freely distributable software available (long)
Fred Fish
Are you a non-official developer, or tired of complaints about no software
available for the AMIGA? Then you will probably be interested in the
library of freely distributable software I am putting together. So far,
I have four disks ready for distribution, and two more in the process of
testing.
WHAT'S AVAILABLE
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There are "do-nothing-useful" examples of various capabilities of the
AMIGA, real development tools, editors, languages, games, and other
odds & ends.
I have decided to make these disks available for the cost of media,
mailing materials, postage, and miscellaneous expenses. I'm certainly
not going to get rich off this, or even come close to covering my
time involved in downloading and testing all this stuff. My goal is to
get as much software as possible into the hands of people that can use
and enhance it, and make the AMIGA the success it deserves to be.
Each disk contains all source necessary to recreate the executables
provided. All programs are currently compiled with the Lattice C
compiler. Disks are typically 85 to 95 percent full.
HOW TO ORDER
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To order, send a list of the disks you want, and $10 per disk, to:
Fred Fish
345 Scottsdale Road
Pleasant Hill, Ca. 94523
Time and other jobs permitting, all disks will be mailed via first class
mail within 5 days of receipt of order. (Tips may help speed the process :-)
Feel free to order more the the current number of disks available. Excess
funds will be placed "in escrow" (refundable at any time) and drawn against
for automatic mailings of future disks as they become available. I hope
to add at least two to four disks per month to the library. Given that I
have a database of about 300Mb of freely distributable software to
draw upon, that should be a fairly easy goal to accomplish.
-Fred
(415) 685-7295 (Sorry, I can only return calls collect.)
ucbvax!unisoft!fnf well!fnf lll-lcc!unisoft!fnf
DISTRIBUTION CRITERIA
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To the best of my knowledge, materials in this library are freely
redistributable. This means that they have met one or more of the
following conditions:
(1) The materials contains explicit copyright notices permitting
redistribution.
(2) The materials were posted to a publically accessable electronic
bulletin board and did not contain any copyright notice.
(Such materials will be removed if it is subsequently shown
that copyright notices were illegally removed.)
(3) The materials were posted to a widely disseminated electronic
network (such as usenet), thus implying that their author/poster
intended them to be freely distributed. This applies only if
they contain no notice limiting distribution.
(4) The materials contain an explicit notice placing them in the
public domain. This is not the same as condition (1).
To obtain a list of all disks currently available in the AMIGA library,
and ordering information, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to:
Fred Fish
345 Scottsdale Road
Pleasant Hill, Ca 94523
A small service charge is made to cover the cost of disk, mailing
materials, postage, and associated miscellaneous expenses.
CONTENTS OF DISK 1
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amigademo Graphical benchmark for comparing amigas.
Author: Gary Girzon
amigaterm Terminal emulation program with xmodem upload/download
capability.
Author: Michael Mounier
balls Simulation of the "kinetic thingy" with balls on strings
where only the end balls move (quick, can YOU come up
with a better description?). Anyway, cute.
Author: Perry Kivolowitz
colorful Shows off use of hold-and-modify mode.
Posted to usenet by Robert Pariseau.
dhrystone Dhrystone benchmark program.
Author: Reinhold Weicker (Ada version)
Rick Richardson (C version)
dotty Source to the "dotty window" demo on the Workbench disk.
Posted to usenet by Dale Luck.
freedraw A small "paint" type program. Free drawing, boxes,
filled boxes, etc.
Author: Rick Ross
gad "Fun with Gadgets". Demonstration program for use
of gadgets.
Author: John Draper (Aka "crunch")
gfxmem Graphical memory usage display program. Watch your
machine's memory usage! Cute and useful.
Author: Louis Mamakos
halfbrite Sample program that demonstrates "Extra-Half-Brite"
mode on latter AMIGA's with new VLSI chip. Allows
64 colors in low-res mode, rather than 32.
Posted to usenet by Robert Pariseau.
hello Demonstrates creation of a simple window, "hello world".
Posted to usenet by Eric Lavitsky.
latffp Shows how to access the Motorola Fast Floating Point
library from Lattice C. Also demonstrates the tremendous
speedup obtained.
Author: Larry Hildenbrand
palette Sample program for designing color palettes.
Author: Charlie Heath
trackdisk Demonstrates use of the trackdisk driver. Useful example
of "raw" disk read/write.
Author: Rob Peck
requesters Sample program and documentation for building and
using requesters. John worked REAL hard to dig out
all the information in this one!
Author: John Draper (aka "crunch")
speech Sample speech demo program. Stripped down version of
"speechtoy".
Author: Rob Peck
speechtoy Another speech demo program. Cute. You have to see this
one. Be sure to click gadget that pops up the face.
Author: David Lucas
CONTENTS OF DISK 2
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alib Object module librarian.
Author: Mike Schwartz
cc Unix-like frontend for Lattice C compiler.
Author: Fred Fish
dbug Macro based C debugging package. Machine independent.
Provides function trace, selective printing of internal
state information, and more.
Author: Fred Fish
make Subset of "unix" make command. Useful, but does not have
many of the features of the full make, much less the newer
"augmented make".
Author: Landon Dyer
make2 Another make subset command.
Author: Marc Mengel
microemacs Small, relatively portable version of emacs. Has
keyboard macros. No extension language.
Author: Dave Conroy
portar Portable archiver. Used to bundle text files up into a
single file for transmission as a unit, or otherwise
handling as a single file. "Portable" because the code
itself is portable and because the archive format is
very simple (uses ascii headers to separate files).
From Decus C distribution.
Author: Martin Minow
xrf C cross reference utility. Originally from Decus C
distribution.
Author: Bob Denny
CONTENTS OF DISK 3
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gothic Gothic banner printer. Prints DOWN the page, rather
than across, so arbitrarily long banners can be
created. Send EOF (CTRL-\) to end input.
From a Decus C distribution several years ago.
Author: unknown
roff A "roff" type text formatter, roughly following
"Software Tools" version. Somewhat upwardly compatible
with unix "nroff" command.
Author Ken Yap
ff A very fast text formatter, controlled exclusively by
command line arguments.
Author: Gary Perlman & hordes of students
cforth A highly portable forth implementation. Lots of goodies.
Author: Allan Pratt
xlisp A nice little lisp implementation. Compiles and links
ok, but something in the Lattice C setjmp/longjmp
code prevents it from currently running. Might be
easily fixed. Version 1.4
Author: David Betz
CONTENTS OF DISK 4
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banner Prints horizontal banner (across screen). From Decus
C distribution of several years ago.
Author: Unknown
bgrep Another grep like utility, also using the Boyer-Moore
algorithm.
Author: Roy Mongiovi and Arnold Robbins
bison A replacement for unix "yacc" command. This is from
the GNU (GNU is Not Unix) effort, and was obtained
from the Free Software Foundation. Compiles and
links (with some effort) but currently crashes the
machine. Needs work, but will probably be worth it.
Author: Bob Corbett and Richard Stallman
bm A grep like utility using the Boyer-Moore algorithm.
Author: Peter Bain
grep Decus grep (Get Regular Expression and Print). Useful
for finding strings in files.
Author: Unknown
kermit This is an absolutely ancient kermit, who's only
saving grace is that it is small and quite portable.
On the AMIGA, there is no connect mode, only send and
receive. You must log into the remote machine via
one of it's local terminals and point it's kermit at the
appropriate serial line connected to the AMIGA.
Author: Unknown, but it is so hacked up it doesn't
matter by now.
MyCLI Another CLI for the AMIGA.
Author: Mike Schwartz
mandel A Mandelbrot set program.
Author: Robert French, with additions by RJ Mical
TENTATIVE ITEMS FOR FUTURE DISKS
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Pacman An AMIGA'ized version of the pacman distributed in
net.sources.games.
objdump A program to dump object modules in a human readable
format.
battlestar An adventure type game.
body A program to extract ranges of lines from files.
boggle A simple game.
compress Program to compress/decompress files for space saving
and transmission via modem.
ctags A tags file generator. Might be integrated with
microemacs.
diff A differential file comparison utility.
hanoi Solves towers of hanoi.
sort Another sort program.
today Prints current date in VERY verbose form, including
phase of the moon (REALLY!!).
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Fred Fish (415) 644-1230 ext 242 ucbvax!unisoft!fnf well!fnf
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