ACCUG Amiga club disk #104 - Released 05/29/94 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! For further protection against people who create and spread bogus software, I've begun to digitally "sign" the CRC list (found in the s directory of each disk) with PGP (current version v2.3a can be found on ACCUG Amiga club disk #083). While this procedure does not guarantee that the programs found on this disk are free of virii or trojans, it does guarantee that the programs found on this disk originally came from me and have not been subsequently tampered with. To prevent interference with the check CRC script, I used a detached signature certificate. You MUST have PGP (v2.0+) and my PGP public key to do this validity check. Please get my PGP public key directly from me or directly from someone you trust. 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 Nothing this month. Files Applications Nothing this month. Art&Graphics Nothing this month. Games NewWorld121.LHA - v1.21 - wuarchive.wustl.edu - [2:EXE:DOC:SUP] | DIR New World is a game of exploration and trade, similar to the C-64 classic Seven Cities of Gold. The player forms an expedition and sets out from Europe in search of the new world. Once there, the explorer must deal with the natives who live there. This release contains the complete game - no limitations. The game is multitasking, fully system-compliant, hard-disk installable, and AGA enhanced. Optional display and font selection is supported. Author: Kevin Roll. [DR's Notes: I have had major problems getting this program to run. I have gotten it to come up twice so I've decided to include it in case its my weird system configuration hampering testing.] Zerberk13.LHA - v1.3 - wuarchive.wustl.edu - [EXE:DOC] | DIR Zerberk is inspired from the arcade game "Berzerk". The object of the game seems quite simple: Destroying all Centurion Robots and Elexerion Robots in an electricity maze and finally destroying the Neuronic. Every time a Neuronic is killed the robot speed increases! Up to four player simultanous game! (Supports the four player joystick adapter for the parallel port, so be sure that you are not currently using your parallel printer, if you select more than one player: the output may get scrambled.) Author: Matthias Bock. Miscellaneous Nothing this month. Music&Sound Nothing this month. Utilities NE1_0.LHA - v1.0 - wuarchive.wustl.edu - [EXE:DOC] | DIR NE can be used to provide a data-login via the connected modem at any time, even if the telephone line is used by a answer machine or a fax machine or simply as a voice line. It can be used in cooperation with Getty, the AXsh-server or a similar program. NE uses the locking mechanism of the OwnDevUnit.library. Authors: Klaus Mueller and Thomas Freudling. NullModem2.LHA - v2.0 - wuarchive.wustl.edu - [DOC:SUP] NullModem.device is a software device, that imitates two modems and a phone line, on one machine. I wrote it whilst looking at the WPL scripting language, so that I could play around without having to spend any money on expensive phone calls, but it can be used for testing various other programs. Author: Iain Hibbert. RD109.LHA - v1.09 - wuarchive.wustl.edu - [2:EXE:DOC] This program tells you when your phone is ringing. You may specify a program for it to run when the phone rings. As extra options, it can bring the screen it was opened on to the front, display a beep and of course all options can be disabled. Author: Tomi Blinnikka. Zoom.LHA - v1.3 - wuarchive.wustl.edu - [EXE:DOC] | DIR A small Zooming utility, lets you fix the part of the WB you want zoomed, making very easy to fine tune your icons, your wb-pattern and things like that, adjustable zooming ratio, and other features! Author: Stefano Reksten. News PLAY Some information on PLAY, the company formed by ex-NewTek folks. ScreamerNet Here's another of NewTek's NAB/Vegas press releases. Toaster_Reference_2.2 AORM is an AmigaGuide based online help system for Amiga computers and Video Toaster Workstations. Using a hypertext point and click interface, users have access to over 2,200,000 bytes of information, contained in over 1000 pages. ToasterFlyer I attended NewTek's NAB Press reception in a large balloom at Ceaser's Palace in Las Vegas, NV this afternoon. What follows (after my comments) is one of the press releases (probably the most significant one) from the press kit I received there. 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 A2060 (Review) The A2060 (a Zorro-II based Arcnet Card for Amiga) is a true network device for the Commodore Amiga. It has become cheap lately and thus is a good alternative to other network devices. Floptical (Review) The Insite Floptical Drive I325VM is a 3.5 inch SCSI floppy drive which uses a combination of magnetic recording and laser tracking to store 21 MB on a floppy disk. It is a cheap alternative to optical drives. Software Quarterback6.0 (Review) Quarterback 6.0 is a backup and archival program for Amiga computers, supporting backups to disk, tape (or other SCSI backup devices), and file. Included is a program to take some action at specified times, such as starting a backup automatically.