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Larry's Distribution Disk.
This month bring a wealth of material. From demos to fun, with lots of
high powered performance in between. There is something for almost
everyone, whether they be hacker or artist.
Check out DAZZLE and BOING! for those times you want to show off your
machine. FISH will delight the kiddies. Leave it running, pull down the
screen so the fish swims near the bottom. The kids will love it.
For the DPAint/Images crowd, there are three programs of particular
interest. DDL and KOA to translate pictures produced on a 64, and ZAPICON to
transform that nice brush file into an icon for use on your workbench.
Want to know more about the Amiga's internal workings? Take a look in the
tutorial section for files on EXEC, by Jouhn Draper (AKA Captain Crunch), as
well as ERRATA for the ROM Kernel Manual and a couple of tutorials by
Commodore-Amiga staff on multitasking. A big bonus is the EXPANSION
documentation, which covers the system calls needed to configure and handle
an external memory and devices.
Pogrammers and artist alike will probably like to look at the source code
for a couple of HAM mode utilities , and for the Intuition programmer,
source code for a C program called BALLPTR (executable is in DEMOS).
Tired of digging into the Amiga? Fire up LIFE, and enjoy Conway's
not-so-trivial cellular automata. Use the left mouse button to see the
options available. Nicely done, and reasonably fast, this program suffers
only in the "edge" implementation, for which the programmer has apologized.
I certainly don't mind. The program is more than good enough for a public
domain version.
Modula 2 fans who own the TDI Modula 2 compiler will be interested in the
entire Modula section. It consists of notes, tips, bug notifications, bug
fixes, and a few sample programs. TDI has announced that they will be
bringing out an update disk with bugs fixed and enhancements added, including
a better, more selective linker for smaller executable code, and a "Grid
Access Data Base", said to be able to find any record on a disk in two
accesses. ::drooling about this one::
Last, but not least, a mess of utilities for everyone. ARC, that venerable
achiving program from the "other" machines, has been implemented on the
Amiga, and works very well. For those of you who may not be familiar with
the concept, ARC takes a file or files and crunches, squeezes, or otherwise
mangles them into a smaller chunk of storage. This serves two purposes. It
keeps related files together. (How often have you copied some files to
another disk, and then realized later that you missed some critical
auxiliary files?) It also saves space. Files may be extracted all at once or
individually, and the process is quite fast.
Ever wonder if two files are the same? COMPARE will tell you. DSM is for
the curious. It's a disassembler. Disksalv, though presented before, has
been updated to bette deal with such things as circular linkage and
conflicting linkages, It also asks for another disk should you fill up the
one you'r working on. A very handy utility.
Now for the big winner in the utility category. DISKZAP is a very well done
sector editor in the tradition of Disk Doctor on the Commodore line.
Incorporating mouse and keyboard operation, it will allow you to look at any
disks except the ones that only run under the lobotom...er... Transformer.
Yes Virginia, there IS readable data on your Kickstart disk.Find your way to
any file easily and quickly (almost as quickly as DIR does it), search for
data, check and correct checksums, look at ANY sector whether part of a file
or not, by block number or by physical cylinder, track, and sector. A must
for any serious Dostronaut.
Enough, let's get to the goodies.
DEMOS (dir)
ballptr - Anything you can do on your screen, I can do in my mouse pointer!
boing! - Looks pretty close to the original, but for a big surprise, click
the right mouse button, then click it again. Neat!
boing.samples - You need this one in the current directory for Boing sound.
dazzle - As the title says, a dazzler. Choice (by menu) of random or mouse
control. Mouse position changes the entire character of the
display.
dazzle.info - lets you run dazzle from Workbench.
fish - Fire this one up and watch the kid's faces. End by pulling down
the screen and clicking the close gadget in the window.
UTILITY (dir)
ARC010 - Archive program for the Amiga. I'll try to find the
documentation for it. Watch for length of filename if it
doesn't seem to want to cooperate.
compare - compares two file, text or otherwise.
dasm - Simple disassembler.
dirlis - YAD (Yet Another DIR). This one highlights the directory
name as well as the individual subdirectories. Lists four
columns across for those times you need to see more entries
onscreen.
disksalv - Latest version of Hazy Davie's disk salvager.
disksalv.doc - and the documentation for it.
diskzap - GREAT program! Menu or HELP key for instructions. WARNING,
this program, in the hands of a novice or klutz can trash a
disk faster than a speeding magnet. Don't be afraid of it,
just use some common sense and a backup.
mycli - An updated version of MYCLI. Offeres command recal, command
line editing, and a few other nifty features. See below for...
mycli.doc - The documantation for mycli.
GRAPHIC (dir)
ddl - C64 Doodle pictures to IFF. Modem them over, download them,
whatever. Then run them through this, and they will load into
DPaint/Images, etc.
icons.arc - An Archive file of icons for your workbench. Use ARC010 to
extract. Use IconED to make them the type of icon you need.
koa - C64 KOALA pictures to IFF. Same as DDL, but works with Koala
pictures.
zapicon - OK, here it is, something a LOT better than IconED. Convert
DPaint brushes to icons. So c'mon all you starving artists,
let's see some icons that really shine!
TUTORIAL (dir)
errata.arc - Archived file, use ARC to extract. Errata for RKM.
exec - Tutorial on using Amiga's EXEC functions, message ports, etc.
expan.arc - System calls for using and configuring the expansion stuff.
multi.arc - Tutorial by Amiga folks on mutitasking, multiprocessing.
gadgets.doc - Gadget tutorial by Crunch.
RECREATIONS (dir)
LIFE - John Conway's clever cellular automata. A nice, fast implementation.
CSOURCE (dir)
ballptr.arc - Source (C and assembler) for the Ballptr demo under DEMOS.
hamsrc.arc - Two HAM utilities.
MODULA (dir)
NOTES (dir)
bugs - A list of known bugs in TDI's compiler.
m2Strings - Handling strings in M2.
Modula.tips - Some tips from TDI.
RealInOut - Notes on the lack of RealInOut.
FIXES (dir)
NOTE: Please read the notes in MODULA/NOTES before incorporating any of
these fixes.
fixes.def - Definition module for FIXES.
fixes.mod - Implementationm module for FIXES. You must IMPORT the
enclose PROCEDURES from FIXES, or they won't work properly.
inout.mod - A fixed implementation module for InOut.
streams.def - Fixed (partially) Streams.
streams.mod - and its implementation module.
hello - hello.mod - The sample window program from the Intuition manual,
translated to a civilized language by Richie Bielak.
pause - pause.mod - A script file command that allows you to pause the
execution of a script file, with an optional string to
inform you of the reason for the pause.
sparks - sparks.mod - A translation of Sparks, originally scratched out in
C, and translated by Richie Bielak.