ACCUG Amiga club disk #057 - Released 12/27/92 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: 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. Map_To_LBCC.pp A PowerPacked IFF graphic file containing a simple map of the ACCUG[0, main meeting location at the Linn-Benton Community College (LBCC). 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 16vs32wide_memory An interesting discussion on some of the differences between 16-wide (standard 68000 CPU) and 32-wide (68020 CPU and above) memory. Archive2150_jumpers ArchiveData Viper 2150S 150Mb streaming tape drives are a popular amiga add-on. Here is the proper SCSI jumper setup. GoldenGate2 The specifications for the GoldenGate II Bridgecard. Programming Tips_beginning_C Some handy tips for the beginning Amiga C programmer. Software AGA_software A partial list of current software that supports the new Amiga 4000's AGA chip set. Files Applications Nothing this month. Art&Graphics A1200 - ? - amiga.physik.unizh.ch A 197x200x16 picture of an Amiga 1200. This was hand-scanned from a magazine advertisement so the quality is low. Avarice.LHA - ? - IRC/DCC direct from author - [IFF] This archive contains both a HAM graphic as well as a JPEG graphic of a dragon and his "hoard". I have talked to the author on IRC (InterNet Relay Chat) and he is very into raytracing and raytraced animations. This is just one of his creations. Author: Andrew Denton aka Guardian. HAMLAB208d.LHA - 2.0.8demo - wuarchive.wustl.edu - [EXE:DOC] | DIR This is a demo version of HAMLAB PLUS which crops any image larger than 512 x 512 pixels. See the enclosed documentation for information on obtaining the complete version. HAMLAB PLUS is an image format conversion utility. It can read bit-mapped images in many formats, perform some basic operations on them, reduce them to a native Amiga display mode, and save them in Amiga IFF format. It is intended mainly to read images with more colors and higher resolution than are displayable on Amigas (JPEG files and 256 color GIFs, for example) and to reduce the number of colors in the image until the Amiga can display it, preserving as much of the original image's quality as possible. Reads: GIF, IFF, HAM-E, TIFF, JPEG, BMP, Targa, PBMPLUS, MTV, Spectrum 512, QRT, DKBTrace, and Sun Rasterfiles. Writes: IFF lo-res 1-5 bit planes, halfbrite, HAM, hi-res 1-4 bit planes, PCHG (multi-palette), SHAM, and Dynamic versions of all modes, 24-bit IFF, PostScript and JPEG. Features: Many options for color control, cropping, scaling, and dithering. Flexible configuration - can run in 1 meg. Point-and-click user interface with AmigaOS Release 2.0 look and feel (still runs under 1.3). Powerful AREXX command set. Simple command line batch mode. Author: J. E. Hanway. Games Nothing this month. Miscellaneous Nothing this month. Music&Sound Nothing this month. Utilities Nothing this month. News A1200 The press release that announced the Amiga 1200 to the Las Vegas COMDEX show. COMDEX Other things release/discussed at the lastest Las Vegas COMDEX show. 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 A3000_tower A followup to a April 1992 review of the Amiga 3000T by the same reviewer. A4000 Yet another review of the new Amiga 4000. The Amiga 4000 (A4000) is a 68040-based system running at 25 MHz. The system comes with a 120 MB hard drive and high-density floppy drive. The A4000 includes the new AGA chipset allowing 256 color screens and HAM8 screens. Software AsimCDFS This is a followup to a review of AsimCDFS version 1.0b. BlackCrypt Black Crypt is a 3D, real-time Dungeon game. It follows the genre of previous games like Dungeon Master and the Eye of the Beholder series. The game consists of 28 levels of monster bashing, magic throwing, puzzle solving mania. Now, don't go "OH! WOW! 28 levels!" -- there are many levels that consist of only a few grids. There are roughly 17 serious levels.