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. =========================================================================== CONTENTS OF DISK 155 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 -------------------- 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 =========================================================================== That's it for now... -Fred -- # Fred Fish, 1346 West 10th Place, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA # noao!nud!fishpond!fnf (602) 921-1113