fnf@mcdsun.UUCP (Fred Fish) (12/08/86)
Time for another batch of disks. Standard blurb and listing of disks 41-46 follows.... WHAT'S AVAILABLE ---------------- There are "do-nothing-useful" examples of various capabilities of the AMIGA, real development tools, editors, languages, games, and other odds & ends. Also included are machine readable form of many of the examples (received directly from C-A sources) out of the official AMIGA manuals, including the ROM Kernel Manual. HOW TO OBTAIN DISKS ------------------- First, check with your local dealers and user groups. Many already have the earlier disks. Since these disks can be copied freely, and widespread distribution is encouraged, they propagate out to central distribution points fairly quickly. If you just can't wait, or can't find copies locally, I am willing to make these disks available for the cost of media, mailing materials, postage, and miscellaneous expenses (like wear and tear on my drives). My goal is to get as much software as possible into the hands of people that can use and enhance it, and make the AMIGA the success it deserves to be. Generally, each disk contains all source necessary to recreate the executables provided. All programs are currently compiled with the latest Lattice C and/or Manx C compiler available at the time of release. In a very few cases (noted in the description) the code will not compile or run for some reason, but was considered interesting enough to include anyway. Almost all executables are known to run on the latest kickstart/workbench combination available at time of release. Disks are typically 85 to 95 percent full. HOW TO ORDER ------------ To order, send a list of the disks you want, and $6 per disk ($5 per disk for 10 or more disks), in U.S. funds, to: Fred Fish 1346 W. 10th Place Tempe, Az 85281 (602) 921-1113 (Sorry, I can only return calls collect.) Price includes cost of media, mailing materials, and first class domestic postage. Overseas orders add $5 per order for Air Mail. Time and other jobs permitting, all disks will be mailed within 3 days of receipt of order. Feel free to order more the the current number of disks available. Excess funds will be placed "in escrow" (refundable at any time) and drawn against for automatic mailings of future disks as they become available. I hope to add at least two to four disks per month to the library. Given that I have a database of about 300Mb of freely distributable software to draw upon, that should be a fairly easy goal to accomplish. DISTRIBUTION CRITERIA --------------------- To the best of my knowledge, materials in this library are freely redistributable. This means that they have met one or more of the following conditions: (1) The materials contains explicit copyright notices permitting redistribution. (2) The materials were posted to a publically accessible electronic bulletin board and did not contain any copyright notice. (Such materials will be removed if it is subsequently shown that copyright notices were illegally removed.) (3) The materials were posted to a widely disseminated electronic network (such as usenet), thus implying that their author/poster intended them to be freely distributed. This applies only if they contain no notice limiting distribution. (4) The materials contain an explicit notice placing them in the public domain. This is not the same as condition (1). ====================================================================== Itemized contents of disks 41-46 follows, in reverse order for the benefit of those that already have early releases. ====================================================================== CONTENTS OF DISK 46 ------------------- 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. Author: Douglas Leavitt CheckModem A program which provides for executing other programs from your startup file, if and only if there is actually a modem connected to the serial port. Author: Matt Dillon Egad A gadget editor from the Programmers Network. Very nicely done and very useful. Author: John Draper, Ray Larson, Brent Southard, and Dave Milligan Jive A filter program which transforms its standard input to "jive" on its standard output. Author: Unknown My.lib A binary only copy of Matt's alternate runtime library. Author: Matt Dillon ProffMacros Subset implementations of the Berkeley "ms" and System V "mm" macro packages, for the proff program. Author: Tony Andrews and George Walker ValSpeak A filter program which transforms its standard input to "valspeak" on its standard output. Author: Unknown CONTENTS OF DISK 45 ------------------- Clue Clue board game. Nice. Author: Greg Pryor Make Another version of make that seems to be more complete than many other PD makes. Author: Unknown, downloaded from the Software Distillery Pictures Miscellaneous pictures selected from dozens of pictures that have come my way since the last full art disk. Author: Rich Payne, Grace Rohlfs, and others. Update Used to update an older working disk with files from a newly released disk. Files on the older disk that are out of date will be upgraded with files from the new disk. Author: Unknown, downloaded from Software Distillery WhereIs Program which searches a disk for the first or multiple occurances of a file with a given name. Author: Steve Poling CONTENTS OF DISK 44 ------------------- Icons Some miscellaneous icons for your viewing pleasure. Author: Unknown NewIFF Some new iff material dealing with sampled voice and music iff files. Author: Posted to usenet by Carolyn Scheppner RayTracePics Ray tracing pictures, some of which appeared on disk number 39, but now in IFF HAM format for MUCH faster loading and compatibility with existing IFF tools. Author: Dave Wecker ViewILBM Reads an ILBM file and displays as a screen/window until closed. Handles normal and HAM ILBM's. Author: Based on ShowILBM, enhanced by Carolyn Scheppner CONTENTS OF DISK 43 ------------------- BasicBoing An AmigaBasic program which shows animation by page flipping. Precalculates all views of a rotating 3 dimensional cube and then cycles through them rapidly for animation. Author: Arthur Blume Bbm Demo copy of B.E.S.T. Software's Business Management System. It is a full implementation with file sizes reduced for demo purposes. Author: Business Electronics Software & Technology Inc. BbsList A list of Bulletin Board Systems which support the Amiga. The list was compiled from a list on Delphi, Compuserve, bathroom walls, etc. Author: Dick Sheffold Cc C compiler frontends for Manx and Lattice C, developed independently by Jay Ts. These automatically filter off the annoying banner messages from various passes of the compilers. Author: Jay Ts Copper A copper list disassembler. Dumps the contents of a hardware copper instruction list. Author: Scott Evernden InstIFF A program which converts sampled sound files from the Instruments dealer demo disks to IFF sampled sound files in a FORM 8SVX. Author: Bobby Deen PopColours Lets you change the Red/Green/Blue components of any color register, on any screen currently in the system. Uses a movable window with slider gadgets. Very well done. Version 1.0, November 1986. Author: Chris Zamara and Nick Sullivan SpriteClock A very simple clock that uses a sprite as it's display medium, thus allowing it to be displayed on top of all other screens. Includes source in assembly language. Author: Darrel Schneider STEmulator Turns your Amiga into an Atari ST (sort of). Be sure to read the README file for the true story... Author: David Addison WBrun A program designed to allow any program to be invoked from CLI yet behave as if it were invoked from Workbench. Workbench need not be loaded, thus saving the memory that Workbench would normally use. Author: John Toebes Wild Two versions of Unix shell style wildcard matching routines. Author: Rich Salz and Fred Fish CONTENTS OF DISK 42 ------------------- To quote the "Read Me First" file: This diskette contains the Amiga version of MicroGNUEmacs (MG), a small but powerful text editor that 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. From the "Read Me Second" file: This is the fourth Beta distribution of MicroGnuEmacs. Beyond the work of Dave Conroy, author of the original public domain v30, this contains the efforts of: mwm@ucbopal.berkeley.edu Mike Meyer mic@ngp.utexas.edu Mic Kaczmarczik blarson@usc-oberon.arpa Bob Larson rtech!daveb@sun.com Dave Brower 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 AmigaLibDisk42. The original volume name was "MG 1a". CONTENTS OF DISK 41 ------------------- AmigaVenture A program which allows you to write your own Infocom-style adventure programs in AmigaBasic. It is a full-featured adventure parser, including direct and indirect objects, multiple object processing, adjectives, automatic ambiguity resolution, and subordinate clauses. The parser includes support for one, two, or three-word verbs, and a full set of object-manipulation primitives. Author: Mitsuharu Hadeishi Csh Version 2.03 of Matt's Csh-like shell. Executable only. Author: Matt Dillon Dbug Macro based C debugging package. Machine independent. Provides function trace, selective printing of internal state information, and more. First released on disk #2. This version includes some bug fixes and enhancements. Author: Fred Fish DualPlayField An example of using a dual-playfield screen, using a method contrary to documentation in the Intuition Manual. Author: Jim Mackraz GetFile A very nice file name requester. Unlike the earlier version on disk #35, this version includes source code. Author: Charlie Heath LatticeXref A cross reference listing of all symbols defined in the Lattice 3.10 header files. Sorted alphabetically by symbol string, includes file name and line number of all references and/or definitions. Author: Fred Fish Lines A line drawing demo program, reminiscent of the "sparks" program on disk #9. Author: Paul Jatkowski SetFont A program to change the font used in a workbench screen. Includes several sample fonts of various sizes. Author: Michael McInerny Vt100 Version 2.3 of the ever popular vt100 terminal program. Includes xmodem and kermit file transfer protocols. Author: Dave Wecker -- =========================================================================== Fred Fish Motorola Computer Division, 3013 S 52nd St, Tempe, Az 85282 USA {seismo!noao!mcdsun,hplabs!well}!fnf (602) 438-5976 ===========================================================================
dvk@sei.cmu.edu (Daniel Klein) (12/19/86)
Organization: CMU Software Engineering Institute Keywords: -- --=============--=============--=============--=============--=============-- Daniel V. Klein, who lives in Pittsburgh, allegedly works for the Software Engineering Institute, and strives to survive as best he can. ARPA: dvk@sei.cmu.edu USENET: {ucbvax,harvard,cadre}!dvk@sei.cmu.edu "The only thing that separates us from the animals is superstition and mindless rituals".