4]-------- 3]PD DISKS 4]-------- 3]ANNOUNCING A PRICE DECREASE Now that we are reasonably sure disk prices have leveled off, we are happy to announce a DECREASE in the cost of PD disks. The new costs, which apply to the number of disks requested in a specific order, follow: 1 to 4 disks - $3 each (no change) 5 to 9 disks - $2.75 each 10 or more disks - $2.50 each. The new prices go into effect the moment you read this. During the transition, we reserve the right to accept orders at the old price. 3]10 NEW: FISH 341 TO 350 - VIDEO SIG COLLECTION - A NEW STAR WARS GAME Fish 341 to 350 have arrived and are cataloged at the end of this article. 3]THE VIDEO DISKS Bruce Gillies of the Los Angeles Area Amiga Group's (LAAUG) Video Graphics special interests group has compiled three disks of material of interest to people who do video and other graphics work on the Amiga and provided copies to us for distribution. We have tried the disks and find them well documented, organized, interesting and easy to use. They are available separately. There's only room for brief contents mention: 438 - LAAUG Video Graphics SIG 1 - Programs AnimPntrs, BarnTone, Scenery, ShoWiz, Peel, Shoanim, Makeanim, PowerPacker; Robot, an animation; and several art screens. 439 - LAAUG Video Graphics SIG 2 - Programs HERMiT, Introducer, Showfont, ScreenX, Slate, Stars, Stillstore, Superview, VTOT, Dissolve, Startle, Iconmaster, plus several pictures and several fonts. 440 - LAAUG Video Graphics SIG 3 - Programs Display, LogTape, QLens, ROT, SuperScroll 2.0, Surf, TimeCalc, VidLib, Planet and Simgen; plus five images and seven fonts 3]NEW STAR WARS GAME 441 and 442 are a two-set of an excellent graphics Star Wars game from Europe. This NOT the same as the game on 412-413-414. There are a couple of hitches. The instructions are in German. However, play is intuitively learned. The second hitch is the game is in PAL, which on North American NTSC screens leaves part of the screen invisible. The way around this is to order Fish disk 346 (see below) and use the NTSCPatch program on it. This puts a screen in interlace and reveals the entire play area. Don't bother with 441 and 442 unless you have the NTSCPatch program. 3]OTHERS See the PD order blank for a brief catalog of earlier disks in the 400 series, and a listing by number of disks from other collections. 3]AND NOW FOR THE REAL ARTICLE JUMPDISK offers PD/SHAREWARE disks for a basic $3.00 each. Prices go lower for more disks in a specific order: 1 to 4 disks are $3.00 each, 5 to 9 disks are $2.75 each, and 10 or more disks $2.50 each. You may send an order by mail and pay by check. See the separate catalog file, which you may print to simplify placing an order. But don't hesitate to simply write out your order, if you want to avoid printing and mailing the increasingly longer order sheet. You may also telephone us your order, if you have a street address rather than post office box, and we will ship your order by UPS COD the next morning. There is a $3.30 additional charge per COD order. COD orders may be paid by personal check. For $3, you may order the two-disk PDLIST set, which contains easily accessible text files that tell what's on the PD disks we have. 3]THE USUAL INFORMATION and HOW TO ORDER The prices given are TOTALS. There are no added-on costs except as specifically noted. You DO NOT have to be a JUMPDISK subscriber to take advantage of the offer. 1. Send orders to: JUMPDISK PD Offer 1493 Mt. View Ave. Chico, CA 95926 (U.S.A.) 2. Payment must be made by check or money order in U.S. funds. Canadians may write "U.S. funds" beside the amount, and the check will acceptable to our U.S. bank. 3. Orders from countries other than the U.S. or Canada must be paid either by international money order, or by check in U.S. dollars drawn on a bank which has a U.S. branch whose name and address are on the face of the check. That's the bank's rule, not ours. 4. California residents must pay 6.25 percent sales tax. 5. The price per disk (in U.S. funds) also applies to orders sent to Canada, but residents of countries other than the U.S. and Canada must add $1.00 per disk ordered to cover airmail shipment. 6. JUMPDISK reserves the right to refund all or part of a payment, should an ordered disk not be available for any reason. In the case of partial refunds, JUMPDISK reserves the right to refund in the form of its own check in U.S. funds. A refund check may be returned as payment for a future order. If a disk is not available but its arrival is anticipated, we will back-order it and send when available. 7. Telephone calls are accepted for UPS COD orders. No collect calls. 8. Disks are provided with absolutely no warranty. However, we urge you to return flawed disks for replacement without charge. 9. Disks are provided without documentation except that on the disk itself. We cannot provide guidance on how specific activities work on these disks. We haven't even tried some of them except to verify contents. For our part, we promise to make a sincere effort to ship your order the day it is received, so you should be able to obtain desired disks within about one week or 10 days after you mail your order. If you have already ordered PD disks from us, you know we mean this. In this issue is an Article Menu entry: PD ORDER BLANK. You may print this order blank as an easy order form for the disks you wish. If you have no printer or can more easily write your own order, please do the following: To order, type or legibly print your name, address, city, state, ZIP (or other postal code) on a sheet of paper. On the same side of the paper, carefully print the code number of every disk you wish by collection. Multiply the number of disks you want by the price per. Remember the PDLIST disk set is only $3. And also remember that multi-disk sets are charged for each disk in the set. Write the total on the sheet. Include payment in the same envelope with the sheet bearing order information. Make check payable to JUMPDISK. Here are catalog listings of the most recently received Fish disks -- 341 to 350. 3]FISH 341 P2C - P2C is a tool for translating Pascal programs into C. It handles the following Pascal dialects: HP Pascal, Turbo/UCSD Pascal, DEC VAX Pascal, Oregon Software Pascal/2, Macintosh Programmer's Workshop Pascal, Sun/Berkeley Pascal. Modula-2 syntax is also supported. Most reasonable Pascal programs are converted into fully functional C which will compile and run with no further modifications. This is version 1.13 and includes source. Author: Dave Gillespie, Amiga port by G. R. (Fred) Walter. 3]FISH 342 IE - This is an icon editor which can create and modify icons up to 640x200 pixels in size (also dual render). It can set stack size, position of icon (also free-floating), default tool, 10 tool types and control over opened window. It can also generate the C source code behind the icon for program inclusion. Version 1.0, binary only, source available from author. Author: Peter Kiem. 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 1.4, an update to version 1.3 on disk 309. New features include a "tiny" version, a working case construct, support for resident commands, smaller and faster external commands, and more. Binary only. Author: Steve Koren. Softfont - Converts portrait soft fonts for HP LaserJet compatible laser printers to landscape format. This is an update to the version included on disk 327. Includes source. Author: Thomas Lynch. 3]FISH 343 SnakePit - A simple, yet addictive game in which you must get the snake (you) off of the screen. There are, however, some rough spots and some obstacles that may need to be overcome. An excellent example of a game that is as system friendly as possible. Includes source. Author: Michael Sinz. SoftSpan - Soft Span BBS program. Intuitive, command-line based menu system with message bases, up/down loads, file credit system, extensive help system, etc. This is shareware version 1.0, binary only, lattice C source code available from the author. Author: Mark Wolfskehl. StockBroker - A program that helps you follow the recent table of exchange from one (or more) share(s). But of course you must tell the Amiga the recent table of exchange every day. Requires AmigaBASIC. Binary only. Author: Michael Hanelt. 3]FISH 344 Keyboard - Functions to translate RAWKEY Intuition messages into usable keycodes. Translation into Modula-2 of C source (by Fabbian G. Dufoe, III) on disk 291. Version 1.0. Includes source. Author: Fabbian G. Dufoe III, Peter Graham Evans. RKMCompanion - A two disk set of material created by Commodore for use with the 1.3 revison of the Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual, Libraries and Devices, published by Addison-Wesley. Almost 300 files, including C source code examples and executables, have been packed into two lharc archives, one for each disk of the two disk set. These examples are not public domain, but may be used and distributed under the conditions specified in the copyrights. Author: Commodore Business Machines, Inc. 3]FISH 345 CRobots - A game based on computer programming. Unlike arcade type games which require human input controlling some object, all strategy in CRobots is condensed into a C language program that you design and write, to control a robot whose mission is to seek out, track, and destroy other robots, each running different programs. All robots are equally equipped, and up to four may compete at once. This is version 2.3w, an update to version 2.2w on disk 331. Binary only, source available from author. Author: Tom Poindexter, Amiga version by David Wright. Du - Prints number of disc blocks used in selected files or directories. Modified from original version on disk 48 to make output more readable, and handle ^C exit. Includes source. Author: Joe Mueller, enhancements by Gary Duncan. GetImage - An enhanced version of "gi" from disk 14. It now looks for the GRAB marker, in the brush file, instead of assuming that it is at a specific place, sets up the PlanePick value in the Image structure, and deletes any unused bitplanes to save memory and disk space. Includes source. Author: Mike Farren, enhancements by Chuck Brand MemFrag - Displays number of memory chunks/sizes to show memory fragmentation. Chunks are displayed as 2**N bytes which is a rough guide but still useful. This is an enhanced version of "Frags" from disk 69. Includes source. Author: Mike Meyer, enhancements by Gary Duncan. Roses - A program that draws sine roses. Implements an algorithm given in the article "A Rose is a Rose ..." by Peter M. Maurer in American Mathematical Monthly, Vol 94, No. 7, 1987, p 631. A sine rose is a graph of the polar equation "r = sin(n*d)" for various values of n and d. Author: Carmen Artino. Unshar - This program extracts files from Unix shar archives. It scores over similar programs by being small and fast, handling extraction of subdirectories, recognising a wide variety of `sed' and `cat' shar formats, and handling large files spread across several shar files. This is version 1.3, an update to the version on disk 287. Includes C source. Author: Eddy Carroll. VcEd - A Voice (Tone) Editor for the Yamaha 4 Operator series synthesizers. Binary only, source available from author. Author: Chuck Brand. X2X - Cross converts between Motorola/Intel/Tektronix ASCII-hex files. These files are typically used for down-line-loading into EPROMS, or for transmission where binary files cause chaos. Handles S1, S2, S3, INTEL (inc USBA records), Tektronix (inc extended). Source included. Author: Gary Duncan. 3]FISH 346 Az - A nice little text editor that is fast, simple to use, and very Amiga'ized. This is version 1.50, an update to version 1.40 on disk 228, with lots of new features, bug fixes, and other improvements. Binary only. Author: Jean-Michel Forgeas. CassEti - Cassette tape label printer. Includes source in GFA Basic. Author: Thorsten Ludwig. FME - Patch to AllocMem() to allow badly designed programs which request fast mem without necessity to be run on 512k machines. Includes source in assembler. Author: Holger Lubitz. GoWB - Very small (296 bytes) and effective replacement for the well known "LoadWB" and "EndCLI" command pair. This release fixes a severe bug in the first version which used to guru if run out of a script. Includes source in C. Author: Oliver Wagner. PacketSupport - A link library, for use with Lattice C, providing a few functions to handle DOS packet postage. Includes source. Author: Oliver Wagner. PatchNTSC - OS fix to allow the growing number of PAL display programs to be run on NTSC machines. Will patch the Intuition OpenScreen() function to assure screens with PAL height to be opened in interlace mode. Includes source in assembler. Author: Oliver Wagner. TextPaint - Second major release of the Ansi editor. All major bugs have been fixed, and a bunch of new options have been added, e.g. possibility to reload ansi files or CLI modules, 4 color option, optimized keyboard layout, new drawing modes, right mouse button support (like DeluxePaint) and much more. Binary only, shareware. Author: Oliver Wagner. Timetest - Working example to show the time() and gmtime() functions of the Lattice C support library. Includes source in C. Author: Oliver Wagner. WBD - Possibly the smallest utility to set the workbench screen to any depth. Includes source in C. Author: Oliver Wagner. 3]FISH 347 Cursor - A 3-pass BASIC Compiler for BASIC programs written in AmigaBASIC, does not yet support all of the BASIC commands but is able to compile itself. This is version 1.0, includes source. Author: Jurgen Forster. Drip - Drip is an arcade style game with 15 floors (levels). You must move along the pipes of each floor and rust them to advance to the next level. Every 3 floors completed will entitle you to a bonus round where extra drips can be won. An extra drip will also be awarded for every 10,000 points. Binary only. Author: Art Skiles. 3]FISH 348 All of this material was submitted to Fred Fish on disk by one of the authors, Jeff Glatt, of Dissidents Software. **NOTE** Before running the programs here, you may need to install current versions of the required libraries. To do this, click on the icon in the InstallLibs drawer. ColorReq - Describes the update to the color.library and has an example program, with source, that demonstrates its use. Author: Dissidents Software. DisEditor - This is a demo of the dissidents shareware text editor. Version 1.1, binary only. Author: Dissidents Software. DisSecretary - This program can be used to file information in a "file cabinet" type environment. It is well suited for jobs such as maintaining a disk catalog, or user group membership, etc. Included is a data file of the library catalog, disks 1 to 310. Version "Wanda", binary only. Author: Dissidents Software. FileIO - Contains updated files for version 1.6 of the Dissidents requester library. There is a bug fix to the library as well as a new function. See disk 257 for the complete documentation, and examples. Author: Dissidents Software. ILBMLib - Contains updated files for the dissidents ilbm.library on disk 237, with new lib features and a new library. Also included is a much improved (better organized) doc file, and new C examples that show how to use the library for any kind of IFF file. See disk 237 for other examples. Author: Dissidents Software. InstallLibs - A program to copy files to the LIBS: dir of a boot disk. Can be used to create a handy installation program (hard disks especially) for programs that need disk-based libraries. Includes source. Author: Dissidents Software. SAMP - An IFF sampled sound format designed for professional music use. It can be used for 16-bit samples, multiple waveforms, etc. Includes a SAMP reader/writer shared library, interface routines, and programming examples. Also includes a program to convert 8SVX to SAMP. Author: Dissidents Software. 3]FISH 349 MED - A music editor much like SoundTracker. A song consists of up to 50 blocks of music, which can be played in any order. Editing features include cut/paste/copy tracks or blocks, changing the vibrato, tempo, crescendo, and note volume. Other features include switching of the low-pass-filter on or off on a per song basis, and a cute little animated pointer of a guy doing "jumping jacks" in time to the music! This is version 2.00, an update to version 1.12 on disk 255. Now includes full source. Author: Teijo Kinnunen. 3]FISH 350 Icons - A large variety of icons for many uses, of practically every description. Most are animated. Author: Bradley W. Schenck. MemMometer - A program that opens a narrow window and graphically displays your memory usage like a gauge. Based on WFrags, by Tomas Rokicki. Version 2.10, includes source. Author: Howard Hull. Stitchery - This shareware program loads in IFF images and creates charted patterns from them for use in counted cross-stitch and other forms of needlework. It requires one megabyte of memory to run, and works best with a good high-resolution printer for printing the patterns. The Stitchery was written with The Director and the Projector is included. Version 1.21. Author: Bradley W. Schenck. TrackUtils - Two utilities that deal with disk tracks. TCopy copies one or more tracks from one disk to another, and is useful for copying part of a floppy disk into RAD: during bootup. TFile creates a dummy file which "marks" a specified range of tracks, preventing AmigaDOS from using them and allowing them to be used for raw trackdisk data. Includes C source. Author: Eddy Carroll.