fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) (05/05/89)
Disks 201-210 are now available. Duplication and mailing of preordered disks begins tomorrow, and should be completed by Monday. -Fred CONTENTS OF DISK 201 -------------------- Draco Update to Chris Gray's Draco distribution for the Amiga. Enhancements include support for floating point, register variables, more optimization, improved call/return standard, etc. This is version 1.2, an update to the version on disk 76. Requires documentation from disk 77 to complete the distribution kit. Binary only. Author: Chris Gray DropCloth DropCloth lets you place a pattern, a 2 bitplane IFF image or a combination of a pattern and image, into the WorkBench backdrop. This is version 2.4, an update to version 2.2 on disk 128. Shareware, binary only. Author: Eric Lavitsky CONTENTS OF DISK 202 -------------------- SlavicFonts A whole bunch of new fonts from Robin LaPasha. Version 1.0. Author: Robin LaPasha 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. Version 3.656, binary only. Author: Willy Langeveld CONTENTS OF DISK 203 -------------------- Examples Assembly and C code examples, including some old favorites (like speechtoy and yachtc3) downcoded to assembly language. Includes a replacement for the official audio device, an example of creating a subtask, a rewrite in assembly of R. J. Mical's file requester, an example of installing a custom input handler ahead of intuition, and more. Author: Jim Fiore and Jeff Glatt GurusGuide The source files for all examples published in the "Guru's Guide, Meditation #1: Interrupts" by Carl Sassenrath, the architect of the Amiga's low-level multitasking operating system and designer of Exec. Author: Carl Sassenrath Isam A library of routines to access relational data base systems using the Index Sequential Access Method (ISAM). This is beta version 0.9, binary only. Author: Kai Oliver Ploog CONTENTS OF DISK 204 -------------------- FileReq A simple file requestor, written as an exercise by the author to see how easy it would be (it wasn't). Includes source. Author: Jonathan Potter GnuGrep The grep program from the GNU project. Replaces grep fgrep, egrep, and bmgrep. Currently does not expand Amiga style wildcards, so if you wish to scan multiple files you will need to use it with a shell that does this for you. Version 1.3, includes source. Author: Mike Haertel, James Woods, Arthur Olson, Richard Stallman, Doug Gwyn, Scott Anderson, Henry Spencer HAMCu Installs a custom copper list for the current active view (usually workbench) that contains all the colours from 0x000 to 0xfff. A neat effect and an easy way to show off the color capabilities of the Amiga. Includes source. Author: Jonathan Potter Image-Ed An shareware icon editor submitted by the author for inclusion in the library. Suggested shareware donation of $20. Version 1.8, binary only. Author: Jonathan Potter JPClock A short clock program that is just packed with features. Includes source. Author: Jonathan Potter MouseBounce A short hack/game that makes your mouse pointer bounce around the screen. The object is to close the MouseBounce window and exit the game. Each time you click the mouse button, the pointer speeds up. Includes source. Author: Jonathan Potter PopDir A small utility which "pops open" to help you look at the contents of a particular directory on demand. Version 1.4, includes source. Author: Jonathan Potter PopInfo A small utility which "pops open" to give you information about the status of your devices and memory. Version 2.9, includes source. Author: Jonathan Potter Teacher Teacher is a short, simple hack. I won't spoil the fun by telling you what it does. Includes source. Author: Jonathan Potter CONTENTS OF DISK 205 -------------------- Bally Amiga port of the former arcade game named Click. This version now has sound effects. Version II, an update to the version released on disk 181. Binary only, shareware. Author: Oliver Wagner BattleForce A nicely done shareware game, submitted by the author, that simulates combat between two or more giant, robot-like machines. Binary only, version 3.01. Author: Ralph Reed Chess A port of a chess game posted to Usenet. This is an update to the version first included on disk 96. It has been upgraded to use an Amiga Intuition interface. Version 2.0, binary only. Author: John Stanback; ported to Amiga by Bob Leivian Version 2.0 upgrades by Alfred Kaufmann CONTENTS OF DISK 206 -------------------- All of this material is from the 1988 Badge Killer Demo Contest. Brownian A demo based on both fractal theory and brownian motion. Includes source. Author: John M. Olsen Hawk A stereo image of a hawk. Requires red/green stereo glasses to view. Author: Unknown (no documentation included) MemFlick Treats all the memory in your Amiga like it was part of a bitplane inside a graphics display. Provides sort of a graphical picture of your memory usage. Binary only. Author: Jim Webster PeX A demo of the various graphics capabilities of the Amiga. Author: Unknown (no documentation included) PictureGarden Another demo, apparently in compiled basic. Author: Unknown (no documentation included) StereoDemo A demo of stereoscopic graphics, written in assembly language. Requires red/green stereo glasses to view. Includes sources. Author: David M. McKinstry Triple Three demos of some of the Amiga's graphics and sound capabilities. Binary only. Author: Tomas Rokicki CONTENTS OF DISK 207 -------------------- Coyote Gene's entry to the 1988 Badge Killer Demo contest. A very cute (and large) animation. Requires about 1900 blocks of disk space, so it is distributed in "arc format". Author: Gene Brawn CONTENTS OF DISK 208 -------------------- AsteroidField This is Michael's entry for the 1988 Badge Killer Demo Contest. It is a large animation of a spacecraft flying madly through an asteroid field (chased by unseen foes) that includes a couple of near misses. Author: Michael Powell CONTENTS OF DISK 209 -------------------- Bowl This is Vern's entry for the 1988 Badge Killer Demo Contest. It is a Sculpt-Animate animation that shows three colored balls flying in circles above a mirrored bowl. Rendering the animation took about 2 weeks. Distributed in zoo format because of its size (zoo program included for easy unpacking). Author: Vern Staats Dps A program designed to work with the PrintScript program, a commercial PostScript interpreter for the Amiga, to provide a page previewer. This is version 1.1 and includes source. Author: Allen Norskog CONTENTS OF DISK 210 -------------------- Calc A very nicely done scientific/programmer/plotter calculator. The scientific portion has most of the operations found on the more popular handhelds. The programmer portion has all the special hex/binary/decimal conversions as well as register operations like ASL, ROL, LSL, AND, OR, XOR, etc. The plotter portion will plot equations. Other features include 26 memories, full mouse or keyboard operation, pull-down menus, and iconization. Version 3.0, binary only. Author: Jimmy Yang LabelPrint A program that allows you to easily print labels for your disks. Version 1.9, shareware, binary only (source available from author). Author: Andreas Krebs NuHand An animation of a hand with fingernails scrapeing on a desktop, including sound effects. This is Bryan's entry for the 1988 Badge Killer Demo Contest. Binary only. Author: Bryan Carey Gallivan -- # Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA # 1-602-491-0048 asuvax!{nud,mcdphx}!estinc!fnf