New IIgs Library Disks
By Richard Bennett and Cameron Brawn
Copyright (c) 1991 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
GS Disk librarians
AUG Disk 98
This disk contains a selection of programs and utilities for the GS.
STAR AXE: A Superhires "shoot-em-up" game along the lines of the famous Sneakers on the Apple // series. This game has excellent Graphics and is very addictive.
BATTLESHIP GS: A modern day version of the old board game, where the object is to sink your opponents ships before he sinks yours. Two players.
FTYPES.CDA: Written by one of the AUG's members, This is a handy list of the most common ProDOS file types, accessible from anywhere by a few keypresses.
WRITEIT: A New Desk Accessory that is a must for all GS users. How many times do you need to run a word processor to read a file or jot down a few notes? Writeit is accessible from anywhere that you have access to the CDA menu. It includes search and replace functions, and you can change fonts and styles. You cannot, however, print from this program.
TRANSWARP: A "CDEV" (Control panel device) for users with TransWarp accelerator cards in their GS. You can change the speed of the Transwarp at any time by accessing the graphic version of the control panel.
TWILIGHT: Another CDEV, similar to "After Dark" on the Macintosh. This is a Screen saver that will blank the screen after a given number of minutes if the computer is not used. Any mouse movements or keypresses restore the screen. Included is documentation for people to write their own modules. Included are: Blank Screen, an Excellent bouncing Apple, Two different rotating/bouncing earths, a meltdown, and an amusing face of John Scully that gets shot every time it hits the edge of the screen, complete with sound effects!
Finally, ZL01, or Z-Launch. Z-launch is a very impressive graphic program launcher, at 9k it is VERY small, and handy for people without a hard disk, or a GS with memory restrictions. Just use it instead of the Finder, and you will have a considerable amount more of free memory to run programs.
AUG Disk 99
This disk contains a selection of programs and utilities for the GS.
GRAY.NDA An NDA that changes the desktop colour to gray. Downgrade your GS to a Mac!
ZLAUNCH.030. Z-launch is a very impressive graphic program launcher, at 18k it is VERY small, and handy for people without a hard disk, or a GS with memory restrictions. Just use it instead of the Finder, and you will have a considerable amount more of free memory to run programs.
A later version of the program that appeared on a previous PD disk.
TWILIGHT.COMP. A screen blanker to supplement Twilight (Disk 98). This screen blanker will blank the screen when Twilight cannot. (Prodos 8, GSOS text screens etc)
Super Info II. An NDA that allows you to: View memory (Free/used/usage/handles), free unused memory, view tool and self test error codes, current prefixes, system info, toolset info and online volume info. Very handy for looking up fatal system errors etc.
ShowPic v5.4. Allow you to view almost any type if graphic and save in a number of formats. You can view Unpacked, packbytes, Printshop GS, 3200 Colour Pictures, and GIF Pictures.
MIDI Monitor: For MIDI people, this application will display MIDI Information as it comes through the modem port
HFSLINK vB5: A beta version of a program that reads Mac HFS disks and converts files to ProDOS
GSHK: Shrinkit for the Apple IIGS. BBS Users will be well aware of this program, it archives files, folders and disks into one file, compressing at the same time. The standard for Apple II modem users throughout the world. This is version 1.0.4
Demo 3D: In interesting and impressive demo if 2 cubes rotating in 3 dimensions.
Carpet Bag: An NDA that can load CDA's or NDA's at any time, similar to the Mac program "Suitcase"
AUG Disk 100
This disk contains a selection of fonts, Pictures, and other goodies for the GS.
For font addicts, there are two fonts on this disk, GS Chicago, and GS Geneva.
5 high quality 320 mode super hires pictures.
Not Modulae, a demo of 3D graphics, similar to the Modulae demo, with source code for some of the routines.
In the NDA Directory, there is GSCII, an NDA that unpacks programs packed in the BINSCII format. PACMAN, a pacman will wander across the screen, munching anything in the way, and MENUTIME, an NDA that will display the time in the menubar.
GSXEdit is a text editor/word processor that allows you to display, edit, and print text, source, and "teach" files.
DG DEMO 3 is a demo of the 3200 mode paint program "Dreamgrafix". Very impressive.
Lastly, a song for Soundsmith, "Closer" and the instruments needed to play this song.
AUG Disk 101
This disk contains a selection of Soundsmith Songs and a Soundsmith Utility.
The Songs are:
Limelight - Rush's second song.
Fractured III - Ace Frehley.
Far East Classical music:
Mei Hwa - "Plum flowers"
Rokudan no Shirabe - "A study of Six Levels"
Haya Rokudan no Shirabe - The same as Rokudan but in a different tempo.
Godan - "5 Levels"
Lastly, there is Sound Editor, a Soundsmith song editor.
AUG Disk 102
This disk holds the 'XMAS' demonstration which is another amazing showoff of the graphics ability of the GS by the French Alliance group. This demonstration specifically deals with effects using the GS screen border - an area not usually available for use. There are five mini-demos.

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