ACCUG Amiga club disk #081 - Released 10/24/93 This disk is donated to the Albany-Corvallis Commodore Users Group (ACCUG) library by Dean Ridgway. Most of the materials on this disk came from QuantumLink, InterNet, The Computer Hotline BBS and other public domain or freely redistributable sources. I have tested these materials on the Commodore Amiga 500 and they APPEAR to work. Some have not been extensively tested, but they do come up and appear to run ok. Enjoy! ACCUG assumes no responsibility for the use of materials presented on this disk. We try, to the best of our ability to see that they are without error. Much of the information on this disk was text captured off of InterNet NewsGroups and local Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes). They were posted by people, like you, who are capable of error. The finial responsibility rests on you, the user. ACCUG policy does not condone copying of copyrighted or other protected materials. If you believe that there are copyrighted materials on this disk PLEASE contact us so we can remove them. Our address can be found in the About_ACCUG file. This document contains much information about the contents of files found on this disk. Each file has an entry similar to the following: Filename.ext - Version - Source - [flags] | DIR 1) Filename is the name of the file, the extension (.ext) will tell you what kind of file it is. Some typical extensions include: .ARC - ARC style archive. .ZOO - ZOO style archive. .LHA - LHA style archive, replaces LHARC. .LZH - LHARC style archive. .DMS - DISKMASHER style archive. .GIF - Graphics Interchange Format file. .IFF - Standard Amiga IFF graphics file. 2) Version is the current version of the file. Use this to make sure you are using the very latest version available as periodic upgrades will occasionally appear on ACCUG Amiga club disks. 3) Source is where I originally obtained the file and is useful if the program turns out not to work properly. This can also be used to track a file if it turns out not to be freely redistributable. 4) The flags field contains information about the contents of a archive file. Some typical flags include: 2 - Requires AmigaDOS 2.04, or better. P - Requires the display to be in PAL video mode. EXE - The archive contains an executable file. DOC - The archive contains documentation. SRC - The archive contains source code, this is usually followed by a modifier which tells what type of source code is included. Typical examples: C - Source code in C. MOD - Source code in Modula-II. ASM - Source code in Assembly. REX - Source code in ARexx. 5) The last (DIR) is present if the archive contains subdirectories. Some of the early archive extraction programs require a command line switch to properly extract files from archives which contain subdirectories. Example: MyFile.LZH - v1.04 - ab20.larc.nasa.gov - [EXE:DOC:SRC/C] MyFile is the name of the file and it is a LHARC style archive. The current version of the file is v1.04 and it was downloaded from ab20.larc.nasa.gov (which is an InterNet anonymous FTP site). The file contains an executable program with documentation and source code in C. Notes: All materials on this disk have been donated for NONCOMMERCIAL USE only. What copyrights there are belong to the original authors. This material MAY NOT BE SOLD! To the best of my knowledge, materials on this disk are freely redistributable. This means that they have met one or more of the following conditions: 1) The materials contain explicit copyright notices permitting redistribution. 2) The materials were posted to a publicly accessible electronic bulletin board and did not contain any copyright notice. (Such materials will be removed if it is subsequently shown that copyright notices were illegally removed.) 3) The materials were posted to a widely disseminated electronic network (such as USENET), thus implying that their author/poster intended them to be freely distributed. This applies only if they contain no notice limiting distribution. 4) The materials contain a notice limiting distribution and I have contacted the author directly and received his written (usually electronicly via EMAIL services) permission to place the materials in the library. Such a file will be accompanied by a text file containing a copy of the author's written (or electronic) permission. 5) The materials contain an explicit notice placing them in the public domain. This is not the same as condition (1). 6) The materials were submitted to me directly by the author with a request to consider them for inclusion in the library. This disk employs a custom boot block as a simple form of virus protection. If you boot this disk and do not get a black screen with a scrolling message, then this disk is probably infected with a boot block virus. However, because of the proliferation of nonboot block viruses, Trojan horses, worms, and logic bombs, all material on this disk is presented AS IS. I can not stress this enough "LET THE END-USER BEWARE!" (That's YOU.) Protect yourself and your valuable data, ALWAYS use Write-Protects! A word on archives. Some members of ACCUG have spoken out against using archives on club disks. Many members have stated that they would prefer all programs "ready to run." I feel that archives, because of their data compression routines, allow for more information to be placed on a single disk. Also in the Amiga world, many "ShareWare" authors REQUIRE that their software packages be released ONLY in the ORIGINAL ARCHIVE. Enough said. Now for the files: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- About_ACCUG A brief description of the Albany-Corvallis Commodore User's Group (ACCUG) and our current mailing address. Calendar A calendar of events, usually just the time and place of our main monthly meeting. Sometimes there will be notices of special events. Contents This file. Set_Up An IconX script file that makes using this disk easier for those with single disk drives and no HardDrive. Running this script is required if you want to utilize the archive self-extraction scripts provided on this disk. Articles Hardware C1541_to_Amiga2.IFF How to REALLY connect a C1541 disk drive to Amiga. I've drawn this little scheme in 640x200 2 colors so everybody (even NTSC guys) can see it. I've been using it with C64 Emulator and works perfectly. Hope you like it. Optimizer 20th May 1993. HD_Startup Many people ask me if it is better to leave their computers on all the time, or turn them off when not in use. This will hopefully explain something about the Mean Time Before Failure value listed by Hard Drive manufacturers. Programming ProTracker.ASM Hi!` here the protracker replayer source.... it's fixed for faster processors thus no more loss of low notes... :) this source is not optimized. I'm working on a 1 rasterline version.... WaitAnyKey.ASM Well, for all of you who remember, I recently asked for some help on how to activate Hotkeys in the cli. I have found a program that does this (pretty much, anyway). However, in its current form, it is useless to me... It's written in assembler (a language that I just _BARELY_ understand), and worse, the docs are written in German (a language that I don't understand PERIOD). Software Nothing this month. Files Applications Nothing this month. Art&Graphics MarsOb.GIF - n/a - CompuServe This first released image (530x480x256) from the Mars Observer mission is the first picture taken by the Mars Observer 28 days from its initial encounter with the Red Planet, it is an approach picture of the planet in black-and-white acquired by the spacecraft July 26, 1993, from a distance of 5.8 million kilometers as it closed in for orbit insertion about one month later. The Mars Observer fell silent on 20-Aug, just days before it was to enter Mars' orbit for a two-year mapping mission. The image shows several Mars areas, including Hellas, an impact basin 1,250 miles across; Syrtis Major, a region of volcanic plains and dark sand dunes; and Nilosyrtis, an area of buttes, mesas and box canyons reminiscent of the deserts of the southwest United States. The image's resolution is about 13.4 miles per picture element, which is better than that of the Hubble Space Telescope. A caption is included as a comment extension block. Uploaded by the JPL Public Information Office. Author: JPL P-42748. Games BackGammon099.LHA - v0.99 - wuarchive.wustl.edu - [EXE:DOC] | DIR The computer version of the game. This is a tiny little game which runs on Workbench. Works on all Amigas, and OS versions from 1.2 to 3.1. Version 0.99. Update to Fish-Disk 849. Authors: Igor Druzovic and Daniel Amor. [DR's Notes: I could not get the computer players on this game to function. I included the game anyway in case it just doesn't like my weird system. It appears to work fine for two human players, although it did lock up on me a few times.] MazeWarz103.LHA - v1.03 - wuarchive.wustl.edu - [P:EXE:DOC] | DIR From 1 to 8 players (optional serial link) duel in a maze. Based on the ancient game with a similar name... Features include maze editor, 16 complete mazes to try, a new 'haven' concept in which various powerups can be bought. This is a *PAL* only game. Author: SySiS. [DR's Notes: I could not get this game to function on my machine, but I included it anyway. It may require a hardware PAL mode switch which I don't have. It could also require something that was not included in the package (looking at it with HEX shows it requires powerpacker.library, which was NOT included). Digging out a version of powerpacker.library (its not something I normally use) I still could not get this game to load. Since it is powerpacked I could not see what other system resources it requires.] Offender.LZH - ? - wuarchive.wustl.edu - [EXE:DOC:SUP] | DIR This is Offender, a shareware game based on William's Defender. Important note: Offender will only run on an Amiga equipped with a 68020 (or better) CPU and a 68881 (dito) FPU. This demo version contains only the first two levels and poorly digitized sounds. You can obtain the full version (all levels and full sound) by sending $15. Author: Fred Bayer. Miscellaneous Nothing this month. Music&Sound Nothing this month. Utilities Nothing this month. News AmiNet_5000 Today, September 24 1993, 20 months after its foundation, Aminet has hit a total number of 5000 online files. I'll seize that opportunity to talk about how Aminet became what it is today, give you a few statistics about current usage and size, provide some outlooks and finally thank the many people involved in the creation of Aminet. Warp_System U.S. Cybernetics, Inc. is pleased to announce the world's fastest and most advanced computing environment for personal computers. The WARP SYSTEM is based on high-performance parallel RISC processors and brings super-computing levels of power to the Commodore Amiga series. Reviews Disclaimer Important disclaimer for all files found in the Reviews directory, please read before making ANY use of information found here. The standard ACCUG disclaimer also applies. Hardware SupraTurbo_28 The Supra Turbo 28 accelerator (ST28) increases the speed of your Amiga 500 or 2000 computer by using a 68HC000 processor clocked at 28 MHz and high-speed static RAM cache. Software NetBSD Amiga NetBSD, kernel version #635. Amiga NetBSD is a freely distributable Unix (R) environment for Amiga computers.