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- Last-modified: 1993/09/23
- Version: 4.03
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- Originially compiled-by: akerman@lola.phy.queensu.ca (Richard Akerman)
- Now maintained-by: dak@emx.cc.utexas.edu (Donald A Kassebaum)
-
- String for AmigaDOS "version" command:
- |$VER: Amiga_Science/School/UNIX_FAQ 4.03 (29.09.93)
-
- |This document supersedes AmigaSciSchool version 4.02, and before.
-
- This FAQ is cross-posted around the middle of each month to
- comp.sys.amiga.applications, comp.unix.amiga, comp.answers and news.answers
-
- |also available on AmiNet sites: text/doc/AmigaSciSchUnix.lha
-
- The news.answers automatic archiving software will store a copy of this
- posting, available by anonymous FTP on
-
- |rtfm.mit.edu [18.20.0.224]: /pub/usenet/news.answers/amiga/science-faq
-
- The rtfm site also provides an automated FAQ mailserver, send email to
- mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with "help" in the body of your message.
-
- This document is a summary of info I have on hand about Science/School/UNIX
- software. It is designed to answer the questions I have seen most
- frequently about such software on USENET. It's a combination of things I
- have found out myself (I use most of these programs), information posted on
- USENET newsgroups (sometimes uncredited, sorry), and responses I got to
- questions I send to commercial product representatives. I have tried to
- make the information herein as detailed and accurate as possible; please
- email me with any corrections, additional information or comments.
-
- | denotes change
-
- Outline of Contents
-
- 1. GNU emacs 18.58 A1.26
- 2. UNIX commands for the Amiga [every one you ever wanted]
- 3. Shell stuff
- 4. Programming Tools
- 5. Programming Languages
- 6. Plotting, Printing and Display
- 7. Communications, Networking, and X-windows
- 8. TeX
- 9. Math
- A. Engineering
- B. Science
- C. Educational Programs
- D. Misc
-
- Appendix A. UNIX versions of archiving programs (lha, zoo, unzip).
- Appendix B. Amiga archiving programs.
- Appendix C. FTPmail
- Appendix D. Fish Disk databases
- Appendix E. Sources of programs
-
- NOTE: some of these files/archives are very large. Often they contain
- source or other files you may not need. If you are sending the files to
- yourself over the phone lines, or other slow medium for which you may have
- to pay, use the appropriate archiver on your UNIX system beforehand to
- delete all unneeded files in the archive. The most common archiving format
- is .lzh and .lha, use the lha program for these.
- See Appendix A for UNIX versions of archiving programs (lha, zoo, unzip, ...)
- See Appendix B about Amiga archiving programs.
-
- There is a nice review of science software in the March 1992 (#48) _.info_,
- a magazine whose demise is much lamented.
-
- There is a nice review of programming languages in August 1993 issue of
- Amiga World, "A Command of Languages" by Dave Haynie.
-
- This FAQ will use the notation sitename: instead of the full hostname.
- They are;
- aminet: /pub/aminet on any of the AmiNet mirror sites.
- See Appendix E for list of aminet sites.
- wustl: wuarchive.wustl.edu ALIAS ftp.wustl.edu
- grind: grind.isca.uiowa.du
- athene: athene.uni-paderborn.de
- rwth-aachen: ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
- ux1: ftp.cso.uiuc.edu ALIAS ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
- funet: nic.funet.fi
- ms2s2: ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de
-
- The notation used in file naming shorthand follows:
- {xxx|yyy} means xxx or yyy I.E. pg.{src|bin} implies pg.src pg.bin
- {x..z} means x thru z I.E. pg.part{1..2} implays pg.part1 pg.part2
-
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- 1. GNU emacs 18.58 A1.26 =================================================
- The author of the Amiga GNU emacs port and various GNU UNIX command
- ports (ls, mv, grep, ls, sort ...) is David Gay. You'll need a couple
- MB of hard disk and RAM to use emacs.
- Contact David Gay: dgay@di.epfl.ch
- Available - aminet: /util/gnu/a1.26-emacs-18.58-{bin|src}.LHA
-
- 1a. fifo.library Version 3.4 - fifo: is like a first in first PIPE:
- Along with GNU emacs you'll probably want the fifo.library
- Available - Fish 588
-
- 1b. sas-c-emacs-B1
- SAS/C error handler package mode for emacs
- Available - aminet: /dev/c/sas-c-emacs-B1.lha
-
- 1c. gnuemacs development package
- Small gnuemacs development package (cpr.el, autodocs.el)
- Available - aminet: /util/gnu/gnuemacs-dev1.1.lha
-
- 1d. AREXX editing and Debug mode
- Available - aminet: /util/rexx/rexxmode10.lha
-
- 1e. Connect GNU emacs and Manx Aztec C via ARexx
- Available - aminet: dev/c/quik-fix-emacs.lzh
-
- 1f. emacs-client written in ARexx
- Available - aminet: util/gnu/emacs-client.lha
-
- 1g. EmacsFileReq - Use ReqTools filerequester with Emacs!
- Available - util/edit/EmacsFileReq.lha
-
- 2. UNIX commands ========================================================
-
- 2a. Man and Hypertext commands
- 2a.1 MRMan - A powerful "man" manual reader is MRMan 2.00
- It supports a MANPATH, and you can set file readers by suffix, so that
- e.g. .doc files are displayed by MuchMore and .guide files are
- displayed by AmigaGuide. You can use it to access all of the man
- pages for the UNIX textutils and fileutils. The ones to put in the
- MANPATH are the pre-formatted /cat directories (usually).
- Available - aminet: util/misc/MRMan200.lzh
- 2a.2 Texinfo - GNU hypertext information program
- Available - aminet: util/text/texinfo216.lzh
- 2a.3 AmigaGuide - Not a Unix command but every Amiga user should have and
- use this Commodore hypertext system. Amigaguide development kit 34.3
- Available - aminet: text/hyper/amigaguide.lzh
- - Fish 870 AmigaGuide.lha
- 2a.4 PrintGuide - Print AmigaGuide file on printer
- Available - aminet: text/hyper/PrintGuide.lha
- 2a.5 gnuinfo - GNU info & makeinfo (manual lookup)
- Available - aminet: util/gnu/gnuinfo-920712.lha
- |2a.6 Man12 - UNIX man command. Recognizes GUIDE files
- | Available - aminet: os20/cli/Man12.lha
-
- 2b. diff & patch
- 2b.1 GNU diff - find differences in ASCII files
- cmp - compare two files
- diff - differential file and directory compare
- diff3 - 3-way differencial file comparison
- sdiff - interactively merge two side by side differences
- Available - aminet: util/gnu/diff-2.3.lha version 2.3
- - Fish 821 Diff version 2.1
- 2b.2 GNU patch allows automatic patching of source files.
- Available - aminet: util/gnu/patch-2.1.lha
-
- 2c. Packing Utilities
- 2c.1 compress is available in the compress-4.0 distribution. Note that to
- get uncompress and zcat you simply copy (or link) compress
- copy compress uncompress, copy compress zcat
- The program operates according to the name it is invoked with.
- compress - compress
- uncompress - expand
- zcat - expands to standard output
- | Available - grind: amiga/utils/compress-4.0.lzh
- | - aminet: util/pack/compress-4.0.lzh
- 2c.2 gzip - GNU zip is a compression program designed to be a replacement
- for "compress".
- Available - aminet:util/pack/gzip-1.2.3bin.lha
- Available - aminet:util/pack/gzip-1.1.2.lha
- - Fish 838 GZip version 1.0.5
-
- 2d. Unix Archive/Backup Utilities
- 2d.1 tar - A patched version of UNIX tar
- [patching by (Alan Bair) abair@parsons.sps.mot.com]
- | Available - wustl:
- | /systems/amiga/boing/utilities/cli/archive/tar-patched.lzh
- 2d.2 tarsplit - For extracting from .tar archives only you can use tarsplit.
- Available - grind:amiga/utils/tarsplit.lha
- 2d.3 gnutar - GNU tar
- Available - grind:amiga/utils/gnutar.lzh
- Available - aminet:util/gnu/gtar10.lha - GNU Tar 1.10, supports links.
- 2d.4 cpio - Unix Copy I/O program
- Available - aminet: util/gnu/cpio-2.0.lha
-
- 2e. GnuSed 1.17
- GNU Stream EDitor
- Available - aminet: util/gnu/sed-1.17.lha
-
- 2f. ispell 3.3LJR
- The hash file is about 500k, HD highly recommended. The distribution
- now includes GUIspell 1.1, it also has .el files for GNUemacs and ARexx
- files for many editors.
- If you already have ispell, the .el files for emacs are also available
- | on wustl: /systems/amiga/boing/utilities/text/utils/ispell.lha
- | Available - aminet:os20/util/GUISpell-1.0.lha GUI front-end to ispell
- os20/util/ispell-3.3LJR-up.lha GUISpell interface
- os20/util/ispell-3.3LJR.lha ISell 3.3LJR
- | wustl:/systems/amiga/boing/incoming/utils/ispell-3.3LJR.lha
- Fish 774 ISpell
-
- 2g Unix roff style text formatting
- 2g.1 nroff - Unix text formatting
- nroff requires v 39+ of ixemul.library
- Available - aminet: text/misc/nroffamiga.lha
- 2g.2 groff - GNU Roff - unix Text formatting
- Available - aminet: /util/gnu/groff-107{bin|src}.lha
- 2g.3 Aroff Version 1.2 - Amiga roff
- Available - Fish 583 Aroff
- 2g.4 ATbl - unix table generator create IFF file or prints table to printer
- Available - Fish 746 ATbl
-
- 2h. Other Editors
- 2h.1 vim - Vi IMitration (Clone of UNIX text editor vi}
- Available - aminet: util/edit/Vim-1.27-{bin|src}.lha
- Available - Fish 591 vim version ?
- 2h.2 Elvis - A UNIX vi/ex editor
- Available - Fish 645 Elvis
- 2h.3 Stevie version 3.7a - vi clone
- Available - Fish 256 Stevie
-
- 2i. Unix Text Utilities
- 2i.1 GNU TextUtils
- cat - catenate and print
- comm - compare two sorted files line by line
- cksum - checksum file
- csplit - split a file into sections determined by context lines
- cut - remove sections from each line of files
- expand - convert tabs to spaces
- fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width
- head - display line at the head of a file
- join - UNIX relational database operator joins two relations
- specificed by lines of file 1 and file 2.
- nl - number lines of files
- od - octal, decimal, hex, ascii dump
- paste - merge lines of files
- pr - convert text files for printing
- sort - sort or merge files
- split - split a file into pieces
- sum - compute a checksum and count blocks
- tac - concatenate and print files in reverse
- tail - displays the last part of a file
- tr - translate or delete characters
- ujoin - unix join - relation database operator
- unexpand - converts tabs to spaces
- uniq - reports repeated lines in a file
- wc - word count - counts lines, words, characters
- Available: aminet: /util/gnu/textutils-1.4.lha
-
- 2j. Unix File Utilities
- 2j.1 du - The du command is used to check disk usage (blocks or bytes used
- by a directory or entire partition). There are various implementations
- but one that I like is by Georg Hessmann.
- Available - aminet: os20/cli/du10.lha
- 2j.2 GNU fileutils
- chmod - change protection
- dd - convert a file while copying it
- ln - makes links
- ls - list directory
- mkdir - make directory
- mv - move or renames files
- rm - remove or deletes files
- rmdir - remove directory
- touch - update date of file
- Available - aminet: /util/gnu/amiga-fileutils-3.3.lha
- 2j.3 find - unix like file search.
- Available - Fish 197
- Available - aminet: /util/gnu/find-2.2.lzh (Port of GNU find 2.2)
- 2j.4 file - unix like "file" utility. Tell what kind of file it is.
- Available - Fish 767 File
- 2j.5 ls-47.LJR LiSt directories UNIX style but better
- Available - Fish 773
- 2j.6 Less Version 177.4 - File Reader
- Available - Fish 718 Less
-
- 2k. Packages to create hypertext Texinfo and AmigaGuide
- 2k.1 makeinfo - The GNU project has come up with a standard documentation
- format called TeXinfo. MakeInfo can process TeXinfo files into:
- * GNU Info files, displayable by GNU emacs in Information mode, or by
- InfoView which comes with the GCC distribution.
- * DVI (.dvi) files, displayable by AmigaTeX preview or PasTeX ShowDVI
- * ASCII files
- * AmigaGuide files, which can be displayed by the newly released
- AmigaGuide for 1.3 & 2.x, and by MultiView in 3.x
- Available - Fish 787 MakeInfo 1.49b
- 2k.2 makeguide - makes AmigaGuide files from Texinfo
- Available - aminet: text/misc/mkguide155b.lha
- 3k.3 ADtoHT - Convert autodoc files to Amigaguide.V1.01
- Available - fish 853 ADtoHT
-
- 2l. Gnugrep Version 1.6 (search file for a pattern)
- Gnu grep & egrep replaces unix grep, fgrep, egrep and bmgrep
- grep - patterns limited to regular expression in style of ex editor
- egrep - patterns are full regular expressions
- Available - Fish 406 GnuGrep
- Available - aminet: util/gnu/amiga-grep-1.6.LHA
-
- 2m. Unix system utilities
- 2m.1 udate - unix date with formatting options
- Available - Fish 365, 311 udate
-
- 2n. Crons (Schedule jobs at specific times)
- 2n.1 CyberCron15 - Schedule jobs at specific times with ARexx port and
- ARexx scripts.
- Available - aminet: os20/cli/CyperCron15.lha
- - Fish 801
- 2n.2 AmiCron - Schedule jobs at specific times
- Available - Fish 139
-
- 2o. uucp & mail packaging and unpacking
- 2o.1 UnixUtils - gnutar, uncompressbatch unshar, uudecode, uuencode, uusplit
- Available grind: amiga/utils/UnixUtils.lzh
- 2o.2 Unshar - unpack shar archives
- Available - Fish 345
- 2o.3 Shar - pack and unpack shell archives
- Available - Fish 92
-
- |2p. Gnu bc 1.02 - arbitrary precision-arithemtic language calculator
- | Available - aminet: util/gnu/bc-1.02.lha
-
- 3. Shell stuff ==========================================================
-
- 3a. Shell aids and commodities
- 3a.1 UNIX dirs (. and ..)
- UNIX and AmigaDOS differ somewhat in the way in which one refers to
- directories
- UNIX AmigaDOS
- Root / :
- Current dir . ""
- Previous dir .. /
- If you prefer to use UNIX-style directory references, there is a
- commodity for OS 2.04+ that will patch AmigaDOS to do so.
- Available - Fish 837 UnixDirs
-
- 3a.2. Automatic filename/directory completion
- Various UNIX shells will complete a filename for you, so you just have
- to type the first letter or two and then hit a key and it will cycle
- through the possible filenames or directories. There are a number of
- Amiga shells that will do this, but the easiest way I have found is to
- use the GMC-Handler, a CON: replacement. Version 9.18
- Available - aminet: util/shell/GMC_9.18.lha
-
- 3a.3 Shell scrollbar
- UNIX Xwindows shells like xterm offer the ability to scroll back up
- through previous shell output. You can do this in an Amiga shell with
- Console Buffer (CB). Note that CB will not work directly with GMC:
- above. Version 1.1
- Available - aminet: util/shell/cb1.1.lha
-
- 3a.4 UNIX-like pipe (|)
- UNIX shells offer a way to "pipe" information from the standard output
- of one command to the standard input of another, e.g.
- grep -i foo Barfile | more
- ShellTools offers a PIPE command which understands the same syntax
- pipe grep -i foo Barfile | more
- ShellTools also has a FOREACH command and a RECORDER command (to record
- shell output).
- Available - Fish 673 ShellTools
-
- 3a.5 CFN - filename completion with tab in any shell
- Available - Fish 888 CFN
-
- 3a.6 Snap - Clip text of graphics from screen
- Available - Fish 793 Snap
- 3a.7 Spliner - Spline screen blanker for Release 2.
- Available - aminet:os20/cdity/SplinerV17.lha
- 3a.8 leftymouse - Swap mouse buttons for lefties
- Available - aminet:os20/cdity/leftymouse106.lha
- 3a.9 KCommodity - Multifunctional commodity
- Available - aminet:os20/cdity/kcx25a.lha
- /kcx25a_ok.lha
- /kcx25a_src.lha - sources
- - Fish 885+886 KCommodity
- 3a.10 iconify - Tiny 2.0x commodity to iconify windows or menufy
- Available - aminet:os20/cdity/iconify.lzh
-
- 3b. Shells
- 3b.1 csh - C Shell Version 5.31
- Replacement for Amiga shell, similar to UNIX csh. includes source.
- Available - aminet: util/shell/csh{531|531s}.lha
- - Fish 889 Csh
- 3b.2 sksh - Korn Shell
- Available - Fish 791 SKsh Version 2.1
- - aminet: util/shell/SKsh21.lzh
- 3b.3 pdsksh - Korn Shell
- Requires ixemul library
- Available - aminet util/shell/pdksh-920711.lha
- 3b.4 Wshell (Commerical)
- Filename completion, arexx port, etc
- 3b.5 Zshell
- Very tiny (13Kb) CLI shell modelled along the lines of csh with over
- 40 internal commands
- Available - Fish 537 Zshell
- 3b.6 bsh version 0.98
- Powerful advance shell and interpretive programming language. Runs
- under AmigaDos 1.2 and AmigaDos 2.1
- Available - Fish 811 bsh
- 3b.7. AUSH - A command line interpreter for the Amiga
- Available - Fish 747 AUSH
-
- 3c. Unix
- 3c.1. MinixDemo (Demo)
- Available - Fish 525 MinixDemo
-
- 4. Programming Tools =====================================================
- 4a. AWK
- GNU AWK version 2.14 - Awk. Typeless data. It does all of the
- low-level work of parsing a text file for you. It is interpreted but
- fast enough for lots of things. The entire well-written users manual
- (_The Awk Programming Language_) is 204 pp. and has the best index of
- any book I've used.
- Available - aminet: util/gnu/gawk-2.14.lha
-
- 4b. Flex
- An Amiga version of lex ("LEXical analyzer generator") is available.
- Available - Fish 704 Flex, version 2.3.7
- - aminet: /dev/misc/flex-2.3.lha Flex version 2.3.8
-
- 4c. YACC
- |4c.1 YACC - Port of Berkeley YACC (Yet Another Compiler Compiler)
- Available - Fish 419 YACC
- |4c.2 byacc-1.9 - LALR(1) parser generator
- | Available - aminet: dev/misc/byacc-1.9.lha
-
- 4d. BISON
- The GNU version of YACC is called BISON. Version 1.21
- | Available - aminet: util/gnu/bison-1.21.lha
-
- 4e. Perl
- Perl version 4.035 with source.
- Available - aminet: dev/lang/perl4.035.V010.bin.lzh
-
- 4f. RCS
- The Revision Control System (RCS) is an invaluable tool for managing
- programming projects, or for keeping track of any frequently-revised
- documents. Version 5.6
- Available - aminet: dev/misc/rcs_56.lha
- - aminet: dev/misc/{hwgrcs|hwgrcssrc}.lha
- - Fish 855+856 HWGRCS.lha
-
- 4g. Make - executes commands in a "makefile" to update one or more target
- names which are typically programs. Make update a target if it depends
- on prerequisite files that have been modified since the target was last
- modified, of if the target does not exist.
- 4g.1 make-3.68 GNU make
- Available - aminet dev/gcc/make-3.68.lha
- 4g.2 bmake - A GNU make subset
- Available - Fish 523 BMake
- 4g.3 dmake M Wild's make
- Available - aminet dev/misc/dmake.lha
- 4g.4 Dmake Matt Dillion's make
- Available - Fish 440 Dmake
- |4g.5 imake - imake, now with complete rules
- | Available aminet: util/gnu/imake_930609.lha
- |4g.6 bmake15 - A GNU make well compatible b+C_source
- | Available - aminet:dev/gcc/bmake15.lzh
-
- 4h. M4 macro processor
- Available - Fish 160 M4
-
- 4i. Amiga Programming information
- 4i.1 RKMCompanion - All the examples from the 1.3 Rom Kernel Manual
- Available - Fish 344
- 4i.2 CManual (great documentation about C and your Amiga)
- Available - Fish 691+692+693+695
- - aminet: dev/c/ACM.lha
- 4i.3 NewIFF (the newest IFF information)
- Available Fish 705
- 4i.4 RKRM_Devices, RKRM_Lib1, RKRM_Lib2, RKRM_Lib3 - All the exmaples from
- the 3rd edition of the Amiga ROM Reference Manual
- Available Fish 741 RKRM_Devices, RKRM_Lib1
- Fish 742 RKRM_Lib2, RKRM_Lib3
-
- |4j. Linkable Libraries/modules
- 4j.1 curses - Unix curses link library v 1.22
- Available - Fish 439 Curses
- - aminet: dev/c/curses-2.00.lha
- 4j.2 termcap - A port of the GNU termcap library
- Available - Fish 733 termcap
- 4j.3 sas-unix-lib - unix emulation linkable library
- Available - util/gnu/sas-unix-lib.LHA
- |4j.4 getopt - Implementation of UNIX getopt() function
- | Available - aminet: dev/misc/GetOpt-1.3.lha
-
- 4k. Shared Libraries
- 4k.1 ixemul.library - Library to emulate unix calls on an Amiga
- Available - aminet: /dev/c/ixemul9209.lzh
- | Version 39.47 of the ixemul.library from gcc 2.4.5
- | Available - aminet: dev/gcc/ixemul.library.39.47
- 4k.2 Regex - An Amiga shared library of the GNU regular expression package
- Available - Fish 248 Regex
- 4k.3 PrintSpool - Shared library to easily add text or graphic spooling to
- any C or assemble program.
- Available - Fish 463 PrintSpool
-
- 4l. indent
- V 1.8 of GNU Indent program which is a C source formatter/indenter
- Available - Fish 892 Indent
-
- 4m. Cweb - System for structured program documentation
- Available - Fish 551 Cweb
- - aminet: dev/misc/cweb-2.8.lha
-
- 4n. link object modules to form a executable program
- 4n.1 blink67 - Linker by the Software Distillery
- Available - aminet: dev/misc
- 4n.2 PhxLnk - Linker for AmigaDOS object files. V1.35
- Available - Fish 853 PhxLnk
-
- 4o. Debugger, Monitor and other debugging aids
- 4o.1 debugger - Symbolic debugger V2.10 by SLADE software
- Available - aminet: dev/debug/debugger.lzh
- 4o.2 Enforcer from Commodore - Catches illegal memory accesses
- | Available - aminet: dev/debug/Enforcer_37_55.lha
- 4o.3 EZcpr030 - Makes SAS/C Debugger(CPR) easier to use
- Available - aminet /dev/debug/EZcpr030.lha
- 4o.4 Mungwall Mungwall 37.64 /w SegTracker support
- Available - aminet: dev/debug/Mungwall37_64.lzh
- 4o.5 SIM-1.72 - SIM v1.72, lowlevel debugger and monitor.
- Available - aminet: dev/debug/SIM-1.72.lha
- 4o.6 Sushi37_7 - Tool for catching kprintf()/enforcer output
- Available - aminet: dev/debug/Sushi37_7.lzh
- 4o.7 mon160 - Machine code monitor/debugger, v1.60
- Available - aminet: dev/moni/mon160.lha
- |4o.8 findline 37.2 - Find Enforcer/Mungwall hit in program
- | Available - aminet dev/debug/findline.lha
-
- 4p. Installer utility from Commodore
- Available - Fish 870 Installer.lha V1.24
- Available - aminet:util/misc/Installer-1.25.lzh V1.25
-
- 4q. TCL - Tool Command Language
- Available - Fish 447 TCL
-
- 5. Programming Languages =================================================
- 5a. Assembler
- 5a.1 A68K Version 2.71
- Available - aminet: dev/asm/a68k271.lha
- 5a.2 Macro68 (commerical)
- 5a.3 DevPac Version 3.02 ($110, HiSoft)
- Ace editor/Assembler/Debugger enviroment, easy to see what's happening.
- Supports all instructions for 68000 through 68040, plus 68881, 68882
- and 68851.
- 5a.4 AsmOne Version 1.15 (commerical)
- 5a.5 AssemPro ($99.95, Abacus)
- 5a.6 PhxAss - Macro assembler, 68040 support. V3.00 (link with PhxLnk)
- Available - Fish 853 PhxAss
-
- 5b. Basic
- 5b.1 ace - Amiga BASIC compiler with extra Version 1.1a.
- Requires A68K and Blink to assemble and link.
- Available - aminet: /dev/lang/ace11a.lha
- 5b.1 Power Basic 1.06 ($72.99 HiSoft)
- 5b.2 AMOS Basic (Easy AMOS ($50), AMOS The Creator ($99.95),
- AMOS Professional ($99.95) by Europress Software)
- 5b.3 GFA Basic (commerical)
- 5b.4 A/C/Basic 1.3 ($195, Absoft)
- 5b.5 Blitz BASIX 2 (99.95, Acid Software)
- 5b.6 F-Basic 5.0 ($99.95, Delphi Noetic)
- 5b.7 True BASIC Student Edition ($19.95, DevWare)
-
- 5c C, C++
- 5c.1 GCC - GCC is a powerful C and C++ compiler. You will need a lot of
- memory (at least 3 MB) and hard disk space (9.3 MB).
- Available - aminet: dev/gcc/gcc233.lha
- You will need the fixed versions of some of the libraries:
- Available - aminet: dev/gcc/gcc233libfix.lha
-
- | Port of GCC 2.4.5 to AmigaDos, 68000 version
- | Available - aminet:dev/gcc/gcc-2.4.5-doc.lha - documentation
- | - aminet:dev/gcc/gcc-2.4.5-main.lha - main archive
- | - aminet:dev/gcc/gcc-2.4.5-other.lha - C++ * Object-C
- | - aminet:dev/gcc/gcc-2.4.5-amiga.lzh - cc1 & cpp 68030version
- | - aminet:dev/gcc/gcc-2.4.5-ud2.lha - update library
- | - aminet:dev/gcc/gcc-2.4.5-ud3.lha - update link library
- | - aminet:dev/gcc/gcc-2.4.5-ud4.lha - update missing lib&utils
- | - aminet:dev/gcc/gcctools-920420.lha - ar, ranlib, hunk2gcc,
- | - aminet:dev/gcc/gcc_frontend.lha - Driver & Setup prog
- | - aminet:dev/gcc/gcc_frontend_212.lha - Driver & Setup prog
- | - aminet:dev/gcc/libg++2.0-920319.lha - libg++2.0 fro gcc2.0
- | - aminet:dev/gcc/libm.lzh - GNU math library
- GCC comes with InfoView for displaying GNU Info format docs, and
- various command-line utilities such as man, sed, and make.
- 5c.2 SAS/C Version 6. ($395, SAS Institute)
- Good ANSI C. Comes with CPR debugger. Comes with Commodore includes.
- Patches for Amiga SAS/C 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2 to bring it to 6.3.
- Available - aminet: biz/patch/sc6_3.lha
- 5c.3 Dice C - unregistered, registered shareware, soo to be commerical
- It is small and fast and a nice developement environment. The
- registered version comes with sources to some of the libraries and
- Commodore includes. Latest unregistered version 2.06.37
- Available - rwtk-aachen: /pub/amiga/languages/dice206_37.lzh
- - Fish 491 DICE version 2.0.6.21
- 5c.4 HCC (Sozobon C)
- Available - Fish 508 HCC
- 5c.5 Aztec C Version 5.2a (commerical) environment with Commodore includes
- 5c.6 Comeau C++ 3.0 With Templates ($250, Comeau Computing)
- It is based on AT&T USL cfront 3.0. As such it generates C as object
- code. Under AmigaDOSS, Comeau C++ currently *officially* works with
- SAS/C 5.10a and above (including SAS/C 6.0) or Manx Azetc C 5.0d and
- above. Comeau C++ also uses AREXX. It is expected that you have a
- hard disk and 2M of RAM.
-
- 5d. Pascal
- 5d.1 PCQ Pascal Version 1.2b (PD version)
- Available - aminet: dev/lang/pcq12b.lzh binary
- - aminet: dev/lang/PCQ12src.lzh source
- 5d.2 HighSpeed Pascal 1.10 ($147.99, HiSoft)
- 5d.3 AmigaPascal - Mini PASCAL compiler
- Available - Fish 849 AmigaPascal
-
- 5e. Amiga E v2.1b
- The E package consists of the compiler/assembler/linker "EC" and the
- includes. The compiler goes straight from source to executable.
- Available - aminet: dev/lang/amigae21b.lha compiler
- - aminet: dev/lang/amigaedocs.lha optional additions
- - aminet: dev/lang/equi10.lha Very good GUI with E
- - aminet: dev/lang/epp010b.lha Simple preprocessor
- - Fish 848 Amiga_E
- - Fish 897 EPP E preprocessor. V1.1
-
- 5f. Fortran
- 5f.1 BCF fortran 77 V1.3
- Available - Fish 470
- 5f.2 ABSoft Fortran 77 ($295, $495 for 68020 version, Absoft)
- 5f.3 f2c - fortran to c converter
- Available - aminet: dev/misc/{f2c|f2c_030+881lib}.lha
-
- 5g. Forth
- Forth is a high-level language, but does provide almost the same
- control possibilities as Assmebly-language. You work inside your
- programming-kernal, and can easily test any sub-part of a program.
- 5g.1 JForth Professional ($179, Delta Research)
- 5g.2 Tile-Forth - >020, ixemlib
- Available - aminet: util/gnu/GNU-TILE-FORTH.lha
- 5g.3 A4th - This public domain FORTH compiler/environment by Pete Appelman
- It has a reasonable interface to Amiga libraries
- Available -
-
- 5h. ada - AdaEd 1.11.0a Ada Compiler; working Amiga Port
- Available - aminet:/dev/lang/adaed.1.11.0a.lha
-
- 5i. Icon (Ralph Griswold's followup to Snobal4)
- It is a string-processing language, but more powerful and based on
- modern Pascal/C - like syntex.
- Available - Fish 227 ICON
-
- 5j. J (A dailect like APL that uses standard ASCII character set)
- J like APL was invented by Kenneth E. Iverson. It comes with C source
- and a reasonable tutorial
- Available - aminet: /dev/lang/j41_amiga_beta.zoo
-
- 5k. Smalltalk
- 5k.1 Little Smalltalk v3.04
- Available - aminet: dev/lang/small304.lha
- 5k.2 GNU Smalltalk 1.2 - >020, ixemlib
- Available - aminet: /util/gnu/GNU-SMALLTALK1.2.lha
-
- 5l. Lisp
- 5l.1 Scheme
- Available - Fish 149 Scheme
- 5l.2 AMXLISP
- Available - Fish 181 AMXLISP
- 5l.3 OakLisp
- Available - Fish 530, 519 Oaklisp
- 5l.4 CLisp - This seems to be a fairly complete Common Lisp implementation.
- Available - ma2s2:pub/lisp/clisp/amiga/CLisp-Beta4-{high|low}.lha
-
- 5m. Modula
- 5m.1 Bench Modula-2 Version 1.04 ($200, Armadillo Computing)
- 5m.2 M2Amiga ($249, A+LAG)
-
- 5o. Oberon
- 5o.1 The oberon compiler is a modern, object oriented language developed by
- Prof. Dr. Niklas Wirth
- Available - rwth-aachen: /pub/amiga/languages/oberon1_43.lzh
- - Fish 388 Oberon version 1.16
- 5o.2 Amiga Oberon ($249, A+LAG)
- 5.o.2 Oberon - Demo version of Oberon-2 compiler. V3.0
- Available - Fish 880 Oberon
-
- 5p. Prolog
- 5p.1 Stony Brook Prolog
- Available - aminet: dev/lang/sbp3_1{a..e}.lha
- 5p.2 UNSW Prolog Version 4.2
- Available - aminet: dev/lang/UNSWProlog.lha
-
- 5q. APL
- 5q.1 APL68000 (by MicroAPL - level 1 $155, $455 with math coprocessor,
- level 2 $495 - 2.05F, IBM APL standard)
-
- 6. Plotting, Printing and Display
- 6a. Plotting
- 6a.1 GNU plot 3.4 - Flexible function- & data-plotting tool
- Available - Fish 701 GNUPlot version ?
- - aminet: util/gnu/gnuplot-{3.4|3.4bin}.lha
- 6a.2 Multiplot - The shareware program Multiplot is excellent for plotting
- numerical data. Version XLNe is on Fish disk 572.
- Available - Fish 572 Multiplot
- 6a.3 Graph - Program draws mathemical functions on a plane
- Available - Fish 280 Graph
- 6a.4 Plotter - Plots math functions
- Available - Fish 376 Plotter
- 6a.5 DataPlot - Function plotter creates .dat files for Multiplot
- Available - Fish 532 DataPlot
- 6a.6 PSGraph - Graphing program with plot preview & encapsulated postscript
- Available - Fish 532 PSGraph
- 6a.7 uplot - Program to plot UNIX plot files on your amiga
- Available - aminet: gfx/misc/uplot.lha
- 6a.8 mathplot - 2D function plotter
- Available - aminet: misc/sci/mathplot.lha
- 6a.9 PlotView - View and plot Unix plot files
- Available - Fish 165 PlotView
-
- 6b. Postscript
- 6b.1 post Version 1.86
- Available - Fish 518 Post
- - aminet:text/print/post186eng_{bin|src}.lha
- - AMINET:text/print/postfix.lha - small patch for post186
- 6b.2 ghostscript - GNU postscript processor
- Available - aminet: text/dps/ghost{script-2.5.2|src-252}.lha
- 6b.3 PostView (postscript viewer)
- Available - aminet: text/print/PostView1.1.lha
- 6b.4 PSFonts - Postscript fonts from GhostScript 2.5.2
- Available - Fish 828+829+830 PSFonts
- 6b.5 PSTools - program that converts TeX's .dvi files into postscript files
- Available - Fish 795+796
-
- 6c. Printing
- 6c.1 PrintManger - Print spooler
- Available - Fish 810 PrintManger
- 6c.2 HPMode - Script file to set attributes of HP Deskjet 500
- Available - Fish 555 HPMode
- 6c.3 PF - Cli/Workbench interface to control HP Deskjet 500 printer
- Available - Fish 539 PF
- 6c.4 GwPrint - Intuition based text file printer
- Available - Fish 367
-
- 7. Communications, Network and X-windows
- 7a. Terminal Emulation - these terminal provide vt100/vt220 emulation
- 7a.1 VLT Version 5.576 of VLT terminal program
- Available - aminet:com/term/VLTj5576.lha
- 7a.2 meshuga - A VT220 terminal emulator
- Availiable - aminet: comm/term/meshugena_1.0.lzh
-
- 7b. uucp software
- 7b.1 Dillon's AmigaUUCP version 1.16
- Available - aminet:/comm/uucp/Amiga{UUCP_1.6|UUCPsrc-1.16}.lha
-
- 7c. mail
- 7c.1 AmigaElm-v2 - UUCP Mail-Reader, version 2 (2.253)
- Available - aminet:/comm/mail/AmigaElm-v2.lha
-
- 7d. news
- 7d.1 amitin - The best newsreader for the Amiga.
- Available - aminet:/comm/news/amitin119a.lha
- 7d.2 Arn - Amiga USENET/UUCP newsreader V1.03
- Available - aminet:comm/news/Arn{103|103src}.lha
- 7d.3 GRn 2.0 - Gadtools Read News for UUCP and TCP/IP
- Available - aminet:comm/news/GRn-2.0.lha
- |7d.4 NN 6.4.18apl3 - Amiga-port of NN 6.4.18apl3 newsreader
- | Available - aminet: comm/news/amiga-nn6.4.18.lha
-
- 7e. TCP/IP System Software
- 7e.1 AmigaNOS - Amiga slip networking package
- Available - aminet:/comm/net/AmigaNOS-{2.9i|help-V2}.lha
- 7e.2 AmiTCP - Sana II based TCP/IP stack as shared library
- Available - aminet:comm/net/AmiTCP-bin-20.lha binaries
- - aminet:comm/net/AmiTCP-dvA-20.lha doc(DVI,A4)
- - aminet:comm/net/AmiTCP-dvL-20.lha doc(DVI,Letter)
- - aminet:comm/net/AmiTCP-psA-20.lha doc(postscript,A4)
- - aminet:comm/net/AmiTCP-psL-20.lha doc(postscript,Letter)
- - aminet:comm/net/AmiTCP-src-20.lha source
- - aminet:comm/net/AmiTCP-txt-20.lha doc(plain text)
- - aminet:comm/net/AmiTCP-bin-20.lha binaries
- 7e.3 SANA-II Device Driver
- Available - aminet:comm/net/cslip-sana2.lha - SANA-II Cslip driver
- - aminet:comm/net/cslip.lha - adds cslip to 2.1/2.03 slip
- - aminet:comm/net/sana2-cslip.lha - SANA2 (c)slip device
- - aminet:comm/net/plip387.lha - Parallel Line IP Driver
- 7e.4 SANA II Network architecture
- Available - aminet:dev/misc/sana2.lzh - Network architecture standard
- - Fish 779 SANA - Commodore networking standard docs
- Available - aminet:dev/misc/sana2developer.lzh -
- SANA-II Specs Nov92 (0.4) w/ example driver
-
- 7f. TCP/IP Network Applications
- 7f.1 Finger command for AmiTCP2
- Available - aminet:comm/net/amitcp_finger.lha
- 7f.2 FTP application for Ami-TCP
- Available - aminet:comm/net/amitcp_ftp.lha
- 7f.3 TELNET application for Ami-TCP
- Available - aminet:comm/net/amitcp_telnet.lha
- 7f.4 TELNET and FTP applications for AmiTCP/IP.
- Available - aminet:comm/net/amitcp_telnetftp.lha
- 7f.5 fsp daemon for amiga. Need a2065 and TCP/IP.
- Available - aminet:comm/net/fspd.lha
-
- 7g. Dnet Networking software from Matt Dillon
- 7g.1 Sources for DNET
- Available - aminet:comm/net/dnet-src.lha
- 7g.2 Device for DNET sessions
- Available - aminet:comm/net/dnet.device
- 7g.3 Complete installation set for DNet
- Available - aminet:comm/net/dnet2.10.13.lha
- 7g.4 DNet 2.32 (Amiga-Src/Bin, Unix-Src)
- Available - aminet:comm/net/DNet2_32.lha
- 7g.5 IRC intuition DNet client (dnetlib.o needed)
- Available - aminet:comm/net/DNetIRC.lha
- 7g.6 DNet terminal shell
- Available - aminet:comm/net/dshterm1_0.lha
- - Fish 897 DNet
-
- 7h. parnet/sernet Networking Software
- 7h.1 parnet.device, 20% faster, OS2.x only and 11k smaller
- Available - aminet:comm/net/parnet21.lha
- 7h.2 Allows 2 Amigas to be linked via serial port
- Available - aminet:comm/net/sernet24.lha
- 7h.3 Patch for ParNet and SerNet
- Available - aminet:comm/net/NetPatch_V1.1.lha
- 7h.4 Par/Sernet chat and command server
- Available - aminet:comm/net/netutils.lha
- 7h.5 NetMount - Simplifies ParNet mount procedure
- Available - Fish 863 NetMount
-
- 7i. X-windows
- 7i.1 A commercial version of X-windows is available from GfxBase.
- For more information contact
- Dale Luck: dale@ntg.com
- What follows is the response to my emailed questions:
- From: dale@boing.ntg.com (Dale Luck)
- Subject: X11 info
- > 1. Address, phone, fax
- GfxBase, Inc.
- Dale Luck
- 1881 Ellwell Dr.
- Milpitas, CA 95035 USA
- Phone: (408) 262-1469
- FAX: (408) 262-8276
- > 2. system requirements
- CPU: [Works on all Amigas, including A1200 & A4000]
- Operating System: AmigaDOS Operating System V1.3 or later
- Mouse: Amiga 2 button mouse, or optical 3 button mouse, tablet,
- trackball, or International keyboard
- Memory: 1 Mbyte for Server and 640x400 2-color display
- more RAM required for local clients
- Disk Space: 7-14 Mbytes
- > 3. price: regular, site licence, educational discount
- Price: [US] $395.00 ($90.00 yearly maintenance fee),
- Eduprice: [US] $316. Site licenses available.
- > and whatever else you would like to provide.
- Please send a postal address and we can send you our
- printed literature.
- Latest Version: 4.1
- Graphics: NTSC to 1440x482 (60 Hz), PAL 1440x568 (50 Hz)
- Overscan, genlock and interlace supported
- A2024/Viking 1 1024x[800] (60 Hz), 1024x1024 (50 Hz)
- Super Screens to 2560x2560 scrollable on smaller display
- Productivity screen - 640x480 60Hz noninterlaced (640x960
- interlaced) Two colors out of a palette of 4096 can be
- selected. Cursor has two separately controlled colors
- Color server: 2,4,8,16,32 colors from 4096. A2024/Viking 1 - 4
- gray scales. Some resolutions restricted A4000 64,128,256
- colors from 4096.
- GDA1 640x480,800x600,1024x800 noninterlaced 256/16M
- Ameristar 1600GX 1280x1024,1600x1280 noninterlaced 256/16M
- Ethernet Card: Commodore A2065
- Network Software: Commodore TCP/IP or Syndesis DECnet for Ethernet and
- serial connections, SANA for local
- Features: contains X11R4 clients, fonts, twm, olwm etc.
- Amiga Xpr uses the standard Amiga printer device technology
- which supports more that 50 different types of printers.
- Black and [White] [or] Color
- Xamiga R4 monochrome and color server
- optional programmer's toolkit includes the header files,
- libraries, and sample programs
- optional window manager: mwm
- optional toolkits/widgets Motif, XView, HP.
- 7i.2 DaggeX v.0.1 of Amiga X windows server
- Available - aminet:gfx/misc/DaggeX0_1.lha
- - aminet:gfx/misc/localDaggeX0_22.lha - Improved local DaggeX
- - aminet:gfx/misc/TCPDaggeX0_2.lha - tcp/ip update to 0_1
-
- |7j. Fax
- |7j.1 ecfax0712 - Release 930712 of a faxing program
- | Available - aminet/comm/misc/ecfax0712.lzh
- |7j.2 ElCheapoFax - Simple fax sending with faxmodem
- | Available - aminet/comm/misc/ElCheapoFax.lha
- |7j.3 elcheapofax - Simple but effective fax sending (& untested receiving)
- | Available - aminet/comm/misc/elcheapofax.zoo
- |7j.4 VoiXEL60 - Use ZyXEL as Phoneanswer/Fax w/GUI
- | Available - aminet/comm/misc/VoiXEL60.lha
-
- 8. TeX ===================================================================
- 8a. AmigaTeX is a commercial program available from Radical Eye. Comes
- with TeX, LaTeX, MetaFont, Preview, and Post 1.7 (for handling
- PostScript).
- 8 program disks + 6 font disks. Hard disk installer program so you can
- install a minimum or full system.
-
- It has a special font loading system so you don't need all of them on
- your hard disk; it will request the font disks as needed.
-
- For more information contact the author:
- Tomas Rokicki: rokicki@cs.stanford.edu
-
- What follows is the author's response to my emailed questions:
-
- From: Tomas G. Rokicki <rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU>
- Subject: AmigaTeX
- > 1. Address, phone, fax
- Radical Eye Software
- P.O. Box 2081
- Stanford, CA 94309 USA
- Phone:(415) 322 6442
- FAX: (415) 327 3329
- BBS: (415) 327 2346
- > 2. system requirements
- At least two floppies or a hard disk, and at least 512K of RAM.
- Three megabytes of RAM is recommended.
- > 3. price: regular, site licence, educational discount
- The main package is [US] $200; printer drivers are [US] $100
- per set (organized according to printer resolution). Site
- licensing and group discounts are available; write for
- information. There is no special educational pricing.
- > and whatever else you would like to provide.
- A free demo disk and product literature is available by sending
- Radical Eye a FAX or a letter with your name and address.
-
- 8b. PasTeX 1.3
- There is also a Freely Distributable TeX called PasTeX.
- | Available - wustl:/systems/amiga/boing/utilities/text/utils/pastex-1.3/
- Disk #1 has DVIprint (3c), ShowDVI and SpecialHost in its bin directory
- The files are full disks compressed with Zoom, from Fish 682
-
- MetaFont and the Previewer fonts are separate from this distribution.
-
- 8c. DVIprint
- If you have AmigaTeX but no printer drivers, you can try using DVIprint
- from the PasTeX distribution. It works remarkably well, just make a
- tex:config dir and put DVIprint.printers in it.
- Available - athene: /pcsoft/amiga/tex/pastex/dviprint.lha
-
- 8d. dvi2lj
- If you have a LaserJet you may want to use dvi2lj instead of DVIprint.
- Available - aminet: /amiga/text/tex/dvi2lj.lha
- - Fish 797 dvi2lj
-
- 8e. Pictures and Graphics in Tex
- 8e.1 fig - Also for TeX you may want the "fig" package, for structured
- drawing.
- | Available - wustl: /systems/amiga/boing/utilities/text/utils/fig.zom
- 8e.2 For pictures will simple straight and angled lines, I recommend the
- EEPIC macros (LaTeX: epic.sty, eepic.sty). In order to print documents
- with EEPIC macros and DVIprint (3c) you will need SpecialHost running;
- in order to preview with ShowDVI you will also need to run SpecialHost
- in the background.
- 8e.3 For more complicated pictures, especially with curves, the PiCTeX
- macros (LaTeX: piclatex.sty; TeX: prepictex.tex, pictex.tex,
- postpictex.tex) are better but very slow on a 68000. SpecialHost is
- not required for these.
-
- 8f. ARexx macros for TeX
- 8f.1 ARexx macro for TeXify and ToError for AmigaTeX
- | Available - wustl: /systems/amiga/boing/incoming/utils
- Ed-TeX-Rexx.lha - AmigaTeX ARexx for Ed
- Emacs-TeX-Rexx.lha - AmigaTeX ARexx for GNU emacs
- 8f.2 There are also TeXify ARexx macro things for CED
- | Available wustl:
- | /systems/amiga/boing/utilities/text/utils/texify-1.12.lzh
-
- 8g. tr2tex - Converts troff to LaTeX
- Available - Fish 671 tr2tex
-
- 8h. Metrafont
- Available - Fish 486+487 Metrafont
-
- 8i. BibTeX - Amiga port of BibTeX. Works with PasTeX 1.3
- Available - aminet /text/tex/BibTeX.lzh
-
- 8j. Detex Version 2.3 - Strip TeX/LaTeX commands from input files
- Available - aminet:text/tex/Detex-2.4.lha
-
- 8k. makeindex - Produces an index for LaTeX-documents.
- Available - aminet:text/tex/makeindex2_11.lha
-
- 8l. Convert PS Type-1 to METAFONT mf
- Available - aminet:/text/texps2mf.lha
-
- 8m. ShowDVI - A (TeX, LaTeX) .dvi display program.
- Available - aminet:text/tex/ShowDVI.lha
-
- 8n. TeX 3.141 - TeX text formatter. See the README first.
- Available - aminet:text/tex/TeX3141bin.lha - executables only.
- - aminet:text/tex/TeX3141bin881.lha - 68020/68881 version.
- - aminet:text/tex/TeX3141errata.txt - Corrections
- - aminet:text/tex/TeX3141source.lha - Sources
- - aminet:text/tex/TeX3141UserKit.lha - Beginner's kit
- - aminet:text/tex/TeX3141_README - read this first
-
- 8o. TGrind - Produces nice looking TeX listings of source code
- Available - aminet:text/tex/TGrind.lha
-
- 8p. TPP 4.10 - TeX frontend wordproc
- Available - aminet:text/tex/TPP410EN.lha - English version
- - aminet:text/tex/TPP410N.lha - German vers.
- - aminet:text/tex/TPP41Fix.lha - Bugfix for TPP 4.10
-
- 9. Math
- 9a. MAPLE V
- MAPLE V, a commercial "Mathematica"-like program is available for the
- Amiga. There is a review of Maple V in the _.info_ article mentioned
- near the beginning of the FAQ, pp. 35-36. There is a more recent
- review of Maple V in the January 1993 (Vol. 8, #1)
- _Amazing Computing_, pp. 69-71.
- I received a very detailed response to my questions from Maplesoft
- (specifically, from Joyce Brennan, Communications Manager). Here it
- is, with several screens of additional promotional information removed
- at the end, and some of the other descriptive portions summarized.
-
- From: jbrennan@maplesoft.on.ca (Joyce Brennan)
- Subject: Amiga Maple V Posting - correction
- > 1. Address, phone, fax
- |\^/| Waterloo Maple Software
- ._|\| |/|_. 160 Columbia St. West
- \ MAPLE / Waterloo, Ontario
- <____ ____> CANADA N2L 3L3
- | Tel: (519) 747-2373 info@maplesoft.on.ca
- Fax: (519) 747-5284
- > 2. system requirements
- Systems Compatibility
- - Supports the following configurations, with and without
- coprocessors: Commodore Amiga 1000, 2000, 2500 and 3000
- - Requires Amiga DOS, version 2.04 or higher
- Memory Requirements - 2 MB RAM and 8 MB disk storage
- > 3. price: regular, site licence, educational discount
- - For Canadian Customers: A single-user copy is now available for
- only Can $695 for educational and government institutions (if
- the user can provide proof of their affiliation), and Can $935
- for all others. Shipping and handling is added to this price.
- For additional information call 1-800-877-6583.
- - For U.S. Customers: A single-user copy is now available for
- only US $595 for educational and government institutions (if
- the user can provide proof of their affiliation), and US $795
- for all others. Shipping and handling is added to this price.
- For additional information call 1-800-877-6583.
- - For Customers outside North America: Please contact
- Waterloo Maple Software at the address or phone number [above],
- or by sending an e-mail message to info@maplesoft.on.ca and we
- would be happy to put you in touch with your local distributor.
- - For Academic Degree-granting Institutions: Site licenses are
- required in order to run Maple on a network. For academic
- institutions, a site license is calculated for each type of
- machine, and the price for site licenses depends on the number
- and type of machines running Maple. [calculation of site
- licences omitted; contact Maplesoft for more info]
- > and whatever else you would like to provide.
- Maple V Features
- - Full implementation of Maple including interactive 3-D
- graphics with PostScript and IFF format output
- - Takes advantage of Amiga specific standards for session
- editing
- - ARexx port which supports all Maple V functions
- - Over 2,000 library functions
- When you purchase Maple, the software package includes detailed
- installation instructions, a tutorial introduction and two manuals
- (Language Reference & Library Reference manuals). On-site workshops
- can also be arranged.
- *******************************************************************
- Free Upgrade to Maple V Release 2 for Amiga
-
- Those customers who purchase Maple V for the Amiga from Waterloo Maple
- Software now will be entitled to a free upgrade to Maple V Release 2
- which is expected to be available for this platform by the end of the
- first quarter of 1993.
-
- Those customers who purchased Amiga Maple V from Waterloo Maple
- Software any time AFTER June 1, 1992, will be entitled to a free
- upgrade to Maple V Release 2, and will be mailed this automatically
- as soon as it becomes available for distribution.
- *******************************************************************
-
- [There was a LOT of information about Maple V Release 2, and Maple in
- general, here's a very brief summary:
-
- MAPLE V Release 2
- * adds 700 new functions for total of over 2500
- * highly programmable C & Pascal-based language has been
- further refined
- * "work with standard math notation and print publication
- quality results"
- * "stunning new interactive graphics, including animation for
- time-variant analysis"
- * combine text, graphics and math using easy worksheet interface
- * will produce LaTeX formatted output
- * will produce FORTRAN and C code]
-
- 9b. Schoonschip
- A pioneering algebraic manipulation program which has been used in
- particle physics and continuously developed since late 1963. Not as
- friendly as Mathematica or Maple, with no graphics or intuition
- interface and not as much built in, but still a general purpose
- algebraic manipulation language. Written in machine language to run
- fast and be memory efficient. Capable of handling large problems.
- Includes large and small workspace versions, tutorial examples, sample
- programs, and a comprehensive manual. Version 5-Oct-91,
- binary only. Author: Martinus J. G. Veltman and David N. Williams
- Available - Fish 568 Schoonschip
-
- 9c. mathlab (MATric LABoratory)
- Available - Fish 499+538 MathLab + MathLabPatch
-
- 9d. XlispStat (Statistics)
- Available - Fish 385+386
-
- 9e. dproc - Mathematical dataprocessor - update to v1.
- Available - aminet: misc/sci/dproc128.lha
-
- A. Engineering ===========================================================
- Aa. spice3p2 (Circuit Analysis Program)
- Available - Fish 578 spice3
-
- Ab. CoGo (An engineering/surveying program)
- Available - Fish 714
-
- Ac. Digital Logic Circuit Simulator
- Ac.1 lpdemo
- Available - aminet: misc/sci/lpdemo101.lha
- Ac.2 dbb117 - GUI Digitical Logic Cuircuit Simulator
- Available - aminet: util/misc/dbb117.lha
- Ac.3 LogicShop - Build and test logic circuits. V1.1
- | Available - Fish 890 LogicSho
- |Ac.4 LogEv10 - cmd-line simulation of logic circuits
- | Available - aminet:misc/sci/LogEv10.lha
- Ad. Neural network
- Ad.1 Neural network package demo (OS 2.0)
- Available - aminet: misc/sci/synworksdemo.lha
- Ad.2 Neural network code in C/C++ Neural network code
- Available - aminet: dev/misc/neural_net_v3.lha
- Ad.3 TRIX - Complete amiga Neural Net package.
- Available - aminet: dev/misc/TRIX.lha
- Ad.4 NeuralNets - A neural newtwok example using backpropagation delta run
- Available - Fish 432 NeuralNets
-
- Ae. Miniterm - Minimizes bool algebra formulae. V2.0
- Available - Fish 860 Miniterm
-
- Af. Ami2D - Finite Element modeler and solvers
- Available - aminet:/misc/sci/ami2d_1_0.lha
-
- Ag. APalAsm - A programmable Array Logic (PAL) assembler
- Available - Fish 432 APalAsm
-
-
- B. Science ===============================================================
- Ba. TheWEB (demo of commerical Graphic-diagram base data acquisition)
- Available - Fish 711 TheWeb
-
- Bb. astrolog (amiga port with graphics)
- Available - aminet: misc/sci/astrolog.lha
-
- Bc. Ephem Astronomical software)
- Available - aminet: misc/sci/Ephem-4.28-bin.lha
-
- C. Educational Programs
- C.a Pre-School
- Ca.1 Rdy.Robort - education program for children 5-12
- Available aminet: misc/edu/Rdy.Robort93.lzh
-
- Cb. Elementry School
- Cb.1 Test your math skill.
- Available - aminet:misc/edu/Reflex_Test.lha
- Cb.2 PowerLOGO - Good language to get kids interested in computers
- Available - Fish 635 PowerLOGO
-
- Cc. High School
- Cb.1 Will hear you in foreign words.
- Available - aminet:misc/edu/spellcheckv1_4.lha
- Cb.2 Demo of a gamma ray scintillation counter
- Available - aminet:misc/edu/gamademo.lha
- Cb.3 Demo of a molecular microscope
- Available - aminet:misc/edu/gaslaws.lha
-
- Cd. College
-
- Ce. Other
- Ce.1 Flashcard program
- Available - aminet: misc/edu/AmiFash10.lha
- Ce.2 Morse code trainer
- Available - aminet: misc/edu/morse1.2.lzh
- Ce.3 Deaflab - translates text into hand signs for the deaf
- Available - Fish 494 Deaflab
- Ce.4 Thai - A simple Thai quiz program fro learning the Thai language
- Available - Fish 98 Thai
- Ce.5 Japanese - Two programs to help teach Japanese
- Available - Fish 939 Japanese
- Ce.6 AmigaWorld - Database w/ country info. V2.0
- Available - Fish 893 AmigaWorld
- |Ce.7 StudentAid-14a - Program to help studying material
- | Available - aminet:biz/dbase/StudentAid-14a.lzh
-
- Cf. For the teacher
- Cf.1 Teacher 0.60 - Create lessons, explanations & questions, etc.
- Available - aminet:misc/edu/tcr060ea.run
-
- D. Misc
- Da. Spreedsheets
- Da.1 OLEO (Gnu spreadsheet) - >020, ixemlib
- Available - aminet: util/gnu/GNU-OLEO-1.2.2.lha
- | - aminet: util/gnu/oleo_68020bin.lha - binary-needs work
- | - aminet: util/gnu/oleo_src.lha - source- needs a little work
- Da.2 AnalyticCalc spreadsheet
- Available - Fish 495 AnalyticCalc
-
- Db. Databases
- Db.1 bBaseIII - Database program. V5.5
- Available - Fish 860 bBaseIII
- Db.2. PicBase
- Available - Fish 527 PicBase
- Db.3 DataEasy
- Available - Fish 520 DataEasy
- Db.4 AnalyRim - An integration of AnalyticCalc and RIM-5 relation database
- management system
- Available - Fish 593 AnalyRim
- Fish 594 AnalyRimSrc (sources)
- |Db.5 AmigaBase131 - Programmable hierarchical database, with GUI.
- | Available - aminet: bix/dbase/AmigaBase131.lha
- |Db.6 ISAM101 - ISAM database Server/Library for the Amiga.
- | Available aminet: biz/dbase/ISAM101.LZH
- |Db.7 sqldb - Latest version of SQL rdbms
- | Available - aminet:biz/dbase/sqldb.lzh
-
- Dc. Cad, Drawing, Paint
- Dc.1 FreePaint
- Available - Fish 548 FreePaint
-
- Dd. Disk Utilities
- Dd.1 DiskSalv2 v11.27 - Disk recovery program by Dave Haynie
- Available - aminet:disk/salv/DiskSalv2-11_27p.lha - Program
- - aminet:disk/salv/DiskSalv2-11_27i.lha - Fixed installer
- - aminet:disk/salv/DiskSalv2-11_27l.lha - Local Lang Catalogs
- - Fish 891 DiskSalve2
- |Dd.2 ReOrg3_1.lha - Disk optimizer with DC-FFS support
- | Available - aminet: disk/optim/ReOrg3_1.lha
- | Available - aminet: disk/optim/ReOrg3_11pch.lha -Patch to ReOrg 3.11
- |Dd.3 Disk Cache
- | Available - aminet:disk/cache/fcache10.lha
- | - Fully associate hard drive cache
- | Available - aminet:disk/cache/PC_37_64.lha
- | - PowerCache Amiga Disk Caching System v37.64.
- | Available - aminet:disk/cache/SmartDisk131.lha - Pre-reading disk cache
- |Dd.4 CDROM disk filing system (ISO-9660+RR)
- | Available - aminet:disk/cdrom/AmiCDROM-1.1.lha
-
- ==============================================================================
-
- Appendix A UNIX versions of archiving programs (lha, zoo, unzip).
- Program FileType Location
- lharc .lzh grind: unix/arc-progs/Lharc.tar.Z
- zoo .aoo grind: unix/arc-progs/Zoo210.tar.Z
- arc .arc grind: unix/arc-progs/arc-5.21.tar.Z
- dms .dms grind: unix/arc-progs/dmschecksum.tar.Z
- only check the dms file's checksum
- lha .lha grind: unix/arc-progs/lha-1.00.tar.Z
- unarj .arj grind: unix/arc-progs/unjarj230.tar.Z
- unzip .zip grind: unix/arc-progs/unz50pl.tar.Z
- zip .zip grind: unix/arc-progs/zip19pl.tar.Z
-
- Appendix B Amiga archiving programs.
- Amiga (de-)archiving programs can be found in
- | wustl: /systems/amiga/boing/utilities/cli/archive
-
- Some of the more common ones are listed below
- Program FileType Fish Location
- lharc .lzh 404 lharc-1.30.zoo
- unarj .arj unarj.lzh
- zoo .zoo 164 zoo210.lzh
- lz .lzh,.lha 465 lz_1.92.lzh
- unzip .zip unzip-4.1.lzh
- dmscheck .dms dmscheck.lzh check that .dms file is good
- lha .lha/.lzh 715 LhA_e132.run (it is a self extracting file)
- dms .dms 406 dms111.sfx (it is a self extracting file)
- zoom .zom 715 zoom54.lzh
-
- Appendix C. FTPmail
- You can find a list of FTPmail sites in the "Updated Internet Services
- List" posted by yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott A. Yanoff) to USENET
- group comp.misc. You can also finger him to find out other ways to
- get this useful list.
-
- There is an article about FTP and Mail-FTP in the April
- 1993 _UnixWorld_, pp. 68-74. For more information on FTPmail send the
- word "help" via email to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com For BITNET users,
- email the world "help" to bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu
-
- |Appendnix D. Fish Databases
- Fish Disk databases - There are several data bases for the fish disk.
- This is a very good way to to find out what is available.
- 1 KingFisher - Allows search by name and context within Contents files
- Available Fish 863 - KingFisher (version 1_30, program and db thru 850
- aminet: /fish/doc/Kingfisher1_30.lha - Program
- /fish/doc/KFData850.lha - database of 1st 850 disk
- 2 fishcon - Fish contents in ASCII (50 disks, ending with disk ???)
- Available aminet: /fish/doc/fishcon-???.lzh
- 3 FishXref - Cross reference of Fish contents, one line description
- Available aminet: /fish/doc/fishxref-???.lzh
- 4 Aquarium - One of the first fish databases. Can search by program name
- or context within Contents file .
- Available Fish 559
-
- Appendix E. FTP sites
- - Major US Amiga (+newest Fish) site: wuarchive.wustl.edu [128.252.135.4]
- | fish in /systems/amiga/boing/fish 600-799
- | /pub/aminet/fish 800 and up
- - Other US Amiga (+all Fish) site: grind.isca.uiowa.edu
- - Major US Fish site (disks 50-current): ftp.cso.uiuc.edu [128.174.5.59]
- formerly called ux1.cso.uiuc.edu, sometimes referred to as "ux1",
- IP address may change.
- ux1 Fishes mirrored on: ftp.hawaii.edu [128.171.44.7]
- [some Fish disk sites provided by schwager@mike.cs.uiuc.edu
- (Mike Schwager)]
- - Euro Fish site (Finland):ftp.funet.fi [128.214.6.100] /pub/amiga/fish
- - Euro Fish site (Germany):ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de[137.226.112.172]
- Switzerland litamiga.epfl.ch 128.178.151.32 pub/aminet/ (*)
- Scandinavia ftp.luth.se 130.240.16.3 pub/aminet/
- Germany ftp.uni-kl.de 131.246.9.95 pub/aminet/
- Germany ftp.uni-erlangen.de 131.188.1.43 pub/aminet/
- Germany ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de 130.149.17.7 pub/aminet/
- Germany ftp.uni-paderborn.de 131.234.2.32 pub/aminet/
- USA ftp.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 pub/aminet/
- same as wuarchive.wustl.edu
- USA oes.orst.edu 128.193.124.2 pub/aminet/
- Australia splat.aarnet.edu.au 192.107.107.6 pub/aminet/ (*)
- UK src.doc.ic.acuk 146.169.2.1 pub/aminet/
- (*) closed 6:30am to 4pm weekdays
-