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AddIcon1.0 - This is a little utility program which will 'create' (actually
'clone') icons for files which do not already have one. The icons
which are used as the templates are stored in a directory which MUST
be named AddIcon_Icons. These icons may be changed, replaced, or
deleted at will. The default tool and the tooltypes stored in the
.info file will be carried over to the new icon.
B.A.D - This is a demo and does not do all the regular prog does. BAD
cleans up the a disk and then writes it to a new disk. Icons an all
appear a lot quicker. Also lessens the graunching noises drives can
make
CommTut - a long and detailed tutorial on comms.
Rainbow - various tunes with various instruments. Plays with DMCS.
FlipText1.2 - a print formatting prog for an Epson printer. Prints in
groups of 48 or 60 lines of 255 characters sideways on the printer.
Various options.
DNet - An Alpha release of a Unix utility mainly for getting Amigas to
talk to each other over phone lines.
Files - a file cataloging utility by Matt Dillon.
FreeRam - lists to stdo where exactly all free ram lives with addresses.
GetOpt - another progamming utility. The function getopt() returns the
next option letter in argv that matches a letter in optstring.
Optstring is a string of valid option letters; if an option letter
is followed by a colon (:), that option is expected to have an argument
that may or may not be separated from it by white space. Optarg is set
to point to the start of the option's argument on return from getopt();
Kurta - more C source this time with intuition etc.
Resident - little utility that prints out all names of devices, libraries
etc that are resident.
Semaphores - The Autodocs on message & signal semaphores seem to be a
little bit lacking. These notes might clarify the use of them just a
bit.
BtoA - is a filter that reads anything from the standard input, and
encodes it into printable ASCII on the standard output. It also
attaches a header and checksum information used by the reverse filter
_a_t_o_b to find the start of the data and to check integrity.
Cd - is a replacememnt for AmigaDos cd but this time adds a note to the
menu bar saying what the current path is.
Colour_Twiddler - First, you can experiment with different colour
combinations by actually specifying numeric parameters for Red, Green,
and Blue. You can also do the same with numerous programs which use
"slider gadgets", but I include the capability for completeness. Note
there's also a slider-gadget option in this program which you can
enable at compile time.
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AutoPics - will call your viewing program to display all the pics in a
directory having the user-specified extension (such as .pic or .ham).
In essence, any picture viewing program will become a slideshow
without the bother of a script.
ShowAnim - A program for the playing of ANIM files. The usage for this
program is simply: Showanim <filename>
VT100_2.8 - The famous VT100 emulator terminal prog with Kermit and XModem.
Conman1.1 - ConMan is a replacement console handler that provides line
editing and command history for any program that uses CON: windows.
It runs under AmigaDOS V1.2 and is completely transparent to other
software. After ConMan has been activated, all CON: windows opened
by AmigaDOS will automatically use the ConMan handler. This includes
command windows opened by NEWCLI as well as any data input/output
windows that your program may use.
Introducer - create your own scrolling demos! Use your own pictures, your
own sounds, and of course, your own text files.
Vac1.5 - a neat little hack that will `cleanup' your workbench when it gets
too cluttered.
Music - Sound of Silence and Scarborough Fair. Plays Ok with DMCS
Breaker - This song requires the instruments on the data disk that comes
with Sonix 2.0 plus the instruments included here. Enjoy the song.
LaceWb - LaceWB will toggle LACE mode of the workbench screen WITHOUT
re-booting the system. Runs from both CLI or Workbench.
LLsort - This assembly language program is a very good replacement for
the AMIGADos SORT utility found in c:. It performs in-memory sorts
of ASCII text files whose records are terminated by the linefeed
character (0A hex., 10 decimal). For those familiar with the Shell
environment, LLSort has its Pure bit set and may be made resident.
Browser1.2 - Browser provides a less flashy but more useful (at least
for programmer's and other power users) adjunct to the Amiga Workbench.
It also radically reduces the need for directory utilities.
It emulates most of the features and capabilities of the Workbench
in text-only windows. All files in the system are accessible... not
just the ones that have icons associated with them. Supported features
include: executing, copying/moving, renaming, and deleting files;
and examining, copying/moving, renaming, creating, and deleting
directories. Unsupported features: formatting, renaming, and making
raw copies of diskettes.
VBoot1.01 - This program provides a convienient way of examining the boot
block of a disk to determine the presence of a 'virus'. The program
presently checks for the existance of the AEK, SCA, LSD, and Byte
Bandit viruses. If the virus check itself is defeated, the program
still allows you to view the boot block of a disk in an ascii format
to check for character strings that may alert you to the presence of
a virus.
Beyond_Icon_ed - is a file containing commands for creating and editing
icons beyond what can be done with IconEd. While all these commands
can be found in the public domain, I have never seen them all together
in a file that explained how to use them in relationship to each other.
Basic to using these commands is Deluxe Paint which takes the place
of IconEd.
Sonix-Player - PLAY is that program you've been patiently waiting for
that'll let you listen to Sonix tunes without Sonix itself. Not
only can you play scores, but you can also create PLAY scripts that
play multiple scores, one right after the next. This allows for
continuous music which is desirable for slide shows and the like.
This is possible since PLAY can start a score playing, while
preloading the next score. In addition, PLAY may be used from either
the Workbench or the CLI.
Undelete - The only problem with undelete is that you **MUST** know the
name of the file you are attempting to undelete. The syntax for
undelete is: undelete.XXX <filename> [where .XXX is the appropriate
extension] After the file is undeleted, you will find it in the
selected drive. Also undelete renames the file by appending the
block # on the end of the orig.filename.
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Digitizing - a general howto on digitizing with considerable detail by
Ralph Reed.
Fontfacts - a even more detailed and long article on Amiga fonts.
MouseCMd - MouseCMD is a utility that allows you to execute commands or
enter text at a click of the mouse button. This is done by introducing
simulated keystrokes into the input stream, appearing to the system that
commands are being entered from the keyboard.
VirusX_1.21 - One of a growing band of virus zappers.
WhichFont - by Rob Peck that asks AvailFonts() to make a list of the fonts
that are available and makes a list of them, then opens a separate
window and prints a description of the various attributes that can
be applied to the fonts, in the font itself. Notice that not all
fonts accept all attributes (garnet9 for example, won't underline).
A68k - by Charlie Gibbs. This assembler is based on Brian R. Anderson's
68000 cross-assembler published in Dr. Dobb's Journal, April through
June 1986. I have converted it to produce AmigaDOS-format object
modules, and have made many enhancements such as macros and include
files.
Access! - One of a new generation of Comms progs for the amiga. Full
colour with many options but no zmodem or scripting.
Gif2Ami - These two programs were developed for Compuserve to enable
different types of computers to exchange pictures. The majority of
GOOD pictures are done on the Amiga. When the pictures are displayed
on an Amiga you can very easily tell if they were done on an IBM or
MAC (the quality just is not there). The program Giffy is used to
display GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) pictures and the program
IFF2GIF is used to make GIF files from IFF files. Note how much less
disk space is used by GIF files. To display GIF files on an IBM
(EGA recommended) use the program CSHOW which is floating around in
the IBM section on many BBSs.
Display - a selection of screen hacks. Play around and have a surprise.
Amiga_Early_Days - a talk given by R.J. Mical at Boston Computer Society
in Cambridge Massachusetts. 6 Pages of notes.
Structures - 2 progs, Xplor scans all the system lists that start in
ExecBase and prints out their names and the addresses at which they
start. Also Structure Browser for which there are no notes.
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ForEach - as in "foreach #?.c compress -v" which will run compress
(with flag -v) on all files matching #?.c.
UpDate - a replacement for AmigaDos Copy that retains the date along with
pattern matching, optional 'to' and 'from' qualifiers, copy directories
and lots lots more.
Icons3 - by Jeff White. Several icons to look at.
CramIcon - yet more icons.
KPointers - about 25 different pointers but cannot be seen without using
the Prefs programm supplied.
MacFont - a conversion package for ,well, converting Mac fonts to Amiga
fonts.
PS-IFF - a utility for converting Commodore 64 PrintShop Graphics to
brusg files for DPaint.
MagIcons - This is a collection of original Icons and a pointer for
your Workbench Disk, plus three extra Disk Icons-- Dem.info and
Comm.info, and File.info. Dem.info is intended for an Amiga demos
disk, such as one containing the Juggler, Robocity, Boing, and other
demos which show off your Amiga's talents. The Comm.info icon is
intended, of course for a communications disk, and File.info for
a file disk.
Wp-Ps2 - WP-PS is a file conversion program that enables Word Perfect
users to transfer files more easily into PageSetter textfile
format.
Patch - This is a port of the UNIX patch program to the Amiga.
Patch is an expert at updating source files by applying context diffs
to them (context diffs are produced by the BSD UNIX program diff).
Scalc41 - A relativley simple version of the old Unix Scalc with Amiga
bits and pieces added. Quite usable.
AmiCron - This is a (no longer) crude but effective version of the Unix (tm)
program known as "cron" modified to run on an Amiga. For those
who aren't Unix knowledgeable, cron is a background task which
uses a disk-resident table to automatically run certain tasks on a
regular basis.
Pri - Sets the priority of the specified process to pri. These have to be
CLI processes; pri won't change the prioirity of programs started from
the WB.
Multisco - a user definable `Kaleidoscope' program. Very nice.
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ICONLAB1 - this shareware program provides an unusually nice icon
manipulator. It will allow you to change the type of any
icon to any other type, to change the tooltypes, etc., to
view each part of an animated icon. The viewing window is
large, so you can use it with oversized icons that will not
fit into IconEd.
DISKSALV13 - an update to the indispensable DiskSalv from Dave Haynie. The
new version will rescue disks from either old or new file
systems, from floppy or from hard disks. It can be used
selectively to rescue only certain programs. The features
are far too numerous to list, because this disk is nearly
full!
EW12 - Exploding Windows is a cute little screen hack, but it does so much
to dress up the Amiga that I thought you'd want to see it.
I use it most of the time. It takes up a little time, but
is just too attractive to dismiss.
FASTDISK - A program from Germany, with documentation in both German and in
a translation to English. The program optimizes disks for
faster access, and it works by copying your disk to a fresh
one, reorganizing as it goes. It is said to make directories
from three to five times as fast as normal.
LESS1.3 - This update to LESS has all the features of the UNIX version, has
a manual and a help file, and offers many extensions to the
popular file reader we've used for a long time. The source
came with this file, but would not fit on this disk. It
is on Fish #14.
SHELL2.10 - Matt Dillon's latest update to his shell. There have been
several bug fixes and additions. Not only has the Delay(0)
bug been circumvented, but SETENV and PRINTENV have been
added. These permit you to have global variables that will
apply to all shells running in the system.
FLOAT - A nice little utility that will make any icon a "noposition" icon.
It is extremely easy to use: Just click on the "Float" icon
then double-click on the non-floating icon, and it will
be changed.
ACCESS1.4 - This terminal program grows more and more useful. It now has
a "read" facility, a view buffer that can be saved, and
supports PAL, MoreRows, interlace, etc. If you use this
please do not put the menu that contains "Quit" at the top
of the screen. That is being fixed, but the fix is not
available yet. The program works fine if you take this
precaution. Shareware from Keith Young.
SHOWFONT - With this one, you can look at every character in a font without
having to load the font into memory. It will open a window,
read the font from disk and display the full character set,
and then go away when you click the close gadget.
HANDYICONS - I think it very likely that this one will become indispensable
to almost everyone with a hard disk, if not to everyone
else. It makes an extra menu on the Workbench disk. You
can then store all your most necessary tool names in that
menu and select them just as you would select anything else
from the regular menus. To add a new tool, type the path
to that tool into the ToolTypes blank for HandyIcons.info.
SHOWIZ - Why another slideshow program? This one has more than twenty ways
to present a picture, and it will do them without a script.
A script can be written if you want to fancy things up,
but ShoWiz will work without one, and will make an interes-
ting presentation with minimum work.
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CPU2 v2.0 - Displays CPU type and presence of a maths co-processor.
Also displays video type and wether system clocking is internal or
from a genlock. Author Thad Floryan.
MakeData - Turns any file into a series of data statements for 68000 code.
Author David Ashley.
ReSource - A demonstartion version of ReSourcean interactive disassembler
for the Amiga. Three functions are disabled in the demo version.
"Save.asm", "Save partial.asm", and "Save.RS". Author Glen McDiarmid.
CTutor - A tutorial of the 'C' language by Brian Kernighan. Many source
code example in a large tutorial.
ExtractFont - Will take any standard Amiga font and create a C source
file so that the font may be used without having to appear in the
users Fonts: directory. Compile and link into your own program. An
example with code is included. Author Gregg Tavares
6809XASM - An Alpha version of the 6809 cross assembler for the Amiga.
Included is the source test file usewd to help debug the program.
Author Dave Casler
Arexx - A set of Arexx example programs. NOTE these require Arexx support
library and the program. Author Larry Phillips.
Enough - Tests for the availablity of enough Ram to do the job. 2 example
are provided one of which is for Matt Dillons shell.
Author Eric Kennedy.
IncRev - Will automatically increment the revision number of a program
every time it is recompiled. Creates its own object module Rev.o.
which contains a global symbol called Revision which is a longword
variable. Get access to this in C by inserting "extern long revision;"
in your code. Author Bryan Ford.
AToolsm2 - A collection of simple to use audio routines that enable the
user to queue up several sounds and have the audio device play them
sequentially while your program continues doing what it is doing,
without going directly to the hardware.
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A68k121 - If you are an experienced 68000/68010 Assembly language
programmer, you will find much of this material useful in
understanding assembly language programming on the AMIGA. If you are
an experienced AMIGA assembly language programmer, you may find much
of the material boring, and will only want to use this as a reference
document. If you don't know assembly language, then this document will
not teach it, so you may need to get one of a number available
reference books on MC68000 assembly language programming.
ASG - ASG is a simple compiler that allows you to define windows, menus,
gadgets, and requesters in a simple manner. It allows you to supply
only the information you feel is relevent and it will supply the rest.
ASM - various assembly routines.
DeBug - a debugger geared towards the heavy duty hacker.
Hunker - This program was written by Terry Fisher. Its purpose: to fix
some of those nasty programs that were written before people started
using fast memory. Now, it can also be used as a valuable 'C'
development tool, similar in function to the Assembly language Atom
utility. By running this program on your executable, you can avoid
having to copy image data into chip memory. Simply put 'Hunker
<file> d=c' into your Makefile, and all initialized data will be
loaded into chip memory automatically.
IA - An early but effective iconmaker Use in conjunction with a paint prog.
MenuBuild - There is a difficulty in building menus, this program will
automate the process. This program will take a simple text file and
generate a C source file with all the needed structures for producing
an AMIGA Menu.
PtrData - The Intuition function SetPointer() allows you to attach a
custom pointer to a window by specifing the Window, Sprite, height,
width, xoffset and yoffset. The Preferences program allows you to
design your custom pointers but it saves them as a preferences
structure in the devs: directory as a file system-configuration.
This program will read the system-configuration file and then generate
the C data needed to use the SetPointer function.
Qint - A Matt Dillon special on Interrupts etc.
SmallLib - This is for all you who program the Amiga in 68000 assembly
(Both of you... :-). It works just like Amiga.lib except it's only
11K instead of over 88K. What's missing?? All those mangy C language
stubs you don't need anyway.
SuperLib - a general C support library often used by Matt Dillon.
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AMIGANTT - Gantt charts, designed to help executives or others who must
coordinate large projects and keep them moving smoothly. This appears
to be an extremely useful program for anyone who tries to organize
group efforts.
FONTFIXER - a program that will rebuild the xxx.font file after sizes have
been added or deleted from the file.
ALERT2 - an update to the SetAlert program, which is needed by some A2000
and A500 machines in order for the system alerts to work properly.
TITLEBAR - an AmigaBASIC program that will let you change the title bar
pattern from the normal five lines to other patterns. Several sample
patterns are included.
DMOUSE106 - Matt Dillon's DMOUSE, has a sunmouse, screen blanker, mouse
accelerator, window and screen depth arranging, other utilities.
SOUND - permits the playing of almost any sound from a workbench icon or
from the CLI.
IA - Changes an IFF image to assembly code icon - simple images only.
Does not change icon type
MEMCLK - bar clock with memory display, hidden gadgets. Uses 9K memory.
UD - a screen hack, similar to FLIP.
DWRICONS - two new drawer icons for your workbench. One has a real bang to
it!
STAYLIVE - game. You can have 1 player against the computer, or two
players, and can adjust the winning score. Has instructions, but I
found it difficult to make it quit.
ZING! - a patch program for owners of the Zing! utility program that makes
it easier to use.
JOURNAL20 - version 2.0. This is a program for keeping up with accounts of
various kinds. It is suitable for a small business or for the home,
and appears to have many useful features.
MICKEY - an AMIGABASIC toy for very young children. The author's child
is 3 and can play with it. What? A mouse factory, of course. Needs
joystick.
ICONIZER - will iconize pointers so that you can open a drawer of pointers,
click on the one you want to use, and it will become your current
pointer. Create the pointers in Preferences, or get them by the
diskful from some BBSs.
MARQUEE - creates rolling text in very large letters. Create your text
file in ED or any text editor. Very simple to use.
ROST - Report on Storage, Report on Tasks. Gives you info on the tasks that
are running, and on the memory left
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ASG - Amiga Structure Generator, will take an IFF image of a window, etc.,
and create C code for the structures needed to put it in your program.
IXECUTE - allows you to execute a script file from an icon, no typing.
ICONZ - two icons for programs
BLITLAB3 - the latest version of Thomas Rokiki's Blitlab, with
documentation. This is recognized as the best documentation
demonstration, and instruction on the blitter that can be found.
MADMOOSE - similar to MACH or DMOUSE, but has different utilities.
Especially strong on cycling/changing colors, etc. Emphasis on giving
keyboard replacements for the mouse movements.
AMIC58E - the last freely distributable version of this terminal programs
before it goes commercial. Many features.
NEWONES - a collection of icons of various types.
REN - a program that renames fonts, and that permits you to put just the
xxx.font file on the boot disk, with the remainder of the font file on a
separate disk. The program will prompt for the fonts disk when needed.
Very useful.
DFW-FRQ72 - the public list of broadcast frequencies used by various Fort
Worth-Dallas area businesses, etc.
ASIA - three pictures, Asian themes
TREASURE - detailed hi-res picture of a well-guarded treasure
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REX - an Arexx interface for Matt Dillon's DME editor
CLKDCTR - this program checks the clock for viruses, according to the
.txt file. This was uploaded to a BBS without documentation or
source. Author unknown.
HD34_4 - neither documentation nor source given. This program was said to
be a utility for the 2090 hard disk controller.
MAKEARC - shareware (no amount specified) by Bryan Ford. This utility will
read a directory (or entire disk), rename any long names to "Xfile.?",
remove files from subdirectories and delete the subdirectories, and
will create at the same time an EXECUTE.ME file which will rebuild
this directory structure and rename the files to their original
names. This programs prepares something to be arced, but does not
compress the program. You must run arc to do that.
DISKX21 - by Steve Tibbetts. (Send him anything - even a letter.)
Latest update of this excellent disk editor. This version works
correctly with hard disks as well as floppies, and can be used with
interlace if you desire. It will also let you save specified blocks
to a file, so that (for example) you can disassemble them for study.
FFSMOUNT - by Tony (?) (SARGE* on PLINK). Mountlist entry and some documen-
tation that will let you set one of your 3 1/2" files to use the
new 1.3 fast file system. Be warned that it is incompatible with
current disks, so don't get them mixed up!
CPROF12 - by Michael Purcell. This program will keep a record of the
execution counts and function elapsed times of C programs. It is
designed for study and debugging of programs, and for rating their
efficiency. Documentation and source included. Nov. 87 version.
PS2 - an "advertisement" for the IBM PS2 family of computers. Hires
picture.
SCREENX21 - by Steve Tibbetts. (Send him anything, almost.)
This utility has several features for managing screens: cycle screens
so you can get to those that are hidden behind programs without
depth gadgets; save a screen to IFF file; send a screen to the
printer; a clock, and some other gadgets.
FILEMAP1 - D. J. James has added features to Leo Schwab's filemap program.
The program will display the sectors used on a disk graphically. You
can enter the name of a program and it will display the sectors
associated with that program. This version has track numbers, etc.
displayed at the top of the screen. Run from CLI only.
TEXTED - by Michael Sinz. This was a commercial program in 1986, but has
now been released to public domain by the author. It has many
features that ED lacks, and the price is right!
MEMOCAL - modified May 88 by Ron Charlton. Displays a calendar on the
screen. Has an option to display memo options for current month,
if you have made a file of those memos and have them stored
where the program can reach them.
WARP12A - recently updated version of WARP, a program that will compress an
entire disk and prepare it to be uploaded or downloaded. Using WARP
at the other end will then reconstruct the disk to its original
structure. This version will refuse to compress a disk containing
any of several known viruses, and has other small updates.
MAKEANIM - will take a series of IFF pictures made with paint programs or
with some of the animation programs, and will compress and then
create from them an animation file that can be played back with
ShowAnim, the Director, or other such display programs. Author's
name not given in docs.
MESHUGNEA - by Michael Lebow A VT220 terminal program with documentation
and an INSTALL script. The program works with 80 or 132 columns,
and contains several fonts. It supports many text features, and
supports VT100 and VT52 as well.
Nagel - a picture of ......a female with black hair etc by Patrick Nagel
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FINANCA - a set of programs to do calculations for home finance, such as
mortgage payments, annuity values or payments, growth of savings, etc.
Abel0531 - May list of orderings by the ABEL mail order firm (one that has a
reputation for honest, good service and low prices.)
POPFUNC - utilities such as screen/window shuffling, screen blanking, hot
keys, run program in background with a keystroke, others.
SDX - simple document extractor - will read a C-source file and extract the
documentation found there, placing it in a separate file.
CONTROL - puts a control panel on the screen from which you can set a number
of printer functions, such as type size and type.
UTILMAS67 - Update to a popular directory utility with many buttons. Seems
to do almost anything needed.
SHANIM - the BBS said it was new - but it looks very much like the same
SHOWANIM we have been using for the past several months. An upgrade?
RESTRING - permits you to find and replace a string in a file without using
a disk editor.
PSPOOL - print spooler, many features
TFL-6-88 - THE FINAL LIST, actually a list of all the Amiga BBS numbers
available to people who have PC-Pursuit. Can be used as the phone list
for several popular terminal programs, such as AMIC or COMM.
CONTOURA - a 3D graphing program. The author said you could use it to
design shirts, among other things, but I wonder???
Archa1.0 - This program is a utility that provides considerable help to the
user in various archival functions. It will handle the 9 functions:
ARC, UNARC, LISTARC, PAK, UNPAK, LISTPAK, ZOO, UNZOO, LISTZOO,
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MASK1 - hi-res picture of a mask. Nice colors and detail.
M2DU360 - latest update of the Modula 2 directory utility program.
PEEL - views successive IFF images by picking up a corner and peeling off
the old one.
MALEGUENA - DMCS music, arranged by Barbara Cramer
MAKEML - makes a mountlist from the tables held in memory. Can be
redirected to a file if needed. Handy if your list is damaged.
RUNTIME - another DMCS music arrangement by Barbara Cramer
CYCLER11 - a viewer that cycles the colors for you.
MAYNEWS - a rumors, tips, and humor column downloaded from a network.
Magazine format.
FRACGEN - must be put on a separate disk to work properly. This program
generates interesting fractal designs, and allows you to draw a simple
design of your own which it will then turn into a fractal scene. Very
fast and interesting.
MG2A - full-featured text editor, modelled after the GNU editor.
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HAMKLIDO - a kaleidoscope in HAM mode. Colors move smoothly through the
whole 4096 colors, lowres screen.
Public domain, by Greg Searle.
DOSKWIK2 - said to be an update to the DosKwik on the Fish disk. It will
save RAM: or VD0: of any size to disk(s) in a non-standard way, and
Will then read them back about 2 to 3 times the usual speed. Saves
much time when rebooting.
CC - a frontend for Lattice C compiler. Originally by Fred Fish, but
modified by MWM (??) to work with 4.0. Source only.
Mach22 - yet another revision and update to this popular program
C64EMU - a semi-emulator of the C64 for the Amiga. It emulates the screen,
complete with screen editing, and accepts most of the commands used
on the 64, but sometimes the results....are, well....interesting!
Written by Eddy Carroll, Wicklow, Ireland
TCELL - virus killer, said to detect and remove four kinds of virus.
RunBack2 - an update to the RunBack program from several months ago.The
program lets you start things running from a script, but letting the
CLI detach itself. This update causes the c directory of both drives
and of ram to be checked for the program before giving up.
EpsStp - Enhanced process status and set task priority programs.
SuperMrt - figures a number of amortization, principal and loan problems.
Colorful, easy and friendly to use.
Orbit3D - a space game that can be played with 3D glasses (if you have
them), or without them if you don't. Instructions and many options.
DU194 - update to the popular directory utility. This one surely does every
thing anyone could want from such a utility!
Arexx - some text that tells you what Arexx is all about and why people
are finding it so useful.
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QRT - Quick Ray Tracing program. The program requires three steps to obtain
a ray-traced image. All necessary programs are included, and has a
sample picture. Written by Steve Koren.
KCKFONT2 - allows you to replace the Topaz fonts (both sizes) with a font
built into this program. Installation is as easy as running a program.
Do use a COPY of your kickstart disk.
NEWZAP31 - a file or sector editor. NewZap, by John Hodgson, is easy to
use, with most of the features being intuitive. This new version
provides keyboard equivalents for almost all of the mouse movements.
AMIGAONLINE - First issue of a disk magazine for the Amiga. This one has
reviews of Flight Simulator, Jet, Interceptor and Harrier, of the
Phasar accounting system, the WordPerfect Library, late news about
WordPerfect updates, etc., and extensive information on the new
CompuServe software.
AMIGATRE - text files. Amagatre.2 and Amigatre.3 contain two installments
of the Starship Amiga adventures, starring all those folks who make
and keep the Amiga going. One of these involves a fellow named Fish
and the Amiga viruses; the other, Amiga and the Marketroids.
FLIRP - a screen hack. This program will take a textfile and will put the
letters on the screen in a random pattern. Interesting - but useful???
SCT - Set Color Table. This utility lets you set the colors of any screen.
It pops up in a small window and you can adjust the colors with sliders.
Written by A.K.Levin.
SNOOP - by Martin J. Laubach. This is a "poor man's snoop" utility. It is
something like the "Snoop" in the developers' material, but this one
sends its output to a file instead of to a separate terminal, and it
is a subset of the facilities in the regular snoop.
CLICK - by Peter da Silva. Run a program in a Workbench environment, but
from the CLI. Just type click program name and the program will run
as though clicked on the Workbench, then return you to the CLI.
5.25DRV - instructions and a schematic for making an IBM drive into a 5 1/4"
drive that will work with the Amiga.
WP - an example of WordPerfect macros. This one converts a WordPerfect text
file into a document file.
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ISpell - a port of the GNU Ispell for the Amiga. This spelling checker is
one that is in use on the computers at MIT, and was ported to the
Amiga by one of the MIT students. It appears to be a very full-featured
program, but is not Amigatized very much.
ARRAYS - requires AmigaBASIC to run. It is a small program that determines
the amount of memory required for a set of dimensioned arrays.
MRBackup - Mike Rinfret's hard disk backup program. This is a recent
version with some improvements and bug fixes.
ABEL0708 - a price list from Abel mail order firm. Good for deciding
whether a product is available, or if a rice is reasonable, even if
you prefer your local dealer.
HUMBIRD2.0- an improved version of the cute hummingbird pointer. This
version includes source.
ARCHA11 - version 1.1 of the program that decompresses any kind of file in
current use on the popular BBS circuit - it will ARC, PAK, or ZOO files,
and will also UNARC, UNPAK, or UNZOO them. All by point-and-click -
no CLI needed.
CW11 - this is a utility that will replace characters in a file with a
string of your choosing. Includes documentation and source.
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BShell - a small, simple shell that allows you to do command editing
and a few other things such as assign function keys. Requires ARP.
Tiles - Graphic puzzle/game. Figure out the pattern that lets you
clear the board of all the tiles. NOT EASY!
QLens - enlarge any part of your screen with this magnifyer
Spuds hi-res picture of your favorite dog.
QMouse10 - another of the mouse utilities that provide sunmouse, screen
blanking, and other utilities.
Benz - impressive picture of a Mercedes-Benz.
Lotto - visually attractive random-number generator
TunaJune - another of the humorous text files about the Amiga crew and
their Trekkie adventures.
Nasty - an example of a "nasty blitter"
Gotcha - A screen hack. Didn't try this one. Try at your own risk.
du361m2 - another version of the Modula 2 directory utility. All kinds
of assistance with file handling, disk management, etc.
SCS1 - Construct slideshow scripts easily. Run and display your
favorite pictures.
PPTool1 - a tool to help with the fonts for Professional Page
DTutor - disk tutorial. This covers disk layout and also explains how
to used a track and sector editor.
Iceman - high resolution graphic of a plane
DMCSpec - reads a DMCS file and makes a list of the instruments needed
to play it.
Stand - The music and special instruments needed to play "Stand By Me"
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Plug2.0 - is a program designed to allow you to create ARexx scripts
that can be run under the workbench by using project icons.
Fixtxt - is a small utility for cleaning up text files that are littered
with binary. The output file will contain text and linefeed chars only.
Tabs expand to spaces. Tabstop allows an optional tab position setting.
LDebug2.0 - Demo version of a neat source level and symbolic debugger for
the Lattice compiler. It allows you to load your program and trace by
individual source line or 68000 instruction.
MoreIcons - another selection of various icons.
Muncho - some fun sounds that can be run from the cli. Hear your Amiga eat
a disk and say thank you, or sneeze when a disk is ejected.
Raisin - a movie showing a raisin waving its lil ole arms around on a stage
Gross!!! (this doesn't work on an A3000)
RedHood - a picture of a woman with a red hood.
AVi1.0 - The program avi is a workalike version of UN*X vi for the Amiga.
It is intended to provide vi users, who tend to be a rather hardcore
lot, with their favorite text editor. Version 1.0 implements only a
subset of standard vi, has a few intentional changes, and many (minor)
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NagTiger - Nagel's picture of a tiger, digitized No credits given.
Chicago - Macfont called Chicago, cleaned up with kerning and spacing
improved. Done with Calligrapher 1.05, so should be fixed.
KKSol - Compiled AmigaBASIC game. Solitare played on 4 x 4 square Colorful
hi-res screen, fast play. Offers several levels of difficulty.
Eliza - assembly source included. This is rewritten for the Amiga by the author of the original 6502 version of Eliza, but
based on the 1965 game written for mainframes at MIT. Requires ARP 34+
(Eliza is a psychologist who will talk with you about your troubles.
AI demo.)
Display - Animation and IFF viewer. This is an update. Includes a sample
file that illustrates use of all commands.
IBMJoke - Inspired by Eddy Carroll's C64 emulator, with new twists by
different authors here. Source NOT included. Some entertaining and
clever touches.
Blinker - AmigaBASIC linker. Links sub-programs to main program.
Instructions, several modules included.
OnLineMag - Issue #3 of AmyReport, the online Amiga magazine placed on
CompuServe by Henry Colonna and others. Reviews of Manx, SDB,
WordPerfect LIBRARY, new 24-pin printer, several games. This magazine
has good content, but lacks polish in spelling, grammar, etc. Reviews
are nicely written, and show thoughtfulness.
Startup2 - allows use of different batch files so that you can have your own
choice of custom startups for different situations.
EyeBall - a picture of an eyeball - not a real one.
Mach2.3 - a versatile utility for screen blanking, turnoff pointer, set
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CHECKERS - an AmigaBASIC game. You can play against the computer, or
against another player. Use the mouse to choose a piece to move,
and click on the place where you want the piece. The game protects
against illegal moves.
SHOWIZ - a really good program for displaying pictures and textfiles. It
will display one or a directory-full or a disk-full. If you want to
write a script-file, you can. Otherwise, it will display each picture
or textfile as it comes to them, moving on after 30 seconds. This is
a VERY nice program Shareware, $10 and $15 suggested. Has 23 choices
of ways to move the frames onto the screen!
LIBCAT12 - uses the Dewey Decimal System to help maintain records of a
library (personal or otherwise). There are many options to the
program, even including the option to print spine labels. Options
permit searches and printed reports based on searches. Except that
it uses the Dewey Decimal System, now largely replaced by ISBM numbers,
it appears to be a most useful and capable program.
BMAT - came with no documentation at all. This appears to be a version of
BFormat, a program that will format disks on which there is a bad spot
by marking whole bad tracks as used.
CRAPS - written in TrueBASIC, then compiled. Simulation of the casino Craps
game. There seem to be quite a few options, but someone who gambles
more than I will have to explain them. It is colorful and appear to
work.
IBELIEVE - a SONIX tune of the same name. This will need to be moved to
a disk that has the Player program for SONIX, or else to be used with
SONIX itself. It will not play as presented here.
VICHECK1 - a virus checker from Germany, said to detect the SCA virus or all
non-standard boot blocks. No source given. Use at your own risk.
DISKPERF - checks the speed of disk drives. It checks for a number of
items, number of seeks, speed for each seek, time to load in a file,
etc. Sample times for floppies and several hard disks are included
in the documentation file.
VIRUSX1.5 - Steve Tibbet's latest assault on the virii. This one was
written to add a new strain of the Byte Bandit virus that had come
to his notice. Comes with both source and a makefile. RECOMMENDED.
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NEXTSCRN - A utility that makes it as easy for you to cycle through screens
as it is to cycle through windows. Uses a L-Amiga key sequence.
DMOUSE19 - update to Matt Dillon's popular Dmouse program. The program
offers a number of utilities packaged into one: sunmouse, screen
blanker, disappearing pointer when it is not in use; screen
cycling, and more. This one uses a handler, which allows the
program itself to take up less memory than some.
SPUDCLK - A clock for your Amiga that will speak the time at intervals set
by you. You can set it for the starting time, the interval to
be left between warnings, and the time it is to quit. Nice.
LESS2 - An upgrade to the less program used on all of the Fish disks.
This version of Less has search paths, the ability to call up
an editor, and literally dozens of new abilities the old one did
not have. It is said to have just about all of the features
found in the Unix "Less" program. There is an extensive manual.
ACCESS1.4 - Keith Young's update to his popular Access terminal program.
This one was designed especially to work with the WHAP! software
for CIS access, but it has many new features that work
everywhere. Among other things, it supports a file reader,
morerows, PAL screens, chat mode, and QuickB protocol.
HAMHAF - an AmigaBASIC program. Forgive - I have not run this program.
SOMEICONS - several of these icons are very attractive. There are about a
dozen, of various sorts - drawer, tool, etc.
DUTIL204 - the directory utility that never seems to be finished! In
addition to bug fixes, there are several new features here. One
very nice feature is that when it unarcs, it will do a number of
files at once, putting each into its own subdirectory. You can
then just rename the directory. It will also attach a drawer
icon if you make sure there is an "Empty.info" file available to
it before you start.
PICS - some pictures to show off the machine. This file contains several,
including one of Roger Rabbit riding in a taxi; Yogi bear; and
one called DuckDodg.
BUBBLES - this is a screen hack - and screen hacks are always best if left
for the viewer to discover for himself.
SHOWIZ - a remarkably nice slide viewer. It has about twenty or so
different wipes, fades, etc. It can be controlled with a
script, but will also show all of the pics in a directory
without one. The instructions are shown using ShoWIz itself.
PELIHACK - three screen hacks. Just run and enjoy. Only problem is - they
are a bit hard to get out of, so run them when you can reboot
if you have to.
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EW12 - neat little utility, hack, or whatever. It causes a very
attractive emphasis on each window when it opens or closes.
Rather extensive use has not produced any other effects
Tactic - this is an article written by Chip Orange. Chip is blind, and
is a professional computer programmer. This article tells
about some of the things computers can do for the blind, and
also discusses some uses of the ATALK2 program which is also
on this disk. Very interesting!
Boingpt - An animated pointer - a Boing ball that constantly rotates
as you use it. The pointer can be started or stopped by
clicking on its icons.
Atalk2 - This program causes the Amiga to speak each thing that is
printed on the screen. It also has utilities that permit
the use of the keyboard instead of the mouse. The program
was written to make the Amiga accessible to the blind, but
it is useful to the sighted, as well
Moria2 - An update to the popular Moria game. This is an adventure
game in which you can set up and describe a rather large
number of the characters and other features. See MoriaDocs
for instructions. This is a truly outstanding game - so
much so that it was given a multi-page review in the newest
Commodore magazine (arrived yesterday).
GWPrint - One of the nicest utilities I've found lately! This provides
excellent control of printed output from a panel on the
screen. You can set the font, the mode, the line lengths,
the page lengths, the type size, etc. here. The program will
skip perforations, provide top and bottom margins, print a
title, page number, and the date - all kinds of very nice
features. It even works on my STAR SG10 - a rare quality indeed!
ScreenX22 - This is a screen-grabber. It permits you to capture any
screen to a file, in IFF format. You use hot-keys for this
so it will work with any program you are running. There
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FastDisk - This is a freely distributable, fully working program which
will optimize your disks so that they load more smoothly and
(in some cases, at least) about 50% faster. Icons and
directories are copied first, so that they are easily and
quickly accessed, and all files put where they require the
smallest possible amount of head thrashing.
Lunar - Digitized picture of a lunar landing. Nice work.
Drive - This is an animation of RedLotus
Clerk - At last! A very nice accounting program for the Amiga, and
in the public domain. This one has several modules,
including Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. The
programmer owns a small remodelling company, and wrote this
program to keep his own records. NOT SHAREWARE, but PD.
Mars - This is a set of space pictures, all viewable by just
clicking the mouse on their icons.
FastMouse - Want to speed up mouse movements without all the extra
features of MachII or Dmouse? This one just speeds up
the mouse and blanks the screen. That's all. And thus
it takes very, very little memory.
AugPtrs - A set of new pointers to dress up your Workbench. To change
from one to the other, you just type "Prefs pointername".
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IconLab1 - One of the nicest icon utilities to come out. This lets you view
any icon - both images in case of animated ones - and change the
type of the icon to any type you desire. You can also use it to
set the tooltypes, stack, and other items usually accessible
only from "Info". Very nice and easy to use!
AmyCal - This is a port of the UNIX Cal. It will print a calendar for
any month you specify, no matter what year. My thought - how
neat for a genealogist - "hmmm - this ancestor was born on Oct.
15, 1788, eh? Gee, wonder what day of the week that was. Ah,
CAL told me!" But it works for business appointments, school
holidays - all those other occasions when you need the odd
calendar for a sec.
QRT14 - These two files contain the programs, samples, documentation,
QRT14SRC and source to the latest update of this quick raytracing
program.
Icons - This set of icons was uploaded by a CIS member last week. Most
of the icons are unusual, and are animated. Several have a
real surprise when you click them.
Trix - Trix is a game, played with a joystick. You are to paint at
least 60% of the screen before you are hit by any of the baddies
roaming the screen. It isn't as easy as it sounds!
LJPrnt - Laser Jet Print - a program to make it easier to use the H.P.
laser jet with your Amiga. It adds several niceties.
ClipIt - Think of it as a graphic version of SnipIt. With ClipIt, you
can use the mouse to "lasso" any rectangle on the screen and
to save that rectangle as an IFF file. It can then be
loaded to any screen in which you wish to place it. Not whole
screens, please. This is for smaller parts of a screen.
Hermit - THIS one is for saving entire screens to an IFF file. Want to
save something from your terminal? From your word processor?
The screen to a game? A particularly interesting Mandelbrot?
Just hit the designated hot-keys and off the screen goes to
a file. There are other features, but this is its main
attraction. I tried it. It works.
MoreIcons - A second set of icons from the same person who did the file
described above. Keep your Amiga interesting. Try new icons.
OurMag - This is an IFF picture showing OURMAG on Top!
ShowAnim43 - This latest version of ShowAnim will display animations that
use HAM - and any other animations you have, as well.
LinkB - This one is untested. It is the software needed to set up an
Amiga bulletin board.
FrenchWP - Written in C for speed, this file will take a WordPerfect file
and make the necessary changes to let you print French
characters with the right accents, etc. With the source
included, it is easy to adapt it for any other language.
CAAUGP - Have a look at this really neat pointer! It was made expecially
for the Cleveland Area Amiga User's Group, is animated,
maybe even ray-traced. At any rate, it is pretty special.
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Storage - A small program that will tell you how much room you have left on
every device in your Amiga - how much on each disk, including hard
disks; how much of each kind of memory, how much in your RAM: disks
- everything.
VirusX20 - Steve Tibbets' latest Virus checker. He found out about some new
ones, including one that is quite vicious. This version was completed
about Sept. 5
Toccato - An entire toccato and fugue, for your enjoyment. You will need to
supply your own player, since that is not included on this disk.
AniPointer - A rather large set of animated pointers is included in this
file, along with the program that allows you to create your own. Each
pointer has an icon to start it and another to kill it. A few are
really interesting. Check out the Amiga Check-mark, for instance.
PKAd - PKad was written in BASIC, then compiled. It is a simple CAD
program, and contains all the symbols needed for setting up electrical
schematics. There is a program with which you can create your own
objects for other kinds of designs
Museum - Easily the nicest ray-traced picture I've seen lately. The picture
gained this title because its objects appear to be displayed in a
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Float - Do you prefer your icons to be placed in the next available
slot, rather than stacking on top of each other? Click on the icon to
Float - then on the fixed icon. It will now be a "no-position" icon
that will fit into the next convenient slot. No more cleanups needed.
XpressEditDemo - This is a mostly-working demo of a planned commercial
product. Try it out, make suggestions to the programmers, see how you
like it. The price is right!
MDu365 - Latest upgrade to the constantly improving directory utility from
the Modula 2 group.
AToday22 - One of the on-line magazines that appear on several of the large
networks. They contain product reviews, articles, graphics - whatever
can be found.
Space - See how much space you have - wherever it might be!
CoComm5 - This popular Term program has just been improved. It has many
nice features. While it was originally planned to support the
conferences on CompuServe, it is very good as a general purpose terminal.
SeeMenu - Full-screen cartoon, made with the latest Digiview software.
It shows just how good Digiview 3.0 is at digitizing black and white
line drawings - and is sort o funny, too.
FunIcons - Another set of icons - all designed to be humorous. This set has
been very popular on CIS, and here it is for you.
NewFonts - Quite a collection of new fonts - an IBM font, a "real computer"
font, a "ooooooooooo..ohh! scary!!!" font for your Halloween fun, a
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Icons3 - This file contains several animated icons: seven drawer icons and
three project icons. All are animated, and are more meaningful than
most. For example - for mathematical things, a drawer icon that is a
picture of Keplar; for travel, a drawer icon that is a familiar road
sign.
ClickDos - Want a small directory utility that does the simpler things,
but doesn't take tons of room on your workbench? This one should fit
the need. It handles the basic copy, makedir, etc (about eight
functions), its window can be iconified so you can leave it in place,
and it takes up less than 30K
Toing - Screen hack. This is yet another hack that uses the Boing balls.
It is cute, and it will start from an icon and go away with a click
of the left mouse button. Enjoy.
DuH27 - Hermes has made yet another improvement to his directory utility.
This one now has three pages of buttons, and will do almost everything
except type in the data for you. Instructions are included, and you
can add many, many tools. Additions are easy to make; just edit a file
with any editor - following the pattern already set in the file.
HopaLong - This is a mathematical program. It will make pretty patterns
on the screen, and is based on a mathematical recreation suggested in
the Scientific American magazine.
ToggleWB - A small utility that lets you toggle between interlace and a
regular workbench screen. This utility runs ONLY from its icon, and will
work only if all windows except Workbench windows have been closed.
Cramden - The first of a set of promised "Cramden Utilities". This contains
two small utilities similar to two from MS-DOS. One, FF, will find a
specified file on a disk; the other, SI, gives you a wide range of system
information. These are passed along to you untried.
FigList - This is an early version of the program. It is designed to
poll the system and return information about all devices, expansion
boards, etc. that are in the system. For this version, the author asks
that users please use it to interrogate their own system and send him
information so that he can complete the program. He wants it to know
about the codes of all manufacturers of add-on equipment, and will post
the results so it will be available to programmers who might need it.
RzsZmdm - A stand-alone Zmodem utility. The documentation says it can
work with almost any terminal program, but it comes with a simple term of
its own, just in case your particular term is incompatible. Zmodem is a
great deal faster than Xmodem; here is a chance to try it.
2000PR - preferences icon for the A2000 that SAYS A20000.
Postcard - This is said to be a beginning toward a HyperText system for the
Amiga. Currently it works on one card at a time rather than a stack.
There are instructions for making cards and for using them, but no
sample data with which to try it out.
PW25 - This is a demo only version of Power Windows 2.5 from Innovatronics.
This version of Power Windows has just been released, and the
demo will show you what it can do, how it works, but won't save
your data for you.
ReMap - Change your pictures from one format to another with remap. Hi-res
to MedRes, Ham to Hi-res, etc.
Anim2IFF - Use this utility to separate animations back to the original IFF
drawings from which they were made.
RamCar - Use an icon to set up a RamDisk. This works under 1.3, and sets up
the Recoverable Ram Disk, or restores it after reboot, just by clicking
on the icon.
DiskCheck - Untried, sorry. The program is said to check a disk and report
to you any bad spots on the disk, even in the parts of the track that
do not have active data on them. In other words - it checks the gaps
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Travail - This is a small, assembler version of avail. Source is included,
for those who would like to study or modify the program.
Demon - An outstanding sound and graphics demo for the Amiga, but be warned,
no one has found a way out without rebooting!
Qmouse12 - yet another mouse accelerator, screen blanker, POPCLIer, Sunmouser,
and more. This one, however, is written in assembler and requires
only about 3K of memory - and less disk space, too.
Swirl - this is an animated pointer. I think I might have called it Ying-Yang,
but it *does* swirl.....
RdPrt12 - Two ways to read files, one to print them. There are many features
to each of these utilities. The print utility, in particular, gives
a great deal of control over the appearance of the output. It also
has the ability to distinguish between binary and text files, and to
print only those that are text, so you can tell it to print dirname *
and it will print all the textfiles in the directory.
DoTil37 - This directory utility does most all of the things you need to do
with files - copy, delete, move, rename, etc. It will copy filenotes
and will let you add notes, can be iconized to save memory and space,
and has many other nice features.
ShowFont - When you click on the icon for SHOWFONT, it will read the fonts:
directory and display the fontnames found there. Choose a font and
a size, and SHOWFONT will show you every character in that font.
Very useful for seeing what fonts look like on screen!
AmiDex - simple database program that is designed to work like CardEx. It
is set up to store addresses and telephone numbers, to print labels,
and to easily manage an address and telephone list.
Fonts - several new fonts for you to try. At the time of writing, this file
contains two fonts - ANSI 8, and Amigafont.
Pipeworx - Game written in AmigaBASIC. You are to solve the puzzle which
involves the making of a disk-magazine.
Play8SVX - this utility is needed in order to play some of the sounds now
being used in demos, etc. So here's your copy.
DanSpool - Print spooler. It gives you a bit of control over what is being
printed while you do more interesting things on your Amiga.
MrPrint - Print utility from Mark Rinfret. This one lets you control most
of the printer commands from a workbench or cli environment.
Lace - set up your interlace screen from this program.
GetFil - a file requester routine that you may include in your programs.
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Xicon2 - This is an update to the earlier Xicon, the program that lets you
run execute files and CLI-only programs from a Workbench icon. There
are many features other than these. An excellent utility!
OnlyAmiga - The icon will NOT run this! I haven't tried it myself, but it
was described as a fantastic animation. You must have ShowAnim to run
it.
EarthQ - Cute little screen-hack. It will perform, then go away. Enjoy.
SysReq - System requesters you probably never saw before. A joke set of
requesters. Written in AmigaBASIC, but compiled for easy running.
Lists - This simple database program is currently set up to handle
videotapes but you can change the names of the fields to store any
kind of records you might need. Not powerful, but small and easy for
small jobs.
NZap318 - Update to the excellent disk editor FileZap. This is an extremely
nice and useful program. For example: some program driving you nuts
because it always asks for RAM: when you prefer VD0:? Use
NZap to find all instances of RAM: in the file, and change them. No more
problems!
Batcher - This little 218 byte assembly language program will let you run
script files without the use of RUN. The example given is to write
a script that will compile a C program. Then use Batcher to change
it to a "xxx.bat" file named "cc.bat", and after that, compile by
typing "cc progname". Write whatever script you need, of course.
LabelB - DPaint templates from which you can make really nice disk labels.
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DiskSalv13 - This update to the indispensable DISKSALV offers many enhance-
ments to a program that was already one of the best ever offered
in Amiga public domain. It now works on hard disks as well as
floppies, and on the regular file system as well as FFS. If you
use ANY kind of disks on the Amiga (does any one not?) you need
this program. DON'T MISS IT.
Shell210 - Another program that no one should be without! This update has
fixed almost all of the bugs found in older versions. Any version
prior to 2.07 is disastrous! Shell will permit you to recall
commands previously used, to set often used commands to function
keys, to screen edit, and far more. It works with Conman to give
an extremely nice CLI environment. If you EVER use the CLI, you
need the SHELL.
TextView - Ever wish for a text viewer/reader that had all of the normal
window gadgets? Here it is. Sizeable, slider bar for moving
through the text, and with front/back and close gadgets. Works
like a charm.
Fonts - These are very large fonts for titling. Some are color fonts with
shadows and shading. I looked at the regular large fonts, but
not at the color ones, so it's your guess just like mine! I've every
reason to believe, though, that they are as nice as the regular ones.
Pplane - Here's one for the kids, whatever their age. Paper airplanes are
fun. This file has several hi-res pictures that show how to make them,
how to fold them, and one screen has clipart to decorate them.
Kickfont2 - If you have an A1000 (like me) you can use this program to make
an extremely nice font your default. It is far more attractive and
readable than the normal Topaz - but only for A1000 owners, and
only under 1.2 <<sniff!!>>.
Dazzle - for fun. This is a kaleidoscope program, and makes some very
attractive designs.
UDH - For those who hate CD, but have to use it sometimes. Run this
program after CDing to something and it will return your machine to
"fresh-boot" condition - automatically accepting df0: as the current
directory.
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Clerk3 - This accounting program was written by a businessman in Florida and
is in use for his own business. It includes modules for accts.
receivable Accts. Payable, and General Ledger. You cannot run it from
this disk. Make it a disk of its own, and follow the setup instructions
in the file.
AZComm - Zmodem for Amiga - This is the 1.34 Comm program with added features
in that it now has Zmodem receive, Zmodem send protocols. Since Zmodem
is much, much faster than Xmodem, this is an excellent addition to our
set of term programs.
TexF26 - an updated version of the program that can convert TeX fonts to
Amiga font format. There are many TeX fonts on one of the Fish disks
and many have access to them from other sources. This version works well.
XMake - will go through the source to large programs and locate all of the
function calls, then make a sorted list of all function calls, their
size, and the module in which they are located.
Pearl - Yet another cleanup of a very popular small font - one frequently
used as a replacement for Topaz 8.
Doodle - To use this program, you must put it in a directory with AmigaBASIC
and the FD program from the Extras disk. It is worth it. This is
a really nice little paint program, and makes very nice pictures. Even
better pictures if you have a bit of talent!
QuadPrint - This program will print your pictures across four pages of paper
which can then be put together to make a poster 17 x 22 inches. Neat
tricks, no? Khalid has done several very nice printer utilities, and
this is his latest.
Scenery - Fractal scenery, that is. This is a very quick form of fractal
generator, making "Mandelbrot-like" scenery.
ShowAnim53 - latest update to this program needed for almost all animations.
This one handles HAM, and has some other enhancements. It is necessary
for some of the latest animations coming out.
DskLabel - Hi-res screen with a template and some graphics/text to dress
up your disk labels. Use from DPaint. These labels are really nice.
Gazer2 - Update to StarGazer. This astronomy program is an outstanding
contribution to the freely distributable library. You can choose
many of the parameters and get a view of the sky at a particular
viewpoint, time of day, and part of the world. Good stuff!
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ArexRd - this is a script, written for AREXX, to read a file with your
favorite file reader. Good example script.
BB1 - BlockBuster is a disk editor. It has some advantages over the others
and some of them have different advantages. This one includes a rather
nice tutorial on how to use disk editors.
BSave - Very small program, written in assembler, will let you save a block
of mory to disk. This was written because most of the debuggers
available do not have a "save" command. Useful for disassembling or
debugging.
BTree - B-PLUS is a versatile, carefully designed module for C programmers
who need a fast, efficient program for indexing data files. B-PLUS
allows data records to be retrieved based on a key value without regard
to their position in the data file. The data records can also be
accessed in sequential order in either a forward and reverse direction.
DSZam - You asked for it here it is:DSZ compatible Zmodem for Amiga.The
programs will not work with Online!,Comm,GT,Atalk III,Diga!
Maxicom,Aterm,Access or most others. It willwork with Dave Weckers'
VT100 v2.9. With the others, you have to exit the terminal program,
then enter "run rz or sz". It gives you much faster up- or downloads.
NoBord - if you want a clean, 80 x 24 display, without the customary window
gadgets, this is for you. The gadgets are still available - just
hidden. If you move a window, the gadgets all reappear, but you
can just run NOBorder again to get rid of them.
AmyToday - Reviews, gossip, etc. from another of the Amiga's free on-line
magazines.
XCadUtil - For those who have X-CAD from Haitex - this program will make
menus from IFF files, and will translate HPGL to XCAD for you.
These files were uploaded by Harry Evangelou from Haitex.
HDB - simple hard disk backup utility. Since I have no hard disk, you'll
have to tell me if it works.
Access141 - One of the very best of the shareware terminal programs. It is
colorful, easy to use, has many nice features. This one includes
a file reader, has some scripting ability.
UtilMa69 - Directory utility with so many features they cannot possibly
be listed here. It can work with Access if you use interlace -
Utilma69 on the top half of your screen, Access on the bottom half.
It can handle all of your disk housekeeping chores without resorting
to the CLI.
ExecCli- This is a very small program that runs from CLI only. Use it to
see what is running in your system and where they are located.
Interesting for studying the internals.
VirusX201 - the latest version of VirusX, which seems to be bugfree.
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FONTS - A very clean font called 2001, size 8 x 8, so it works with SetFont.
Another, Boxy, comes in all three standard sizes (8, 9, 11) and can
be used with the FF command in 1.3, and a third is a 26-point font
called Pirate.
DIRK - This program lets you fine tune your screen colors. It can run from
a startup sequence if you prefer, and is a CLI program only.
RXENV - This is a set of AREXX programs that work with Lattice C, making
it easier to edit and compile programs. Three programs are included,
along with instructions.
CONMAN13 - The included ConMan.doc file has a full description of how to
install and use ConMan, but here's a brief summary of the standard
features -
-- Powerful line editing using control and arrow keys
-- Adjustable-sized command history buffer
-- Window control keys F1/F2 ... shrink or "zoom" the window
-- Fast command search keys F5/F6
-- Select window gadgets and attributes like borderless or backdrop
-- Fully compatible with any software using CON- (console) windows
Features and improvements new to ConMan version 1.3 include ...
-- CND- handler ... allows "invisible" (non-blocking) type-ahead
-- CNX- (extensible) handler ... an AUX--type handler for any device
-- Much-improved editing for lines longer than the window width
-- Improved shrink/zoom ... no more problems with rapid toggling
-- Support for "S*" screen ... opens a window on the front screen
-- Support for superbitmap windows
ICN2BRU - Many utilities convert brushes to icons.
This one converts. Icons to brushes so you can edit them with your
favorite paint program. You can then use one of the other utilities
to turn them back to icons.
SHOWBRD - This is a small program that will search the system for all
mounted boards, etc., and report back information about them.
Written by a developer of hardware for the Amiga.
TEXTRDR - Will read and copy text from a window. As you move the mouse
across the text, it will appear at the cursor. Useful - saves
typing!
FORTUNE - A very small example of an AREXX program. This one will read
a datafile of fortunes, adages, etc., and print them out at
random times on the screen. Datafile not included - sorry.
BILLIARDS - This is a very nice game. A billiards table is shown on the
screen, and you control the stick. You can vary the force and
direction with which the ball is hit, using the mouse to control
it. I like this one.
LEDGER - This is a program for keeping up with accounts of any kind -
home records, or those for a small business or a club.
XOPER11 - a tremendous program for snooping out and/or controlling
tasks, processes, and all other structures in use in the
system. It will display the start address of anything in use
in the system, and in most cases, you get some measure of
control over them. VERY nice.
ROCKET - A drawing of rockets - an especially nice one. This is an
artist's rendition of rockets, inspired by the recent space
launch. Overscan picture, so you may have to have a program
that will scroll pics in order to see all of it.
STAT11 - A manual translation of James M. Synge's stat.c to assembly
language.
Synge's stat is more useful to programmers than the AmigaDos or ARP
status commands because it shows where each command is loaded into
memory. All variable storage is on a stack frame so the code is
"pure".
DUTILS - This file contains several utilities from Matt Dillon. Each is
very small, and the source is given.
DIR - A very small utility that enhances the DIR command. Among other
things, it will give you a five-column directory.
KICKFONT3 - This is exactly like the KickFont 1000 users have been using for
a while - comes from Greg Browne just as the other did, but this one
works on a 1.3 Kickstart. The new font is VERY nice.
ICONS - The icons included are- Box.info,Envelope.info, File.info,
Left.info, Middle.info, and Right.info. All are WorkBench fonts.
DMOUSE11 - The popular mouse utility from Matt Dillon, once more improved
and enhanced. Sunmouse, mouse accelerator, pointer blanker, screen
blanker, popcli, etc.
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SLATE - Slate! will do the following.
Display a slate (surprise!) with the following items: Title, Scene,
Client, Director, Editor, Comments, Date, and Time
All items may be changed at any time, indivudally or together.
Display video Black for Initializing a tape for insert editing.
Start a reverse 10 count (with beeps).
Automagic Tape preping (10 sec slate w/ cal tone,5 sec black,10 count)
Audio Calibration Tone Toggle.
NNETMT - The program Neuron.c simulates a SIMPLE stable state neural network
reporting on both input and output states and energy levels after each
iteration (namely set up for 8, though usually the network stabilizes
after about 4). The program demonstrates a very straight-forward method
of programming a content-addressable memory and receiving output from
that memory. This program is based on a BASIC program developed in
Ed Rietman's book "Experiments in Artificial Neural Networks" published
by TAB Books copyright 1988.
PICS - A collection of pictures from various sources.
ATMCLK - AtomClock will dial the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington D.C.,
readthe 1200 BAUD time signal their atomic clock puts out and set the
Amiga system clock accordingly. It runs from Workbench or CLI
(distribution archive is "SUPERFRIENDLY"). The default configuration
will work with a Hayes-type modem but parameters can be adjusted for
just about any modem. Good example of serial port access and reading
icon TOOLTYPES.
PCPATCH - Along with this file you should find two programs called 'PcC3.5'
and 'PcF3.5'. They are made to patch PCCopy and PCFormat respectively
from the 'EXTRAS 1.2' disk, to allow reading/writing/formatting 3.5 inch
360k (2 sides/40 Tracks/9 sectors) MS-DOS disks. In order to make the
programs work, put PcC3.5 and PCCopy, PcF3.5 and PCFormat into the same
directory. Patches are always applied in memory and not on disk, so you
may copy them directly into the Extras:PCUtil directory.
RADIO - This is an example of how 'radio buttons' could be implemented using
gadgets. I use the GadgetID and UserData fields of the gadget structure
to keep track of each set of radio buttons. When the user clicks on a
radio button a variable is set and an optional function is called with
the variable as an argument.
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SURF - BezSurf (or Surf for short) is a program for producing bezier
surfaces of revolution. It produces awesome pictures of wineglasses and
doorknobs, and other objects one could turn on a lathe. BezSurf
includes the capacity to map iff image files onto any surface that it
can draw.
GRAPHITE - This is a 9-point font. Just copy this into your Fonts:Directory
PATHDEV - This is a program that will search your directories for you,
making PATH do more than it was intended to do!
APLOT13A - Amiga Plot is a three dimensional mathematical function plotter.
It takes a function, parses it into a partially compiled form and then
calculates coordinates to be placed in the xyz system. AmigaPlot uses
hidden line removal based on a principle known as the painters
algorithm. The use of color in the plot can produce very pleasing
effects especially when a feathered pallet is used. The idea of
AmigaPlot is to provide an artistic approach to the sometimes dry
subjects of Analytical Geometry and Trigonometry.
MOUSEZOOM - This is MouseZoom, a mouse accelerator for the Amiga. It doesn't
try to do everything under the sun (ala Mach16), it only speeds up the
mouse.
SS - This file contains the following : GrabViews, a one-shot screen save,
TimeSave, a timed screen-save program, and Memview, which scans memory
for bitmaps. This will save screens that are held in memory even though
they are not currently being displayed.
FIND11 - Will locate all instances of a filename (or wildcards) anywhere on
any currently mounted volume. Will search for a string in any file
system-wide, or in specified directory(s). Partial wildcarding of
directories to search/exclude.
ROBOTS - Two ray-traced robot pictures by Louis Markoya.
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FRIEND - This is a screen hack - with a note hinting that it will give
your pointer some friends. Try it for yourself!
PLAYER - This is the most recent player for animations created with
TurboSilver.
SEARCH - The fabulous C128 has a very handy built-in debugger with a
lot of commands. The public domain debuggers from Amiga sources can do
a lot, but they don't have a decent Hunt (Find, Search) command that
could salvage "lost" files in memory after an accidental delete or
reset. SEARCH will let you reset the Amiga after a crash, search through
memory until you find your data (it does the searching), and then you
can save it to disk, reload it and go on with your work.
FREPAINT - This is a rather full featured, totally PD paint program. It
has a toolbox and permits you to do some rather nice work. And the
price is certainly right.
SHOWLOCKS - ShowLocks, show all locks on a volume. This file contains
both the source and an executable for a utility to show all of the locks
on an AmigaDOS volume. Type showlocks volume: or showlocks all to
run it.
MBRAIN - MBrain is a game, similar to MasterMind. It is attractively
presented, and can take up LOTS of your time!
SPINNER2 - A ray-traced animation, very attractive. Use it when you
can afford to power down. The file says you can get out with
Control-C, but I have not found this to be reliable in all cases.
TEXTER - A text formatter. It will strip, add, or swap CRs and LFs,
Strip spaces and/or tabs, remove REMarks from BASIC programs, Remove
or add blank lines, number pages, add or remove line numbers, put text
into two columns, reformat, format for BBS-PC, and will undo the last
action. Needs AmigaBasic from the Extraa disk.
WOF - The Wheel of Fortune game. We had an earlier version of this
game, which did not work very well. This one DOES work from the
supplied icon. Enjoy.
TICKER - Ticker will open an Intuition window which consists of a close
gadget, two depth gadgets and a drag bar. The current system time will
be continuously displayed upon the drag bar in twelve-hour format. The
window can be conveniently placed upon the Workbench Screen drag bar
where it will be out of your way.
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TAROT - Tarot is a conversion from the Commodore 128. Though the program
lacks the graphics for the cards it still is a nice program and well
worth the port.
Access - This is version 1.42 of the popular Access! terminal program.
It is colorful, and has many features such as a review buffer, a file
reader, a simple scripting facility, auto dialing, repeat dialing, and
many, many more.
Shell2.11 - Matt Dillon's update to the shell program for which he is
quite well known. It provides screen editing, history, programmable
keys, and other needed features.
AZPtchD - Another terminal program. This is really the simpler Comm1.34
with a patch that handles z-modem for extra speed.
Pics - Three pictures from various sources.
Extract - This program will extract font data and put into C-source
so that it can be compiled into a program, thus eliminating the need
to include a special font, and the complicated instructions telling
your user how to install that font. Also, no need to clutter up the
user's font directory.
Storage4 - This will report on the amount of free storage for every
device in the Amiga - disks, RAM:, etc., and will give a warning when
the amount remaining reaches a low level.
FlIcon - There are three icons in this group, and their full name
is "Florida Icons". They are nice.
Dicons - These are disk icons, and are not readily 'viewable'. To
see them, copy "iconname.info" dfn:Disk.info and then remove and
re-insert the disk. It will now have the new icon on it.
Bandit - This is a working demo of Greg Campbell's terminal program. An
earlier version of this terminal was called GT. It is colorful, many-
featured, but quite cryptic. Not for the novice! But good.
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AS THIS DISK IS ALMOST FULL THE ICONS FOR THE READ.ME AND DOC FILES
HAVE BEEN REMOVED. YOU CAN EITHER USE A UTILITY TO READ THE FILES OR
COPY SUFFICIENT OF THE PROGRAMS TO ANOTHER DISK AND THEN COPY AND
RENAME THE APPROPRIATE ICONS AS NEEDED. THERE IS ONE IN THE SUPERVIEW
DRAWER.
DiskX22 -This is the most recent release of Steve Tibbetts' excellent disk
editor. Use it to repair disks, or to snoop out interesting
things that might be hidden there. Instruction are included.
NoKlickStart - For A1000 owners who hate clicking disk drives. This
will patch your KickStart disk so that the click is eliminated (if you
have the right kind of drives. SOME A1010 drives will not respond to
this program, but it does work for most.)
SuperView2 - A favorite IFF viewer, updated, given many new abilities,
and working well with 1.3. SuperView will support overscan,
color-cycling, will show a whole directory of pictures at one time,
many things it would not do in the earlier version. This is a VERY
nice program!
FFSdsch - If you absolutely insist on using the FFS on your floppy
disks, this program is said to make the drive recognize that the disk
has been changed, something that does not happen without it.
UE24C - A VERY recent update to Rick Stiles' popular text editor - the
shareware version. This is a subset of his commercial version of the
program, and it is one of the most popular text editors, in either
version.
Clerk - The fourth version of this accounting program. It is actually
in use in several small businesses. It handles accounts payable,
accounts-receivable, general ledger, and some other bookkeeping chores.
It must be placed on its own disk in order to work, but instructions
are included.
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AMAZE11 - This program will generate cute little mazes for you to solve, and
you solve them by moving the mouse along the path to the end.
Cute - not very hard, and a seemingly endless variety.
PICS - This is a drawer full of pictures that have appeared during the
month. Included are a very fine picture of a violin, one of a
forest scene, some flowers, and a page of flags. All are
of very high quality - many done with the scanner from ASDG.
AMIGANTT2.01 - AmiGantt was designed to create a simple, interactive
method of outlining the tasks required to complete a particular
project, using the GANTT chart as the input format. This is a fine
tool for project management, and version 2.01 is greatly enhanced over
the one on an earlier disk. Requires ARP library.
CHESS - A chess game, with graphics, written in BASIC. The BASIC code is
included, so you can make changes if you wish.
ICONLAB2 - This utility will change any icon from one type to another, such
as changing a tool icon to a disk icon. It will let you split
alternate-icons into two separate ones, or it will take two icons
and join them, or will take two DPaint brushes and make icons from
them to make a first and alternate. It has a really large window
so you can view extremely large icons. Other features as well.
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Musician - This program will show you a picture of a keyboard, on which
you can actually play, using the music system in the Amiga. You
can have piano, or drums, or both. Music can be saved or loaded
and a help screen is included as part of the program. Nice
graphics, and fun to play.
Showfont31 - An improved version of the ShowFont program on an earlier disk.
This program will open a window, read your fonts: directory into
a requester in that window, and you may select any font which
will then be displayed in the window. No need to load a paing
or DTP program to view the characters in a font. Nice.
AmigaForth - The file says, AmigaForth.blk, and is an implementation of the
Forth programming language for the Amiga.
WBDepth - This program will change the number of planes assigned to your
WorkBench screen, and can do it 'on the fly'. With one bitplane,
you get two colors; two bitplanes, four colors, three bit-planes,
eight colors, etc. Interesting program!
m2du371 - This directory utility is extremely capable, and has been revised
since the release of 1.3 so that it now handles the script and
pure protection bits properly. If there is anything this utility
cannot do, there are extra gadgets you can set up to your own
taste - and it is PUBLIC DOMAIN, not shareware.
CR20 - ClickRead was designed as a text file reader for the ".doc' files
that often accompany programs. It is a small program, suitable
for keeping in the C: directory, but has nice features such as a
slide gadget for positioning in the text, buttons for scrolling,
a search mode, and a 'park' mode that gets it out of the way. A
very nice little utility.
SpToy - The original SpeechToy, written by Dave Lucas, has been enhanced
by Rob Peck. It can now read and write its own icon with the
defaults you have set, has a menu item to save the current
speech settings, can be started from either WB or CLI, and
can read the default values in the icon even if run from the CLI.
ZoePlay - A PD-player for the new animation program, ZoeTrope. This player
will be necessary to view the animations for those who do not
purchase the program. Lessee now - you need a player for each of
the animation programs, and I think that is up to about six.
Shall we make a disk of players?
SMORSE - This file contains the source, but it is sparsely documented. I
know only that it sends Morse code, and I think it sends it through
the sound channels from input at the keyboard. An adventure
for you - find out how it works!
TETRIX - This game originated in Russia. It is available in PD forms for
several computers, and the source is in public domain, but there
are commercial versions from Spectrum HoloByte for the IBM and the
MacIntosh. This is an Amiga port of the public domain code.
WARP2.0 - The author of Warp is unknown, but the program will make an
archive of an entire disk, preserving the exact structure in
much the same way as making a backup will do. It is simple
to use: To read it, type "WARP 0 79 Name", and to write
the archived version out, "WARP write name". Can be used for
less than a full disk, too, by specifying the tracks to be
read or written.
KICKTOYS - This set of three programs will let you study the kickstart
routines. Here are some tools to use for exploring the mysteries
of the kickstart-
Kickunload --------- reads the kickstart disk and creats a file ks.bin
which you can peruse with newzap.
Kick_snatch -------- reads the kickstart image resident in memory
and creates a file ram:ks.bin
which you can peruse with newzap.
Kick_split -------- divides the 256k file into 4 64k X 8 files,
suitable for programming into 27512 eproms.
LS21 - A Unix-style list utility that permits various types of sorts
and other options that give many of the features of both LIST
and DIR. A very nice replacement.
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Stock - StockChart is designed for investors who want to perform
technical analysis on stocks. The current version provides you
with the facilities to input the high, low, close, and volume of
stock prices on a daily basis; display the data for the latest
six months; rescale the charts; and draw trend lines.
Additionally, information on short -term trends in the market can
be tracked through use the put -call ratio graphs.
HDemo - This is one of those European demos that do marvelous things with
Copper lists and such. This one behaves a bit better than some,
and you can put your own text into a file and have it display
your text in its strange and marvelous ways.
AmiBug - Screen hack. This one has a little bug that crawls across the
screen at random intervals.
Xoper12 - A system monitor to end all monitors! It will report to you
about almost anything that is operating in the system, and with
extensive information about each. It can cancel a task that has died
on you, change the priority of anything in the system, and much more.
Ledger12 - The Ledger provides a simplified approach for your financial
record keeping requirements. You can use the system for a
variety of purposes, such as keeping track of bank accounts,
credit cards, accounts recievable, accounts payable, and income
and expenses for your club. You may establish any number of
accounts (limited only by disk space) and enter debit or credit
transactions as they occur. As transactions are entered, a
running balance is provided at the bottom of the screen. An
option is provided that will allow you to print a statement for
any given account.
cahd - The latest Commodore hard disk device. For some hard disks,
this is an absolute necessity.
FlySnuff - A game - snuff out the flies.
SnipIt12 - This is one of the most useful programs to come to me. With
a keystroke, it snips text from any window that is open, and lets
you paste it into any other window that is expecting output. How
about snipping a directory from the CLI window and pasting it into
an editor, such as this? Or text from a terminal window, pasted
to an editor for saving? Or keyboard input that you don't want
to type repeatedly? Great program.
HandyIcon - Another of the "neatest things of the year", this one adds
an extra menu strip to the Workbench. Once installed, you can
click the icon of any program and the icon for HandyIcon, and it
will add that program to the menu. After it is added and saved,
you can just select that item from the menu without having to
open all those extra windows on the screen. This version has
been patched to work properly with 1.3 ROMs.
Pics - Two nice pictures two gaze upon.
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MCAD126 - mCAD is an object-oriented drawing program. It has a small
set of graphics primitives (like "line", "box", and "text") and
a small set of editing functions (like "move", "size", and "rotate").
While drawing and editing, the user can call on other functions
to modify the display. There are several printer drivers
including one for the StarSG-10.
STUD - This is a stud poker game written by Griff Jackson of Plano.
Written in AmigaBASIC, then compiled for easy use and speed.
ULTRAP - Shareware - $15. This is a paint program, and appears to be quite
capable. It has most of the features one would expect a paint
program to have, such as boxes, circles, fills, zoom, etc. The
save function is disabled in this demo, but will be on the disk
you get if you send the $15.
HANDSHAKE212A - Shareware terminal program. This program has one of the
best implementations of Vt100/52/102 according to many who use
those terminals regularly. It also supports Kermit, XModem,
YModem, and Ymodem batch. It has an autodial, phone directory,
and other handy features frequently not found in programs that
support these protocols. Very nice program!
EXTRACTFONT12 - This program will extract the data from any standard Amiga
font and create C source from it so that it can be linked with
a program. This eliminates the necessity of requiring a user to
copy a specific font into his fonts - directory in order to use your
program. The font becomes an integral part of the program itself.
Included are a sample font to be changed to source, and a sample
program that will use the font. If you are going to require a
user to have a specific font for your program PLEASE do it this
way!! Our fonts - directories and boot disks are too full to keep
adding and adding and adding.
XMASCARD - A Christmas Card picture, just for the season.
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ALPHASTAT - AlphaStat is a program that performs a variety of statistical
functions on a user-created database. It is designed to perform
descriptive,bivariate, and multivariate analysis on databases both small
and large.While I have tried to make the package useful for anyone who
might need to add a little number crunching power to their Amiga, it was
really put together with social science research in mind. AlphaStat will
probably be most useful to students, social workers, and others who have
a need for computer analysis of large bodies of data. And while
AlphaStat doesn't have the features of the higher end statistical
packages (conical rotations,advanced factor analysis, etc.) it can also
serve as a limited aid to more serious researchers.
DISKSALV132 -DiskSalv V1.32 is a disk recovery program for all Amiga file
system devices that use either the AmigaOS V1.2/V1.3 Standard File
System or the AmigaOS V1.3 Fast File System. DiskSalv will scan a bad
disk volume for anything that can be recovered, and will restore these
items to any AmigaDOS volume. It does not make any attempt to fix the
bad device in place; thus, any file that can't be restored with DiskSalv
might possibly be restored with an alternate method.
Several bugs were fixed since the last version.
DISKX22a -This special edition of DiskX adds a "bootsave" feature that will
let you store boot blocks of protected commercial software, to protect
them should a virus attack the original.
DiskX lets you view the disk in a block-by-block format. It also lets
you find strings of text anywhere on the disk, find the first block of
any file, to view each block either as the mass of hex numbers it really
is, and to view the block as what it represents to AmigaDOS (i.e., file
header block, user directory block and such. The different block types
there can befound in the AmigaDOS Manual by Bantam Books.
EFJ - ESCAPE FROM JOVI is a joystick controlled agility-based game,
featuring multilevel, editable levels, real inertia and gravity
effects, two-way, hires scrolling, animated sprites, digital sound,
and high scores saved to disk. EFJ works only from CLI. Read the
included documentation to set up the disk so it will work.
EGYPTIAN RUN -It seems the pyramids have come alive and are out to take over
the world ! You are the world's only hope ! Can you get past the
pyramid missiles with the bumps to contend with and get in range to fire
your guided missile at the control pyramid ? But even then your missile
is damaged and hard to control. Requires a joystick in Port #2.
SCREENX22 -ScreenX's major functions are - It provides a small clock and
memory counter if you want to use it; cycles screens so you can get
to those that are behind, even if the front screen has no depth
gadget; and provides an easy way to save a screen to an IFF file
or send it to the printer.
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BOOTUNE - The purpose of Bootune is to put an easily recognizable
boot track on your disk, which would be a likely target for a virus.
Thus, when you don't get the standard boot tune, you know the workbench
(or whatever) is infected. Of course, this won't work on programs which
need their own special boot tracks (either for copy protection or
just out of a structural need). Bootune also flashes the screen from
time to time in case you don't have the audio connected.
BOUNCE - This is an animation done with TurboSilver. To run the animation,
cd to this directory and type
player Bounce.ani
FONTS - This file includes a number of large headline-type fonts, useful
for desk-top publishing, titling, and many other purposes.
MAGICSQR - This is a game, based on one of the electronic games from
MERLIN. The object of the game is to select a sequence of pattern
changes that will result in generating a magic square. Instructions
and suggestions are included.
WRITUTILS - This is a collection of small utilities from Matt Dillon, each
designed to do one specific task, such as add a carriage return at the
end of each line, to remove carriage returns from the ends of the
lines, to find a file, to compare two files and report the
differences,and one or two others.
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STRIPES - Stripes is a program that will create a multi-shaded
effect for your workbench screen. With the program you have
complete control of the effects that you want.
DLABEL - DLabel is a simple but useful utility for printing 3.5" disk labels
with an IBM compatible printer. Its use is self-explanatory --
simply click on the CLEAR gadget to erase the startup text, enter
your data, and click the PRINT gadget to send it to your printer.
*** Note that DLabel works only with IBM compatible printers!
EDIBLE2 - This program will do many things to modify a file in order
to make it EDible. First, it will remove all characters that ED
cannot handle. It will also remove the CR/LFs of many files as when
using ED, only LFs are needed and CR/LFs will leave lots of messy
double spacing in the file. To get usage of the program, just type
EDible. An optional third comment may be added if you like. This can
be a number from 0-255. It will tell the program the maximum line
length you want.
RULER3 - Opens a borderless WorkBench window in which is contained a ruler
for the purpose of aligning or constraining text; the default ruler
is 30 characters intended to help prevent entering too-long filenames.
The program will automatically adjust itself to fit your personal
screen configuration (ie. MoreRows).
MFFCIS - These are some AREXX programs to help you manage Compuserve data
libraries using Microfiche Filer and AREXX. These will take WHAP TAPCIS
".CAT" files and put them into a MFF database. Duplicates may be
deleted. Also included is a MFF database of the AmigaTech library with
uploads from July to mid-December -- Art Steinmetz
PICS - Just to look at !! Includes the AMY500 pic.
AMY500 - This is a picture of the Amiga 500 from the INSIDE. Shows the main
board, chip locations, and board layout. This picture comes from one of
those "Utility" disks from Europe called "The Firm", so the original
artist is not known. I just captured the picture, added the 68000 CPU
which was missing, touched up Fat Agnus a little, and added the labels.
Let me know if the labels are not right because its been awhile since I
have opened up a 500. John Gager
SIMPLE - A very simple ARexx macro for TxEd+ to show beginners how to go
through a file doing things until the file is finished. Highly
commented I deleted the comments and resaved it as Template.txed, so I
can use it as a starting point and memory-jogger for the few occasions
when I need to write a macro. For beginners only.
// Jim Ventola
DSDELUXE - Disk Storage Deluxe displays more info about floppies, hard disks
ram, etc. than you every need to know. Its window will pop up on ANY
screen. Warns you when free storage in any device drops below a
specific level by flashing, beeping, a requester, or speaking! This is
the 'Deluxe' version of the old Disk Storage with many new things and
it is very robust now. Definitely something you shouldn't miss. Get
it! Khalid.
MAXCLI - For those of you who don't know, AmigaDOS has a ceiling of 20 for
the maximum number of CLI's you can have open at once. Well, this
little utility that fits nicely at the top of your s-s changes that to
255, which is more than even the most memory-rich user will probably
ever need.
FONTS - Four more fonts Florence,San Diego,ST and Steelbrush
A3000 - A "what-if" sketch of the way someone else would have designed it!!
COLOURTEXT - This program wedges the standard Amiga Text() call to provide
support for ColorFonts(tm). ColorFonts(tm) is the multi-colored Amiga
font standard developed by Interactive Softworks. ColorFont(tm)
characters can have from 2 to 16 different colors, and are generally
created by using InterActive Softworks Calligrapher program.
The ColorFonts(tm) standard has been adopted as part of the V1.4 Amiga
Operating System.
FILETYPE - Identifies the type of files by examining the first 512 bytes
and using heuristics (i.e. it guesses). For instance, it distinguishes
C programs from Assembly from Modula II from Smalltalk from English text
it knows about the different icon types, device drivers, libraries,
Aztec file types, arc, zoo, IFF files, etc. I did my best to have it
recognize every file type I could get my hands on. Currently works only
from the cli.
REXXARP21 - This is for now the last release of rexxarplib.library. A
couple of new functions, a few were extended, and one or two were
slightly modified.The nicest new feature is the ability to display IFF
files. For this you will need Christian Weber's iff.library, though. It
is available on BIX as iff153.zoo: I have not included it in this
archive.
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TVUtil - This program allows you to create your own schedule for TV Sports:
Football if you get tired of the "standard" schedule on the original
disk or if you wish to create a schedule for an NFL season as yet
unplayed or a season of the past. The editor gives you the oppor-
tunity to change several aspects of any league disk for TV Sports:
Football. It holds several advantages over the editor in the
original game. One advantage is that it is much faster than
the editor in the game, which is very slow responding to keyboard
input. Another advantage is that you do not have to concern
yourself with the "rank" of each player. Any player can have any
ability rated from 1 to 8. The most significant advantage is that
you can change the jersey colors of teams if you prefer one over
another.
MJ-PGS - The programs in this group are in AmigaBasic and designed to
generate and plot Mandelbrot and Julia sets. The time-critical
iteration routine of the generator (MJ.Gen_T) is written in assembly
language by Martin F. Combs. An addition innovation by Martin is
that the ML program operates on long integers which are derived by
multiplying input parameters by 2^28. As a result, the pro-
gram is extremely fast (about 3 times as fast as the usual
Mandelbrot programs written in C, available as PD or Shareware).
LOCKS - This is a tiny program that will remove any unneeded locks retained
in the system. Have disk icons hanging around even after you have
reformatted the disks? Locks will let them go away. System keep
demanding a disk you no longer have, or a directory you have deleted?
use Locks. Type "LOCKS" in a cli window for usage.
FLIP - Flip is a screen hack, but not the same as the one that was popular
a year or so ago. This one resides in a tiny window in the tile bar
anmd flips the screen from time to time - random sequence.
BATMAN - The Batman composite picture was created by modifying the
"head.scene" that came with the Sculpt 3D program, ray tracing the basic
scene from five different angles mostly in "snapshot" mode, and then
combining these pics into one picture using Digi-paint.
SCSIDOS3.0 - This will be useful to anyone who has a C-Ltd. hard disk. This
is the latest version of low-level formatter for those disks, and
was said to have cured many problems.
ICONS - Icons for many of the most-used items of Amiga software - things
like DPaint, Meshugnea, and about ten others.
VTONT - VTOT is a collection of effects useful when recording Amiga output
onto video tape. It can run in the background, and the commands
are available at any time. There are three types of commands -
Display, Effects and Miscellaneous. the DISPLAY commands give control
over colors, etc. Effects will negate colors, or do flips and fades.
Miscellaneous commands give control over window size and display modes.
These tools were written by Mike Berro of MicroIllusions, and placed
in public domain.
MEd24 - Version 2.4 of a freely distributable editor.
Med is a text editor written e specially for the Amiga. Uses
the features of the Amiga with a view to make a programm user-
friendly. It works with the mouse and menus, and can edit up to
36 texts at one time.
Packit - A file packer for disks. Type "PACKIT ?" in a cli window for usage
Main task is to take all files and pack into 1 for use with a modem.
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3D-ICONS - The author of this file was impressed with the icons on the NeXt
machine. He made these for his Amiga. You'll find a number of
icons for each "type" and "name" disk device you have. Simply
copy the appropriate .info file to the disk and rename DISK.INFO
as you copy it. To aid in seeing what each icon looks like, I've
included a picture file. View it with any IFF ILBM picture
viewing utility.
AUTO13 - This patch is for those of us without auto-config. The patch is
added to the Kickstart disk, performing the ADDMEM function whenever
a "cold boot" is performed. The Kickstart execution of ADDMEM
should eliminate the problems some RAM experience with ADDMEM and
recoverable RAM disks (RRD, VD0- , Survivor, etc.).
CAT&MOUSE - Cat & Mouse is a game of hand/eye coordination. The aim of the
game is very simple- STAY ALIVE AS LONG AS POSSIBLE. BUT (because
there always has to be a BUT) as in real life, the more you eat the
slower you will go and that's what your deadly opponents the Cats
are hoping for. Also, if you don't eat enought you will loose your
reserves of energy and either die or get caught. Also like in real
life, you only have one life to live...
DISKSTICK - This is a program designed for printing labels for 3 1/2" disks.
It opens a window, reads the directories, provides for editing,
offers a choice of print pitch, multiple or single column, and
automatically prints the disk name and label.
DST11 - This is a small program that will run from either the WB or CLI.
It will display a list of ALL currently mounted devices, including
hard disk partitions on the Workbench screen, i.e. it does not
have its own window, so you have no way of communicating with it.
That also means that it takes very little memory (no chip mem at
all) and very little processor time.
EASYMENU - This is a programming routine that will create a menu
to be used in your own programs. Very short, source only.
HELPWP - WordPerfect Helper - this will put a bar on the bottom line of the
screen showing the Function Key definitions for WordPerfect. Press
one of the qualifier - keys and the display changes to show what the
function key does with that qualifier. Saves lots of searching
on that tiny template they send you.
RUNBACK3 - This is an altered version of Rob Peck's fine program, RunBack.
RunBack, similar to Run, allows you to startup a CLI program and
let it run in the background. Unlike Run, however, RunBack allows
the original CLI to be closed. Run would hang the CLI if you did this.
Also unlike Run, the old RunBack did not search your command search
path; you always had to specify the complete pathname of your command.
This new version eliminates this hassle - - it searches your path.
SCREENHACKS - Two of them - CloseMe, a window that just won't close, and
some other tricks, besides. Also, EW14. You saw Exploding
Windows a few months ago, and now it is better.
SETFONT2.5 - This is an update to Dave Haynie's popular SetFont program.
SetFont V2.5 is a public domain program designed to allow the system
font of the Amiga to be changed in various different ways. The
program is called from a shell or startup - sequence script, and has
the form - SetFont [fontname [point [places]]]
Almost any diskfont of suitable size can be used.
SHOWFONT32 - December 88 update to this program, which will display all
characters of a diskfont in a window on the screen. It works
quickly, and its window goes away after you are through. It
puts a requester on the screen, from which you may select the
name and size of the font to be viewed.
QuickLens - QuickLens v2.03 is a program that magnifies portions of any
screen. It demonstrates some very fast bit manipulation techniques.
Written by Mike Berro, it is based on "Lens" by Ned Konz. v2.03 has
Magnify and NextScreen gadgets. QLens automatically vacates any
closing screen.
TTT - a 3-dimensional tic-tac-toe game on a board of 4 levels each board
has 16 squares all displayed in perspective.
Asteroids - Asteriods loads all of its images from a single IFF/ILBM
file called "template.ilbm". If you don't like any or all of the
shapes of the asteroids or ships just edit this file. The images
must remain the same size as before and be roughly circular
(collision detection is based on circular objects). Sounds are
loaded from a set of IFF/8SVX sound files which you can also change
to your liking.
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UEDIT24GS - Uedit is an editor for technical users. It has many
wordprocessing features.
In developing and enhancing Uedit, the aims have been for the user to -
o Be able to work without bumping into limits of power and capacity;
o Be able to automate repetitive work, eliminate tedium, save time;
o Be rid of the irritation of wasted keystrokes and stodgy performance;
o Be able to customize the environment fully;
o Be able to create, on the spot, new capabilities that are needed.
TILES - Tiles! is your basic no-frills Shanghai-type game. A board is
covered with a set of 144 tiles, 36 different suits of 4 identical
tiles, each with a picture on it. The object is to remove all the tiles
2 at a time, by matching pairs of identical tiles. Select one tile and
it becomes hilighted. Select another matching tile and they both are
removed from the board. The catch is that you can only select tiles
which are on the end of horizontal rows. Some rows are on top of other
rows, but you can match tiles on different levels.
GARYICONS - This is a large set of icons. Includes term prog icons.
General interest, a bee?, some music and others.
EETART - This file contains a number of pictures drawn by artist Jim
Williams, who prefers to be called 'Eet'. Eet was born in Hurst, and
lived in one of the north Dallas suburbs before moving to Iowa. These
pictures include several cartoon types and some logos. These are all
original art - not digitized.
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BAM12 - This program is a complete setup for a SuperBASE PRO database
program. The author wrote this program to fill a specific need he had
to manage the individual checks that he deposit into the bank. He is a
freelance musician, and his income is from many different sources. He
needed a way to keep track of what he has and has not been paid for.
BANK ACCOUNT MANAGER was born from this need.
BROWSER16 - This is one of the most useful programs I have found in public
domain - though it is released this time as shareware, no specific
amount suggested. It permits you to have your directories onscreen in
a text window rather than an iconic one. It lists ALL files, not just
those that have icons. You can use the Workbench utilities for copying,
deleting, renaming, etc. This updated version permits you to make
additional pull-down menus, and to start programs by selecting them from
the menus. These can be set up as you work, or can be stored in your
startup sequence and be ready always.
CORSAIR - Very nice picture of a Corsair - especially nice use of the
cycling feature of DPaint to imitate animation.
DIRARC - If you have arced files on disks, this is a must for you! This
will read directories or disks of arced files and prepare DirMaster
compatible files. You can then read the file into DirMaster to find,
list, print, and otherwise manage your arced library.
DMPATCH -On January 1, 1989, the popular disk utility program 'DiskMaster'
developed a problem. It would display any date after Dec 31 1988 as Dec
99,9999. Although all files were date stamped correctly, this was an
annoying problem. DatePatch will correct this problem on all version
1.0 DiskMaster programs.
DPLAZ - This one came without any documentation, but is said to prepare
your IFF pictures for printing with a postscript printer.
EARPLAY - This is a fairly simple, MIDI keyboard-controlled ear training
program EarPlay currently gives practice in the recognition of melodic
intervals only, i.e. hearing and identifying intervals in sequence. When
you begin the actual practice, the program will play a sequence of one
or more intervals. After hearing the sequence, you should then play on
the keyboard the notes you think you heard.
GEOTIME - Geotime actually consists of two separate programs, Geotime_m
depicts a earth map with day and nite sides shaded. You'll be able to
observe the earth's shadow scroll across the map in real-time based on
the system clock. The other program, Geotime_g is a workbench clock,
and shows the earth as a globe with day and nite sides. Like the map,
the shadows will progress in real-time showing the current phase of the
earth.
NAKAMOTO - This is a Jumpman-type game, and you can edit or make your
own screens with the included editor.
PRINT - Print will open a window, and show the complete status, during the
printing, like....
1) Indicates the name of the file and exact length of the file.
2) Indicates the exact amount of the file (bytes sent) that was
received and verified by the printer.
3) A status bar (scale) that indicates the percentage (0% to 100%) of
the file that is printed so far.
4) And an 'Abort' gadget to abort the printing of the file.
SORRY - This is the Amiga version of the board game, Sorry! The graphics
are nice, and the game works well. From 1 to 4 players can participate.
STMP - 'Stamp' will rename a file to the same name but with a date/time
stamp. This program is very useful when you want to keep files that
always get written over by a program. In programming, you could use it
for source code files or for executables, or any other use, like online
capture files, etc.
ZERG - An adventure game, similar to Ultima. This is a role-playing
adventure in which you set up characters and explore with them.
ZPATCH - This is a patch that repairs the broken date function in
ZOO2.0. If the dates in ZOO are a problem to you, this will fix it.
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COLORLAB -This program will let you take a color picture in any resolution
except HAM, modify the picture to show how it will appear in black and
white,and then let you print it on your printer. Useful for making
printouts of color pictures on a b/w printer, but it will also let you
modify the colors in an IFF image.
WPUTIL - Utilities written by WordPerfect Corporation for use with
WordPerfect. One is a file converter, that converts text from other
word processors to WordPerfect. The other is a macro-editor, making it
easy for you to set up macros to make WordPerfect easier to use. A
number of extremely useful macros are included. I especially like the
one that lets you change the default directory without reloading.
DPLAZ - An earlier version of this one was called CLAZ. It lets you
control a laser printer from the Amiga, giving you considerable control
over the output. DPLAZ is a primitive (very primitive right now)
typesetting^M program for the Amiga. It will allow you to arrange and
print IFF pictures on a POSTSCRIPT laser printer. Currently the user
interface is somewhat unfriendly, but functional. This program is
similar in nature to "CLAZ",
FASTDISK - This program will copy your disk to a blank one, and while
copying it will rearrange the disk to make it work faster. Directories
may be from three to five times as fast after using FastDisk.
MACH25 - This is an update to the popular mouse program MACHII. The new
version has a "SETMACH" program to set up your configuration(s), which
will then be loaded by MACH when you use it. A window shuffler has
been added, as has the ability to change your preferences from the MACH
program. The other abilities include mouse blanking, popcli, screen
blanking after non-use, hot keys, sunmouse, mouse acceleration, and
others.
SRT - This program installs a wedge into AutoRequest for the purpose of
replacing the text of standard system requesters. If your replacement
text for "Software error - task held" is "DEBUG", SRT will replace those
useless Software Error requesters with a full width display of the PC,
SP, registers, task address, and name of the task/command/process that
crashed. A sample file of replacement text is included, but you can
replace the error messages with any text you want.
WCS - This is an adventure game WilliConstructionSet, with an editor for
creating your own screens and levels. It was recently featured in INFO
magazine in an article by Harv Laser. This is an updated version with
faster operation and more new features, plus some bug fixes.
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A68K24 - Version 2.4 of Charlie Gibbs' freely distributable assembler for
the Amiga. This assembler has been constantly groomed and enhanced,
and is now the assembler of choice for many who consider it to be better
than the commercially available ones. It does not have the includes,
of course,but those come with all compilers. You can use SMALL.LIB
from the Butterfield Assembler disk in our library, or you can order
the includes from Commodore for $20. This is a VERY nice assembler!
ADD21K - The 21K is added by removing all but two colors from your
workbench screen. If space is really tight, though, it might let you
run something that would otherwise be impossible.
APP - APP is a preprocessor for the 68000 assembler that comes with Aztec C
for the Amiga. It will probably work with other 68000 assemblers. APP
provides structured programming constructs for the assembly language
programmer. Specifically, APP provides support for IF-THEN-ELSE-
ELSEIF- ENDIF constructs and for DO-WHILE-UNTIL-ENDDO constructs.
ONEPLANE - This program is very similar to the ADD21K, from a different
author. It reduces the Workbench to a single plane, making it have only
two colors, but reducing the amount of memory required. Could be very
useful in tight memory times.
TETRIX - Version 1.1 of the Russian game, Tetrix. There is a commercial
version of this game, called Tetris. The game consists of a 'pit' with
blocks falling into it. Your job - keep the pit from filling up. You
do this by aligning the blocks so that no empty spaces are left. When
an entire row is filled, that row is removed, leaving extra space at the
top of the pit. This game can be very addictive!
TS - The utility provided here will request the correct time and date from
TimeSaver and update the internal Amiga Clock. This utility will work
in all situations and with any combination of settings activated within
TimeSaver. The Tickler will get and set the time properly even if
the TimeSaver is totally turned off.
TUTOR - To use this, you must first make a Workbench disk to hold it and
then copy this file to the Workbench. This Tutor will teach you to use
the CLI commands. The screen will be split, with the instructions in
one half and the practice in the other, so that you can practice the
commands and see them work as you go through the lessons.
XLISP - XLISP is an experimental programming language combining some of
the features of Common Lisp with an object-oriented extension
capability. It was implemented to allow experimentation with object
oriented programming on small computers. There are currently
implementations of XLISP running on the IBM- PC and clones under MS-DOS,
on the Macintosh, the Atari-ST and the Amiga. It is completely written
in the programming language 'C' and is easily extended with user written
built-in functions and classes. It is available in source form to non
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GO - The object of this games is to claim territory by surrounding
it with your stones. Stones are removed from the board when
all adjacent (but not necessarily diagonally adjacent)
positions are occupied by the opponent. One point is
awarded for each point of territory and for each captured
stone.
HUMBIRD1.3 - There is however one catch, You must have a NewShell window
open with "AmigaShell" as it's window title, since this is the
window title we key on to find out how to change the pointer.
Not the greatest, but it works!!!
KLONDIKE20 - Card game writtin in BASIC by David Addison, enhanced by John
Everett. This warning came from John's documentation -
WARNING -
I told my wife I was going to warn everybody that this game was
addicting. Her comment - "I don't think its addicting. I've been
playing it 14 hours a day for three weeks now, and I can quit anytime
I want to!"
MOREROWS - An update to a much earlier disk. Enables more rows and columns
to be displayed on the screen than is otherwise posible.
MultiVue - This prog will read graphics files in various formats including
Amiga IFF Amiga ACBM (Amiga continuous bitmap), Atari St (DEGAS elite
and NEOchrome), Macintosh and some specials ALSO it will write the same
formats AND create giant icons.....
LPlayer - Will play a digitized sound sample that is bigger than the normal
800k that can be got on a standard disk.
Time - Displays the time in its own tiny window and has close and drag
gadgets. Time was written in assembler and was optimized for speed
and size.
CloseMe - A display hack that comes up in its own screen. Otherwise...
This program opens up a screen of its own unless you run it
from the CLI with a -w switch on the command line. For some
reason, it bogs down horribly when running on the Workbench
screen, and steals some memory that it never gives back,
although it behaves itself when run in a screen of its own.
AutoMount - Will automatically mount all the entries in your devs mountlist
file. Should speed up the startup-sequence. Yawn.
Pics - Picture of 2 US Airforce F14 Corsairs flying over a dserert
terrain. Digitised by the look of the pics. Very nice.
Sh - The program knows four simple sh commands: echo, cat, sed, and exit.
The version of sed that I've implemented is SEVERELY limited, but does
manage to unshar all of the shar files I've seen which use sed. If sh
finds any other commands, it ignores them.
ClIcon - Basically an Icon executer for Cli programs. All created icons
must be Project icons, not Tool or other icons. If you don't have a
project icon handy just use say NotePad from your WB disk.
ReSource - A demo of an interactive disassembler for the Amiga. Adds
labels and generally translates assembler into something meaningful.
Usefu