fnf@well.UUCP (Fred Fish) (01/19/87)
Time for a new batch of goodies. Those of you with prepaid disks should be receiving these in the next few days (first mailing will be tomorrow). Sometime in the next week I will probably be posting the complete nroff source to the list of all disks in my library (I have had numerous requests for this lately) so people can print off their own formatted copies of the library contents. Now, on to the list of new disks, in reverse order, as usual... DISK NUMBER 54 -------------- (At this time, this disk is still under construction and probably won't be released immediately) Ispell Interactive spelling checker. Very nice but *requires* expansion memory as it loads a 300K dictionary into memory when it starts up (a hard disk is also recommended). DISK NUMBER 53 -------------- Animations Some animations made with Aegis Animator. Includes a player program. Author: Aegis Development ARCre Creates rename scripts so that files with long names can be easily archived and dearchived correctly by "arc". Author: John Hoffman Arp Some preliminary programs from a program started on BIX by Charlie Heath to replace all the BCPL AmigaDOS programs with assembly equivalents. Includes "break", "cd", "chmod", "echo", "filenote", and "makedir". Author: Charlie Heath and Scott Ballantyne Compiler An optimizing C compiler for the 68000. Has successfully compiled itself on a 68000 based Unix system V machine, but has yet to be fully ported to the Amiga. It will currently produce assembly output for simple C routines on the Amiga, but needs lots of work to be really useful as anything other than a learning tool for budding compiler guru's. Author: Matthew Brandt SpreadSheet A simple "Visicalc-like" spread sheet calculator. Also known as "vc" but there is currently a debate about whether or not that name is a registered trademark. The version on disk number 36 was based on an earlier version of the same source. This release also includes source code. Author: James Gosling, Mark Weiser, and Bob Bond Amiga port by Dave Wecker TarSplit A port of the OS/9 program that extracts files from Unix tar archives. Author: James Jones. Amiga version by Mike Meyer. 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 38, and includes a simple line-by-line checksum technique that can read and write files compatible with the older uuencode/uudecode. Author: Mark Horton with mods by Alan Rosenthal DISK NUMBER 52 -------------- Assign Replacement for AmigaDOS assign command, written in C. Author: Charles McManis Fractal A fractal program which produces a random square fractal terrain. Author: John Olsen HAMpoly A polygon drawing demo which uses HAM mode to produce polygons of any of the possible 4096 colors. Author: John Olsen MxGads Demonstrates how to make mutual exclusion of boolean gadgets work, even if they contain GadgetText. Author: Willy Langeveld Poly A polygon drawing demo using the AreaMove, AreaDraw, and AreaEnd functions. Author: John Olsen Tek4010 A Tek 4010 emulator. Author: Terry Whelan, with changes by Steve Poling Vdraw1.16 Shareware drawing program submitted by the author. This version uses menus but includes some items not in version 1.19, also on this disk. Author: Stephen Vermeulen Vdraw1.19 Latest version of Vdraw, with a completely new iconic user interface, and some other new features including a color palette mixer and DPaint style brushes, extended cutting features, area locking, and a flexible printing interface. Author: Stephen Vermeulen DISK NUMBER 51 -------------- Bison A replacement for unix "yacc" command. This is from the GNU (GNU is Not Unix) effort, and was obtained from the Free Software Foundation. This is a working update to the version on disk number 4, provided by Johan Widen. Author: Bob Corbett and Richard Stallman Compress This is an update to the compress version released on disk number 6. It is tested and seems to work well except for a couple glitches noticed at the last minute (see the README file). Compress reduces the size of the named files using adaptive Lempel-Ziv coding. The amount of compression obtained depends on the size of the input, the number of bits per code, and the distribution of common substrings. Typically, text such as source code or English is reduced by 50-60%. Compression is generally much better then that achieved by Huffman coding (as used in "pack") or adaptive Huffman coding (as used in "compact"), and takes less time to compute. Author: Thomas Spencer, with improvements by others Cos A "Wheel Of Fortune" style game in AmigaBasic. Author: Steve Michel DifSsed Dif produces a difference file which lists the line by line differences between any two text files. These differences can be fed to ssed (a stream type editor), along with the original text file, to remotely reproduce the other (new) file. Binary only. Author: Chuck Forsberg, Amiga port by Rich Schaeffer Sq.Usq Portable versions of the CPM sq and usq utilities. Author: R. Greenlaw, many changes by Bill Swan DISK NUMBER 50 -------------- 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. Asm A shareware macro assembler, submitted by the author. Asm is a 68010 macro assembler that is compatible with the assembler described in the AmigaDOS manual. This is version 1.1, an update to the version on disk number 46, and includes bug fixes, additional standard Motorola mnemonics and a simple startup code module. Author: Douglas Leavitt BreakOut A 3-D game. Requires 3-D glasses. Author: Tim Kemp DiskZap Program to "edit" a disk, sector by sector. Version 1.1. Author: Paris Bingham Jr. FirstSiliCon A smart input line interpreter that provides a separate command window with full editing and recall of previous commands. Actual name is "Sili(Con:)". Author: Pete Goodeve Missile A nice "missile defense" game. Written 100% in assembler (source available from author) and is very fast! Author: Glen Merriman PerfectSound PerfectSound demo, with a sound editor and sample sound files. Looks very nice. Author: Anthony Wood Sizzlers Graphics demo programs. Author: Greg Epley UnixArc A version of arc suitable for Unix System V. Author: System Enhancement Associates Wombat Yet another terminal emulation program. Version 3.01. Has user settable cursor, programmable function keys, vt-102 emulation, auto-dialing, loadable settings files, and more. Author: Dave Warker DISK NUMBER 49 -------------- Cycloids An updated version of the hypocycloids (electronic spirograph) program first released on disk number 27. Author: Terry Gintz DirUtil An enhanced version of the dirutil from disk number 35. Dirutil is a program to wander around a directory tree and perform various operations on files. See README file for list of new features. Author: Chris Nicotra, enhancements by Johan Widen Multidef A program to scan a collection of object and library files and identify multiply defined symbols. This is useful to locate subtle problems where user defined symbols override library symbols. Author: Paul Jatkowski MyUpdate A disk update utility that also provides support for automatically stripping comments from C header files and for interactive verification on a per file basis. Author: Joe Mueller Plot Program to compute and plot 3 dimensional functions. Includes hi-res interlace mode for maximum detail. Author: Unknown; Amiga version by Terry Gintz Polygon A moire type pattern generator but with color cycling. Author: Terry Gintz QMouse A program to query the status of the left mouse button and return a status code. The return code can be used as a WARN condition in a CLI execute file to alter execution. Also includes a separate program to toggle interlace on and off. Both are written in assembler and are very small. Author: Robert Rethemeyer Touch A simple command to set the date of a file to the current date. Uses new supported method of setting a file datestamp (rather than reading and writing back a byte). Author: Phil Lindsay and Andy Finkel Trees Another "tree growing" program, similar to the one on disk number 31, but more extensive. Author: Unknown; Amiga version by Terry Gintz DISK NUMBER 48 -------------- Bru Alpha 1 version of a hard disk and/or file archiver written for Unix. This is a vanilla port, with very little Amiga smarts, but it is usable. This is also the last freely redistributable version. Author: Fred Fish Comm A vt100 like terminal emulator with built in support for key functions and a phone number database. Version 1.30. Author: DJ James Csh2.04 Version 2.04 of Matt's csh-like shell. Includes source. Author: Matt Dillon Csh2.04M Version 2.04 of Matt's csh-like shell, heavily modified for Manx C. Includes source. Author: Matt Dillon, Manx version by Steve Drew Diskperf A disk benchmark program which runs on both Unix and the Amiga. Author: Rick Spanbauer Du Computes disk usage of a file or directory (including subdirectories). Very handy. Author: Joe Mueller 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! Author: John Toebes Profiler A realtime execution profiler for Manx 3.30E. Using this you can identify what sections of your program are using the most time, or being executed the most, and optimize as appropriate. I was able to double the speed of some programs by using this tool. Includes source. Author: Tomas Rokicki DISK NUMBER 47 -------------- 3D-Arm The first stage of a larger project to study goal directed animation of articulated objects (objects which can move with various degrees of freedom but are constrained by attachment to other links within the object). This program demonstrates goal directed animation with a simulated 3-dimensional robot arm. Includes source. Author: Bob Laughlin Juggler Stunning animation of a robot juggler with ray traced reflective spheres. Uses HAM mode display and sound effects to boot! Author: Eric Graham Vt100 Version 2.4 of Dave's vt100 terminal emulator. Includes xmodem and kermit file transfer protocols. Author: Dave Wecker -- =============================================================================== Fred Fish (602) 438-5976 well!fnf ===============================================================================