fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (06/28/89)
Disks 221-228 are now complete and ready for distribution. Duplication
and mailing of preordered disks begins Wednesday and should be complete
by the 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.
CONTENTS OF DISK 221
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AllocMaster Allocmaster is a program inspired by Nick Sullivan's
"Reserve" article in Amiga Transactor, for controlling
the amount of both Chip and Fast memory available to
the rest of the system. It is very useful for testing
applications in low-memory situations. It also has
a snapshot feature to report differences in available
memory before and after running an application. Version
1.17, binary only.
Author: John Gerlach Jr.
ANSIEd Demo version of an ANSI screen file editor. It allows you
to easily create and modify a screen of ANSI-style
text/graphics on the Amiga. The standard ANSI color set
(red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white) and text
styles (plain, boldface, underlined, italic) are provided,
along with some simple editing and drawing functions. This
demo version has the save features disabled. Version 1.2.0aD,
binary only.
Author: Gregory Epley
BallyII Amiga port of the former arcade game named Click. This
version adds a "cheat" mode and fixes some minor bugs.
Version II+, an update to the version released on disk
205. Binary only, shareware.
Author: Oliver Wagner
DFrame A utility that helps you to create animated bobs. It
installs itself in DPaint II, after which you can draw
each bob in DPaint II within its own frame and check the
animation by calling DFrame from within DPaint. Version
1.02, binary only.
Author: Jan Buitenhuis
IFFM2 Demo version of an IFF support module for Interface
Technologies M2Amiga Modula-2 system. Includes a version
of ViewILBM (with source) that uses the IFF support routines.
Version 1.0.0D, binary only.
Author: Gregory Epley
Steinschlag A tetris like game (Steinschlag means "Falling Rock")
submitted by the author. Version 1.5, binary only.
Author: Peter Handel
CONTENTS OF DISK 222
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MemGauge A tool to display the current memory usage, very much
like the usage bar Workbench displays in root directories.
Version 1.4, includes source.
Author: Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel
Mischief This little program is in the long tradition of "display
hacks". It uses the input.device to perform various acts
of mischief. Includes source.
Author: Olaf 'Olsen' Barthel
Plplot A library of C functions useful for scientific plotting
on the Amiga. The library is Lattice C compatible.
Contour plotting, three dimensional plotting, axis
redefinition, log-log plotting and multiple subpages are
a few of Plplot's features. The plots can be displayed
on a monitor or sent to a graphics file for subsequent
printing. Version 1.00, includes source.
Author: Tony Richardson
CONTENTS OF DISK 223
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Csh Version 3.03a of a csh like shell derived from Matt
Dillon's shell, version 2.07. This is an update to the
version on disk 199. Includes a couple of new filter
commands, new dir option, new editing options, sourcing
of a standard startup file, and some bug fixes. Includes
source.
Author: Matt Dillon, Steve Drew, Carlo Borreo, Cesare Dieni
FixDisk A program to recover as much as possible from a defective
disk. It can sometimes recover damaged (unreadable)
tracks, check file integrity, check the directory
structure, undelete files, copy or show files, fix
corrupted directory pointers, etc. Full intuition
interface. Version 1.0, binary only.
Author: Werner Guenther
GravSim A program to animate up to 6 planetary masses, all of
which exert a mutual gravitational force on each other.
The planetary masses can be placed anywhere on the screen,
and their mass and initial velocity can be determined by
the user. The program then steps the animation through
time, plotting and displaying the new position in the
trajectory of each mass. Version 1.50, includes source.
Author: Richard Frost
Iff2Sun A small utility for those of you who may have access to a
Sun workstation. Takes an Amiga IFF file and converts it to
a Sun rasterfile format. This version is an update to the
version released on disk 174, with better parsing, support
for HAM mode, and some bug fixes. Source only, as the
program needs to be re-compiled and run from a Sun.
Authors: Steve Berry, Mark Thompson
IFFtoSUN This program takes a standard IFF format image and trans-
lates it into a SUN rasterfile format, like the Iff2Sun
program also on this disk. However, this one runs on the
Amiga. Version 1.31, includes source.
Author: Richard Frost
Paccer A pacman clone with sound and a game screen editor. This
is version 1.0, shareware, binary only.
Author: Dirk Hoffman
PopInfo A small utility which "pops open" to give you information
about the status of your devices and memory. This is
version 3.0, an update to the version on disk 204.
Includes source.
Author: Jonathan Potter
SetCPU A program designed to allow the user to detect and modify
various parameters related to 32 bit CPUs. Includes
commands to enable or disable the text/data caches,
switch on or off the '030 burst cache line fill request,
use the MMU to run a ROM image from 32-bit memory, and
to report various parameters when called from a script.
This is version 1.5, an update to version 1.4 on disk 187.
Includes source.
Author: Dave Haynie
CONTENTS OF DISK 224
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CLImax For all those people who wish that their CLI windows had
25 lines of 80 characters just like an old fashioned non-
windowing computer, the answer is here. CLImax creates a
borderless backdrop CLI window on a custom screen. Also
thrown in is MoveSys, which reassigns SYS:, C:, S:, L:,
DEVS:, LIBS:, and FONTS: to a new volume with one simple
"pure" command. Includes source.
Author: Paul Kienitz
KickMem A program for A1000 hardware hackers that have done the
Amazing Computing 512K upgrade. KickMem will patch your
1.2 or 1.3 kickstart disk to perform addmem during
kickstart. This allows warm boot surviveability of ram
disk devices and eliminates addmem commands from your
startup sequence. Version 2.0, includes source.
Author: Dave Williams
MoreIsBetter These two hacks make MORE more useful. One is called V;
it's a small "pure" CLI command that acts as a front end
for More, causing it to create its own window. Make V and
More both resident! The other is Fenestrate, which
surgically alters the CON: window spec inside More enabling
it to, for instance, use ConMan features to create a
borderless window on the topmost screen (very useful with
CLImax). Includes source.
Author: Paul Kienitz
PetersQuest This cute game has you, the intrepid Peter, following
a trail of hearts through a world of 20 levels, riddled
with porcupines and other hazards, to rescue Daphne, the
love of your life that has been kidnapped by the evil
Brutus. Version 1.0, binary only.
Author: David Meny
Who This is a rewrite of "who", from disk 79, which gives
substantially more elaborate information about the tasks
currently running (or waiting) on your Amiga. Includes
source.
Author: George Musser, rewrite by Paul Kienitz
Xebec A couple of hacks to make life easier for those who have
Xebec hard disks. One makes it more possible to Mount a
Xebec hard disk with the Fast File System, the other is a
compact head parking program. Includes source.
Author: Paul Kienitz
CONTENTS OF DISK 225
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AmigaTCP This is the KA9Q Internet Software Package. The package
supports IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, and ARP as basic services, and
implements the FTP, Telnet, and SMTP protocols as
applications. It runs on IBM PC and clones, the Apple
Macintosh, and the Amiga. Includes source.
Author: Bdale Garbee, Phil Karn, Brian Lloyd
MyMenu This program allows you to add your own menus to the
WorkBench menu strip, to run commonly used commands.
MyMenu will allow you to execute both CLI and WorkBench
programs, and is configured with a normal text file.
Includes source.
Author: Darin Johnson
CONTENTS OF DISK 226
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Vlt VLT is both a VT100 emulator and a Tektronix (4014 plus
subset of 4105) emulator, currently in use at SLAC
(Stanford Linear Accelerator Center). Although the VT100
part was originally based on Dave Wecker et al.'s VT100,
many enhancements were made. The program requires ARP, and
it has an ARexx port. XMODEM 1K/CRC and Kermit protocol
support also included. This is version 4.036, with many
enhancements over the previous version, 3.656, included
on disk 202. New features include support for other serial
ports, external file transfer protocols, and "chat" mode.
Improved behavior on the Workbench. Tektronix emulation
now allows saving IFF files, PostScript files, and
printing bitmaps to the printer. Many other enhancements
and bug fixes. Binary only.
Author: Willy Langeveld
CONTENTS OF DISK 227
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MidiLib A disk based library that permits sharing of the serial
port by MIDI applications through a MIDI message routing
and processing system. The midi utilities include a midi
monitor to display incoming midi messages to the console,
a routing utility, a midi library status utility, and more.
This is version 2.0, an update to the version released on
disk 101, and includes significant speed enhancements, new
utilities to play with MIDI files, and updated utilities,
documentation and examples. Binary only (source for
examples and bindings however).
Author: Bill Barton
PickPacket PickPacket gives you a visual display of the DosPacket
structures that are sent to handlers, and lets you see
the results. You can actually perform handler operations
such as open files, read or write data, Examine or ExNext
locks, and so forth, all by talking directly to the file
system handler involved using PickPacket. Version 1.0,
includes source.
Author: John Toebes and Doug Walker
RexxArpLib A library which originally was supposed to be an ARexx
interface to the ARP library. However, it has also become
an interface to various Intuition functions, containing over
50 functions including a file requester, string/boolean
requester, environment variable functions, simple message
window, wildcard expander, etc. This is version 2.3, an
update to version 2.0 on disk 178. Binary only.
Author: W.G.J. Langeveld
RexxMathLib A library which makes various high level math functions
such as sin, tangent, log, etc, available in ARexx.
Version 1.2 and 1.3, binary only.
Author: W.G.J. Langeveld
CONTENTS OF DISK 228
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Az A nice little text editor that is fast, simple to use,
and very Amiga'ized. Version 1.40, binary only.
Author: Jean-Michel Forgeas
Glib A text screen oriented librarian and editor for synths.
Supports the TX81Z, DX100, DEP5, DW8000, and K-5.
Includes source.
Author: Tim Thompson, Steve Falco, and Alan Bland
JazzBench A drop-in multitasking replacement for WorkBench. It
has more features that WorkBench and is fully multitasking
(no more waiting for ZZZ clouds). It allows you to extend
it, add your own menus, key shortcuts, etc. This is alpha
version 0.8, binary only.
Author: David Navas
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 1.3, an update to version 1.2 on disk 171.
Assembly source included.
Author: Werner Gunther
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# 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!{nud,mcdphx}!estinc!fnfprem@geomag.fsu.edu (Prem Subramanyan) (06/28/89)
Ok, this might be a stupid question, but I'm new to the net.
Where do I get the Fred Fish disks? I'm sure there are others
out there who also want to know, but were too afraid to ask.
I would very much like to get the Iff2Sun program, as we have
a BBS here in town with many HAM pictures on it that would be
nice to upload and view here on the Sun.
--- Prem Subrahmanyam