wille@frith.msu.edu (Jeffrey M. Wille) (06/13/91)
Here's what you've been waiting for: Contents of Fred Fish Disks 481-490 =================================== This is disk 481 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. K1 An editor program for the Kawai K1-II synthesizer. Includes a bankloader for single-patches and multi-patches, a single- patch editor, a multi-patch editor, and support for the effect-session and K1 controllers. Version 4.8, binary only. Author: Andreas Jung MCP A "TRON" like cycle race game for up to four players. Version 13.76, update to version on disk 338, includes source in assembly. Author: Jorg Sixt TLPatch A utility to allow corrections in pronunciation for programs that use the Translate() function. It allows you to extract the exception table from the translator.library, use a text editor to edit the table, and then restore it back into the library. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Richard Sheppard WaveMaker WaveMaker is intended to give beginning music and physics students a "hands on" feel for how complex waves are made by adding a harmonic series of sine waves. A fundamental and up to seven harmonics are available. The resulting waveform can be displayed on the screen or played on the audio device using the keyboard like a piano. A game mode is also provided. Version 1.2, an update to version 1.1 on disk 318, with several bugs fixed, more efficient code, and a new display option. Includes source. Author: Thomas Meyer This is disk 482 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Ephemer A program which calculates the positions of the sun, moon, and planets for any date and any place. Includes source in HiSoft BASIC. Author: Yvon Alemany Molec3D An interactive 3D solid modelling program for molecules. Produces a graphic, three dimensional representation of molecules, based on 3D coordinates data from geometry optimization programs, X-ray measurements, or any other source. Can handle up to 500 atoms at a time. Requires 1Mb or more of memory. Version 1.022, binary only. Author: Stefan Abrecht This is disk 483 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. ButExchange An input handler to help left handed Amiga users. It reverses the function of the mouse buttons, so that the left button becomes the right and vice versa. Very small, uses only 168 bytes of memory. Version 1.0, includes source in assembler. Author: Preben Nielsen ColorSamples A few executable color samples made by ColorCatch from disk 396. Contains the 'old' colors from kickstart 1.3 and the 'new' colors from kickstart 2.0. Very useful because some programs/icons look awful when displayed in colors other than the ones they were created for. Author: Preben Nielsen InputLock An input handler to help Amiga users who have cats other pets (or children) that mess with the Amiga as soon as it is left for a second. It installs an input handler which lets you lock the keyboard and mouse by pressing a few buttons. Very small, uses only 190 bytes of memory. Version 1.0, includes source in assembler. Author: Preben Nielsen MED MED is a music editor that can be used to compose music for demos/games etc. It can be used as a stand-alone music program as well. The features include built-in sample editor, synthetic sound editor, MIDI support (up to 16 tracks), and options to read/write NoiseTracker modules. Included are routines that allow programmers to easily incorporate music made with MED in their programs. This is version 3.10, an update to version 3.00 on disk 476. Binary only. Author: Teijo Kinnunen MouseXY A small utility that opens a little window in which it shows the mouse coordinates and the color at that position. It can be moved from screen to screen and is able to show coordinates even when you are moving/resizing windows or moving Workbench icons. Version 1.0, includes source in assembler. Author: Preben Nielsen PicSaver A small utility that allows you cut rectangular portions of any screen and store them on disk as IFF ILBM files. Also allows easy saving of windows and entire screens to disk. Version 1.0, includes source in assembler. Author: Preben Nielsen PointerX Spins the hands of any pointer that looks like the standard AmigaDOS 2.0 Workbench "busy" pointer (a clock). Will also work with any application that uses the same pointer. Includes source. Author: Steve Tibbett PSX A public screen manager for AmigaDOS 2.0. Lets you open, manipulate, and close public screens, set the global public screen bits, and provides a good example of using GadTools and ReadArgs. Version 1.1, an update to version on disk 418. Includes source. Author: Steve Tibbett PWKeys An input handler that allows you to manipulate windows and screens by pressing keys on the keyboard. It currently lets you perform 17 different functions. Includes an interactive program to define hotkeys. Very small, uses only 1124 bytes of memory. Version 1.0, includes source in assembler. Author: Preben Nielsen TD A program like TrackDisplay on disk 399 by Olaf Barthel. It monitors and displays the current track for each floppy disk connected to the Amiga. Version 1.0, includes source in assembler. Author: Preben Nielsen This is disk 484 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. BootPic BootPic allows you to install nearly any IFF picture that you like in place of the WorkBench hand that appears after a reset. Version 1.0, includes source in assembly. Author: Andreas Ackermann EZAsm Combines parts of "C" with 68000 assembly language. The resulting code is optimized as much as possible. Now bundled with A68k and Blink for a complete programming environment. New "c.lib" functions and more. This is version 1.5, an update to version 1.31 on disk 431. Includes example source and executable files. Binary only. Author: Joe Siebenmann MSClock A clock utility, which displays memory, date, time and online time (if connected to another computer via modem) in the titlebar of the WorkBench screen. This is version 1.3, includes source. Author: Martin Steppler Spright Spright is a sprite making utility. Simple or attached sprites can be saved to a file ready to be added to your program. The colors used with the sprite(s) will also be saved. Version 1.2, binary only. Author: Todd Neumiller TextPlus A word processor for the Amiga, with both German and English versions. This is version 3.0, an update to version 2.2E on disk 465. New features include the ability to print footnotes and serial letters, multiple windows, an ARexx-interface with 120 commands, powerful block-operations, ANSI-compatibility, ability to load files crunched by PowerPacker, etc. Shareware, binary only. Author: Martin Steppler Viewer Displays IFF pictures fast! Version 1.0. Includes source in EZAsm. Author: Joe Siebenmann This is disk 485 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Drawmap A program for drawing representations of the Earth's surface. This version includes a completely rewritten user interface and some new functions. Version 2.25d, an update to version 2.0 on disk 315. Includes source. Authors: Bryan Brown & Ulrich Denker NiftyTerm NiftyTerm is an h19/VT102/VT52 emulator for the Amiga. It was originally designed to be used with DNet, but it has been expanded so that it may be used as a normal terminal emulator. Niftyterm was designed to be a good emulation of these terminals, as well as being fairly small and fast. Version 1.2, an update to version 1.0 on disk 403. Binary only, source available from authors. Author: Christopher Newman, Todd Williamson Spades This is an Amiga version of the card game spades. It is a one player version, where the computer plays your partner and two opponents. This is version 1.2, an update to version 1.1 on Disk 392. Includes source in C. Author: Greg Stelmack This is disk 486 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Metafont Amiga port of the Metafont package, a program to create TeX fonts. Includes versions for 68000 and 68020. Disk 487 contains a copy of the Metafont font source files from the TeX distribution tape, including the Computer Modern Roman and the LaTeX fonts. This is version 2.7, binary only. Author: Donald E. Knuth, Stefan Becker (Amiga port) SoundEd Demo version of an 8SVX sound editing package, written in machine code for optimum speed and minimum size. Can also be used for digitizing with SoundEd or Perfect Sound hardware. Version 1.0, demo, binary only. Author: Howard Dortch and Mike Coriell This is disk 487 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. AssignX A 2.0-only utility to create assignments when you get a "Please insert volume" requester. Also lets you cancel the request, forever. Installs by dropping into your WBStartup drawer. This is version 1.2, an update to version 1.0 on disk 475. Includes source. Author: Steve Tibbett MFSrc A copy of the Metafont font source files from the TeX distribution tape, suitable for use with the Amiga port of Metafont on disk 486. Included are the Computer Modern Roman and the LaTeX fonts. These should be sufficient to run a normal TeX installation. Author: Various PPrint A printing utility, designed for all those who slowly but surely become frustrated with programmers who think that they can do a form feed better than their printer can. This one relies on the printer itself to do the formatting, and on the program to send the settings. Features include a full icon driven user interface, the ability to convert tabs to any size, and the ability to save a number of standard settings. Version 1.10, includes source. Author: Marc Jackisch This is disk 488 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. LordOfHosts A strategy game for two players based on a board game called "Shogun". Features include flexible mouse/joystick controls, undo and redo of up to 500 preceding steps, fully intuition- ized user interface. Version 1.0, complete source code, precompiled include files and debugger files included. Author: Tim Pietzcker MidiTools A group of several different utility programs for those who run a Midi system. Update to version on disk 159. Includes three new programs, two of which are synthesizer editors, and compatibility with AmigaDOS 2.0. Binary only. Author: Jack Deckard SGD This program makes it possible to delete games, that are saved by any of the existing Sierra adventures (e.g. Leisure suit Larry). The program has a LEARN-option for including new adventures. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Maico Ditzel SuperDuper A very fast disk copier and formatter. Can make up to four unverified copies from a ram buffer in 36 seconds. Verified copies from a ram buffer take 67 seconds for one destination drive, plus 34 seconds for each additional destination. Binary only. Author: Sebastiano Vigna View80 Scrolling text file reader with three scrolling modes controllable via keyboard or mouse. Opens file requestor if no filename is given. Automatically configures screen size for PAL or NTSC machine. Version 2.0, an update to version 1.1 on disk 365. Binary only. Author: Federico Giannici This is disk 489 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Automata Automata is an extremely versatile, cellular automaton simulation. Virtually every aspect of the simulation can be altered, saved, and later recalled. Also supplies many powerful editing functions (such as patterns, rotations, reflections, etc) for creating and modifying cell configur- ations. Additional features include editable icons, an immense variety of rules from which to choose, "music" which changes as the cell configuration changes and methods to speed execution from 3 to 60 (or more) generations per second. Binary only. Author: Jerry Mack MkBmap Builds Amiga format bitmapped fonts from PostScript fonts. Uses the library "post.library" (disk 468) to render the characters. Best results are obtained with fully hinted type 1 fonts, such as those supplied by Adobe and other vendors. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Adrian Aylward SKsh A ksh-like shell for the Amiga. Some of its features include command substitution, shell functions with parameters, aliases, local variables, local functions, local aliases, powerful control structures and tests, emacs style line editing and history functions, I/O redirection, pipes, large variety of built-in commands, Unix style wildcards, Unix style filename conventions, filename completion, and coexistence with scripts from other shells. Very well documented. Version 1.7, an update to version 1.6 on disk 381. Lots of new features and bug fixes. Binary only. Author: Steve Koren This is disk 490 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. AmiCheck An easy to use, intuitive, friendly checkbook program. Allows you to enter your checks in a very natural style, giving you a running balance as you do so. Options include reconciling your checkbook, starting new registers with outstanding checks only, printing all, cleared, outstanding, or selected entries, and more. Version 2.0, shareware, binary only, requires AmigaDOS 2.0. Author: Jeff Hoag AntiLemmin Another great, humorous, animation from Eric Schwartz. This one was obviously inspired by the wonderful Lemmings game. Lasts a full two minutes and ten seconds. Requires at least 2 Mb of memory. Author: Eric Schwartz Recolor A fully configurable icon recoloring tool that can swap or shift the colors of selected icons and truncate the depth of the icon color map. Binary only. Author: Michael Sinz