Software... by the World Wide Walrus

Available for (or compatible with)...
The software listed on this page is available or applies to the operating systems given by their respective icons as shown below. The imagery used in these icons belong to their respective owners (if any).
AMIGA computers	Linux operating system	MS-DOS

   WebLord (Commercial; Binary; ~110KB)

WebLord is a document construction and maintenance tool designed especially to build and maintain web sites. The more pages your site contains and the more these pages have in common, the greater the level of assistance that WebLord will lend to your effort.

   KingFisher (Shareware; Binary; ~300KB - 1.3MB)

KingFisher is a special purpose cataloging tool designed for Fred Fish's Fish Disks and his collection of CD-ROMs (Fresh Fish, Frozen Fish, and Gold Fish among others.) KingFisher's latest (and probably last) release is version 2.26.

   Amiga Online Reference Manual (AORM) Tool (Freeware; Binary & Source; ?)

The result of a joint project with David Tiberio that never went anywhere. As a result I am releasing the software as-is (binary and source) to provide insight to other Amiga programmers.

   WrapGuide 1.1 (Freeware; Binary; 13KB)

A small tool to be distributed with your own software that permits you to convert an AmigaGuide® documentation file from the preferred V39 style to a form that is compatible (and safe to use) with the older V34 AmigaGuide software (as part of Kickstart 2.x). The binary is compressed for minimal impact on the size of your distribution (8K).

   Image2C 1.2 (Freeware; Binary & Source; 20KB)

Image to C converts IFF ILBM images to various C structures using the standard iffparse.library. The source code is written to help you understand how to read images (with or without some other chunks, such as "ANNO") from IFF ILBM files using this library in your own projects.

   StreamDisk 1.1 (Freeware; Binary & Source; 14KB)

StreamDisk copies consecutive sectors from any block device to a file (or stdout). You could use this program to recover data from a disk whose file system is so corrupted that you can no longer mount it and recover files in any other way. I have successfully used this tool to recover data from a crashed AFS partition (the drive itself died a few days later, so it wasn't really AFS's fault that things went down the tubes).

   Strings 2.0 (Freeware; Binary & Source; 14KB)

A tool to scan (binary) files and extract from them nay contiguous sequence of readable text. You could use this to scn the contents of your computer's ROM (once you have it in a file on disk) and look for secret messages; or use it together with StreamDisk (see above) to locate specific data recovered from a dead disk partition; or snoop through a utility or application program to see what string constants, such as command line arguments or error messages, are embedded in the executable.

You can specify the minimum length of readable characters that Strings will consider significant enough to display; you can also tell it to restrict itself only to ASCII characters, rather than the Amiga's full ISO-8559-1 (Latin-1) symbol set (sans control characters.)

   Split 3.0 (Freeware; Binary & Source; 20KB)

Split breaks up a large file into even-sized chunks for convenient transport. This version can split up binary files (such as large .lha or gz archives) to fit them onto multiple floppy disks; Like its Unix counterpart, it can also process text files into chunks of n lines. The following demonstrates breaking up a large file Test.lha on a PC into blocks just the right size to fit on 720K floppy disks:

split -b 730112 Test.lha TEST-

The result will be several files named:

TEST-AA
TEST-AB
TEST-AC
...

   Walrus Layout Tutorial (Freeware; Text file; 25KB)

This document is a recipe, if you will, a design guide on how to create a font-sensitive, resizable GadTools interface for your Amiga applications. This is not a library of routines, not a ready-made, multi-purpose layout-engine, but rather a step-by-step tutorial on what it is that you need to consider when you wish to create a GUI such as that of KingFisher and AORMTool. Hmmm, looks like bitrot ate this file...

   OFF2TTDDD (Freeware; Binary; 23KB)

OFF to TTDDD converts 3D objects in DEC's OFF (Object File Format) to Glenn Lewis' TTDDD (Textual Three Dimensional Data Format), which is a textual representation of the IFF TDDD object and scene specification used by the excellent 3D software Imagine as made by Impulse, Inc.. The Textual TDDD format can be easily manipulated to create algorithmic objects for Imagine using Glenn Lewis' software. Hmmm, looks like bitrot ate this file...