Amiga Computing - Commodore Is Awesome

do a couple of things right after all.
Yak has been around for a good while
now and works along the lines of
MuItiCX. It provides lots of useful little
additions to Workbench_ The main part of
Yak gives you better control over your
windows. You have all the usual click to
fontback and screen cycling, along with a
very comprehensive hot key function
which allows you to more or less assign
any type of function to a certain key combination
- such as Execute a CLI
Command or an ARexx script, Insert text.
Insert date, Close/Zip/Shrink/Enlarge
windows, Move/Cycle screens and windows,
Activate Workbench. Blank display.
Pop up a palette, or add a Menu shortcut.
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Unisys started charging people for the use
of the Lzw compression algorithms. This
meant that anyone writing a program that
could read or write GIF files would have to
pay royalties.
This nghtly angered a lot of people. as
GIF is one of the widest used file formats.
So Cornpuserve got a group of smart programmers
together who went about creating
a new improved, son of GIF file format,
PNG is the fruit of their labours, It has a
large number of features such as support
of true colour depths of up to 4S-bits, and
alpha channels. One of the most important
is that PNG is thought to be completely
royally free, so hopefully can be freely
used by one and all.
The PNG data type is by those lovely
people at Cloanto, and it supports all parts
of the PNG format. At the moment, the
only PNG image you may have is the
test.png that came with the archive.
However, this format will gain a lot of support
- Image Studio and Person Paint
already have external loaders that allow
them to read and write PNG files, and
more programs will follow.
So install the data type and help PNG
become the detach) loss less image
format,
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Author: Stefan Ruppert
Workbench: 3.0
This is fairly straightforward and basically
adds extra functions to the Amiga's Text
data type. Whenever you read a document
using Amiga guide or Multiview,
pressing return will pop up a text
requester, into which you can enter words
to search for. Using tab, you can then
search forwards, and shift and tab will
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like using right Amiga d for delete. One
of the neat features of Yak is the way
you define your hot keys or mouse
presses. All you do is press the key
combinations or mouse buttons you
want, and viola, the hot key definition is
automatically produced for you. This is
very handy, especially for some of
the more complicated mouse button
combinations, such as left button double
right.
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occurrence of the string.
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Author: Matt Dillion
Workbench: 1.3
Another tiny utility for hard drive users, or
for someone with a few megs of RAM.
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Chris Krivitski
Workbench
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This is one of those lithe utilities where you think,
why would any one need that? Than about two
weeks later you will find yourself throwing hall the
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off your desk trying to find a copy of it.
Converter Master will convert between all the
more common measurement scales, such as
Celsius and Fahrenheit. feet and meters. All you
do is select the type of measurement you wish to
convert and enter the value into the appropriate
box. All the other values in that category will then
instantly be displayed.
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Author: Frank Toepper
Workbench: 3.0
If you knew any French or German. you
would already know what Lupe does. It
is a magnifying glass which will jump
onto any public screen and has
adjustable zoom, all the way to 20x. It
may not sound much more than a
little toy, but they do come in useful for
positioning icons or magnifying parts of
pictures.
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This allows yuu to create a virtual disk
drive on a hard drive partition. Therefore
you get a disk drive that can be accessed
almost as fast as a hard drive. For people
like ourselves who are compiling disks,
this is an absolute god send, as you are
completely unburdened from the drudgery
of wading for the disk drive to copy or run
hies.
It also makes it possible to DMS straight
to the hard dnve. so if you have a CD full
of DMS files, you can go through them in a
fraction of the time compared to using a
floppy drive.
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