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Itemized contents of disks 1-35 follows, in reverse order for
the benefit of those that already have early releases.
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CONTENTS OF DISK 35
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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
CONTENTS OF DISK 34
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Alint Support files for Gimpel lint to make it useful on the
Amiga.
Author: Thomas Althoff
Blink A linker written as a replacement for Alink. Fully
Alink compatible and supports many additional options
not found in Alink. Also is much faster than Alink and
generates smaller executable files. Version 5.7
Author: Combined efforts of the Software Distillery
Browser Updated version of the browser program released on disk
number 18. This one has been "manxified", has scroll
bars, and several bugs fixed.
Author: Mike Meyer, enhancements and fixes by Bob Leivian
Btree Routines to implement a B-tree algorithm and several
accompanying tests, apparently derived from the single
file version also included on this disk under "Btree2".
Still buggy, but looks useful with a little work.
Author: Richard Hellier, posted to usenet by Steve Jefferson
Btree2 Previous (original) version of btree routines.
Author: Richard Hellier
Calendar Appointment calendar that lets you visually add and
update appointments. Can also run in background and
remind you 15 minutes before any scheduled event.
Author: Unknown, Amiga port by Bob Leivian
Less Like Unix "more", only better, with forward and
backward scrolling, searching and positioning by
percent of file and line number, etc. Very useful!
Author: Mark Nudelman, Amiga port by Bob Leivian
NewFonts Set of 28 new Amiga fonts.
Author: Bill Fischer
Pr A background print utility with several options for
letter quality compressed mode and line numbers. Also
takes multiple files and wildcards.
Author: Bob Leivian
Requester A file name requester that looks like the one used in
Deluxe Paint, and a sample program for using the
requester.
Author: Kevin Clague
CONTENTS OF DISK 33
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3dstars 3d version of Leo's "stars" program (also on this disk).
Author: Leo Schwab
Bigmap Program which demonstrates how to use the low-level
graphics calls, ScrollVPort especially. Demonstrates
scrolling around inside a very big bitmap.
Author: Leo Schwab
Dbuf.gels Sample program that demonstrates the animation routines
for Bobs and VSprites. Uses double buffering to smooth
the display motion.
Author: David Lucas
DiskMapper Displays sector allocation of floppy disks.
Author: Leo Schwab
MemView Program which sets up a direct window into RAM, thus
dynamically displaying the contents of memory.
Author: Leo Schwab
Oing Displays a window full of little bouncing balls.
Author: Leo Schwab
ScreenDump Dumps rastport of highest screen/window to printer.
Author: Carolyn Scheppner
Sdb Simple database program, originally released on a
DECUS VAX SIG tape.
Author: Unknown, Amiga port by Mic Kaczmarczik
Sproing Same as Oing but includes sounds of balls colliding with
boundries.
Author: Leo Schwab
Stars Displays a screen full of stars, reminiscent of a view
from the starship Enterprise's flight deck.
Author: Leo Schwab
TermPlus Yet another variant of Michael Mournier's AmigaTerm
program. This one includes improved ascii capture,
CRC and checksum xmodem protocol transfers, CompuServe
B-protocol transfers, a phone library, function key
support, and limited AmigaDOS functions.
Author: Enhancements by Bob Rakosky
Vt100 Release 2.0 of Dave's version of AmigaTerm.
Includes support for function keys and script files.
Author: Enhancements by Dave Wecker and Steve Drew.
CONTENTS OF DISK 32
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Address Extended address book written in AmigaBasic.
Author: Mark Hurst
Calendar Calendar/diary program written in AmigaBasic.
Author: Mark Hurst
DosPlus1 First volume of CLI oriented tools for developers.
Executables only.
Author: Bill Beogelein
DosPlus2 Second volume of CLI oriented tools for developers.
Executables only.
Author: Bill Beogelein
MacView Allows viewing of a standard MacPaint picture file in
either Amiga low resolution (320 x 200) or high
resolution (640 x 400). Executable only.
Author: Scott Evernden
Puzzle Simulation of puzzle with moving square tiles.
Executable only.
Author: Bill Beogelein
ShowHAM Program to display HAM (Hold And Modify) mode images
from the CLI environment. Executable only.
Author: Unknown
Solitaire Two new ABasiC games, Canfield and Klondike.
Author: David Addison
Spin3 Simple program that creates spinning cubes and transforms
them into op-art. Example of how to create a double
buffered display with color tables that can be changed.
Author: Ronald Peterson
Sword Sword of Fallen Angel. Text adventure game written
in AmigaBasic.
Author: Andry Rachmat
Trails Cute little program that leaves a trail behind the
pointer when the mouse is moved. The trail has
programmable symmetry, thickness, and length.
The other interesting thing about this program is
that it is written in Modula-2 (source provided).
Author: Richie Bielak
CONTENTS OF DISK 31
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Life Executes the cellular automata game of LIFE in the
blitter chip. Uses a 318 by 188 display and runs at
19.8 generations per second.
Author: Tomas Rokicki
Mandelbrot Latest version of Robert French's mandelbrot program,
version 3.00.
Author: Robert French
MxExample Example of mutual exclusion gadget handling.
Author: Davide Cervone
RamSpeed Program to measure raw memory speed, comparing internal
memory to the external memory.
Author: Perry Kivolowitz
Set Replacement for the Manx "set" command (to set or
change environment variables) with several
improvements.
Author: Tomas Rokicki
Tree Draws a recursive tree (green leafy type, not files).
Author: Robert French (original version by W. Balthrop)
TxEd Latest demo version of Microsmith's text editor, TxEd.
This is the full production version except that files are
limited to 10K bytes in length and the search/replace
functions are disabled. Also, demo is based on an older
version of TxEd, new release has additional features.
Author: Charlie Heath
VDraw Drawing program, based on freedraw, but now transformed
and enhanced beyond recognition. Draws hollow boxes,
filled boxes, freehand sketches, lines, circles, and arcs.
Also has area fill, text insertion, 16 different line
patterns, predefined area fill patterns, a magnify mode,
cut and paste, color inversion, erase, grid pattern, and
more. This is version 1.08.
Author: Stephen Vermeulen
Xicon Contains two programs; Xicon which lets you use icons to
call up scripts containing CLI commands, and Ticon, which
is a simple program to display text files from icons.
Author: Pete Goodeve
CONTENTS OF DISK 30
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Note that the programs on this disk are all shareware/freeware.
This means that if you find them useful, you are morally obligated
to send a small donation to the author to help support his efforts and
fund further development. I hope that by including them in this
library I have furthered the author's goals of widest possible
distribution and thus maximum return. Also note (for those that
like to split hairs) that I am distributing this disk as a "freebee".
To receive a copy, just request it when ordering any other disks from
the library.
Bbs A BBS for the Amiga (BBS-Amiga Version 1.1).
Author: Ewan Grantham
Author's suggested shareware donation: $25
FineArt This is a collection of works from some of the best
of current Amiga artists. Many thanks to Jim Sachs,
Sheryl Knowles, Jack Haeger, and Aegis Development
for submissions.
FontEditor Does what the name implies, edits font's.
Author: Tim Robinson
Author's suggested shareware donation: $5
MenuEditor Create and edit menus, saving the result as either
a binary file for further editing or as C source for
inclusion in a program.
Author: David Pehrson
Author's suggested shareware donation: $15
StarTerm Starterm version 3.0. Very nice telecommunications
program.
Author: Jim Nangano
Author's suggested shareware donation: $20
CONTENTS OF DISK 29
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AegisDrawDemo Demo disk of the Aegis Draw program. This is the
actual production program with only the "save" feature
disabled and without documentation (intentionally).
Very impressive program! Received directly from
Aegis Development.
Cc Version of the Unix like C compiler frontend program,
for Manx C. Previous released version was for Lattice C.
Author: Fred Fish
Enough A new CLI execute file command that tests for various
system resources such as available memory or existance
of specific files, directories, or devices.
Author: Bruce Barrett @ Commodore-Amiga
Player Animation player for Aegis Animator. Received directly
from Aegis Development.
Rubik An animated Rubik's cube program based on Barry Whitebook's
"amiga3d" program and Raymond Brand's "skewb" program.
Author: Bill Kinnersley
StringLib A public domain reimplementation of the Unix string
library functions.
Author: Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto
Vt100 A vt100 emulator program with Kermit and Xmodem file
transfer protocols (based on AmigaTerm).
Author: Dave Wecker
CONTENTS OF DISK 28
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Backgammon Another game in AbasiC by the author of Monopoly.
Author: David Addison
Cpp This is a copy of the Decus cpp, ported to the Amiga.
This cpp is more powerful and complete than either of
the built in cpp's in Manx or Lattice C. Also included
is a modified version of the Unix like cc frontend, for
Manx C, that knows about the cpp.
Author: cpp by Martin Minow; cc by Fred Fish
Cribbage Another game in AbasiC by the author of Monopoly.
Author: David Addison
MileStone Another game in AbasiC by the author of Monopoly.
Author: David Addison
Othello Another game in AbasiC by the author of Monopoly.
Author: David Addison
Shar A program which can pack and unpack archives compatible
with the Unix "shar" (shell archiver) program.
Author: Dave Wecker
SuperBitMap An example program that shows how to use ScrollLayer,
how to sync the SuperBitMap prior to printing, and how
to create a dummy rastport for dumping the SuperBitMap.
Works under 1.2 and up.
Author: Carolyn Scheppner and Phil Lindsay
CONTENTS OF DISK 27
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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
Disassem A simple 68000 disassembler. Reads standard Amiga
object files and disassembles the code sections.
Data sections are dumped in hex. The actual disassember
routines are set up to be callable from a user program
so instructions in memory can be disassembled dynamically.
Author: Bill Rogers, Univ of WAIKATO (New Zealand)
DvorakKeymap Example of a keymap structure for the Dvorak keyboard
layout. Untested but included because assembly examples
are few and far between.
Author: Robert Burns @ Commodore-Amiga
Hypocycloids An electronic Spirograph inspired by an article in
Feb '84 Byte.
Author: Terry Gintz
LinesDemo A demo program which illustrates the use of proportional
gadgets to scroll around in a superbitmap window.
Posted to usenet by Barry Whitebook @ Commodore-Amiga
MemExpansion Schematics and directions for building your own homebrew
1 Mb memory expansion.
Author: Michael Fellinger
SafeMalloc Ever have a program that corrupts it's own memory? Well,
this little gem can help you find the problem in a hurry.
Acts as an interface between your program and the real
malloc, checking for overrun, underrun, and duplicate
freeing of malloc'd space.
Author: Bjorn Benson, modifications by Fred Fish
ScienceDemos Some science demos. Sidereal is a tutorial program which
introduces the user to the relationships between Julian
and calendar dates and solar and sidereal times. J2000
is a utility program which converts stellar positions,
proper motion, parallax and radial velocity from the
standard epoch B1950 (FK4) to epoch J2000 (FK5). Galilean
is a tutorial program which determines the position of
the Galilean satellites relative to Jupiter.
Programs courtesy of David Eagle at Science Software.
CONTENTS OF DISK 26
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UnHunk Tool to process the Amiga "hunk" loadfile format.
Collects code, data, and bss hunks together, allows
individual specification of code, data, and bss origins,
and generates binary file with format reminiscent of Unix
"a.out" format. The output file can be easily processed
by a separate program to produce Motorola "S-records"
suitable for downloading to PROM programmer.
Author: Eric Black
C-kermit Port of the popular "kermit" program, a flexible
virtual terminal and file transfer program from
Columbia University.
Author: Unknown, ported to Amiga by Davide Cervone
Ps A program to display process priorities and another
program to set a process's priority to any arbitrary
valid value. Very useful to provide finer control
over your multitasking environment.
Author: Dewi Williams
Archx Yet more programs for bundling up text files and
mailing or posting them as a single file unit.
Author: Martin Minow
CONTENTS OF DISK 25
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This disk contains a port (executables only) of the popular UNIX game
"Hack", courtesy of John Toebes, 120 H Northington Pl, Cary NC. 27511.
This is Version 1.0.1E., with graphics enhancements for the Amiga.
CONTENTS OF DISK 24
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Conquest You control an interstellar empire, decide which star
systems to explore, which planets to colonize, etc.
The computer will also be building its own empire
and competing with you for resources. The one with
the greatest population at the end wins. First
distributed in executable form only on disk number
10. This distribution includes source.
Author: Unknown, ported to Amiga by Rob Shimbo
Csh Second release of a csh-like alternative to the
CLI, first released on disk number 14. Has alias,
builtin functions like "dir" for speed, history,
named variables, command re-execution with
substitution, etc.
Author: Matt Dillon
Modula-2 A pre-release version of the single pass Modula-2
compiler originally developed for MacIntosh at ETHZ.
This code was transmitted to the AMIGA and is executed
on the AMIGA using a special loader. Binary only.
CONTENTS OF DISK 23
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This disk contains a significantly enhanced version of microemacs based
on the version 30 release posted to usenet's mod.sources newsgroup.
Previous versions of microemacs released on these disks derived from
a very old version of microemacs. Since that old release, the author
has cleaned up lots of loose ends and restructured major parts of the code.
Other people have already added support for termcap, ports to other machines
and operating systems, and a limited GNU emacs compatibility option.
Because recipients of this disk might wish to run this new microemacs
on other machines in addition to the Amiga, I have encluded all sources
that were available to me at the time of release. The subdirectories
which give alternate implementations are:
Sys/Vms System modules for VAX VMS
Sys/Atari System modules for Atari ST
Sys/Msdos System modules for MSDOS
Sys/Cpm86 System modules for Cpm
Sys/Amiga System modules for Amiga
Sys/Ultrix System modules for Ultrix/BSD4.2
Sys/SysV System modules for Unix System V
Tty/Atari Terminal driver for Atari ST
Tty/7300 Terminal driver for AT&T Unix PC (7300)
Tty/Intuition Terminal driver for Amiga using Intuition
Tty/Termcap Terminal driver using termcap for Unix
Tty/Ansi Terminal driver using Ansi codes
Tty/Amigados Terminal driver for Amiga using just Amigados
Tty/Heath Terminal driver for a Heath terminal
There currently is a major effort underway on usenet, led by Dave
Brower, to standardize microemacs and bring the many variations under
one common implementation. Please send any enhancements to rtech!daveb,
or send them to me and I will see that he gets them.
CONTENTS OF DISK 22
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This disk contains two new "strains" of microemacs, both derived from
early releases of Dave Conroy's microemacs. There is currently an
attempt on usenet, lead by Dave Brower, to coordinate an effort to
merge features from the different versions into a single supported
microemacs. In the meantime, perhaps you can find a feature you need
in one of these...
Lemacs Microemacs version 3.6 as enhanced and supported
by Daniel Lawrence. This version works and has been
tested on Unix V7, BSD 4.2, Amiga, MS-DOS, and VMS.
Enhancements include overwrite mode, support for Amiga
function keys, reverse video status line, numeric
arguments using <ESC><number>, replace, buffer specific
editing modes, word wrap mode, goto-line, buffer rename,
insert-file, execute named command, describe bindings,
startup files, and more.
Author: Dave Conroy, enhancements by Daniel Lawrence
Pemacs Microemacs as enhanced by Andy Poggio. New features
include use of <ALT> keys as Meta keys, default buffers
on buffer switch, mouse support, higher priority to
improve interactive response, creation of backup files,
paragraph fill, word wrap, query replace, and support for
function keys.
Author: Dave Conroy, enhancements by Daniel Lawrence
CONTENTS OF DISK 21
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This is a copy of Thomas Wilcox's Mandelbrot Set Explorer disk.
It is unchanged except for:
1) The volume name has been changed to AmigaLibDisk21.
2) This file (README.list21) has been added.
3) The standard library README file README.dist
has been added.
To run from CLI:
1) cd dfX: (where X is drive containing disk)
2) mse
To run from Workbench:
1) Click on MSD icon.
It contains extensive on-line help information, unlike other
Mandelbrot programs distributed in this library. It also is
capable of displaying some very pretty hi-res pictures in
interlace mode.
CONTENTS OF DISK 20
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AmigaToAtari Source code for an Amiga to Atari ST object code format
converter. Takes Amiga objects as input and produces
Atari objects as output. This allows the Amiga to be
used as a cross development machine providing the
proper libraries are available. (Currently does not
work, but I don't have an ST to try it with anyway...)
Author: Landon Dyer at Atari Corp.
DiskSalv Program to recover files from a trashed AmigaDOS disk.
Can also "undelete" files deleted by mistake, so long
as they have not overwritten by further disk activity.
Requires two disk drives. VERY useful...
Author: Dave Haynie
Hash Small example program that computes the AmigaDOS directory
hash function.
Author: Neil Katin at Commodore-Amiga
Hd Hex dump utility using some ideas from Mike Higgin's
article in Computer Language magazine, Apr 86.
Formats the dump based on the natural byte ordering
of the machine on which it runs.
Author: David Elins at NEC Information Systems
MandelBrots Some mandelbrot images submitted for the "mandelbrot
images contest" some months ago. Only three people
submitted mandelbrots and these were among the most
interesting.
MultiTasking Tutorial and example program for multitasking at the Exec
level.
Author: Leo L. Schwab
Pack Program to strip extraneous whitespace from C programs
or header files. Can be used to condense the C compiler
header files to free up disk space.
Author: Jeff Dickson
PortHandler
Author: A sample Port-Handler program that performs
the functions of the standard Port-Handler. Shows what
the BCPL environment looks like from the handler point of
view.
Author: John Toebus VIII
Random Random number generator in assembly. Much faster than
versions using floating point. Can be used by either
assembly or C programs.
Author: Steve Beats at Commodore-Amiga
SetMouse2 Program to set the mouse port to either the left port or
right port.
Author: Robert Burns at Commodore-Amiga
SpeechTerm Terminal emulator that can speak the received text.
Also has XMODEM file transfer.
Author: Leftheris Koutsofios
Ted Demo version of an editor that has since been
renamed as TxEd (I believe).
Author: Charles Heath at MicroSmiths
CONTENTS OF DISK 19
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BlackJack A line oriented (no graphics) blackjack game.
Author: Unknown
JayMinerSlides These are the Amiga slides produced/used by Jay Miner
(the designer of Amiga's custom graphics chips) in his
talks about the Amiga. They are all hi-res (640 x 400)
and are best displayed on a long-persistence color
monitor.
Keymap_Test A program to test the keymapping routines and find
possible bugs. Useful as an example of keymapping.
Author: Pushpa Kumar
LockMon Find file locks. Useful for discovering if programs
properly clean up after themselves.
Author: Dewi Williams
CONTENTS OF DISK 18
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AmigaDisplay Yet another variation of a terminal emulator program.
This is a modified AmigaTerm that can emulate a dumb
terminal (interesting paradox here somewhere...), translate
line termination sequences, optionally capture or discard
control characters in the captured file, use audible bell,
use another font, etc.
Author: Don Woods (Original code by Michael Mounier)
Ash Prerelease version of a C-shell like shell program.
Has history, command substitution, loops, etc.
Author: Thorn Smith
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
MC68010 Complete information package for upgrading an Amiga
to use an MC68010 in place of the MC68000. Includes
a software fix that makes this transparent to user
programs that use instructions that are priviledged
on the 68010.
Author: Thad Floryan
Multidim Lets you rotate a 2 to 6 dimensional "cube" on the
screen using the joystick.
Author: Robert French
PigLatin Tired of the "say" command? This one will translate
and speak your input in pig latin!
Author: Thomas Clement
Scrimper Short for "SCReen IMage PrintER". A screen dump utility
which can be run from the workbench or the CLI.
Author: Perry Kivolowitz
Xlisp1.6 A very nice little lisp for those that want to study the
internals of a real, working lisp interpreter.
Author: Dave Betz
CONTENTS OF DISK 17
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This is a copy of a H.A.M. (Hold And Modify) graphics demo disk received
from a vendor that is producing hardware to capture such images, and
software to process them. It is unchanged except for:
1) The volume name has been changed to AmigaLibDisk17.
2) This file (README.list17) has been added.
3) The standard library README file README.dist
has been added.
4) The 'showilbm' program has been added to allow viewing
of the two monochrome pictures (dozer.hires and robert.lores)
without requiring Deluxe Paint.
5) The supplied 'readme' file has been augmented with
information received on hardcopy along with the disk, and
a note has been added about how to use the showilbm
program.
CONTENTS OF DISK 16
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This is a copy of the Amiga Developer's IFF disk, received directly from
Commodore-Amiga sources, with permission to place in the library and
redistribute. It is unchanged except for:
1) The volume name has been changed to AmigaLibDisk16.
2) This file (README.list16) has been added.
3) The standard library README file README.dist
has been added.
CONTENTS OF DISK 15
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Blobs A simple graphics program, reminiscent of the unix "worms"
program, but in color of course.
Author: Peter Engelbrite
Clock A simple digital clock program designed to be small and to
live completely in the screen title bar, where it is out
of the way.
Author: Mike Meyer
Dazzle An eight-fold symmetry dazzler program. Really pretty!
Author: Peter Engelbrite
Fish "A demo program which runs an AnimOb in a double buffered
screen with sequence cycled animation". (Basically
shows a fish "swimming" across the top of the screen).
Author: Catherine Wagner (posted by Barry Whitebook)
Monopoly A really nice monopoly game written in AbasiC.
Follow the directions in the file "InstallationGuide"
to produce a bootable games disk.
Author: David Addison
OkidataDump Okidata ML92 driver and WorkBench screen dump program.
Does both alpha and graphics. Untested (I don't have the
printer).
Author: Raimund Gluecker
Polydraw A drawing program written in AbasiC.
Author: David Addison
Polyfractals A fractal program written in AbasiC.
Author: David Addison
CONTENTS OF DISK 14
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This disk contains the first ever public release of two new pieces of
code, "dex" and "termcap". Also, this is the first disk in the library
that includes executables produced with both the Manx and Lattice C
compilers, whenever possible. This greatly helps to isolate bugs.
amiga3d Shows a rotating 3 dimensional solid "AMIGA" sign.
This is an updated version of the program released
on disk number 12, and now includes full source.
Author: Barry Whitebook @ Commodore-Amiga
beep Source for a function that generates a beep sound, like
CTRL-G on a VT100 terminal.
Author: Samuel Dicker @ Commodore-Amiga
dex Program to extract documentation in a human readable
format inside source files, and produce nroff style
output for manuals and other such external documents.
First ever public release.
Author: Fred Fish
dimensions Programs to demonstrate three and four dimensional graphics.
Not quite sure how else to describe them!
Author: Anselm Hook
filezap An updated version of the file zap utility first released
on disk number 10. Can be used to patch any type of
file. Nice, and VERY useful.
Author: John Hodgson
gfxmem An updated version of the graphical memory display
program first released on disk number 1. Watch your
machine's memory usage change dynamically under use!
Author: Louis Mamakos
gi Converts DPaint brush files to C source files "necessary
to create an Image structure, including height, width,
depth, and color information, as well as the array of
data which represents the bit planes of the image".
Author: Mike Farren
pdterm A simple terminal emulator that does ANSI or DEC VT-100
emulation in 80 cols by 25 lines. Version 1.21.
Author: Michael McInerny
shell A simple csh style shell with history and some other
goodies. Still needs some polishing and enhancement,
but is quite nice as it. Thanks Matt!!! We've really
needed something like this for a long time. Now if you
would just do a ksh version instead...
Author: Matt Dillon
termcap A (mostly) unix compatible implementation of a termcap
library. First ever public release.
Author: Fred Fish
CONTENTS OF DISK 13
-------------------
This disk is a grab bag of basic programs, mostly untested.
Some are for AbasiC and some are for Microsoft Basic.
No speekee basic so if these don't work, call someone else.
CONTENTS OF DISK 12
-------------------
Note that this disk contains a number of programs apparently available
only in executable form. I am not real happy with this trend, but
had no way of getting in contact with the authors who posted these
programs to various BBS's to request source. I have no reason to
believe that any of these executable only postings contain any
deliberate "misfeatures", but you should always use such programs
cautiously.
amiga3d Shows a rotating 3 dimensional solid "Amiga sign".
No source available, executable only (downloaded from
a Denver BBS)
Author: Barry (bart) Whitebook of C-A
ArgoTerm Yet another terminal emulator program. However, this
one is written in macro assembler, so should be of
interest to anyone doing serious assembly language
development. Version 0.20
Author: Jez San
arrow3d Shows a rotating 3 dimensional wire frame arrow.
No source available, executable only (downloaded from
a Denver BBS)
Author: Steve Beats of C-A
ld4 Another directory listing program using some graphics
style output. Executable only, no source available.
(Downloaded from a Denver BBS)
Author: unknown
IconExec Tools which allow execution of a program from an
icon without having to recompile the program.
Author: John Toebes VIII
images Miscellaneous DPaint and digitized pictures, in iff
format. Some are rated R.
SetAlternate Merge the images from two icons to produce one icon with
a primary image, and a possibly completely different image
to display when selected.
Author: John Toebes VIII
StarTerm Another terminal emulator program. ASCII and XMODEM
support, telephone dialer, function keys, load file
stripping, text file conversion, full/half duplex,
Author: Jim Nangano and Steve Plegge
CONTENTS OF DISK 11
-------------------
dpslide A slide show program for displaying graphic images
which are in the iff format, such as output from the
Electronic Arts Deluxe Paint program. Allows the user
to select the display time for each slide and the method
of bringing the slide up to the screen, and then removing
it. Double buffers images to improve smoothness of
display. Executable only, no source available.
Author: Paul Biondo
pictures Miscellaneous DPaint and digitized pictures, in iff
format. CAUTION: Some are rated R.
CONTENTS OF DISK 10
-------------------
conquest You control an interstellar empire, decide which star
systems to explore, which planets to colonize, etc.
The computer will also be building its own empire and
competing with you for resources. The one with the
greatest population at the end wins. Executable only,
no source. Downloaded from Denver BBS.
Author: Unknown, ported to Amiga by Rob Shimbo
dehex Simple little program to convert hex format file into
a binary file. Reads lines of hex characters on stdin
and writes 8 bit dehex'd bytes to stdout.
Author: Fred Fish
filezap Patch program for any type of file. Executable only,
no source available.
Author: John Hodgson
fixobj Strip extraneous garbage off end of object files
transfered with xmodem. Does not require preknowledge
of actual file length, uses knowledge of Amiga file
structure.
Author: John Hodgson
iff Routines to read and write iff format files. Includes
program to display iff files made by DPaint. Also
see the DPSlide program on disk 11.
Author: Jerry Morrison, Steve Shaw, and Steve Hayes
ld I presume this stands for "list directory". Lists
contents of specified diretory or disk, using inverse
video and colors to group objects by type.
Author: Dave Haynie
ls Minimal implementation of UNIX ls. Demonstrates
use of UNIX style filename pattern matching code.
Author: Rick Schaeffer
sq.usq Squeeze and unsqueeze, from the CPM world. Works, but
"compress" from disk 6 runs almost twice as fast and
produces even smaller files.
Author: R. Greenlaw, Amiga port by Rick Schaeffer
trek73 A Star Trek game. This one is just crying out to
be Amiga'ized by some ambitious hacker.
Authors: Many, see comment in main.c
yachtc Dice game.
Author: Sheldon Leemon
CONTENTS OF DISK 9
------------------
moire Draws moire patterns in black and white in a borderless
backdrop window. Currently only runs with Lattice C
version 3.02, when compiled with 3.03 crashes the system.
Author: Scott Ballantyne
MVP-FORTH Mountain View Press Forth, version 1.00.03A.
A shareware version of forth from Fantasia Systems.
Runable from the workbench, comes with icons and
such. If you use this, you should send a contribution
to Fantasia Systems / Mountain View Press.
proff Another text formatting program. This one is significantly
more powerful than any of the others previously distributed
on these disks.
setlace Program to toggle interlace mode on and off.
When used with a black background, and amber or green
characters, produces a nice CLI environment.
Author: Bob Pariseau, Nov 85
skewb Not quite sure what this is supposed to be, it was
downloaded from a bbs with no documentation. C'mon
folks, at least put a three line description at the
start of your programs!
Author: Raymond S. Brand
sparks Graphics demo that draws a "moving pathway", adding
to the front and removing from the tail (sure is
hard to come up with verbal descriptions of these
things!).
Author: Scott Ballantyne
CONTENTS OF DISK 7 & 8
----------------------
disk7 The "Hack" games disk, derived from sources on disk 8.
Version 1.0.1. This also contains some icons and other files
that are not reproducable from the contents of the source
disk (number 8), so number 7 and number 8 should really be
ordered as a set. Both disks are almost full. It's huge!
Courtesy of John Toebes, 120 H Northington Pl, Cary NC. 27511.
disk8 Contains the source to "Hack", a popular UNIX game ported
to the AMIGA by John Toebes. Please read all the associated
README files before redistributing with changes. Also, if you
appreciate John's work, help support it by sending a small
contribution.
Courtesy of John Toebes, 120 H Northington Pl, Cary NC. 27511.
CONTENTS OF DISK 6
------------------
compress Compress reduces the size of the named files using
adaptive Lempel-Ziv coding. The amount of compression
obtained depends on the size of the input, the number of
bits per code, and the distribution of common substrings.
Typically, text such as source code or English is reduced
by 50-60%. Compression is generally much better then that
achieved by Huffman coding (as used in "pack") or
adaptive Huffman coding (as used in "compact"), and takes
less time to compute. Great for saving disk space, or
reducing transmission time over phone lines! Also includes
"btoa" and "atob" for converting binary files to ascii, and
then back to binary (for transmission over links that do
not support 8 bits).
Author: Thomas Spencer, with improvements by others
dadc A digital computer impersonating an analog clock
impersonating a digital clock.
Author: Perry S. Kivolowitz
microemacs An upgraded version of microemacs originally distributed
on disk number 2. I don't have an exact list of changes
but the new executable is about 25% larger, so there must
be something in there! One enhancement is that some
functions are now also bound to function keys.
Author: Dave Conroy, with enhancements by Jack Roose.
mult Mult reads the input comparing adjacent lines. In the
normal case, the second and succeeding copies of repeated
lines are output, and the remainder of the lines are
removed. Repeated lines must be adjacent in order to be
found. Options are present to output the first of multiple
lines, for comparing adjacent lines by field only, and for
specifying the field separator character. Kind of the
opposite of the Unix "uniq" program.
Author: Dennis Bednar
scales Demonstrates use of the Audio functions in the ROM to
produce four voice sound. It uses a simple waveform
(sawtooth) with no amplitude control (ie, envelope)
or frequency variation (ie, vibrato), but these can be
easily implemented. Also includes considerable
documentation on audio device.
Author: Steven A. Bennett
setparallel Allows the CLI user to dynamically change any particular
parallel port parameter.
Author: Keith Stobie and Tom Pohorsky
setserial Allows the CLI user to dynamically change any particular
serial port parameter.
Author: Keith Stobie and Tom Pohorsky
sortc A quicksort based sort program, using separate driver
and sort modules. Originally from a DECUS C distribution.
Claims to be fast, but when operating entirely out of ram
takes 93 seconds to sort its input file, sort.c, while
AmigaDos's sort takes only 43 seconds under the same
conditions.
Author: Dave Conroy, Martin Minow, and Ray Van Tassle
stripc Strips comments and extraneous whitespace from C source
files. Useful for compacting the C header files to
increase usable disk space.
Author: Chris Metcalf
CONTENTS OF DISK 5
------------------
cons Console device demo program with supporting macro routines.
Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85
freemap Creates a visual diagram of free memory. Comes with
custom icon so can be run from workbench screen.
Author: Robert J. Mical
input.dev In combination with hander.interface.asm (supplied),
lets a user trap keyboard or mouse events before they
get to Intuition and if desired, install new (phony/
generated/other-devices-mouse-simulations) into the
input stream. Handler.interface.asm is needed to convert
the calling sequence performed by the input.task for
the input stream management into something that a
C program can understand.
Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85
joystick Shows how to set up the gameport device as a joystick.
Reports parameters received from joystick hooked to
right port.
Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85
keyboard Sample program to demonstrate direct communications with
the keyboard.
Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85
layers Shows use of the layers library, used by Intuition to
create windows (layers handles all overlapping drawing
areas and keeps things straight, sending to the back,
bringing to the front, making larger/smaller, etc.)
Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85
mandelbrot Latest and greatest mandelbrot program. New features
include the ability to save images in "iff" format,
for reading into Deluxe Paint or other programs that
use iff. Also includes code from GraphiCraft to handle
color palette and change colors at will. Many additions
by RJ Mical.
Author: Robert French
mouse Shows how to set up the gameport device as a mouse so
that hooking up the mouse to the right port gives access
to mouse information.
Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85
one.window Produces a window with a console attached. Does graphics
in the top half and limits the console activity to the
lower half.
Author: Rob Peck 12/18/85
parallel Demonstrates access to the parallel port.
Author: Tom Pohorsky 12/1/85
printer Shows how to open and use a printer, does a screen dump
of the workbench screen if there is a graphics-capable
printer attached.
Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85
print.support Printer support routines. Currently won't compile,
missing a header file "local.h".
Author: unknown
proctest Sample code to create a process, set up message ports,
pass messages, etc.
Author: Rob Peck 1/4/86
region Demonstrates how a drawing area can be split into linked
rectangular regions. Draws a rectangle in a single
playfield display, then draws "Behind a Fence" several
times behind an apparent fence in the rectangle.
Only works under Lattice Ver3.03.
Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85
samplefont A sample font that produces clubs, hearts, spaces, and
diamonds as its four characters. Shows precisely what
is contained in an Amiga font.
Author: Unknown
serial Demonstrates access to the serial port. Requires an
external terminal connected to the serial port.
Author: Unknown
singlePlayfield Creates and displays a 320 by 200 by 2 bit plane
single playfield display. Completely covers Intuition's
display, but gives the system back at exit.
Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85
speechtoy Latest and greatest version of Dave's cute speech demo
program. Comes with custom icon so can be run from
a workbench screen.
Author: Dave Lucas
speech.demo A much simplified version of speechtoy. Also includes
exec support functions for extended IO requests,
CreateExtIO() to allocate and initialize a new IO request
block and DeleteExtIO() to free an extended IO request
block.
Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85
text.demo Sample program that asks AvailFonts() to make a list of
the fonts that are available, then opens a window and
then prints a description of the various attributes that
can be applied to the fonts, in the font itself.
Previous versions were released as "whichfont".
Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85
timer Simple timer example program. Includes dynamic
allocation of data structures needed to communicate
with the timer device, as well as the actual device
IO.
Author: Rob Peck 12/1/85
trackdisk Demonstrates use of trackdisk driver. Useful example of
"raw" disk read/write.
Author Rob Peck 12/1/85
CONTENTS OF DISK 4
------------------
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
CONTENTS OF DISK 3
------------------
gothic Gothic banner printer. Prints DOWN the page, rather
than across, so arbitrarily long banners can be
created. Send EOF (CTRL-\e) 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 2
------------------
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 file 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 1
------------------
amigademo Graphical benchmark for comparing amigas.
Author: Charlie Heath (MicroSmiths)
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
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Subject: Library disks 31-35
Posted: 5 Sep 86 14:41:17 GMT
Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
Keywords: Amiga Freely Redistributable Software Library
Well, it's been awhile since the last batch of disks, so here is
another set for all you hungry people to munch on.
Note that the price of disks has been cut 40% (50% for 10 or more).
This is because:
(1) When I first started doing distribution, disks were
costing me $45 to $55 for a box of 10. Now disks can
be had for $15 to $20 in quantity.
(2) Previously, in order to track down as much software as
possible (what little was out there) I had phone and
BBS charges that were approaching my house payment.
Now I get a lot of software sent to me by people who
want to help by contributing something to the library.
(3) Finally, it has always been my intention to keep this
as much non-profit as possible (or at least low-profit :-),
but I have to be careful that that I don't end up subsidizing
it with anything other than my time.
For those that have current credit balances, your credit will be
drawn against at the new rate, with the mailing of disks 31 and up.
Now, for the standard "blurb" that most of you are probably sick of
by now ...
WHAT'S AVAILABLE
----------------
There are "do-nothing-useful" examples of various capabilities of the
AMIGA, real development tools, editors, languages, games, and other
odds & ends. Also included are machine readable form of many of the
examples (received directly from C-A sources) out of the official
AMIGA manuals, including the 1.1 ROM Kernel Manual.
HOW TO OBTAIN DISKS
-------------------
First, check with your local dealers and user groups. Many already have
the earlier disks. Since these disks can be copied freely, and widespread
distribution is encouraged, they propagate out to central distribution
points fairly quickly.
If you just can't wait, or can't find copies locally, I am willing to
make these disks available for the cost of media, mailing materials,
postage, and miscellaneous expenses (like wear and tear on my drives).
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 latest Lattice C
and/or Manx C compiler available at the time of release. In a very few
cases (noted in the description) the code will not compile or run for some
reason, but was considered interesting enough to include anyway. Almost
all executables are known to run on the latest kickstart/workbench
combination available at time of release.
Disks are typically 85 to 95 percent full.
HOW TO ORDER
------------
To order, send a list of the disks you want, and $6 per disk ($5 per
disk for 10 or more disks), in U.S Funds to:
Fred Fish
1346 W. 10th Place
Tempe, Arizona 85281
(602) 921-1113 (Sorry, I can only return calls collect.)
well!fnf
Time and other jobs permitting, all disks will be mailed via first class
mail within 5 days of receipt of order.
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.
DISTRIBUTION CRITERIA
---------------------
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 accessible 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).
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Fred Fish (602) 438-5976 well!fnf
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