ScuzzBlog: Diaries December 2020
Entry 7th December 2020: Post 1: Fred Fish - BayBench 1.3 Library Disks.
Fred Fish - BayBench 1.3 Library Disks.
So I was on the hunt for a good text editor to go with my BayBench
1.3 disk and where better to look than the Fred Fish Library Disks.
I am truly amazed about the amount of software issued by Fred Fish.
I have all the disks on CD and various Amiga hard drives, but I
wanted to experience the process old style so I dragged open my
drawer full of Fish disks and started to rummage... As you do.
It was impossible for me to put the lists of disks down without
shortlisting a few goodies to have a look at and so I set aside a
number of disks and copied the programs to nine of my very own
library disks. Fortunately I did find a really good Text Editor.
One comment I will make. It is easy to forget in this world of fast
available downloads, the effort needed in the early days to gather
suitable software. It would involve endless searches through PD
catalogues and the testing of disks as they arrived in the post. It
wasn't as if you had a ready group of individuals available online
24/7 to ask questions to. All that was to follow with the internet
was over the horizon and so sourcing material and programs was a
pretty solitary process. I can sense, though, the excitement of
receiving these little blue disks of treasures as I have been
there myself.
Anyhoo here are the files/programs that I copied to my own library
disks. Most were useful programs. Others were just cus I wanted a
little bit of history, what with the creator being a legend of the
Amiga world. I'll let you work that one out for yourself.
Don't you think it is amazing that none of these disks fell over.
All were copied without fault... after all these years. Incredible.
THESE ARE NOT MY WORDS. Please see link below list.
DISK 1
dotty Source to the "dotty window" demo on the Workbench
disk. Posted to usenet by Dale Luck.
trackdisk Demonstrates use of the trackdisk driver. Useful
example of "raw" disk read/write. Author: Rob Peck
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
DISK 18
Browser A program that lets you wander around a file tree and
peek into files, all with the mouse. Author: Mike (I'll
be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer
PigLatin Tired of the "say" command? This one will translate and
speak your input in pig latin! Author: Thomas Clement
DISK 27
ABdemos Amiga Basic demos. NewConvertFD creates .bmaps from fd
files. BitPlanes finds addresses of and writes to
bitplanes of the screen's bitmap. AboutBmaps is a
tutorial on creation and use of bmaps. LoadILBM loads
and displays IFF ILBM pics. LoadACBM loads and displays
ACBM pics. ScreenPrint creates a demo screen and dumps
it to a graphic printer. Author: Carolyn Scheppner,
Commodore-Amiga
Hypocycloids An electronic Spirograph inspired by an article in Feb
'84 Byte. Author: Terry Gintz
DISK 33
Sdb Simple database program, originally released on a DECUS
VAX SIG tape. Author: Unknown, Amiga port by Mic
Kaczmarczik
DISK 60
Blitz Blitz is a small program that is designed to be loaded
into memory and that sits in the background until
activated by its hotkey. It allows you to view a text
file, much like a TYPE command, only that it lets you
move forwards and backwards through the file. Its
screen updates are blitz'n. Binary only. Author: Hayes
Haugen
BlitzFonts Blitzfonts makes text output up to 6 times faster,
transparently to well behaved programs. It is also very
small and written 100% in assembly for maximum speed.
Binary only. Author: Hayes Haugen
Med Yet another Amiga text editor. This one lets you edit
up to 36 files simultaneously and makes extensive use
of the mouse. This is version 2.1, binary only. Author:
Francois Rouaix
DISK 70
AmigaMonitor Dynamically display the state of the machine, including
open files, active tasks, resources, device states,
interrupts, libraries, ports, etc. Display window into
memory. Version 1.13, binary only (source available
from author). Author suggests $15 donation. Author: Jim
Voris
DoTil Lists, in alphabetical order, all files on any two
directories, showing file size, creation date/time, and
amount of free disk space. Also copies, renames, or
deletes files and/or directories, and moves files from
one directory to another. Version 2.0, shareware,
author suggests $15 donation. Author: Dan Franki
GravityWars The object of this game is for one player to hit the
other player's ship with a missle, before being hit
yourself. The ships and planets don't move, but aiming
the missle in the presence of gravity fields and black
holes makes hitting your target difficult. Version
1.03, shareware, author suggests $5 donation. Author:
Ed Bartz
DISK 84
AudioTools Demo programs from Rob Peck's article in the
July/August issue of Amiga World on accessing the audio
device. Includes source. Author: Rob Peck
Ed An editor based on the editor described in the original
Software Tools book. It is very similar to the Unix
"ed" editor, but not identical. Includes source.
Author: Brian Beattie
PipeHandler An AmigaDOS pipe device which supports OPEN, CLOSE,
READ, WRITE, LOCK, EXAMINE, and EXNEXT. Thus you can
have "named pipes". It also supports "taps" on a pipe,
to capture all data flowing through the pipe. Version
1.2, includes source. Author: Ed Puckett
PopCLI Provides a simple way of starting another CLI at any
time without having to load workbench or exit whatever
program you may be using. Also has a builtin screen
saver mode that automatically blanks the Amiga console
screen when there has been no input for a specified
period of time. Version III, an update to the version
on disk number 40. Includes source. Author: John Toebes
DISK 97
Juggler Stunning animation of a robot juggler with ray traced
reflective spheres. Uses HAM mode display and sound
effects to boot! This is version 1.2 and apparently
fixes some bugs in the original version released on
disk number 47. Binary only. Author: Eric Graham
DISK 101
IconAssembler This program loads existing WorkBench icon files and
allows you to change either the primary or alternate
images to another image loaded from an IFF-brush file.
Binary only. Author: Stefan Lindahl
DISK 105
BasicProgs Some more AmigaBASIC programs. LeastSquare solves least
squares problems and graphs the results. Curves is a
demo of one use for LeastSquare (find curves to fit a
set of points). Freud is a Freudian analysis program.
Includes source, needs AmigaBASIC from Extras. Author:
George Trepal
DISK 123
Arp ARP stands for "AmigaDOS Replacement Project". Arp is
an effort led by Charlie Heath of Microsmiths Inc., to
replace the current DOS in a compatible fashion, so
that current programs will continue to work. Arp also
makes whatever improvements are possible, so that
current and future programs will work better. Author:
Various authors contributed work
Car This animation is one of Allen's entries to the Badge
Killer Demo Contest. It apparently is an inside joke
relating to a well known Amigan's experience with a
certain highend graphics hardware manufacturer. Author:
Allen Hastings
DISK 137
JeansIcons Miscellaneous cute icons created for AMUC's monthly
newsletter disk. Submitted by Stephen Vermeulen.
Author: Steve Jeans
DISK 161
XBoot A very simple utility to convert a boot block into an
executable file so you can use your favorite debugger
(Wack, Dis, etc.) to study it. Includes source. Author:
Francois Rouaix
DISK 284
IconTools Here are some tools for icon tricks. Note that these
tools are really hacks because they exploit some areas
of the .info files that the current version of
WorkBench does not clear or reset upon loading the
icon. There are three programs here which allow
WorkBench drawer windows to appear in non-standard
colors and allow you to move the position of the file
name text to anywhere in the icon's graphic. Released
to the public in the hope that 1.4 will allow more
flexible user customization of the WorkBench
appearance. Includes source. Author: Stephen Vermeulen
DISK 381
IconJ IconJ significantly enhances the IconX program, and is
100% compatible. It allows scripts to be executed by
double-clicking the script's icon. Abilities include
joining the script with the icon file itself, or
calling it from any directory or disk, executing either
AmigaDOS or ARexx scripts, outputing to any file or
device, running interactive scripts and scripts that
contain conditionals, and creating relative console
windows. Includes a utility called AtatJ which attaches
or detaches a script to/from an icon file. Version 1.0,
includes source in JForth. Author: Rich Franzen
DISK 342
IE This is an icon editor which can create and modify
icons up to 640x200 pixels in size (also dual render).
It can set stack size, position of icon (also free-
floating), default tool, 10 tool types and control over
opened window. It can also generate the C source code
behind the icon for program inclusion. Version 1.0,
binary only, source available from author. Author:
Peter Kiem
DISK 359
DICE Dillon's Integrated C Enviroment. A C frontend,
preprocessor, C compiler, assembler, linker, and
support libraries. Also includes the editor, dme.
Features include ANSI compatibility, many code
optimizations, and autoinit routines (user routines
called during startup before main is called). This is
version 2.02, shareware, binary only. Author: Matthew
Dillon
TextPlus A word processor for the Amiga, with both German and
English versions. TextPlus enables you to write
letters, books, programs etc. in a very easy and
comfortable way. Version 2.0, binary only. Author:
Martin Steppler
DISK 403
FixDisk A program to recover as much as possible from a
defective disk. It can sometimes recover damaged
(unreadable) tracks, check file integrity, check the
directory structure, undelete files, copy or show
files, fix corrupted directory pointers, etc. Full
intuition interface. This is version 1.2, an update to
version 1.0 on disk 223. Binary only. Author: Werner
Guenther
DISK 406
DMS DISK-Masher is a utility that allows users to compress
and archive entire floppy disks. Offers four different
types of compression, extended virus checking of boot
blocks, and data encryption. Requires at least 512K of
memory. This is version 1.01, binary only. Author: SDS
Software
DISK 532
BootPic BootPic allows you to install nearly any IFF picture
that you like in place of the WorkBench hand that
appears after a reset. Version 1.1, an update to
version 1.0 on disk 484. Now includes an Intuition
interface. Binary only. Author: Andreas Ackermann
SCSIMounter An interactive, fully automated partition mounter
especially suited for removable media SCSI drives.
SCSIMounter automatically scans the Rigid Disk Block of
the drives and presents the user with a partition
selector which allows the individual selection of the
partitions to mount. Requires Kickstart 2.0. Binary
only. Author: Martin A. Blatter
SCSIPrefs A Preferences editor for the battery backed up memory
in the Amiga 3000. This small program allows you to
change the bits that control some parameters of the
embedded SCSI host adaptor. Requires Kickstart 2.0.
Binary only. Author: Martin A. Blatter
DISK 619
SysInfo A program which reports interesting information about
the configuration of your machine, including some speed
comparisons with other configurations, versions of the
OS software, etc. This program has been very popular
with many users and has been fully updated to include
many new functions. This is version 2.60, an update to
version 2.56 on disk 583. Binary only. Author: Nic
Wilson
DISK 621
IE An icon editor which can create and modify icons up to
640x200 pixels in size, up to 16 colors, edit all non-
graphical icon parameters including up to 40 tooltypes,
generate C source code for icon and image programming,
import/export IFF images, recolor icons for DOS2.0,
write text into icon in any font and style, and much
more. Demo version of IE 3.0, a major update to version
2.0 on disk number 377. Requires 1 Meg. Source
available from Author. Author: Peter Kiem
DISK 634
NewDefTool A utility to change the default tool for project icons.
Has a user defined configuration file for flexibility.
Can change default tool according to old default tool
or filenames. Supports the use of appicon, so using
NewDefTool is a simple matter of dragging and dropping
icons. Requires AmigaDOS 2.0. This is version 1.01,
public domain, includes source. Author: Kjell
Cederfeldt
NonClick A program to stop floppy drive clicking. Features an
intuition user interface that allows you to turn
clicking on and off on every drive individually.
Requires AmigaDOS 2.0. This is version 1.06, public
domain, includes source. Author: Kjell Cederfeldt
DISK 668
Textra This easy-to-use text editor allows multiple windows,
and provides a simple mouse driven interface. Those
familiar with the "Macintosh style" editors will be
comfortable with Textra's Cut, Copy and Paste commands.
Documentation included. Version 1.12, an update to
version 1.0 on disk 239, with many enhancements.
Shareware, binary only. Author: Mike Haas
DISK 725
SnoopDos A utility for monitoring AmigaDOS calls. In particular,
it allows you to see what libraries, devices, fonts,
environment variables or startup files a program is
looking for. Very useful when you're trying to install
a new application. Version 1.5, an update to version
1.2 on disk 451. Includes source in C. Author: Eddy
Carroll
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