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T P D T P D
A C A C
H H H H
C T A C A
D D T
P P D P
U P D A T E
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From ACE PD Officer - Gary Spiteri
Hi everyone!
Well atlast the new library has started, but before I talk about
that, let me first talk about the Disk Of the Month.
As most of you know the Disk Of the Month (DOM) is a disk full of
new PD programs which can be bought for $3.00 at meetings, $4.00 through the
library and (best opf all) $30.00 subscription for 12 issues posted to you
(this is a great chance for country and interstate members to get in on the
action).
Over the last few DOM's I've been experimenting to "fine tune" the
DOM. At the February general meeting I with the members ways in which the
DOM could be improved. With the help of their feedback I've worked out the
final form in which all future DOM's will take.
* The pricing stays as is:-
$3.00 - at meetings
$4.00 - through the library
$30.00 - subscription for 12 issues.
* Disks will now be formatted as 79 track, 10 sector double
sided disks for members who have dicky disk drives.
* The files will continue being archived using the LZH method
(allowing 1.4 MegaBytes of stuff per disk). The program UNLZH
v1.72 will be included to extract them.
Unfortunately it became apparent that a number of members
didn't know how to correctly use unLZH and solve this,
detailed instructions on how to extract files. Also, at the
next general meeting (Sat. 7th March) I'll be showing people
how to use UNLZH correctly, so if you have any problems, come
to the meeting and I'll explain it to you.
As a taste of what's to come, allow me to have just a little rave....
The standard Atari file selector is rubbish, we all know it, yet we live
with it. However, numerous alternative file selectors have come and gone but
two outstanding selectors are the Little Green Selector (PD - see catalogue)
and the Universal Item Selector III (which is commercial). For the last year
or so I've been using UIS III exclusively. However that's all changed with
the arrival (via the Holland <-> ACE BBS link) of "Selectric" by Stefan
Rodermacher and Oliver Scheel. I firmly believe that this is the best
selector on the Atari bare none!
It has all the features of UIS (file/disk handling, wildcards, FIND
functions, sorting (including numeric which not even UIS has), filters etc
etc) plus the ability to jump up and down a folder tree instaneously and its
all accessed from the cleanest looking interface around. The only selector
that bears any similarity is "Boomerang" on the Macintosh. I've included a
picture that came with the program so you can get an idea on what it looks
like.
Because of a special Shareware arrangement, Selectric will not appear in the
library for some time. However, Selectric will appear on the next DOM - so
get it or miss out on a commercial quality program, in addition to 1.3
Megabytes of stuff for $3.00 !
The New PD Library.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Yes it's happened! The catalogue below shows whats been released so far, the
disks are available right now.
Please comment on the format of the catalogue, if you like it buy some of
the disks, if you don't then please say so....
Upcoming disks will be the start of the Disk Utilities, Spectre/Mac,
Graphics, Applications and Magazine sections. Also I'll will configure and
release TeX and GhostScript (as soon as I get them working!).
Anyway - enjoy....
Gary.
ACE PD LIBRARY PART 1.
Notes:
The disks fall into certion Areas which form as section headings in
this catalogue. The actual disk name is centred, and this is what you quote
to order the disk.
All programs are assummed to work on a normal ST unless mentioned in
square brackets after the files' description. The key is:
1Mb - A minimun of a 1 Megabyte needed
STe - STe only. } If preceeded by a "*" then these files
TT - TT only. } will _not_ run on these machines.
STL - ST low resolution only
STM - ST medium resolution only
STH - ST High resolution only
TTL - TT low resolution only
TTM - TT medium resolution only
TTH - TT High resolution only, requires a TTM194 monitor.
½ - Half price disk.
AREA: Desk Utilities
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DESK_UTL.001
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* ACCSEL - Select which accessories you want to use.
* ASSASSIN - The painless way to install GDOS fonts and drivers.
* DC_UTILS - Six great little utilities from Double Click
* FNT_UTIL - Three utilities to help you use GDOS
* FREE_RAM - Displays how much free memory your computer has.
* JENNINGS - Six wonderful utilities from Michael Jennings
* LGS18C - The latest version of simply the best PD File Selector.
* ORGANIZE - An aid to those using G+Plus
* PRIV_EYE - An accessory to see monitor the state of your computer
* RAMPLUS - A combined RAM disk and Printer Spooler
* RDY_STE - A very snappy, compact and fast RAM disk
* RUBR_113 - The most wonderful screen saver around.
AREA: Virus Killers
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V_KILLER.001
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The complete SAGROTAN virus killer system. Both the English and the latest
German version is included. This system easily rivals commercial virus
killers such as A_V_K and includes link virus detection and boot sector
restoring. Every sane owner should have this program.
AREA: Text Files
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A disk full of text files on the topic of hardware modifications of the
ST/STe.
AREA: PortFolio
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A disk full of essential Portfolio programs such as slave and XTerm. (On a
MS-DOS disk for easy transfer to the Portfolio via a null modem cable).
AREA: DeskTop Publishing
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Lots of useful hints, tips, tutorials and documents for Calamus users.
[Needs Calamus]
DTP.002
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Lots of very useful hints, tips, documents, tutorials and font editor for
PageStream users. [Needs PageStream]
AREA: Images, Pictures and Clipart
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IMG.001
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A disk full of high quality Antique car clipart in .IMG format.
AREA: Miscellaneos
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ MISC.001
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A full blown German to English translator with a 18,000 word supplementary
dictionary.
AREA: Education
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Seven colourful Educational programs of Kids [STL]
ED.002
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Some more colourful programs of Kids [STL]
AREA: Product and Gee Weez Demo's
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DEM.001
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A disk of demo verions of the current range of poducts from CodeHead
Software, such as MaxiFile 3, LoopIt, PopIt, G+Plus, HotWire etc [½]
DEM.002
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A demo of the incrediable sequencer LIVE by SoftARTs. This program is feature
packed and has the slickest, best looking interface this side of a NeXT
station. [1Mb,STH,TTH,½]
DEM.003
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A demo version of WordFlair 1.15 the integrated document processor. [STM,
STH, TTM, TTH, 1Mb, Requires GDOS, ½]
DEM.004
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A demo version of Silhouette, a wonderful raster/vector editor with a
lighting AutoTracer from Maxwell CPU. [½]
DEM.005
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NeoDesk 3 and NeskDesk CLI demo from Gribnif software - _the_ best shell on
the Atari. [½]
DEM.006
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Demo versions of STalker 3 the best comunications program) and CardFile 3 (an
simple to operate data storage system), both from Gribnif. [½]
DEM.007
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Demo of the incrediable MegaPaint 4 Professional vector/raster design system. [1Mb, STH, TTM, TTH, Requires
Hard Drive and unLZH.PRG, ½]
DEM.008
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A demo version of the power vector/raster editor Arabesque, from Gribnif
software. [1Mb, STH, TTM, TTH, ½]
DEM.009
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A demo version of TypeART from DMC, the makers of Calamus. As the name
implies, TypeART is used to maniplulate Calamus fonts into designs and logo's
that are then imported into Calamus as vector frames. [STH, TTM, TTH, 1Mb,
Requires Calamus fonts, ½]
DEM.010
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A demo version of the best nonGEM wordprocessor for the Atari, ProText v5.
[½]
DEM.011
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A demo version of tms Cranach Studio a powerful vector/raster/autotracing
system. [STH, TTM, TTH, 1Mb, ½]
DEM.012
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A complete demo version of Calamus SL, plus some modules. This is a two disk
set. Hard Drive owners can copy both disks into one folder, if you have two
floppy drives put disks A: and B: into their respective drives, or for simple
drive owners run disk A: and follow the prompts. [1Mb, STM, STH, TTM, TTH, ½]
AREA: Music
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* DIGICOMP - DigiComposer v1.0, A full featured tracker of ST's [STL, *TT]
* JUKEBOX - The JukeBox v1.1, an incredible module player that can be used
as an accessory then it will play them in the background (at
upto 50Khz on a TT!) [STE, TT]
* MODPLAY - A brilliant STE only module player, the sound quality rivals
that of the Amiga! [STE]
* NOISETRK - NoiseTracker v1.5 - the tracker that started the craze [STL, *TT]
* NT_COMP - A program to create selfplaying modules, includes source.
* TRACK_ST - The Pre-release version of ESION XLii [STL]
* TRACK_STE - The Pre-release version of ESION XLii-STE [STL, STE]
MUSIC.002 to MUSIC.013
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Each disk contains ~seven modules for use with MUSIC.001
MUSIC.014 to MUSIC.018
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Each disk contains ~100 samples for use with MUSIC.001
{END... for now}