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Disk 1
- 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.
Disk 2
- 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
- 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 [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.
Disk 3
- 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.
Disk 4
- 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.
Disk 5
- 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 interesting presentation with minimum work.
Disk 6
- 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. Author Rob Peck with Modula 2 conversion by Anthony Bryant
Disk 8
- 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 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.
Disk 9
- 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
Disk 10
- 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
Disk 11
- 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 documentation 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
Disk 12
- 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, in a dirutil like format.
Disk 13
- 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.
Disk 14
- 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.
Disk 15
- 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.
Disk 16
- 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 v