fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) (10/04/88)
The next batch of disks are ready and go into duplication tomorrow (Tuesday)
with mailing commencing shortly thereafter. All those with prepaid orders
should have their disks by no later than early next week.
As seems to be the tradition now, here is the information for obtaining
a complete electronic catalog of the library. The catalog comes on two
disks, "AmigaLibDisk0a" and "AmigaLibDisk0b". The first disk contains
the DirMaster database of the contents of all released disks, and the
second disk contains the "Contents" or "README.listXX" files from each
released disk. To receive a copy of the catalog disks send two blank
UNLABELED disks and four LOOSE first class stamps to:
Fred Fish
Catalog Disk Request
1346 West 10th Place
Tempe, Arizona 85281
USA
Note that I will supply the mailing label and return mailer. Also note
that because of the way duplication is done, you may not get back the same
disks you send in.
I continue to get email with no phone number included, for which I can't
respond because of some bogosity in the return path, causing the return
mail to get bounced back. If you sent me such mail in the last few months
and didn't get a reply, consider adding such information to your signature
file.
Below is a listing of the contents of disks 155 to 162. Thanks to all
who submitted material included in this release.
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CONTENTS OF DISK 155
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AsmExamples A couple of assembly code examples. Executables are
not extremely useful but the code might be of
considerable benefit to beginning assembly language
programmers.
Author: Henrik Clausen
Bison A replacement for unix "yacc" command. This is from
the GNU (GNU is Not Unix) effort. Contains updates
to the version on disk number 136, submitted by two
separate sources. Includes source.
Author: Bob Corbett and Richard Stallman, updates
by William Loftus and Scott Henry
NoSmoking Sample program showing the use of a recoverable alert
while displaying a personal health message. Includes
source.
Author: Theo Kermanidis
Scenery A very nice assembly language random scenery generator.
Generates very realistic looking landscapes. Includes
intuition interface and lots of menu options. Version
1.0, binary only.
Author: Brett Casebolt
CONTENTS OF DISK 156
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Blocks2 Amusing and colorful display of a moving trail of
"blocks". Update to version on disk number 71, however
this version also includes source.
Author: Gary Walker
Flex Flex is a replacement for the UNIX "lex" (lexical
analyzer generator) program that is faster than
lex, and freely redistributable. Includes source.
Authors: Jef Poskanzer, Vern Paxson, et. al.
Submissions by William Loftus and Scott Henry
Go64 Another screen hack aimed at an earlier Commodore product
(Not to be confused with the commercial product Go-64! from
Software Insight Systems). Includes source.
Author: Joerg Anslik
Grammars A group of lexical grammar files for Ada, C and Pascal for
use in conjunction with the flex program on this disk and
the bison program on disk #155
Authors: Various, submitted by William Loftus
OOPS! Tired of the monochrome background color of your Workbench
or CLI? Then try this colorful screen hack to brighten
things up! Includes source.
Author: Joerg Anslik
CONTENTS OF DISK 157
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60or80 A small utility to toggle the 60/80 column text modes
without having to go through preferences. Works from
either the CLI or the Workbench. Includes source.
Author: Mark Schretlen
AmicForm Creates a phonebook containing only those areacodes and
exchanges reachable through PC-Pursuit. Input any of Chet
Solace's Finalist BBS lists and it creates the phonebook
in a form usable by AmicTerm and a number of other popular
terminal programs. Version 1.3, Binary only.
Author: John Motsinger
AnimBalls A nifty little animation program that allows you to
create a collection of balls in three-space and then
interactively rotate them in real time using the mouse.
Includes source.
Author: Jim Guilford
BootBack A handy little utility to copy and save the boot block
from a disk, then later restore it should the disk
get stomped on by some ugly virus. Includes source.
Author: David Joiner
ECPM A CP/M emulator for the Amiga. Emulates an 8080
along with H19 terminal emulation. Update from version
on disk number 109. Includes source.
Author: Jim Cathey; Amiga port by Charlie Gibbs;
Significant improvements by Willi Kusche
KeyFiler A BBS message file sorter that allows sorting by keyword.
Includes a textreader, Soundex matching, and limited
wildcard capabilities. Version 1.0, Binary only.
Author: John Motsinger
ScreenZap A little utility to clean away screens that are left
by ill-behaving programs. It will kill every screen
behind the WorkBench, noting how many it gets. The
screens in front of WB are not affected. Includes
source.
Author: Lars Clausen
SetPrefs Allows you to build a whole library of preference settings
and instantly switch back and forth between them. Affects
all preference settings not just the colors. Very useful
for machines with multiple users or multiple external
devices. Includes Amiga's default and various sample
preference settings. Binary only.
Author: Martin Hippele
Xicon Xicon lets you use icons to call up scripts containing CLI
commands. This is version 2.01, an update to the version
on disk 102. Includes source.
Author: Pete Goodeve
CONTENTS OF DISK 158
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DiskX Nicely done Sector-based disk editor. Binary only
Author: Steve Tibbett
MemBoardTest Originally designed for production testing of A1000 memory
boards. Very nice intuition interface. Version 2.4,
Includes source in Modula.
Author: George Vokalek
MSDOS A program to list files written in standard MS-Dos or
Atari ST format. The files can then be copied to Ram and
rewritten to disk in Amiga-Dos format. Binary only,
Shareware, Version 0.1.
Author: Frank W|bbeling
PCBTool An early version of a shareware PC Board layout program
Lots of options including variable size pads and traces,
grids, grid snap, layers, zoom, selectable centering,
text and more. This version does not support printer/
plotter dumps or libraries. Version 2.6, binary only.
Author: George Vokalek
ScreenX A handy little background utility that provides a small
clock/memory counter in its inactive mode and a versatile
screen manipulator when called upon. Binary only with
source available from author, Version 2.1.
Author: Steve Tibbett
TaskX A "real-time" task editor. Lets you list and set the
priorities of all the currently running tasks. Binary
only, Version 2.0.
Author: Steve Tibbett
VirusX Update to the version on disk number 154, checks for
a couple of additional new strains. Includes source,
Version 1.6.
Author: Steve Tibbett
YachtC3 Update to the Yachtc program on disk #10, contains some fixes
and incorporates a simple sound process. Version 3, includes
source.
Author: Sheldon Leemon, with enhancements by Mark Schretlen
CONTENTS OF DISK 159
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Free A little command to put in your c directory that returns
memory status and number of tasks currently served by EXEC.
Includes source.
Author: Joerg Anslik
MidiTools A group of several different utility programs for those
who run a Midi system. Binary only.
Author: Jack Deckard
StarChart Nicely done intuition based program to display and identify
about 600 stars, galaxies and nebulae visible in the Northern
hemisphere. Version 1.2, includes source.
Author: Ray R. Larson
TaskControl Nicely done task-handling program allowing you to put to
sleep, kill or change priorities of the all the currently
loaded tasks. Also potentially GURU-producing, so be careful
what tasks you kill, change priorities of, etc. Handy window
sizer will reduce it almost to an icon to hang around until
you want to use it. Binary only.
Author: J. Martin Hippele
TUC "The Ultimate Clock". Another window title clock/memory
minder. This one is in 132 columns! Also gives the free
memory on drives DF0, DF1 & DF2. Includes source.
Author: Joerg Anslik
CONTENTS OF DISK 160
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Calls A little utility to help analyze the flow of a C-program by
laying out the functions called in a hierarchical manner.
Author: Originally from Usenet with major revisions by
Kevin Braunsdorf, Amiga port by George MacDonald
Check A useful little utility for finding structural errors
in C-source code. Many command-line options. Version
1.03, binary only.
Author: Keith Elbertson
Dis A 68000 disassembler, written in assembly, this is an update
to the version on disk #128. Includes source.
Author: Greg Lee with enhancements by Willi Kusche
DMouse A versatile screen & mouse blanker, auto window activator,
mouse accelerator, popcli, pop window to front, push
window to back, etc, widget. Version 1.09, includes source.
Update to version on disk number 145.
Author: Matt Dillon
DWIP "Daisy Wheel IFF Printer". A graphics printing utility
that allows the printing of IFF pictures on a daisy wheel
printer. Includes source.
Author: Ken Van Camp
M4 A UNIX M4 look-alike macro processor intended as a
front end for Ratfor, Pascal, and other languages that do
not have a built-in macro processing capability. Pd M4
reads standard input, the processed text is written on the
standard output.
Author: Ozan S. Yigit (oz)
MemoPad A shareware intuition-based memo reminder program.
Nicely done. Update to version on disk #146, version
1.2, binary only.
Author: Michael Griebling
NeuralNets A neural network example using the generalized back-
propagation delta rule for learning, specifically applied
to the tabula rasa Little Red Riding Hood instance.
Author: Josiah C. Hoskins
CONTENTS OF DISK 161
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Friends Cute little screen hack with command-line options to keep
your mouse pointer company when you step away. Includes
source.
Author: Michael Warner
Getsprite A simple little program to convert Dpaint brushes into
C-source. Binary only.
Author: Michael Warner
IncRev A handy little program that will automatically increment
the revision number of a program every time it is recompiled.
Binary only.
Author: Bryan Ford
LGZ A Map generator/editor for the LGZ game. Not extremely
useful if you don't happen to play that game, but good
source example of intuition interfacing. Vesion 0.1.
Authors: Lars and Henrik Clausen
Mackie A versatile cli/macro-key initiator based on POPCLI with
a unique method of "screen-blanking". I won't say more,
just try it! Version 1.1, includes source.
Author: Thomas Rokicki
Nag A shareware appointment calendar with it's own editor and a
unique 'nagging' feature utilizing the Amiga's voice and
audio devices. Version 1.6, binary only.
Author: Richard Lee Stockton
Perl Practical Extraction and Report Language, an interpreted
language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files,
extracting information from those text files, and printing
reports based on that information.
Author: Larry Wall
VRTest Another anti-virus utility that allows visual inspection
of ram starting a $7E7FE, ram cleaning, bootblock
inspection and vector monitoring/reseting. Written
entirely in assembly language. Version 3.2, binary only.
Author: Babar Khan
XBoot A very simple utility to convert a boot block into an
executable file so you can use your favorite debugger
(Wack, Dis, etc.) to study it. Includes source.
Author: Francois Rouaix
CONTENTS OF DISK 162
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Avi A workalike version of the UNIX vi editor for the amiga.
Though not especially recommended for beginners, designed
for those of you who may have the vi commands permanently
hard-coded into your fingertips! Version 1.0, binary only.
Author: Peter Nestor
CLI_Utilities This directory contains several subdirectories with
small utilities, collected from various sources,
that are only usable from the CLI. See the Readme
file for further information. Some include source.
Author: Various
Dark A small graphics and animation demo. Includes source.
Author: Phil Robertson
Flow2Troff A little utility to convert from New Horizons Software
"FLOW" files to UNIX "troff" files, suitable for printing
on any troff-compatible laser printer. Version 1.0,
includes source and a sample "FLOW" file.
Author: Daniel Barrett
LabyrinthII A shareware role-playing text adventure game similar in
operation to the Infocom text adventures. Includes source.
Author: Russell Wallace
Iffar Maintains archives of Interchange File Format (IFF) FORM,
CAT and LIST files in a manner that complies with the
IFF CAT specification. Version 1.2, includes source.
Author: Karl Lehenbauer
SetPALorNTSC A couple of utility programs for testing the suitability
of a developed program in either the PAL or NTSC
environments. Includes source and a sample program.
Author: Peter Kittel
TES "The Electronic Slave" adds a gadget strip to the top of
the cli window to perform such functions as device
directories, info, run ED, and time. Currently, assignments
are hardcoded but not difficult to change if you own a
compiler. Version 1.1, includes source.
Author: Joerg Anslik
UnknownGirl Another small musical piece similar in execution to
"Synthemania" on disk number 153. Binary only.
Author: Holger Lubitz
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That's it for now...
-Fred
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