From fnf@cygnus.com Sun Dec 6 13:42:20 1992 Received: from relay1.UU.NET by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.0) id AA02414; Sun, 6 Dec 92 13:42:15 PST Received: from cygnus.com by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA04391; Sun, 6 Dec 92 16:42:09 -0500 Received: from fishpond.cygnus.com by cygnus.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA26554; Sun, 6 Dec 92 13:42:09 PST Received: by fishpond.cygnus.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA19412; Sun, 6 Dec 92 13:10:51 MST From: fnf@cygnus.com (Fred Fish) Message-Id: <9212062010.AA19412@fishpond.cygnus.com> Subject: Disks 771-780 now available To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (comp.sys.announce moderator) Date: Sun, 6 Dec 92 13:10:48 MST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: R Disks 771-780 are now available. Shipping to all those who have preordered disks should be complete by Tuesday (8-Dec-92). Note that you can get a copy of the catalog (2 disks) of the complete library contents by sending $3 for disks, postage, and mailer to: Fred Fish Catalog Disk Requests 1835 East Belmont Drive Tempe, Arizona 85284 USA Thanks to all who submitted new and interesting material. If you submitted something in the past and it has not yet appeared in the library, please feel free to resubmit it, particularly if it was several months ago. I sometimes hesitate to include material submitted more than about six months ago because of some vague feeling that as soon as I include version 1.01 submitted many months ago, I'll see version 5.23 posted on usenet. For those wishing to submit material for possible inclusion in the library, here are a few simple guidelines that will make my job of organizing the material MUCH easier and GREATLY increase your chances of having the material accepted for inclusion: 1. Don't submit bootable disks or disks with any other sort of proprietary material included, since I then have to go examine each file to decide if it is distributable or not, and if not, what effect removing it might have. Unless the material is particularly interesting, I frequently just toss such disks into the recycling bin. 2. Organize the distribution in a manner similar to my disks. I.E, place all files related to a particular submission under a single directory on the disk. If there is more than one submission per disk, it's ok to to place each submission in it's own directory. 3. Try to write a simple entry for my "Contents" listing that summarizes your submission. It should be about 3-10 lines, and include the current version number, the version and disk number of the most recent version (if any) that was last included in the library, whether or not source is included, and an "Author" list. 4. Ensure that your submission will run correctly from it's subdirectory and if necessary, supply a script runnable from workbench (via :c/xicon) that makes all necessary assigns, copies fonts and libraries, etc. 5. Send your submission in a sturdy envelope with sufficient padding. Thanks!!! ====================================================================== CONTENTS OF DISK 771 -------------------- AutoSave A small program which calls an ARexx script at regular inter- vals, controlled through a Workbench window. Although intended to provide an "AutoSave" function for applications, the script can do anything. Includes C source, which demonstrates simple use of GadTools and the timer device. Requires Kickstart 2.0 or later. Author: Michael Warner BBBBS Baud Bandit Bulletin Board System. Written entirely in ARexx using the commercial terminal program "BaudBandit". Features include up to 99 file libraries with extended filenotes, up to 99 fully threaded message conferences, number of users, files, messages, etc. are only limited by storage space, controlled file library and message conference access for users and sys- ops, interface to extra devices like CD-ROM and others, all treated as read only, complete Email with binary mail and multiple forwarding, user statistics including messages writ- ten, files uploaded or downloaded, time, etc, plus much more. Works under Amiga OS 1.3 and greater, tested through 3.0. This is version 5.7, an update to version 5.5 on disk 729. Includes complete ARexx source. Author: Richard Lee Stockton PubChange A commodity for AmigaDos 2.04. It isn't a public screen man- ager, but it is useful when used in conjunction with one. It is designed to make public screens easier to use. Whenever a new screen is brought to the front, this screen is examined. If it is a public screen, it is made into the default automat- ically without having to explicitly do it from within a public screen manager. Thus, the current default public screen is always the one which you have most recently brought to the front, and applications which use the default public screen will appear there. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Steve Koren PKludge A mode promotion commodity for AmigaDos 3.0. It allows any mode to be promoted to any other mode. Mode promotion keyed from the screen name or title, and resizing and moving screens during mode promotion. It is useful to 1) promote all screens to a single scan rate to avoid re-syncing on multisync moni- tors during screen flipping, 2) use 800x600 or higher resolu- tions with some applications which don't know how to open those screens but can otherwise handle bigger screen sizes, 3) use PAL:Productivity 640x400 mode instead of DblNTSC:High Res Lace mode, since the productivity mode tends to be more visible on some Amiga 4000's. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Steve Koren NiceMove Some different examples in C of MOUSEMOVE event handling during high CPU or DMA usage. Version 1.00, first release. Includes source and a sample program. Author: Thies Wellpott Sing Sing will read a text file (actually ANY file) and try to "sing" the characters in it using internal simple waveforms in 4 voices. Binary only. Author: Richard Lee Stockton Sound Sound sample player. Will play ANY file as sound. Understands IFF, stereo, and fibronicci compression. Can play direct from disk. Uses only 4k of chip ram. Effects include fade and grow. Works from CLI or WorkBench, all OS thru 3.0. Includes complete C source. Author: Richard Lee Stockton SourcOpt A little assembly language source optimizer. While most assem- blers have optimization, they optimize the compiled code. One disadvantage of this however, is when debugging code thru a disassembler or monitor, the code you see differs from that you have written because of the optimization. By optimizing the source first, you can eliminate some of these differences. Version 1.0, binary only, CLI usage only. Author: Alexander Fritsch CONTENTS OF DISK 772 -------------------- VMB Demo version of VIDEO MUSIC BOX, a program designed to provide an easy to learn and use facility that non-musicians or begin- ning musicians can use to compose original background music for their Amiga multimedia productions. No prior music com- positional knowledge is required to generate basic musical styles from pre-arranged music pattern templates and chord progressions. Individuals having increased musical backgrounds can use the many included editors to define new chord-types, "revoice" chords, create new chord progressions, perform basic sequence editing, and create additional pattern templates. Supports both MIDI Format 0 and IFF SMUS music file formats for compatibility with all multimedia authoring programs. Version 1.6, second major upgrade to version 1.0 on disk number 660. This new version is AmigaDOS 2 compatible, allows un- limited pattern generation in a single sequence, has improved musical dynamics, and expanded MIDI. Requires 1 Meg. Author: D.T. Strohbeen CONTENTS OF DISK 773 -------------------- Detache A very small and simple utility that will detache a file from the file system. Note that this is completely different than deleting a file. In particular, Detache works even if the file system did not restart properly because of a failed validation. This happens rather frequently if the Amiga crashes during a write on a hard disk partition: you get the dreaded "checksum error on block xxx" requester, and no writes are allowed to the partition. If you know the name of the guilty file (the file the faulty block belongs to) you can simply detache it, and the file system will be happy to restart. Requires OS2.04, binary only. Author: Sebastiano Vigna Enforcer A tool to monitor illegal memory access for 68020/68851, 68030, and 68040 CPUs. This is a completely new Enforcer from the original idea by Bryce Nesbitt. It contains many new and wonderful features and options and no longer contains any exceptions for specific software. Enforcer can now also be used with CPU or SetCPU FASTROM or most any other MMU-Kick- start-Mapping tool. Major new output options such as local output, stdout, and parallel port. Highly optimized to be as fast as possible. This is version 37.26, containing a bug fix to version 37.25 on disk number 754. Requires V37 of the OS or better and an MMU. Author: Michael Sinz Ls An update based wholly but loosely to the version 3.1 of Ls on disk number 236 by Justin McCormick. Includes many enhance- ments and bug fixes. Ls is a popular, UNIX style directory lister. This version features intelligent columnar listing, versatile sort options, UNIX-style pattern matching, recursive subdirectory listing, customized output formatting and much more! Version 4.7ljr, requires at least OS 2.04, includes source. Author: Loren J. Rittle. NewPop An upgrade to the original "POPCLI" by John Toebes. Features include a hotkey CLI (of course!), instant or timed screen blanking, a discreet informative backdrop window in the title- bar region of the WorkBench screen that gives the date, a rough indication of CPU usage and SCSI disk I/O and available memory. Also includes a runtime configuration file. Version 4.0, includes source. Author: Loren J. Rittle Quest General purpose interactive AREXX question/answer routine that includes a very funny script ("HackerTest") to rate your "computerese" and hacker ability. Quest can be used for any similiar type question-answer script. The original hackertest was created by Felix Lee, John Hayes and Angela Thomas in Sep- tember 1989. Author: Erik Lundevall REXXProgs Some good, well-commented, examples of REXX programming. Includes Palette.rexx, an ARexx tutorial on using the rexx- arplib.library to open a window (in this case a color palette) on any public screen and send messages to another ARexx pro- cess. ShoList.rexx, displays system lists (libraries, ports, tasks, etc.) and Sz.rexx, Displays alphabetically sorted directory with filesizes. CLI only. Author: Richard Lee Stockton Wangle Very addictive "sliding-block" single player strategy game. The object is to group four smaller squares of the same color together in such a way as to form a larger square. Once started in a direction, blocks slide until they hit another block, a wall, or in some cases, fall through the floor! Includes 50 levels and a level editor. Binary only. Author: Peter Handel CONTENTS OF DISK 774 -------------------- ExtraCmds A small set of AmigaDOS commands, chiefly inspired by UNIX, written to augment the collection distributed as part of the System Software Release 2.04 (V37) and will not run under older releases. This is the first public release consisting of the commands Common, Concat, Count, DirTree, Head, Lower, Split, Tee, TimeCom, and Unique. Source code and manual pages in both Danish and English are included. Author: Torsten Poulin HuntWindows Starting with 2.0 you can make screens bigger than the visual size of your monitor. On a double-size workbench, catching windows like requesters etc. can be quite annoying at times. This little utility hangs itself on the Vertical Blank inter- rupt to find out which window is being activated and moves the screen to show the window in full view. Version 1.4, includes source in assembler. Author: Joerg Bublath ISpell An "Amigatized" port of a Unix version of a freely distribu- table interactive spelling checker. Two major modes of oper- ation: Original Interactive Mode to allow a user spell check and correct a text document and ARexx Server Mode that allows the end user to hook ISpell up to text editors and other things that need a spell checking service. Regular expression lookup of word patterns is also possible in ARexx Server Mode. Includes Arexx macros for GUISpell (included), CygnusEd, Mg, TurboText, GNU emacs, VLT and WShell. Version 3.3LJR, an update to the version released on disk number 191. Requires AmigaOS 2.04 or later. Includes source. Author: Many! Current version by Loren J. Rittle SetAslDim A very small and simple 2.04-only utility which lets you set the position and dimensions that the ASL file, font and screen mode requesters will assume as default. It obtains this result by SetFunction()ing the AllocAslRequest() call of the asl.lib- rary. Binary only, CLI usage only. Author: Sebastiano Vigna SetSystem A very small and simple 2.04-only utility which forces the SYS_UserShell tag on each System() call. This means that every application will use your user shell (for instance, Bill Hawes's WShell) instead of the system shell. Binary only, CLI usage only. Author: Sebastiano Vigna CONTENTS OF DISK 775 -------------------- ICoons A spline based object modeller which can be used to generate objects in TTDDD format. TTDDD files can be converted to lots of different object formats by using the T3DLIB shareware package by Glenn Lewis. Line mode and Flat mode solid render- ing as well as Gouraud and Phong shading. Requires a machine with a floating-point co-processer. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Helge E. Rasmussen CONTENTS OF DISK 776 -------------------- CopDis An oldie but goodie I found while poking around the net. CopDis is copper list disassembler that can be run from the CLI or linked with and run directly from an application program. This is version 34.1, an update to version 0.0a on disk number 261. The code has been cleaned up, some bugs fixed and the ECS instructions added. Includes source. Author: Karl Lehenbauer, enhanced by Sebastiano Vigna JEd Yet another programmer's editor. Lots of features, including: total customization, a powerful programming language, multi- file/multi-view editing, number of windows is only limited by memory, clipboard support (cut/paste on any unit), any window can have any (non-proportional) font, an Arexx interface, and more. Version 2.05, (apparently unrelated to the version of Jed on disk 297). Requires OS2.0 or later, includes source. Author: John Harper XDME Version 1.54 of Matt's text editor. XDME is a "not-so-simple" WYSIWYG editor designed for programmers. It is not a WYSIWYG word processor in the traditional sense. Features include arbitrary key mapping, FAST scrolling, title-line statistics, multiple windows, and ability to iconify windows. This new version has some bug fixes, many new commands and several other new enhancements. Update to version 1.45 on disk number 530, includes source. Author: Matt Dillon, Enhanced by Aaron Digulla WFile Small but useful tool to interchange ASCII files between different operating systems. Converts foreign symbols and adapts linefeed codes. Can also be used to expand tabs to multiple spaces or vice versa. It has builtin templates for interchange between Amiga, MS-DOS, OS/2 and UNIX systems. Profiles can be used for common adaptions. The new version contains new templates and the memory management system has been revised and optimized. Version 1.32, an update to version 1.11 on disk 536. Includes source in C. Author: Joerg Fenin CONTENTS OF DISK 777 -------------------- AGAtest Two little programs for the (lucky) owners of AGA machines that show all 2^24 colors on an AGA HAM8 screen without ever chang- ing the 64 base color registers. Includes source. Author: Loren J. Rittle Chemesthetics Chemesthetics uses the calotte model to draw molecules. It has an Intuition user interface, can save pictures as IFF files and has many example files. The new version lets you raise the task priority for the painting process to get the results faster, shadow and reflection color can now be set to your desires, quicktrans.library is used for even faster painting. Versions for a math coprocessor and utilties to convert data files from Molec3D and to DKBTrace are included. This is ver- sion 2.14, an update to version 2.10 on disk number 574. Includes source in C. Author: Joerg Fenin IncRev A small program for a makefile or an lmkfile to update a pro- gram's revision number after each successful compile process. This is version 1.10, an update to version 1.03 on disk number 536. Includes source in C. Author: Joerg Fenin Sizer A small and pure shell utility that gives the size in bytes, blocks, and the total occupied by a directory, device or 'assign'. Accepts multiple arguments. Version 0.36, an update to version 0.20 on disk 741. Now handles control-C and gives more accurate results. French and English docs. Binary only. Author: Gerard Cornu. CONTENTS OF DISK 778 -------------------- DungeonMap A little tool that creates maps of dungeons and towns which can be used by a Dungeon Master (DM's) for use in a Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) game. These maps can be saved, edited, and printed. This is version 1.1, an update to version 1.0 on disk number 603, binary only. Author: Bill Elliot EgoMouse A little hack that makes the mouse pointer turn towards the direction you move your mouse. A popular program on the Macintosh. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: B.J Lehahn, Pointer designed by F. K|ster Kurve Kurve is yet another function plotting tool which provides a very fast and easy way of plotting and analysing mathematical functions. The integrated function compiler makes this plotter to be the fastest one you've ever seen. Version 2.001, compatible with Kickstart 2.0 and 3.0beta. Includes source in C. Author: Henning Rink MultiReq A FileRequester library, but it's not simply another file requester library, cause it's the first really multitasking file requester (as far as I know) and above this it also has a great number of other features, that make MultiReq superior to other file requesters. Written entirely in assembler to be small and fast. Version 1.20, binary only, shareware. Author: Andreas Krebs OmtiFroh A very small "mini-hack" that allows Enforcer to be used with some specific SCSI controllers that don't bind an AutoConfig node into the ExpansionList. Enforcer registers the accesses to the hardware at 0xee0000 as 'hits'. This little gem will create the AutoConfig node for you. Includes source. Author: Henning Schmiedehausen CONTENTS OF DISK 779 -------------------- AAP_AAC Animation playback and convert programs. (AAP and AAC). AAP can show IFF ILBM pictures, show IFF ANIM_5 and IFF_ANIM_7 animations. It can show (long) sequences of animations and/or pictures using a script file and can operate from memory (preload) and/or disk. AAC converts between the supported anim filetypes and/or sequences of pictures. AAP version 1.2, AAC version 1.1. Includes source and a small sample sequence mix of pictures/animation from script file. Author: Wolfgang Hofer Plasma A Plasma Cloud Generator for V39 AGA machines only. This pro- gram will generate Fractal Images called Plasma Clouds, using the AGA 256 color modes with full use of the 24 bit palette. Includes source. Author: Roger Uzun RDBInfo Reads the RigidDiskBlock of the unit and device given as argu- ments, then displays the most interesting parts. Version 0.17, Binary only. Author: Gerard Cornu SANA The official Commodore developer information package for the SANA-II Network Device Drivers. Includes the SANA-II spec, readme files, SANA-II drivers for Commodore's A2065 (Ethernet) and A2060 (ARCNET) boards, docs and includes, and some exam- ples. Release version 1.4, update to version on disk number 673. Author: Commodore-Amiga Networking Group VPortPatch A very small 2.04-only utility that patches the graphics.lib- rary function MakeVPort() in such a way to avoid an annoying bug that keeps multipalette pictures from being correctly scrolled (multipalette pictures contain the new PCHG chunk which specifies line-by-line palette changes; hundreds of colors can be displayed even in hi-res with multitasking and full system compatibility). Includes source. Author: Sebastiano Vigna CONTENTS OF DISK 780 -------------------- ABackup A powerful backup utility, that may be used both for hard disk backup and for file archiving. Has a full Intuition interface, a "batch" mode, can save/load file selection, handle HD floppies, etc... This is a *MAJOR* update, with support for XPK library, child task for disk write, error recovering when writing to a disk and more. Include both French and English versions. This is version 2.00, an update from version 1.60 on disk 759. Shareware, binary only. Author: Denis Gounelle. MEM A little memory game where the object is to remember the face of a "thief" you are shown for a variable length of time depending on the level. You are then presented with a screen in which you have to "recreate" the face using various select- ions for eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Jason Truong NickPrefs An enhancement to IPrefs that manages three new preferences, WBPicture allows you to display any IFF picture in the main Workbench window, supplanting the original (and boring ;-)) WBPattern. BusyPointer lets you edit the clock pointer used by programs when they are busy. You may create an animated pointer. Floppy provides the ability to mess with the public fields of trackdisk, that is, the TDPF_NOCLICK flag, step delay and the like. Requires OS2.0, binary only. Author: Nicola Salmoria RachelRaccoon A set of hand-drawn "Eric-Schwartz-animation-style" pictures of a new cartoon character. The pictures are overscanned hi- res-interlace (704x480) and are provided in 16-color, 8-color, and 4-color flavors so you can use them for Workbench backdrop pictures. The colors are arranged so that at least on Work- bench 2.x you will have standard looking titlebars. Author: Leslie Dietz ====================================================================== -Fred