Newsgroups: umich.archives,comp.archives,comp.archives.msdos.announce Subject: [umich.archives] 300+ lines of new files on msdos.archive.umich.edu Summary: Expires: Sender: David.Winkel@umich.edu Approved: dwinkel@css.itd.umich.edu Followup-To: umich.archives, comp.archives.msdos.d Distribution: world Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services Keywords: new files archive umich msdos [file: msdos/info/newfiles.txt.93sep01] Well, here's the rest of my catch-up days. Should have posted this a few days ago, but I didn't get around to it. Sue me if you must. Anyway, you can blame this posting, and all others like it on Myke, because they are all his fault, anyway. This site is mirrored at: wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/archive.umich.edu info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de:/afs/umich.edu/group/itd/archive archive.orst.edu:/pub/mirrors/archive.umich.edu It can also be reached by gopher from gopher.archive.merit.net Questions about the msdos section of the archive should be addressed to msdos-archivist@archive.umich.edu. After all, some day there might be more than one of us. -- ______ _ Dave.Winkel@um.cc.umich.edu / / ' ) / / dwinkel@engin.umich.edu --/ /_ _ / / / o __ /_ dwinkel@css.itd.umich.edu (_/ / /_(<_ (_(_/ (_/) )_/ <_ Archivist for msdos.archive.umich.edu "If you don't like the way it's run, complain to someone who can do something about it." -- msdos/communications/kermit/msker313.zip 325434 bytes by Joe Doupnik The latest version of MS-DOS Kermit... msdos/communications/kermit/mskerdoc.zip 144524 bytes by Christine Gianone The documentation that was uploaded with it... It looks like docs for version 2.3.2, though... msdos/communications/misc/riptm153.zip 577280 bytes by TeleGrafix Communcations, Inc. A freeware package similar in power and scope to Procomm, but with a graphical interface. It looks like a really slick program, and if you do a lot of BBSing, it could be good for you. msdos/communications/ncsa/etherppp.zip 52055 bytes by Glenn McGregor The etherPPP driver for those of us who need ethernet but have to settle for serial... msdos/compression/windows/winzip41.zip 157760 bytes by Nico Mak Zip for Windows 3.x. As I recall, this is a shell. msdos/compression/windows/wuna221.zip 140163 bytes by James N. Hughes Windows UnArchive is a program which is used to extract and decompress files from ZIP and ARJ format archives. It takes the place of both command-line DOS unarchivers and Windows-based front ends for those utilities. msdos/compression/zip/bldzip10.zip 32011 bytes by Mystic This is a PKZIP utility that will build a series of .ZIP files of a specified size. I assume that it only works with PKZIP 2.04 and later... msdos/games/epic/0zone66.zip 1062550 bytes by Epic MegaGames Zone 66, a 32 bit, 256 color game. Requires 386, 2 MB RAM, VGA, and a special boot routine if you load a memory manager when you boot your computer. Other than that, an excellent game. msdos/games/epic/0zone66g.zip 311822 bytes by Epic MegaGames The Gravis UltraSound card driver for Zone 66. msdos/games/epic/ken.zip 856175 bytes by Epic Megagames Ken's Labyrinth. It's a 3-D adventure something like Castle Wolfenstien from Apogee, but lacking some of the realism. It requires a 386, VGA, and 1 MB of disk space, at least. msdos/games/epic/kilo.zip 508250 bytes by Epic MegaGames Kiloblaster is a fast-action arcade game reminiscent of Galaxian with lots of innovative, high-tech features! This game features digitized and ray- traced backgrounds in 256-color VGA which are truly out of this world! (From the docs.) A good game, though. :) msdos/games/epic/solar.zip 484859 bytes By Epic MegaGames The game of Solar Winds... Discover the plot to overthrow the government, and kill bad guys in the process. What a game. msdos/games/epic/superz.zip 103605 bytes by Epic MegaGames SuperZZT episode 7, the Monster Zoo. Intruiging puzzle-type game. msdos/graphics/util/cshw860a.zip 150746 bytes by Bob Berry CompuShow. Perhaps the most popular GIF viewer, it can also view BMP, RLE, JPEG, TIFF, and more. msdos/graphics/util/dcview21.zip 257651 bytes by Millenium Technologies Corp The latest version of Cview. According to the docs, this is a JPEG, GIF, and BMP viewer, editor, converter. It seems a bit slow on JPEG decoding, though. msdos/graphics/util/fli/chaos.zip 654566 bytes by Eric Deren A .FLI graphics file... Probably the last one I put up on here. msdos/graphics/util/fli/dta20.zip 161215 bytes by David K. Mason A command line utility for creating .FLI and .FLC files from a variety of inputs, including TGA, IMG, PCX, GIF, and Other FLI or FLC files. msdos/graphics/util/fli/hcmake11.zip 152660 bytes by Synergrafix Consulting Make HiColor (32000 colors) .FLI graphics animation files. msdos/graphics/util/fli/hcplay12.zip 37115 bytes by Synergrafix Consulting Play said HiColor .FLI files. msdos/graphics/util/fli/hcshow15.zip 44687 bytes by Synergrafix Consulting View GIF and Targa files. msdos/graphics/util/fview10.zip 75645 bytes by Soloca Inc. A graphics viewer. It works on GIF and JPEG images. It seems to handle JPEG decoding fairly quickly... msdos/graphics/util/gif/gifv412.zip 336100 bytes by Software Matters A gif viewer, printer, slideshow maker, and catalogue maker. It looks fairly useful if you're into collecting GIFs. It doesn't handle any other formats, though (which isn't necessarily bad). It seems to handle GIFs superbly, though. msdos/graphics/util/hv11.zip 246991 bytes by Mohammad A. Rezaei Yet another GIF/JPEG/Targa file viewer. msdos/graphics/util/raytrace/ctds230.zip 46250 bytes by Truman Brown Connect the Dots Smoother is a utility to connect a series of points smoothly, and create from that either a PoV file, or a vivid file. This is an upgrade for ctds113.zip (at least, that's the latest version here.) msdos/info/disk/dugide10.zip 11728 bytes by Doug Merrett Program that gets your IDE disks' information off both the disk and the BIOS. Could be useful if you don't know exactly what you've got. msdos/programming/assembler/dis86216.zip 74855 bytes by James R. Van Zandt A full-screen, interactive disassembler of object code for the x86 architecture. It can also be used to apply patches, if you need that. msdos/programming/c/actlib14.zip 70763 bytes by Marc Stern Another C Tools LIBrary. It has some useful routines for dates, strings, and miscellaneous DOS functions, like testing disk density, getting CPU type, etc. msdos/util/disk/diskuse.zip 71062 bytes by Philip VanBaren This utility displays a pie chart of the disk space, showing the amount used in each directory. It supports DOS versions 2.0 and above, and Hercules, EGA monochrome, EGA, and VGA displays, although the majority of the testing has been done in VGA mode. msdos/util/network/ethld102.zip 107495 bytes by ? An ethernet sniffer for DOS... It prefers an ODI driver that supports promiscuous mode, and I don't have one of those, so I can't really test this, but it looks OK. msdos/util/novell/forum12.zip 62390 bytes by Computing Specialties The Network Forum provides for an interchange of ideas among users on a network. It looks a lot like a little version of Usenet on a server. msdos/windows/cute/ouija.zip 40495 bytes by ? A ouija board for Windows... msdos/windows/desktop/wpost32b.zip 146105 bytes by ? Postit notes for Windows... You can clutter more than your real desktop, clutter your virtual desktop, too! msdos/windows/educational/astronomy/skymp13a.zip 276010 bytes msdos/windows/educational/astronomy/skymp13b.zip 325432 bytes msdos/windows/educational/astronomy/skymp13c.zip 222035 bytes by ? A planetarium program for Windows, this one sacrifices speed for accuracy, and claims to have the best level of accuracy for such a program. Section 'a' is the executables. Section 'b' is the actual star maps, and section 'c' is optional data files. msdos/windows/educational/bear_bee.zip 205464 bytes by LeftJustified Publiks The story of the bear and the bee. It's a 14 panel story about a bear, and the bee that wants to marry her. Clicking on objects in the panels brings up the names of the objects. msdos/windows/educational/stats22.zip 272942 bytes by JCodde@uniwa.cc.uwa.oz.au LabStats is a Windows based statistical package which has been written using Visual Basic and enhanced functions provided with Microhelp's VBTools. msdos/windows/font/fmonst2a.zip 169090 bytes by Steven Fox A truetype and Type 1 font hacker's utility for Windows 3.1. Requires the Visual Basic runtime DLL. msdos/windows/fonts/truetype/dfonts.zip 702682 bytes by ? Another collection of TrueType fonts. If you need more fonts for Windows, here's another collection. Oh, these are mostly Vietnamese... msdos/windows/fonts/truetype/ttinfo20.zip 94560 bytes by ? TrueType font information... This program is a Windows program that extracts the font info from the font. Stuff like copyrights, etc. msdos/windows/fonts/wgreek19.zip 291968 bytes by P. J. Gentry This is a shareware Package for using Greek and Hebrew in Windows. It includes Screen fonts for various monitors, utilities for adding accents, and converting between file formats of WinGreek and CCAT. msdos/windows/games/arcade/hyperoid.zip 29156 bytes by Edward Hutchins A new version of the old favorite... For Windows 3.1. It's really slick from what I could see. msdos/windows/games/board/1merlin.zip 180209 bytes by Carl Bjork A nice little Windows game of find the key and bring it home, past adversaries and bandits. msdos/windows/games/puzzle/simpson.zip 34726 bytes by ? The easy, arrange the tiles game, with a Simpsons picture to tell you where the tiles go. msdos/windows/games/puzzle/spanit.zip 176271 bytes by Mark T. Chapman A game of trying to make a path from one side of the screen to the other, while blocking the other player from going top to bottom. msdos/windows/games/winpool3.zip 68903 bytes by Kadir Tepecik It's a reasonable imitation of pool, but wow, is it slow. On my 386-25, each redraw took about a second, and an entire turn took about 5 minutes. If you've got a much faster machine, this may actually be worthwhile. msdos/windows/graphics/bmp/profft.zip 178384 bytes by Marius Kjeldahl PROfft stands for PROject Fast Fourier Transform and is the result of a project developed by five students learning C++. The program allows to transform bitmap (.BMP) pictures using the fast fourier transform. msdos/windows/graphics/lview16a.zip 127690 bytes by Leonardo Haddad Loureiro LView is an image file viewer/editor for Microsoft Windows 3.1. It can load/save image files in: JPEG JFIF, GIF 87a/89a, Truevision Targa, Windows and OS/2 BMP. msdos/windows/graphics/pman155.zip 457728 bytes by Potopov Works, Stoika Ltd. Picture Man is a utility to view TIFF, JPEG, GIF, BMP, EPI, PCX, and Targa files in Windows. It will also allow editing and saving of graphics in the various formats. It's crippleware, but functional crippleware. msdos/windows/graphics/winjp231.zip 249519 bytes by Norman Yee and Ken Yee WinJPEG v.2.31 is a shareware image viewer with image processing and conversion capabilities for Microsoft Windows 3.x. It displays JPEG, TIFF, Targa, GIF, PCX, and BMP, and will export images as JPEG, TIFF, Targa, GIF, PCX, Windows BMP, or OS/2 BMP. Seems pretty nice. msdos/windows/music/alcomp10.zip 180560 bytes by Carl M. Christensen Aleatoric Composer... Create music using random and conditional probabilities according to parameters set by the user... Requires Windows and a Windows compatible sound board or MIDI board. msdos/windows/util/logo200.zip 223068 bytes by Dr. A. Olowofoyeku A program for changing the opening Windows screen. It supplies some sample screens to use. msdos/windows/screen/savers/resta2a.zip 37420 bytes by Stefan Olson Resta is a very powerful windows screen saver with many useful features. (According to the readme file.) msdos/windows/sound/wavutl22.zip 142710 bytes by TASsoft Application to play or "loop" digitized sound files. The "looper" part of this archive will play sounds in the background. You need Windows 3.1, and a sound card that can play back digitized sounds. msdos/windows/time/clockr21.zip 70880 bytes by Winnovation A scheduler for Windows. It will also do group scheduling on a network. It schedules tasks to be performed by the computer, so you can schedule a backup with this program, or schedule a long download with it. Looks useful, actually. msdos/windows/util/cmpose.zip 66548 bytes by DEC Creates a Windows "compose" key for using characters that aren't normally on the keyboard. Uses one of the Control keys as a "hot" key to activate, and makes the right characters easily available. msdos/windows/util/print/pftime04.zip 9981 bytes by Ling Siow Chang & Mei-Hsin Jenny Chang Print flipper for Windows. PFTime allows you to quickly switch from a printing device to another on the desktop without running control panel. You can also see the present printer at a glance.