***************************************************************** Base Convertor V1.01 Copyright 1993 Stuart Davis All Rights Reserved ***************************************************************** Contents Distribution Description Usage Development Author Details ----------------------------------------------------------------- Distribution BaseConvertor V1.00 is Shareware and NOT Public Domain, and as such a small registration fee of 5 pounds sterling is required if you decide that BaseConvertor V2.00 should be in your software collection. This will entitle you to future major upgrades. Payment should be in the form of a crossed cheque drawn from a UK mainland bank payable to the author. The distribution of BaseConvertor V1.00 MUST be intact, unaltered, and include the following files : BaseConvertor BaseConvertor.info BaseConvertor.doc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Description These modern calculators are all very nice and that but when you want to convert a number to a different base, you have to keep pressing shift and the right key and then you only get one number displayed anyway. This program solves these problems by allowing a number to be input in any base out of decimal, hexadecimal, binary and octal. It will check it for size and syntax and if all is fine, it will convert it to the other number bases and display them all at the same time. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Usage *** N.B... *** This program requires WB2 or greater due to the use of *** *** some WB2 libraries. Sorry to any 1.2(are there any left?) *** *** /1.3 owners. You'll just have to upgrade! *** Usage - CLI/startup-sequence type "run" like this to run the program in the background: run nil: path:BaseConvertor Usage - WorkBench Double click the icon. That's all there is to it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions BaseConvertor V1.00 will appear on the WorkBench screen.It has one menu with About and Quit displayed. About gives the author and developement details. Quit will terminate the program. To use the program follow the following instructions: 1. Click on the mx gadget to select the required input base. 2. Click inside the string gadget so that a cursor appears. 3. Now type the number you want converted into the gadget. The program will only accept positive values which will fit into a 32-bit register and which are syntactically correct for the input base. E.g. Input Base | Acceptable digits | Max Value ---------- | ----------------- | --------- Decimal | 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 | 4,294,967,295 Binary | 0,1 | 111111...(x32) Octal | 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 | 37777777777 Hexadecimal | 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,a,b,c,d,e,f | ffffffff 4. Press return and if the number is syntactically O.K. then it will be converted and displayed into the other bases. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Development V1.00 - 14-3-93 First internal release. A couple of bugs known of at the time but no time due to college to fix them. They weren't dangerous anyway and merely involved the conversion routines from Decimal-Binary-Decimal and Octal-Binary. V1.01 - 29-3-93 First external release. Fully tested on all functions and ALL previous bugs fixed. BaseConvertor V1.00 was developed on a HiQ Tower containing an Amiga 500 Plus, 4Mb of 16 Bit Fast RAM, 2Mb Chip RAM, SSL 68020 Accelerator Board with 1Mb of 32 Bit Fast RAM,twin 3.5 inch disk drives, a 105 Mb, 11ms Quantum hard disc drive, a 550 Mb tape streamer, a single 5.25" disk drive, a Citizen Swift 24C printer, two Zipstick joysticks, a Technosound Turbo sampler and a Naksha Mouse. It was written in 100% assembler using the most excellent HiSoft Devpac V3.0. Whew..!! The program has been tested on the above machine, a vanilla A500, an A3000 and is known to work on an A1200. No problems with 68040 processors known of either. Although not every possible configuration of hardware has been tested,(send me an A4000 and I will test BaseConvertor V1.00 on it!), it is extremely unlikely that BaseConvertor V1.00 will not work on your machine. Please report any errors / problems to the author when you register your copy of BaseConvertor. [ If you don't register, you can't moan ] Thanks go to Danilo Sandron for help with the decimal-bin- decimal conversion. We got these routines finished at 3am one morning while pissed out of our heads. The code is only 16 lines long for each one.! Thanks also to Jan van den Baard for the brilliant and free GadToolsBox V1.4. Using this interface generator saved me typing over 1000 lines of code. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Author Details Stuart Davis 132 Rempstone Road Merley Wimborne Dorset BH21 1SX // England \X/ PC's are crap, Archimedes are amoebas, There's only one choice, And that's the Amiga... *****************************************************************