fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) (03/17/87)
It seems like forever since my last batch of disks. I'm sure I have enough material that I could have released 10 this time, instead of 5, but the problem is finding time to organize them. Sure would love to be independently wealthy and spend my time just hacking on the Amiga. Oh well, it's nice to dream... :-) Here are the contents of disks number 54-58, in reverse order as usual. CONTENTS OF DISK 58 ------------------- ASDG-rrd Extremely useful shareware recoverable ram disk. This AmigaDOS device driver implements a completely DOS compatible disk device in memory that survives resets, guru's, and crashes. An absolute must for those with lots of ram. Binary only. Author: Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc. BigView Displays any IFF picture, independent of the physical display size, using hardware scroll. Default display size is 320 by 200 in lo-res; HIRES or LACE attributes added if user width/height exceeds low resolution boundaries. Includes source. Author: John Hodgson EGraph Egraph reads pairs of x and y values from a list of files and draws a formatted graph. Supports four unique curve fonts; solid curves, dashed curves, dotted curves, and long dashed curves. The maximum number of data points is unlimited. Has globs of options. Binary only. Author: Laurence Turner HyperBase Nice little shareware database management system. Version 1.5. Binary only, source available from authors. Author: Michael MacKenzie, Marc Mengel, and Craig Norborg MemClear Walks through the free memory lists, zeroing free memory along the way, and coalescing memchunks that have contiguous address spaces. Includes source. Author: John Hodgson NewZAP A third-generation multi-purpose file sector editing utility, from the author of FileZAP. Displays and edits full 512-byte sectors via a 106 character wide internal font. Includes a search feature to find specific strings or hex digits, forwards or backwards. Version 3.0, includes source. Author: John Hodgson RainBow Marauder-style rainbow generator. Installs a user copper list such that the background color is changed every few scan lines. Includes source. Author: John Hodgson SmusPlayers Two SMUS players, to play SMUS IFF music formatted files. Executables only. Author: John Hodgson View A tiny ILBM viewer, for use with either the CLI or WorkBench. Includes source. Author: John Hodgson WBdump JX-80 optimized workbench printer that does not use DumpRPort. Much more efficient than the Amiga JX-80 driver for full screen dumps. Includes source. Author: John Hodgson CONTENTS OF DISK 57 ------------------- 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 Ogre A game of tactical ground combat in the year 2086. Ogres are giat cybernetic tanks, each prodigiously armed and possessing a limited self-awareness, allowing them to do their own tactical planning. Your goal is to neutralize the ogre. Includes source. Author: Michael Caplinger; Amiga port by Hobie Orris 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 56 ------------------- ClipBoard Clipboard device interface routines to provide a standard interface, such as Open, Close, Post, Read, Write, etc. Author: Andy Finkel ConPackets Demos the use of DOS packets, finding the Window pointer and ConUnit pointer of the CLI window, toggling Raw mode, getting cursor position and limits from the ConUnit, and ESC-sequence cursor positioning. Author: Carolyn Scheppner GetDisks Sample program to find all available disk device names and return them as a simple exec list. The list is made of named nodes, with the name being the device name. Author: Phillip Lindsay GetVolume Sample program to get the volume name of the volume that a given file resides on. Works on any device, even the RAM: device. Author: Chuck McManis Icon2C Reads an icon file and writes out a fragment of C code with the icon data structures, for inclusion in a larger program. Author: Carolyn Scheppner 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. Author: Carolyn Scheppner mCAD An object-oriented drawing program, version 1.1. 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. Author: Tim Mooney CONTENTS OF DISK 55 ------------------- Csh Version 2.05 of Matt Dillon's csh like shell, modified for Manx C. Author: Matt Dillon, Manx'ified by Steve Drew NewStartups A couple of new C startup modules. AStartup.asm is the source to AStartup.obj, with 1.2 fixes and better quote handling. TWStartup.asm is like AStartup.asm but opens a stdio window, using a user supplied window specification, when executed from workbench. Author: Commodore, posted to BIX by Carolyn Scheppner Palette A tool which allows you to change another program's custom screen colors. Based on Charlie Heath's palette program from disk number 1. Author: Carolyn Scheppner PipeDevice A working 'pipe:' device, which allows the standard output of one process to be fed to the standard input of another process, with both processes running concurrently. Author: Matt Dillon ScreenSave A program to save a normal or HAM mode screen as an IFF file. Also creates an icon for the saved file. Author: Carolyn Scheppner ShanghaiDemo Demo version of the Activision game "Shanghai". Submitted directly by Activision for inclusion in the library. SoundExample A double buffered sound example for Manx C using 16-bit ints, small code, and small data. Author: Jim Goodnow Vsprites A working vsprite example. Author: Eric Cotton Vt100 Version 2.6 of Dave's vt100 terminal emulator with kermit and xmodem file transfer. It just keeps getting better and better... Author: Dave Wecker CONTENTS OF DISK 54 ------------------- Hanoi Classical demo program for recursion. Solves the towers of hanoi problem in a workbench window of its own. Author: Ali Ozer ISpell A quick and dirty port of a Unix version of a freely distributable screen oriented, interactive, spelling checker. I use the Unix version daily and it is very nice. You will need expansion ram to run this with the supplied dictionary, as it loads the entire 300K hashed dictionary into memory. A hard disk is also recommended. Author: Pace Willisson Ing The next step in the "boing wars". Turns a nice screen full of little windows into a screen of lots of bouncing little windows. Cute! Author: Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab Lav A "title bar type" program that displays the number of tasks in the Amiga's run queue, averaged over the last minute, 5 minutes, and 15 minutes. Presumably inspired by, and named after, the BSD "load average" program. Author: William Rucklidge MidiTools Simple programs to play and record through the MIDI I/F. Untested (I have no MIDI hardware). Author: Fred Cassirer MoreRows A program to make the workbench screen larger than normal. The number of additional rows and columns are set via command line arguments. Author: Neil Katin and Jim Mackraz Tilt Another of Leo's cute little toys. This one makes your Amiga look like it didn't pass Commodore's vibration testing. Author: Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab -- = 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 =