fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) (07/09/87)
Disks 81-88 are now available. I had hoped to get another couple ready for this release (up to 90) but never quite found the time to finalize the last two. Thanks to all who submitted material for this release. Here is a list of the contents of 81-88: CONTENTS OF DISK 81 ------------------- Asm68k Full featured macro assembler, version 1.1.0, binary only. Well documented. Author: W. Wesley Howe AutoFacc Autofacc automatically shrinks the ASDG FACC window and moves it to the back. Also allows the number of buffers to be increased or decreased. Most useful from the Startup-Sequence file while booting. Binary only. Author: Andry Rachmat Brushes Contains 53 custom brushes for use in DPaint while drawing schematics. Includes things like resistors, capacitors, gates, transistors, IC pacs, etc. Author: Jim Lee CheckIFF Program to check the structure of IFF files and report any problems. Binary only. Author: Unknown Cled A simple command line editor which allows you to edit your commands before and after they are processed. Uses the arrow keys and simple control sequence keystrokes for cursor positioning and editing tasks. Update to version on disk number 74, this is version 1.4, binary only. Author: Pat Empleo 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 0.99B, binary only. Author: William Hawes Fonts Several miscellaneous new fonts for your enjoyment. Author: (Several) Icon Version 6.0 of the public domain implementation of Icon from the University of Arizona. Binary only. Author: Ralph Griswold, Cary Coutant, Steve Wampler, et al. Amiga port by Scott Ballantyne KeyLock Freezes the keyboard and mouse until the correct password is typed. Protection against inquisitive kids, cats, and other lifeforms. Binary only. Author: Andry Rachmat Scat Another display hack, created from Leo Schwab's "Ing" display hack. Binary only. Author: Stephen Pietrowicz Smush Another display hack, feed it an iff file and see what happens. Binary only. Author: Hobie Orris Target A little program which takes over the mouse pointer and turns it into a gunsight. Pressing the mouse button flashes the pointer and gives a gunshot. Version 1.23, binary only. Author: Matt Fruin and Michael McCarty CONTENTS OF DISK 82 ------------------- Adventure A port of the classic Adventure game originally written by Will Crowther and Don Woods. Has been extended to a 550 point version. Also speaks as it prints (though I found this feature annoying). Minimum 512K recommended. Binary only. Author: David Platt, Ken Wellsch, Dave Haynie AmicTerm A new terminal/communications program based on Dan James' "comm" program, but greatly enhanced. Includes a script language, auto redialing, choice of display beep or audible beep, enhanced file requester, and more. Version .50 (beta), binary only. Author: David Salas and Albert Kirk D2D-Demo Demo version of Disk-2-Disk from Central Coast Software (submitted by George Chamberlin). Binary only. Author: Central Coast Software DX-Synth Voice filer program for Yamaha DX series synthesizers. Voices are transfered to and from the Amiga over MIDI. Update to "VoiceFiler" released on disk number 38. Binary only. Author: Jack Deckard DiskMan Another "disk browser and/or dirutil" type program. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Greg Cunningham Icons Miscellaneous new disk, directory, and file icons, including John Olsen's great "fishdisk" icon (thanks John!). Binary only. Author: Several Panl A universal midi patch panel that allows midi parameter info to be sent from the Amiga to any midi device that can accept param info. Version 1.2, binary only. Author: David Weinbach Rocket Another interesting Workbench display hack. This one is really a game in disguise. Binary only. Author: Peter da Silva Sand This program has "magnetic grains of sand" that follow the pointer wherever it goes. Cute. Binary only. Author: Eric Vaughan CONTENTS OF DISK 83 ------------------- This disk contains a demo version of TeX, ported to the Amiga by Tomas Rokicki. The disk is unchanged except for the following: (1) I have added this file, README.list83, the standard distribution info file, README.dist, and associated icon files, plus "less" to read the text files. (2) I have copied all the files to a freshly formatted disk, to create the master distribution disk, using xcopy, which preserves the file dates. This insures that disk fragmentation is kept to a minimum. (3) In order to make room for the files I have added, I have compressed the file TeX/inputs/amigatex.tex using a version of compress (compress.b13) that should run on any standard 512K amiga. This version of compress is found in c/compress.b13. To recover the original file, execute the commands: cd AmigaLibDisk83:TeX/inputs :c/compress.b13 <amigatex.tex.Z >ram:amigatex.tex -d Since this is a demo version of Tom's commercial product, it has several limitations that let you get the flavor of the real thing but encourage you to buy the commercial version. These limitations include TeX being limited to processing only small files, the previewer being limited to displaying ten pages or less, and only a small number of fonts being provided. The full version of AmigaTeX comes on eight floppies and will handle larger documents than most mainframe versions of TeX. See the tex/README file for further info. CONTENTS OF DISK 84 ------------------- AudioTools Demo programs from Rob Peck's article in the July/August issue of Amiga World on accessing the audio device. Includes source. Author: Rob Peck BlitLab Blitlab is a program which lets you experiment with the blitter, to your hearts content, in relative safety. It opens a workbench window with gadgets for all the registers of the blitter, and allows you to manipulate individual registers and perform blits on a magnified bitmap. This is version 1.2, an update to the version released on disk number 69. Includes source. Author: Tomas Rokicki Ed An editor based on the editor described in the original Software Tools book. It is very similar to the Unix "ed" editor, but not identical. Includes source. Author: Brian Beattie 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. This is an update to the version on disk number 70, and includes source in Modula-2. Author: Ed Bartz HunkPad Two programs to help reduce problems with padding added by xmodem transmission. Author: J. Hamilton and Aaron Avery 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, includes source. 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, an update to the version on disk number 40. Includes source. Author: John Toebes Requester A file name requester that looks like the one used in Deluxe Paint, and a sample program for using the requester. This is an update to the version released on disk number 34. Includes source. Author: Kevin Clague, enhancements by Randy Finch ScottDevice A mountable MicroForge SCSI driver. Supports one SCSI buss device with two hard disk units attached to it. Version 33.1, includes source. Author: Scott Turner Viacom Another of Leo's amusing little hacks. Sort of a political statement regarding the quality of service of a certain San Francisco area cable TV service. Includes source. Author: Leo Schwab CONTENTS OF DISK 85 ------------------- Csh Version 2.06 of Matt Dillon's csh like shell, modified for Manx C. Includes source. Author: Matt Dillon, Manx'ified by Steve Drew FileReq Another file requester, but this one also has a fast pattern matching capability. Includes source. Author: Peter da Silva Hide A small utility to allow you to run old or ill-written applications on systems with expansion ram. When hide is running, all memory allocations take place in chip memory. Somehow, something like this missed making it onto my earlier disks. Binary only. Author: Francois Rouaix ImageTools A set of shareware tools, submitted by the author, to do various manipulations on IFF images, including comparison of the color palettes of a pair of IFF images, filtering an IFF image in various ways, producing a color usage frequency chart for an IFF image, reducing the size of an IFF image to produce a miniature to use as an icon, converting an icon to an IFF image, and recoloring an IFF image using the palette of a second image, in a least squared error fashion. Shareware, binary only. Author: Stephen Vermeulen 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. Author: Perry Kivolowitz Plot6 A star plotting program. Short on documentation and user friendliness, but interesting nevertheless. Also includes source. Author: Darrin West RawIO Example of how to set your standard input to what is commonly known as "raw" and/or "CBREAK" mode on Unix systems. Includes source. Author: Chuck McManis Rocket Another interesting Workbench display hack. This one is really a game in disguise. It is the same as the one on disk number 82, but also includes source. Author: Peter da Silva VMore A shareware program, submitted by the author, that is a "more" like text file viewing utility that can be run on multiple files from either the WorkBench or the CLI. Version 1.00, includes source. Author: Stephen Vermeulen Vnews A simple news file reader, that will read all the news files in a specified directory, optionally starting with a specified file. Includes source. Author: Stephen Vermeulen CONTENTS OF DISK 86 ------------------- AutoPoint Autopoint serves two functions: it automatically selects the window underneath the mouse pointer and it provides a very nice screen saver facility. Binary only. Author: Jude Katsch 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, includes source. 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 3, includes source. Author: Carolyn Scheppner FileIISG-Demo A demo version of Softwood File IIsg, a database manager with sound and graphics. Also includes a database of of previously released disks in this library, courtesy of Stan Spence. Binary only. Author: Woody Williams and Donald Brady CONTENTS OF DISK 87 ------------------- AdvSys An adventure writing system, as described in the May 1987 issue of Byte magazine. Advsys is a special purpose programming language that was specifically designed to be used to write computer text adventure games. Version 1.2, binary only. Author: David Betz AutoIconOpen Example code to fool WorkBench into thinking it is receiving mouse inputs that select and open icons. This is version 1.2, an update to the version on disk number 73. Includes source. Author: Tony Wills Claz Converts IFF picture files to POSTSCRIPT. Works with Amiga HAM pictures, as well as "normal" pictures. Also includes scaling. Version 2.0, includes source. Author: Steve Ludtke 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. Author: Jim Mackraz Diff A simple version of diff. Update to version on disk number 75, includes source. Author: Erik Baalbergen 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 74. Binary only. Author: Matt Dillon DropShadow A program that makes your WorkBench windows have dropshadows. This is version 2.0, the same as on disk number 74, but also includes source. Author: Jim Mackraz Elib Example of building a shared library using small model Manx C. Includes source. Author: Jim Mackraz 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, includes source. Author: Ed Puckett Install Two possible replacement versions of the standard install program (to make a disk bootable). Includes source. Author: Bryce Nesbitt and Scott Turner 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, includes source. Author: John Toebes MovePointer Moves the pointer to any specified location on the screen, specified by X-Y coordinates. Includes source. Author: "Cewy" MoveWindow Move a named window to any arbitrary X-Y coordinate and possibly resize it at the same time. Includes source. Author: "Cewy" MunchingSq Leo's "Munching Squares" hack, now upgraded to take a single argument for a seed value. Includes source. Author: Leo Schwab PalTest Example code of how to determine dynamically whether or not you are running on a PAL machine. Includes source. Author: Christof Bonnkirch Sc Program which demonstrates generation of good looking pseudo-random scenery. Includes source in C (translated from Draco version on disk number 61). Author: Chris Gray Tek4695 A Tek4695 printer driver. Binary only. Author: Philip Staub WBDualPF An example of using a dual-playfield screen, using a method contrary to documentation in the Intuition Manual. Fixed version of copy released on disk number 41. Includes source. Author: Jim Mackraz WarpText Fast text rendering routines, to be linked with application programs. Reported to be able to display text as fast, or faster than, "blitz". Includes source. Author: Bill Kelly Yaiffr Yet Another IFF Reader. Handles HAM, HIRES, and overscan, includes source. Author: 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). Version 1.42A, binary only. Author: Rahul Dhesi, Amiga port by Brian Waters CONTENTS OF DISK 88 ------------------- 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 Snap Snap takes a picture of the current front screen and reduces it to produce an icon. Can produce icons of a user specified size. Binary only. Author: Nick Frabotta -- = Drug tests; just say *NO*! = Fred Fish Motorola Computer Division, 3013 S 52nd St, Tempe, Az 85282 USA = seismo!noao!mcdsun!fnf (602) 438-5976