fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) (12/03/87)
Disks 111 to 118 are now ready for release. The official release will occur at the World of Commodore show in Toronto tomorrow (I've got a flight to catch in a couple hours). Mailing of preordered disks should begin on Monday after I get back, and be complete by about Wednesday of next week. These disks contain a fair amount of the material from the Badge Killer Demo Contest, but I still have about half of the dozen or so disks to go through, not to mention a box full of stuff that people have sent me recently, and all the material that has come across Usenet in the last couple of months. So if your favorite goodie hasn't shown up yet, keep the faith just a little longer... :-) :-) Each time I post an "availability" message for a new release, I get a flood of email inquiries about how and where to get disks, and requests for a catalog of the existing disks, thus I'll include the info here again for new Usenet readers. To get a copy of the catalog disk, which contains a database of all current disks and ordering information, send a blank disk and two 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. Thanks! Below is a listing of the contents of disks 111 to 118: CONTENTS OF DISK 111 -------------------- AmyLoad A graphical monitor of cpu, blitter, and memory use. Includes two components; load.device, which monitors system parameters, and amyload, which is the user interface and display program. Includes source. Author: Jeff Kelley AssignDev Assigns multiple names to a given device. For example, allows the names "df0:" and "df3:" to refer to the same physical device. This is a modified version of the original released on disk number 79. Includes source. Author: Phillip Lindsay, mods by Olaf Seibert Gauge Continuously displays memory usage in a vertical bar graph, similar to the workbench "fuel gauge" type display for disk space. Binary only. Author: Peter da Silva HeliosMouse Another "sunmouse" type program. Automatically activates a window simply by moving the mouse pointer into the window. Version 1.1, an update to the version released on disk 94. Includes source. Author: Davide Cervone Labels Alphabetic and numeric ordered cross reference lists of defined system constants. Recommended for debugging purposes only, use the symbolic values in programs! Author: Olaf Seibert Mandel Another mandelbrot generator program, with bits and pieces of code from C. Heath and R.J. Mical. Includes source. Author: Olaf Seibert PopLife A PopCLI type thingie that instead plays life all over your screen. Lots of bits and pieces from Tomas Rokicki's blitlab and John Toebes' PopCLI. Includes source. Author: Olaf Seibert CONTENTS OF DISK 112 -------------------- BeachBirds Jerrold Tunnell's entry to the Badge Killer Demo Contest. Uses sprites and sound to portray a beach scene. Runs on a 512K machine. Binary only. Author: Jerrold Tunnell Bully Mike Meyer's entry for the Badge Killer Demo Contest. Pushes all open screens around (thus the name "bully"). Designed for showing off more than one demo at a time Includes source. Author: Mike Meyer DropShadow Dropshadow version 2, rev 0, for use with Bryce Nesbitt's Wavebench demo. Binary only. Author: Jim Mackraz HagenDemos Joel Hagen's Badge Killer Demo contest entries, "RGB" and "Focus". RGB was the overall winner of the contest. It requires a one meg Amiga to run. Binary only. Author: Joel Hagen Viacom Latest version of viacom for use in conjunction with the WaveBench demo. Binary only. Author: Leo Schwab and Bryce Nesbitt WaveBench This is Bryce Nesbitt's Badge Killer Demo Contest entry. It is a neat screen hack, and runs on 512K machines. For more laughs, try in conjunction with Viacom or Ds (Dropshadow). Includes source. Author: Bryce Nesbitt CONTENTS OF DISK 113 -------------------- AmiCron A simple Unix "cron" type program, which is a background task that uses a disk-resident table to automatically run certain tasks on a regular basis, at specific times. Version 2.3, includes source. Author: Steve Sampson, Amiga port by Rick Schaeffer Dme Version 1.28f 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 93, includes source. Author: Matt Dillon DosDev Example DOS device driver in Manx C. Version 1.10, includes source. Author: Matt Dillon M2Amiga Demo version of the final product M2Amiga. A fast single pass Modula-2 compiler with editor, linker, a small set of interface and standard libraries. Compiles only small demo programs by limiting codesize and imports. Further development of the ETHZ compiler on Disk 24. Binary only. Demos with source. Authors: R. Degen, C. Nieder, M. Schaub, J. Straube (AMSoft) NoIconPos This program clears the position info of any of your icons to allow WorkBench to pick a reasonable place for the icon again. Useful for disk and drawer icons where Snapshot rewrites the icon and the window information. Written in Modula-2, another demo for M2Amiga, showing the simplicity of programming with this Modula-2 compiler. Author: Markus. Schaub CONTENTS OF DISK 114 -------------------- CDecl English to C (and vice versa) translator for C declarations. This little gem will translate english such as "declare foo as pointer to function returning pointer to array 10 of pointer to long" into "long *(*(*foo)())[10]", and vice versa. An absolute must for anyone except possibly the most hardcore C guru. Includes source. Author: Graham Ross Vt100 Version 2.7 of Dave's vt100 terminal emulator with kermit and xmodem file transfer. Includes a few bug fixes posted to Usenet shortly after the posting of version 2.7. This is an update to the version released on disk 55. Includes source. Author: Dave Wecker WBLander This entry from the Badge Killer Demo Contest is a special version of the WBLander program from disk 100. The ending is unique. Also uses sound effectively. Includes source. Authors: Peter da Silva and Karl Lehenbauer CONTENTS OF DISK 115 -------------------- Killer Killer is an incredible demo written by Robert Wilt. It won fourth place in the Badge Killer Demo Contest. Requires at least one meg of memory to run. Sound is also an important part of the demo so be sure to turn it up. Binary only. Author: Robert Wilt Marketroid Marketroid is Leo's entry for the Badge Killer Demo Contest. It is another devious sprite oriented demo with lots of "in" jokes. Runs on a 512K machine. Includes source. Author: Leo Schwab CONTENTS OF DISK 116 -------------------- Movies A ram animation system with three different example animations; Kahnankas, Rocker, and F-15. Kahnankas won a close second in the Badge Killer Demo Contest. Both Kahnankas and Rocker run on a 512K Amiga and show off overscan HAM mode. Includes a animation player program (movie), animation builder programs (dilbm, pilbm), and a text/graphics display program (vilbm). Authors: Eric Graham, Ken Offer, CONTENTS OF DISK 117 -------------------- AMUC_Demo A really neat horizontal scrolling demo that is a 2400 x 200 pixel 32 color IFF picture composed of digiview snapshots of members of the AMiga Users of Calgary, superimposed on a very wide picture of the Calgary Skyline. Binary only. Author: Stephen Vermeulen and Stephen Jeans ExP_Demo Demo version of Express Paint 1.1. This is the program that was used to create the huge scrolling demo picture in the AMUC_Demo drawer on this same disk. Binary only. Author: Stephen Vermeulen CONTENTS OF DISK 118 -------------------- Empire This is a complete rewrite, from the ground up, in Draco, of Peter Langston's Empire game. Empire is a multiplayer game of exploration, economics, war, etc, which can last a couple of months. Can be played either on the local keyboard or remotely through a modem. This is version 1.0, shareware, and includes source code. Author: Chris Gray, original game by Peter Langston HAMmmm This is Phil's entry for the Badge Killer Demo Contest. HAMmmm displays lines whose end points are bouncing around the screen, which is a double buffered HAM screen. The Y positions of the points are continuously copied into an audio waveform that is played on all four channels, and the pitch of a just intoned chord is derived from the average X position of these points. Includes source in JForth. Author: Phil Burk Stars Hobie's entry for the Badge Killer Demo Contest. Based on original code by Leo Schwab, has credits longer than the actual demo. Runs on 512K Amiga. Binary only. Author: Hobie Orris WireDemo Matt's entry for the Badge Killer Demo Contest. Demonstrates the Amiga's line drawing speed. Runs on a 512K Amiga. Includes source. Author: Matt Dillon ========== -Fred -- # Fred Fish hao!noao!mcdsun!fnf (602) 438-3614 # Motorola Computer Division, 2900 S. Diablo Way, Tempe, Az 85282 USA