PUBLIC DOMAIN DISKS ADDED TO THE LIBRARY SINCE MEGADISC 31  The disks listed below are separated into various categories, just as they are on the Catalogue Disk: AMOS for Amos disks, natch! AN for Animations GR for Graphics DE for Program Demos GA for Games GAS for Graphics And Sound (demos, etc.) MISC for Miscellaneous MS for Music & Sound UT for Utilities You can order any of these from us at any time, by Phone [Toll-free 008 227418, or (02) 9593692], by Fax [(02) 9593525] or by Post. You can use a Credit Card in any case or send in a cheque or money order. See further details in the MD_INFO drawer in the ORDERING file. All these disks are available from us for $3.50 each, or $2.50 for subscribers, and the usual "11 for the price of 10" discount applies. Remember that you can get a free Catalogue-disk from us if you haven't got one already - if you have, you can get it updated for free by sending it in. Note for Beginners: Don't be confused or intimidated by the listing here - all of these disks represent a great way to use your Amiga, and almost all are easy to use - all you need is to use the mouse. If you have any difficulty, you can always ring and get help from us, so experiment with your Amiga! Check out also our special THEME PACKS, ie, collections of disks on special topics - see the file in this drawer. Thanks particularly to Daniel Rutter for checking out most of these disks, and to those who sent in disks for addition to the PD collection. If anyone finds any problem with any of our disks, please let us know so we can keep the collection the best and easiest to use. AMOS DISKS AMOS 94 WONDERLAND Thanks to Paul Lawrie for sending in this bootable game, written in AMOS Professional, in which a small Mario-esque dude gallops about changing the colour of bricks in his endless quest for the Next Level. Quite playable, OK graphics, passable sound and animation. AMOS 95 FIGHTING WARRIORS Thomas Ip wrote this AMOS punch-up game, with character sprites which seem to owe something to Street Fighter II. The sound is mediocre, the animation clunky and the background monotonous, but it's actually very playable, and good fun! There seems to be some sort of help function but I can't see how you work it, but it doesn't exactly take Einstein to figure the game out. Not bootable but iconned. Note to sender - please check your disks - this one had the Byte Bandit virus on it! AMOS 96 A & B AMOS 1.34 (2 disk set) These two disks will update your AMOS Basic package and AMOS Compiler to v1.34, which is now the sync'ed version number for both. The compiler has been enormously improved, and many niggling bugs have been removed from the system itself, as well as LARGE improvements to the music handling. A must have for the AMOS user! Thanks to Bill Jordan for sending these bootable, iconned disks. AMOS 97 MOZIAK This bootable, menu driven music disk, put together with AMOS, contains considerably better tunes than I heard on earlier efforts of this sort; it's perfectly usable as an ordinary music disk, whereas previous ones were merely interesting programming exercises. Worth getting for the nifty tunes even if you don't have AMOS. Thanks to Jason New for sending it. ANIMATION DISKS PROGRAM DEMO DISKS DE 212 TEARAWAY Playable 2 level demo of Tearaway, yet another cute platform game. Fast, fluid, challenging, playable, damned annoying. Thanks to Paul Lawrie for sending it! DE 213 LEGEND OF VALOUR Paul Lawrie also sent in this demo, of a pixel-scaling game like Wolfenstein 3D on the IBM, but set in a Dungeon Master type environment. The demo has you cruising around the town level, with no enemies, but it shows off the animation quite well - fast but lumpy - and there's quite a lot to do - like, for example, betting on the bug race! Interesting. DE 214 CHAOS ENGINE Playable demo of the Bitmap Brothers' (Xenon I and II, Speedball I and II...) latest epic of carnage, Chaos Engine, in which you and a pal or you and a computer ally hew your way through one level of this fast and furious (and pretty!) blast up. Great g raphics, great sound, great gameplay, worth a look! Thanks to Jeremy Paddison for sending it; bootable. DE 215 Wordworth 2 Demo A demo of the latest version of the Wordworth word processor. This program can be used to incorporate graphics into your documents. Uses WB2 scalable font technology and has lots of features such as dictionary, spell checking, thesaurus and glossary. This demo has some features disabled such as save and spell checking. No docs supplied. Requires 1MB. Iconned. Bootable. WB1.3 & WB2 compatable. Submitted by Leigh Murray. FONTS FONTS 10, 11, 12 (CG FONTS 7, 8 & 9) Thanks to George Thompson Services for these 3 non-bootable but iconned disks containing loads of CompuGraphic fonts for DTP or other uses. They're part of a larger series - see the first 6 disks as Fonts 1 - 6 in this series. Fonts 10 Disk 7 contains Aarcover, a ShareWare all caps font whose characters look like static electricity or limp lightning; AlexandriaMedium, a small PD font; Animals, the font used on the Pink Floyd album of the same name (ShareWare); Civitype, a typographic rendering of the gothic hand 'batarde'; DavysRibbons, a ShareWare set of display caps, set in an interconnecting banner with decorative ends; LiquidCrystal, a FreeWare font that duplicates the classic 7-segment digits in a liquid crystal display; RabbitEars, a ShareWare round, bold '40's type of advertising display font whose letters slightly resemble Cooper Black; TejaratchiCaps, a FreeWare caps-only font of raised quasi-metallic letters; and UltraBlack, which ain't documented. Fonts 11 Disk 8 contains Bob Gothic, an OK FreeWare Gothic font; DominoEffect, a PD font that looks like letters carved out of dominoes; Faktos, a ShareWare Industrial Revolution sort of font; Gaton, a ShareWare semi-script serif display font; HeadHunter, a FreeWare font made of bones; Lilith-Light, a ShareWare semi-calligraphic serif font; Multiform, a FreeWare hand-drawn Art Nouveau font; OregonDry, a ShareWare version of the OregonWet font but without the water; Premium Thin, a ShareWare display font based on Letraset's Premier Lightline; and Wharmby, a FreeWare shadowed font. Fonts 12 Disk 9 contains Arctic2, a ShareWare display font; Madrid, a ShareW are tall, slim display font; Medusa, a ShareWare font based on the familiar Art Nouveau font Broklin; Nviray, a ShareWare hand-lettered architect type font; OxNard, a ShareWare outline shadow font with irregular sizing and erratic baselines; Sholhl-Fold , a FreeWare fanfold type font; and Times Italic Lefty, a FreeWare novelty font based on Times. All the ShareWare fees are around $US5 to $US10. GAMES DISKS GA 201 BANG This game is a modified version of the excellent horizontal Breakout clone Poing - in fact it's so similar, just adding a few levels, that if you've got one you don't need the other. But since Poing isn't in the library, this one got in. Thanks to Karl Veit for this bootable disk! GA 202 PSYCHO SANTA Another one from Jason New, this excellent effort from the coders at Bullfrog (makers of Populous I and II, among other things), puts you in the sleigh with a mission to make the world happy - and an ample supply of lethal snowballs to toss at anyone with other ideas! Smooth, pretty, and Shareware for £5.50 UK. Good stuff - and it's a good sign that so many commercial quality games are coming out sans middle-man for such reasonable prices! GA 203 GAMES Well, OK, there's only so many names you can give a game disk. This one comes from Dale King, and includes the venerable but still excellent 3-d vector graphic game Nebula; Turbo Duel, a well presented but tedious Tron clone which has no computer opponent; and the excellent Game Tamer, a game cheat list written in AMOS which contains 268 cheats, easily accessible without endless disk grinding and directory hunting. Documented, bootable, no icons. GA 204 TIME WASTERS James Connors went for honesty when naming this disk, which contains 2 games we've seen before - Pod (blistering blast up) and Maze (small, fast maze game). Also on the disk are 2 games not previously in the library - Qbic (excellent QBert clone) and the brilliant Cybernetix, a REALLY fast (especially if you can hardware switch your machine into NTSC!) Defender-style blast up with many enemies, lots of weapons and excellent sound and graphics. Cybernetix is Shareware (£5 UK), and worth every penny. Ge t it. Not bootable but iconned; Cybernetix needs a lot of chip RAM so if it fails on a 512k chip machine try running without anything else in the background. GA 205 ARMY MOVES Another one from James Connors, this bootable disk was originally a commercial title, some years ago, but has now been released into PD. It's pretty weak for a commercial game, but for less than $5 you could do worse, as you drive a missile-spitting jee p that looks like the one in Silkworm's hick cousin from out of town through waves of unfriendly Commies. GA 206 HATE-LODE This disk, kindly sent in by John Knight, contains Mother Lode, an OK but not wonderful Lode Runner clone, and H.A.T.E., an excellent Zaxxon clone which has been around for a while but somehow hasn't made it into the library. Bootable and menu operated . GRAPHICS AND SOUND DISKS GRAPHICS DISKS GR 180 Star Trek Pix This disk is a self-booting slideshow of various ships from the Star Trek milieu. All ships were created using Sculpt-4d and backgrounds added with Dpaint IV. Sent in by Ivan Kwasha, with thanks. MEGAARC DISKS MEGAARC 11 Another disk full of archives, this time compiled by me, Daniel Rutter. The disk contains AlertTimer, a little utility to change the timeout function on KS3 software alert messages; the archive for BootX5.23 plus the recog file 1.75 (see below for it set up on a disk); CloseAllWindows, a WB2 commodity to, well, close windows; DeepCrypt, a powerful file encryption program; EAMPatch, a program to kill many "sanity test failed" errors; Event!, an event scheduling program for automatic backups and the like; IntuiTracker, the latest version with proper WB2 compatibility and some other improvements including PowerPacked module support; JBPHelp, an interesting but undersupported help-key utility theoretically applicable to all DOS programs; MacroMaker, a cute util to allow you to post messages on BBS's featuring HUGE LETTERS; Model4d (see "UTILS" below for description); PCopy, a versatile multiwindow copying utility; PopCLIIV, a small PopCLI commodity for WB2; RTPatch, a program to patch calls to other requester libraries to use the better reqtools requesters, with some other trimmings too; Shootout, a small and cheerful blast-up game with a certain mathematical inevitability to it; SimCash, a simple program to change SimCity save files to have any amount of money you want; SKick3.21, a Kickfile loader to allow WB2 users to boot 1.3 from a kickfile (it's illegal to distribute the kickfiles so you'll have to make your own); TMultAss2, which allows one name to be assigned to many places under KS2, and the XFH package, a powerful real-time compression/decompression package with many interesting features. MISCELLANEOUS DISKS MISC 10D UPDATE FISHLIST This disk, thrown together by me, Daniel Rutter, contains an enormous PowerPacked text file of the contents files from every Fish disk from 1 to 750, in numerical order. I recommend you unpack it and put it on your hard disk, and use a fast text editor like CEDPro to search through the 1.2 megabytes of uncompressed ASCII. It CAN be used from floppy with the help of PP, the PowerPacker Patcher, but you'll need a couple of megabytes of RAM. I find this textfile a much simpler way of finding stuff than Aquarium. It's not bootable and the list is iconned to display with Fullview but I DON'T recommend using Fullview's slow search function to find anything! [Ed: I use TxEd, MicroSmith's old text editor, which works fine.] MISC 10E ** Added Feb '93 ** KINGFISHER_HD (Fish 1 - 810) Ken Simpson has put this disk together for us - it has all the listings up to Fish 810 using the amazing new Fish database program, Kingfisher, which is said to be faster and less buggy than Aquarium, though I'm sure others will disagree. Whatever the case, this is a neat fast way of finding what you want on the Fish disks, and requires 1.4 meg of space on your hard drive. you can have s everal search strings and "bookmarks" in the database and switch between them with ease This all fits on a floppy due to Ken's use of Chas Wyndham's P-Compress program which is one of the most effective compressors around. MISC 10F ** Added Feb '93 ** KINGFISHER_FLOPPY (Fish 1 - 810) Ken Simpson has put this disk together for us - it has all the listings up to Fish 810 using the amazing new Fish database program, Kingfisher. This version requires 1.4 meg of space in memory in one piece. This all fits on a floppy due to Ken's use of Chas Wyndham's P-Compress program. MISC 162 IOBOARD Thanks to Pieter Berkel for this disk, which contains details of a project by which you can make an Input/Output board for your Amiga which will enable you to add two parallel ports and two serial ports to your Amiga 500, 1 000 or 2000 for $70. Furthermore, you can easily and inexpensively upgrade to four parallel ports and/or four serial ports at any time. You need considerable technical experience to do it, but if you're competent it's by far the cheapest way of getting something like this happening - with, of course, full supporting software, documentation and illustrations included. MISC 163 AGA STUFF This disk contains a few things of interest to users of the new Advanced Graphics Architecture machines, the A1200 and A4000. On the disk is a huge 1280x512 SuperHiRes HAM8 raytraced picture, Chess.HAM_8 (you will NOT be able to display this pic on non-AGA machines!), along with several AGA related textfiles. They are on the Amiga 5000 computer (not a misprint, but also NOT a serious document as far as I can see, do NOT take it seriously, it's there for a laugh), various features of the A4000; a third party Digital Signal Processing (DSP) board which works in ECS machines; the abilities of the HAM8 graphics mode and there is also a small news file dealing with various new developments, such as the A1200 clock, GVP 030 board for the 1200 and other stuff. The disk also contains the latest version of PPShow to display the picture. Not bootable but iconned. MUSIC & SOUND DISKS MS 312 PROTRACKER 2.3a This is the latest version of the Noxious ProTracker, a fully documented, easy to use and extremely powerful development of the SoundTracker music composition package. This really is a commercial quality program, and it is completely free. If you want the best SoundTracker available at present, get this disk- you won't be disappointed. Thanks to Jason New for sending it in. Bootable and iconned. MS 313 PROTRAX This disk, sent in by Peter Thompson, contains a slightly cutdown distribution of PT2.3a as above (losing the intro stuff and modules), but also contains ProTracker 3.00b, a version produced by a different group and more advanced technically, using a medium res screen instead of low res and with potential for considerable additional expansion. PT3 is not yet finished, though, and while it's perfectly usable, its online help doesn't work and there are a lot of blank spaces and unconnected buttons. If you're already used to Protracker from the 2 series, PT3 will be easy for you to use, but it's not for beginners. Iconned, not bootable. MS 314 A & B Mozart's Four Horn Concertos (17Bit 1297, 1298) A beautifully presented 2 disk set of Mozart's Four Horn Concertos. The full concertos can be played or any concerto or movement can be played. There is also information available from the menu about Mozart and the concertos. Non-iconned bootable disk. Doesn't like WB2.0. Submitted by Dr. C.K.Yeap. MS 315 RHYTHM Tim has warned me about including SoundTracker module disks in the library, since we're not exactly short of them, but I felt obliged to put this one in if only because it's the single biggest module I've ever seen in my life. This very well done rendition of Snap's "Rhythm Is A Dancer" is more than 700k in size; you will NOT be able to load it on a machine with only 512k of chip RAM, and those of us with only 1Mb will probably need to shut some stuff down. The non-bootable but iconned disk also contains IntuiTracker1.28, a more powerful version of the elderly module player. UTILITY DISKS UT 351 A & B AGA SOFTWARE 1 & 2 Craig Arnoldt compiled 2 of these disks, which contain software which is largely specific to WB3 (AGA) machines, although some of it will run on WB2. The first disk contains AGA Test, which shows all the 2^24 colors on an AGA HAM8 screen; Amiga to NTSC/PAL, which patches graphics.library so it will open DBL versions of the NTSC or PAL monitors; BBlank, which turns on or off the black border around screens on AGA machines; Degrader v1.30, which gets badly written programs to work (this one's OK on WB2 as well); DoubleX, which promotes all screens to a DBL equivalent; Force_VGA, which forces all screens to VGA scan rates; PKludge, which promotes any graphics mode or named screen to any other, optionally setting size and position; Plasma, an AGA plasma fractal generator (wow!); PPShow3.0a, which shows pictures and anims on WB2 or 3, and handles PowerPacked files; Rend24v1.05, which converts all types of IFF files (includi ng 24 bit), GIF, JPEG into displayable IFF or creates Op5 ANIMS from each file, with HAME and DCTV support; ViewTekv1.03, a picture/anim viewer which recognises IFF-24, GIF, JPEG, and ANIM Op5 formats, amongst others; WBVERLAUF, which creates background copper lists on the WorkBench screen. Icons, not bootable. UT 352 MEGA DISK Jeremy Paddison assures us that the name of this excellent disk is a mere coincidence. Yeah. Sure. Notwithstanding, this disk is a useful resource for most WB1.x users, while not quite so great for WB2 owners. It contains a variety of utilities, all of which are already in the library, but they're conveniently set up with docs on a bootable disk that lets you get at most of them from menus and is generally dead easy to use, without being a toy. The disk contains the ARP command replacements and Shell (smaller and more powerful than AmigaDOS1.x); two scripts to give resident ASHell commands; the Shortcut menu system, form which much of the disk can be accessed without time-wasting drawer hunting; PPrefs, Jon Potter's more powerful replacement for the standard Preferences program; PowerPacker 2.2a, along with PPShow and PPAnim; TxEd, a small and serviceable editor; Fullview (you're looking at it now!); IconLab, the powerful icon converter/manipulator; Intuitracker to play SoundTracker modules; Snoop DOS to monitor DOS calls; GOMF to trap errors; PicSaver to grab all or part of a screen as a picture; MachII, a mouse accelerator including clock and hotkeys; the DiskMaster directory utility; FixDisk to repair floppies and hard disk partitions to 48Mb; SuperDuper, the fast and handy disk copier; Virus_Checker6.15, the good virus hunter; ZeroVirusIII, another one; and many other smaller utilities, plus the powerful archiver LhA! That ought to do you, eh! UT 353 PRO PAGE EXTRAS This non-bootable but iconned disk contains a collection of useful extras for Professional Page. There's some decorative bitmapped graphics, the ATAP font conversion package, several poems and two large document files to use when creating mockup layouts or padding out roughs, two AREXX programs to hook up Art Department Professional to ProPage, a large collection of Genies including some that came with ProPage3 and other, new, ones, and three colour palettes. Great value for the DTP users out there! UT 354 DOWNLOADS I Karl Veit sent in this non-bootable and partially iconned disk, containing a collection of stuff he's collected on various bulletin boards. On this disk you'll find the powerful GIF viewer/converter GIF_View 4.4; HAM, the ancient game Hammurabi set up as a door for the Paragon BBS package (i.e. you can't just run it); HDFixer, a patch program to fix the TrackDisk problem which prevents owners of Amiga high density drives using them properly; ImageLab, a very powerful Shareware image manipulation package; LottoWorks 1.3, yet another program for those who believe a random process will become less so if only you fiddle with it long enough; FileStorage, a program to catalogue floppies full of files for efficient use and easy location, and KWIKCat, billed as "The Ultimate Disk Cataloguing System For The Amiga Computer!" A good collection and worth getting. UT 355 DOWNLOADS II Another one from Karl Veit, arranged as above and containing DocDump, a program to output up to 4 pages of text onto 1 printed page - as long as you don't mind reading 3 point Myopia; ExecRexx, a program to turn Rexx scripts into standalone programs; BatchMaster, which seems to be a batch file scheduling program, although the author's amazingly obscure English could have fooled me; CompressDisk, a disk handler that uses large files as individual "devices", with compression on input and decompression on output, and the November 1992 issue of the Philadelphia Amiga Users' Group newsletter, in both regular text and PageStream format. More good stuff. UT 356 UTILS Pieter Berkel sent in this bootable and iconned disk, which contains ImageLab (see Downloads I above), but also Model4D, a 3-d modelling program which allows object viewing in 3-d or in traditional triple window format. It also supports Gouraud shading in full colour, and stores its object files as readable ASCII files. There's also TAME, a crippled (30 mins use at a time only) Shareware (£50 UK) map editor for game authors, which supports picture interchange with DPaint, direct digit iser input and lots of other stuff, and is hence worth a look if you're into game writing. UT 357 A, B, C, D, E, F GCC 2.2.2 C++ (6 disk set) This is the port of the Gnu C/C++ version 2.2.2 compiler by Markus Wild. Definitely the best value C package you can get! If you don't know what it is, you don't want it. Thanks to Peter Thompson for sending it in! UT 358 JPEG RELEASE 4 Another one from Peter Thompson, This disk contains the full version 4 release of the Independent JPEG group's implementation of the JPEG picture compression method. This includes code for programs for JPEG compression and decompression, as well as code for reading and writing GIF, JFIF, Targa, RLE, and PPM (Portable PixMap) formats. Note this is all source code in C, no actual executables. Once again, you'll know if you want it. UT 359 PARBENCH ParNet is a useful little networking system that allows you to connect 2 Amigas via their parallel ports with a special cable. Unfortunately, it's a bit of a dickens to set up. This disk solves that problem - it's fully documented and uses several scripts to perform flawless and easy installation AND removal of the Parnet system on any Amiga. Well worth a look! You can also use this to connect up Amigas to CDTVs for shared resources. UT 360 BOOTX5.23 This, the latest version of the powerful BootX virus killer, comes with recog version 1.75, also the most recent. It will ONLY run on WB2 and the recog file is no longer compatible with the last 1.x version of Bootx, version 4.5, so do NOT get this disk if you only have WB1.x; it will be useless to you. For the rest of us, though, BootX is the virus killer to use. Powerful, easy to use, fully documented and easy to install. UT 361 AsmSimPak Contains the following two programs: MicroAsm - A cross-assembler for 68705 microcontroller devices. MicroSim - A software simulator for R3, U3 and P3 68705 microcontrollers. These two programs form a package to allow 68705 code to be assembled and checked for correct operation on the Amiga. Also included is a test program for 68705 opcodes and pseudo-opcodes, which can be used to put MicroAsm and MicroSim through their paces. Comes with extensive and well written documentation. Suggested shareware donation of $50. Non iconned, non bootable disk. Author - Geoff Farrell.