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   This is a list of all the Public Domain disks that have been added to
   the Library since the release of Megadisc 7. The flow doesn't stop, and
   apart from all the new Theme Disks (ie, miscellaneous, special, etc),
   Fish disks up to No. 154 arrived recently (detailed below the Theme
   disks), and there are also about 65 disks from the F.A.U.G.
   (First Amiga User Group) collection which concentrate more on graphics
   and animations along with utilities. There's no room on this disk to
   list them, but to get full listings you can order our Catalogue-on-Disk,
   or if you already have one, send it in and we'll update it, for nix of
   course.



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   THEME DISKS ADDED TO THE LIBRARY SINCE RELEASE OF MEGADISC 7
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 * MULTI-TASKING DISK - Pete McKellar (see his article on MD8) has put
   together a Theme disk on Multi-tasking including:
     - Multi-tasking via SubTasks
     - A tutorial by Leo Schwab with examples in C
     - Re-entrant Multi-tasking at the Process level
     - Pete's article on Multi-tasking
     - Pete Goodeve's standards and examples on INTER-PROCESS
       COMMUNICATIONS (IPC) which are currently being developed in the
       US by Pete and other top programmers - this could out-HyperCard
       the Hypercard on the Mac, particularly with the advantage of the
       Amiga's multi-tasking.
   Many thanks to Pete for taking the trouble to put this disk together,
   indispensable for people interested in programming.

 * The following 5 disks come to us courtesy of COMMODORE COMPUTER USERS
   GROUP in Queensland - thanks gents.
   CLIP-ART MED-RES NO.1 - 20 screens of med-res IFF graphics which can
   be loaded into DPaint or any graphic editor and clipped. Each screen
   has about 20 different bits of clip art. Recommended for anyone doing
   Desktop Publishing.

   4 SOUND DISKS - 4 disks set up with a variety of scores playable with
   Mark Riley's shareware PLAYSONIX utility. Very well put together by
   Mike Williams, these are a must for anyone into music on the Amiga.
   Names CCUGQ SOUND 1, 2, 3, 4.

 * The following 5 disks come to us courtesy of David Pye of SOLO VIDEO
   in Adelaide:
   GAMES #7 - Trek 73 (some kind of big adventure game), SpeechToy (makes
              your Amiga talk), and Pushover( a graphic board game).
   GAMES #8 - Wheel of Fortune, Cross Zero, Shanghai, RockSlide,
              LaserStrike, Biorhythm.
   LAND OF CONFUSION - Phil Collins' song, digitised, with words on
                       screen.
   KEYBOARD SOUNDS - Excellent disk for musicians! Sets up the keyboard
                     to be played with about 30 selectable sound samples.
   ALPHA 13 - A variety of different things - most useful is a full
              description of setting up a MIDI INTERFACE for your Amiga,
              with doc file and 5 graphic illustrations of circuits, etc.
              Also on this disk, QuickMouse (mouse accelerator), Snap
              (snapshots the current screen); UEDIT 2.2 text editor; some
              new icons; and a lot of text files dealing with all aspects
              of the Amiga, particularly programming.





 * LAVIN-UTILITIES - This is an excellent 2-disk set sent by Jeff Lavin of
   the "Puzzle Factory", who is a top-flight ASSEMBLY programmer. They are
   full of ARC'ed files full of executable programs with quantities of
   source code, routines, you name it, in ASSEMBLER and other languages.
   Anyone who does any programming should have a look at these disks, which
   expand to probably 5 disks. Many thanks to Jeff for contributing them
   for the benefit of other programmers.

 * SIMPSON*UTILITIES - Mike Simpson set up this disk with all the ARP
   (Amigados Replacement Project) commands installed, and with JOBS 4,
   probably the most powerful "directory utility" program available,
   set up and customised for you. All necessary explanations are on the
   disk, but it can be used immediately, and is set up with the single
   drive user in mind. Worth getting!

 * UTILIMASTER DISK - Set up by Leon Jarvis (who also re-inks printer
   ribbons for very low cost), with additions by Eric Holroyd, this disk
   is set up for the directory utility UTILIMASTER, with customised
   features, such as access to NEWZAP, ARC etc by the press of a button.
   Like the one above, worth having.

 * ADDAMS FAMILY NO. 2 - Yet another all-singing, digitised Addams Family
   demo.

 * MORIA DUNGEONS & DRAGONS - the latest PD D&D offering, get it and play
   it and tell us if it's any good! (It is said to be.) Needs at least 1
   Meg of RAM and preferably 2 drives, and a STACK of 70000!

 * PLOT 4.1 DEMO - A demo of a fine plotting program by Terry Gintz in the
   US, one of our regular correspondents. This does most mathematical
   functions in 3 dimensions and is a well-wrought program. Particularly
   good for students in maths/science. Low cost full program from Terry.

 * ARTSCAPE DOUBLE DEMO - (1 meg required) 2 disks, 1 bootable the other
   data (ie, put in df1:), full of Graeme Whittle's productions -
   digitised pics, Director animations, ray-traced pictures, titling and
   more. A great way to show off the capabilities of the Amiga.

 * SATELLITE PICS NO. 2 - An update to the other one in this list, covers
   a couple of places not normally seen in this way, like Tasmania & the
   Antarctic. Courtesy Paul Tildesley of CSIRO and Greg Perry of DigiSoft.

 * STAR RAY DEMO - a demo of this upcoming game. Bootable and you need to
   press the left mouse button after booting it up.

 * RESOURCE DEMO - fully working Disassembler program by Glen McDiarmid in
   Queensland (one or two functions disabled). This is the ultimate
   hacker's tool, excellent for anyone wanting to learn Assembler or to get
   into the innards of the Amiga. Please buy it, support Australian
   Programming.

 * VIDEO EFFECTS DEMO DISK - A demo of this excellent Desktop Video
   program.

 * JIGSAW DISK WITH IFF2PCS - Robert Lang put this disk together, and it
   contains about 15 pictures linked to Ali Ozer's IFF2PCS program, which
   takes a graphic and splits it up into a number of squares, with the
   corresponding parts of the graphic scattered about below. With the mouse
   you drag the pieces of the picture onto the grid. There are 3 levels
   of difficulty (ie, no. and size of squares), and it's good fun, for
   kids of all ages. Set up on a bootable workbench disk.

 * VIRUS ELIMINATOR DISK - Contains all you currently need to keep your
   disks disinfected, including VACCINE 3, which also checks for the
   presence of the DASA virus. Compiled by Eric Holroyd, it includes:
      NFM Writer (Various utilities)
      Tristar (ASCII display)
      Vaccine V2.0 (Kills SCA & BB)
      Protect! (Kills SCA Virus)
      Dutils (SHAREWARE utilities)
      DiskX (Track & Sector Editor)
      VCheck (Is Virus in memory?)
      View Bootblocks (0/0 & 0/1)
      VirusX (Checks disks inserted)
      VACCINE 3 (Checks SCA, BYTE BANDIT, & DASA virus)
   Our Anti-Virus disk is updated as soon as a new virus/eliminator is
   developed.

 * DIRE STRAITS DEMO DISK - A fairly average music demo of the "Money for
   Nothing" song, worth having if you're keen on music demos. Thanks to
   Robert Lang for sending this one in.

 * CAR/UNICYCLE DEMO DISK - An excellent animation/demo, bootable.

 * ZEUS ANIMATION DEMO - (requires 1 meg of RAM) A golden bust of the god
   Zeus is set up to rotate in 3D : said to be done by taking digitised pix
   of the bust at different angles, and flipping them. Good-looking demo.
   Bootable.

 * VIDEO EFFECTS DEMO DISK - Some example animated titles created with this
   excellent program, just to show you what you could do yourself. Anyone
   into desktop video should have a look at it. Bootable. Thanks to R. Wynn
   for sending the above 4 disks in.

 * AMIGAN (AA&J) DISK # 17 - See the "AA&Jdisks" for a full description of
   the contents of this disk. Lots of good utilities.

 * ARP VERSION 1.1 RELEASE - From "Amigan Apprentice" magazine (who bring
   out the AMIGAN disks), this disk contains the full V. 34.1 ARP commands
   with manuals, and batch files for installing them on your disks. To check
   whether you've got the latest version, just enter   >version
   in the CLI, and if you get a number less than 34.1, you've got an out-
   of-date version. (The version on AMIGAN #16 was not the latest version,
   although it was stated as such on the disk, and there are "ARP DISKS"
   out that are not the real thing...)

 * FUTURE SOUND DEMO DISK - Shows what this Digital Sound recording program
   can do. Has Readme files, and "Jukebox" lets you play around with some
   of the sounds on the disk.


                               FISH DISK #154

Ada             An Ada Syntax checker for the amiga.
AssemblyDemos   A interesting group of assembly language demos for your
                visual and aural pleasure.
DiskLib         Two utilities for those people who like to split up PD
                disks into disks of different categories.
Guardian        Another virus diagnosing and vaccination program.
                Recognizes any non-standard bootblock.  Includes a
                small utility program to permanently place the program
                on a copy of your kickstart disk in place of the seldom
                (if ever!) used Debug() function.  Binary only.
                Author:  Leonardo Fei
               * Note that this was a commercial program, as reported in
                 last Commodore/Amiga Review, and has now apparently been
                 released as public domain. A very good program for keeping
                 your disks clean.
PrintSpool      A print-spooling program.  Very useful for printing files
                in the background.  Many command-line options.
Utilities       A group of four little utility programs, Cal, Undelete
                DClock and WhereIs.
VirusX          An update to the virus-detecting program of the same
                name on disk number 137.  This version also checks for
                the Byte-Bandit strain.  Version 1.21, Includes source.
Virus_Alert!    Yet another anti-virus program with a twist.  Once
                installed a message is displayed just after a warm or
                cold boot notifying the the user  that the disk and
                memory are virus-free, and forcing a mouse-button press
                before continuing.  Anything writing to the bootblock
                thereafter will destroy the message and a normal virus-
                infected boot (???) will take-place.
Wicon           A "Window Iconifier".  Allows you to turn your windows
                into small icons which can be later recalled.   Currently
                installed with MacWin to give your windows a "rubber-
                banding" effect.
                Author:  Steven Sweeting (who is Australian).

                               FISH DISK #153

Dme             Version 1.30 of Matt Dillon's text editor.  Dme is a simple
                WYSIWYG editor designed for programmers.
HP11            Emulates an HP11C calculator including the program mode.
                Features an ON/OFF button that turns the calculator into
                an icon that will sit and wait until you need it again.
HPMam           A program to manipulate settings and fonts on HP LaserJet+
                printers and compatibles. Includes an Intuition interface
                and some sample picture files.
Synthemania     An interesting, very small (and very persistent!) musical
                piece.

                               FISH DISK #152

Blk             A requester making tool employing various recursive
                algorithms including a recursive parser.  It takes input
                text files and converts them to C-source for including as
                requester declarations.
RunBack         A variant of Rob Peck's RunBackGround program from disk
                number 73.  Allows you to start a new CLI program and run
                it in the background, then closes the new CLI.  This version
                automatically searches the command-search-path to find the
                program.
UUCP            This is a version of uucp (Unix to Unix Copy Program)
                for the Amiga, along with some miscellaneous support
                utilities like cron, mail, and compress.

                               FISH DISK #151

GlobeDemo       A graphics demo which displays very smooth transitions of
                the rotating earth.  Features a pop-up menu.
Icons           Yet another potpourri of interesting icons to choose
                from if you need one for your own program.
Pcopy           A small intuition-based disk copier similiar to
                the resident "DiskCopy" except with write-verify
                and other user-selectable options.  Useful for making
                multiple copies with reliable data.  Requires two disk
                drives.
SCT             A CLI-based utility (SetColorTable) for displaying and/or
                setting a screen's colors.  You can save the colors
                of a screen to be restored later, or copy one screen's
                colors to another.
SlideShow       Very nicely done slide-show program written in assembly
                language.  Features forward/backward presentation and
                creative screen wipes.  Currently works only with IFF
                lo-res pictures.
Surveyor        A little utility that opens a window on the current
                screen and displays information about the pointer.
                Allows for absolute or relative measurement between
                two points on the screen.  Very handy for precise
                positioning of icons and such.

                               FISH DISK #150

AirFoil         An update to the Airfoil generator on disk #71.
DC10            An AmigaBasic DC-10 instrument flight simulator.  Appears
                to be quite in-depth with flight-planning and take-off
                options along with an extensive documentation file.
ExecLib         A working example of how to build and use user-defined
                disk-resident libraries.  Of special interest to developers
                working with Lattice C.
Iconizer        A utility program that saves your current mouse pointer
                to a small icon.  You can restore the pointer just by
                double-clicking on its icon.  Allows for building a whole
                library of pointers and to use them whenever you want.
Pilot           An implementation of the PILOT language for the Amiga,
                including a demo done for the National Park Service.
                PILOT is a limited use language for use in educational and
                computer based instruction programs.
StealMemBoot    A small utility designed to be a direct replacement for
                NoFastMem kind of programs.  It modifies the boot block of
                a disk, so when you boot with it, all memory allocations
                will return only CHIP memory.

                               FISH DISK #149

AnimalSounds    A sample of digitized animal sounds along with a simple
                sound player.
DX-VoiceSorter  Written to be used with Jack Deckard's VoiceFiler program.
                (Disk 82).  It allows for the sorting of a number of
                voicefiles stored using that program into a new voicefile
                of voices made up from various files.
Keep            A nice little utility program with an intuition interface
                for BBS and network junkies who download messages in one
                large file and then read them off-line.  Using only the
                mouse, you can drive through such files a message at a
                time, examine each at your leisure and tag those you wish
                to keep.
Less            Like Unix "more", only better, with forward and
                backward scrolling, searching and positioning by
                percent of file and line number, etc.  Now lets you
                also print the current file.  Very useful!
Scheme          To quote the ReadMe file:
                "Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive
                dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by
                Guy Lewis Steele Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman."

                               FISH DISK #148

EFJ             "Escape from Jovi"  A machine-code game featuring
                hi-res scrolling, large playfield, disk-based Hi-Score
                list, stereo sound, and multiple levels.
Fme             Nicely done map editor for the Fire-Power (tm) game.
                Features interlaced hi-res with intuition interface.
HandyIcons      Adds a menustrip to the WorkBench window that allows
                you to run selected Workbench Tools by menu selection.
                Can be set up to provide custom environments.  Current
                version supports only WorkBench Tools and not Projects.
Scrambler       A simple program that will encode/decode a text file
                into illegible gibberish, which resembles executable code,
                to evade prying eyes.

                               FISH DISK #147

   This disk contains the latest version of MicroGNUEmacs (MG 2b), a
   programmer's text editor.



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