Master README.TXT file for the TPUG Library CD ============================================== Courtesy of the Toronto PET Users Group. Visit us at: www.tpug.ca E-mail us at: info@tpug.ca This file is the master 'readme' file that describes the contents of the TPUG library CD. This CD contains thousands of disk images with over 10,000 programs that have benefitted TPUG members for years. Most of these programs are previously released freeware or shareware programs, but many were exclusive to the user community of the Toronto PET Users Group. The Toronto PET Users Group is a non-profit organization that exists to promote and support users of Commodore equipment. The club was founded in 1979 and over the years compiled a large library of programs for virtually all of the computers that Commodore manufactured. Many of these programs were submissions to TPUG by it's various members and are unique to the club. The advent of disk imaging technology has now allowed TPUG to preserve the disk images of the entire library. This is the most complete and comprehensive compilation of the library that has ever been put together, and is the culmination of a two year project to collect, research, organize and image the TPUG library. We tried as much as possible to only image disks that showed no surface blemishes and stuck to the master disks as much as possible. There was simply no way to test each program that is on this library CD to ensure that they work properly. However, if you notice any programs that do not run properly or suspect a program may be corrupted, please contact TPUG and we will try to find a working copy for future releases of this CD. In putting together this library CD compilation however, it became apparent that several disks were missing from the TPUG library. A search for these disks on the internet and with current and previous members of TPUG, and others, was only partially successful. It would be appreciated if anyone reading this who is in possession of any missing disks and willing to donate copies to TPUG, would contact TPUG at 'info@tpug.ca'. A few other things to note: 1. The disk images are mostly in D64 format 2. There are several in D71 format and D81 format 3. There are no disks in 8080 format 4. All of the disk image names are in lower case with the exeption of the Amiga images, which are in upper case 5. TPUG at one time distributed the Fred Fish Amiga disk collection on 3.5' floppies. This collection is not on this CD since there is a Fred Fish CD available outside of TPUG. With regards to the two sided disks or 'flippies': 1. If the name ends in alpha, sides are represented as 'a' & 'b'. eg (c)t2a (side A) & (c)t2b (side B) 2. If the name ends in numeric, sides are represented as '1' & '2'. eg (c)ta1 (side A) & (c)ta2 (side B) Generally each section below is described by: 1. Folder location - These are the folders in the root directory on the CD 2. Descriptions - Notes about the Commodore platforms they run on, and general notes about the disk images themselves, plus the total counts 3. Sub-folders - Usually these sub folders follow the paper catalog structure closely 4. Notes - Various notes, listing missing disks, missing files, rebuilt disks, etc. 5. Gaps - These are just gaps in the library based on the paper catalog listings. In most cases these do not represent missing disks, but are legitimate gaps that represent changes in the number sequencing, or where the library 'leapt ahead' to keep up with other user group libraries. See also the readme files for Amiga images in folder: Amiga\READMES ================================================ THE DISK LIBRARY OF THE TORONTO PET USERS GROUP: ================================================ ===== Amiga ===== Located in folder: Amiga These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Amiga 500, 600, 1000, 1200, 2000, 2500, 3000 & 4000 series of computers. The Amiga library disks are prefixed with the letter 'A', eg. (A)C1 The Amiga Vision library disks are prefixed with the letters 'AV', eg. (AV)AAA Total count: 168 (127 library, 30 Amicus, 11 FAUG) The sub-folders are divided as follows: A(C) (Communication) A(D) (Demos) A(E) A(F) (Fonts) A(G) (Games) A(M) (Music) A(P) (Pictures and Animations) A(TA) (Monthly disks) A(TB) (Monthly disks) A(TC) (Monthly disks) A(U) (Utilities) A(W) A(Z) (Miscellaneous) AV(AA) (Amiga Vision) AMICUS (Various AMICUS disks) AMIGATAX (Tax program) CATALOGS (Catalog disks) FAUG (Various FAUG disks READMES (Readme files for the Amiga images) WOC (Shows) NOTES: 1. (A)D3 is missing. Catalog says 'to be documented'. 2. (A)D7 is missing. The disk contained Scene Generator (from Natural Graphics) 3. (A)D8 is missing. The disk contained The Context Bible (from Neuralink) 4. (A)D9 is missing. The disk contained Kimbersoft Public Domain (from Kimbersoft) 5. (A)G1 and (A)G2 are disk 1 and disk 2 from the World of Commodore show 1988 and (A)SAA is World of Commodore show 1988 disk 3. 6. (A)S2 is from World of Commodore 1991. 7. (A)TAH is from World of Commodore 1987. 8. (A)Z2, Z3, Z4, Z5 are disk 1, 2, 3 and 4 of a series. 9. The Amiga folders also contain various setup files for Amiga computers GAPS: 1. (A)D7, (A)D8, (A)D9, (A)P5, (A)U3 (missing) 2. (A)TBU, (A)TBV, (A)TBZ. These are gaps not listed in the catalog. It is unknown if these are legitimate gaps or missing disks. ============ Commodore 64 ============ Located in folder: C64 These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore 64 computer or the Commodore 128 in C64 mode. These library disks are prefixed with the letter 'C', eg. (c)aa Total count: 294 The sub-folders are divided as follows: A-MONTHLY DISKS (Monthly disks from the library) B-BUSINESS (Business and productivity related programs) C-COMMUNICATION (Communication, bulletin board programs) D-DEMOS (Various demos) E-EDUCATION (Commodore 64 education disks) F-FRENCH (French language disk, TPUG's one and only) G-GAMES (Commodore 64 games) H-GRAPHICS (Printshop, Koalapad and other graphics) I-INFO MAGAZINE (Disks from INFO magazine) L-LANGUAGES (Language disks) M-MORE MONTHLY DISKS (More monthly disks from the library) R-SHOWS (Produced by TPUG for various computer shows) S-Sound and Music (SID player samples) T-TPUG Old Monthly Disks (Old monthly disks from U-Utilities (Various utilities) X-Demos and Utilities (Best demos and utilities) Z-Miscellaneous (Misc programs from the library) NOTES: 1. A new category was added, 'R' (Shows). This category was originally listed in the catalog as 'S-Shows'. The addition of this new category was necessary to differentiate it from the 'S' (sound and music) category. 2. (c)c13 in c64 catalog is not a flippy disk as stated in the catalog 3. C64 education disks are (C)e1-e8 & ed1 to ed50. PET education disks are (E)aa, ba, bb, etc. 4. (c)su was a new submission to the library 5. (c)wocvii89 is an unreleased show disk from World of Commodore 1989 6. G1 & G2 in GAMES folder are graphics disks. The games disks start at G3 and are headered Games-1, Games-2 etc 7. GAMES folder: some of these games require the PET emulator to be booted first 8. c(to) was never produced 9. c(u8) contains ZIP-CODE 2 in a folder. c(u9) contains the first ZIP-CODE program, included later. GAPS: 1. (c)ss, (c)to ============= Commodore 128 ============= Located in folder: C128 These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore 128 computer. These library disks are prefixed with the letter 'Y', eg. (y)aa Total count: 74 The sub-folders are divided as follows: Monthly Disks (the 'A' disks) Show Specials (the 'S' disks) NOTES: 1. (y)abq originally had the C128 catalog on side b. issued as flippy. It is one sided only on this CD. 2. (y)abq is disk 1 and (y)abr is disk 2 of a set 3. (y)abj is a D71 image 4. (y)uaa is an unreleased disk, included in the 'Show Specials' folder GAPS: None ===== COMAL ===== Located in folder: COMAL These are the TPUG library disks that run COMAL on the Commodore 64, Commodore 128 and PET series computers. These library disks are prefixed with the letter 'K', eg. (k)aaa Total count: 83 (plus boot disks) Note: You must first boot up COMAL on these computers in order to use these disks. Several versions of the COMAL boot disks are contained in the root of the COMAL folder (look for 'cboot' or 'kboot'). The sub-folders are divided as follows: A-COMAL Series B-Book Series L-PET COMAL S-Slide Show T-COMAL Today U-User Group (selections from various COMAL User Groups) X-Best of COMAL Z-Misc Series NOTES: 1. (k)aar was rebuilt from a bad disk. No files lost. GAPS: None ==== CP/M ==== Located in folder: CPM These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore 128 in CP/M mode. These library disks are prefixed with the letter 'Z', eg. (z)aa Total count: 86 (plus boot disks) Note: You must first boot up CP/M on the Commodore 128 in order to use these disks. Several versions of the CP/M boot disks are contained in the root of the CP/M folder (look for 'cpmboot'). NOTES: 1. (z)ada was originally issued as (z)adj, but was renamed. 2. (z)adb was originally issued as (z)adk, but was renamed. 3. (z)abq originally had the CPM catalog on side b and was issued as 'flippy' disk. It is one sided only on this CD. 4. There are multiple versions of these disks, some double sided: (z)aaa1, (z)aaa2, (z)aaa3, (z)aaa4, (z)aau1, (z)aau2, (z)aau3 GAPS: None === CRS === Located in folder: CRS These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore 64 & Commodore 128 computers. These library disks are prefixed with the letters 'CRS' with the sequence number, eg. CRS01. Total count: 70 These are disks made up from the archives of Canada Remote Systems, a bulletin board system active in the 1980's that was located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The CRS bulletin board offered programs and utilities for many 8-bit platforms, and the disks included here are the ones specifically for Commodore systems. These were originally to be included in the TPUG library after CRS became defunct. NOTES: 1. The following CRS disks were rebuilt due to bad files or bad disks: a. CRS16 is a rebuilt disk. It is missing files SAMPOKER.PRG, SKATERCK, SKTRCKBT & SLOTPOK.ER b. CRS44 is a rebuilt disk. No missing files. c. CRS62 is a rebuilt disk. It is missing files FERENGI.PRG d. CRS65 is a rebuilt disk. No missing files. GAPS: None ==== GEOS ==== Located in folder: GEOS These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore 64 computer in GEOS mode. These library disks are prefixed with the letter 'G', eg. (g)a1 Total count: 57 You must first boot up GEOS on the Commodore 64 in order to use these disks. NOTES: 1. (g)U5 is the flip side of (g)U4 2. (g)f14 & (g)f23 are rebuilt from bad disks GAPS: None ====== MS-DOS ====== Located in folder: MSDOS These are the TPUG library disks that run on MS-DOS based Commodore computers, PC10, PC20, PC30, PC40. These library disks are prefixed with the letter 'M', eg. (m)aaa Total count: 25 (plus additional disks) These have the individual PC files for each disk located in each of the folders NOTES: 1. m(aat) master disk listed as missing in the catalog. This is the EZS Spreadsheet program. 2. m(aau) master disk listed as missing in the catalog. This is the Galaxy Word Processor program. 3. TPUG also distributed as an 'office' suite: PC CALC, PC FILE, PC GL, PC TALK and PC WRITE. These are included here. 4. TPUG also distributed several demonstration programs: GEOS DEMO, LOTUS DEMO, and MONARCH DEMO. These are included here. 5. TPUG also distributed several shareware programs. Included here are two of them: BOXER (a text editor) and BY DESIGN (a design studio for Word Perfect). GAPS: m(aat), m(aau) =============== NEW SUBMISSIONS =============== Located in folder: NEW These TPUG library disks run on the various Commodore computers. These library disks are prefixed with the letter 'N', eg. (n)a1 Total count: 67 These contain the disk images that were sent to TPUG but were never included in the library. These images are a mix of platforms, some run on C64, some on PET, and some are combinations. New submissions disks are separated into categories based on the letter after the brackets eg. '(n)g1' is a new submission disk with applications related to GEOS. The 'g' categorizes it as GEOS. The sub-folders are divided as follows: A-NEWEST (These are the newest submissions from between 1991 up to 2009) G-GEOS (GEOS disks that run in the GEOS environment) H-KOALA PICTURES (Pictures created on the Koala Pad) J-JIM BUTTERFIELD (Various programs by Jim Butterfield) M-MID CITIES (Shareware from the Mid-Cities Commodore Users Group) N-NEW SUBMISSIONS (New submissions received before 1991) P-PLUS4 (More Plus4 programs) Q-QUANTUM LINK (Shareware from Quantum Link) V-TPUG CONTEST (Disks from TPUG's programming contest of 1986) NOTES: 1. Disk (n)v1 is the TPUG Programming Contest final disk. The rest of the 'v' series are the raw disks. 2. (n)n7 & (n)v3 are rebuilt from bad disks GAPS: None ======================== The Commodore PET Series ======================== Located in folder: PET These are the TPUG library disks that run on Commodore PET computers (2001, 4016, 4032, 8032, 8096, Superpet, etc). This folder represents all the PET related disk images. PET disks are separated into sub-folders as follows: B-B128 (Software that runs on the B128) E-Education (Educational software) O-Old PET 1979 (PET disks from years 1979 to 1982) N-New PET 1983 (PET disks from years 1983 forward) S-SuperPet (Super PET software) NOTES: 1. Some of the PET disks were produced in both 4040 and 8080 format. Only the 4040 format disks are included on this CD. All of the programs that were originally contained on the 8080 format disks were included on the 4040 formatted disks. The sub-folders are described below: -------- PET B128 -------- Located in sub-folder: B-B128 These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore B128 computer. These library disks are prefixed with the letter 'B', eg. (b)b1 Total count: 4 The Commodore 'B' series falls in the PET family of computers. B128 disks are separated into categories based on the letter after the brackets eg. (b)p1 is a B128 'potpourri' disk. The 'p' categorizes it as potpourri. The categories are divided as follows: B-Business P-Potpourri NOTES: 1. (b)b2, (b)u1 & (b)u2 were just recently located and included here. A rare find! 2. (b)p2 & (b)u2 were rebuilt from bad disks GAPS: None ------------- PET Education ------------- Located in sub-folder: E-Education These are the TPUG library disks that run on Commodore PET computers. These library disks are prefixed with the letter 'E', eg. (e)aa. Total count: 58 These are specifically education related disks and contain educational programs for the PET computers. NOTES: 1. C64 education disks are (c)e1-e8 & ed1 to ed50. PET education disks are (e)aa, ba, bb, etc. 2. (e)d1, (e)d2 & (e)d3 are actually for the Commodore 64. For some reason, they were never put in the Commodore 64 library. 3. (e)fa doesn't match the catalog. Some programs are missing. GAPS: None ------- PET OLD ------- Located in sub-folder: O-Old PET 1979 These are the TPUG library disks that run on Commodore PET computers. These disks were produced for the PET from years 1979 and 1982. These library disks are prefixed with the letter 'O', eg. (o)a1 Total count: 61 Old PET disks are separated into categories based on the letter after the brackets eg. '(o)b1 is an old PET 'business' series disk. The 'B' categorizes it as business. The categories are divided as follows: A-New TPUG Monthly B-Business C-Communication E-Education G-Games L-Language M-Math N-Math/Science S-Sound & Music T-Old TPUG monthly U-Utilities X-Best of Z-Miscellaneous NOTES: 1. (o)tj, (o)tk, (o)tl, (o)tm, (o)tp, (o)tq, (o)tr are not listed in the catalog GAPS: None ------- PET NEW ------- Located in sub-folder: P-New PET 1983 These are the TPUG library disks that run on Commodore PET computers. These disks were produced for the PET from years 1983 forward. These library disks are prefixed with the letter 'P', eg. (p)a9 Total count: 55 (plus the four PET utilities disks) A few of these disks were originally rebuilt and re-sequenced from the 'O' series disks. New PET disks are separated into categories based on the letter after the brackets eg. '(p)c3' is a new PET 'communication' series disk. The 'C' categorizes it as communication. The categories are divided as follows: A-New TPUG Monthly B-Business C-Communication E-Education G-Games L-Language M-Math N-Math/Science S-Sound & Music T-Old TPUG monthly U-Utilities X-Best of Z-Miscellaneous NOTES: 1. TPUG also distributed the PET utilities disks, included in this sub-folder. They are: contest.d64, helpdisk.d64, poweraid.d64 and speakersoft.d64 2. (p)aa is Northcastle Structured basic Side 1. It is headered (p)aaa 3. (p)ab is Northcastle Structured basic Side 2. It is headered (p)aab 4. (p)tq & (p)tr are believed to be missing. 5. (p)to was never produced 6. (p)tv is the same as (p)tu 7. (p)x9 is the same as (o)x9 GAPS: (p)tq, (p)tr (missing?) --------- Super PET --------- Located in sub-folder: S-Super PET These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore SuperPET computer. These library disks are prefixed with the letter 'S', eg. (s)s1 Total count: 34 NOTES: 1. TPUG also distributed the OS/9 disks for the Super PET. These are not included in this CD 2. (s)s1 through (s)s3 are the language disks 3. (s)s3 & (s)u1 were rebuilt from bad disks 4. (s)to, (s)tp, (s)tq, (s)tr, (s)ts, (s)tt are gaps. However, it's unknown if these are legitimate gaps or missing disks. The prior image, (s)tn, is March 85 and the next one, (s)tu, is June 85. GAPS: (s)to, (s)tp, (s)tq, (s)tr, (s)ts, (s)tt ===== PLUS4 ===== Located in folder: PLUS4 These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore Plus 4 computer. These disks had no prefix designation in the TPUG library. These disks were once considered missing from the library, but were recently located. A rare find! They consist of four files: plus4disk1, plus4disk2, plus4disk3 & plus4disk4 ==== TPUG ==== Folders in the root directory prefixed with TPUG contain various extras related to the Toronto PET Users Group. The folders are divided as follows: TPUG Photos (A selection of various TPUG related photos) TPUG Scans (Scans of the paper catalogs of the disk library, The TORPET and some of the TPUG Newsletters) TPUG Xtras (Various extras and goodies) The folder 'TPUG Scans' is divided as follows: Catalog - Scans of the paper catalogs for the disk library, taken from our website. TORPET - Scans of some of the TORPET newsletters, taken from our website. TPUG Newsletter - Scans of some of the TPUG newsletters, taken from our website. The folder 'TPUG Xtras' is divided as follows: 1. Catdisks: There are several versions of the catalog disks in this folder for Amiga, C64, C128, CP/M, MS-DOS & PET. There were no catalog disks made for B128, COMAL, GEOS, Plus4 or VIC-20. 2. CPM: These contain various rebuilds of CP/M library disks (z)aaa & (z)aau 3. JimBTax: These are the tax disks put out by Jim Butterfield. Various years represented here. Useful if you forgot to file your taxes from 1987! 4. Masterdisks: The original masterdisks that TPUG used to distribute, containing programs for COMAL & VIC-20. Some of these were used to build and maintain the paper catalogs. 5. Unreleased: These are unreleased disks from 1994 that were produced but never distributed. Some were incomplete, and some apparently had programs with language that TPUG couldn't release to the public. Anyway, they're included here. They are (c)d14, (c)d16, (c)d17, (c)d18, (c)d19. Also included: (c)sd, the unreleased speaker disk from a TPUG meeting in 1984. 5. Xtras More extras. This is the dump area for TPUG disks we couldn't figure out! NOTES: 1. cat128auto.d64 is an autobooting 128 catalog disk. It was rebuilt from a bad disk. ====== VIC-20 ====== Located in folder: VIC20 These are the TPUG library disks that run on the Commodore VIC-20 computer. These library disks are prefixed with the letter 'V', eg. (v)aa Total count: 63 Most of these disks were converted from the original master tapes years ago. The sub-folders are divided as follows: A-Monthly B-Business D-Demos E-Education F-French G-Games N-New S-Sound and Music T-Old Monthly U-Utilities V-More Utilities X-Best Utilities Z-Misc NOTES: 1. The 'T' series skips a few: (v)tf, (v)tm and (v)to. These were never produced. There is a note in the VIC20 catalog update that states: "You may have noticed that issues (V)TM, (V)TN and (V)TO are missing. In order to keep pace with other libraries, we are leaping ahead to (V)TP". Actually, (v)tn was in fact produced, but never released. It is included in this CD. 2. (v)ah was never released, but is included in this CD as (v)n1. GAPS: (v)tf, (v)tm, (v)to ===== XTRAS ===== This folder contains various utilities that enhance the TPUG library CD. The main ones are described below: ---- VICE ---- This is the folder containing the VICE emulator, a program that emulates the Commodore 64, Commodore 128, Commodore PET, Plus4 and CBM-II computers on a Windows based machine. This was developed several years ago by the VICE team. You can also download VICE from the website. The VICE team website is: www.viceteam.org WinVICE 2.1 - zip file ------ WINUAE ------ This is the folder containing WinUAE, the Windows Universal Amiga Emulator. It's a program that emulates the Amiga line of computers on a Windows based machine. You can also download WinUAE from the website. The WinUAE website is: www.winuae.net WinUAE 1.6.1 - installer and zip file ================== Various Web Links: ================== www.tpug.ca - Website of the Toronto PET Users Group www.winuae.net - Official homesite of WinUAE Universal Amiga Emulator for Windows www.viceteam.org - Website of the VICE team www.adobe.com - Adobe reader www.pcmuseum.ca - PC Museum of Brantford www.creativecommons.org - Location of the Creative Commons license for this CD For more web links go to www.tpug.ca and click on 'Links'. ============== The Final Word ============== Thanks: ------- Thanks to all of the TPUG librarians past and present that did their part to help preserve and build the TPUG library into the results on this library CD. Thanks to the TPUG members that helped out with the project: Greg Van Laere and Tom Williams (for initially suggesting the idea), Joe Palumbo (for allowing us the use of his house to image the largest chunk, the C64/128 library), Leif Bloomquist (for setting up Warpcopy and pointing us to the latest tools to use), Ian Colquhoun (for the scans of all the paper catalogs included in the CD), and Ernie Chorny, John Easton, Tom Luff and Ian McIntosh (for historical help and locating missing disks) For providing some of the previously missing disks, thanks go to: Syd Bolton of The Personal Computer Museum in Brantford, Ontario. See website at: www.pcmuseum.ca Troy Davis who is associated with the Memphis Amiga Group. See their website at: www.memphisamigagroup.net/ And thanks to you for purchasing this library CD and supporting computer user groups like the Toronto PET Users Group that keep the Commodore flame alive! Disclaimers: ------------ The Toronto PET Users Group Library CD is released under the Creative Commons copyright act under Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). More information about the license can be found at: www.creativecommons.org The format, structure and arrangement of this CD remain copyright of the Toronto PET Users Group. This disk cannot be duplicated or distributed without the express consent of the Toronto PET Users Group. The programs contained on this disk are contributions to the TPUG library from many sources, collected during the late 70's, 80's and 90's. The disk images on the TPUG library CD were directly captured using modern disk imaging methods, and due to the number of programs on each disk image, the content of each of the disk images contained on this library CD were only spot checked prior to imaging. Although every effort has been made to ensure the contents of the TPUG library CD contain only freeware or shareware programs, TPUG claims no responsibility for any programs that are on this CD where the copyright was not known at the time of the publication of the original disk, or where the author has in the past expressed or currently has expressed their desire to exclude their program from publication. If the author makes a copyright claim known to TPUG, we will remove the program from future releases of the TPUG library CD. The programs on this CD were designed to run on vintage 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit Commodore computers only. Under normal circumstances they will run on these platforms. They were never designed to run on modern computers and caution must be used when doing so. TPUG claims no responsibility for computer failure or loss of data arising from the use or misuse of any programs contained in this CD on any platform, vintage or modern. Enjoy the TPUG library CD! The Toronto PET Users Group (TPUG). 2009