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.
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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
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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
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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
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