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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!mike.cs.uiuc.edu!schwager From: schwager@mike.cs.uiuc.edu (Mike Schwager) Subject: Latest FISH DISKS are on ux1! Message-ID: <1992Aug27.004125.18888@m.cs.uiuc.edu> Summary: Come and get em Keywords: fish disks Sender: news@m.cs.uiuc.edu (News Database (admin-Mike Schwager)) Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 00:41:25 GMT Lines: 392 Hi there! The latest fishdisks are being uploaded to ux1 even as we speak. Here is a listing of the contents of these disks: -Mike Schwager | Machine: Amiga 500, 3 MB RAM/30 HD Address: schwager@cs.uiuc.edu | Bike: '83 Kawasaki KZ750 LTD // Band: Poi Dog Pondering | Hero: Robert Bly \\ // DoD: #0301 \X/Amiga U.S. Mail Address: 403 S. Coler Urbana IL 61801 Fish Archive Spot: 128.174.5.59 ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (disks 100-current) Lower Fish Available at: grind.isca.uiowa.edu has FF #1-current, gatekeeper.dec.com has FF #1-current in /pub/micro/amiga/fish 130.194.1.106 monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Australia) has the last 40 or so P.S. If you were on the Fishdisks mailing list, you'd already know this. Send mail to schwager@cs.uiuc.edu to get put onto the list. Fish Archive Spots: (updated 8/17/92) 128.174.5.59 ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (disks 001-710 and counting.. GO, Fred, GO!) Maintained by Mike Schwager (schwager@cs.uiuc.edu) 128.255.19.233 grind.isca.uiowa.edu has FF #1-current Maintained by Michael T. Pins (amigapd@isca.uiowa.edu) 128.171.44.7 ftp.hawaii.edu (mirror of ux1: disks 001-current) Maintained by amiga@ftp.hawaii.edu (Baron) The disks on ux1 say: "...I want to be a Fish Disk in Hawaii!" :-) 16.1.0.2 gatekeeper.dec.com has FF #1-600 or so in /pub/micro/amiga/fish Maintained by vixie@pa.dec.com ... does not appear to be current 128.252.135.4 wuarchive.wustl.edu has the newest in systems/amiga/fish/fish (Woah! Now lots of disks at one of America's premier ftp sites!) IN AUSTRALIA: 139.130.4.6 archie.au a mirror of wuarchive.wustl.edu? Maintained by ??? IN EUROPE: 128.214.6.100 ftp.funet.fi carries all Fish disks in /pub/amiga/fish. Maintained by Pertti Lehtinen <pl@ftp.funet.fi> and Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@ftp.funet.fi> 137.226.112.31 ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de /pub/amiga/fish Maintained by Stefan Becker <stefanb@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> This is disk 711 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. MouseAideDEMO A demo version of a "Mouse utility" with all the standard functions; mouse acceleration with threshold, window and screen manipulation by mouse and keyboard, mouse and screen blanking, SUN (auto-activation) mouse, user definable "hot key" command, keyboard "string" macros, etc. Also has func- tions other mouse programs do not, such as multi-icon-select with only the mouse, left and right button swapping, mouse port switching, WorkBench to the front function, freezing of the mouse and keyboard of all input, etc. Written in assembly language for efficiency in size and CPU usage. Version 5.02a, an update to version 4.23a on disk 646. Shareware, binary only. Author: Thomas J. Czarnecki Solitaire A shareware solitaire game of klondike solitaire. The rules can be varied, and there are five different ways of working through the deck. Also includes an undo function that will un-move more than the last move, a wrapup function for when a game is all but won, a palette requester to fine tune the colors to your liking and a save-setup function that remem- bers how all the options are set. This is version 1.9, an update to version 1.8 on disk 511. Shareware, binary only. Author: Gaylan Wallis TheWeb A graphic-diagram based, interactive environment for data acquisition and processing. This is a freely distributable demonstration edition that has a restricted set of modules, and cannot save things to disk, but is otherwise fully featured. The concept is of data packets travelling along paths between data handling elements. Configurations are built by placing and connecting the desired elements on screen using the mouse. Needs the 2.04 or later operating system and at least 1MB of memory. Version 1.1, binary only. Author: Pete Goodeve and David Navas Windowtool Windowtool is a program that allows you to switch between windows, to close them and to change their size. You can also open a new shell and stop multitasking. The program is a standard commodity and can be controlled by the work- bench exchange program. Version 1.0, includes source. Author: Klaas Hermanns This is disk 712 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. AniMan AniMan combines Amiga animation, speech synthesis, and voice recognition, to provide you with an animated talking head that will run any Amiga program by voice command. Ask for an Amiga program by name, and AniMan will oblige. If AniMan becomes impatient, you may be insulted. AniMan will also recite poetry if you ask nicely. This is Version 3.0 of Ani- Man, an updaate to version 2.1 disk 653. It corrects a bug that caused AniMan to crash on some machines but not others. This version will also automatically adjust for either NTSC or PAL systems. Either the Perfect Sound 3 or Sound Master (Sound Magic) audio digitizer is required along with 1MB of fast memory. AniMan is like nothing you've ever see before. Binary only. Author: Richard Horne HamLabDemo Demo version of an expandable image format conversion utility that converts GIF, IFF, JPEG, Targa, BMP, TIFF, PBMPLUS, MTV, Spectrum 512, QRT, and Sun images into IFF (normal, HAM, half- brite, and "sliced" variations of each). Images can be scaled, dithered, color corrected, and cropped. This demo version is limited to processing images of 512 by 512 pixels or less. This is version 2.0.6, an update to version 1.1 on disk 466. Shareware, binary only. Author: J. Edward Hanway JEyes Amiga version of XEyes, a program which opens a window on the WorkBench screen containing eyes, which follow the cursor about the screen. Version 3.0, binary only. Author: John D. Gerlach Jr. Solitaire An amiga version of klondike solitaire. Provides multiple options including six different decks, customizable game rules, game timer, the ability to view a stack, and an undo feature. Binary only. Author: David Meny and Albert Penello This is disk 713 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Free Display how much free space (bytes or blocks) you have on any or all of your mounted disk volumes. Runs from CLI only. This is version 1.06, an update to version 1.01 on disk 388. Free now searches your device list if desired (under AmigaOS 2.0+ only), and several minor bugs have been fixed. Includes source. Author: Daniel J. Barrett ICalc A powerful calculator with many features, including user- defined variables and functions, C-style programming con- structs, complex number calculations and more. Has com- prehensive instructions, and numerous examples. This is version 2.1a, an update to version 2.0 on disk 695. En- hancements include flexible number-base control and scripts to perform numerical integration. Binary only, source available from author. Author: Martin W. Scott JoinSounds A utility to join 8SVX sound files. Graphical interface allows samples to be previewed, and start/stop points to be set. This program will join both stereo and mono sound files in any combination. Uses buffered disk I/O, allowing samples larger than available memory to be joined. This is version 2, binary only. Author: Joe Tatman and Brian Roy LongPlay An 8SVX IFF sound file player. Reads samples directly from disk while playing, allowing unlimited length samples. Runs as a background task and multi-tasks well. Can also be used as the default tool of a project icon. Binary only. Author: Joe Tatman MathsAdv A simple game where you, the young adventurer, must try to escape the king's Maths Adventure. To do this you must pass through a series of rooms. In each room you are given a math problem to solve, after which you can proceed to the next room if you answer correctly. The problems become more involved and more difficult in each room. This is an update to the version on disk 602. Includes source. Author: Jason Lowe ReflexTest A game which tests your addition, subtraction, or multipli- cation skills. The goal is to answer forty math questions in the shortest possibly time. Binary only. Author: Jason Lowe This is disk 714 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. CoGo An engineering/surveying program to solve coordinate geometry problems for highway design, surveying, subdivision layouts and constuction. Needs 1 Mb of memory. CLI only with output to screen or printer. Manual, with sample problems, avail- able from author. This is version 1.0, binary only. Author: Don R. Benson JoeyDemo A demo version of a Sokoban type game where your task is to push Grullies (the only food of the Joey) to the stock, which is designated with little rhombic symbols on the floor. To complicate things there are iceblocks and teleporters. The demo version contains 5 levels while the registered version contains 60 levels. Shareware, binary only. Author: Richard Ziegler, Roland Schreiner XStat A UUCP utility that computes several statistics from the Xfer- Stat file (similar to UUTraf). Offers lots of options. Re- quires Andrew "Charly" Kopp's uucico V1.15c or later, and also Kickstart 2.04 (V37.x) or later. Version 1.07, freeware, includes source in Modula-2. Author: Jⁿrgen Weinelt This is disk 715 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. Intuisup A shared library with support routines for using texts, menus, borders, gadgets, requesters, and more, under AmigaDOS 1.3. Includes a template editor and source to library and test programs. This is version 4.4, an update to version 4.2 on disk 708. Author: Torsten Jⁿrgeleit LhA A very fast archiver that is compatible with MS-DOS LhArc V1.13 and LHA V2.13, as well as the Amiga LhArc. LhA is very memory efficient, has been written with stability and reliability in mind, has carefully optimized compression and decompression routines, is multitasking reentrant and pure, handles multiple volume archives (registered version only), and more. Version 1.32, an update to version 1.22 on disk 637. Shareware, binary only. Author: Stefan Boberg This is disk 716 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. BCount A utility to count files, directories, hardlinks, and softlinks for a given root directory. Requires Amiga OS 2.04. This is version 1.12, binary only. Author: Norbert Bazin ReOrg ReOrg is a fast disk optimizer that can be used for floppy disks and hard disks. Supports new Kickstart 2.04 features including hard and soft links and High-Density drives. In- cludes program versions in English and German for use with Kickstart 2.04 only. This is version 2.31, an update to ver- sion 2.3 on disk 699. Shareware, binary only. Author: Holger Kruse TalinCode A bunch of source code for demos, tests, and experiments, that the author wrote over a period of 8 years, mostly for recrea- tion or for general R&D for projects that never materialized. Includes 3D techniques, a maze generator, logarithms, basic utility functions, dos functions, random numbers, and much more. Includes source, mostly in assembly code. Author: David Joiner Wasp A picture format converter. Input formats supported include GIF (87a), IFF (lores, hires, HAM, EHB, 24-bit, sliced, dynamic, etc), SRGR, Sun rasterfile, PPM (P5 and P6), HL2, and MTV. Output formats supported include IFF, SRGR, and PPM. Version 2.02beta. Includes source. Author: Steven Reiz ZMachine A program which can interpret Zork Implementation Language (ZIL) data files. ZIL is the language used by the interactive fiction series of games from Infocom Inc. Version 1.0.3, binary only. Author: leo@marco.UUCP, Amiga port by Kent Dalton This is disk 717 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. ADev11 A complete development system for Motorola's 68HC11 processor, including a macro assembler, linker, librarian, downloader and disassembler. Supports multiple source file and multiple relocatable segments per file. Binary only. Author: Stan Burton ALock A limited multiuser security system for your Amiga. This is version 1.04, binary only. Author: Trevor Andrews FileStat Facilitates the editing of all information about a file, such as protection bits, name, comment, etc., using a graphical interface. Version 2.0, binary only. Author: Robert Lang PacMan A pacman type game with 20 levels, 5 bonus levels, and extra tools. Automatically adjusts to either PAL or NTSC. Can be controlled with a joystick, mouse, or keyboard. Written in assembly. Version 1.1A, shareware, binary only. Author: Edgar M. Vigdal SpaceII A hot-key program with over 50 functions including four screen blankers, screen shuffler, path/filename transmitter, text reader, virus checker, boot block display, calculator, disk copier and/or formatter, palette selector, screen dumper, etc. Version 2.3 beta, binary only. Author: Edgar M. Vigdal ViewIcon Simple program to view icons from the shell. Opens up a sufficiently sized window so that the icon can be displayed in it. If you click the icon, it has the same effect as clicking it on the workbench, so you can see the icon's alternate image. Version 1.0, binary only. Author: Robert Lang This is disk 718 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. BootPic BootPic allows you to install nearly any IFF picture that you like in place of the WorkBench hand that appears after a reset, and additionally plays a MED-Module. Version 2.1b, an update to version 2.0 on disk 635. Includes source in assembly. Author: Andreas Ackermann Less A port of a UNIX text file reader. It can use pipes, accepts multiple filenames, and has many convenient positioning com- mands for forward and backward movement, marking positions, etc. This is version 177.4 an update to version 1.4Z on disk 511. Includes source. Author: Mark Nudelman, port by Frank Busalacchi Settime Set the system time from the internal hardware clock. Written to be very small and fast. Also includes versions that can be installed as boot blocks. Version 0.9, includes source in assembly. Author: Andreas Ackermann SmallMath "Drop-in" replacements for the Commodore IEEE math libraries for users with a math coprocessor. Since these libraries do not contain the coprocessor-emulation code normally present, they are 60%-90% smaller than the usual libraries. For the same reason, however, they cannot be used without a coproces- sor. Version 1.1, public domain, partial source included. Author: Laz Marhenke This is disk 719 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. CrcLists Complete CRC check files for disks 521-710 using the brik program. These were made directly from my master disks. Along with the CRC lists from previous disks, these lists will allow you to check all of the disks in the library to make sure they are correct and complete. Author: Fred Fish DefTool Programs that allow you to easily change the default tool of one or more project icons, from either the CLI or from Work- Bench. The WorkBench version is a commodity. Binary only. Author: Robert Lang DrawMap A program for drawing representations of the Earth's surface. New features include seven new types of map projections, user specifiable point to be at the center of the maps, and box views that can now cross the international date line. Also includes accelerated version requiring a 68020 CPU and 68881 FPU, and versions for PAL systems. Requires 1.5 Mb of memory and a hard disk with 1.6 Mb of free space. Distributed in two parts, the other part is on disk 720. Both parts are re- quired. This is version 4.1, an update to version 4.0 on disks 639 and 640. Includes full source. Author: Bryan Brown. FixIcon Fixes some icons that show bad markings when run on greater than 4 color Workbenches. Doesn't fix them all, but fixes a common problem. Includes source in C. Author: Robert Lang MakeIcon Allows you to create any of the Workbench 2.0 default icons for anything, disks, projects, drawers, the works. Designed for people who work from the shell making disks that will ultimately run from the Workbench. Requires Workbench 2.0. Binary only. Author: Robert Lang This is disk 720 of the freely distributable AMIGA software library. Below is a listing of the significant directories and their contents. DrawMap A program for drawing representations of the Earth's surface. New features include seven new types of map projections, user specifiable point to be at the center of the maps, and box views that can now cross the international date line. Also includes accelerated version requiring a 68020 CPU and 68881 FPU, and versions for PAL systems. Requires 1.5 Mb of memory and a hard disk with 1.6 Mb of free space. Distributed in two parts, the other part is on disk 719. Both parts are re- quired. This is version 4.1, an update to version 4.0 on disks 639 and 640. Includes full source. Author: Bryan Brown.