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**** Public - Access ****************************************** PAGE PD **** /\ /\ ighty Mike is still not here! So that means that we will be / \/ \ be continuing the 2nd part of this BEST OF PD series. We will / \ be showing you min-reviews of some PD stuff from 1983-1995. RICK. /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ UnHunk Tool to process the Amiga "hunk" loadfile format. Collects code, data, and bss hunks together, allows individual specification of code, data, and bss origins, and generates binary file with format reminiscent of Unix "a.out" format. The output file can be easily processed by a separate program to produce Motorola "S-records" suitable for downloading to PROM programmer. Author: Eric Black ---- C-kermit Port of the popular "kermit" program, a flexible virtual terminal and file transfer program from Columbia University. Author: Unknown, ported to Amiga by Davide Cervone ---- Archx Yet more programs for bundling up text files and mailing or posting them as a single file unit. Author: Martin Minow ---- Cpp This is a copy of the Decus cpp, ported to the Amiga This cpp is more powerful and complete than either of the built in cpp's in Manx or Lattice C. Also included is a modified version of the Unix like cc frontend, for Manx C, that knows about the cpp. Author: cpp by Martin Minow; cc by Fred Fish ---- SuperBitMap An example program that shows how to use ScrollLayer, how to sync the SuperBitMap prior to printing, and how to create a dummy rastport for dumping the SuperBitMap. Works under 1.2 and up. Author: Carolyn Scheppner and Phil Lindsay ---- Bru Alpha 1 version of a hard disk and/or file archiver written for Unix. This is a vanilla port, with very little Amiga smarts, but it is usable. This is also the last freely redistributable version. Author: Fred Fish ---- Comm A vt100 like terminal emulator with built in support for key functions and a phone number database. Version 1.30. Author: DJ James ---- MemWatch Memwatch is a program intended to sit in the background and watch for random trashing of low memory by an application under development. If it detects a write to low memory, it repairs it to what used to be there, then puts up a requester indicating what damage had been done. Very useful! Author: John Toebes ---- Profiler A realtime execution profiler for Manx 3.30E. Using this you can identify what sections of your program are using the most time, or being executed the most, and optimize as appropriate. I was able to double the speed of some programs by using this tool. Includes source. Author: Tomas Rokicki NewDefTool A utility to change the default tool for project icons. Has a user defined configuration file for flexibility. Can change default tool according to old default tool or filenames. Supports the use of appicon, so using NewDefTool is a simple matter of dragging and dropping icons. Requires AmigaDOS 2.0 ---- NonClick A program to stop floppy drive clicking. Features an intu- ition user interface that allows you to turn clicking on and off on every drive individually. Requires AmigaDOS 2.0. This is version 1.06, public domain, includes source. Author: Kjell Cederfeldt ---- Chop A program which uses a hotkey to chop a displayed screen down to a temporary maximum of 4 planes in lo-res or 2 planes in hi-res, allowing the processor full speed access to chip memory. Only the displayed screen is affected, the program painting the screen continues to work with the full color palette. Unchoping the screen puts everything back to normal. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Nico Francois ---- DiskTalk A cute little program, like "muncho" on disk 137, which plays digitized sound samples when you insert or remove a floppy disk. Samples are saved as IFF sound files. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Nico Francois ---- PPMore Another "more" like utility. This one reads text files that have been crunched with PowerPacker, thus saving space at the slight expense of some time to uncrunch the text. Version 1.3, binary only. Author: Nico Francois ---- QuickHelp A utility that helps you make and display your own help files for commands. Disk space usage is minimized by using PowerPacker to crunch the help files. Version 1.2, binary only. Author: Jorrit Tyberghein ---- Selector A program that helps you assemble programs on a boot disk and start them in a user friendly way. Version 2.5, binary only. Author: Nico Francois ---- RollOn A "Soko-Ban" like shareware game, submitted by the author. Includes both English and German versions, a level editor, and digitized sounds. This is version 1.1, binary only. Author: Tobias Eckert ---- TurboMandel A fast mandelbrot program, written in a mix of C and assembly language. You can select between using floating point or integer calculation. Other features include a full intuition interface, cycling capabilities, extensive color control, a user definable iteration depth, fully implemented zoom, a 3-D display mode, support for extra halfbrite as well as interlace and hires, IFF load and save, accuracy selections, and more. Version 1.0, includes source in assembly and C. Author: Marivoet Philip ---- CPM A program to compute mandelbrots via the Continous Potential Method, as described in the book "The Science of Fractal Images" by H. O. Pietgen and D. Saupe. It is used to make 3-dimensional pictures of the mandelbrot set. This is a batch mode type program so several images can be generated, one after the other, without any human interaction. Includes source. Author: Lars Clausen ---- DEM A program to compute mandelbrots via the Distance Estimator Method, as described in the book "The Science of Fractal Images" by H. O. Pietgen and D. Saupe. It is used to make high resolution black-and-white images. This is a batch mode type program so several images can be generated, one after the other, without any human interaction. Includes source. Author: Lars Clausen ---- FixIcons A program to scan through all files in a given volume or directory, looking for project icons and changing their default tools according to instructions given in a script file. Version 1.2, includes source. Author: Lars Clausen ---- IceFrac A fractal generator using the Diffusion Limited Aggregation algorithm, as described in the book "The Beauty of Fractal Images". This is version 2.1 and includes source. Author: Lars Clausen ---- Rocket Another program in the long tradition of screen hacks. This one zeroes in on your mouse pointer. Binary only. Author: Lars Clausen ---- ScreenZap A utility that forcibly removes screens and windows from your system. Useful to get rid of zombie screens or windows that have been left around by aborted or buggy programs. This is version 2.3 and includes source. Author: Lars Clausen ---- SnowFall Another program in the long tradition of screen hacks for the amiga. Watch the snow fall, get blown around by the wind, and collect in realistic heaps. Includes source. Author: Lars Clausen ---- DocSplit A program to split the 1.3 autodoc files into individual subroutine files. One file is created for each subroutine, with the name created by appending ".doc" to the subroutine name. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Joel Swank ---- Gears A program to calculate and display the gears of a multispeed bicycle. Works for bicycles with 3 to 21 gear combinations. Version 1.1, includes source. Author: Joel Swank ---- PageCnt Counts and displays the number of form feeds in a file, along with the length of the longest line. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Joel Swank ---- Fenster A program which can operate on windows owned by another program, to close them, change their size, refresh gadgets, move the window to the background, etc. This is version 2.1, an update to version 2.0 on Fish 298. Includes source. Author: Roger Fischlin ---- Lhwarp A program which will read tracks directly from your floppy disk, compress them using adaptive huffman encoding, and output them to a file. The resulting file can be used by lhwarp to reconstruct an image of the original disk. This is version 1.20, an update to version 1.03 on disk 295. New features include much faster compression/decompression, a 32-bit CRC, and two additional compression methods. Binary only. Author: Jonathan Forbes ---- Mackie A versatile cli/macro-key initiator based on POPCLI with a unique method of "screen-blanking". I won't say more, just try it! This is version 1.4, an update to version 1.3 . Includes fixes to work with latest WShell and the new 'never' keyword. Includes source. Author: Tomas Rokicki ---- PrFont Prints a sample of each font from the fonts: directory. Draws one line of each font on a custom hires screen, which can be printed. Version 1.3, includes source. Author: Joel Swank ---- Reversi Plays the classical reversi game on an 8 x 8 square field. Version 2.0, an update to version 1.2 on disk 245. Includes source in assembly language. Author: Marc Fischlin ---- SpaceLog A database containing data for all of the man related space missions of the United States and the Soviet Union that were related to the development of manned space flight, from the beginning of the space age to the present (368 missions), listed in chronological order. Includes an AmigaBASIC program to manipulate the database. Version 1.54, binary only. Author: Gene Heitman ---- Life A new version of Tomas's Life game. This version includes a new torus option, an option to perform calculations with the processor rather than the blitter, and a couple of other minor changes. This is an update to the version on disk 131, includes source. Author: Tomas Rokicki ---- RexxPlPlot A library of C functions useful for scientific plotting on the Amiga. The library is Lattice C compatible. Contour plotting, three dimensional plotting, axis redefinition, log-log plotting and multiple subpages are a few of Plplot's features. The plots can be displayed on a monitor or sent to a graphics file for subsequent printing. This is RexxPlPlot version 0.3, an update to Plplot version 1.00 on disk 222. New features include an ARexx interface, support for IFF output, support for PostScript output, support for Preferences, some new functions, bug fixes, and more. Includes source. ---- Tree A very simple directory tree traversal program, written primarily as an aid to creating zoo archives and disk backups. Has options to exclude certain directories or files with specific extensions. Includes source. Author: Tomas Rokicki ---- Gwin This is version 1.0 of GWIN. GWIN or Graphics WINdow is an integrated collection of graphics routines callable from C. These routines make it easy to create sophisticated graphics programs in the C environment. One-line calls give you a custom screen (ten types available), menu items, requestors, text, circles, polygons, etc. GWIN is a two-dimensional floating point graphics system with conversion between world and screen coordinates. GWIN includes built-in clipping that may be turned off for speed. Use of color and XOR operations are greatly simplified. Many examples of the use of GWIN are included in an examples directory. Examples include line/bar graph program, geographic mapping program, SPICE 2G.6 graphics post-processor, and others. Extensive documentation is included. Author: Howard C. Anderson. ---- StillStore A program designed for freelance, corporate, and broadcast television. It loads and displays IFF images of any resolution interchangeably from a list file or as inputted directly (I.E. random access). The user may easily skip forward or backward one or more pictures in the list. A "generic" display is always just a few seconds away. The program can be used "on air" with no concern that a pull down menu will suddenly appear in the viewable area. It also provides for a precise cue for changing windows or screens. While the main purpose is to load "news windows" of 1/4 screen size, StillStore can also handle full-sized and overscanned images. Also includes slide show modes and a screen positioning feature. Stillstore is written in the Director language from the Right Answers Group. Version 1.2, binary only, source available from authors. Author: R. J. (Dick) Bourne and Richard Murray ---- CZEd A complete midi package for use with all Casio CZ synthesizers. Contains a full fledged sound editor, a split simulator for CZ-101/1000/230S, a bank loader and a memory dump for CZ-1. This is a formerly commercial package now released as shareware. Binary only. Author: Oliver Wagner ---- LinkSound Two examples of functions that you can link with your own code to produce a short musical "beep" or a sound that is similar to striking a drum. Includes source. Author: Dieter Bruns ---- Show A very versatile program to display IFF ILBM files. Features realtime unpacking scroll, smart analysis of any IFF file, total control over display modes, simple slideshow processing, pattern matching, and a dozen other options. Only 9K. Version 2.0, binary only. Author: Sebastiano Vigna \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ And that brings us to an end of this disks PD guide. I hope Mike is back next disk, as I am knackered after doing this section, it tires me out. I used to think mike had it easy just doing this bit and the odd review. But now I know. If you want any of these programs then enclose another disk and a note with your disk for the next Page and tell me what programs you want and I will put as many as will fit on for you. If you want you could send me 600 disks for as many programs as you like. The address is in the address file in the Readers directory. So I hope I don't see you again next disk in this section, but if I do we will continue the ALL TIME TOP PD LIST. See you then (or not?!). RICK ----PAGE