========================== Contents of Disk 230 ========================== This is disk 230 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. AskTask Allows you to examine various bits of the task structures of all tasks in the system, from the lists attached to ExecBase. Diskplays priority, state, flags, stack, signals, etc. You can also remove tasks, change the priority of a task, or send arbitrary signals to a task. Version 2/4/89, includes source. Author: J. Bickers Fedup A random access, byte oriented file-editor that gives you the option of viewing and editing any file (binary or ASCII) using either ASCII or hexadecimal notation. Version 2.1, binary only. Author: Martin Lindemann FileIt A simple database program, written in DRACO. It is meant to be portable, thus it does not use any of Intuition's facilities. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: John Davis NComm A communications program based on Comm version 1.34, by DJ James, with lots of very nice enhancements. Also includes several auxiliary programs such as AddCall, CallInfo, IbmIso, PbConvert, and ReadMail. This is version 1.8, binary only. Author: DJ James, Daniel Bloch, Torkel Lodberg, et al. PrivHndlr A privilege violation handler for the 68010 cpu. Like Decigel, but survives a reboot so you can use it with copy protected programs that run from boot. Version 3, includes source in assembly code. Author: John Veldthuis Quattro Another Tetris like program. Has three levels of play difficulty, sound effects, a 43-color background, next stone preview, and joystick or numberpad control. Version 1.0, binary only, source available from author. Author: Karl-Erik Jenss ========================== Contents of Disk 231 ========================== This is disk 231 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Diff Yet another diff program. This one implements the algorithm from Communications of the ACM, April 78. It produces output which might be considered to be a little more user friendly than the standard Unix style diff programs. Includes source. Author: Donald C. Lindsay File A program that recognizes various types of files and prints what that type is. Recognizes font files, icon files, executable files, standard object files, compressed files, command scripts, C source, directories, iff files, LaTeX source, modula II source, arc files, shell commands and scripts, TeX source, dvi files, uuencoded files, yacc files, zoo archives, etc. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Edwin Hoogerbeets NoClick2 A program which silences the clicking of empty drives on the B2000 under AmigaDOS 1.3. It should also work on an A500. Binary only, source available from author. Author: Norman Iscove Plot A package for making 2D and 3D plots conveniently. AG Baxter wrote the intuition interface program (Plot) and Tim Mooney wrote the MultiPlot and ThreeDPlot programs, which are called from Plot. This is version 1.2 and includes source to Plot. Author: AG Baxter, Tim Mooney Sed This is the GNU sed (stream editor) program, ported to the Amiga. Sed copies the named files, or the standard input, to its standard output, while performing certain editing operations specified in the command line script or in a scriptfile. Version 1.02, includes source. Author: Unknown, ported to Amiga by Edwin Hoogerbeets ========================== Contents of Disk 232 ========================== This is disk 232 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. BallyIII Amiga port of the former arcade game named Click. This version fixes some minor bugs and is faster than the previous versions. This is version III, an update to the version released on disk 221. Binary only, shareware. Author: Oliver Wagner Dbug Machine independent macro based C debugging package. Provides function trace, selective printing of internal state information, and more. This is an update to the version released on disk 102, and now includes a machine independent stack use accounting mechanism. Includes source. Author: Fred Fish; profiling support by Binayak Banerjee ReSourceDemo A demo version of ReSource, an interactive disassembler for the Amiga. This is a complete version except that the "save" features have been disabled. This is version 3.06, an update to version 0.36 from disk 192. Binary only. Author: Glen McDiarmid ========================== Contents of Disk 233 ========================== This is disk 233 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Brik A general purpose program that calculates both text and binary cyclic redundancy codes (CRCs). Text mode CRCs calculated by brik are portable across systems for files that are in the usual text format on each system. Binary mode CRCs are portable for files that are moved from system to system without any change. Brik can be used to verify and update an embedded checksum header in files. It runs under MS-DOS, UNIX system V, BSD UNIX, VAX/VMS, and AmigaDOS. This is version 2.0 and includes source. Author: Rahul Dhesi CacheCard An accessory to SetCPU for use with A2620 cards or 68030 systems. It modifies the MMU table set up by SetCPU to selectively control caching for each expansion card. It's also an example of how an accessory program can track down and modify the SetCPU MMU table without having to read all kinds of MMU registers and figure it out for yourself. Version 1.00, includes source. Author: Dave Haynie CrcLists Complete CRC check files for disks 001-231 using the brik program also on this disk. These were made directly from my master disks. I have switched to brik, from the crc program used to make the lists on disks 133, 146, and 173, because it has more features and because source is available. Author: Fred Fish ========================== Contents of Disk 234 ========================== This is disk 234 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. KwikBackUp A harddisk backup program that writes data track by track onto multiple floppy disks. Uses the archive bit, saves and restores comments and protection flags, and skips over bad spots during restore. Version 1.0, includes source in Modula-II. Author: Fridtjof Siebert MuchMore Another program like "more", "less", "pg", etc. This one uses its own screen to show the text using a slow scroll. Includes built-in help, commands to search for text, and commands to print the text. Works with PAL or NTSC, in normal or overscan modes. Supports 4 color text in bold, italic, underlined, or inverse fonts. Version 1.8, includes source in Modula-II and assembly code. Author: Fridtjof Siebert NetWork Another program in the long tradition of "screen hacks" for the Amiga. Won't spoil the surprise by saying what it does. Version 1.0, includes source in Modula-II. Author: Fridtjof Siebert PrintIt A program to print IFF pictures on Epson compatible 9-pin printers. Prints in many resolutions, with many ways to convert color pics to black and white. Version 1.0, includes source in Modula-II. Author: Fridtjof Siebert WBPic Replaces Workbench's color 0 with an IFF hires non- interlaced picture, in 2 or 4 colors. Version 1.0, includes source in Modula-II. Author: Fridtjof Siebert XHair Replaces the mouse pointer with a screen wide crosshair, which is useful for positioning things vertically or horizontally. Version 1.0, includes source in Modula-II. Author: Fridtjof Siebert ========================== Contents of Disk 235 ========================== This is disk 235 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. CalcKey A basic four function, memory resident, pop-up calculator which uses only about 24K of memory and can automatically type the answer to any calculation into the program you were using when it was popped up. Version 1.0, binary only, shareware. Author: Craig Fisher Ct An Amiga program to display images from a CT scanner, along with several new interesting sample images of scans of real people. The display software, though it has a primitive user interface, is quite powerful, including functions like convolutions, averaging, laplacians, unsharp masking, edge detection, gradients, etc. This is version 2.2, an update to the version on disk 137. Binary only. Additional image disks available from author. Author: Jonathan Harman MirrorWars A new game featuring sound, title music, and two player mode. You fight your opponent via laser rays, but beware of the mirrors reflecting your shots. Binary only. Author: Oliver Wagner ========================== Contents of Disk 236 ========================== This is disk 236 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. AmigaBench Optimized Amiga assembly versions of the Dhrystone benchmark. Includes 68000 and 68020 versions. Author: Al Aburto DiskHandler A sample implementation of a file system that reads and writes 1.2 format diskettes. Includes source. Author: Software Distillery Heart3D A program to find left ventricle outlines in the output of an Imatron CT scanner, and display wireframe animations of the beating heart. Includes several sample CT scan outputs. Binary only. Author: Jonathan Harman Ls Version 3.1 of the popular UNIX style directory lister. This is an update to version 2.0 from disk 178, and includes some bug fixes, support for multiple wildcard pathnames, quicker sorting, a best-fit output, new output width and height options, and some other new features. Includes source. Author: Justin V. McCormick. Proc Example program of how to create a full-fledged DOS process without needing to call LoadSeg first. Based on an idea presented at BADGE. Includes source. Author: Leo Schwab XprZmodem An Amiga shared library which provides ZModem file transfer capability to any XPR-compatible communications program. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Rick Huebner ========================== Contents of Disk 237 ========================== This is disk 237 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. CLIPrint An example of printing to the CLI from assembly code. Includes source (of course). Author: Jeff Glatt CType Another text file reader, but this one is small, reasonably fast, and includes bi-directional scrolling, search, go to a given percentage, and printing capabilities. Version 1.0, includes source in assembly. Author: Bill Nelson DPlot A simple display program for experimental data, with the goals of supporting paging through lots of data and providing comfortable scaling and presentation. Version 1.0, source available from author. Author: A. A. Walma ILBMLib A shared library (ilbm.library) to read/write IFF files, derived from the EA IFF code, along with various enhancements. Includes examples of using the library from C code, assembly code, or BASIC, along with source for examples and interface code. Author: Jeff Glatt ParOut Shows how to allocate and communicate directly with the parallel port hardware from an assembly language program. Includes source. Author: Jeff Glatt (original C code by Phillip Lindsay) Speed A performance benchmark useful for comparing Amiga processing speeds. Performs 10000 iterations of some selected groups of 68000 instructions while using the DateStamp time function to record how many ticks it takes to complete. This timed duration is then compared against two known prestored times, one for a stock A2000 Amiga and one for an A2620 enhanced A2000. A relative comparison is calculated and displayed. Version 1.0, includes source in assembly language. Author: Jez San ========================== Contents of Disk 238 ========================== This is disk 238 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. CWDemo Demo version of a pop-up utility to control the color register assignments of Intuition custom screens. Version 3.1, binary only. Author: Kimbersoft DMouse A versatile screen & mouse blanker, auto window activator, mouse accelerator, popcli, pop window to front, push window to back, etc, widget. Includes DLineArt, a screen blanker replacement program for use with DMouse. This is DMouse version 1.20, an update to version 1.10 on disk 168/169. Includes source. Author: Matt Dillon LabelPrint A program that allows you to easily print labels for your disks. This is version 2.5, an update to version 1.9 from disk 210. Shareware, binary only (source available from author). Author: Andreas Krebs NGC Yet another virus check program. Checks the bootblock on all inserted floppy disks and reports nonstandard ones. Checks the jump tables of all resident libraries and devices and reports suspicious entries. Version 1, includes source in assembly. Author: Ulf Nordquist Pyth A program to draw the Tree of Pythagoras. Version 1.1, includes source. Author: Andreas Krebs Steinschlag A tetris like game (Steinschlag means "Falling Rock") submitted by the author. This is version 1.8, an update to version 1.5 from disk 221. Binary only. Author: Peter Handel ========================== Contents of Disk 239 ========================== This is disk 239 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. It contains Forth programs from the JGoodies #1 disk, from Delta Research (the makers of JForth Professional 2.0). All of the material has been placed into a subdirectory (JGoodies). Below is a listing of subdirectories under JGoodies, and their contents. Brunjes Various tools submitted together by the author. StringPkg is string package for both Forth style and NUL terminated strings. Date&Time are handy tools for getting and printing formatted date and time. Utils are utilities used by the other files. CursorControl is an example of moving the text cursor. SpaceOrEscape is a handy word for pausing or stopping program output. Includes source code. Author: Roy Brunjes Evolution This program graphically simulates the evolution of a species of "bugs", the insect kind. Bugs, represented by moving blobs, eat bacteria represented by single pixels. They mutate, compete for food, reproduce and pass their mutations to their offspring. Fascinating example of graphics and software simulation. Standalone image and source code. Author: Russel Yost FFT Highly optimized Fast Fourier Transform tools for digital signal processing. The FFT can be used to compute the frequency spectrum of a complex signal. It is useful in a variety of different applications. Floating point and integer versions. Mixture of high level and assembly language code. Includes source (requires JForth). Author: Jerry Kallaus Guru Handy "guru" number interpreter (well, handy after reboot anyway!). Tells you what "81000009" means, for example. CLI usage only. Standalone image with readme file. Source code included. Author: Mike Haas H2J Converts 'C' style '.h' include files to JForth style '.j' files. Useful when developing interfaces to new Amiga libraries like ARP, etc. Standalone image and source code. Author: Phil Burk HAMmmm2 Graphics hack that displays moving lines in a HAM screen for a hypnotic effect. Uses sound tools from HMSL if available, for a drone sound that corresponds to the graphics image. Standalone image and source code. Author: Phil Burk HeadClean This program, combined with a fibre cleaning disk, can be used to clean the heads on your disk drives. Source code examples of accessing the Trackdisk device, and using gadgets are included. Standalone image with source code. Shareware. Version 2.0. Author: Phil Burk JustBeeps Simple example of using Audio and Timer devices. Plays a series of beeps whose pitches are based on a just intoned tuning system. Standalone image with source code. Author: Phil Burk Mandelbrot A fast Mandelbrot rendering program that uses some of the mathematical properties of the Mandelbrot set to greatly reduce the drawing time. Demonstrates graphics programming, assembly language, menus and IFF file I/O. Standalone image with source code. Author: Nick Didkovsky NeuralNet Example of Neural Net programming converted to JForth. Demonstrates a programming technique that many say is the wave of the future for software. This is a simple demo that shows neural propagation. Standalone image with source code. Author: Robert E. La Quey, ported by Jack Woehr Textra This easy-to-use text editor allows multiple windows, and provides a simple mouse driven interface. Those familiar with the "Macintosh style" editors will be comfortable with Textra's Cut, Copy and Paste commands. Standalone image. Documentation included. No source code. Author: Mike Haas