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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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