fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (09/08/87)
I've finally dug my way out from under the stack of disks people have been sending me recently (hey, this is great! I was wondering when you guys were going to catch on...). After much sifting and sorting, disks 91-102 are now ready for release. The bulk of the rest of this posting is a detailed listing of the contents of each disk, including disks 89 and 90 which replace 88 and 80 respectively. Actually it is a very good thing for the continued existance of the library that authors have starting sending me material directly. Given the problems with disks 57, 80, and 88, I've started applying much stricter selection rules about what will and will not be included in the library. Direct submissions by the author of a given program will, of course, almost always be included providing I believe they fit in with the general "flavor" of the library. Material for which source is not available and for which no ready means of author contact (I.E. telephone number) is included, will almost always be rejected unless I have other reasons to believe it is freely redistributable. CONTENTS OF DISK 102 -------------------- Dbug Machine independent macro based C debugging package. Provides function trace, selective printing of internal state information, and more. This is an update to the version released on disk 41, and now includes a machine independent profiling mechanism. Includes source. Author: Fred Fish; profiling support by Binayak Banerjee Match_stuff Heavy duty text pattern matching stuff. The pattern syntax is an extension of standard AmigaDOS filename matching. Also includes some simply matched text replacement capability. Includes source. Author: Pete Goodeve Sectorama A program designed to help Amiga users recover lost or damaged data from floppy or hard drives, or to repair a damaged volume. The author wrote this out of frustration with existing tools when he had multiple hard disk drive failures over the course of several months. Binary only. Author: David Joiner SiliCon A smart input line interpreter that provides a separate command window with full editing and recall of previous commands. Actual name is "Sili(Con:)". This is an update to the version first released on disk number 50. Binary only. Author: Pete Goodeve Xicon Xicon lets you use icons to call up scripts containing CLI commands. This is version 2.00, an update to the version first released on disk 31, and includes close gadgets, window size specification, text display capability, plus more. Binary only. Author: Pete Goodeve CONTENTS OF DISK 101 -------------------- CirPlane A circular plane generator for VideoScape 3D. Generates a clockwise circular polygon with the specified number of vertices. Used, for example, to cap a cylinder or to generate surface detail. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Thad Floryan IconAssembler This program loads existing WorkBench icon files and allows you to change either the primary or alternate images to another image loaded from an IFF-brush file. Binary only. Author: Stefan Lindahl MicroSPELL MicroSPELL is a standalone spelling checker which scans text files and reports on misspelled words. It has a 1000 word "common word" list, a 43,000 word main dictionary, and supports multiple user dictionaries. Also interfaces quite nicely with MicroEMACS 3.9, with an emacs macro to step through the source file, stopping at each suspect word and allowing the user to dispose of it in different ways. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Daniel Lawrence Midi A midi library and utilities set. This looks like a very complete package, though I have no way of testing anything since I have no midi hardware. The midi utilities include a midi monitor to display incoming midi messages to the console, a routing utility, a midi library status utility, and more. Also includes source. Author: Bill Barton PsIntrp A postscript interpreter that reads postscript files and previews them on an Amiga screen. Interactive input and output takes place in a small window. The page to be show is composed behind the window in an interlaced screen with 16 colors. Can also take input from a file. Includes source in assembler. Author: Greg Lee StartUps Three replacements for the standard C startup files, Astartup.obj and LStartup.obj. The options include (1) BothStartup.obj, for WorkBench programs or CLI programs with or without command line parameters, (2) WBStartup.obj, for WorkBench programs or CLI programs that require no command line parameters, and (3) CLIStartup.obj, for CLI programs that require command line parameters but do not need to be able to be runnable from WorkBench. Includes source. Author: Bryce Nesbitt CONTENTS OF DISK 100 -------------------- 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. Author: Leo Schwab 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 1.0, binary only. Author: William Hawes WBLander Another interesting Workbench display hack. This one is really a game in disguise. Previously released on disk number 85 as "Rocket", this one has been upgraded to have sound effects. Binary only. Author: Peter da Silva CONTENTS OF DISK 99 ------------------- This disk contains a distribution of Brian Reed's shareware ray tracing package called A-Render, version v.3, binary only. This looks like a very nice package, though I haven't had much time to play with it. It was submitted directly by the author for inclusion in the library. CONTENTS OF DISK 98 ------------------- Access A 16 color terminal program based on Comm version 1.34. Includes new macro window, custom gadgets, colorized menus, etc. Version Beta 0.18, binary only. Author: Keith Young (based on comm by D.J.James) Backup A simple backup program that writes normal AmigaDOS disks as the backup destination. To recover files, you just copy from the backup disk. Requires manual decisions about what subdirectories to backup to what disks to make everything fit. Includes source. Author: Alan Kent DCDemo A demo version of DiskCat 2.3, a disk catalog program. Demo is limited to cataloging 100 files at a time. Binary only. Author: Ed Alford, MicroAce Software HdDriver A complete driver for a WD-1002-05 hard disk controller card. This card can handle 3 hard disks and 4 floppies, but the driver currently only handles one hard disk. Includes source. Author: Alan Kent QBase Quick-Base is a "MailBase Management utility", that lets you define and maintain records of your family, friends, and other associates. Currently a maximum of 200 records per file. Binary only. Author: Kevin Harris Thai A simple Thai quiz program developed by the author while he was learning the Thai language. It loads complete Thai sentences and words from a supplied file. If you click on the sentence or word gadget the program will pick a random sentence/word. You then click on the Thai/Speak/Phonetic/English gadget to display that version (or speak it). Includes source. Author: Alan Kent CONTENTS OF DISK 97 ------------------- This disk replaces disk number 57, which was pulled from circulation because of questions about the redistribution status of material in the "Ogre" subdirectory (replaced with "shm"). If you encounter a disk number 57 in circulation, please advise all parties concerned that the disk should be erased immediately. CutAndPaste Public domain implementations of the Unix cut and paste commands. Includes source. Author: John Weald GraphIt A program to plot most simple functions in 2 or 3 dimensions, as well as 2d parametric equations in term of t. Includes source. Author: Flynn Fishman Juggler Stunning animation of a robot juggler with ray traced reflective spheres. Uses HAM mode display and sound effects to boot! This is version 1.2 and apparently fixes some bugs in the original version released on disk number 47. Binary only. Author: Eric Graham MouseReader Shareware program, submitted by the author, to read text files and view iff files using only the mouse. Binary only. Author: William Betz Shm A simple graphics demo which approximately simulates the motion of two interacting pendulums. Includes source. Author: Chris Ediss Splines Program to demonstrate various curve fitting and rendering techniques. Also includes something unique for the Amiga world, pop-up menus. Includes source. Author: Helene (Lee) Taran CONTENTS OF DISK 96 ------------------- AnimPlayer An animation reader and displayer that is the result of a consortium of animation software developers, which includes the authors of Videoscape, Sculpt3D, Silver, Forms-In-Flight, and Animator:Apprentice. Includes source. Author: Martin Hash et al. Chess A port of a chess game posted to Usenet. Still uses a "curses" type interface, so needs to be Amiga'ized. According to Bob, plays a better game than some of the commercial Amiga chess games. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: John Stanback; ported to Amiga by Bob Leivian HackBench HackBench provides the source for a WorkBench-like program, for experimentation and validation of new interface ideas. It is not intended to be an actual WorkBench replacement. Author: Bill Kinnersley Label Simple program to print labels with arbitrary text. Version 1.3, binary only, but source available from author. Author: Mike Hansen LineDrawer Makes a line drawing based on drawing commands stored in a text file. Includes a demo that draws an outline map of the USA and state borders. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: John Olsen PopUpMenu Example code implementing pop-up menus that are reasonably compatible with Intuition menus. Includes source. Author: Derek Zahn Tek4695 A Tektronix 4695/4696 printer driver. Includes source. Author: Philip Staub TimeRam A program to test the access speeds of Fast and Chip ram. Binary only. Author: Bruce Takahashi WarpText Fast text rendering routines, to be linked with application programs. Reported to be able to display text as fast, or faster than, "blitz". This is an update to the version released on disk 87. Version 2.0, includes source. Author: Bill Kelly CONTENTS OF DISK 95 ------------------- 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, includes source. Author: Carolyn Scheppner CygnusEdDemo Demo version of CygnusEd, an editor from CygnusSoft Software. CygnusEd supports simultaneous editing of multiple files, multiple views of the same file, very fast display, margins, word-wrap, status-lines, insert/overstike mode, online help, soft scroll borders, screen overscan, adjustable tab size, macros, text formatting options, block/line/word cut/copy, and more. Also includes demo 3.0 version of MandFXP. Binary only. Author: CygnusSoft Software Gomf Gomf stands for "Get Outa My Face", a phrase many a programmer has mumbled when a Guru alert appears unexpectedly. This interesting little program can generally make the Guru go away and allow you to clean up and shutdown more cleanly. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Christian Johnsen Journal Journal is a program that records a sequence of mouse and keyboard events as they occur and stores them in a file. The file can be played back with another program, also supplied, which causes the same sequence of events to occur again. Very useful for creating demonstrations of programs or documenting repeatable bugs. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Davide Cervone MergeMem Program which attempts to merge the MemList entries of sequentially configured ram boards. When successful, allows allocating a section of memory which spans board boundries. This is version 2, an update to the version released on disk 56. Includes source. Author: Carolyn Scheppner PrinterStealer A program similar in function to "Cmd" that allows diversion of output destined for the printer to a file for future output or debugging purposes. Binary only, source available from authors. Author: Alex Livshits and J-M. Forgeas Record-Replay A program, similar in function to "Journal", that records and plays back mouse and keyboard events. Binary only, source available from authors. Author: Alex Livshits and J-M. Forgeas CONTENTS OF DISK 94 ------------------- AudioTools Demo programs from Rob Peck's article in the July/August issue of Amiga World on accessing the audio device. This is version 2, an update to the release on disk number 84. Includes source. Author: Rob Peck ClickUpFront ClickUpFront is another program, similar in function to the ClickToFront program from disk 86, that allows you to bring any window to the front simply by double-clicking in any part of it. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Davide Cervone HeliosMouse Another "sunmouse" type program. Automatically activates a window simply by moving the mouse pointer into the window. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Davide Cervone Iff2Ps A program to convert any IFF file to postscript for printing or viewing on a postscript compatible device. Version 1.2, binary only. Author: William Mason and Sam Paolucci ModulaTools Various useful routines for those programming in Modula on the Amiga. Binary only. Author: Jerry Mack Terrain3d Program which demonstrates generation of good looking pseudo-random scenery. This version is a derivative of "sc" distributed on disk 87, but now displays terrain in 3d relief. Includes source. Author: Chris Gray; 3d version by Howard Hull CONTENTS OF DISK 93 ------------------- Dme Version 1.27 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 87 (which was binary only). This release also includes source. Author: Matt Dillon MicroEmacs Version 3.8i of Daniel Lawrence's variant of Dave Conroy's microemacs. This is an update to the version released on disk 61. Includes source. Author: Dave Conroy, MANY enhancements by Daniel Lawrence CONTENTS OF DISK 92 ------------------- As6502 Contains a portable 6502 assembler, including source in C. Author: J. Van Ornum; Amiga port by Joel Swank Bawk Text processor inspired by the Unix awk utility. This is an update to the copy released on disk 65. Bawk searches files for specific patterns and performs actions for every occurance of these patterns. The patterns can be regular expressions. The actions are expressed using a subset of the C language. Includes source in C. Author: Bob Brodt; Amiga port by Johan Widen HunkPad HunkPad pads an object file out to where it is exactly a multiple of 128 bytes, thus making it immune to having garbage appended on to the end of it by xmodem type file transfer protocols. Version 2, includes source. Update to version released on disk 84. Author: J. Hamilton Less Like Unix "more", only better, with forward and backward scrolling, searching and positioning by percent of file and line number, etc. Very useful! This is Amiga version 1.2, an update to the version on disk number 74. Includes source. Author: Mark Nudelman, Amiga port by Bob Leivian Ndir Library that implements the 4BSD unix directory access routines (opendir, closedir, readdir, etc). Includes source in C. Author: Mike Meyer Parse A recursive descent expression parser that parses expressions, computes the expression value, and prints it. Includes support for some built in transcendental functions. Includes source in C. Author: John Olsen Shar Two programs to pack and unpack shell archives on the Amiga. Shell archives are the traditional Usenet method of bundling multiple text files for posting as a unit or for sending via electronic mail. Includes source in C. Author: Fabbian G. Dufoe SmallLib A replacement for amiga.lib that is about 8 times smaller. Binary only. Author: Bryce Nesbitt 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 53, and includes a simple line-by-line checksum technique that can read and write files compatible with the older uuencode/uudecode, plus a file size test modification that is transparent to older uudecodes. Author: Mark Horton with mods by Alan Rosenthal and Bryce Nesbitt CONTENTS OF DISK 91 ------------------- This disk contains a distribution of ADL (Adventure Definition Language). ADL is a superset of an older language named DDL, by Michael Urban, Chris Kostanick, Michael Stein, Bruce Adler, and Warren Usui. ADL enhancements were made by Ross Cunniff, who submitted this material for inclusion in the library. The disk is essentially unchanged except that: (1) Many icon files have been added to help workbench only users get at least some information about this disk and about ADL (which is only usable from the CLI environment). (2) The disk name has been changed to AmigaLibDisk91. (3) The standard library files "GeneralInfo", "Contents", and "Distribution", along with their associated icons, have been added to the disk. (4) The directory 'c' has been added, along with a very nice text reader program called "less", which is the default tool for reading all the text files for which there are icons. Included here are the sources to the ADL compiler, interpreter, and debugger. The binaries were compiled by Ross with the Lattice 3.03 compiler. Ross noted in his letter that currently ADL is a CLI environment program only, but that he hopes to offer a more Amiga'ized version in the future. Also, the stack size should be set to at least 10000 before attempting to run ADL. CONTENTS OF DISK 90 ------------------- Note that many of the programs on this disk are shareware/freeware. This means that if you find them useful, you are morally obligated to send a small donation to the author to help support his efforts and fund further development. I hope that by including them in this library I have furthered the author's goals of widest possible distribution and thus maximum return. Also note (for those that like to split hairs) that I am distributing this disk as a "freebee". To receive a copy, just request it when ordering any other disks from the library. This disk replaces disk number 80, which was pulled from circulation due to the redistribution status of files in the directory "tools". If you encounter a disk number 80 in circulation, please advise all parties concerned that the disk should be erased immediately. AmiGazer Compute a view of the night sky, using a database of 1573 stars, for any date, time of day, and latitude. Click on stars for info about them. Binary only. Author: Richard Horne CardFile Study aid card file program written in AmigaBasic. Useful for organizing small blocks of data, such as can be done with a 3X5 card file system. Binary only. Author: James Parks 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. Version 0.98B, binary only. Author: William Hawes IMandelVroom A slightly modified version of Kevin Clague's mandelbrot program (on disk number 78) that uses his "ring detector" to draw an approximation of the interior strange attractor contours. Binary only (with patches for original source). Author: Kevin Clague, enhancements by Howard Hull NewDemos Some new demos, including replacements for the standard "lines" and "boxes" demos, that use only a few percent of the CPU time, so it is reasonable to have lots of them running simultaneously to demo multitasking. Binary only. Author: Steve Koren Othello Othello game, binary only. Author: Matthew Bellew PrinText Program to display ASCII text files on the screen with scrollbar, arrow gadgets, automatic word-wrap, a search function, speech, IFF picture loading, and online help. Version 1.2, binary only. Author: Opher Kahane PrtDrvGen Program to automatically generate custom printer drivers. Version 2.2b, binary only, source available from author. Author: Joergen Thomsen RainBench Simple program which cycles the hardware color register to get an interesting effect on your workbench screen. Binary only. Author: Brendan Keliher ShortCut A utility that collects keystroke sequences and allows you to replace them with a single key stroke. Binary only. Author: Opher Kahane ShowPrint A full-feature IFF picture file screen dump utility. Can display and print all sizes of pictures including those larger than the screen. Allows adjustment of printer output in three modes: ASPECT, FULL, and CUSTOM output. Print vertically or horizonatally, in B&W, grey scale, or color, etc. Binary only. Author: Brian Conrad Sizzlers A series of graphics demo programs. Version 1.7.0, binary only. Author: Greg Epley SpaceAceDemo Shareware shoot-em-up spaceship game. Binary only. Author: Stephen McLeod Timer Creates a small window containing a timer. Version 1.5, binary only. Author: Bill Beogelein CONTENTS OF DISK 89 ------------------- This disk replaces disk number 88, which was pulled from circulation due to the redistribution status of files in the directory "snap". If you encounter a disk number 88 in circulation, please advise all parties concerned that the disk should be erased immediately. AutoEnquirer An example of a screen contraption that is like a requester except that it's not quite as demanding, goes where you want to put it, and remembers where it was put. Includes source and Manx'ified version of Chris Gray's fractalish terrain generator as a demo. Author: Howard Hull DEMOlition Another neat little display hack. In the spirit of these things, ya gotta run it to find out what it does. Includes source. Author: Kriton Kyrimis DirMaster A very nicely done shareware disk cataloger, submitted by the author for inclusion in the library. Includes sample database of some disk libraries. Version 1.0a, binary only. Author: Greg Peters FuncKey A shareware function key editor, submitted by the author for inclusion in the library. Version 1.01, binary only (source available from author). Author: Anson Mah MFF-Demo Demo copy of the MicroFiche Filer program from Software Visions Inc. The MicroFiche File is a full-powered database program for manipulation of text, numbers, and pictures. It uses the microfiche metaphor for dealing with your data graphically. This is a full production version except that the save option has been disabled. Includes a sample database of my disk library. Binary only. Author: Gary Samad Screenshift Screenshift is a small program that allows you to adjust the position of the screen on your display, just like the preferences function. Works from CLI or WorkBench. Includes source. Author: Anson Mah Snake A variant on the old "bouncing lines" program, this on uses multiple vertices and Bezier splines. Includes source. Author: KABjorke THAT's ALL FOLKS.... -Fred -- = Drug tests; just say *NO*! = Fred Fish Motorola Computer Division, 3013 S 52nd St, Tempe, Az 85282 USA = seismo!noao!mcdsun!fnf (602) 438-3614