From fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com Sun Mar 14 14:28:10 1993 Received: from fishpond.cygnus.com ([192.195.187.11]) by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.1) id AA02286; Sun, 14 Mar 93 14:21:57 PST From: fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com Message-Id: <9303141526.AA18814@fishpond.cygnus.com> Subject: Disks 831-840 now available To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (comp.sys.announce moderator) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 93 10:36:10 MST >From: Fred Fish Content-Length: 18061 Content-Type: text X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: R Disks 831-840 are now available. Shipping to all those who have preordered disks should be complete by 16-Mar-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 831 -------------------- GrabKick A tool to copy the contents of any Kickstart ROM into a file. Note that there are many legitimate reasons for wishing to make a file copy of a ROM image. I don't condone using this program for any illegal uses however. You should be aware of the laws in your region with regard to fair use of software, including software contained in ROMS. Version 1.1, includes source. Author: Ralf Gruner Term A gift-ware telecommunications program written for AmigaOS 2.0 or higher. Features include total configurability, full ARexx control, Xpr-transfer support, filetype-identification after download, cut & paste/point-and-click on screen, auto upload and download, unlimited size scrollable review buffer, solid and fully-featured VT102/VT220/ANSI emulation, support for external terminal emulation libraries, optional fast atomic terminal emulation, hotkey support, powerful phonebook and dialing functions, ability to save and print the contents of the screen as IFF-ILBM or ASCII file, full overscan and screen resolution support (AGA and ECS screen modes included), async- hronous operation and a lot more. This is version 3.1, an up- date to version 2.3 on disks 725 and 730. This is part one of a three part distribution, and contains the main program, doc- umentation, and auxiliary data files. Author: Olaf `Olsen' Barthel CONTENTS OF DISK 832 -------------------- FakeKey A utility for use in scripts with programs like Diskcopy that require the user to press a key before the program runs. It sends a user-specified key press to the active window, after an optional delay. Requires AmigaDOS 2.04 or higher. This is version 1.0. Includes source in assembly. Author: Douglas Nelson NameThatMonster A commodity for use with Moria and similar games that use the slash key for identification. It allows you to identify a monster or object with a single press of the middle mouse but- ton. Requires 2.04 or higher and a three button mouse. In- cludes source in F-Basic. Author: Douglas Nelson. Term A gift-ware telecommunications program written for AmigaOS 2.0 or higher. Features include total configurability, full ARexx control, Xpr-transfer support, filetype-identification after download, cut & paste/point-and-click on screen, auto upload and download, unlimited size scrollable review buffer, solid and fully-featured VT102/VT220/ANSI emulation, support for external terminal emulation libraries, optional fast atomic terminal emulation, hotkey support, powerful phonebook and dialing functions, ability to save and print the contents of the screen as IFF-ILBM or ASCII file, full overscan and screen resolution support (AGA and ECS screen modes included), async- hronous operation and a lot more. This is version 3.1, an up- date to version 2.3 on disks 725 and 730. This is part two of a three part distribution, and contains the main program as a 68020/030/040 executable, and the program source code. Author: Olaf `Olsen' Barthel CONTENTS OF DISK 833 -------------------- Term A gift-ware telecommunications program written for AmigaOS 2.0 or higher. Features include total configurability, full ARexx control, Xpr-transfer support, filetype-identification after download, cut & paste/point-and-click on screen, auto upload and download, unlimited size scrollable review buffer, solid and fully-featured VT102/VT220/ANSI emulation, support for external terminal emulation libraries, optional fast atomic terminal emulation, hotkey support, powerful phonebook and dialing functions, ability to save and print the contents of the screen as IFF-ILBM or ASCII file, full overscan and screen resolution support (AGA and ECS screen modes included), async- hronous operation and a lot more. This is version 3.1, an up- date to version 2.3 on disks 725 and 730. This is part three of a three part distribution, and contains the documentation in DVI and PostScript formats. Author: Olaf `Olsen' Barthel ZIP A program which can interpret and run standard series and interactive fiction plus Infocom game files. Includes sound and proportional font support and other Amiga specific features. Version 1.00, Amiga release 2.2, includes source in `C'. Author: Mark Howell, Amiga port by Olaf Barthel CONTENTS OF DISK 834 -------------------- InfoTools Several tools to query information about or to disassemble Infocom game files. Source in `C' is included. Author: Mark Howell, Amiga port by Olaf Barthel PInfocom A portable Infocom standard series game file interpreter that can also analyze any Infocom game file and display vocabulary lists, object trees, etc. Has many informative and debugging options that can be enabled at runtime. Includes extensive documentation, sound and proportional sound support, and many Amiga specific features. This is version 3.00, Amiga release 2.34. Includes source in C. Authors: InfoTaskForce & Paul D. Smith; port by Olaf Barthel WBGenie WBGenie is a WB-program launcher with a difference. It is intended to be a WB interface to a set of WB programs (which the author is in the process of writing) to make performing housekeeping chores on the Amiga simple. WBGenie is a WB2.x only program and is a commodity. It makes use of appicons and appwindows. Includes some sample code to demonstrate how to write a tool type array without affecting existing tool types. Version 1.02, binary only. Author: Steven Velletri XEM Sample code and documentation how to create and interface to external terminal emulation libraries as supported by terminal programs such as LR-Comm, `term' and X-Comm. This is version 2.0 and includes sample library and sample interface source code in `C' and assembly language. Author: Ueli Kaufmann CONTENTS OF DISK 835 -------------------- MandelSquare Yet another program to generate images from the Mandelbrot set, different from most implementations in that it runs only under AmigaOS 2.x, requires an '020/'030/'040 CPU and a numerical coprocessor. The calculation routines were written in '881 assembly language for maximum speed and precision. Also included is a `movie mode' which allows generation of long camera zooms to spots in the Mandelbrot set. The resulting animations can be saved in ANIM-opt-5 format, allowing to replay them using `MandelSquare' or standard animation software. Enhancements include support for the AGA chipset (now you can finally create images in 256 colours!) and several bug fixes and improvements in the image and animation creation code. This is version 1.6, an update to version 1.3 on disk 589. Includes source in C and assembly language. Author: Olaf `Olsen' Barthel Mine A new Modula-2 implementation of an old computer game. You have an N * N square with mines hidden in some fields. Your job is to mark them with a flag as fast as possible. High- score lists are supported. This is version 1.8, an update to version 1.6 on disk 758, and contains a few improvements and some bug fixes. Requires AmigaDOS 2.0, includes source. Author: Thomas Ansorge Mines A game in which you have to logically find out which parts of the mine-field are not mined. There are many kinds of mine- fields and you have to be very careful to be able to solve the most difficult levels. Mines opens its own window on a Work- bench screen and it's multitasking friendly. This game was made and tested under Workbench 2.0, so the colors may look a bit strange under WB1.3. Version 2.0, binary only. Author: Teemu Sipila and Marko Malmberg 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 1.2, includes source. Author: Thomas Landspurg SuperFormatter A easy to user disk formatting program with an Intuition interface. Options include quick format, verify, trashcan icon installation, FFS versus old filesystem, and more. Version 1.0d, binary only. Author: Mark Warpool CONTENTS OF DISK 836 -------------------- DocPrint This program is a papersaver for those who use fanfold paper in their printers. It is able to print the odd and the even pages separately with pagenumbers and header and footer. Can be called from Workbench or via CLI with textname as argument for use with DirOpus or SID. Can print powerpacked files. All settings can be stored in a config file. Comes in two versions, English and german. Needs AmigaDOS 1.3 or higher, powerpacker.library (included) and PAL-mode. This is version 2.00, shareware, binary only. Written in Modula2. Author: Hartmut Jager (Bari-Soft) FSim A process simulation system for the Amiga. It calculates complex systems consisting of algebraic and differential equations and shows the results in a graphic representation. A user with only a small knowledge of C programming is able to use FSim to create complex models and connect them to a comfortable user interface. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Jens Hartkopf Slicer A program for creating abstract art based on mathematical functions, such as the Mandelbrot set, Julia sets, and related abstractions (chaotic dynamical systems). Features include fast fixed or floating point arithmetic, many different func- tions, many computation options, many coloring and rendering options, batch mode, multi pass mode, and four dimensional navigation. The pictures it makes can be thought of as cross sections or "slices" revealing the insides of solid objects. This is version 2.1 an update to version 2.0 on disk 634. Binary only. Author: Gary Teachout CONTENTS OF DISK 837 -------------------- AquaPack This package is a replacement of the old Aquarium program. NewFish, NewAqua and CliAqua support a packed database but are also compatible with the old (unpacked) database. The entire package supports a user configurable database path. CliAqua has the same functions as NewAqua, but is controlled via CLI. It has an interface to install on a BBS. AquaPack is written in SAS-C. NewFish is version 2.71, NewAqua is version 1.01, and CliAqua is version 1.01. Source is avail- able from the author. Author: Silvano Oesch, Paul Wittwer Life Another version of Tomas's Life game. Features include wrap- ping the screen as in a torus, independent setting of the horizontal and vertical resolutions, computing only a specific number of generations, redisplay only every N generations, a macro language to set up initial generations, and more. Works with horizontal resolutions up to 262,112 pixels and vertical resolutions up to 65,535 pixels. This is version 6.1, an update to version 5.0 on disk 316. Includes source. Author: Tomas Rokicki UnixDirs A program which intercepts calls to dos.library to add the UNIX style '.' and '..' syntax for current and parent direct- ories, respectively, to file and path names. I.E., you can refer to files in the current directory as './foo' and files in the parent directory as '../foo', or any combination of the two. Similar to program on disk 321, but independently devel- oped. Includes source. Author: Martin Scott CONTENTS OF DISK 838 -------------------- ABackup A powerful backup utility, that may be used both for hard disk backup and for file archiving. Features include a full Intu- ition interface, a "batch" mode, save/load file selection, support for HD floppies, support for XPK library, a child task for disk write, error recovery when writing to a disk, cyclic backup to and restore from several drives, optional data com- pression, function to rebuild the catalog, support for both soft and hard links, and more. Includes French and English versions. Version 2.40, an update to version 2.00 on disk 780. Shareware, binary only. Author: Denis Gounelle GZip GNU zip is a compression utility designed to be a replacement for 'compress'. Its main advantages over compress are much better compression and freedom from patented algorithms. GZip currently defaults to using the LZ77 algorithm used in zip 1.9 but can also decompress files created by zip, compress, or pack. Version 1.0.5, includes source. Author: Jean-loup Gailly LE-NAG LeverEdge NAG is a program to remind you of events before you miss them. Events can be scheduled to occur once or repeat daily, weekly, monthly or yearly. You can be alerted of the event in a number of ways from a screen flash to a message requester. Version 93.03.03, an update to version 92.10.21 on disk 761. Shareware, binary only. Author: Craig M. Lever CONTENTS OF DISK 839 -------------------- Japanese Two programs to help teach Japanese. "Word A Day" is a pop- up program to put in your WBStartup drawer. It will randomly select one word out of it's 1019 word database and display it along with the English. "JapaneseVocabulary" is a quiz type Japanese vocabulary builder. Both programs are standalone and complete, and also work with the "Japanese Talking Picture Dictionary" by the same author. Author: Wayne Quigley Sr 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. Binary only. Author: Werther 'Mircko' Pirani SSW Solar System Wars is a game similar to Space Wars, pitting two players against each other, in orbit around 0 to 3 stars. You can choose from 48 different solar systems, or use the random system selector for a different challenge every round. A var- iety of weapons are available. Supports two button joysticks but does not require them. Version 1.14, binary only. Author: James Cleverdon TrashIcon A WorkBench 2.x application icon to delete files. Puts an icon at a possibly user defined position on the WorkBench screen, that deletes all files that are dragged onto it. This is version 1.2, binary only. Author: Mark McPherson CONTENTS OF DISK 840 -------------------- OctaMED A music editor which was originally designed for making music for programs (demos, games, etc), but works well as a stand- alone music program as well. OctaMED is the 8-channel version of MED. This is a freely distributable release of the fully functional commercial version 2.0. Versions later than 2.0 remain commercial and are *not* freely redistributable at this time. Previous releases were version 1.00b on disk 579 and a demo of version 4.0 on disk 755. Binary only. Author: Teijo Kinnunen and Ray Burt-Frost ====================================================================== |\/ o\ Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA |/\__/ 1-602-491-0048 fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com