fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) (12/22/87)
Several months ago I did three special "best-of" disks for C-A to distribute as part of the 10-disk set to user groups participating in the A500 special offer. Since these disks contained some of the more useful and interesting programs from my library, I called them the "Goldfish" disks. As far as I can tell, they do not seem to have gotten very wide distribution outside of the targeted user groups, so I'd now like to make them available for direct order under the same conditions as my other library disks. These disks are ideal as a "starter" set for someone who has just gotten their Amiga. The rest of this posting contains the "contents" files from each of the first 3 Goldfish disks. ====================================================================== This is disk 1 from the "Gold Fish" series, which is a collection of some of the best games, programs, examples, demos, etc from the Freely Distributable Amiga Software Library (aka "Fish disks"). Disk 1 contains a selection of some of the better games and demos that have appeared in the library. Unfortunately, the best available freely redistributable games, Hack and Larn from the Software Distillery, are too big to be included on a "sampler" disk like this. CuteStuff A collection of amusing little display hacks, most of them by the display hack master (Leo Schwab). Binary only, sources available for most. Cycles A simple but enjoyable game apparently inspired by the cycle game in the movie "Tron". Version 1.0, binary only. From disk number 78. Author: John G. Gilmore GravityWars The object of this game is for one player to hit the other player's ship with a missle, before being hit yourself. The ships and planets don't move, but aiming the missle in the presence of gravity fields and black holes makes hitting your target difficult. Version 1.04, shareware, author suggests $5 donation. Binary only, source in Modula II on disk number 84. Author: Ed Bartz Rot Program which generates and displays 3D objects. Consists of two pieces, an object editor and an action editor. The object editor creates 3D objects and the action editor defines up to 24 3D views of an object (which can be quickly cycled to get an animation effect). Version 0.5, binary only. Author: C. French Shanghai Demo version of the Activision game "Shanghai", submitted directly by Activision for inclusion in the library. Binary only, from disk number 55. TriClops Very nice graphics oriented 3-D space invasion game. This was previously a commercial product which is being released into the public domain for promotional purposes (they are working on a multiuser, multimachine version). Binary only. From disk number 35. Author: Unknown, published by Geodesic Publications ====================================================================== This is disk 2 from the "Gold Fish" series, which is a collection of some of the best games, programs, examples, demos, etc from the Freely Distributable Amiga Software Library (aka "Fish disks"). Disk 2 contains a selection of some of the communication utilities and aids that a user might need to get started telecommunicating. It also contains some of the more commonly required developer aids, such as a text editor, "make" utility, and reasonable shell. Not all the programs are available from the WorkBench. You have to use the CLI interface to run some of them ("compress" for example). Comm A nice terminal program with support for a phone number database and function key bindings. This is my current terminal program of choice for everyday use. Version 1.34, binary only, source on disk number 75. Author: DJ James Compress Compress reduces the size of the files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv coding. The amount of compression obtained depends on the size of the input, the number of bits per code, and the distribution of common substrings. Typically, text such as source code or English is reduced by 50-60%. Compression is generally much better then that achieved by Huffman coding (as used in "pack") or adaptive Huffman coding (as used in "compact"), and takes less time to compute. This is version 4.0, binary only, source on disk number 51. Author: Thomas Spencer, with improvements by others Csh Version 2.06 of Matt Dillon's csh like shell, modified for Manx C. Binary only, source on disk 85. Author: Matt Dillon, Manx'ified by Steve Drew FixObj Strip extraneous garbage off the end of object files transfered with xmodem. Does not require preknowledge of actual file length, uses knowledge of Amiga file structure. Version 1.1, binary only, source on disk number 38. Author: John Hodgson HunkPad Fixes an executable program, in a manner acceptable to AmigaDOS, such that it is a multiple of 128 bytes in length, thus making it immune to automatic padding by xmodem transfer protocols. Binary only, source on disk number 84. Author: J. Hamilton Kermit Port of the popular "C-kermit" program, a flexible virtual terminal and file transfer program from Columbia University. Binary only, source on disk number 26. This is version 4C(057). Author: Misc, ported to Amiga by Davide Cervone Make Public domain make from mod.sources, Volume 7, number 91. It has been cleaned up, Manx'ified, and some new features added, by Steve Walton. Binary only, source on disk number 69. Author: "caret@fairlight.OZ" MG1b Release 1b of the Amiga version of MicroGNUEmacs, a small but powerful text editor that also runs on many other computer systems besides the Amiga. One of MG's major goals is to be compatible with its "cousin" GNU Emacs. Binary only, source available on disk number 68. Author: Dave Conroy, extensive enhancements by Mike Meyer Mic Kaczmarczik, Bob Larson, and Dave Brower. Shar A program which can pack and unpack archives compatible with the Unix "shar" (shell archiver) program. Binary only, source on disk number 28. Author: Dave Wecker Tracker Program which converts a boot-load disk (such as a kickstart disk) into a group of files for electronic transmission and reassembly. Completely preserves the original disk structure so the target disk will be an exact duplicate of the original. From disk number 35, binary only. Author: Brad (Lord Bradford) Wilson UUencode Programs to encode/decode binary files for transmittal via mail or other text-only methods. The binary file is expanded by approximately 35% for transmittal. This release is an update to the version on disk number 38, and includes a simple line-by-line checksum technique that can read and write files compatible with the older uuencode/uudecode. Binary only, source on disk number 53. Author: Mark Horton with mods by Alan Rosenthal Vt100 Version 2.6 of Dave's vt100 terminal emulator with kermit and xmodem file transfer. It just keeps getting better and better. Binary only, source on disk number 55. Author: Dave Wecker ====================================================================== This is disk 3 from the "Gold Fish" series, which is a collection of some of the best games, programs, examples, demos, etc from the Freely Distributable Amiga Software Library (aka "Fish disks"). Disk 3 contains a selection of some of the more useful utilities for enhancing the Amiga software development and execution environment. ASDG-rrd Extremely useful shareware recoverable ram disk. This AmigaDOS device driver implements a completely DOS compatible disk device in memory that survives resets, guru's, and crashes. An absolute must for those with lots of ram. Binary only, from disk number 58. Author: Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc. AuxHandler Example of a dos handler that allows use of a CLI via the serial port. Source available on disk number 79. Author: Steve Drew ClickToFront ClickToFront extends the user-interface so that a double-click into a window brings it to the front. Now as long as you can see any part of a window you can bring it to the front without having to hunt for the page gadgets. Version 1.1, source available on disk number 86. Author: Bryce Nesbitt Cmd Cmd redirects the serial.device or parallel.device output to a file. Useful for capturing print jobs for debugging or "offline" printing. Version 4, source will be on a disk after disk 90. Author: Carolyn Scheppner Commodities Commodities Exchange, an Amiga exec library which can be opened and used by application programs to gain access to input in a very flexible way. This is a "minimal, binary only" copy. Source may be available on a future disk. Version 0.4, from disk number 87. Author: Jim Mackraz DiskSalv Program to recover files from a trashed AmigaDOS disk. Can also "undelete" files deleted by mistake, so long as they have not overwritten by further disk activity. Requires two disk drives. Source available on disk number 20. VERY useful... Author: Dave Haynie DropShadow A program that makes your WorkBench windows have dropshadows. This is version 2.0, source available on disk number 87. Author: Jim Mackraz HardCopy A neat little program that creates a hardcopy transcript of any CLI session (like the unix "script" program). Source available on disk number 75. Author: Davide Cervone IconExec These two tools allow execution of a program from an & SetWindow icon without having to recompile the program. Source available on disk number 12. Author: John Toebes VIII IconType Change the type of an icon after editing with IconEd. Types are Disk, Drawer, Tool, Project, Garbage, and Device. Source available on disk number 69. Author: Larry Phillips ID-Handler An AmigaDOS device handler, that generates unique identifiers. Generates a new unique 16 digit decimal number each time it is opened by an application. Version 1.0, source available on disk number 87. Author: Ed Puckett LowMem Another fine freely redistributable product from ASDG. This one is a low memory server, which is a compact shared library which allows arbitrary processes to register their desire to be notified of impending memory shortages. This allows good citizen programs to free up memory that they may not need, so other programs can use it. Binary only. From disk number 85. Author: Perry Kivolowitz MemWatch Memwatch is a program intended to sit in the background and watch for random trashing of low memory by an application under development. If it detects a write to low memory, it repairs it to what used to be there, then puts up a requester indicating what damage had been done. Very useful! Version II, source available on disk number 87. Author: John Toebes MoreRows A program to make the workbench screen larger than normal. The number of additional rows and columns are set via command line arguments. Binary only, from disk number 54. Author: Neil Katin and Jim Mackraz NewZAP A third-generation multi-purpose file sector editing utility, from the author of FileZAP. Displays and edits full 512-byte sectors via a 106 character wide internal font. Includes a search feature to find specific strings or hex digits, forwards or backwards. Version 3.0, source available on disk number 58. Author: John Hodgson PipeHandler An AmigaDOS pipe device which supports OPEN, CLOSE, READ, WRITE, LOCK, EXAMINE, and EXNEXT. Thus you can have "named pipes". It also supports "taps" on a pipe, to capture all data flowing through the pipe. Version 1.2, source available on disk number 84. Author: Ed Puckett PopCLI Provides a simple way of starting another CLI at any time without having to load workbench or exit whatever program you may be using. Also has a builtin screen saver mode that automatically blanks the Amiga console screen when there has been no input for a specified period of time. Version III, source available on disk number 84. Author: John Toebes SetAlternate Merge the images from two icons to produce one icon with a primary image, and a possibly completely different image to display when selected. Source available on disk number 12. Author: John Toebes VIII SetFont Program to change the font used by a workbench screen. Version 2.0, source available on disk number 75. Author: Dave Haynie Spool The SPOOL system consists of 3 programs: A queue manager, a printer driver, and a SPOOL request program. The SPOOL system demonstrates the power of the Amiga's mutitasking abilities in a very practical way. It makes extensive use of Amiga Exec's message passing facilities and list-handling primitives. Version 1.2, source on disk number 69. Author: Tim Holloway SunMouse Makes your mouse behave like the Sun Microsystem's Sunwindows mouse. You no longer have to 'click' in a window to make it active. Just move the mouse pointer into the window and start typing. Version 1.0, binary only, from disk number 65. Author: Scott Evernden ====================================================================== -Fred ><> -- # Fred Fish hao!noao!mcdsun!fnf (602) 438-3614 # Motorola Computer Division, 2900 S. Diablo Way, Tempe, Az 85282 USA