New Apple IIgs Library Disks
Copyright (c) 1993 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
GS.146
This disk contains a collection 3200 graphics images:
ASTRONAUT, ASTRONAUT.3201, CHEETAH, Chrome, COBRA, Deer, Falls.3200, KITTY, MTV.3200, ohta.3200, Orangutan, ROSE.3200, RT14.08.92, Term2.2.3200, WhiteDragon, WhiteRose, dfwood.3200, pawn.3200, plus :
FINDERVIEW: Version 3.0 (ShareWare)
This extension allows you to view most types of SHR pictures, PaintWorks Animations, 3200 pictures. Also has a slide-show capability.
GS.DISK.147
DISK.WITCH: Version 3.0.1. (Shareware by Gary F. Descrochers)
Disk Witch is an exceptionally good set of disk utilities wrapped into a Classic Desk Accessory (CDA). It allows all your standard file utilities, including format disk, copy, delete, rename, and view. Disk Witch also works under both ProDOS 8 and GS/OS.
DUELTRIS: Version 1.00S (by Steve Chiang of DreamWorld Software)
Tetris is a very popular arcade-type game, and there are a number of freeware and shareware versions (not to mention one commercial version) for the IIgs. DuelTris takes an interesting twist on all this by making Tetris a two-player game and by adding a number of new pieces with special functions. AMAZING...
DuelTris basically plays as a "duel," between two human players or between a human and a computer. (You can also play alone, but it's not near so much fun). It's got some of the snazziest art and finest sound effects of any IIgs arcade game available. It's a $15 shareware item (or $20 if you'd like to be sent a special "limited edition" copy of the game), so if you like and use DuelTris, please do pay the shareware fee.
Also note that DreamWorld publishes the DreamGrafix paint program, which you'd do well to think about purchasing, whether you like DuelTris or not.
PLASMALAB: Version 2.0. (FREEWARE by Peter Brinkley)
This is a fascinating game (or, as I prefer to put it, software toy) for exploring various cellular automatons, mathematical creations that simulate life. Those of you with an interest in mathematical games, or who are familiar with the classic game Life, should find this an immensely enjoyable program.
GS.DISK.148
SHUFFLE MOUSE: Version 2.0 (by Mike Gooding. Shareware 1991)
Shuffle Mouse is an Apple IIgs implementation of a two player shuffleboard game. It features a colorful, interactive, super-hires graphics game display, and digitized sound. Each player (green or red) is given 4 mousepucks per game. Players alternate launching each mousepuck so they slide into the scoring region of the game table. There are 3 games to a match. Scores are displayed automatically. Requires the mouse for game play.
TRUETYPE.FONTS
A collection of truetype fonts for pointless:
Lilith.LT (28.5K)
London (67.0K)
Mazama (26.5K)
Monotony (38.0K)
NeuSansBlack (83.0K)
Polo.SemiScript (28.5K)
Premium (30.0K)
TITLE.SCROLL
A demonstration program of scrolling techniques on the SHR screen. Written in assembly language with source code included for those who would like to learn.
GS.DISK.149
SHADOWRITE: Version 1.0. (Freeware from BRIGHT Software (Switzerland))
SHADOWWRITE IS AN NDA (NEW DESK ACCESSORY) THAT'S AS CLOSE TO A FULL FLEDGED WORD PROCESSOR AS I'VE SEEN. Not only can you work on up to eight documents at once, but they can be Teach, text or SRC files.
ShadowWrite's yellow menu bar gives you options for five pull down menus: Apple, File, Edit, Layout and Document. In addition to the About box, you'll find a Preferences menu here. Preferences include Menu Key Equivalents, Auto I-Beam Cursor, Give others First Shot, Default Font, Default Text Font, and Hide Dimmed Files.
The LOAD file option is very FLEXIBLE... coupled with the Modify text option in the Edit menu, you are able to import Macintosh (or Apple II) word processor files of any format, strip the control characters via the Modify Text item and have a readable and editable document with which to work. You can print your file from ShadowWrite or (if you don't Give Others First Shot) you can highlight a file supported by it in the Finder and Print from the Finder's File menu!
The Edit Menu allows you to Find/Replace (Find Next, Go To Start, Ignore Case, Replace or Replace all), and Modify Text. The Modify Text options include specifying whether you want to modify the whole document or just a selection, Clear Highbits, Strip Controls and Convert Text. The latter command translates 8-bit characters into text that can be displayed on the Apple IIgs screen. The last item in this menu allows you to encode/decode the text with a keyword. Great to protect your data from prying eyes or shareware authors could use this feature to protect their docs until shareware fees are paid! <grin>. This item, as well as the Strip Control option, are touted as being exclusive to ShadowWrite.
The Layout Menu allows you to Choose Font (style and size too), Choose Color and Set Ruler. The Document Menu gives you a list of the open documents and Text Info (Status, Characters, Lines, Styles, Used Memory, and Selection, which shows size of highlighted text). A Compact Memory button is also available from this dialog box. Since it's an Apple IIgs specific application, you can make use of Pointless and TrueType fonts for printing. This is an excellent product..
SPACE ARROW: by Tom Gooding. (this version is Shareware)
SpaceArrow is an Apple IIGS game allowing two players to battle each other, in one-on-one combat, armed with torpedoes and skill. All of Player 1's visual displays appear on the left, and all of Player 2's displays appear on the right. The game play is simultaneous and fast paced - so watch out. The computer can also join the action by loading in computer artificial intelligence, which is completely programmable. Separate sound effects allows warning and alert sounds to be heard over that player's designated stereo channel (stereo card is recommended for great sound but is not necessary). The game is played with either keyboard or joystick.
SUPERMAGIC
Super Magic 320 is a set of routines specially designed for fast Apple IIGS animation. It can be used in demo or arcade game design. The demo included here demomstrates the power of Super Magic 320. To run it, please copy tool 219 (by FTA) to your Tools folder.
The routines support gradient palette, colour cycling, large screen fonts, shape plotting and animating, pixel plotting, line drawing, playing Sound Smith music, etc. Source code in Assembly language is provided.
SWITCHIT! DEMO
SWICHIT is a Multi-Application Switcher for the Apple IIgs. It is written by Procyon Inc of the USA.
Do you ever wish you could have the IIGS Finder handy while you were word processing or telecommunicating? Ever wish you didn'thave to wait so long when going from one application to another for cutting and pasting (like with Formulate, or GraphicWriter III)? Ever wish your IIgs was just a little bit more like a Macintosh? Switch-It! allows you to have several IIgs applications in memory, and switch between them instantly!
Unlike some "Launchers" that have similar menus, Switch-It! actually keeps all programs loaded and active at once -- meaning that switches take only seconds. Your data files stay open as well. Instead of minutes, cutting and pasting between different programs now takes seconds!
The number of programs is limited only by how much memory you have. With 5MB, it is possible have10 applications resident in Switch-It!. This demo version limits you however to only 4 applications resident at once.
Switch-It! only works with GS/OS applications. ProDOS-8 is not currently supported.
The "real" program is available from A2-Central in the USA.
TEXTDRAGON: Version 2.0. (FREEWARE by Garth Minette and Johnson Earls)
TextDragon is a conversion utility that translates between UNIX and Apple text file formats. UNIX text files use a line feed character to denote the end of a line, while Apple text files use a carriage return character.
TONER: Version 2.0
A little demo program of various telephone sounds...
GS.150
This disk has a collection of tunes suitable to be played by GSOS application SYNTHLAB or the finder extension SYNTHINIT (GS.130 disk):
Brittanic.Land, Cowboy.Kid, Day.Travel, Do.Run.Run, Doors.12, Doors.34, Doors.567, Encounters, Finale, Game.Intro, HeatTakesAWalk, Indoor.Theme, Johns.Hornpipe, Joyous.Reunion, LordBlackthorn, Night.Travel, Rule.Britannia, Them.NFBBS.sl, Theme.Song, TonGuitarJam1, Toota.Lute, Worlds.Below.

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