Software on Ian's Projects

Amiycoders

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

AmiyCoders contains a yEnc encoder (AmiyEnc) and a yEnc decoder (AmiyDec) for the Amiga. At the time it was written, it was the only natively available encoder and decoder for AmigaOS, although that’s probably changed since. It is able to handle single part and multi part encodings, with or without CRC32 checksums and whether or not the encoding is embedded. yEnc is an encoding method which offers efficient and proper transmission of binaries over Usenet, Email and similar media. It is similar in principle to Base64 or UUencode but is usually more efficient because of various tricks it employs.

Bobs Screensaver

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A simple screensaver for Linux and UNIX which displays animated ‘Bobs’. Bobs supports Gnome Screensaver, KDE Screensaver and XScreensaver and is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and OpenSolaris

Downloads

Download	Version	Description
bobs-0.2.3.tar.bz2	v0.2.3	C Source Code (Released: 2012-06-01)

Disk Thermometer

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Thermometer is a small command line program for the Amiga, which is capable of reading the temperature of SCSI hard disks which have sensors. It supports all three temperature readings which hard disks use: Current Temperature, Reference Temperature, Most Recent Temperature Reading.

Downloads

Download	Version	Description
thermometer.lha	v0.3	AmigaOS Binaries & Installer (Released: ~2005)
thermometer_src.zip	v0.3	Amiga E Source Code (requires Q-Devices source)

Eleet Screensaver

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A screensaver for use with Linux and UNIX, that pays homage to the classic space trading game of Elite. Eleet displays textured rotating OpenGL models of various spaceships, based on on those found in Elite. A random ship is chosen from a pool of 53 models and rotated against a starfield background, whilst the name of the ship orbits around it. Ships with exhausts will also emit thrust particles. Eleet supports Gnome Screensaver, KDE Screensaver and XScreensaver and is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and OpenSolaris

Go Fetch!

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Go Fetch! was a download manager for the Amiga, written before the term was really coined. It attempts to automatically download files for the user in a ‘fire & forget’ manner using HTTP or FTP. It has an extensive AREXX scripting interface, which allows it to be integrated with almost any application, such as web browsers, email clients, irc clients etc. Various prebuilt AREXX scripts are supplied to integrate Go Fetch! with other software.

Go Portscan!

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Go Portscan! is a network portscanner for the Amiga. It supports both TCP and UDP portscans and includes an extensive service table to help identify what service or program is running on the open ports. Go Portscan! also supports pinging (UDP and ICMP), traceroute (UDP and ICMP), ping sweeping, DNS resolution and ICMP reporting.

Feature Summary

GUI based upon the MUI toolkit
Localisation support
TCP & UDP port scans with flexible port selections
Logging of port output from scans
Configurable timeout and delay
Service lookups using the internal table, or the TCP/IP stack’s table
Service lookup queries
Bookmarks manager
Telnet, ftp or http to open ports
DNS resolution
Ping facility (UDP & ICMP) with broadcast support
Ping sweeping with DNS resolution and ICMP message reporting
Traceroute facility (UDP & ICMP)
Bubble help and context sensitive online help

Downloads

Download	Version	Description
GoPortscan.lha	v1.1	AmigaOS Binaries & Installer (Released: ~2003)
GoPortscan_src.lha	v1.1	Amiga E Source Code

MAX'S BBS Doors

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

MAX’s BBS was very popular dial-up bulletin board software largely in use before the internet became so ubiquitous. Bulletin Boards were online services accessed via a telephone number using a modem. The user was presented with a menu system based around ANSI or occasionally RIP graphics and could download files, play games, read mail or chat with other users. For a more in depth explanation see the BBS definition on Wikipedia. During the 90s I ran a BBS called “The Jelly Zone” which originally ran on MAX’s BBS but later changed to running Zeus. In that time I wrote several doors for MAX’s to extend its functionality. Most of the doors are written in Amiga E or AMOS Basic. I wrote many more than are presented here, but unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately!) they’ve suffered from bit-rot and vanished.

PingMon

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Pingmon is a simple network monitor written in Perl. It is a console based program with a colour interface (can be switched to black & white) which means it can easily be used from a remote machine. You can configure which hosts to monitor, which hosts to ignore and which hosts cause a log entry if they go down. Scan speeds can be completely configured to control network traffic. It also supports the use of ICMP (ping request), TCP (echo port) and UDP (echo port) monitoring. It’s been tested on Linux, Solaris and IRIX but likely works under any OS with a reasonable perl implementation and a terminal supporting ANSI.

PyTZX

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Pytzx is a simple API for creating TZX files in Python. TZX is a file format that represents a virtual tape or cassette. Cassette tapes were a common method of loading software on micro-computers throughout the 80s and very early 90s. TZX files are primarily useful with emulators to provide an accurate simulation of the loading process. Although TZX files are heavily biased towards the Sinclair ZX Spectrum machines, they can indeed be used with almost any platform of that era.

Q-Device!

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Q-Device! is a tool for querying and controlling devices attached to SCSI or IDE buses for the Amiga. SCSI and IDE devices contain pages of information which describes the device’s features, modes of operation and diagnostic status. In many cases these pages are configurable to allow the user or the manufacturer to tweak the device’s operation. Q-Device! is capable of decoding much of this information and presenting it to the user. Experimental support was written for a pseudo-device driver which allowed Q-Device to directly query SCSI/IDE devices of other machines on the network. It requires the qdd daemon which I wrote in C, to be running on the remote machine. Support was written for both Linux and Solaris and although it worked, it never really went beyond the experimental stage. It’s primary use was to allow me to test q-device against many more devices without having to physically connect and disconnect them from the Amiga.

RebootPatch

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Rebootpatch has little practical use but was really written to understand how to patch system functions on the Amiga. It patches the ColdReboot() function to open a requester asking the user whether they want to allow or deny the reboot. Unfortunately it cannot trap reboots triggered by the keyboard or reset button as these are hardware resets, which probably helps to make it even less useful. :)

Downloads

Download	Version	Description
rebootpatch.lha	v1.0	AmigaOS Binaries (Released: 1997)
rebootpatchsrc.lha	v1.0	Amiga E Source Code

RemoteBox

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

RemoteBox is a GUI tool which lets you administer guests or virtual machines running under VirtualBox on a remote server or even the same local machine. VirtualBox is traditionally a desktop-side virtualisation solution. The goal of RemoteBox is to provide a GUI that should be familiar to VirtualBox users whist allowing them to administer a remote installation of VirtualBox. It does this via the VirtualBox API and SOAP interface which are exposed when running the VirtualBox web service. The RemoteBox client is known to run on Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and with a little effort, also on MacOS X and Windows. It has been tested against installations of VirtualBox running on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and Solaris. In addition to this page, there is also a dedicated RemoteBox Site

RPMDiagram

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A tool written and perl and built on top of GraphViz which draws a diagram of dependencies for an installed RPM. The diagram is written to an image file such as PNG or JPG.

Downloads

Download	Version	Description
rpmdiagram-1.0.tar.bz2	v0.2.3	Perl Script (Released: May 2009)

Solar System Screensaver

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A screensaver for Linux and UNIX that displays the planets of the Solar System (inc Pluto). A random planet is chosen and rotated on screen against a starfield background. As the planet orbits the sun, it transitions from light into darkness and a corona effect appears. Solarsystem supports Gnome Screensaver, KDE Screensaver and XScreensaver and is known to work on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and OpenSolaris

TwinkleBlanker

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

TwinkleBlanker is a module for the screensaver suite called MadHouse for the Amiga. It displays twinkling stars in various colours.

Downloads

Download	Version	Description
twinkle.lha	v1.2	AmigaOS Binaries & Installer (Released: ~1999)
twinkle_src.lha	v1.2	Amiga E Source Code

Zed80

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Zed80 is a pure perl implementation of a z80 disassembler so it should work on any OS with a reasonable Perl implementation. For the curious ‘zed’ stands for ‘Z80 Experimental Disassembler’. Zed80 is a very simple disassembler that provides little more than an assembly dump of the specified file.

Example Output

0x0000                        LD A,D
0x0001                        LD H,L
0x0002                        LD H,H
0x0003                        JR C,48        ; EA [53]
0x0005                        LD A,(BC)
0x0006                        DEC A
0x0007                        DEC A
0x0008                        DEC A
0x0009                        DEC A
0x000A                        DEC A
0x000B                        LD A,(BC)
0x000C                        LD A,(BC)
0x000D                        LD E,D
0x000E                        LD H,L
0x000F                        LD H,H
0x0010                        JR C,48        ; EA [66]
0x0012                        JR NZ,105        ; EA [125]
0x0014                        LD (HL),E
0x0015                        JR NZ,97        ; EA [120]
0x0017                        JR NZ,112        ; EA [137]
0x0019                        LD (HL),L
...                           ...

Links

Zed80! GitHub