fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) (03/23/88)
Disks 129 to 138 are now ready for release. Mailing of preordered disks begins tomorrow and should be completed by this weekend, so watch your mailboxes! Every time I release a new batch of disks I end up with about four dozen disks people submitted, but for one reason or the other I wasn't able to include the submitted material in this batch. If yours is one of those, don't give up yet. There are a number of interesting programs that I have earmarked for the next batch of disks. Speaking of the next batch, I'll try not to take another two months to get them ready. Maybe after April 18th I'll have more time. Those industry watchers that read the March 10th issue of the Wall Street Journal can probably figure out the significance of this date... :-) The catalog disk has now been split into TWO disks, AmigaLibDisk0a and AmigaLibDisk0b. The first disk now contains the DirMaster database of the contents of all released disks, and the second disk contains the "Contents/README.listXX" files from each disk. To receive a copy of the catalog disks send two blank disks and three loose first class stamps to: Fred Fish Catalog Disk Request 1346 West 10th Place Tempe, Arizona 85281 USA One last note; I get frustrated when I get email from people and then can't get a message back to them because of some sort of braindamage in the return path. Please don't assume that just because you never saw a bounced message, that it actually got through to me, or even if it did, that I ignored it. I DO RESPOND TO ALL MY MAIL. I don't spend ANY time trying to figure out how to work around bad paths if my response gets bounced back. For best results, include your phone number in case the email route fails completely. Also note that my preferred usenet address has changed recently to this machine, rather than mcdsun!fnf. Below is a listing of the contents of disks 129 to 138: DISK 129 -------- DosKwik A pair of programs which allow you to save files, or a group of files, to one or more floppies for quick loading (loading up a ram disk for example). Does not store files in DOS format, which is why it is faster. Version 2.0, update to version on disk 103. Binary only, shareware. Author: Gary Kemper MRBackUp A hard disk backup utility, that does a file by file copy to standard AmigaDOS floppy disks. Includes an intuition interface and file compression. Versions 2.0 (with sources) and 2.1 (binary only, source available from author). This is an update to version on disk 128. Author: Mark Rinfret PaintJet An "official" Hewlett Packard PaintJet printer driver received directly from HP sources. Don't settle for a bogus one, or pay the $50 some vendors are apparently asking for one. Author: Unknown Patch Two independent ports of the very useful Unix utility "patch", which applies context diffs to text files to automatically update them. Patch version 1.3 was ported to the Amiga by Rick Coupland and patch version 2.0 was ported by Johan Widen. Includes source. Author: Larry Wall DISK 130 -------- DirMaster A very nicely done shareware disk cataloger, submitted by the author for inclusion in the library. This is version 1.1, an update to the version released on disk 108. Lots of neat new features and enhancements. Binary only. Author: Greg Peters Evo A human evolution toy/tutorial. Includes source. Author: Steve Bonner Hp A nice RPN calculator program that supports calculations with binary, octal, decimal, hex, float, and complex numbers. Other features include 32 registers for storing data and transcendental functions. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Steve Bonner Mach A "mouse accelerator" program that also includes hotkeys, the features of sun mouse, clicktofront, and popcli, a title bar clock with a bbs online charge accumulator, and more. Version 1.6a, includes source. Author: Brian Moats PatEdit A pattern editor for creating patterns to input to the Amiga SetAfPt macro call. This call sets the area fill pattern for the area filling graphics calls such as RectFill, AreaDraw, etc. Includes source. Author: Don Hyde QMan Mandelbrot generator written partially in assembly for speed. Includes source. Author: Steve Bonner DISK 131 -------- Dfc Copies disks like Maurader, but multitasks. Replaces both diskcopy and format but is smaller than either. It even has a nice little Intuition interface. Includes source. Author: Tomas Rokicki HyperBase Nice little shareware database management system. Version 1.6, binary only, source available from authors. Update to version on disk number 58. Author: Michael MacKenzie, Marc Mengel, and Craig Norborg Life A new version of Tomas's ancient Life game, but with a new macro language for setting up patterns, some good examples, and some more good stuff. Includes source. Author: Tomas Rokicki Mackie A Popcli replacement that draws pretty lines on the screen in blanking mode. Includes source. Author: Software Distillery; enhancements by Tomas Rokicki Mg1b A version of Mg1b with an ARexx port and other improvements by Tomas Rokicki. Finally you can define macros and bind them to function keys in your startup file! Includes source. Author: Various; enhancements by Tomas Rokicki WFrags Another version of Frags, but this one pops up a nice little window that updates occasionally. Necessary for developers who wonder what their program is doing to memory, or wonder why they can't load that program. Includes source. Author: Tomas Rokicki DISK 132 -------- Berserk This animation, unveiled at the September 87 meeting of the First Amiga Users Group, got Leo a standing ovation. It is a "must see" for every Amiga user, and ranks up there with "Juggler" as a premier demo for the Amiga. The difference between this distribution, and the one on disk 100, is that this one includes "source". I.E. it contains all the object descriptions necessary to recreate the animation. Thus you can, if you like, try modifying various objects to create slightly different animations, or use it as an example for creating your own animations. Seldom does a disk get devoted to a single program, however animation is one of the Amiga's greatest strengths, and I felt it was appropriate to have at least one animation that was available at the "source code" level. Author: Leo Schwab DISK 133 -------- Conman Extremely useful replacement for the standard console handler, that provides line editing and command line histories completely transparent to any application program that uses CON: windows. This program is shareware, and well worth a donation to the author. Version 1.1, binary only, update to version on disk 100. New features include additional editing keys, fast search keys, undo key, clear history command, and more. Author: William Hawes Crc Two programs that are very useful for generating 16-bit CRC listings of the contents of disks, and verifying that a given disk's files still compute to the same CRC's as listed. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Don Kindred CrcLists Complete CRC check files for disks 1-128 of the library, using the Crc program also included on this disk. These were made directly from my master disks. Author: Fred Fish Overscan Patches the Intuition library so that sizable windows with MaxHeight of 200 (400 in interlace) and screens with Height of 200 (400 in interlace) will take advantage of the PAL overscan capability of Intuition V1.2. This seems to be useful only for European users that wish to run software written for the American market, without modifying the applications, but still using the additional space. Includes source. Author: Ari Freund DISK 134 -------- BoingThrows A 50 frame HAM animation done with Sculpt-3D, and minor touchups with DigiPaint. The animation took about 325 hours of runtime to generate. Author: Marvin Landis Browser A workbench tool, using text-only windows, that makes all files in the system accessible for executing, copying, moving, renaming, deleting, etc. Billed as a "programmers workbench". Version 1.2, binary only. Author: Peter da Silva Dme Version 1.29 of Matt's text editor. Dme is a simple WYSIWYG editor designed for programmers. It is not a WYSIWYG word processor in the traditional sense. Features include arbitrary key mapping, fast scrolling, title-line statistics multiple windows, and ability to iconify windows. Update to version on disk number 113, includes source. Author: Matt Dillon Find Find is a utility which searches for files that satisfy a given boolean expression of attributes, starting from a root pathname and searching recursively down through the hierarchy of the file system. Very much like the Unix find program. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Rodney Lewis Library Demo version of a shareware program that stores textual information without regard to structure or content, and allows complicated searching for specific patterns. Written in assembler for speed, binary only. Author: Bill Brownson 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. Binary only, source available from author. Author: Gauthier Groult DISK 135 -------- TeXF A selection of 78 TeX fonts, with a conversion program to convert them to Amiga fonts. There are 22 different fonts at various sizes, ranging from 15 pixels high to more than 150 pixels. The conversion program can also be used with the fonts distributed with AmigaTeX, yielding an additional 1000 or so more fonts for use with other Amiga programs. Version 2.5, binary only. Author: Ali Ozer DISK 136 -------- AsmToolBox An assembler "toolbox" created to make interfacing between assembler programs and AmigaDOS easy. Includes source. Author: Warren Ring Bison A replacement for unix "yacc" command. This is from the GNU (GNU is Not Unix) effort. It is a port of the latest GNU version, done by William Loftus, with the goal of preserving all of bison's current features. Includes source and testing program "calc". Author: Bob Corbett and Richard Stallman. Iff2Pcs An interactive puzzle program that takes any IFF file containing up to 16 colors, and breaks it up into squares to make a puzzle which the user can then piece back together again. Version 1.1, an update to the version on disk 122, includes source. Author: Ali Ozer Paste A version of the Unix paste utility. Paste concatenates corresponding lines of the specified files into a single output line (horizontal or parallel merging) or concatenates them into alternate lines (vertical or serial merging). Includes source. Author: David Ihnat YaBoingII A game program demonstrating hardware sprite usage, including collision detection. This is an update to the version on disk 36. Includes source. Author: Ali Ozer, based on original by Leo Schwab Zoo A file archiver, much like "arc" in concept, but different in implementation and user interface details. Includes some nice features that "arc" lacks (such as file/path names up to 255 characters in length). This is version 1.71, an update to the version released on disk 108. Binary only. Author: Rahul Dhesi, Amiga port by Brian Waters DISK 137 -------- Ct An Amiga program to display images from a CT scanner, along with several interesting sample images of scans of real people, including a skull, brain, heart, and spine. Each image is 256 by 256 pixels in 2048 gray scale. The display software, though it has a primitive user interface, is quite powerful, including functions like convolutions, averaging, laplacians, unsharp masking, edge detection, gradients, etc. Binary only. Author: Jonathan Harman JeansIcons Miscellaneous cute icons created for AMUC's monthly newsletter disk. Submitted by Stephen Vermeulen. Author: Steve Jeans Muncho A cute little program which plays a digitized sound sample when you insert or remove a disk from your drive. If you don't like the sounds, you can replace them with your own. Binary only. Author: Andrew Werth Sit An update to the Set Icon Type program from disk 107. Version 1.10, includes source. Author: Stephen Vermeulen VGad A new gadget editor that takes two pictures of the window and its gadgets, one being the normal gadget state and the other being the fully selected state, and then merges the data and converts to C source code. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Stephen Vermeulen VirusX A boot sector virus check program that runs in the background and automatically checks all inserted disks for a nonstandard boot sector. Such disks can optionally have their boot sector rewritten to remove the virus. Includes source. Author: Steve Tibbett VLabel A program to print fancy customized disk labels. It will combine an IFF picture and up to 50 lines of text (which may be placed arbitrarily in any font or point size) and then print the result. The IFF picture can be virtually any size (up to 1008 by 1000). It will also print labels from a batch file produced by SuperBase. Version 1.20, binary only. Author: Stephen Vermeulen DISK 138 -------- AmigaLine A series of various technical notes for Amiga programmers. Author: Byrce Nesbitt Diff A program that uses the same algorithm as the Unix diff program and also produces context diffs, suitable for use with patch. Source WAS available but got eaten by my Amiga when it crashed, so binary only. Author: Unknown (Decus C diff?) Foreach A simple but useful program that expands a wild card file specification and then invokes the specified command once per expanded filename, with the expanded filename as the command argument. Includes source. Author: Jonas Flygare MacFont A conversion tool to convert Mac fonts to Amiga fonts. Binary only. Author: John O'Neill and Rico Mariani ModulaTools Various useful routines for those programming in Modula on the Amiga. Update to version on disk 94, includes source. Author: Jerry Mack Vt100 Two new versions of Dave's vt100 terminal emulator. One version, based on vt100 2.6, has been enhanced by John Barshinger to include an iconify feature, add full 132 column support using overscan, and other miscellaneous features. This version is available in binary only. The second version is release 2.8 of the mainstream version of vt100, as enhanced and supported by Tony Sumrall. This one include source. Author: Dave Wecker =============== That's it for now... -Fred ><> -- # Fred Fish hao!noao!mcdsun!fishpond!fnf (602) 921-1113 # Ye Olde Fishpond, 1346 West 10th Place, Tempe, AZ 85281 USA