Subject: Info-Mac Digest V16 #127 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Sat, 20 Jun 98 Volume 16 : Issue 127 Today's Topics: [*] ][2Mac v1.2.0 [*] Akua Sweets V123 (Scripting Additions) [*] BuggySoft DepthLib v1.0.4 [*] BuggySoft MenubarLib v1.0.3 [*] BuggySoft OffscreenLib v1.0.7 [*] BuggySoft PictureLib v1.0.4 [*] BuggySoft SoundLib v1.0.4 [*] busstop-12.hqx [*] Different StartupScreens Vol II [*] gasket-11.hqx [*] IP Poster Script 1.0 [*] lupe-14 [*] Mac F2C v1.4.1 [*] Multi-Album-98.hqx [*] Peek-a-Boo 1.3 -- A MacOS Process Monitoring Utility [*] PictFader12-Pict playing Screensaver update [*] PowerPC StartupScreen [*] SpriteWorld 2.1 Extra Demos [*] SpriteWorld 2.1.1 [*] THE BLOCK v2.0 - Macintosh Password Protection System [*] WEBformation The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. 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Or, click . * A full list of Info-Mac mirror sites is available at the URL below: * Search the archive at . Info-Mac volunteers include Gordon Watts, Adam C. Engst, Demitri Muna, Mike O'Bryan, Michael Bean, and Liam Breck. The Info-Mac Digest is sponsored in part by StarNine Technologies, developers of Internet server software for the Macintosh, including Web and email publishing systems. We'd also like to thank AOL for the main Info-Mac machine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V16 #127" ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:42 -0700 From: vanGaalen@caiw.nl Subject: [*] ][2Mac v1.2.0 A new version of ][2Mac has been released today. ][2Mac is a set of 3 applications, 1 for the Mac and 2 for the Apple-][, that allow you to backup and restore Apple-][ floppies to/from a Mac. The floppy-image is stored on the Mac in a format that is recognized by IIe, the Apple //e emulator for the Mac, written by Victor and Vincent Tan (see: http://www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~vtan/sw/index.html). One of the users of ][2Mac even reported, that he has successfully transferred DOS 3.3-, ProDOS- as well as Pascal-formatted disks from his Apple //e to his Mac, and that he is using the diskimages now in the IIgs emulator called 'Bernie ][ the Rescue' (see: http://www.magnet.ch/emutech/Bernie/). Also... ][2Mac enables you to use a Macintosh to send out and receive Apple-][-disks to and from your friends over the internet... This version obsoletes all previous versions that have been made available in the Info-Mac archives (http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/Recent-Summary.html) under the name 'ii2mac'. Kind regards, __ /_/ _/ _ ___ / / (_/ (_/ / / / Adam van Gaalen [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/ii2mac-120.hqx; 129K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:26 -0700 From: akua@bluewin.ch Subject: [*] Akua Sweets V123 (Scripting Additions) AKUA Sweets V1.23 Released: 15. June, 1998 - Happy Birthday Andrew Kerr (1975) (Sorry for the length of this text, MacGifts/Info-Mac, I do not know what to cut out.) Akua Sweets is a set of scripting additions and includes almost 100 example scripts showing their use. Some examples of these scripts include mounting network volumes, controlling remote machines, timing out alerts, typing text, capturing parts of the screen, displaying images, animations and more... V1.23 includes expansions to the Graphics Suite with routines to load & save QuickTime supported formats and play with regions - as well as fixes to some of the demo scripts. Akua Sweets includes the following Scripting Additions (osaxen) Etcetera -------- display progress - Display/Update a progress dialog display info - Display/Update a (floating) info window automate alerts after - Set the amount of seconds to timeout alerts pause for - Pause processing for a set amount of time Control -------- bartender settings - Get/Set Bartender settings (an Akua Control Panel) =46ile ---- AkuaCopy - Copy files with progress display collate=8A - Rename, delete, move or trash files & folders alias info from - Get alias record as text load alias from - Load the alias record from an alias file the kind of entry - Get the kind of item in a folder (file/folder/alias) the entries in... - List folder, filtering by date, type, name etc. set Finder info for - Set the catalog information for a file or folder basic info for - Get some basic file information extended info for - Get more information (including parent and volume) volume info for - Get volume space and driver information open fork from - Open a file's fork (as data) read data from - Read data from a file or open fork write data to - Write data to a file or open fork close fork - Close a fork (from open fork) size fork - Get or allocate space for an open fork. Graphics [Archived as /info-mac/dev/osa/akua-sweets-123.hqx; 1404K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:28 -0700 From: poot@home.com Subject: [*] BuggySoft DepthLib v1.0.4 BuggySoft DepthLib v1.0.4 BuggySoft=81 - Scott Dunbar =A9 1996-1998. email: poot@home.com ftp: ftp://24.1.82.253/BuggySoft/ BuggySoft OffscreenLib is a CodeWarrior Pro library. You may use it free of charge. This library will make it a little easier to change the depth of any monitor connected to the Macintosh. You may redistribute this library with your magazine or other publication (if you've got one, that is) freely, but I ask that you email me first so that I know about it and perhaps even send me a free copy :) Check out the header, "BuggySoft DepthLib.h," for more info on them. Thanks! - Scott Dunbar [Archived as /info-mac/dev/lib/buggy-soft-depth-lib-104.hqx; 136K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:30 -0700 From: poot@home.com Subject: [*] BuggySoft MenubarLib v1.0.3 BuggySoft MenubarLib v1.0.3 BuggySoft=81 - Scott Dunbar =A9 1996-1998. email: poot@home.com ftp: ftp://24.1.82.253/BuggySoft/ This CodeWarrior Pro library is just a few commonly used routines for hiding and showing the menubar, lower corners of the screen and control stip. I use it for most things from games to example applications. I don't really take credit for the guts of the routines themselves, just the for putting them into this one library. Notes Check out the 'examples' folder for a working example of this library. E-mail me or check the ftp site for updates. Thanks! - Scott Dunbar [Archived as /info-mac/dev/lib/buggysoft-menubar-lib-103.hqx; 35K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:32 -0700 From: poot@home.com Subject: [*] BuggySoft OffscreenLib v1.0.7 BuggySoft OffscreenLib v1.0.7 BuggySoft=81 - Scott Dunbar =A9 1996-1998. email: poot@home.com ftp: ftp://24.1.82.253/BuggySoft/ BuggySoft OffscreenLib is a CodeWarrior Pro library. You may use it free of charge. All this library is, basicly, is a simpler method of using CopyBits and GWorld related routines. I've included the source code for beginning MacOS programmers to look over and see how things work. I just wish there was something like this out there when I was starting out. You may redistribute this library with your magazine or other publication (if you've got one, that is) freely, but I ask that you email me first so that I know about it and perhaps even send me a free copy :) Check out the header, "BuggySoft OffscreenLib.h," for a complete list of the routines. Take a look at the example, "BuggySoft OffscreenApp," that I've included for a somewhat more detailed use of this library. Thanks for choosing BuggySoft! - Scott Dunbar [Archived as /info-mac/dev/lib/buggysoft-off-screenlib-107.hqx; 82K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:34 -0700 From: poot@home.com Subject: [*] BuggySoft PictureLib v1.0.4 BuggySoft PictureLib v1.0.4 BuggySoft=81 - Scott Dunbar =A9 1996-1998. email: poot@home.com ftp: ftp://24.1.82.253/BuggySoft/ BuggySoft PictureLib is a CodeWarrior Pro library that will allow you to, very easily, read and write MacOS Picture data files. Check out the header, "BuggySoft PictureLib.h," for more info on them. Thanks! - Scott Dunbar [Archived as /info-mac/dev/lib/buggysoft-picturelib-104.hqx; 16K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:36 -0700 From: poot@home.com Subject: [*] BuggySoft SoundLib v1.0.4 BuggySoft SoundLib v1.0.4 BuggySoft=81 - Scott Dunbar =A9 1997-1998 email: poot@home.com ftp: ftp://24.1.82.253/BuggySoft/ BuggySoft SoundLib is a CodeWarrior Pro library that you can use, free of charge, to add basic Macintosh sound routines to your applications and games. Included in this library are routines which allow you to easily have asynchrous sound play-back on multiple channels (RAM permitting) and do some cool stereo panning as well as have background music. In my opinion, this is the easiest set of sound routines to use ever. =46or working examples of the library in use, check in the 'examples' folder contained in this archive. E-mail me or check the ftp site for updates. Thanks! - Scott Dunbar [Archived as /info-mac/dev/lib/buggysoft-soundlib-104.hqx; 268K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:16:00 -0700 From: sato@het02.ph.tsukuba.ac.jp Subject: [*] busstop-12.hqx BusStop is a clock. But its way of displaying a time is unusual. Let's suppose that you are watching a busstop from an opposite side of a street. As there's an excellent bus service in a town, a bus comes every five minutes. You can see a route number, persons, sparrows and a bench. The route number indicates an hour. A person comes every one minute. A sparrow appears every five minutes. A bench has an ad on its back. It changes everyday. You can set your strings for it. Enjoy! //----------------------------- [Archived as /info-mac/app/time/busstop-12.hqx; 601K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:46 -0700 From: tdecervens@earthling.net Subject: [*] Different StartupScreens Vol II Here are 5 new StartupScreens, 16 bits, 832 x 624: they're always free; if you like one of them just email me mailto:tdecervens@earthling.net Permission is given for this file to be included on any CD-ROM if you send me one ! This read me file should also be included. previous StartupScreens, always free, available at info Mac: * "Different" StartupScreens * X-Files startup [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/different-startupscree.hqx; 1735K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:49 -0700 From: sato@het02.ph.tsukuba.ac.jp Subject: [*] gasket-11.hqx Abstract: Gasket is an accesory clock. An oval clock is in the center of Sherpinski's Gasket, which is wellknown shape in Mathematics or Computer Art. The color of gasket changes according as a time goes. //----------------------------- [Archived as /info-mac/app/gasket-11.hqx; 690K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:40 -0700 From: hase@shaw.wave.ca Subject: [*] IP Poster Script 1.0 IP Poster Script 1.0 ------------------- Since there is no Mac IP Poster application availible yet I decided to write a simple AppleScript that uses Fetch 3.0.3 and IP Moniter 1.1.1 to update a remote web page with your current IP address. Requirements: You must have System 8, Fetch 3.0.3 and AppleScript 1.1.2 or later installed on your Macintosh to make use of this script. The script makes use of the following Scripting Additions from Apple: Display Dialog and Read/Write Commands. I am not sure if these Scripting Additions are included in earlier releases. Try it and let me know. http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Archive/comm/inet/ip-monitor-11 1.hqx http://hyperarchive.lcs.mit.edu/HyperArchive/Archive/comm/inet/fetch-303.hqx -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bill & Heather Hase Mail: hase@shaw.wave.ca ---------------------------------------------------------------- [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/ip-poster-10.hqx; 11K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:51 -0700 From: sato@het02.ph.tsukuba.ac.jp Subject: [*] lupe-14 Lupe is a real magnifier. It has a custom shape and appearance. The magnification is changed by selecting Zoom In/Out command. //----------------------------- [Archived as /info-mac/app/lupe-14.hqx; 798K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:20 -0700 From: mikolici@cna.org Subject: [*] Mac F2C v1.4.1 Mac F2C is a Fortran-to-C translator for the Macintosh. It requires the following: (1) a Macintosh with a 68020 (or better) or a PowerPC (2) MacOS 7.1 or better (3) 2.5 MB of available RAM (4) A C/C++ compiler to actually compile the code produced by Mac F2C. Version 1.4.1 is a minor upgrade to v1.4 to make Mac F2C fully compatible with CodeWarrior Pro Release 3. It also includes a new installer and revised documentation. Mac F2C is based on the f2c translator developed by AT&T. Mac F2C is freeware. It may be freely used and freely distributed so long as all documentation and copyright notices are included. The f2c engine is copyright 1990-1998 by AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bellcore. The Macintosh inteface of Mac F2C is copyright 1994-1998 by Igor Mikolic-Torreira. Mac F2C v1.4.1 is distributed as a binhexed Installer VISE installer. Igor Mikolic-Torreira igormt@alumni.caltech.edu [Archived as /info-mac/dev/mac-f2c-141.hqx; 1685K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:37 -0700 From: nchamnon@ratree.psu.ac.th Subject: [*] Multi-Album-98.hqx MultiAlbum98 is a FileMaker Pro database (v 3-4) for collecting pictures, QuickTime movies and sound records. MutltiAlbum98 is a shareware. If you continue using it, please pay a shareware fee for 10 US $ per copy by sending to : ---------- Chamnong Nopparatana Dept. of Pathology, Fac. of Medicine Prince of Songkla University Hat-Yai, Songkhla 90112 Thailand. ----------- The file can be distributed freely on any medias. ------------ nchamnon@ratree.psu.ac.th [Archived as /info-mac/data/multi-album-98.hqx; 358K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:44 -0700 From: bobc@oz.net Subject: [*] Peek-a-Boo 1.3 -- A MacOS Process Monitoring Utility **** What is Peek-a-Boo? **** Peek-a-Boo is a shareware ($10) utility to monitor and manipulate all running processes. You can watch how much CPU time each process uses, as well as look at any piece of information available through the Process Manager. Peek-a-Boo lets you open CPU history windows to track how much processor power a process uses. Logging windows can be opened, too, to watch memory and processor usage, optionally saving the information to a tab-delimited file for further analysis. **** What is new in Peek-a-Boo 1.3? **** The latest version of Peek-a-Boo focuses on ease of use. New features include: - Sort by a variety of attributes, including Name, AcTix, PSN, Signature, FreeMem, and more. - Simplified Preferences dialog. - New ProcInfo menu to specify which attributes are displayed in the main Peek-a-Boo window. - "Grabbable" dividers between column headers to resize the width of each column. - Select processes by clicking in the memory map. - Select a background color for all Peek-a-Boo windows. **** Download and contact information **** Peek-a-Boo 1.3 is available now. Download links and more information are available at the Peek-a-Boo web site: Inquiries, comments, and questions may be directed to: Peek-a-Boo 1.3 copyright (c) 1993 - 1998 by Bob Clark [Archived as /info-mac/cfg/peek-a-boo.hqx; 325K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:26:12 -0700 From: stossj@mail.mpx.com.au Subject: [*] PictFader12-Pict playing Screensaver update PictFader=81 is an application/screensaver that displays slideshows of PICT and JPEG ( PICT in JPEG type) files. It has relatively low memory requirements considering the high standard of display that is achieved. See the "About PictFader 1.2" document for more details. Requirements A Macintosh/ Mac-Compatible with atleast the following features: * 68020 processor or greater * System 7.1 or greater * Quicktime 1.5 ( Quicktime 2.0 or more preferable ) for JPEG pictures. * 240 to 500 K Ram and 300 K disk space New features: * Handles large JPEGs more effeciently. * better depth management and colour matching. [Archived as /info-mac/app/ss/pictfader-121.hqx; 475K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:48 -0700 From: Chris_Lambert@magic.ca Subject: [*] PowerPC StartupScreen PowerPC StartupScreen By: Chris Lambert Shareware: $1.00 (Canadian Funds) 6/13/98 -------------------- Thank you for downloading the PowerPC StartupScreen! This StartupScreen is made for a Macintosh that has a 640 x 480 resolution and displays thousands of colours. To use, just drag the "StartupScreen" icon into your System Folder and restart. Presto! There is the beautiful StartupScreen in action. If you continue to use this StartupScreen, you are expected to pay the $1.00 fee. Please send one dollar to: PowerPC StartupScreen c/o Total Software 508 Davisville Avenue Toronto, Ontario M4S 1J3 If you have any additional questions or require more information, email: clambert@total.net ------------------- "THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING SHAREWARE!" [Archived as /info-mac/art/grf/powerpc-startupscreen.hqx; 128K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:22 -0700 From: Jensen@loop.com Subject: [*] SpriteWorld 2.1 Extra Demos The SpriteWorld 2.1 Extra Demos package is a companion to SpriteWorld 2.1.1 and contains extra demos, such as: - Circular Scrolling - Large Background Scrolling - Maze Game - Platform Scrolling - Wrapping Illustration There are also several programs which demonstrate the scaling, rotating, translucency, and lighting routines. This package should be distributed wherever SpriteWorld 2.1.1 is distributed. [Archived as /info-mac/dev/spriteworld-21-extra-demos.hqx; 1032K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:24 -0700 From: Jensen@loop.com Subject: [*] SpriteWorld 2.1.1 SpriteWorld 2.1.1 is the latest update to the widely respected SpriteWorld animation library originally written by Tony Myles in 1993-94, and updated to version 2.0 by Karl Bunker and Vern Jensen in 1996. SpriteWorld 2.1.1 is a major update to that release, and provides numerous improvements, including an impressive list of new features and some bug fixes. Several cool new demos are also included in the package. SpriteWorld is a free animation package for programmers that allows you to easily add sprite-based animation to your program. SpriteWorld was designed with game programmers in mind, and has many features that are very useful for making games, such as smooth overlapping of sprites, custom blitters to speed up the animation, pixel-precise collision detection, the ability to create an unlimited number of sprites of any size, a fast scrolling engine, and much more. SpriteWorld comes with complete source code, so you can modify it if necessary to suit your needs. Here are just some of the improvements in SpriteWorld 2.1.1: * Numerous bug fixes. * Various speed improvements. * A wide variety of new or improved blitters, customized for various uses and situations. These include blitters for all bit depths for 68K and PPC compiles, 68K and PPC blitters optimized for 8 bit color, and blitters for real-time scaling, rotating, translucency, and lighting effects. * A new double-rect blitter which eliminates the ugly "seams" from scrolling animations, in addition to making them go faster on most PowerMacs. * Functions that allow you to move and resize your window, while still being able to use direct-to-screen blitters. * Two new callback functions allow you to draw in the offscreen areas during the animation after the sprites were erased, and after they have been drawn, but before the screen is updated. * Functions for determining whether a sprite has run into a tile or "set" of tiles. * The ability to set "hot spots", used to calculate the location of each Frame of a Sprite. * Split-screen scrolling routines allowing two or more viewpoints of the same game field. * Several great new demos, such as: - Shark Attack, an example of a real game that uses SpriteWorld. - Split Screen Scrolling demo, which demonstrates the split screen scrolling routines. - Platform Scrolling, a basic platform type game. - Maze Game - move the ball around the maze. - Various demos that make use of the rotating, scaling, translucency, and lighting capabilities. * SpriteWorld is now completely compatible with the latest version of [Archived as /info-mac/dev/spriteworld-211.hqx; 1688K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:15:58 -0700 From: mennigmann@kagi.com Subject: [*] THE BLOCK v2.0 - Macintosh Password Protection System THE BLOCK is a powerful password protection system for Macintosh computers. Unlike other password protection systems, it will not accept real passwords. To log in to a computer protected by THE BLOCK you need to go through a two-step process. First you need to type a Password Key, which is a key combination similar to the Finder's Copy or Paste shortcuts [command+c] or [command+v]. The second step is to click with the mouse on the shutdown button on the on-screen dialog or, depending on the preferences you set, to press the "esc" key on your keyboard. A big part of THE BLOCK's security comes from the illusion that a real password is needed. If intruders are not aware of how THE BLOCK works, they will always choose the wrong approach. If they are aware, THE BLOCK will still be as protective as every other password system because there are many possible Password Keys and there is an option to disable the shift key at startup. A Password Key can consist of any of the four modifiers (command, alt, control or shift) and another key on your keyboard, including the cursor keys, the F-keys and the page navigation keys. THE BLOCK is US$10 shareware. It is available from Marc Mennigmann's web site and all major Macintosh shareware archives and ftp sites. Version 2.0 is a free upgrade to registered users of any earlier version. System Requirements: Any Apple Macintosh or clone with at least a 68020 CPU running MacOS System 7.1 or later. What is new in THE BLOCK 2.0? ============================= Password Keys can contain multiple modifiers (command, option, control and shift). F-keys, cursor keys or page navigation keys can also be used as part of the Password Key. The application used to set up the preferences, called "THE BLOCK Setup", has been completely rewritten to be compatible with all Macs running System 7.1. The entire user interface has been redesigned to make THE BLOCK's settings more intelligible. In particular, the procedure to change the Password Key has been designed to be intuitive and straightforward. An introduction system was added to prevent first time users from being locked out of their own computer. All problems changing the Password Key on PowerMacs have been eliminated. Further, "THE BLOCK Setup" is completely Appearance Manager savvy and [Archived as /info-mac/app/the-block-20.hqx; 1058K] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:11:39 -0700 From: beatrix.willius@mainz.netsurf.de Subject: [*] WEBformation As an active surfer you surely want to find some specific information when you are not surfing just for fun. But where do you store that information? The "regular" URL manager stores URLs, a name of the URL and perhaps a description. So you have one sentence for a whole lot of information.Of course you can store everything in your head. However, the lifetime of the data and the search time are not overly good. Hundreds of html files are the next alternative, which is not very userfriendly. Therefore the perfect solution is a database with Filemaker. The database gives some other advantages: layout, sorting and searching can be customized in a few minutes. You can check your ULRs for duplicates, plan URL visits and so on. Regards Trixi Willius [Archived as /info-mac/data/web-formation.hqx; 393K] -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************