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II 1 1 LOTTERY Author: John Comer Workbench 2.04 Lottery madness seems to have the entirc nation firmly in its sweaty mitts, with people shamelessly throwing pounds out of the window just to have the words "it's not you" reverberating firmly round their heads. It has also seemingly kick started every two bit programmer into writing their own lottery predictor. The last few months have seen a number of programs popping up in the Amiga Computing offices, one or two of which were very good, many of the others being dubious looking random number generators. This lottery predictor is different. Firstly it's beam* , not written in Amos so it multitasks correctly and uses standard looking gadgets. Before you run Lottery it really needs to be installed using the provided installer script which will set up the Analyser assign, otherwise you will have to do this manually from the Shell. Once you have Lottery up and running there are plenty of statistics about previously drawn balls. You can find out the number of times each number has appeared, the frequency certain numbers have been drawn, and if low, middle or high combinations are more common than others, When it comes to actually predicting the numbers. Lottery uses a fairly straightforward system. This consists of producing three lines of numbers, one biased to high numbers, one biased to low numbers, and the last to produce a combination of the two. You can have up to seven lines, or a syndicate mode allowsyou to have 100 rows, and when the balls are actually drawn you enter these into the Lottery database which will automatically check if you have won or not The program is win-ware, so if you get four winning balls or MOM using it you should send the author some of the winnings to show your gratitude. •• D. - . W O * P O W . O . . . . DISKSQUEEZE Author: Dirk Veal Workbench 2.04, Lzx required Me.146.6r. .• mm. l i t r l y • ' 1141t1li"titta Sr owl Sit *loot M.era ffl iMilt Smbers Iiiikstssts ;sisal *insist MINIS - Chet* Yosr • sr* ;r , Everyone's 1 a winne r ba by, well 1 ma ybe not but Lotte ry could 0 cha nge your fortune s . 1 1 1 1 I . . . . J U L - - You e ve n ge t a pre tty good AudloC 0 pla ye r with AmiC OFS For anyone looking for a better disk packer than DMS, this is your answer. Disksqueeze is an Lix-based disk packer that is similar to DMS but much more efficient. To use it you must already have the Lzx packer which allows Disksqueeze to use its very efficient packing algorithms. Once you have installed the program its interface is just a simple set of requesters that guide you through the packing or unpacking process. It supports high density disks, including Mac and PC formats - a unique feature for a disk packer - as well as being able to handle DMS archives, so most people should find this perfect for squishing their disks. AMIGA COMPUTING MAY 19 9 6 Am1CDFS Author Martin Berndt Workbench 104 Current owners of SCSI interfaces who have a CD drive will probably be using the old AmiCD file handler or, if you have Workbench 3.1, you will be using the Commodore CD file system. These do a perfectly good job, but there is always room for improvement. This is an update to the original AmiCD file system that many people will have. This version is now faster and improves compatibility with strange DOS packets. Proper disk buffers are now available which helps CD access and loading of large files. Generally, the original code has been cleaned up and optimised to get the best out of your CD-ROM. The supplied AmigaGuide does explain how to install the software. You need to copy the CDO icon to your DEVS:DOSdrivers directory, copy the AmiCIDIS and WBStart- Handler files to your L directory, and finally copy over the Mount and Setpatch commands to your own C drawer. You will need to change the CDO file with a text editor to suit your own machine's setup. Load the CDO file into your favourite text editor and change the DEVICE to your SCSI device - for Squirrel users this will be 5quirrelscsidevictand owners of other SCSI cards will need to consult the documentation to find out the correct device of their SCSI card. After this, adjust the UNIT number to your CD's SCSI unit number - most CD players allow you to select the SCSI ID number on the back. Now restart your machine and you should have access to your CD. I i996 Hon Tye Wad Thu Fri S 8 9 l 12 i3 14 15 16 18 i 9 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3 31 Nov., miss one of those a ll importa nt mettings a ga in 1 Loda21 [ Delete refsI Dete-L 1 1 1 1 L _ . t v d STARTUP CONTROL Author: Dirk Jesse Workbench 2.04 Startup Control is a program that gives yo more control over how your machine sta up. On my machine I have a small progra that detects if I am holding the right mou button, and if so will load Workbench wit the WBStartup drawer disabled. With Startup Control you will have th option, along with many more, implement in a much better way. To install Startu Control, copy the program to your C dir ory and insert the line C:StartupControl your startup sequence, just after th C:Setpatch command. To do this, open shell and type ed s:stortup-sequence. When you reboot your machine, if y hold down the left mouse button and one the Alt keys, you will have the choice to cl .able the WBStartup, User-Startup, run scri pfiles, open a shell window, and even force normal PAL window - if you have a monit driver installed. Startup Control works by renaming th files, so when you reboot your machine th are renamed to what they should be. Als anyone using SysiHack must make sure th. is run before Startup Control is. SCHEDULER Author: Oliver Kasper Magic User Interface, Workbench 2.04 Workbench 2.04 Keeping track of important appointments, just general things that you must not for What you need is a program so you can ent all these things and let it live in the back ground, where it can jump up and remi you that you are about to be late. Ent Scheduler, a shareware reminder program. Scheduler is very straightforward to u You can click on a date in the calendar an add new appointments which can be m daily, weekly, monthly or even yearly, and can ask for a reminder at a specific time of the day. You can then iconify the program and it will happily sit back and wait for you. next appointment. .- 41111.1.111 Ed t Copy. CustiPle+G I kititt Lance S . .•••••.•
UCBACKUP Author: Jamie Kennea Workbench 2.04 All the lazy people stand up. If you own a hard drive I bet you haven't bothered to back it up in years, even though you know if it crashes you will never be able to get your files back. Well, UCBackup will be a little life saver for you. Firstly, there is the absolute minimum of fuss involved. You drop it into you WB5tartup drawer, double-click on it, then use exchange to pop up its interface and select what directories you want it to check. From then on, every week, UCBackup will scan these directories and Lha all the new files onto a destination of your choice. - Workbench: C 1.1cric . Wcrkbench: Pre f s 1 1 W s r - - Last ba ck U P on Thursda y 1 4 th Ka rch 1 9 9 6 Next ba ckup due Thursda y 2 1 st M a rch 1996 Savo I Ba ckup Protect you da ta , ba ck it up re gula rly. With tiCillackup you don't e ve n ha ve to re me mbe r CBE Author: Anthony Moringello Workbench 2,04 You may or may not know that the Amiga actualy has up to 256 separate clipboards. The clipboard is where any temporary data is stored, and usually when you cut or copy something it is stored to the first clipboard. This allows you to copy from Brilliance and paste the graphic into Final Writer. Instead of letting all these clipboards go to waste, CBE gives you a clipboard history by buffering all the past cuts and copy into a list From this you can choose which one to paste with and if they should be cleared or not. With Workbench 3, users can view what the contents of each clip board is, therefore giving you a better idea of what you will be discarding or pasting next Clipboard Enha nce r le ts you visua lly ke e p track of a ll your curre nt cuts a nd copie r* DIALER Author: lain Hibbeft Workbench 2.04 This is a tiny little device that was discovered when doing our Internet virgin article, and works with SLIP or any other software that accesses the serial port. Dialer provides an automatic dial and logon script for all types of network software that uses the serial device but does not know about modems. You will need to copy the dialetdevice to your DEVS drawer and the dialeaconfig needs to be edited to your own needs and copied to the Envarc drawer. Checker out the Internet virgin feature on page 53 for more details on how to use it Ba ckup R a ts ul De vt UPDATE LIDS Author: Dan Rhodes Workbench 104 You know the situation. You have a new program with loads of libraries, most of which you already have, but how do you easily tell if the these libraries are newer or older than the ones you already have. Update libs is the remedy for you ills. It is a Shell-based program so copy it into your C directory, and to run it just supply it with the directory containing the mystery libraries and away it will go. For each should - install it or not. library i t FX w i l l Author: Narkus Albrecht a s Workbench 3.0 k FX yis a small program that allows you to add sound o effects to accompany a number of standard u system events. Usually, these sort of programs w h just watch for disks being inserted or removed. e t FX can watch all manner of operating sys- h e tem calls, from windows and screens being r opened and closed to files being deleted and renamed. i t The program requires Workbench 3 as it uses Datatypes to load the samples, but this means you will be able to use PC Wave samples or any other sample Datatypes you have. An install script is provided so installation is simple, and as long as you have a selection ol samples, you can get going straight away. DISCLAIMER I17 1 1 Mawr Bever t 1 ounts tia naca r Start FLPS-E.a•ort 1 1 PtasKrianu El NMCP lJ e Power'..nep C RePevti M r Services tlarwpper Star I pELI t Svamtnec Cria s Tocal.r.cml i I a lsw• I l T e Yet o ra nothe r progra m to put in your Me Profs dra we r, but a t le a e st e its a ha ndy one nf ui l Amiga Computing cannot be held responsible for any damage caused directly or indirectly by the use of these programs If you wa nt you ca n ge t a System 7 .5 -style loa ding bar. You ca n e ve n choose the ba ckground pa tte rn AMIGA COMPUTING MAY 1996 WBSTARTUP+ Author: John Hughes Workbench 2_04 This is another one of those little make your Amiga a nicer place to live-type of programs. WBStartup+ gives you a handy preference program to handle how and which programs are run from the WBStartup drawer. It does this by creating two new drawers in the WBStartup and adding a new program to handle launching all your chosen programs. This is all set up by the usual installer script and is very straightforward. When Workbench first appears, if you hold down Ctrl you can modify the preferences p . before anything is run, left alt interactively asks you if it should run a program or not, and the left shift will disable all the programs. You might be interested to know that this is the first program I have seen to use a new library called launcher. library which is written by Amiga Technologies no less. They must be up to something after all. Author C Hahn Workbench 2.04 This is a tiny screen grabbing commodity that will correctly handle all AGA screen modes_ Double-click the icon and press both Amiga keys and Flo to grab the current screen. You can then adjust the destination directory and the grab hot key from the icon's tool types. FAULTY DISKS If you should find your Amiga Computing CoverDisk damaged or faulty, please return it to: 77B Pk 778 House, 11 Edward Street, Bradford, W. Yorks BIM 7811. 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