Interesting PD from the most recent Fish Disks  Ed: Some of these programs you'll find on our Extras Disk this issue - check out the listing of the MD_Extras 34 disk to check. Fish 851 AmigaWorld A database program that contains information about every country on Earth. It enables you to have a look at the data of one country, or to compare several countries. It is easy to handle, and you can use it with your favourite colors, font, and even language (at the moment there are English, German, Swedish and Dutch data files). Requires 1MB of memory. This is freeware version 1.1, an update to version 1.0 on Disk 804, New features include information about currencies. Modula-2 source is available from the author. Author: Wolfgang Lug SingleFile A small utility that can be used to determine if there are duplicate files or directories on a given volume. It can be used to help save hard disk space and reduce backp times. CLI usage only, version 1.0, binary only, shareware Author: Phil Dobranski Fish 852 CPUClr A small hack, inspired by CPUBlit, that replaces the BitClear routine of the graphics library with a highly optimized 68020 (or higher) routine. This results in about a 60% speed up on a 68020 and should be even more on a 68030/68040. This is version 3.20, an update to version 2.0 on disk number 709, includes source. Author: Peter Simons Fish 853 MapTrix A texture map/backdrop generator featuring a large number of fractal effects, including mountains and clouds, wave synthesis, and "static" generators. Also has some image processing tools, including emboss, ruffian, convolutions, resizing and smooth. Supports DCTV if available. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04+. Version 1.0, shareware, binary only. Author: Alexander D. DeBurie Fish 854 DRAFU "Draw a function". Display any mathematical function by itself or overlay on top of a previously displayed function. Can also calculate integrals over those functions. Save the result in an IFF or ACBM file (disabled in this demo version). Many screen mode/display options. Includes an AREXX interface and its own scripting language. Version 0.82, compatible with WorkBench 1.2/1.3/2.0. Binary only. Author: Andreas Kleinert & Ulrich Degens Upcat Disk catalog program. Read file information from disks, store it in a catalog in memory. Save/load catalogs to/from disk, display catalog in several ways, select files to be displayed, print (selection of) catalog, 32 user definable categories, add comment to files in catalog. Version 1.0, freeware, binary only. Author: Frans Zuydwijk Fish 855 Banner A tiny utility to create - surprise, surprise - banners. By default BANNER uses an internal font that is ideal for title pages or sources headers. You may also render your banner from any amiga font with (nearly) unlimited font size and variable aspect. Version 1.4, binary only. Author: Tobias Ferber LP A very powerful tool to prepare text files for printer output. Offers a great variety of options including indention, page headers, page numbering, multi-columns and WITH files. Includes TI and FILES, two utilities to check your printer output and create WITH files for LP. Version 1.18, includes source in C. Author: Tobias Ferber Fish 856 ButlerJames A database program designed primarily for address management, but can be used for other purposes as well. Hotkey activated, allows you send selected groups of data directly to the keyboard input stream or printer. Very useful to avoid having to continuously enter an often used address into your favorite word processor for example. Compatible with OS 1.2/1.3/2.0 Binary only. Author: Christoph Zens Fish 858 EPU A program like Stacker or XPK that allows applications to access compressed data from AmigaDOS devices without knowing that the data is compressed, and automatically compresses new data. The file size is not limited by memory and the settings of the handler can be changed at any time. Version 1.4, an update to version 1.0 on disk number 809. Shareware, binary only. Author: Jaroslav Mechacek SuperDark A screen blanker with some special features. It is similar to the AfterDark screen blanker in the PC and Mac worlds. Features include a lot of different screen effects, a screen locker, and more. Version 1.5, an update to version 1.2 on disk number 835. Includes source. Author: Thomas Landspurg Fish 860 bBaseIII An easy to use, versatile, yet full featured database program. Search or sort on any field, (un)delete records, print mailing labels or envelopes, get printouts in many formats, scramble files, flag records, and more. Fields are user-configurable, so bBase can be used to keep track of addresses, tape or video collections, recipe files, or anything else you can think of - one program does it all! bBaseIII is a greatly enhanced successor to bBaseII. Version 1.1, an upgrade to bBaseII, version V5.5 on disk 710. Binary only, shareware. Author: Robert Bromley LazyBench LazyBench is a utility for lazy people with a hard disk cram- med full of goodies which are difficult to reach because they are buried away in drawers inside drawers inside drawers in- side drawers... Supports tools and projects and both OS 1.3 and OS 2.xx versions are supplied with this distribution. LazyBench for the OS 1.3 opens a little window on the Work- bench screen and delivers a fully configurable menu which brings up to 30 applications at your fingertips. LazyBench for the OS 2.xx adds an item under the Workbench "Tools" menu, installs itself as a Commodity and waits in the background. Use its hot key combination to pop its window and then select an application from a list of up to 100 applications. Versions 1.01 (OS 1.3) and 1.04 (OS 2.xx), an update to the version 1.00 on disk number 839. Binary only. Author: Werther 'Mircko' Pirani Fish 862 PhoneList Simple phone list database, unique in the fact that it allows easy usage from either the WorkBench or CLI. Allows you to add, delete, search and create an alpha-sorted list. Author: Michael Hoffmann Fish 863 GuiArc A graphical user interface for cli-based archivers like lha, arc, ape, zoo, etc. It has the 'look & feel' of a directory tool and can perform all basic actions on archives, such as Add, Extract, List, Test, Delete, etc. You can enter archives as though they were directories. You don't have to know any- thing about archivers. Fully configurable (Archivers not included). Version 1.10, requires AmigaDOS 2.0+, freeware, binary only. Author: Patrick van Beem. PowerPlayer A very powerful, user friendly and system friendly module player. It can handle nearly all module-formats, can read powerpacked & xpk-packed modules and comes along with its own powerful cruncher that uses the lh.library. Has a simple to use interface and an ARexx port. Version 3.9, a major update to version 3.4 on disk 769, binary only, now shareware. (Previous versions were freeware.) Author: Stephan Fuhrmann Fish 866 CFX Crunched File eXaminer allows the user to examine and find files using several different search criteria. CFX knows a huge amount of the current Amiga filetypes, including a vast number of "cruncher" types. CFX can also give in-depth dis- assemblies of crunched files, including most address crunched files, relocator crunched files, and some major archive crun- ched types. This version requires kick 1.3 or 2.0. Version 5.275, an update to version 5.242 on disk number 750. Binary only, freeware. Author: Bob Rye and Marcus Mroczkowski DRED The Disk REDucer. This program allows the user to arrange data on a set of disks using a best fit algorithm. If you have ever found it difficult to figure just which files should go onto which floppy, then DRED is for you! Most of the time (there are exceptions!) you can achieve 99% fullness of floppies/media. Requires kick 1.3 or 2.0. Version 2.003.007, binary only, freeware. Author: Bob Rye, Marcus Mroczkowski and Brett O'Callaghan Fish 867 CenterScreen A commodity which centers the frontmost screen horizontally on hotkey. Useful if you normally operate with overscan screens and an old program opens a normal size screen. Requires at least AmigaOS 2.04. Version 1.07, an update to version 1.03 on disk 497. Includes german version and source in C. Author: Stefan Sticht Fish 868 CDTV-Player A utility for all those people, who'd like to play Audio-CD's, while multitasking on workbench. It's an emulation of CDTV's remote control, but is a little more sophisticated. Access to the archive even without a CD-ROM-Drive (i.e. AMIGA 500- 4000), although you can't play a CD. PROGRAM & KARAOKE (live on-screen) included. Recognizes CDs automatically. AREXX-Port for usage in other programs. Version 2.0, an update to version 1.8 on disk number 849. FISH-WARE, binary only. Author: Daniel Amor Fish 869 CL_SEP92 This is the September 1992 release of CheatList for the Amiga. Cheatlist is a collection of various forms of help (cheats, hints, codes, etc.) for Amiga games. Included in the package is PokeList, a similar file which details pokes usable with the Action Replay cartridge. The September release covers 500 games, and on average, another forty games are added each release. Shareware. Author: Various, compiled by Peter Monk Fish 870 AmigaGuide Archive distribution of the AmigaGuide hypertext utility direct from Commodore. Contains developer examples and tools for AmigaGuide under V34/V37 and V39, plus a new free print/sign/ send-in distribution license for AmigaGuide, amigaguide.lib- rary, WDisplay, and their icons. Author: Commodore Business Machines Installer Archive distribution of the Amiga Installer utility direct from Commodore. Contains V1.24 of the Installer, documentation and examples for developers to use when developing their software. Also contains various enhancements and fixes detailed in the documentation enclosed. The documentation has also been enhanced and brought up to date. Author: Commodore Business Machines Also on the Fish disks: TITLE: EPU VERSION: 1.4 AUTHOR: Jaroslav Mechacek DESCRIPTION: EPU is a Stacker-like program. After installing EPU to any device (HardDisk, Floppy, Rad: etc.), every file written to the device is compressed and any compressed file read by any application is automatically decompressed. That means the EPU doubles your disk capacity! EPU is very easy to install or remove, its size is very small, and it works with many compression libraries like lh.library or xpk(NUKE,...). The file sizes are not limited by memory, (maximum file size is about 1GB). There are no differences or limitations when you are working with EPU installed or without it (of course it can be slower if the CPU is slow.) More info is in epu.doc NEW FEATURES: 1. This version runs on ALL machines and with ALL OS (The previous 1.0 version didn't work on A3000/A4000)-KS1.2 was not tested. 2. Now EPU can work with xpk sublibraries like NUKE etc.