Fish Disk #0035

Fish Disk #0035 © 1986 Fish, Fred

ASendPacket Example program for sending multiple packets
asynchronously to a dos handler, for those interested
in implementing programs with asynchronous AmigaDos
file I/O. Author: Phillip Lindsay

ConsoleWindow Example program for finding the intuition pointer to an
AmigaDos CON: or RAW: window, so you can do
WindowToFront, graphics, and other interesting things.
(Requires AmigaDos 1.2) Author: Andy Finkel and Robert
Burns

DirUtil Nice little program to wander around directory tree
using a windowing interface and performing various
operations on files. Author: Chris Nicotra,
enhancements by Dave Jobusch

DirUtil2 Another variant of dirutil. Author: Chris Nicotra,
enhancements by Ed Alford

FileRequester A very nice file requester module for lattice C
programs, along with a demo driver program. Author:
Charlie Heath

MacView Allows viewing of standard MacPaint picture files in
either Amiga low resolution (320 x 200) or high
resolution (640 x 400). Executable, sample pictures,
and icons (version on disk 32 did not include
pictures). Author: Scott Evernden

Plop Short, simple, no-frills IFF reader program, and a
sample picture made using a ray tracing algorithm.
Author: Jim Kent

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. Author: John Toebes

QuickCopy Three versions of quickcopy, a nice little full disk
copier. Two of the versions are capable of making
backup copies of "protected" Electronic Art's disks.
Author: Dave Devenport

ScrollPf Creates and displays a 400 by 300 by 2 bit plane
playfield on top of a 320 by 200, 2 plane deep
playfield, as a demo of dual playfield display. Author:
Carolyn Scheppner

SendPacket General purpose subroutine to send AmigaDos packets.
Author: Phillip Lindsay

SpriteMaker Program which lets you paint sprites and then converts
the image into a C data structure to be used in
programs. Allows interactive testing of the sprite as a
pointer. Suggested shareware donation of $15 for source
code and updates. Author: Ray Larson

Tracker Program which converts a boot-load disk (I.E. a
kickstart disk) into a group of files for electronic
transmission and reassembly. Completely preserves the
original disk structure so the target disk will be an
exact duplicate of the original. Author: Brad (Lord
Bradford) Wilson

TriClops Very nice graphics oriented 3-D space invasion game.
This was previously a commercial product which is being
released into the public domain for promotional
purposes (they are working on a multiuser, multimachine
version). Author: Unknown, published by Geodesic
Publications

Tsize A simple utility to print directory tree sizes.
Displays the total size of all files and subdirectories
within a given directory. Author: Edmund Burnette

UnIfdef Useful program for removing ifdef'ed sections from a
file while otherwise leaving the file alone. Allows one
source to be used as a porting base for many machines,
without shipping the entire source to every source
customer. (Preprocess for their machine and send them
only the source for their specific machine). Author:
Dave Yost

Vttest Program to test compatibility of vt100-compatible
terminals and terminal emulators. Requires the
resources of a Unix system to test an Amiga hosted
vt100 emulator. (I haven't yet found one that even
comes close to passing this test!). Author: Per
Lindberg