Amiga Computing - Commodore Is Awesome

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.
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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
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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.
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a small program that allows you to add
sound o effects to accompany a number of
standard u system events. Usually, these sort of
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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.
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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
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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.
Please allow 28 days for delivery
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