Earth globe application

[OscarBraindeaD]

Hi there!
I'm looking for a little application that shows a earth globe, you can put lattitude and longitude coordinates and the program shows what is in it those coordinates with blue background and some kind of white lines to draw the countries, etc. I had it in a shareware/pd disk in 1990 or 1991. If I remember well it could be written in amiga basic but I'm not sure.
Do anybody knows the name of this application?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards.

[redblade]

I think I might of seen a program like that mentioned on the list of the Fred Fish disks. Fred Fish Disk 151?!!? it contains source.

http://www.amiga-stuff.com/pd/fish.html

[OscarBraindeaD]

Hi all,
@Redblade thanks for the list, very useful. I've tested the globedemo in disk 151 but it's not the program I was looking for. I saw in the list the "WorldDataBank" program (found in aminet) and it's very similar to the program I want (even better and more detailed, but slower), and drawmap program... drawmap seems to be the program I'm looking but I can't find it (in aminet there is only a part of the program, it's no full).
I'll looking for it. Thanks for your help!
Best regards.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by OscarBraindeaD

and drawmap program... drawmap seems to be the program I'm looking but I can't find it (in aminet there is only a part of the program, it's no full).

Not sure if this is the full version, can't check whilst at work?

Capitals & Elements & Globe & GeoTime & Drawmap (19xx)(17-Bit Software)(PD)[WB].zip

[OscarBraindeaD]

Hi DamienD,
I've just tried it and yes, it's the full version of the program. It is not the program I was looking for but, definitely, it's better than it. It's "fast" and with many posibilities.
I'm very happy with the 2 "new" programs, I'm trying to use some educational software in my Amiga 500 to show my son that there are some cool utilities in the Amiga.
Thanks DamienD and Redblade!

[DamienD]

The one I linked to is version 2.

There's quite a few later versions on the Fred Fish disks:

CONTENTS OF DISK 485
====================

Drawmap		A program for drawing representations of the Earth's
		surface. This version includes a completely rewritten
		user interface and some new functions. Version 2.25d,
		an update to version 2.0 on disk 315. Includes source.
		Authors: Bryan Brown & Ulrich Denker


CONTENTS OF DISK 545
====================

DrawMap		Release 3.1 of a program for drawing representations of
		the Earth's surface. This release generates maps in any
		combination of 16 colors with full user palette
		control, larger map files with national boundaries,
		faster generation of box and globe views, an improved
		online Help facility, provision for saving and printing
		displays, and general tightening of the source code.
		Accelerated version requiring a 68020 CPU and 68881 FPU
		also provided. Full source code included. Requires 1.2
		megabytes of memory. Update to version 2.25d on disk
		485. Author: Bryan Brown.


CONTENTS OF DISK 639
====================

DrawMap		Release 4.0 of a program for drawing representations of
		the Earth's surface. New features include using the
		full Micro World Data Bank data files, user selection
		of the items to be included (e.g., coastlines, rivers,
		etc.) and the amount of detail in each map, and a
		redraw function. Corrects a problem with box and text
		selection encountered under AmigaDos 2.04, but AmigaDos
		2.04 is not required. Requires 1.5 megabytes of memory
		and a hard disk with 1.6 megabytes of free space. Also
		includes version requiring a 68020 CPU and 68881 FPU.
		This is an update to version 3.1 on disk 545. Includes
		full source. Distributed in two parts, the other part
		is on disk 640. Author: Bryan Brown.


CONTENTS OF DISK 640
====================

DrawMap		Release 4.0 of a program for drawing representations of
		the Earth's surface. New features include using the
		full Micro World Data Bank data files, user selection
		of the items to be included (e.g., coastlines, rivers,
		etc.) and the amount of detail in each map, and a
		redraw function. Corrects a problem with box and text
		selection encountered under AmigaDos 2.04, but AmigaDos
		2.04 is not required. Requires 1.5 megabytes of memory
		and a hard disk with 1.6 megabytes of free space. Also
		includes version requiring a 68020 CPU and 68881 FPU.
		This is an update to version 3.1 on disk 545. Includes
		full source. Distributed in two parts, the other part
		is on disk 639. Author: Bryan Brown.


CONTENTS OF DISK 720
====================

DrawMap		A program for drawing representations of the Earth's
		surface. New features include seven new types of map
		projections, user specifiable point to be at the center
		of the maps, and box views that can now cross the
		international date line. Also includes accelerated
		version requiring a 68020 CPU and 68881 FPU, and
		versions for PAL systems. Requires 1.5 Mb of memory and
		a hard disk with 1.6 Mb of free space. Distributed in
		two parts, the other part is on disk 719. Both parts
		are required. This is version 4.1, an update to version
		4.0 on disks 639 and 640. Includes full source. Author:
		Bryan Brown.

You can find these on the "EAB File Server" under:

/Commodore_Amiga/TOSEC/TOSEC [2016-01-03]/Commodore Amiga - Collections - Fred Fish (TOSEC-v2014-10-07_CM)

[OscarBraindeaD]

Hi, thanks for the list DamienD.
I've tried then but last of them needs hd or more ram that I have in my Amiga machine, I'm using version 2.25d (disk 485) on it and I'm testing the last version in winuae, it's very detailed but too heavy for my little miggy!

[redblade]

Originally Posted by OscarBraindeaD

I'm very happy with the 2 "new" programs, I'm trying to use some educational software in my Amiga 500 to show my son that there are some cool utilities in the Amiga.
Thanks DamienD and Redblade!

Protracker, AsmOne, Cygnus Ed??? The scene always needs new members

[Nightshft]

I immediately thought of AmiGlobe.
You can find it on Aminet (/misc/edu) and it's quite cool, but needs 2 MB of Ram and probably a harddrive. Also the colors are blue or red lines on cyan background and it came out in 1994, so sorry it's not the particular program you are searching for.
I wanted to mention it anyway because by chance it was one of the first programs i ran when I built in the CF-HDD (my first Miggy Hdd) in my A600 a couple of years ago. It was a little slow there, but with A1200+FPU (there is an extra fpu executable) or ACA500+ or any other acc. its smooth an fun.

You can change projection type, click on countries and they get colormarked and view statistical info about them.
Sorry for advertising, Im not affiliated haha, but if somebody makes the step from an unacc. Amiga to his first small accelerator this is a very nice gimmick.

I also was surprised to not find any pic or video so I quickly shot one on real hardware (aca500+).

[OscarBraindeaD]

Originally Posted by redblade

Protracker, AsmOne, Cygnus Ed??? The scene always needs new members

Well, we have started with the map app and we"ll see in a near future... maybe some basic amos programming, but fight with switch and fortnite is so hard!

[OscarBraindeaD]

Originally Posted by Nightshft

I immediately thought of AmiGlobe.
You can find it on Aminet (/misc/edu) and it's quite cool, but needs 2 MB of Ram and probably a harddrive. Also the colors are blue or red lines on cyan background and it came out in 1994, so sorry it's not the particular program you are searching for.
I wanted to mention it anyway because by chance it was one of the first programs i ran when I built in the CF-HDD (my first Miggy Hdd) in my A600 a couple of years ago. It was a little slow there, but with A1200+FPU (there is an extra fpu executable) or ACA500+ or any other acc. its smooth an fun.

You can change projection type, click on countries and they get colormarked and view statistical info about them.
Sorry for advertising, Im not affiliated haha, but if somebody makes the step from an unacc. Amiga to his first small accelerator this is a very nice gimmick.

I also was surprised to not find any pic or video so I quickly shot one on real hardware (aca500+).

Hi Nightshft, thanks for the advice. I'll try in my amiga 1200. It has 6mb and hd, hope it works on it.