fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (04/14/87)
Disks 59-68 are now released. Mailing of preordered disks begins tomorrow (Wednesday) and should be complete by Friday. I almost held off on release until I got 69 & 70 finished up, then the temptation would be to wait for 71 & 72 & ... Got to stop long enough to get these babies out! Enjoy. -Fred CONTENTS OF DISK 68 ------------------- This is disk 68 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. To quote the "Read Me" file: This diskette contains the latest Amiga version of MicroGNUEmacs (MG 1b), 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, so certain features you may have seen in other versions of MicroEmacs may work differently here, or not exist. Hopefully, you'll find the added features MG provides to be worth the trouble it takes to make the switch. As well as the commands available on *all* systems MG supports, Amiga MG has many Amiga-specific features: the Amiga mouse (with 24 different functions!), Intuition pull-down menus, the Browser (a very nice way to select files), Amiga function keys, a full-screen editing window, and support for using a different text font in the editing window. MicroGNUEmacs is based on the original work of Dave Conroy, author of the public domain v30 version. It has been greatly enhanced through the efforts of the following people: mwm@ucbopal.berkeley.edu Mike Meyer mic@ngp.utexas.edu Mic Kaczmarczik blarson@usc-eclb.arpa Bob Larson rtech!daveb@sun.com Dave Brower (previous version) The current version is known to run on the following systems: 4.2 & 4.3 BSD Unix, Sun 3.2 Ultrix-32 (BSD Unix) OS9/68k VMS Amiga System V Eunice Primos Cpm/68k Atari ST A very nice job guys! Congratulations. This disk is essentially unchanged except that I have added the usual README.dist and README.list files, along with changing the volume name to AmigaLibDisk68. The original volume name was "MG1b". CONTENTS OF DISK 67 ------------------- AmCat Shareware disk cataloging program. Suggested donation of $20. Binary only. Author: Brian Conrad AmigaSpell Very nice intuition oriented shareware spelling checker, version 2.0, binary only. Author: Mike Berro Bouncer A 3-D simulation of a bouncing ball written in Creative Solutions' Multi-Forth, with source included. Author: Jon Bryan Comm Another nice terminal program. Version 1.33, binary only. Author: DJ James Dux5 Latest version of directory utility which is a descendant of the original dirutil program by Chris Nicotra. Includes source. Author: Enhancements and fixes by lots of people HexCalc Nice little hex/oct/dec/bin calculator and converter. Binary only. Author: Scott Ross Icons A collection of some icons for general purpose programs and some particular programs. The "documentation" icon is particularly cute. Author: Jeff White Mandala A mandala graphic program with sound, sort of Eastern music. Binary only. Author: Unknown PersMait Demo version of shareware personal/personnel file manager. Includes list processing, capability to run mailing labels, mail merge output feature, and more. Demo version is binary only and limited to input mode. Suggested donation of $24 for the "real" version. Author: Breen and Associates RSLClock Yet another nice little clock utility that can sit around in your title bar. Lots of options. Version 1.3, binary only. Author: Roy Laufer RTCubes A little graphics demo that shows 16 3D cubes in a 3D space, all being translated, rotated, and drawn on the screen in real time. Binary only, takes over the machine, reboot to recover. Author: Ralph Russell Wheel Nice little "Wheel of Fortune" type game, written in AmigaBasic. Author: Hari Wiguna CONTENTS OF DISK 66 ------------------- AmScsi Preliminary documentation for a hardware project to build a SCSI controller board. The design does not support DMA or AUTOCONFIG'ing. Author: Rich Frantz Asm68k Full featured macro assembler, version 1.0.1, binary only. Well documented. Author: W. Wesley Howe Assigned Same code showing how to find out whether or not a name has been assigned (via the dos ASSIGN command) before using it, thus avoiding the DOS Insert-Disk requester. Includes source. Author: Dan Green Dk A little display hack, inspired by Leo's gems. Written in Modula-2, includes source. Author: Thomas Handel Flip Seems like Leo's gems have inspired lots of people. This one is quite cute also. Written in assembler, includes source. Author: Mike Berro Foogol Just what you've been waiting for, a foogol cross compiler for your Amiga that generates VAX assembly code. Now you can port all those Amiga foogol programs to your VAX! Seriously, foogol-IV is a tiny Algol like language and this is a compiler for it. Includes source. Author: Per Lindberg Free Free returns the available free bytes on any storage device that AmigaDos sees as a drive. A list of up to six drives is kept by the program and may be cleared or added to at any time by the user. Includes source. Author: Tom Smythe MallocTest A malloc/free test program that allocates and frees randomly sized pieces of memory with random lifetimes, and fills them with patterns that can be checked for corruption. Useful for beating on your vendor supplied memory management routines, or possibly as a poorman's memory test program. Includes source. Author: Neil Webber Melt Another display hack from the master himself... Includes source. Author: Leo Schwab Nart Another display hack from the master himself... Includes source. Author: Leo Schwab Purty Provides an easy way to change some common printer settings via a small window with several gadgets. Binary only. Author: Charles Tyson RayTracer A simple ray tracing program. It is capable of depicting up to 150 balls and a plane that is covered with a tiling of any bitmapped picture. Binary only and sparse documentation. Author: Friedrich Knauss, Steve Williams, Jim Horn and Mark Reichert SendPackets Updated versions of the ASendPacket and SendPacket examples from disk number 35. ASendPacket is an example program for sending multiple packets asynchronously to a dos handler, for those interested in implementing programs with asynchronous AmigaDos file I/O. SendPacket is a general purpose subroutine to send AmigaDos packets. Includes source. Author: Phillip Lindsay SnapShot A small utility for dumping screens. This one works like POPCLI and stays dormant until you press Ctrl-Esc. Binary only. Author: Francois Rouaix TagBBS Version 1.02 of a shareware BBS system. Suggested shareware donation is $25. Binary only. Author: Patrick Hughes CONTENTS OF DISK 65 ------------------- Bawk Text processor inspired by the Unix awk utility. Bawk searches files for specific patterns and performs actions for every occurrence of these patterns. The patterns can be regular expressions. The actions are expressed using a subset of the C language. Unfortunately this version always gets a stack overflow no matter what the stack is set to, I haven't had a chance to find the bug. Includes source, so you can hunt for it. Looks like it could be a very useful utility for the Amiga. Author: Bob Brodt CloseWB Simple program for use with MWB (also on this disk) to close a current WorkBench screen, and let you open WorkBench on a custom screen. Author: Matt Dillon Cookie Fortune cookie program. Includes source. Author: Richard Stevens JTime Detailed instructions, including schematics in IFF format, for building and installing a battery backed up real-time clock. The clock goes on the joystick port (aka mouse port 2). Author: Michael Keryan MenuBuilder A program which automates the process of building menus. It takes a simple text file and generates a C source file with all the needed structures for linking with the rest of your program. This is version 1.0, and includes source. Author: A. Preston MWB A program which will create a new 'WorkBench' screen and route by request OpenWindow calls meant for the WorkBench to these new screens. This allows you to run programs which normally open windows on the WorkBench screen to use a custom screen instead. Version 1.01, includes source. Author: Matt Dillon NewPackets Tutorial downloaded from BIX C-A support section, which describes some new packets and structures in 1.2 AmigaDos. Author: Carolyn Scheppner PascalToC A Pascal to C translator program which is supposed to correctly handle function, procedure, and most type declarations. However, this quick and dirty port didn't fare too well on even a simple little Pascal fragment from Software Tools in Pascal. I don't know if the problem is machine dependencies in the code or bugs. Looks like it could be useful with a little more work than I have time to put into it now. Includes source. Author: James Mullens, enhancements by Dan Kegel Prep Version 2.1 of a Fortran preprocessor called 'prep', an alternative to ratfor. Prep has better macro facilities, a concise shorthand for array and vector statements, all the standard flow control constructs of forth, and is written in generic, portable C (I made no source changes). Includes source. Author: Roger Ove RunBack A program that allows you to start another program which is independent of the CLI window. This is useful to start programs from your Startup-Sequence, load WorkBench, and then close the initial CLI (which could not be closed otherwise). Author: Charlie Heath, Microsmiths SunMouse Makes your mouse behave like the Sun Microsystem 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. Author: Scott Evernden CONTENTS OF DISK 64 ------------------- This is a copy of the Amiga Developer's IFF disk, received directly from Commodore-Amiga sources, with permission to place in the library and redistribute. It is an update to disk number 16, and is unchanged except for: 1) The volume name has been changed to AmigaLibDisk64. 2) This file (README.list64) has been added. I didn't have room for my standard README.dist file. There were only 4 free blocks on the disk when I got it! CONTENTS OF DISK 63 ------------------- This disk contains a port of the popular UNIX game "Larn", done by Edmund Burnette and the crew at the Software Distillery. This is version 12.0B. The disk is unchanged except for the following: (1) I have added this file, README.list63. (2) I have added the standard distribution info file, README.dist. (3) I have copied all the files to a freshly formatted disk, to create the master distribution disk, using a command of the form "copy df0: to df1: all". This insures that disk fragmentation is kept to a minimum, but also has the unfortunate side-effect that all the file dates are changed. Note that this disk must be named "Larn". 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 40% full. Normally I try to fill my library disks to about 90-95% full, but these "packaged" disks are special. CONTENTS OF DISK 62 ------------------- This disk contains a port of the popular UNIX game "Hack", done by John Toebes and the crew at the Software Distillery. This is version 1.0.3D. The disk is unchanged except for the following: (1) I have added this file, README.list62. (2) I have added the standard distribution info file, README.dist. (3) I have copied all the files to a freshly formatted disk, to create the master distribution disk, using a command of the form "copy df0: to df1: all". This insures that disk fragmentation is kept to a minimum, but also has the unfortunate side-effect that all the file dates are changed. Note that this disk must be named "Hack_Game". 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. CONTENTS OF DISK 61 ------------------- ATPatch A program which reportedly will patch the Amiga Transformer for operation under Workbench 1.2 (I don't have one so couldn't test it). Includes source. Author: Philip Staub FillDisk Disksalv has been known to find some rather interesting things in the free blocks of some production disks from companies that should know better. This little hack makes sure you don't get caught in the same trap, by scribbling the disk's free blocks in a totally safe manner. Includes source (all 20 lines of it). Author: Fred Fish LPatch Patch for programs, such as 'Atom', with bad 1.0 Lstartup code, which abort during startup under 1.2 with 00038007 alert (can't open dos library). Includes source. Author: Carolyn Scheppner MicroEmacs Version 3.8b of Daniel Lawrence's variant of Dave Conroy's microemacs. This version is greatly enhanced over the last version, distributed on disk number 22. For example, there is now a full extension language and support for a larger number of 68000 machines. Includes source. Author: Dave Conroy, MANY enhancements by Daniel Lawrence PearlFont A font similar to Topaz, but with smoothed out edges and more rounded characters. Author: Michael Portuesi Terrain Program which demonstrates generation of good looking pseudo-random scenery. Includes source in Draco. Author: Chris Gray VSprites Vsprite example from Rob's book "Programmers' Guide To The Amiga". Produces 28 VSprites onscreen simultaneously, using only three distinct sets of colors. Includes source. Author: Rob Peck CONTENTS OF DISK 60 ------------------- 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. Blitz Blitz is a small program that is designed to be loaded into memory and that sits in the background until activated by its hotkey. It allows you to view a text file, much like a TYPE command, only that it lets you move forwards and backwards through the file. Its screen updates are blitz'n. Binary only. Author: Hayes Haugen BlitzFonts Blitzfonts makes text output up to 6 times faster, transparently to well behaved programs. It is also very small and written 100% in assembly for maximum speed. Binary only. Author: Hayes Haugen HandShake Handshake is a full featured VT52/VT100/VT102 terminal emulator. The author has taken great pains to support the full VT102 spec. This is version 1.20a, binary only. Author: Eric Haberfellner Med Yet another Amiga text editor. This one lets you edit up to 36 files simultaneously and makes extensive use of the mouse. This is version 2.1, binary only. Author: Francois Rouaix PrtDrvGen Program to automatically generate custom printer drivers. Version 1.1, binary only, source available from author. Author: Joergen Thomsen Show A nice, very small slideshow type program, version 2.1, binary only. Author: Andry Rachmat Uedit Version 2.0 of this nice shareware editor. Has learn mode, a command language, menu customization, and other user configurability and customizability features. Binary only. Author: Rick Stiles Ueturbo Example of extensive customization of Uedit to set up a nice development environment. Includes source. Author: Tom Althoff CONTENTS OF DISK 59 ------------------- Browser Another version of the browser program released on disks number 18 and number 34. Includes some bug fixes and enhancements. Includes source. Author: Mike Meyer, enhancements by Mark Schretlen Browser2 This browser type program is apparently not based on the original Mike Meyer version. Binary only. Author: Dan Green Clock Another clock program, comes in several flavors depending upon features desired, which include using alternate fonts, using alternate colors, setting the time, etc. Binary only. Author: Mark Waggoner Dme Version 1.22 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. Author: Matt Dillon DropCloth Dropcloth replaces the standard blank WorkBench backdrop with a pattern, of setable intensity. Binary only. Author: Eric Lavitsky and Perry Kivolowitz DropShadow A program that makes your WorkBench windows have dropshadows. Neat. Binary only. Author: Jim Mackraz FixWB A program similar to "DropCloth" (also on this disk), but not fully working yet. At least this one is provided in source, so you get your choice of a working one in binary or a nonworking one in source. Sigh. Author: Leo Schwab mCAD An object-oriented drawing program, version 1.2.2. Uses a small set of graphics primitives (like "line", "box", and "text") and a small set of editing functions (like "move", "size", and "rotate"). While drawing and editing, the user can call on other functions to modify the display; to zoom in, slide around, superimpose a grid, etc. This shareware program was submitted by the author. Many improvements over the version released on disk number 56. Binary only. Author: Tim Mooney Robotroff Another of Leo's cute little display hacks. This one has a definite attraction to pointers (don't want to spoil the surprise). Author: Leo Schwab Supermort A general compounding/amortization routine, using the intuition environment, which can be used for mortgage/loan computations. Binary only. Author: Mark Schretlen -- = Drug tests; just say *NO*! (Moto just announced new drug testing program) = = Fred Fish Motorola Computer Division, 3013 S 52nd St, Tempe, Az 85282 USA = = seismo!noao!mcdsun!fnf (602) 438-5976 =