================================= PD and SHAREWARE FALCON UTILITIES ================================= Remember to quote the disk REFerence number when ordering. Ref: 016 BACKWARD v1.43 is an ST Emulator that lets you select various modes such as Hard Disk, Timer A or DMA sound, 1 meg memory, 16 or 8mhz chip, BLiTTER on or off and much more. It will allow a lot of ST only games and programs to run on your Falcon and is an essential utility. BOOTCONF lets you configure your machine when you boot-up its very basic and doesn't let you change much only things like Cache and speaker on\off. DCSEA 2.0 from Double Click software is a superb multi-archiver that supports ARC, LZH, ZIP and ZOO formats. It creates an executable program that when double-clicked will auto matically depack the files onto your disk. DESKPIC will let you load a GIF file into the background of your desktop (and it can slow things down a little too!) its quite fun and well written but I often find it annoying waiting for the picture to be loaded up although once installed the speed difference is not that noticeable. FBOOT is a small util from Sinister Developments that lets you toggle the cache, speaker, autoboot a disk and bypass hard drive. It does this by installing a boot-sector to a floppy disk. FPATCH1 fixes two little problems in the Falcon BIOS (TOS 4.00 - 4.04) where the sound is not initialized properly and the Bconmap doesn't work. FALCON SCREEN is a little program that claims to get more from your monitor resolution wise, from what other people have said it does this very well but I am yet to use it. GEMBENCH performs simple benchmark tests on your computer and compares them with other Atari machines. MAGIBOOT is another attempt at an ST Emulator to make those games work on the 030. MULTI DIAL is a MultiTOS program (German) to make those dials fly out all over the place. MEGA DEPACKER v2.0 is a very popular depacking program that will recognise most types of ST and Falcon packer including Automation, Pompey, Ice, Jam and many more. A very useful little program indeed. MTOS_ACC 1.0 by Oliver Scheel lets you select accessoies with the Control key. PRIORITY! is another MultiTOS program that checks which program requires the most processor time and frees it up for it so it can run faster. PROCLIST is a MultiTOS program that displays a list of the processes currently running. SPEAKER OFF is a little program to put in your AUTO folder to turn the internal speaker off upon boot-up. TTGAMES is another ST emulator is says to fix some games to work on the Falcon. Ref: 031 COPY is a little disk copier and formatter that uses an extended format as standard allowing 1.6meg on a HD disk. FLI PLAY will play those 256 colour PC animations in full glory on your Falcon. See the demo section for plenty of example FLI files to amaze yourself with. HDPATCH is a fix for AHDI. ICE PACK is version 2.4 and is very Falcon friendly, get it into action should you wish to pack your files down and save disk space. LHARC is the popular method used by bulletin boards for compressing their files and you will need this to unpack them all. MAGIC SHADOW ARCHIVER 2.32 is a special little program that will pack an entire disk into one single file and vica versa. DESKCOPY UTILITIES by Roland Schorr, these MultiTOS utils include FMT a replacement background disk formatter and diskcopy utility, NEWCOPY a replace copy, move, rename and trash program. TRASHDEL clears the trashcan directory completely (no return!). NVRAM CPX will reset the non-volatile memory of your Falcon should something nasty go wrong with your system. OUTSIDE DEMO is a virtual memory program that will enable you up to 52 meg extra memory in this cut-down demo version. OVERSCAN will kick your monitor into overscan mode (RGB only) useful for expanding that desktop. SENTRY PACKER 2.05 is another file packer with advanced options for pictures and samples and depack source code for the ICE format. VRAM is a German program that claims to be a 'Virtueller Speicher Manager' I am sorry I don't know what it does, its version 2.57 and I feel it is some kind of virtual memory manager. Finally on this disk is ST ZIP 2.3 that famous file packer and depacker, essential, get it now! Ref: 043 525 is a sample convertor that can handle DVSM, AVR, SND, AU, WAV and RAW data samples. BURP! is a little GEM hack that makes your screen bounce up and down no matter what you are doing (ie playing a game or drawing a picture), quite sickening! CHKDISK3 is a utility that analyzes a disk's file structure and does all necessary fixes but take a back-up of important data first. DIVINE is a demo version of a new art package that looks like Neochrome on the Falcon. DSP PLAYER is a modules player that uses the DSP instead of the 68030. It works well and runs as a TTP. EDISON is a multi-function ACCessory that speeds up your mouse, configures key cliks and such and also has a screen saver built in that works in all Falcon resolutions. FALCON SCREEN 5 the latest version of this screen enhancer, use at your own risk. LAMEMINE is a version of the Windows classic but bigger and better! MARIO is a funny little affair where you control what looks like a womble in a go-cart around this very SNES Mode 7 type course, no time limit, plenty of other drivers, no collision, looks fun! MINI LEDGER v3.3 is a powerful new computerized financial accountant. Having done accounts for a year and learning double entry, VAT, Factory accouts, etc.. I can vouch for the quality of this program. You have a 15 record limit on this version. ML-PLAY V0.02 is a straight-thru sample player (ie plug a sound source into your microphone socket) and the results come out as your work on the desktop. PLASMA1 is a new version of the classic BSS plasma demo (rgb only). PLAYMAN is a little ACCEssory that lets you play modules from the desktop. MODUL-PLAYER v3.42 is a nice production from Channel-38 that plays modules at a good quality with a nice demo-screen style playback screen. PROTRACKER is the complete module editing, creation, playback suite and comes with two sample modules provided. Its a very good program, is RGB and VGA and plays all known modules types from the Amiga. PRO PLAYER is yet another module player ACCessory, try them all and take your pick of the best one you want! QAD 3D VGA is a little demo by Percy of Light that lets you control a massive shaded vector on-screen, it is a spinning top shape so you can spin it and watch the colours rotate! nice, VGA only. SLIDEMOD is the TGA slideshow program used to great effect in our raytraced demos in the graphics section of this PDL. SPERM is a starfield with a novel twist to it! SPIRIT EDITOR 1.3 is a desktop ACCessory text editor. Finally are some technical documents about the Falcon's hardware registers. Ref: 055 BACKWARD 2.24 the famous ST Emulator expands even further, pretty much the same options but a better interface and you can save special configuration files for disks you use a lot. BMAPFIX 2.0 by Don Maple fixes an error in the serial ports of your Falcon. CLOCK 2.0 is a desktop ACCessory that runs in a borderless window and displays the time using a standard clock face, it can handle analog, analog with digital date or a whole variation on those themes. ECOPY 1.5 is a very impressive disk copying utility that can handle most format types and has a very friendly interface and front-end (VGA recommended). It's very German but shouldn't be too hard to get along with for the seasoned FCopy user in the past. There are also a multitude of special utils that come with Ecopy including Icons, CPX's, Cookies and more. F CONTROL 1.0 is another Falcon configuration program that lets you toggle bell, key click, speaker, hard drive, blitter and cache. German. MASTER BROWSE 3.2 is an impressive text displaying program with facilities for multiple documents open in windows, block cut and paste and extensive GDOS, Neodesk, Terradesk, Gemini and MultiTOS support. REZ FOOLER 1.2 is a program that will try and fool your Falcon into thinking it has a different type of monitor hanging off its ports than the one it really does have, should enable some RGB-VGA programs to work on your machine. SWITCH is a little program that will switch your IDE drive on or off. XMENU is a superb little util that lets you make a menu for your hard drive and run programs from it instead of from the desktop, saves time if they are all over the place. Ref: 059 BACKWARD 2.41 this ST Emulator gets updated with an amazing regularity and seeing as its a very important program that all Falcon owners should have I think you ought to get this upgrade now before they update it again! CLOE is a demo of a raytracing package, choose some objects, sit back and wait... and wait... and wait! CPX's there are 14 new CPX modules for the XControl Panel, they are BIORYTHM'S, BOOTREG, CALLFSEL, DRUCKER, D_FREE, HD_FREE, HORPUZZ, MASTERMIND, MONOLUPE, PUZZLE, SCOOK211, SOLITARE, SPOOLCPX and TELEINX. More d2d programs surface with DAME the newest of the bunch, dame is a Digital Audio Multilayering & Editing program. You load it, you look at the screen display, you think 'YIKES!' what on earth?! It's big and nasty and if someone would like to write a tutorial for it I would be happy. VGA recommended. JML SNAP 3.10 as far as I can tell (extensive docs - in German) is a snapshot program that saves out as IFF, (X)IMG and TIFF. BRAINSTORM FLI\FLC MOVIE PLAYER is a desktop animation player, it runs under Gem, TOS and MultiTOS, will run in any resolution, is AES colour friendly (no screwy desktop after running an animation) and movies can be re-sized as they play so you could have an animation running in the background of your desktop! It runs as an ACCessory and I didn't have too much luck with it, it never seemed to like the FLI files I game it to play, however others swear by it. Trial and error I guess. PIXART is a demo version of the new art program for the Falcon, its a very clip-arty type program but it has some very interesting effects such as scrunch, ball wrap and more. Lots of file formats supported. Good demo to see if the original from ST Club is worth buying! REST PAL is a little util that will re-set the Falcon palette after a nasty little program has mucked it all up (only about 50% success though, maybe I am running it wrong?). XGA - SPECTRUM 512 a nice picture convertor, turn a 512 picture into an XGA picture, shame it doesn't work in reverse. REF 121 : A massive bunch of Falcon utilities including.................. ......... ARROWFIX v1.5 is a small CPX that patches a bug in GEM's scroll- routine present in TOS 1.04 - TOS 4.04. BLITZSCHNELL is a hard disk drive defragmentation and optimisation program, its shareware so you should send the money required if you use it often. It provides you with a graphical representation of your disk. A detailed manual is included. BINARIS VIEWER 2.0 is a program or accessory GIF and TARGA image viewer that only runs in True Colour mode. It also has in-built conversion features and is surprisingly fast indeed. It can only handle GIF87a or TGA type 2 but you can pack them with Atomik 3.5 or Speedpacker 3 so you can save a lot of disk space too. DCLOCK 1.0 is a desktop clock program with a difference! The numbers are digital, huge (indeed they take up a fair chunk of your screen even on a VGA) and the numbers can be made to do alsorts of special effects like morph into each other, scroll around, shrink, etc... clever but slows down your Falcon when you boot-up. DIAMONDS is a little 'just for fun' kind of program that is a variation on the 'life' program in which you can see your colonies expand and die, its all very colourful, a little useless but rather interesting. FALCVOLU is a small program you stick in your AUTO folder that will turn the volume down to 0 every time you reset your machine. FUZZYCLOCK 1.14 is my favourite desktop clock, it doesn't try anything fancy with graphics or take up any desktop space at all, instead it sits quite comfortably on your menu bar line right at the far end and displays the time in writing (ie 5 past 9). It doesn't eat much memory, works fine with every program I've got and I think its great! GFAINI03 seems to be some kind of patch for the Falcon libraries for GFA Basic, docs are in German. GHOSTLINK is an amazing program to say the least, it allows you to connect a PC via a null modem cable and run it as a slave machine, so you can access the hard drive, cd-rom, etc... it works brilliantly, is very fast (up to 115,000 baud) and lets you link up to three PC's like this. PC software is supplied also. Wonderful, just wonderful! GRABBER 1.00 from Terrosaur Systems is a desktop accessory designed to grab a specified amount of ram and release it later, this is useful for MultiTOS applications that are memory hungry. ICDRAW 1.41 is an icon editor for the Falcon030 by Dr. Bob and has some very amusing doc files to accompany it! This is the best icon editor I have seen on the Falcon, you can import Windows icons, edit your existing RSC file and increase it from 32 icons to up to 199 icons, you can design them for 16, 4 or 2 colour desktop's. You can save them out and you can even animate them (although its rather basic). I recommend this one very much, register it now! KMTERM is the only ST comms package (shareware one) that works on the Falcon. MORPHDEM is a fix for the Black Scorpion Software morphing demo so it now works on VGA monitors. PRGFLAGS is a small utility to set the flags in program headers to make your program 'fastload'. PS CONTROL v1.5 is very German, runs as an ACC or PRG for MiNT and I really don't know what it does, help anyone? RATEEHD was developed by ICD Inc to test the speed of their hard drives and it can do the same for you, putting your drive through a rigourous test and giving a transfer speed at the end of it. RDE v5.0 is a very clever reset-proof ram disk that is 100% Falcon compatible. Assign your ram disk to a drive letter and you can have it automatically installed when you boot-up your machine. You can even save the entire contents of the ram disk to a file then restore them again on boot-up. A very useful little util. SHBUF v1.3 is a patch program for the NEWDESK.INF file although what it patches I am now quite sure as its all in German again. SND2STE is another patch for the Falcon, this time it patches the DMA sound to make it emulate an STE, this is the most friendly version and I have had no problems with it at all. SND THRU will take the sound coming into the Falcon and replay it via the speakers with no visable slow down of the machine, a very friendly program that even lets you turn it off again. SURROUND is a LOD module for WinRec that emulates surround sound in a very basic form, I hijacked my sisters hi-fi and I can tell you that if you have the right equipment it actually works very well indeed. VIBRAX is another module player, this time by Patrick Ruiz, it works with NVDI, BlowUP and ScreenBlaster and plays modules. The replay routine works quite well with _most_ module formats (4 channel only) but has a nasty bug that *sometimes* messes up the keyboard. Ref: 130 ANCIENT ART OF ASCII will take a PI3 picture and turn it into an ASCII file! It works well (sometimes) but obviously depends on the subject matter. DSP BINDINGS for HiSoft's Lattice C 5.5. ACE_FIX will make the game Steel Talons work from a joystick instead of a joypad. RUN_VGA will fix the morphing demo from Black Scorpion Software to work on a VGA monitor. MORPH8.TGZ is a new picture for the morphing animation which on some versions was corrupt. NVDI_FIX changes NVDI 2.50 so that it works with EasyDraw and any other program that opens up a virtual workstation with normalised device coords. ZIP24FIX will make ST ZIP v2.4 not take 5 seconds every time you load it up. GAPOSCAN 1.0 from Gary Priest will make your RGB or TV go into Overscan mode, which is a maximum resolution of 768x480. GEMAR 1.22 is a SCSI Tape Streamer program which has extensive (German) documentation. HAPPY FACE 2 will put a cute smiley face on your disk's bootsector to show there is no virus there. JPEG GVS is a save module for Gem View so you can save out JPEG pictures. TURBO PACKER Plus from Wolfgang Mayerle is a new packer program that will compress data and executable files by a large amount and very quickly. A depacker is also supplied. TRANSLATOR is a German to English translation program and it works very well indeed, it has a ready made library of commonly used Atari words and phrases so should do a good job on those German doc files you havn't been able to understand. XTASK by Gary Priest is for running under MultiTOS and will provide a graphical front-end for controlling running processes. SYNERGY DEPACKER 2.2 will depack plenty of common ST packer file formats including Automation, Pompey, Ice, Sentry etc... a useful program if you have some files you want to convert to the Falcon that are ST packed.