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STARTER SERIES OF PUBLIC DOMAIN DISKS
Prepared for MegaDisc Digital Publishing by Leigh Murray
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The Starter series is designed for beginners. Each disk has a single
theme, and contains those Public Domain programs judged most suitable for
beginners (high quality, easy to use programs), along with documentation
supplied by their programmers, and notes to guide new users.
DISCLAIMER : To the best of my knowledge all software provided in this
collection is freely distributable. If something proves to the contrary,
contact MegaDisc immediately and the offending material will be removed
from the collection.
Prepared for MegaDisc Digital Publishing
PO Box 759 Crows Nest NSW
Australia 2O65
Phone (O2) 959 3692
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SUGGESTION BOX
PD Picks
Here are a few other titles from the huge MegaDisc PD collection which
beginners might find useful (see the full catalog entries for details):
MISC 34 Very First Tute: A disk for first-time users, learn as you go
100 StartupWB: A workbench disk for beginners
101 AmigaNuts 576: Education/game selection for kids
135 MegaDisc Index: Database index of all the Megadiscs up to MD27
148 Cook & Stitch: Cooking & stitchery programs, sample recipe book
149 Disabled Aids: Programs useful to disabled people (& fun, too)
DE 101 HyperBook: Demo of great database package, ideal for beginners
122 Wordworth: Demo of version 1 of this graphics word processor
215 Wordworth: Demo of version 2 of this graphics word processor
205 KindWords 3: Demo of much-improved version of word processor
UT 236 ACAR Index: A HyperBook index to ACAR articles and reviews
MegaDisc Digest Disks
These disks are not PD, but they are inexpensive and great value for money.
The disks are packed full of articles etc (for example, the MD.Articles
disks each contain about 120 articles and MegaBites), all categorised and
listed in a HyperBook Reference Guide to make it easier to find individual
articles. There is a separate beginners section in the Reference Guide,
highlighting those articles most suitable for beginners.
. MD.ArticlesI All the Articles and MegaBites from MegaDiscs 1-12
. MD.ArticlesII All the Articles and MegaBites from MegaDiscs 13-22
. MD.ArticlesIII All the Articles and MegaBites from MegaDiscs 23-30
. MD.Hints&Tips Hints & Tips from MegaDiscs 1-30 (over 800 hints)
. MD.Reviews disks Coming soon - all the reviews from MegaDiscs 1-30
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STARTER DISKS LISTING
START 1
IconStarter Disk (previously UT 313) Revised April 1993
A one-disk guide to making icons. Iconned, not bootable.
. Tutorial articles (Easy Icon-Making, Default Tools, Hints),
. Beginners Help,
. icon-editing programs (IEv2, IEv3Demo, and IconMaster),
. a program to reset Workbench colours,
. Deft (v1.0) for changing default tools in a group of icons,
. RemapInfo (v1.1) for swapping black and white in icons,
. ICONtrol (v1.0) for remapping all the icons on a disk,
. Mouse-xy (v1.1) to help in aligning icons within windows,
. notes on Workbench 2 effects on icon design,
. over 30 sample IFF pics extracted from GR41 for use in icons,
. more than 60 of some of the best icons from Fish disk collections, and
. about 120 icons designed by Leigh Murray.
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START 2
Directory Utility Starter disk
A one-disk guide to using directory utilities. Iconned, not bootable.
. Demos of SID2, DirWork and Directory Opus v2.
SID2 and DirWork are ready-to-use and come with full documentation.
Directory Opus Demo is ready-to-use for WB2 users, else needs
arp.library (on the disk and easy to install if you don't have it).
. Articles from MD32: Directory Utilities Overview and Functions,
plus additional documentation designed to help beginners.
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START 3 to START 5
Pix Starter disks
Collections of ready-to-use pictures of a suitable size for direct
inclusion in documents written using one of the graphics word processors
(such as Pen Pal, ProWrite or KindWords); they may also be loaded into
Paint programs. The pictures were modified from clip-art in various
MegaDisc Clip-Art Theme packs. Each picture has an icon showing an image
of the picture and its size in pixels, making it easier to find the most
suitable picture to use, and the pictures can be displayed by clicking on
their icons. The disks are iconned, not bootable.
START 3
PixAStarter: over 180 black-and-white pictures of a wide range of animals
(Australian animals, pets, farm animals, dinosaurs, exotic animals and sea
creatures), bugs (insects and spiders), birds, plants (Australian flowers,
other flowers and trees), and reptiles. All pictures are in Hi-Res
Interlaced, 1-bitplane (2 colours) IFF format.
START 4
PixBStarter: over 180 black-and-white pictures of cartoon characters
(Garfield, BC, Swamp, Footrot, Disney etc), fantasy, food, flags, people,
sport and transport (aircraft, ships etc). All pictures are in Hi-Res
Interlaced, 1-bitplane (2 colours) IFF format.
START 5
PixCStarter: over 100 coloured pictures of animals, birds, flowers, food,
fantasy, transport etc. All pictures are in Lo-Res Non-Interlaced,
4-bitplane (16 colours) IFF format using a standard palette. A sample
picture is provided for printing a test palette.
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START 6
FracStarter Disk
A one-disk guide to fractal programs. Iconned, not bootable.
. Tutorial articles (Fractals Overview, Mandelbrots),
. Beginners Help,
. MandelPAUG version 2.1, from Fish 452 (fast, movies, online help),
. MandelMountains version 2.1, from Fish 383 (beautiful 3-D effects),
. Lyapunovia version 1.0, dearchived from Fish 784 (unusual fractal set),
. FracGen version 1.2, from Fish 188 (draws fractal pictures from seeds),
. Biomorph from MegaDisc 13, (generates pictures with a biological theme),
. Scenery version 1.0, from Fish 155 (random scenery generator), and
. Cloud, from Fish 216 (generates fractal surfaces like clouds).
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