2J Converts 'C' style '.h' include files to JForth style '.j'
files. Useful when developing interfaces to new Amiga
libraries like ARP, etc. Standalone image and source code.
Author: Phil Burk
HAMmmm2 Graphics hack that displays moving lines in a HAM screen
for a hypnotic effect. Uses sound tools from HMSL if
available, for a drone sound that corresponds to the
graphics image. Standalone image and source code.
Author: Phil Burk
HeadClean This program, combined with a fibre cleaning disk, can be
used to clean the heads on your disk drives. Source code
examples of accessing the Trackdisk device, and using
gadgets are included. Standalone image with source code.
Shareware. Version 2.0.
Author: Phil Burk
JustBeeps Simple example of using Audio and Timer devices. Plays a
series of beeps whose pitches are based on a just intoned
tuning system. Standalone image with source code.
Author: Phil Burk
Mandelbrot A fast Mandelbrot rendering program that uses some of the
mathematical properties of the Mandelbrot set to greatly
reduce the drawing time. Demonstrates graphics programming,
assembly language, menus and IFF file I/O. Standalone image
with source code.
Author: Nick Didkovsky
NeuralNet Example of Neural Net programming converted to JForth.
Demonstrates a programming technique that many say is the
wave of the future for software. This is a simple demo that
shows neural propagation. Standalone image with source code.
Author: Robert E. La Quey, ported by Jack Woehr
Textra This easy-to-use text editor allows multiple windows,
and provides a simple mouse driven interface. Those
familiar with the "Macintosh style" editors will be
comfortable with Textra's Cut, Copy and Paste commands.
Standalone image. Documentation included. No source code.
Author: Mike Haas
CONTENTS OF DISK 240
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CrossDOS A "tryware" version of a mountable MS-DOS file system
for the Amiga. This is a software product that allows
you to read and write MS-DOS/PC-DOS and Atari ST
formatted disks (Version 2.0 or higher) directly from
AmigaDOS. This tryware version is a "readonly" version,
which does not allow any writes to the disk. A fully
functional version is available for a very reasonable
price from CONSULTRON. Version 3.02, binary only.
Author: CONSULTRON, Leonard Poma
Dis An AmigaDOS shareable library which implements a symbolic
single-instruction disassembler for the MC68000 family and
a program which uses the library to disassemble/dump
AmigaDOS object files, making full use of symbolic and
relocation information. Includes source code in Draco.
Author: Chris Gray
DM-Maps IFF maps to the Dungeon Master game. All 14 levels are
included.
Author: Unknown
MemLib A link library of routines to aid in debugging memory
problems. Works with Lattice C 5.0 and possibly with
earlier versions. It's features include trashing all
allocated memory, trashing all freed memory, keeping
track of freed memory with notification if it is
written to, notification of memory freed twice or
not at all, notification of overrunning or underrunning
allocated memory, generation of low memory conditions
for testing purposes, and identification of violations
of memory use by filename and line number of the
allocating routine. Includes source.
Author: John Toebes and Doug Walker
RunBack This is version 6, an update to the version on disk 152
(the version on disk 214 appears to be on a different
evolutionary path). This version compiles under Lattice
with many optimizations enabled, and can be made resident.
Includes source.
Author: Rob Peck, Daniel Barrett, Greg Searle, Doug Keller
XprLib External file transfer protocol library. Document and
code example for implementing external file transfer
protocols using Amiga shared libraries. This is an
update to the version included with the vlt program on
disk 226.
Author: Willy Langeveld
CONTENTS OF DISK 241
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ASDG-rrd Extremely useful shareware recoverable ram disk. This
AmigaDOS device driver implements a completely DOS
compatible disk device in memory that survives resets,
guru's, and crashes. An absolute must for those with
lots of ram. This is an update to the version released
on disk 58. It now works with up to 8Mb of memory. It
was rewritten in assembly and is now faster and much
smaller. Binary only.
Author: Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc.
CBBS The W0RLI BBS system for use in amateur radio. Originally
written for IBM-PC compatibles, it was ported to the Amiga
by Pete Hardie. This is version 6.1c with source code.
Author: Hank Oredson, the CBBS group, Pete Hardie
Fix68010 A program which patches executables that fail to run
on machines equipped with an M68010, so that they no
longer use the prohibited priviledged instructions.
Binary only.
Author: Gregor Brandt
Man A program similar to the UNIX "man" program. Displays
information about a topic from manual pages. Does not
include any database of topics, you have to supply your
own. Version 1.2, includes source.
Author: Garry Glendown
NoClick A program which silences the clicking of empty drives
on the B2000 under AmigaDOS 1.3. It should also work
on an A500. This is version 3.4, an update to the
version on disk 231. Includes assembly source code.
Author: Norman Iscove
Tiles A basic tile game like Shanghai or GunShy. A board is
covered with a set of 144 tiles, 36 different sets of
4 identical tiles, each with a picture on it. The
object is to remove all the tiles, 2 at a time, by
matching identical tiles. Version 2.1, includes source
in Modula II.
Author: Todd Lewis
CONTENTS OF DISK 242
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BootBlocks Detailed documentation on what a bootblock is and
how it works, along with some sample bootblocks and
a program to install a custom bootblock. Includes
source for the sample bootblocks and the install
program.
Author: Jonathan Potter
Check4Mem Allows you to check for a specified amount of memory,
with certain attributes, from a batch file. If the
requirements are not met, a WARN returncode is generated.
Version 2, includes source.
Author: Jonathan Potter
CustReq A glorified ASK command for your startup-sequence. It
generates a requester with the specified title, text,
positive and negative gadgets (either of which can
be the default), and an optional timeout value.
Version 2, includes source.
Author: Jonathan Potter
FileReq This is Jonathan's second version of a file requester,
and is much more powerful than the one included on disk
204. Shareware, includes source.
Author: Jonathan Potter
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.
Author: Jonathan Potter
Image-Ed An icon editor that allows you to draw and edit images up to
150 by 90, in up to 16 colors. Allows freehand drawing,
empty or filled rectangles, ellipses, and triangles, lines
curves, and polygons, copy, flip about x or y axis,
stretching and condensing, flood fill and complement,
text with selection and loading of font style, undo,
magnified and normal sized images, and two active drawing
screens at once. This is version 2.2, an update to version
1.9 on disk 211. Binary only, source available from author.
Author: Jonathan Potter
JAR A shareware game (Jump And Run) using 3-D graphics. Your
task is to collect the blue pills lying on the floors and
steps, not to fall down or off the steps, and to avoid
several monsters wandering about. You can collect various
sorts of weapons to use against the monsters. Version 1.0,
binary only, source available from author.
Author: Andreas Ehrentraut
JPClock A short clock program that is just packed with features.
This is version 1.2, an update to version on disk 204.
Includes source.
Author: Jonathan Potter
PPrefs Preferable Preferences is a program designed to replace
the standard preferences, that is shorter, more efficient,
and easier to use. Binary only.
Author: Jonathan Potter
PaletteReq An easy way to set the palette of any screen from your
program. Includes source.
Author: Jonathan Potter
PopInfo A small utility which "pops open" to give you information
about the status of your devices and memory. This is
version 3.1, an update to version 3.0 on disk 223.
Includes source.
Author: Jonathan Potter
ZeroVirus A fully integrated virus checker and killer, with bootblock
save and restore features. Finds both bootblock and file
based viruses. This is version 1.3, binary only.
Author: Jonathan Potter
CONTENTS OF DISK 243
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FragIt A dynamic memory thrasher for the Amiga. FragIt randomly
allocates and deallocates psuedo-random size values of
memory, ranging from 16 bytes to 50000 bytes by default.
The result is an allocation nightmare, thousands of memory
fragments are being created and destroyed continuously.
This puts stress on the memory allocation routines of an
application undergoing testing by simulating a very busy,
highly fragmented memory environment. This is version 2.0,
featuring many bug fixes, a full intuition interface,
configuration settings via the icon, and more. Includes
source.
Author: Justin V. McCormick
ImageLab A program which performs image processing on IFF pictures.
Includes standard image processing functions such as
convolution, averaging, smoothing, enhancement, histograms,
FFT's, etc. Also includes file conversion functions,
a clipboard, and other useful functions. Version 2.2,
binary only.
Author: Gary Milliorn
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 1.0, binary only.
Author: Joerg Geissler
NoClick A program which silences the clicking of empty drives
on the B2000 under AmigaDOS 1.3. It should also work
on an A500. This is version 3.5, a last minute update
to version 3.4 on disk 241. Includes assembly source code.
Author: Norman Iscove
Password A program which enhances your computers security by making
it complicated enough that users without your password
will get discouraged trying to boot and use your system.
This should keep out most casual or nontechnical users.
Version 1.21p, binary only.
Author: George Kerber
Pcopy An intuition based disk copier similiar to the resident
"DiskCopy". This is version 2.0, a highly upgraded
rewrite of the version on disk 151. It features high speed
diskcopy with write-verify and data recovery from damaged
tracks. A lot of effort has gone into making this copier
friendly in its usage, as well in its multitasking
properties. Binary only.
Author: Dirk Reisig
SimGen This program will add a 2 or 4 color picture to your
WorkBench screen. If the picture is digitized, it will
look much like a genlock, hence the name SimGen (Simulated
Genlock). Binary only.
Author: Gregg Tavares
SuperLines A new lines demo with a realtime control panel that you
can use to change various aspects of the action. Has 10
builtin color palettes, support for things like color
"smudge", color cycling, color "bounce", multiple resolu-
tions, and can display either lines or boxes. This is
version 1.0, binary only.
Author: Chris Bailey
WarpUtil Warp (version 1.11), UnWarp (version 1.0), and WarpSplit
(version 1.1). Warp reads raw filesystems and archives
them into a compressed version in a normal file. UnWarp
turns them back into filesystems. WarpSplit splits them
up into smaller pieces on a track by track basis.
Binary only.
Author: SDS Software
CONTENTS OF DISK 244
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BBChampion This is BootBlockChampionIII, a very nicely done program
that allows you to load, save, and analyze any bootblock.
This is version 3.1, binary only.
Author: Roger Fischlin
BootIntro This program creates a small intro on the bootblock of any
disk, which will appear after you insert the disk for
booting. The headline can be up to 44 characters. The
scrolling text portion can be up to 300 characters. This
is version 1.2, an update to version 1.0 on disk 188.
Binary only.
Author: Roger Fischlin
FMC An alternative to the NoFastMem program. Uses a cute little
switch gadget to turn fast memory on or off. Version 1.2,
includes source in assembly code.
Author: Roger Fischlin
SizeChecker Size checker uses a list of possible sizes of a file to
check for unexpected changes in the size of those files.
For example, it can be used to spot a link virus or to
point out changes in the configuration of your system.
With the appropriate comments added to your size list,
you can check to see what version of the files you are
using (1.2, 1.3, 1.4, ARP, etc). Version 1.0, binary only.
Author: Roger Fischlin
TextDisplay A text display program, like "more" or "less", but about
half the size and handles all screen formats (pal/ntsc,
interlace/non-interlace, etc). This is version 1.52, an
update to version 1.1 on disk 188. Binary only.
Author: Roger Fischlin
XColor A program designed to change the colors of any screen.
You can also add and subtract bitplanes in the screen,
or convert the screen to black and white (grayscale).
Handles HAM and EHB screens. Version 1.2, includes
source in assembly code.
Author: Roger Fischlin
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