Tos 2.06 Additional software mentioned
Additional software mentioned in this guide -a complete list
A lot of additional software has been mentioned and suggested in this user-guide. Here follows a complete overview of those programs:
| Title | Type | Comments | Status | Website/download |
| 2-in-1 | Compression shell |
Compress/decompress several formats: ZIP, LZH, ZOO, ARC. Easy to use and replaces many of the more user-unfriendly archive programs such as [#zoo "ZOO"] and [#arc "ARC"]. (actually, 2-in-1 isn't a compression program, but a user-interface for other such programs. You need to get hold of the various .TTP programs for those formats in order to use it, which is not included with 2-in-1). |
Freeware |
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| ST-zip | Compression program |
Compress or decompress .ZIP type files |
Postcardware (free) |
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| Lharc | Compression program |
Compress or decompress .LZH (Lharc) type files |
Freeware | |
| ARC | Compression program |
Compress or decompress .ARC type files |
Freeware | |
| ZOO | Compression program |
Compress or decompress .ZOO type files |
Freeware | |
| 7up | ASCII text editor | For editing plain ASCII text. | Freeware | |
| Everest | ASCII text editor | For editing plain ASCII text. | Shareware | |
| 1st Word/1st Word Plus | ASCII text editor with simple word-processor abilities | For editing plain ASCII text. The standard word-processor for the Atari ST for a long time. Now considered too simple and outdated. | Freeware (1st Word) Commercial (1st Word Plus) |
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| Guck | File-viewer |
Replace the "View/Print?" option (which shows up whenever you double-click a text-file etc.) |
Free | |
| CKBD | Keyboard character utility | Access any character regardless of your type of keyboard. | Freeware | |
| Char-tab | ASCII-table lookup | CPX module which displays all available characters and their codes. | Freeware | |
| ASCIItab | ASCII-table lookup | CPX module which displays all available characters and their codes. | Shareware | |
| Xcontrol | Control panel | Control panel handling CPX modules. | Freeware | |
| Zcontrol | Control panel |
Replacement for [#xcontrol Xcontrol]. |
Shareware | |
| COPS | Control panel |
Replacement for [#xcontrol Xcontrol]. |
Freeware | |
| Freedom | File-selector replacement with control panel function. |
Replacement for [#xcontrol Xcontrol]. |
Shareware | |
| Thing | Desktop replacement | Alternative desktop replacement for TOS (or other operating systems such as MagiC). Gives you lots of modern functions not available from the TOS 2.06 desktop. |
Shareware | |
| Jinnee | Desktop replacement | Alternative desktop replacement for TOS (or other operating systems such as MagiC). Gives you lots of modern functions not available from the TOS 2.06 desktop. |
Commercial | |
| Gemini | Desktop replacement/command line interpreter | Alternative desktop replacement for TOS (or other operating systems such as MagiC). Gives you lots of modern functions not available from the TOS 2.06 desktop. ....... but the main purpose of Gemini (for most people) is the command-line input which will let you enter text commands such as such as in UNIX or MSDOS. |
Shareware | |
| Kobold | High-speed file utility | Copies/deletes/moves files with an incredible speed. Also formats floppy disks. With an alternative desktop you can also have Kobold replace the existing TOS 2.06 file functions. (with the TOS 2.06 desktop you have to start Kobold each time). |
Commercial | |
| Hcopy | Copy/format utility | Copy or format floppy disks (standard MSDOS formatting). | Shareware | |
| Checkdisk | Hard disk/floppy disk utility | Defragment and undelete etc. files from your hard disk/floppy disk drive. | Freeware | |
| ST-tools | Hard disk/floppy disk utility | Undelete etc. files from your hard disk/floppy disk drive. | Shareware | |
| AHDI | Hard disk driver | Needed to make the computer recognize and use a hard disk. | Freeware | |
| HD driver | Hard disk driver | Needed to make the computer recognize and use a hard disk. HDdriver is constantly being updated, supporting almost any available hard disk drive (as well as ZIP drives etc.) and is considered the very best hard disk driver for the Atari ST. |
Commercial | |
| CBHD | Hard disk driver | Needed to make the computer recognize and use a hard disk. Nice, more up-to-date and works better than Atari's AHDI. | Freeware | |
| Icon Juggler | Icon organizer |
Allows you to organize (copy/move/delete/paste) icons for use with TOS 2.xx. |
Shareware | |
| Interface | Resource editor | Create or edit your own icons, change menus in programs (i.e. translate German programs into English) etc. Capable of handling colour and mono RSC files (including icons). |
Free | |
| ORCS | Resource editor |
Another resource (RSC) editor capable of doing the same as [#interface Interface], but only handles black/white RSC files (including icons). |
Shareware | |
| Resource-Master | Resource editor | Yet another colour resource editor, for creating/editing icons among other things. | Commercial | |
| Icon-Master (ICOM) | Icon editor |
Essentially a stripped-down icon-only version of [#rsc_master Resource-master]. |
Shareware | |
| GrafTool | Graphic file viewer | View graphic image files or various types such as .IMG, .GIF and .JPG to mention a few. | Registerware (free) | |
| CAB | Web browser | View HTML-pages (such as the TOS 2.06 user-guide) or go online to surf the web. | Free/commercial (the latest version is commercial, while the earlier (less featured) version is free). |
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| N-AltHelp | Screen dump utility | Replaces the ALT-Help print routine with a screen-dump function. By pressing the <ALT> and <HELP> keys simultaneously the current screen display is saved as a graphic file (the ".IMG" format), which can be viewed in a graphic program. |
Freeware | |
| Idealist | Text printout utility |
Print out ASCII, [#1st_word 1st Word] or RTF (Rich Text Format) text files with a variety of options such as as column printing, different fonts, adjustable margins etc. |
Shareware | |
| SuperBoot | Boot-selector | Make different sets of ACCessories, AUTO programs and even different "NEWDESK.INF" files for different setups, easily selected between when booting (starting) the computer. | Shareware | |
| Load-INF | Desktop file ("NEWDESK.INF") loader | Load any TOS 2.06 desktop setup file simply by double-clicking the file of your choice after installing this program to recognize ".INF" files. | Freeware | |
| Desk-Switch | Desktop file ("NEWDESK.INF") loader | Load any TOS 2.06 desktop setup file simply by double-clicking the file of your choice after installing this program to recognize ".INF" files. | Shareware | |
| Serial CPX | CPX module replacement for "MODEM.CPX" |
Originally part of the STinG software package, this CPX module replaces the outdated MODEM.CPX with better performance etc. |
Freeware | |
| HSmodem | Modem enhancement software |
Get better reliability from your modem as this adds better modem routines than TOS is able to, and with added hardware circuitry such as RSVE you can even use modern, fast modems above the original 19200 limit of the Atari ST! |
Freeware | |
| AUTOsort | File resorter | When you put a program in the AUTO folder it runs in the same order as it was placed there (i.e. the last program placed there runs last). Some programs need to run before certain other programs, and some programs cause problems with other programs if they're not run in a specific order. AUTOsort will let you resort the order of these programs as you wish. | Shareware | |
| Arrowfix | Fixes the window scrolling bug | This little program goes in the AUTO folder and removes a bug where a single mouse-click is sometimes intepreted as two clicks, forcing the window to scroll down two lines instead of one. | Freeware | |
| FoldrXXX | Increase the OS pool buffer size | Fixes part of the "40 folder bug" by increasing the OS pool buffer size. Rename the program for the desired extra folders (e.g. "FOLDR100.PRG" for 100 extra folders, or "FOLDR200.PRG" for 200 extra folders) and put it in the AUTO folder. |
Freeware | |
| GEMram | TOS relocator | TOS contains a few bugs which can't be fixed with simple patches. GEMram goes in the AUTO folder and reads the contents of the TOS chips, then places a copy of it in RAM. Once its there, other programs can modify it to fix things or even enhance TOS with new features. | Freeware | |
| Shbuf | Increases the NEWDESK.INF buffer from 4 Kbytes up to 32 Kbytes. |
The NEWDESK.INF file can only contain information not exceeding 4 Kbytes. With Shbuf you can make up to 32 Kbytes available for storing information to this file (rename the file for the desired size such as "SHBUF12.PRG" for 12 Kbytes. Needs [#gemram GEMram]. |
Freeware | |
| Winx | Desktop window enhancer |
Allows your desktop windows to have realtime scrollers and movemement among other things. |
Freeware | |
| ROM-dump | Saves ROM based TOS as a file | Lets you create a TOS image, using a computer with the TOS version you want to use (e.g. TOS 2.06) which you can use on another computer which doesn't have that TOS version installed. | Freeware | |
| TOS-dump | Saves ROM based TOS as a file | Lets you create a TOS image, using a computer with the TOS version you want to use (e.g. TOS 2.06) which you can use on another computer which doesn't have that TOS version installed. | Freeware | |
| SelTOS | TOS-image file loader | Used for loading TOS 2.06 (or other TOS versions) into the memory of a computer which doesn't have TOS 2.06 available in ROM. | Freeware | |
| HD_FDC | Disk drive step-rate changer | An AUTO folder program which changes the step-rate back to 3ms to eliminate mechanical noise from the disk drive when not using HD disks. | Freeware | |
| Setseek | Disk drive step-rate changer | An AUTO folder program which changes the step-rate back to 3ms to eliminate mechanical noise from the disk drive when not using HD disks. Fully configurable for one or two drive systems. |
freeware | |
| Silkmouse | Mouse-accelerator and screensaver | Configure the mouse to move the way you want it to. Also a screensaver which blanks the screen after a period of inactivity. | Voluntary contributionware (free) | |
| NVDI | Screen accelerator | Replaces the existing VDI routines in TOS with its much faster replacement routines giving you much faster screen-redraws. Also has support for replacement screen-fonts and printing. | Commercial |