New Apple IIgs Library Disks

Copyright (c) 1993 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.

GS 175
Diced
Version 1.21 is Shareware.  An icon editor written by Dave Lyons. Allows you to create icons for your applications and group them into icon files. Icon files are used by the Finder and are stored in a disk's ICONS folder.

PUZZBUCKET
Freeware by Richard Bennett. This is a computer adaptation of the original puzzle game. In your 4 by 4 grid line up the numbers - 1 to 15. The odds are against you but let's see how many it takes!!

Paintworks animation files
Chasers, X29.DEMO and an animation viewer. These are all found in a self-extracting archive called ANIM.SEA.

GS 176
BOWL GS
Freeware by Terry Burdett. This is GSOS adaptation of the original Apple II game. It is a ten-pin bowling simulation game.

Block Party
Written by Roy LeCates. Version 1.1. Have you wanted to know what certain files looked like on your hard disk? Then   use this utility.  It displays the structure of any file, analyzes all of the files on a disk, and even finds the owner of individual blocks.  The contents of blocks can be displayed. Groups of startup files (TIF, PIF, NDA, CDA, DRV, CDV) can be activated/deactivated with the click of a button.

DEVLIST
Freeware by Jason Harper. A program for providing technical information on your systems physical devices (hard-drives, 3.5 inch drives).

FILE.PASSAGE
Version 2.0. Freeware by Charles C. Bartley. File Passage (FP) is a file utility with a twist:  filters can be used to screen out file input.  FP performs NEW FOLDERS, COPY, BACKUP, MOVE, SET FILE INFO, CATALOG, RENAME, ERASE DISK, FORMAT DISK, REFORMAT DISK, AND DELETE functions.  Also, FP allows you to modify how these functions work by adjusting file OPTIONS. See the descriptions on each file function.

MND
This folder contains the complete text for Shakespeare's play  Mid Summer Night's dream.

Timon
This folder contains the complete text for the play Timon of Athens.

GS 177
EXPLORER GS
This disk contains the 'Ultima' style game EXPLORER GS by Jason Smart. Version 1.0 is shareware. A collection of characters and over a dozen scenarios created by others are available for your enjoyment! If you wish to create you own scenarios, a utility program, GAMEMAKER.GS, is also included on the disk.
The game starts with the standard apple desktop menu.  Menus are available for loading and saving games or characters. Once you are playing the game itself, the set of available commands for you character is very similar to 'ultima' series of games.
Although Explorer scenarios can be as different as your imagination, they all have one thing in common: to 'win' the scenario, a specific object must be found.  The winning items are the Crown, Golden Shield, Sceptre, and Necklace. When one of these is discovered, the scenario has been won (and the character receives a lot of experience).
The overall layout of the scenario is divided up into 'rooms'.  Each room has exits to other rooms.  The auto-mapping feature shows the rooms location in the overall layout.  As a character moves through the maze, fighting monsters and disarming traps, he will build experience points. These increase the character's stats and give him new spells.

GS.178
Shadowrite
Version 1.3 is freeware. By Andre Horstmann of Bright Software. ShadowWrite has become the premium text processor NDA for the Apple IIGS. It's a thought through combination of a New Desk Accessory and a Finder Extension. You can work on up to 8 Teach, text or SRC documents at the same time within any other desktop application. In the Finder you can open this full featured text editor by opening or double-clicking the document(s). To print one document simply select it and choose Print from the Finder's File menu. Version 1.1 was distributed on an earlier library disk.. this version is substantially better.

SuperClock
SuperClock Init/CDev v1.0 - December 1992 - ShareWare fee by Lionel SAUGRAIN. SuperClock is an Init/CDev combination which allows you to install an entirely configurable clock in your system. The current time can be displayed in the menu bar of any desktop application, in 640 and 320 mode. The date or the free memory size can be displayed too. An alarm and a buzzer can be activated, and can even use custom sounds. If you dream of your Apple IIgs giving you the time like a cuckoo clock or saying you at midnight with a nice voice that it is time to sleep, then wake up, you can do it now !!! All you need is an Apple IIgs Rom 01 or O3, Apple IIgs System Software v5.0 or later, and enough memory to load custom sounds if you use them. Enjoy it.

TRUE.TYPE
A collection of truetype fonts including: AmbrosiaCap, Andromeda and Albatross.

GS 179
The following Hypercard GS stacks were supplied from the AUSOM club in Melbourne. They are a must for all fans of STAR TREK, both old and new. If you are interested in seeing the power of Hypercard scripting then these are also for you! Originally written for the Mac, Stephen Davidson from Ausom has converted these to run on the Apple IIGS. Where possible colour has been used to make them superior their originals!!

1. Star Trek Reference Stack
This is of original STAR Trek series. The episode guide is for three seasons. Each episode is a recorded as a card which has interesting information about an episode. Information kept includes "stardate", regular cast, guest actors, plot
synopsis, writers and directors. The stack requires 200k of ram to run and will fit easily on a 3.5 inch disk as it is only 140k in size.

2. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Stack Guide 1.2.1
This stack is of the more recent television series. It is a much larger stack due to the fact it covers over 120 episodes (6 seasons). It requires over 900k of ram to run and will require a hard drive for storage as it is big.. 1 Meg in size. As the new television series is still in production expect updates in the near future...

Both stacks require Version 1.1 of Hypercard IIGS. The two stacks on the disk are supplied as self-extracting SHRINKIT archives.

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