Conference hydra::amiga_v1

384.0. "Fish Disks: 54 to 58" by POMPEO::ZABOT (Marco Zabot-Adv.Tech.mgr-Turin ACT) Thu Mar 19 1987 04:54

From:   Fred Fish
Subj:	Disks 54-58 now available
 
Here are the contents of disks number 54-58, in reverse order as usual.
 
CONTENTS OF DISK 58
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ASDG-rrd	Extremely useful shareware recoverable ram disk.
		This AmigaDOS device driver implements a completely
		DOS compatible disk device in memory that survives
		resets, guru's, and crashes.  An absolute must for
		those with lots of ram.  Binary only.
		Author:  Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc.
 
BigView		Displays any IFF picture, independent of the physical
		display size, using hardware scroll.  Default display 
		size is 320 by 200 in lo-res; HIRES or LACE attributes
		added if user width/height exceeds low resolution
		boundaries.  Includes source.
		Author:  John Hodgson
 
EGraph		Egraph reads pairs of x and y values from a list of files
		and draws a formatted graph.  Supports four unique curve
		fonts; solid curves, dashed curves, dotted curves, and long
		dashed curves.  The maximum number of data points is 
		unlimited.  Has globs of options.  Binary only.
		Author:  Laurence Turner
 
HyperBase	Nice little shareware database management system.
		Version 1.5.  Binary only, source available from authors.
		Author:  Michael MacKenzie, Marc Mengel, and Craig Norborg
 
MemClear	Walks through the free memory lists, zeroing free memory
		along the way, and coalescing memchunks that have contiguous
		address spaces.  Includes source.
		Author:  John Hodgson
 
NewZAP		A third-generation multi-purpose file sector editing utility,
		from the author of FileZAP.  Displays and edits full 512-byte
		sectors via a 106 character wide internal font.  Includes
		a search feature to find specific strings or hex digits, 
		forwards or backwards.  Version 3.0, includes source.
		Author:  John Hodgson
 
RainBow		Marauder-style rainbow generator.  Installs a user copper
		list such that the background color is changed every few
		scan lines.  Includes source.
		Author:  John Hodgson
 
SmusPlayers	Two SMUS players, to play SMUS IFF music formatted files.
		Executables only.
		Author:  John Hodgson
 
View		A tiny ILBM viewer, for use with either the CLI or WorkBench.
		Includes source.
		Author:  John Hodgson
 
WBdump		JX-80 optimized workbench printer that does not use DumpRPort.
		Much more efficient than the Amiga JX-80 driver for full
		screen dumps.  Includes source.
		Author:  John Hodgson
 
 
CONTENTS OF DISK 57
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CutAndPaste	Public domain implementations of the Unix cut and paste
		commands.  Includes source.
		Author:  John Weald
 
GraphIt		A program to plot most simple functions in 2 or 3 
		dimensions, as well as 2d parametric equations in
		term of t.  Includes source.
		Author:  Flynn Fishman
 
Juggler		Stunning animation of a robot juggler with ray traced
		reflective spheres.  Uses HAM mode display and sound
		effects to boot!  This is version 1.2 and apparently
		fixes some bugs in the original version released on
		disk number 47.  Binary only.
		Author:  Eric Graham
 
MouseReader	Shareware program, submitted by the author, to read
		text files and view iff files using only the mouse.
		Binary only.
		Author:  William Betz
 
Ogre		A game of tactical ground combat in the year 2086.
		Ogres are giat cybernetic tanks, each prodigiously
		armed and possessing a limited self-awareness, allowing
		them to do their own tactical planning.  Your goal is
		to neutralize the ogre.  Includes source.
		Author:  Michael Caplinger; Amiga port by Hobie Orris
 
Splines		Program to demonstrate various curve fitting and
		rendering techniques.  Also includes something unique
		for the Amiga world, pop-up menus.  Includes source.
		Author:  Helene (Lee) Taran
 
 
CONTENTS OF DISK 56
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ClipBoard	Clipboard device interface routines to provide a standard
		interface, such as Open, Close, Post, Read, Write, etc.
		Author:  Andy Finkel
 
ConPackets	Demos the use of DOS packets, finding the Window pointer
		and ConUnit pointer of the CLI window, toggling Raw mode,
		getting cursor position and limits from the ConUnit, and
		ESC-sequence cursor positioning.
		Author:  Carolyn Scheppner
 
GetDisks	Sample program to find all available disk device names and
		return them as a simple exec list.  The list is made of named
		nodes, with the name being the device name.
		Author:  Phillip Lindsay
 
GetVolume	Sample program to get the volume name of the volume that
		a given file resides on.  Works on any device, even the
		RAM: device.
		Author:  Chuck McManis
 
Icon2C		Reads an icon file and writes out a fragment of C code
		with the icon data structures, for inclusion in a
		larger program.
		Author:  Carolyn Scheppner
 
MergeMem	Program which attempts to merge the MemList entries
		of sequentially configured ram boards.  When successful,
		allows allocating a section of memory which spans
		board boundries.
		Author:  Carolyn Scheppner
 
mCAD		An object-oriented drawing program, version 1.1.
		Uses 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; to zoom in, slide around, superimpose
		a grid, etc.  This shareware program was submitted by
		the author.
		Author:  Tim Mooney
 
 
CONTENTS OF DISK 55
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Csh		Version 2.05 of Matt Dillon's csh like shell, modified
		for Manx C.
		Author:  Matt Dillon, Manx'ified by Steve Drew
 
NewStartups	A couple of new C startup modules. AStartup.asm is
		the source to AStartup.obj, with 1.2 fixes and better
		quote handling.  TWStartup.asm is like AStartup.asm but
		opens a stdio window, using a user supplied window 
		specification, when executed from workbench.
		Author:  Commodore, posted to BIX by Carolyn Scheppner
 
Palette		A tool which allows you to change another program's
		custom screen colors.  Based on Charlie Heath's
		palette program from disk number 1.
		Author:  Carolyn Scheppner
 
PipeDevice	A working 'pipe:' device, which allows the standard output
		of one process to be fed to the standard input of another
		process, with both processes running concurrently.
		Author:  Matt Dillon
 
ScreenSave	A program to save a normal or HAM mode screen as an
		IFF file.  Also creates an icon for the saved file.
		Author:  Carolyn Scheppner
 
ShanghaiDemo	Demo version of the Activision game "Shanghai".
		Submitted directly by Activision for inclusion in
		the library.
 
SoundExample	A double buffered sound example for Manx C using 16-bit
		ints, small code, and small data.
		Author:  Jim Goodnow
 
Vsprites	A working vsprite example.
		Author:  Eric Cotton
 
Vt100		Version 2.6 of Dave's vt100 terminal emulator with
		kermit and xmodem file transfer.  It just keeps getting
		better and better...
		Author:  Dave Wecker
 
 
CONTENTS OF DISK 54
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Hanoi		Classical demo program for recursion.  Solves the
		towers of hanoi problem in a workbench window of
		its own.
		Author:  Ali Ozer
 
ISpell		A quick and dirty port of a Unix version of a freely
		distributable screen oriented, interactive, spelling checker.
		I use the Unix version daily and it is very nice.
		You will need expansion ram to run this with the
		supplied dictionary, as it loads the entire 300K
		hashed dictionary into memory.  A hard disk is
		also recommended.
		Author:  Pace Willisson
 
Ing		The next step in the "boing wars".  Turns a nice screen
		full of little windows into a screen of lots of bouncing
		little windows.  Cute!
		Author:  Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab
 
Lav		A "title bar type" program that displays the number of
		tasks in the Amiga's run queue, averaged over the
		last minute, 5 minutes, and 15 minutes.  Presumably
		inspired by, and named after, the BSD "load average"
		program.
		Author:  William Rucklidge
 
MidiTools	Simple programs to play and record through the MIDI I/F.
		Untested (I have no MIDI hardware).
		Author:  Fred Cassirer
 
MoreRows	A program to make the workbench screen larger than normal.
		The number of additional rows and columns are set via command
		line arguments.
		Author:  Neil Katin and Jim Mackraz
 
Tilt		Another of Leo's cute little toys.  This one
		makes your Amiga look like it didn't pass Commodore's
		vibration testing.
		Author:  Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab