fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (06/05/87)
Here is a listing of the contents of disks 75-80. Duplication of disks and shipping of pre-ordered disks will begin tonight (Friday) and should be completed by this weekend sometime. Thanks to all that submitted material, and Chris Gray in particular, for his two disk Draco compiler submission. I've been getting a lot of email requests lately for information about how to get a catalog of the current library contents. Because the catalog's nroff source is now approaching 100Kb, I cannot satisfy requests to email a copy. You can get a hardcopy version, by sending a preaddressed mailing label (note *label* NOT envelope) and 4 loose first class stamps to: Fred Fish 1346 W. 10th Place Tempe, Ariz. 85281 Enjoy. -Fred ============================================================ CONTENTS OF DISK 75 ------------------- Bezier Simple programs to allow you to fool around with Bezier curves, using the mouse to move the points that define the curve and a prop gadget to change the granularity of the curve generation loop. Includes source. Author: Matt Dillon BSplines Simple program to fool around with B-SPLINES, ala the Bezier programs described above. Includes source. Author: Matt Dillon Comm Source release for comm version 1.34. Last release on disk number 71 was binary only. Copy A replacement for the AmigaDOS copy program that is upwardly compatible, plus includes some new features like date preservation. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Jeff Lydiatt Diff A simple version of diff. Includes source. Author: Erik Baalbergen DuM2 A version of the ever popular directory utility (dirutil) but this one is written in Modula 2 and includes source. Dirutil is a program to wander around a directory tree and perform various operations on files. Version 1.5. Author: Greg Browne Eless A faster directory lister, that also sorts entries and displays directories in the current cursor color (ala the Manx "ls" program). Includes source. Author: Leo Schwab Fd A modified version of Leo's "eless" that processes an entire track at a time, to minimize rereading of blocks. Includes source. Author: Leo Schwab, enhancements by Stephen Vermeulen HardCopy A neat little program that creates a hardcopy transcript of any CLI session (like the unix "script" program). Includes source. Author: Davide Cervone MouseOff Enhanced and smaller version of MouseOff released on disk number 73. MouseOff will cause the mouse pointer to disappear and then reappear if mouse movement is detected. Includes source. Author: Denny Jenkins, reworked by Tom Smythe SetFont Program to change the font used by a workbench screen. Version 2.0, source included. Author: Dave Haynie SpeedDir Another faster directory lister type program. This one uses the standard dir utility format for displaying directories. Written in assembler, includes source. Author: Bryce Nesbitt CONTENTS OF DISK 76 ------------------- This is disk 1 of 2 of Chris Gray's Draco distribution for the Amiga. The disk is unchanged except for the following: (1) I have added this file, README.list76. (2) I have added the standard distribution info file, README.dist. Note that this disk was named "Draco SYS". I have elected to keep that name, rather than using the usual "AmigaLibDiskXX" convention for disks in my library, to avoid requiring users to rename the disk before using it. Also note that, as distributed, this disk is only about 65% full. Normally I try to fill my library disks to about 90-95% full, but these "packaged" disks are special. CONTENTS OF DISK 77 ------------------- This is disk 2 of 2 of Chris Gray's Draco distribution for the Amiga. The disk is unchanged except for the following: (1) I have added this file, README.list77. (2) I have added the standard distribution info file, README.dist. Note that this disk was named "Draco Other". I have elected to keep that name, rather than using the usual "AmigaLibDiskXX" convention for disks in my library, to avoid requiring users to rename the disk before using it. Also note that, as distributed, this disk is only about 80% full. Normally I try to fill my library disks to about 90-95% full, but these "packaged" disks are special. CONTENTS OF DISK 78 ------------------- Cycles A simple but enjoyable game apparently inspired by the cycle game in the movie "Tron". Version 1.0, binary only. Author: John G. Gilmore EOMS Experts Only Mercenary Simulator. A neat (and tough!) PD game that was originally developed for eventual commercial release but for various reasons the author decided to release as PD instead. So far my son has beat every other Amiga game I've got, both PD and commercial, but he gave up on this one. For serious game players. Binary only. Author: Daniel Cardenas MandelVroom A new Mandelbrot picture generator with some neat features, including use of contour map making techniques that allow you direct control over coloration and recoloration in seconds, selectable fixed point or floating point computations, contour palette, picture presets, etc. Version 1.50, includes source. Author: Kevin Clague CONTENTS OF DISK 79 ------------------- AsmTools Some CLI type tools, written in assembler (echo, loadit, mounted, setlace, why). Includes source. Author: Bryce Nesbitt AssignDev Assigns multiple names to a given device. For example, allows the names "df0:" and "df3:" to refer to the same physical device. Includes source. Author: Phillip Lindsay AuxHandler Example of a dos handler that allows use of a CLI via the serial port. Includes source. Author: Steve Drew Cmd Cmd redirects the serial.device or parallel.device output to a file. Useful for capturing print jobs for debugging or "offline" printing. Includes source. Author: Carolyn Scheppner Info Replacement for the AmigaDOS info command. Includes source. Author: Chuck McManis Kill Removes a task and as much of its resources as possible. Can close windows, unload process code, etc. Includes source. Author: George Musser M2Error M2error can be used to display compile errors produced by the TDI Modula-2 compiler, like the m2error supplied by TDI. Includes source. Author: Richie Bielak MonProc An enhanced version of the process packet monitoring program from disk number 69. Includes source. Author: Phillip Lindsay, enhancements by Davide Cervone Mounted A little program to run from CLI scripts to find out if a disk is mounted or not. Includes source. Author: Peter DaSilva Nro Another roff style text formatter. Includes source. Author: Unknown, posted to usenet by Alan Vymetalik ParTask Example program for finding the parent task of your current task. Includes source. Author: Andry Rachmat QueryAny Simple program for use in CLI scripts to query for yes/no decisions. Includes assembler source. Author: Mark Smith ScnSizer Sets the preferences data for increasing the window bounds, and takes effect immediately. Includes source. Author: Thad Floryan SharedLib Working example of how to build a shared library. Includes source. Author: James Synge Task Simple example of how to use CreateTask. Includes source. Author: Carolyn Scheppner Uw Unix Windows client for the Amiga. Version 1.00, includes source. Author: Michael McInerny Who Lists tasks on the ready and wait queues. Includes source. Author: George Musser CONTENTS OF DISK 80 ------------------- 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. 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 Timer Creates a small window containing a timer. Version 1.5, binary only. Author: Bill Beogelein Tools Some miscellaneous tools, including a memory editor, memory disassembler, ascii chart, and calculator. Binary only. Author: Inovatronics