NEW AMIGOZ DISKS These disks are prepared by Graeme Riddle in Melbourne, and are a collection of material not normally found anywhere else.  ********************************************************************* STOP PRESS!!! NOTE NEW PRICES FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN DISKS For current subscribers to Megadisc - $2.50 each! For non-subscribers - $3.50 each! [These prices replace those on the current order form.] We're passing on to you, our users, these greater savings due to slight reductions in disk prices and to encourage the greater spread of Public Domain software through the community at as low a price as we can. The offer of 11 disks for the price of 10 is still available, ie 11 disks for $25 or $35, depending on whether you currently subscribe to Megadisc.  ********************************************************************* ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## 24 ## Contents of AmigOz43 -------------------- This disc includes a collection of Adobe Type 1 Fonts from various electronic sources. Most of these fonts were originally Macintosh format. They are now converted to IBM Type 1 fonts on an Amiga format disc. In this process, I made use of the conversion utility supplied with AMaxII to write the appropriate font files to Amiga formatted discs. These fonts were then converted to the IBM Type 1 font format using utilities supplied with PageStream2.1. Obviously, the fonts are designed for use with PageStream2.1. Please read carefully the requirements of the designers of the fonts supplied, before distributing or making use of these fonts. There is considerable work and expense involved in their production and the requested fees should be paid if you make use of the fonts. AliceInWonderland A piece of black and white clip art converted from the original gif format. Author: Unknown Cardiff An ornate metallic font. Author: Unbroken Chain DominoEffect This font contains 27 characters: the 26 capital letters and the space. Each character looks like a domino with letters carved out of it, rather than numbers. Author: David Rakowski Dubiel Dubiel and DubielItalic are Adobe Type 1, PostScript fonts modeled on the fonts Torino and Torino Italic. They are similar to a condensed Bodoni, except with lighter strokes. They work well both as text and display fonts. Author: David Rakowski Elwood This Type 1 font is CAPS ONLY with no numbers and appears as a decorative hand-drawn outline font. Author: Unbroken Chain PigNoseTyp An austere all-caps san-serif font. Author: Unknown Rothman Rothman is an Art Deco PostScript font containing all alphabetic and numeric characters and punctuation. Author: David Rakowski Xochiquetzal A piece of black and white clip art converted from the original gif format. Xochiquetzal was the Mayan god of fertility and love. According to some authorities she was the mother of the 'first celestial twins', Quetzalcoatl and Xolotl; others hold that she was the spouse of Tlaloc or Xochipilli, the 'prince of flowers'. Author: Unknown Contents of AmigOz44 -------------------- ATFAgility This Aerotoon animation requires one megabyte of memory to run. Author: Eric Schwartz Flush Ever had a program that would use memory and NOT release it? Well here's a possible cure. Author: Unknown Pyr A GIF converted to IFF. Author: Unknown SafeMem Ever had the problem of a program you're trying to debug swallowing 24 bytes somewhere, and not knowing where? Or perhaps you're playing around with one of the more complex memory structures, and it gurus a lot due to incorrect memory frees? mem.c provides a safety net around all your calls to AllocMem and FreeMem, recording what you've allocated, and where you allocated (ie where in the source-code). Then, when you do something wrong (like try to free something you never allocated), it simply displays a nice little debug message. Author: Simon Bullen Switcher(1.00) Switcher's job is to provide you with a list of the current screens existing on the system and then allow you to select which screen you want to switch to. The second set of gadgets, defined in the config file, contain 5 user definable gadgets that execute any normal CLI command. You can specify up to 40 gadgets e.g. DSD DSD Prefs SYS:Preferences/Prefs AMon utils:AmigaMonitor Shell NewShell "CON:0/0/640/200/My Shell!" Author: Khalid Aldoseri. TwoDice Another GIF converted to IFF. Author: Unknown Contents of AmigOz45 -------------------- Akina A set of three versions of a single image; one, converted from GIF format with ADPro. The other two are black and white versions of the same image produced using "GIFConverter" on a Macintosh; one is a 300dpi image with quite fine dithering the other a more coarsely dithered image. The B&W images are included as clipart for use in DTP. Author: Unknown AmyDoesSchwab This is a short looping animation starring Amy the Squirrel in tribute to Leo "Bols Ewhac" Schwab. It is a 'slight' parody of Leo's famous "Dream goes berserk" Videoscape anim. Author: Eric Schwartz CityJumper Another looping animation by Author: Eric Schwartz Time A set of two versions of a single image; one, converted from GIF format with ADPro. The other is a black and white version of the same image produced using "GIFConverter" on a Macintosh. The B&W image is included as clipart for use in DTP. Author: Unknown Contents of AmigOz46 -------------------- ALookII(0.1) Version 0.1 of a program to automatically display Dynamic Hires pics. [Unfortunately I lack any examples to include - GAR] Author: Trevor Neil Andrews Camouflage An Aerotoon by Eric Schwartz. Most of the graphics were created in Deluxepaint, Scene Generator, and Sculpt 4D jr, with the Art Department as an intermediary between them and Moviesetter. I thought it was an interesting thing to try, but don't expect many more like it because it's almost too much work. Requirements: Any amiga with 1 meg memory. Author: Eric Schwartz CCD(2.4) CCD allows you to do 'lazy cds', that is, if you have for example a directory dh0:dp/netdcc/system, you just have to type 'ccd system' (and even 'ccd sys') to change to it. Author: Cedric BEUST (beust@taloa.unice.fr) ClockTick(1.3) A simple hack that makes any busy pointer that matches the Kickstart 2.0 clock pointer move its hands. To use: Just add ClockTick to your startup. This program works under 1.2 and higher versions of the OS. It also notices the busy pointer from MKSoft (a ZZZ cloud) and will change it into the 2.0 style clock. It also notices the busy pointer from 1.2 and 1.3 Kickstart/Workbench and will change it into the 2.0 style clock. Author: Michael Sinz; MKSoft Development. GIFInfo(1.0) GIFInfo V1.0 is a small utility that tells you the size of a gif picture, it's depth and signature. Author: M.Franke; franke@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de SCRIPT(1.1) SCRIPT:, Version 1.1, is an AmigaDOS device handler (like AUX: CON: SPEAK:) that makes a script of another device's I/O similar to the UNIX command script. SCRIPT: is much more flexible, however, because it can script any AmigaDOS device (including itself!) and direct the script file to any other AmigaDOS device (except itself). SCRIPT: will work with any AmigaDOS device, and can be used with both WorkBench (programs must have a WINDOW tool type) and the CLI/Shell. Requires WorkBench 1.2 version 33.43 or later. Author: Richard Rogers; rrogers@seattleu.edu Split Break a file into seperate pieces each N bytes long. It takes three arguments: maximum number of bytes per file, input file name, and output file name prefix. It will split the input file into multiple outputs each no larger than the specified byte maximum. The ouput filenames will be the ouputfile-prefix with a number appended. Author: Mark Thompson; mark@westford.ccur.com WorldTime(1.1) The program reads a list of 84 cities from a file. The program window displays the current time and date for the city you are in (as specified in the configuration file), as well as the current time in the 84 selected cities. This is an update to the version on AmigOz35 and allows the user define the selected cities. Author: Jonathan Potter; jpotter@itd.adelaide.edu.au Contents of AmigOz47 -------------------- This disc contains a collection of Adobe Type 1 Fonts from various electronic sources. Most of these fonts were originally Macintosh format. They are now converted to IBM Type 1 fonts on an Amiga format disc. In this process, I made use of the conversion utility supplied with AMaxII to write the appropriate font files to Amiga formatted discs. These fonts were then converted to the IBM Type 1 font format using utilities supplied with PageStream2.1. Obviously, the fonts are designed for use with PageStream2.1. Please read carefully the requirements of the designers of the fonts supplied, before distributing or making use of these fonts. There is considerable work and expense involved in their production and the requested fees should be paid if you make use of the fonts. Aarcover This is an all caps Type 1 PostScript font, plus numbers and punctuation, whose characters look like they've been electrified or hit with a static, albeit limp, charge. Author: David Rakowski BrightonBold A plain serif font. Author: Unknown Caveman A neanderthal Type 1 font. Author: Unknown Draftsman Another Type 1 font of simulated neat handwriting. Author: Unknown Frontier A western-style font. Author: Unknown HotDog A fancy font in the style of Hotdog stand signs. Type one upper case/numbers font of puffy, rounded white letters with a black outline. Reminiscent of Adobe's VAG Rounded. Author: Unknown LiquidCrystal This is NOT a very useful type one font (the letters are difficult to figure out). LiquidCrystal is a Type 1 PostScript font that duplicates the classic 7-segment digits that appear in a liquid crystal display (LCD). Some characters work well with this format, it was made for numerals. This font includes letters even though a little imagination and/or contextual clues may be required to recognize some of them. Author: Peter Jensen Logger This a Type 1 PostScript font shaped like logs. There are capital letters and punctuation only. Author: David Rakowski Lower East Side is a Type 1 PostScript font modeled on an Art Deco typeface called Astur. It looks like bold, 3-D brush strokes forming the characters with deep shadows it also tends to look like bent pieces of plywood with shadows. It is kerned, and ought to be used for display text only at sizes 72 points and larger. Author: David Rakowski Medusa This font is based on the familiar Art Nouveau font Broklin. It's a display font that looks great at 12 points or larger. About 170 characters and 100 kerning pairs are defined. Author: LORVAD Qubist A fancy font with a 3-dimensional cut-out look. Author: Unknown Contents of AmigOz48 -------------------- CedLook Yet Another 3D Look for your Workbench System Gadgets. The trouble with other utilities such as 3DLook or NL-Daemon is that they don't use standard Intuition colors (they swap colors 2 and 3) and that forces the users to redraw ALL their .info (and also .icon for those who use wIconify). NewLook doesn't do that, that's why I decided to patch it. I used DPaint, PowerWindows and Genam2 and the job was quickly achieved. Author: Cedric BEUST; (beust@taloa.unice.fr) ResetAmy Sometimes applications need to be able to reboot the Amiga under software control. However, rebooting the machine is very tricky, and most attempts have been flawed. The RESET instruction, for example, unconfigures all memory; after RESET there is no reliable place to run user code. Most reboot code will break whenever the memory or CPU configuration is changed. ColdReboot() is the only officially supported way to reboot an Amiga under software control. Reset.c. is a nice little piece of code (360 bytes, including ColdReboot), that tells you to finish all disk activity and then press y to reboot. It even allows you to refuse a reboot (any other key than y will do that). Author: Camillo Särs; ged@niksula.hut.fi SteamEngine This directory contains a rendering of Glenn Lewis' steam train object. Took a couple of hours to set up (mostly for the smoke). It's a boring scene that was set up just to see what the train looks like. The imagine object is included in the Object directory. If you want to use this image anywhere, give Glenn credit for the train object- there's obviously a lot of love put into its creation. This steam engine is a replica of the locomotive in use at Disneyland, Anaheim, CA. It took over two hundred hours to create. Authors: (rendering) Steve Worley; spworley@athena.mit.edu (object) Glenn M. Lewis; glewis@pcocd2.intel.com ThreeWorlds A conversion from the original gif of an Escher image. Author: Unknown Triplane This is a picture of a triplane. It's a very boring scene set up just to show the object, as opposed to a graphic image that tries to make a statement about the world we live in. The imagine object is included in the Object directory. Its about 45K, but has a lot of detail. It is missing brushmaps of the German WWI logo. Author: Steve Worley; spworley@athena.mit.edu Contents of AmigOz49 -------------------- Alien Chessboard This "alien" chessboard scene was created on an accellerated Amiga computer and rendered in 2.75 hours in 352x470 HAM resolution using 12-bit color. In the Object directory is the set of chess pieces designed by Randy Brown. They are copyrighted by him, but freely distributable. They have been converted to Imagine format. Author: (scene) Udo Schuermann, (object design) Randy Brown, (object conversion) Steve Worley; spworley@athena.mit.edu BorderBlank Besides the new graphics modes, one of the new features of the ECS SuperDenise is the ability to blank one screen's border to black instead of using color 0 (the background color) as usual. BorderBlank will alternatively activate and deactivate this option for all Intuition screens. You run it the first time, the border goes off, you run it a second time and the border comes again and so on. Author: Fabio Rossetti; ross@teafi.sublink.org Castle Room This view of a room in a castle was created on an accellerated Amiga computer and rendered in 5.5 hours in 352x470 HAM resolution using 12-bit color. Author: Udo Schuermann. DrWho.MED A Med created version of the Dr Who theme. Author: Unknown SpiralStaircase Rendered with Imagine on an A3000/25 with 3 megs RAM. The image consists of all original objects by the author, except for the image wrapped on the painting which is a mandelbrot generated with "MandelVroom". With six light sources, all casting shadows, the image took 1 hour to render. Author: A. Price; alan@picasso.umbc.edu Tardis Here is a picture of the TARDIS object, it's 320x400 HAM, although it probably wouldn't suffer too much in 32, MAYBE 16 colors. Author: Daryl Bartley; dmon@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu Contents of AmigOz50 -------------------- This disc contains a collection of Adobe Type 1 Fonts from various electronic sources. Most of these fonts were originally Macintosh format. They are now converted to IBM Type 1 fonts on an Amiga format disc. In this process, I made use of the conversion utility supplied with AMaxII to write the appropriate font files to Amiga formatted discs. These fonts were then converted to the IBM Type 1 font format using utilities supplied with PageStream2.1. Obviously, the fonts are designed for use with PageStream2.1. Please read carefully the requirements of the designers of the fonts supplied, before distributing or making use of these fonts. There is considerable work and expense involved in their production and the requested fees should be paid if you make use of the fonts. CracklingFire Is an all-caps font, plus period, comma, exclamation point and question mark. It looks like Dom Casual letters beginning to go up in flames. Author: David Rakowski GothicShadow A sans serif shadowed font. Author: Unknown Middleton Middleton was created using Fontographer 3.1 and is a hinted Type 1 font based on Florentine, a display face created by R. Hunter Middleton. Author: Jon Hodges Orbit A modern decorative font. Author: Unknown PremiumThin Version 2.1.1. PREMIUM THIN is a beautiful Type 1 display typeface based on Letraset's Premier Lightline. This font has uppercase and lowercase characters, numerals, and punctuation. This font is fully hinted with over 600 kerning pairs defined. Author: James M. Harris Psychedelic A sixties/psychedelic style font. Author: Unknown Searchlight This is the uppercase portion of the Searchlight font. This file is free to use as you see fit. Searchlight is very similar to Empire, a popular art deco typeface that is (to the best of my knowledge) not currently available as a PostScript font. Even without the lowercase it is a useful typeface. Author: Jim Morton at Pop Void Publications Smoke A sixties style shadowed font. Author: Unknown Steelplate A sharply defined sans serif font. Author: Unknown Tintoretto A decorative display font. Author: Unknown