fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (06/05/89)
Disks 211-220 are now complete and ready for distribution. Duplication and mailing of preordered disks begins later today and should be complete by Wednesday. 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 211 -------------------- AmigaWave This is Allen's entry to the 1988 Badge Killer Demo Contest. It is an animation with sound effects. Author: Allen Hastings Esperanto A keymap modification to usa1 which, in conjunction with the supplied slate.font, will allow one to type in Esperanto and Welsh, in any program that will use keymaps and fonts. Author: Glyn Gowing Image-Ed An shareware icon editor submitted by the author for inclusion in the library. Suggested shareware donation of $20. Version 1.9, binary only. Fixes a serious bug in the 1.8 version on disk 204. Author: Jonathan Potter SignFont A keymap and font that will allow the user to be able to type in American Sign Language, provided that one knows the font. Author: Glyn Gowing VirusControl A new virus detection and control program that checks disks during insertion, protects from link viruses, shows bootblock on a screen, periodically checks system vectors, controls access to files with a requester, etc. Version 1.3, includes full assembly language source code. Author: Pius Nippgen CONTENTS OF DISK 212 -------------------- Alice This animation is Carey's entry to the 1988 Badge Killer Demo Contest. Author: Carey T. Pelto DiskSalv A disk recovery program for all Amiga file system devices that use either the Amiga Standard File System or the Amiga Fast File System. Disksalv creates a new filesystem structure on another device, with as much data salvaged from the original device as possible. This is an update to the version released on disk 177. Binary only. Author: Dave Haynie DogsWorld This animation is Charles' entry to the 1988 Badge Killer Demo Contest. Author: Charles Voner CONTENTS OF DISK 213 -------------------- Cucug This animation of the Champaign-Urbana Commodore Users Group logo was submitted to the 1988 Badge Killer Demo Contest by Ed Serbe. Author: Ed Serbe Icons Almost 300 icons in eight (!) colors. Uses a special program to get an eight color workbench to display these icons, which were made with DPaintII and IconGen. Most icons are miniatures of the main screen of their corresponding programs, or the picture they show, made with "iconize" and "recolor" from disk 85. Author: Wolf-Peter Dehnick CONTENTS OF DISK 214 -------------------- ArcPrep ArcPrep prepares files and/or directories for archival with arc or any other program that can't scan through different directories and/or handle long filenames. Version 2.1, includes source. Author: Garry Glendown MandelVroom A Mandelbrot/Julia-curve generating program that features five numerical generators (integer, ffp, ieee, 020, and 020/881) in hand-crafted assembly for maximum speed, online mouse selectable help for all functions, generation of multiple pictures simultaneously, a sophisticated user interface with shaded gadgets, etc. Some of the other features include zoom, magnify, color-cycling, contouring, auto-contouring, histogram, statistics, presets, extra- halfbrite support, overscan, orbits, pan mode, and more. Requires 1Mb or more of memory. This is the source to version 2.0, an update to the version on disk 78. A compiled binary, along with help files and example images, can be found on disk 215. Author: Kevin Clague MemDiag A memory diagnostic program to identify addresses which produce memory errors, and a memory quarantine program which removes such defective addresses from the system's free memory list, until such time as the hardware errors can be corrected. Version 1.1, includes source. Author: Fabbian Dufoe RunBack Another step in the evolution of Rob Peck's RunBackGround program, from disks 73 and 152. Allows you to start a new CLI program and run it in the background, then closes the new CLI. This version has been enhanced to use the NULL: device by Gunnar Nordmark (included), which is a "real" device, so it solves problems with previous versions of RunBack which used the Nil: "fake" device, causing many crashes. Includes source. Author: Rob Peck, Daniel Barrett, Tim Maffett SmartIcon This shareware program, submitted by the author, is an Intuition objects iconifier. Version 1.0 is limited to iconifying windows, which is still very handy. It adds a new "iconify gadget" to each window, that when clicked on, iconifies the window into an icon in the ram: disk. This is the same version as released on disk 134, but now includes the source code. Author: Gauthier Groult CONTENTS OF DISK 215 -------------------- MandelVroom A Mandelbrot/Julia-curve generating program that features five numerical generators (integer, ffp, ieee, 020, and 020/881) in hand-crafted assembly for maximum speed, online mouse selectable help for all functions, generation of multiple pictures simultaneously, a sophisticated user interface with shaded gadgets, etc. Some of the other features include zoom, magnify, color-cycling, contouring, auto-contouring, histogram, statistics, presets, extra- halfbrite support, overscan, orbits, pan mode, and more. Requires 1Mb or more of memory. This is version 2.0, an update to the version on disk 78. Source is available on disk 214. Author: Kevin Clague CONTENTS OF DISK 216 -------------------- BackDrop Backdrop allows you to define a pattern which will then be displayed on the workbench screen in the normally empty area behind all the windows. Similar in concept to DropCloth, but this one does not require workbench to be loaded (and does not cohabit very well with workbench). Includes source. Author: Eddy Carroll C64Emul An April Fools spoof that turns your Amiga into a C64, or at least makes it look that way. Includes source. Author: Eddy Carroll Cloud A program that generates and displays fractal surfaces that look remarkably like clouds. Based on ideas from the book "Fractals" by Jens Feder. Binary only. Author: Mike Hall PrtSpool A DOS handler, a print program, and a control program that implement a print spooling system. Like PRT:, the DOS handler waits for stuff to be sent to it to be printed. The print program does line numbering and page headers. The control program handles administrative functions. Binary only. Author: Daniel Barrens VirusX Version 3.20 of the popular virus detection/vaccination program. Features a test for 8 new viruses since the 3.10 version on disk 175. Includes source. Author: Steve Tibbett Wanderer A neat little game with graphics and sound, ported from the Unix version, originally written on a Sun workstation. The idea for Wanderer came from games such as Boulderdash, Xor, and the Repton games from Superior Software. Includes a builtin editor for extending the game by adding additional screens. Version 2.2, includes source. Author: Steven Shipway and others. Amiga port by Alan Bland CONTENTS OF DISK 217 -------------------- AntiCBS An animation cooked up by Leo in protest of CBS's coverage of the Hacker's Conference in Oct 88. After reading the transcript I was angered enough to feel this needed widespread distribution, even though it is quite old. Author: Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab Echo A small replacement for the AmigaDOS echo that will do some special functions, such as clear the screen, delete to bottom of screen, scroll the screen, place the cursor at a particular location, and set the text style and/or color. Includes source. Author: Garry Glendown InstallBeep This program replaces the DisplayBeep function so that an IFF 8SVX sound is played instead of the screen flashing. The PlayBeep function runs as a task in the background and runs asynchronously so the length of the sound does not slow anything down. Includes a couple of sample sound files. Version 1.1, binary only. Author: Tim Friest and Don Withey SnipIt An input handler wedge which allows you to clip text from any window and then paste that text anywhere, as though you had typed it on the keyboard. You mark the text you want to "snip" using the mouse, and then use the mouse to "paste" the last snipped text into the active window, requester, or anywhere. Version 1.2, includes source. Author: Scott Evernden SonixPeek A utility to let you list all the instruments used by one or more Aegis Sonix score files. It can scan individual files, or search one or more directories, checking all score files in each directory. The output is a list of all the instruments you need to have present in order to be able to play the indicated score files. Includes source. Author: Eddy Carroll Stevie A public domain clone of the UNIX 'vi' editor. Supports window-sizing, arrow keys, and the help key. Version 3.6, includes source. This is an update to version 3.35a on disk 197. Author: Various, Amiga work by G. R. (Fred) Walter CONTENTS OF DISK 218 -------------------- EdLib A library of additional functions for Manx. This is version 1.1, an update to version 1.0 from disk 183. Includes source. Author: Edwin Hoogerbeets with C-functions from several different authors Mandel Another mandelbrot generator program, with bits and pieces of code from C. Heath and R.J. Mical. This is version 1.3, an update to the version on disk 111. New features and improvements include an ARexx interface, coordinates in sight, more state info saved with a picture, batch files, programmable functions, and more plotting options. Includes source. Author: Olaf Seibert Maze A program that lets you build mazes and then solve them. Mazes can be trivial one level mazes to very difficult three level mazes. Version 1.2, includes source. Author: Todd Lewis PcPatch Patches for PCCopy and PCFormat from the EXTRAS disk, to allow reading, writing, and formatting of any kind of MS-Dos style disks, including 720K 3.5" diskettes. Binary only. This is an update to the version on disk 163. Author: Werner Guenther Scanner Scanner makes commented C code of all intuition structures in memory. The structures will receive correct pointers towards each other. Scanner starts looking at IntuitionBase, and follows all pointers, storing them in memory. When finished, it writes all the structures to the standard output. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Stefan Parmark Worm An Amiga implementation of the classic "worms" program, based on an article in the Dec 1987 issue of Scientific American. You can specify the size and length of the worms, and the number of worms. Includes source. Author: Brad Taylor, Amiga port by Chuck McManis CONTENTS OF DISK 219 -------------------- DeepSky A database containing information on 10,368 non-stellar objects, 600 color contrasting easily resolved double stars, 70 stars for setting circles, and misc white dwarfs, red stars, binaries, etc. The database is distributed in zoo format, and is about 1.2 Mb after extraction. Version 5.0. Author: Saguaro Astronomy Club Mv A Unix style mv/cp/rm program that moves, copies, or removes files. Includes interactive mode, recursive mode, and force quiet mode. Copies file permissions, dates, and comments, supports arp style wildcards, supports moves across volumes, honors the delete bit. Version 1.1, includes source. Author: Edwin Hoogerbeets CONTENTS OF DISK 220 -------------------- DNet A link protocol that provides essentially an unlimited number of reliable connections between processes on two machines, where each end of the link can be either an Amiga or a Unix (BSD4.3) machine. Works on the Amiga with any EXEC device that looks like the serial.device. Works on UNIX with tty and socket devices. Achieves better than 95% average throughput on file transfers. This is version 2.0, an update to version 1.20 released on disk 145. Includes sources for both the Amiga and Unix versions. Author: Matt Dillon -- # Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA # 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!{nud,mcdphx}!estinc!fnf