CONTENTS OF FD-001

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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