From fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com Sun Aug 1 20:27:18 1993 Received: from fishpond.cygnus.com ([192.195.187.11]) by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.3) id AA23864; Sun, 1 Aug 93 20:27:13 PDT From: fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com Message-Id: <9308012041.AA17284@fishpond.cygnus.com> Subject: Disks 891-900 now available To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu (comp.sys.announce moderator) Date: Sun, 1 Aug 93 20:41:07 MST >From: Fred Fish Content-Length: 22218 Content-Type: text X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] Status: RO Disks 891-900 are now available. Shipping to all those who have preordered disks should be complete by 4-Aug-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 891 -------------------- AskEnv A requester construction tool for use with DOS-scripts, AREXX and any other language that can start an external program. System and file requesters may be called by command line args, and config files allow construction of complex requesters containing almost any type of gadtools gadgets. Extended gadget types can call file requesters and start programs. Results are stored in environment variables. Requires OS 2.04, Version 2.5, binary only. Author: Bengt Giger DiskSalv2 A disk repair, salvage, and undelete utility for all standard disk devices and file system types. Has a full Intuition interface and runs from Workbench or Shell. It can fix most problems in-place, and can reverse a partial or QUICK format. It can copy out from disks that can't be fixed due to physical damage, with a destination going to any AmigaDOS disk device or pipe (eg, TAPE:). In English, locale catalogs included for Danish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish, short manuals in English and Swedish. Extensive update to DiskSalv 1.42 on disk 251. Requires AmigaOS 2.04 or later. Uncrippled Shareware, binary only, V11.27. Author: Dave Haynie HDClick A Harddisk-Menu and Workbench-Tool. Easily start programs, batchfiles or ARexx-scripts simply by clicking on a gadget. Opens its own screen or only a small window on the Workbench. Includes an AppWindow/AppIcon to view pictures, listen to samples, print texts or even decrunch archives by just drag- ging an Icon on the AppObject. Gadgets can have their own fonts and colors. Unlimited number of sub-menus. Easily configurable, with Online-Help. Requires OS 2.04. Version 2.53, an update to V2.0 on disk 605. Binary only, shareware. Author: Claude Muller ROMTagMem Adds non-autoconfig memory as early as possible to the memory list. In situations where you have only CHIP memory and non- autoconfig memory, your system will run faster and have more CHIP memory available if as many system structures as possible are not in CHIP memory. Binary only. Author: John Matthews Skew Skeleton Writer is a tool for generating C code for various Intuition based applications. You click the mouse and the code gets written. Similar to PowerSource and GadToolsBox, but with slightly different functionality. Version 1.28, an update to version 1.2 on disk 746. Includes source. Author: Piotr Obminski CONTENTS OF DISK 892 -------------------- DviHp A printer driver for HP LaserJet (trademark of the Hewlett Packard Company) and compatible printers. It translates DVI files, usually generated by TeX, to a code understood by HP-LJ (PCL - printer control language). DviHp supports down- loading fonts, which gives you extremely fast output. It allows you to include IFF ILBM files into your documents. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Ales Pecnik Gemini10X All-new printer driver for Star Gemini-10X and 15X printers. Features graphics resolutions twice as high as the Commodore provided "EpsonXOld" driver. Version 35.1, binary only. Author: Michael Bohnisch Indent A C source code formatter/indenter. Especially useful for cleaning up inconsistently indented code. Version 1.8, an update to version 1.7 on disk 821. Includes source. Author: Various, Amiga port by Carsten Steger 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 1.9, an update to version 1.6 on disk 816. Shareware, binary only. Author: Andre Voget MouseAideDEMO DEMO version of a "Mouse" utility which has all the standard functions: Mouse Acceleration with threshhold, window and screen manipulation by mouse and keyboard, mouse and screen blanking, SUN (auto-activation) mouse, user definable "hot key" command, Keyboard "String" macros, etc... But also has functions other "Mouse" programs do NOT, such as: Shell- Cycling, Key Clicking, KeyClosing, Multi-Icon-Select with Mouse, Middle Mouse Button Windowing, EZ-Date generation, Mouse Port switching, Workbench to the front function, Ez- Dragging, Freezing Mouse & Keyboard of all input, etc... Now features an easy to use Pop-Up 2.xx style intuition interface and the ability to function correctly in all the new screen modes! Written in assembly for efficiency in size and CPU usage. Version v9.69a, an update to version v7.12a on disk 788, Binary only. Author: Thomas J. Czarnecki TeXPrt A front-end for DVI printer drivers with a (nice?) GUI. It is highly configurable and can be used with various DVI printer drivers. Configuration files for Georg Hessmann's DVIPrint (PasTeX), DVILJP (AmigaTeX) and DVILJ2P (Gustaf Neumann) are included. TeXPrt has an ARexx port and interprets 18 ARexx commands. TeXPrt runs on an AppWindow and supports an (optional) AppIcon for selecting DVI files. Needs at least Kickstart 2.04. This is Version 2.0, freeware, includes source in C. Author: Richard A. Bodi CONTENTS OF DISK 893 -------------------- 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 ones. Among other things it displays location, capital, area, population, languages, currency and the flag of each country. AmigaWorld is very easy to handle, and you can use it with your favourite font, screen mode and colors. You can also choose between English, German, Swedish and Dutch output. It works on every Amiga that has one MByte of memory and Kickstart 1.2 or later. Freeware version 2.0, an update to version 1.1 on Disk number 851. New features include flag display and information about religions and international organizations. Modula-2 source is available from the author. Author: Wolfgang Lug BadLinks A utility which tests the links in newly written amigaguide documents. Rather than manually clicking on every button in your amigaguide document to ensure each will link up with a valid node, just run BadLinks. Will work on documents which reference nodes in other amigaguide documents too. Version 1.17, binary only. Author: Roger E. Nedel Clouds A program which creates random cloud scenery. You may save the pictures as IFF-files and use them as background for your workbench. Uses new AGA-features. Operational on all AMIGAS with all Workbench-Versions, but needs at least 2.1 to gain access to all features. Version 2.9, an update to version 2.0 on disk number 805. Public domain, includes complete source in KICK-PASCAL. Author: Daniel Amor CONTENTS OF DISK 894 -------------------- AntiRascism Some texts, pictures and programs dealing with the problem of violence & rascism. Sources included. Version 1.0. Author: Daniel Amor and others 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 2.05, an update to version 2.0 on disk 868. Docs in English, French & German. Supports CDTV-Drives & XETEC-Drives. FISH-WARE, binary only. Author: Daniel Amor GreekFont This is a scalable vector font. It's the Greek equivalent of the Times Roman font. It includes the Greek typewriter setmap and is available as ADOBE TYPE 1, PAGESTREAM FONT (dmf-file), PROPAGE FONT & INTELLIFONT. This Font is shareware. Designed with FontDesigner. Author: Daniel Amor 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 up its window and then select an application to be launched. Versions 1.01 (OS 1.3) and 1.10 (OS 2.xx), an update to the versions on disk number 860. Binary only. Author: Werther 'Mircko' Pirani Resize A font-sensitive utility to change the dimensions of the shell window. Offers two options: Reporting the current dimensions of the shell window and setting new ones. Includes source. Author: Bernd Raschke CONTENTS OF DISK 895 -------------------- FMsynth A program to create sounds with FM synthesis. It has six operators, a realtime LFO and a free editable algorithm. The sound can be played on the Amiga keyboard and saved in IFF- 8SVX format. Version 1.1, giftware, includes source in Oberon-2. Author: Christian Stiens 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 0.22, an update to version 0.19 on disk 810. Includes source. Author: Piotr Obminski, from original code by Tim McGrath MuchMore Another program like "more", "less", "pg", etc. This one uses its own screen to show the text using a slow scroll. Includes built-in help, commands to search for text, and commands to print the text. Supports 4 color text in bold, italic, under- lined, or inverse fonts. Can load xpk-crunched files, has a display mode requester and is now localized (german catalog included). Version 3.3, an update to version 3.0 on disk number 560. Includes source in Oberon-2. Author: Fridtjof Siebert, Christian Stiens StAid2 Demo of the multi-purpose educational UTILITY called "Student Aid ][". This utility allows you to create, load, edit, practice and print TRUE/FALSE, MULTIPLE CHOICE and FILL IN THE BLANK tests or quizzes on any subject you desire. It will also save grades to monitor progress. This demo contains some sample tests on various subjects, and has all features enabled except for SAVE TEST. Works on WB1.3 to 3.x, NTSC & PAL. (May not work with FastROM). Ver 0.8, binary only. DEMO is freely distributable. Author: Rick Rojas CONTENTS OF DISK 896 -------------------- AnsiView A utility to view IBM ansi pics on the AMIGA. Supports the 16 color IBM Ansi standard fully. Works on any AMIGA running any version of AmigaDos. Version 1.0, binary only with source available from the author. Author: Marcus Trisdale DA "Digital Aesthetics". A program that provides you with a soothing audio environment in which to work, similar to the cd's/tapes available of rainstorms, ocean surfs, rivers, etc. The sounds are contained in modules called "EMods", short for Environment MODules. With DA, you can control various aspects of these EMods, and link EMods together in a list to be played in sequence. Two short EMods are provided, with more available when you purchase the registered version. Version 2.5, OS2.x required, binary only. Author: Greg Grove Riff A little iff reader written in modula-2, M2amiga. Version 1.1, includes source. Author: Marcel Timmermans SamPull A utility which will allow you to manipulate and save the samples of a music module, (just Noise/Sound/Protracker MOD format for now), to disk in a quick and user-friendly graphic environment. As an added bonus, SamPull features sub-programs which will scan for MODs in memory or on any format of disk. Version 2.0, OS2.x required, binary only. Author: Greg Grove ScriptTool A small Workbench-utility which lets you to run commonly used commands and scripts from Workbench's Tools-menu. Version 1.02 and needs DOS2.0 (V36). Freeware, includes source. Author: Jan Hagqvist WBStart WBStart is a package to emulate the WorkBench startup proce- dure, by loading a program, creating a process for it, and then sending it a WB startup message. Includes a handler process which does the starting of the processes for you and then waits for the startup reply messages. Version 1.3, an update to version 1.2 on disk number 757. Includes source. Author: Stefan Becker CONTENTS OF DISK 897 -------------------- DNet A link protocol that provides essentially an unlimited number of reliable connections between processes on two machines, where each end of the link can be either an Amiga or a Unix (BSD4.3) machine. Works on the Amiga with any EXEC device that looks like the serial.device. Works on UNIX with tty and socket devices. Achieves better than 95% average throughput on file transfers. This is version 2.32, an update to version 2.10 on disk number 294. Includes sources for both the Amiga and Unix versions. Author: Matt Dillon and others EPP E Preprocessor. Simple, easy-to-use macro preprocessor intended for use with Wouter van Oortmerssen's E language compiler. Allows E programmer's to "include" (similar to C) E source code modules, thus adding modularity to the E lang- uage. Should work on any OS version. Update to V1.0, improved speed; bug fixes; new OPT TURBO directive for turning on Turbo mode for single modules; CtrlC made reliable. Version 1.1, includes source. Author: Barry Wills. PrtSc Have you ever noticed that there is a PrtSc-key on the numeric keypad? If you press it you'll find that nothing happens, but here's the solution. So if you've ever wanted to have a work- ing PrtSc-key, try this. Requires OS2.0 (V36). Version 1.08, freeware, includes source in assembler. Author: Jan Hagqvist VerCheck A little script utility especially for 2.04 users with 1.3 Rom sharer/KickDisk. This helps you to boot under the right system when using an alien Kickstart. Version 2.00, now includes CPU/FPU checking too. Freeware, includes source in assembler. Author: Jan Hagqvist CONTENTS OF DISK 898 -------------------- AniMan The final version (5.2) of AniMan, the voice recognition program that allows you to converse with an animated talking head to execute any ARexx or CLI command. AniMan appears as a full color animation in a miniature window on the 3.0 Work- bench screen. AniMan is fully multitasking and runs in the foreground or background, listening for your voice commands even while other programs may be running. Many improvements requested by users are now included. Menu operations have been improved. Documentation is provided in AmigaGuide format. Audio digitizer support has been expanded to include Perfect Sound 3, Sound Magic (Sound Master), DSS 8, and Generic digi- tizers. AniMan 5.2 requires AmigaDOS 3.0. An update to version 5.0 on Disk #841. Binary only. Author: Richard Horne NarTest A little tool that lets you to play with the new features of V37 narrator.device. Also ideal for designing the speech for your own programs. Version 1.01, needs DOS2.04 (V37). Free- ware, includes source in assembler. Author: Jan Hagqvist Sci-Fi_Demo A demo of Sci-Fi Type: 14 3d fonts for Imagine and other rendering programs. Includes: Ultra (a full sample fonts), A short doc file with ordrering info, and an iff (hi res 16 color) image depicting the rest of the set. Author: Doug Brooks VCLI The final version (7.0) of Voice Command Line Interface (VCLI) which will execute CLI commands, ARexx commands, or ARexx Scripts by voice command. VCLI allows you to launch multiple applications or control any program with an ARexx capability entirely by spoken voice command. Many improvements requested by users are now included. VCLI now has its own ARexx port so that its internal options and functions can be controlled by ARexx command. Menu operations have been improved. Document- ation is provided in AmigaGuide format. Audio digitizer sup- port has been expanded to include Perfect Sound 3, Sound Magic (Sound Master), DSS 8, and Generic digitizers. This is the fastest version of VCLI yet, and it runs well under either AmigaDOS 2.0 or 3.0. An update to version 5.2 on disk number 807. Binary only. Author: Richard Horne CONTENTS OF DISK 899 -------------------- ARoach Based on Xroach for X-Windows, displays disgusting cock- roaches on your screen. These creepy crawlies scamper around until they find a window to hide under. Whenever you move or resize a window, the exposed orthopteras again scamper for cover. Version 1.0, requires at least AmigaDOS Release 2, includes source. Author: Stefan Winterstein GoodDouble Some sample source using a couple of functions that make for MUCH EASIER handling of double clicks with ALL buttons. Works perfectly! (at least with DICE...). Version 0.3 Author: Piotr Obminski SmartPlay A quite small, and really fast multiformat moduleplayer for OS2.0+. Supports most moduleformats around, and will play all modules with the _right_ replayroutines. The CPU usage of this player is also really low, so it will run fine even on a 7MHz Amiga, while doing some highspeed serial transfers. 100% coded in assembler. Version 3.1, binary only. Author: Peter Hjelt Targis A fast-paced action game. It offers 200 pre-defined levels and the ability to design your own levels and characters. Binary only. Author: David Ashley CONTENTS OF DISK 900 -------------------- Columns A GUI-based "paper-saving" utility. Allows you to print text in columns and use various compression modes (up to 160 characters per line and 180 lines per standard DIN A4 page). 5.6 times more characters than in usual modes, but still readable. Written completely in assembly. Kickstart 2.0 and 3.0 compatible, Kickstart 2.0 look, Keyboard controls and saveable settings. Version 2.5, binary only. Author: Martin Mares, Tomas Zikmund Popper Replaces Intuition menus with popup menus which appear under the mouse pointer instead of in the top of the screen. You can also "rip" menus from the menu-bar and keep them on the screen as a window all the time (or close them with the close gadget, of course). Version 1.1, binary only. Author: Pierre Dak Baillargeon Robouldix Playable demo of a game based on BoulderDash. Uses 32 colour graphics, senses and adapts to PAL and NTSC. Over 500 diff- erent objects in the registered version. (About 40 in the demo version). Requires at least one megabyte of memory. Binary only. Author: Svante Berglund, Patrik Grip-Jansson Touch Amiga version of the Unix utility with the same name. Touch changes the date and time stamp of all specified files to the current date and time. Workbench 2.0 wildcards are supported. Requires OS2.0, includes source. Author: Dave Schreiber ====================================================================== |\/ o\ Fred Fish, 1835 E. Belmont Drive, Tempe, AZ 85284, USA |/\__/ 1-602-491-0048 fnf@fishpond.cygnus.com ======================================================================