From fnf@cygnus.com Sun Jan 24 20:31:01 1993 Received: from relay1.UU.NET by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.0) id AA08473; Sun, 24 Jan 93 20:30:55 PST Received: from cygnus.com by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA11723; Sun, 24 Jan 93 23:30:47 -0500 Received: from fishpond.cygnus.com by cygnus.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12635; Sun, 24 Jan 93 20:30:47 PST Received: by fishpond.cygnus.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22051; Sun, 24 Jan 93 21:31:26 MST From: fnf@cygnus.com (Fred Fish) Message-Id: <9301250431.AA22051@fishpond.cygnus.com> Subject: Disks 801-810 now available To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (comp.sys.announce moderator) Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 21:31:25 MST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO Disks 801-810 are now available. Shipping to all those who have preordered disks should be complete by 27-Jan-93. 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, place each submission in its 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 its sub- directory and if necessary, supply a script runnable from workbench (via :c/xicon or c:iconx) 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 801 -------------------- Convert A program that provides the means to easily convert numer- ical values between international, Imperial and US systems of measurement. It does this in twelve fields of measure- ment, including area, capacity, density, energy, fuel con- sumption, length, power, pressure, speed (velocity), temp- erature, volume and weight. It has a flexible, easy to use GUI and works under OS 1.3 and 2.xx. The registered version also has an ARexx port. Version 2.0, shareware, binary only. Author: Mike Fuller CyberCron A cron utility for AmigaDOS 2.0. Uses the new, more flexible, AmigaDOS 2.0 technique for running programs. Offers an ex- tended set of options that may be specified for any given event. Version 1.5, an update to version 1.3 on disk 682, and includes various bug fixes, code tweaks, four new ARexx commands, documentation in AmigaGuide format, and more. Includes source. Author: Christopher Wichura CyberX10 A program that can be used to control the CP290 home computer interface for use with the X10 home automation system. It requires KickStart 2.04+ and supports localization under Work- Bench 2.1+. Includes documentation in AmigaGuide format. Includes source. Author: Christopher Wichura Luna A small program that will display the time and date of the phases of the moon for a month in any year from 1900 to 3000 AD. If a lunar eclipse occurs in that month, its time and date will also be displayed. It has an easy to use GUI and works under OS 1.3 and 2.xx. Version 1.0, freeware, binary only. Author: Mike Fuller PowerData Patches AmigaDOS, enabling all programs to read and write files packed with PowerPacker in way that is completely trans- parent to themselves and the system. Programs will read power- packed datafiles directly, and will also magically start com- pressing their own datafiles, as they create or update them. This is version 38.105, the official successor of another pro- gram by this author, Powerpacker Patcher. Partially localized for use with Workbench 2.1. Requires Workbench 2.04+. Share- ware, binary only. Author: Michael Berg TWC Two Way Chat & Send enables you to make use of your modem's full duplex feature. With TWC you can connect to another Amiga running TWC, then you may transmit files AND chat at the same time, in both directions. GUI-driven, needs Kick- Start 2.04 or higher. Version 2.03, freeware, binary only. Author: Lutz Vieweg CONTENTS OF DISK 802 -------------------- AppISizer An AppIcon utility to get the size of disks, directories or files. Gives the size in bytes, blocks and the actual size occupied. Requires KickStart 37.175 or higher. Version 0.41, an update to version 0.20 on disk 787. Binary only. Author: Girard Cornu. FastLife A fast life program featuring an Intuition interface, 33 gen- erations/second on Amiga 3000/25, 19 generations/second on Amiga 2000/500/1000, and 200+ patterns in text file format. Runs with Kickstart 2.04 and later, and uses the ReqTools re- quester package (included). An update to version 1.1 on disk 608. Changes include support for all screen modes, screens as large as memory allows, run for a specified number of gener- ations, stop at a specific generation, CLI and ToolTypes sup- port for file name filter and "ON" character within Picture files. Version 2.2, binary only. Author: Ron Charlton Fd2AsmInc This little program creates assembler include files from ".fd" files (I.E. the original Commodore .fd-files). There are sev- eral ways to format the output file. Version 1.0a, OS 2.xx only, freeware, includes source in assembly. Author: Hanns Holger Rutz QMouse An unusually small and feature-packed "mouse utility". Was inspired by, but not derived from, the original QMouse by Lyman Epp. Features include automatic window activation (like WindX), top-line blanking for A3000/A2320 users, system- friendly mouse blanking, mouse acceleration/threshold, "Pop- CLI", click-to-front/back, "SunMouse", "NoClick", "WildStar", Northgate key remapping, and more. Requires Kickstart 2.0, but is not a commodity. Only 3K. Version 2.30, an update to version 2.21 on disk 789. Public domain, assembly source included. Author: Dan Babcock CONTENTS OF DISK 803 -------------------- Hackdisk A complete replacement for trackdisk.device featuring a verify option and better performance. Hackdisk is supplied as an OS module that may be RamKick'ed or placed directly in the Kick- start ROM. This is version 2.00, an update to version 1.12 on disk number 783. Now includes support for 150RPM HD floppy drives and untested support for 5.25 inch drives. Free for non-commercial use, assembly source included. Author: Dan Babcock HyperANSI The ultimate in ANSI editors. Allows you to edit up to 999 pages at a time, with a unique 'transparency' mode which allows you to 'see through' the pages ( and save as a single page ). Other features include; Copy, Move, Fill, Replace, Text alignment & justification, line drawing, char- acter painting (colors and/or text), half character painting, and keyboard remapping for all 255 IBM characters, plus more. Shareware, version 1.02, binary only. Author: Mike D. Nelson MiniPac A very tiny PacMan clone, only about 8K. Binary only. Author: Philippe Banwarth SCAN8800 A specialized database program to store frequencies and sta- tion names for shortwave transmitters. It can also control a receiver for scanning frequency ranges. Version 2.27, binary only. Author: Rainer Redweik CONTENTS OF DISK 804 -------------------- 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 and German data files). Requires 1MB of memory. This is freeware version 1.0, Modula-2 source is available by the author. Author: Wolfgang Lug DiskMate A disk utility with multidrive disk copier (either DOS or non- DOS disks), disk formatter, disk eraser, disk installer, and floppy disk checker. Version 3.0, binary only. Author: Malcolm Harvey Euphorion A scrolling "shoot'em up" action-game, which contains eight different levels, bonus-stages and a highscore table. This is version 1.1, binary only. Author: Carsten Magerkurth Password A program to password protect an AutoBooting HD based system. Supports a list of authorized users and their passwords. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Malcolm Harvey PubChange PubChange is a commodity for AmigaDos 2.04. It isn't a public screen manager, 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 de- fault automatically 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 1.2, an update to version 1.0 on disk 771. This version fixes two serious bugs and adds minor features. Binary only. Author: Steve Koren TrueEd A shareware editor. Version 5.5, and update to version 3.40 on disk 630. No documentation, binary only. Author: Jurgen Klein CONTENTS OF DISK 805 -------------------- CDTV-Player A little utility for all those people, who'd like to play Audio-CD's, while multitasking on workbench. It's an emula- tion of CDTV's remote control, but is a little more sophis- ticated. Version 1.5, an update to version 1.0 on disk 759. Public domain, binary only. Author: Daniel Amor Cleo Implementation of a new experimental Pascal like language. Besides the normal data types, includes 2D and 3D data types, and an RGB color data type. Includes a compiler and inter- preter, example programs, and documentation. Version 1.0, includes full source in C to compiler, interpreter, and examples. Author: DIALLO Barrou Clouds A program which creates randomly clouds on your screen. You may save them as IFF-files and use them as background for your workbench. Uses new AGA-feature (5-bitplane-hires-screen). Version 2.0, public domain. Includes complete source in KICK- PASCAL. Author: Daniel Amor RussianFonts This is a scalable vector font. It's the Russian equivalent of the Times Roman font. It comes in two versions, ADOBE TYPE 1 (pbf-file) and PAGESTREAM FONT (dmf-file). This Font is shareware. Designed with FontDesigner. Author: Daniel Amor Sizer A small and pure shell utility that gives the size in bytes, blocks and the actual size occupied by a directory, device, file or 'assign'. Accepts multiple arguments. Version 0.81, an update to version 0.36 on disk 777. Now requires KickStart 37.175 or higher. Binary only. Author: Girard Cornu CONTENTS OF DISK 806 -------------------- HDFixer Some of the newer A3000's have high density floppy drives. In the 37.175 version of Kickstart, HD disks are not completely supported in HD mode. This program patches the system so that Kickstart V37.175 owners are able to use 1.71 MB HD disks. This very user friendly, totally new programmed version, comes as a Commodity and supports the new OS2.x functions like Public Screens, scaleable fonts, shortcut gadget activation and so on. Requires Workbench 2.04. This is version 2.00, an update to version 1.10 on disk 690. Binary only. Author: Peter-Iver Edert Icons Some icons which can be used in the ToolManager dock window (ToolManager by S.Becker) for instance. There are also a few tips for ToolManager users in the doc file. Author: Andre Weissflog MXReq Creates a customizeable mutual exclude requester from a shell or AREXX script. The user can select one out of up to eight entries, each of them writes an own value to an environment variable. Including executable, sources, docs, examples and a small bonus tool. Version: 1.20 Author: Andre Weissflog XSearch A program to search files and directories on any Amiga device. Has options to search for files or directories matching a given name pattern, length, date of last change, iff type, comment, internal strings, and protection bits. Supports the Amiga clipboard. Uses AmigaDOS 2.0 style interface. Includes both German and English versions. Version, 1.1, an update to version 1.0 on disk 724. Includes source in KICKPascal. Author: Stefan Plvchinger CONTENTS OF DISK 807 -------------------- RoachMotel A game where the object is to collect all the spray cans to complete the level. If you touch any creatures you will lose one life, except when stomping on a roach or hitting a roach or boyd with your head while wearing the toupee. Written in AMOS, binary only. Author: Ryan Scott VCLI Voice Command Line Interface allows you to execute CLI or ARexx commands, or ARexx scripts, by spoken voice command through your Perfect Sound 3, Sound Master (Sound Magic), or Generic audio digitizer. VCLI is completely multitasking and will run continuously in the background, waiting to execute your voice command even while other programs may be running. With VCLI you can launch multiple applications or control any program with ARexx capability completely by spoken voice command. VCLI is compatible with both NTSC and PAL. This is version 5.2, an update to version 5 on disk number 751. New features include the capability to load alternate vocabulary files by spoken voice command, a choice of Amiga hardware timers to reduce interference with other programs, and immun- ity of the display to changes in system fonts. Binary only, requires AmigaDOS 2.0. Author: Richard Horne VoiceCode This file contains complete documentation for voice.library (Ver 6.4), the public domain Amiga library of voice recogni- tion functions for the Perfect Sound 3, Sound Master (Sound Magic) and Generic audio digitizers. Included are descrip- tions of the functions that will allow your program to learn and recognize spoken words through your 8 bit audio digitizer. Also included are code examples in C and assembly language. Author: Richard Horne and David Benn XTrash A constant trashcan implemented as an application icon. Can erase anything; files, directories, trashcans and disks. Disk formatting requires an external formatter. Conforms closely to the AMIGA Style Guide. Requires AMIGA OS 2. Version 1.01, includes source in KICKPascal. Author: Stefan Plvchinger CONTENTS OF DISK 808 -------------------- KingFisher A specialized database tool providing maintenance and search capabilities for the descriptions of disks in the format used by this library. KingFisher's database can span multiple (floppy) disk volumes, can be edited by text editors that support long text lines, can add disks directly from unedited email or usenet announcements, can remove disks, rebuild a damaged index, find next or previous software versions, print or export (parts of) the database, and more. Includes a data- base of disks 1-800. This is version 1.15, an update to ver- sion 1.11 on disk 783. Binary only. Author: Udo Schuermann Look A powerful program for creating and showing disk magazines. Supports IFF pictures, IFF brushes, ANSI, fonts, PowerPacker, and many more features. Programmed in assembly language to be small and fast. German language only. Version 1.5, an update to version 1.2 on disk 743. Now runs on NTSC machines in interlace mode and includes many new features. Shareware, binary only. Author: Andri Voget. CONTENTS OF DISK 809 -------------------- CPK A program to render a space filling representation of atoms in molecules. This is the type of representation one would find in the plastic 'CPK' (Corey, Pauling, Kendrew) models often used in organic chemistry. There are no hard coded constraints on the number of atoms it can process, it cor- rectly handles intersecting 3-dimensional spheres by using the Bresenham circle algorithm in 3D, and computes using the the current display screen resolution for simplicity and speed. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Eric G. Suchanek 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 1.0, shareware, binary only. Author: Jaroslav Mechacek GetString A small utility that puts up a string requester and stores the result in an environment variable (either local or global) that can be used in Shell scripts. Requires OS 2.04+ and ReqTools.library. Written in E, source included. Author: Diego Caravana SmallMath "Drop-in" replacements for the Commodore IEEE math libraries for users with a math coprocessor. Since these libraries do not contain the coprocessor-emulation code normally present, they are 60%-90% smaller than the usual libraries. For the same reason, however, they cannot be used without a coproces- sor. Version 1.2, an update to version 1.1 on disk 718, fixes a bug in the cmp() function. Public domain, partial source included. Author: Laz Marhenke CONTENTS OF DISK 810 -------------------- Amiga_E An Amiga specific E compiler. E is a powerful and flexible procedural programming language and Amiga E a very fast com- piler for it, with features such as compilation speed of 20000 lines/minute on a 7 Mz amiga, inline assembler and linker integrated into compiler, large set of integrated functions, module concept with 2.04 includes as modules, flexible type-system, quoted expressions, immediate and typed lists, low level polymorphism, exception handling and much, more. Written in Assembly and E. Version 2.1, public domain, includes partial sources. Author: Wouter van Oortmerssen MakeDMake An automated DMake file generator. You give it the names of all the C-files used to produce your executable (except #include'd .c or .h files), and it will automatically scan them to find all dependencies, and produce a ready to use (in many cases) DMakeFile calling DCC with options you will need for normal compilation and linking. Version 0.19, an update to version 0.15 on disk 789. Includes source. Author: Piotr Obminski, from original code by Tim McGrath PrintManager A printer spooler for AmigaDOS 2.0 or later. Works with all programs, whether they use the parallel or serial device, use PRT: or the printer device directly, are printing text or gra- phics, and has an Intuition interface. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Nicola Salmoria Snake An updated version of the old computer game which lives in a Workbench window. You control a "snake" which grows by eating "frogs" and avoiding obstacles. Requires AmigaDOS 2.0. C source included. Author: Michael Warner StarClock StarClock displays time, date and stardate of the popular TV series Star Trek in a small window on the right hand side of the workbench screen. StarClock is a commodity. Requires OS 2.0 or greater. Version 1.01, binary only. Author: Michael Laurent, Volker Goehrke TimeKeeper A program that restores system time after resets. This is accomplished by storing the current time in a resident struct- ure at regular intervals and restoring it at reboot. Useful for Amigas that don't have a battery backed up clock. Requires KickStart 2.0 or higher. Version 1.0, includes source in C. Author: Mattias Moltkesson ====================================================================== -Fred