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AMIGAN PUBLIC DOMAIN DISK NUMBER 4 (D) from The Amigan Apprentice & Journeyman, PO Box 411, Hatteras, N.C. 27943 (919) 986-2443 Business, 986-2434 at Home This disk is an updated version of Amigan PD disk # 4. It has a newer version of BLINK (see below) than the original and an updated version of POPCLI. A summary of what is on this disk follows the disclaimer below. A directory listing in full, with notes, is found at the end of this file. We suggest you read this file in an editor in 80-column mode. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following caveat was written by Fred Fish to apply to his library of Amiga public domain software. It applies so well to the AMIGAN library as well that I am using his version rather than re-write it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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). ======================================================================= The Amigan Apprentice and Journeyman PD software library to date: Disk #1 - DPSLIDE, a utility for viewing IFF format pictures MicroEMACS 3.6, a full-screen editor Screendump, a screen-printing program TrueCIO, a C routine to give true one-character-at-a-time I/O to Lattice C for the Amiga Disk #2 - Amiga HACK v1.01E - a Dungeon adventure. Graphic icons replace characters in this version. Disk #3 - C-KERMIT, a file transfer protocol. Includes server mode. Disk #4 - See the summary below and the detailed index which follows: PD Corner Our newest Amigan Public Domain disk (No. 4) holds a by Doug Walker bunch of goodies for programmers, some interesting ut- 405 B3 Gooseneck Drive ilities for the workbench icon interface, a monopoly Cary, NC 27511 game, a program to fix the glitches in the V1.1 Epson printer driver, plus a program to get rid of the extra code which XMODEM leaves in object files after a download. For frosting, we also include POPCLI; it pops a new CLI any time you want one, and turns the screen off if you leave Amiga untended. [Ed. The disk also holds a work of art Doug is too shy to mention, as he helped write it: a new linker for Amiga, much faster than Alink--twice as fast at worst, and four to six times as fast most of the time. The cork-sniffers at the Software Distiller in Cary, NC deserve a platinum medal for this hack!] MAKE is a utility to help organize your project and keep everything up to date. MAKE is described in detail elsewhere in this issue. This version is only 14k, but it incorporates all the most important features of the UNIX (tm) version, including macros and default rules. Hats off to John Toebes and Jack Rouse of the Software Distillery for this fine implementation. BLINK is a linker designed to replace ALINK. A linker takes object files (.o files) produced by a compiler or assembler and LINKs them all together into a program. BLINK is public domain, is faster than ALINK, produces smaller code than ALINK, produces a more easily readable object file map than ALINK and takes up about the same amount of space on your disk (31k vs. 29k). BLINK also has support for some new features that will be out in Lattice C version 3.04 which will allow the compiler to produce much smaller code. (For the techies, Lattice 3.04 will have 16-bit relative offsets for both code and data; BLINK supports these hunk types). BLINK was produced by the Software Distillery as well. It is command-compatible with ALINK; you needn't revise your batch files. (The version of BLINK included on this disk is version 6.7. Previous releases of Amigan PD disk # 4 included a different version of BLINK. BLINK 6.7 is now 37k but has many new features which make up for the added size! The release version of the Lattice compiler was changed to 3.10 after this article was written.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To order this disk (number 4) or any previously-issued disks, send $6 US to The Amigans, PO Box 411, Hatteras, N.C. 27943. Overseas, add $1 for postage. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICONTOOLS are a set of four utility programs taken from a PD disk distributed by the New York Amiga user group AMuse. The first utility is ZAPICON, author un- known (hey, AMuse, let's give credit where it is due!) ZAPICON lets you take a Deluxe Paint brush or an Aegis Images window and turn it into an icon. ICONEXEC, by John Toebes, ties an icon to a specific command. Any command executable from AMIGADOS can now be executed from the workbench! SETALTERNATE, also by Toebes, allows you to give the icon a new picture when it is selected by a mouse click. This gives rise to some really great effects - see the icons in HACK as distributed on Amigan disk #2. SETWINDOW allows you to set up the output window your CLI program will use when executed from workbench. ARC is a utility program widespread on bulletin boards all over. It takes a number of files and compresses them as much as it can, then lumps them all together in one file for easier handling. If a program consists of four source files, executable and documentation, you can upload or download all of that in ARC library, and the size of the library is often smaller than the uncompressed executable alone. Many BBS's have files marked <name>.arc; these are ARC libraries, and should be unpacked with ARC. Amiga ARC is provided by Raymond S. Brand. FIXOBJ is a program which fixes a common problem when downloading software from a bulletin board. XMODEM, the most widely used terminal protocol, must have chunks of data that are exactly 128 bytes long. If the last chunk of your program is not exactly 128 bytes, XMODEM pads the data out to 128. This technique works fine on CP/M systems and on the IBM PC, but unfortunately NOT on the Amiga. If you try to execute one of these padded programs, AmigaDOS will respond 'not an object file'! FIXOBJ fixes these padded programs so they will run on the Amiga. POPCLI is a super little utility written, again, by John Toebes. POPCLI has two functions. First, if you haven't typed anything or used the mouse for a given period of time, POPCLI will turn your screen black to save the phosphors. It turns on again if you touch a key or the mouse. Second, any time you want a CLI, in any program, all you have to do is hit left-Amiga Escape and voila! I remember the dark days before I installed POPCLI on all my workbench disks, when my only CLI was tied up printing or editing a file and I couldn't do anything until it was done! Now, if I am in the editor and want to go look at something out on disk, I just pop up a new CLI and look. POPCLI is indispensable. (This disk contains an updated version of POPCLI called POPCLI II. POPCLI II supports the 1.2 operating system. ) TSIZE gives you a listing of the number of bytes used by each directory on a disk. Very handy for seeing where the waste comes from! QCOPY is a graphical DISKCOPY. It shows what sectors it has copied and what sectors it had problems with. QCOPY can recover from errors that DISKCOPY gives up on--and you can copy a series of disks`without`re-issuing the QCOPY command. Be warned: it's okay with 512K or less; it crashes with expanded memory. MONOPOLY is a great old game; the version on disk was written by David Addison in ABASIC; it's stuffed with graphics and can handle up to four players. Enjoy. For further information, see the README.AMIGAN or the .DOC files in each directory. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DIRECTORY LISTING OF AMIGAN DISK 4, with NOTES fixobj (dir) Makes runnable files fixobj fixobj.c from XMODEM transfers. fixobj.doc blink (dir) blink manual A new, fast linker to map.doc replace ALINK. UPDATED FOR DISK 4B make (dir) builtins.make hello.c An excellent MAKE hello.h main.c utility for C make make.doc programmers. makefile readme.amigan popcli (dir) popcli popcli.doc Pops a new CLI any- where, any time. UPDATED FOR DISK 4C misc (dir) lens lens.doc Useful odds and ends; qcopy qcopy.doc see the .doc files. quickea quickea.doc reversi reversi.doc tsize tsize.doc arc016 (dir) The well-known arc016.arc arc016.doc archiver. arc016.readme IconTools (dir) IconExec IconExec.Poster See the EXPLAINED iconexecexplained Intro and README files Introduction README.AMIGAN for details on SetAlt SetAlt.c these tools. SetAlt.Poster SetWindow SetWindow.c SetWindow.Poster ShowILBM ZapIcon zapiconexplained epfix (dir) A printer driver epfix epfix.asm patcher for V1.1 epfix.doc Epson driver. monopoly (dir) monofiles (dir) blank_pic CENTER_PIC chance_pic chest_pic Files used by cont_pic dice1 MONOPOLY.BAS dice2 dice3 when it runs. dice4 dice5 dice6 hotel_pic house_pic lite1 lite2 lite3 Files monopoly.bas lite4 lite5 and monopoly_pic_dat lite6 lite7 in this sub-dir lite8 monopoly.bas are NOT the same monopoly_pic monopoly_pic_dat as the main player1 player2 files listed player3 player4 below. Ditto TRAIN1 TRAIN2 for monopoly_pic. TRAIN3 TRAIN4 yesno_pic monopoly.bas monopoly_pic The main program monopoly_pic_dat files, MONOPOLY.BAS fish.catalog A listing of programs on all Fish disks through number 30. readme.amigan <<======= This file