*If you want to buy an intro -very good quality, F65,- guilders or more- *then contact me! The docs for the TaiPan Scroll Text Loader V1.0. Legal stuff: This program is copyrighted. This is not PD. IT MAY NOT BE SPREAD ON ANY PD SERIES OF ANY PD COMPANY WITHOUT MY WRITTEN PERMISSION. IF YOU SEE THIS ON A PD DISK PLEASE WARN ME! Pd-companies are money making firms ,not results of the friendship movement or the flower power age.... (I don't mind pd-companies, I only think that programmers earn at least a fair percentage of the profits that pd-companies make.) So if your pd-company would like to include this programme to your library / collection disks,etc. contact me so we can arrange my payment. Computer clubs may copy this as well as inividual users as long as no money IN ANY WAY is involved. I do not want people other than myself making money out of my work. As individual user you may have this programme in your collection, only if you send me the equivalent of US $10,-. Then you'll also receive (any new) update. The $10,- U.S. dollars are to cover my costs. I assume you have the Req.library and the Arp.library. Payment does not include these programmes. You may not make changes to this program or the docs that come with it. The docs must be spread together with this programme. You may put this programme on any medium for your own use. I am not responceable for any criminal usage of this programme ,such as mass-piracy. This is only a tool. So far for the legal stuff..... What is it for? The scrolltext editor loads ascii files containing scrolltexts into an intro using the information from an .introinfo file. You can also use this programme to load modules,colorlists, logos etc. Suppose you are the programmer of some group,ok? (If you're not, give it to him/her, he/she might be able to make this programme make your/his/her work easier!) If the intro's you make should be used by all group members, they all should be able to edit the scrolltexts and the rest of the intro. Ok,you could give 'em newzap and let 'em edit the intro with that. This has big disadvantages: By typing even over one byte of code they could ruin the intro you gave 'em, and newzap doesn't save the intro under another name, allowing good security. Besides, not all of your members might know how newzap works. With this tool, you simply make an info file for your intro, you give 'em the programme and the intro and they should be able to edit the scrolltext, regardless of their knowledge of the amiga system, even people with the xcopy screen burnt intro their eyes (generally the most stupid ones), should be able to use this tool! They don't have to remember offsets, lengths etc. Everything is automatically, using comfortable req.library requesters. All they have to do is: A write the scrolltexts B. run the scrolltext editor C. load the intro D. load the scrolltexts,modules,logos or whatever E. save the intro Bingo! The scrolltext (or music,logo,etc) in the intro is changed! Now they can for instance load the Taipan Intro Installer to put the intro on a dos disk of their choice! What do you as programmer have to do? Well, you must fix 'em up with the intro, and make the .introinfo file acoompanying the intro. Now about the .introinfo structure. This is what it looks like in assembler: start: dc.b "TEXTINFO" ;identification dc.l $2 ;Number of texts to load dc.l 2000 ;size of text 1 dc.l textname1-start ;offset (this file) text identification dc.l $f332 ;offset (intro) to load scrolltext 1 at dc.l 3000 ;size of text 2 dc.l textname2-start ;offset (this file) text identification dc.l $13300 ;offset (intro) to load scrolltext 2 at ;Repeat those three lines as many times as you have scrolltexts to ; load dc.l 0 ;size of last text = 0 end textname1: dc.b "Vertical scrolling text",0 ;Text1 identification for ;user. textname2: dc.b "Horizontal scrolling text",0 ;Text2 identification for ;user. (so you know what ;you're going to load!) even dc.l -1 ;end of file End: Edit these figures, with your favourite assembler and save it BINARY (or IMAGE file for Seka programmers!) from 'Start' to 'End'. Give it the same name as your intro (in the same dir) with the extension '.introinfo' . This programme was made in 100% assembler on ASM-ONE and Buddhas MASTERSEKA. Bugs in this programme: Sometimes when you load a faulty scrolltext (=unloadable), the programme gives faulty information, then close the load winodw a couple of times and load the intro again. This (offcourse) will be fixed in the next version! Other tools: - Intro Install loads any (dos-)intro and puts it on a dos-disk without the trouble of editing the startup-sequence and having to check free disk space --> fast & very good. - Dosprotect makes an infinite loop in a dos-directory. Unfortunately can be removed. Seperately available, costing U.S. $5,- includes disk/postage. - Startup-coder I & II Available through UGA pd, Zeist Holland. - Trackripper I, finds loader routines, UGA pd - Trackripper II, was never spread, it rips more loaders. available through a small number of bss'es. All are included on the update disk of this programme. PERHAPS SOON ?: - A tool which makes any dos disk into an unchangeable NOT-A-DOS DISK! Yet the file structure will remain intact....?! Impossible? That's what I thought as well... Possible and very real.... Using patches on the trackdisk.device the computer is conned! (This won't be spread for under U.S. $75,- !!!) If you want to contact me,then write to: (If you want to buy an intro,then contact me!) Roger Heykoop Hageveldlaan 1 2071 TJ Santpoort HOLLAND (Codename: VIRUS of TAIPAN) Or call the Snakepit bbs where I can be found normally. +31 (0)3240-45544 (200 MB -many tools,musix,demos,hot shit,etc.) Or call: +31 (0)23 376604 (VOICE,but 2400 available after voice) Please call only between 15:00-18:00 and 23:00-24:00 CENTRAL EUROPEAN TIME;However there's a fairly large chance of not finding me at home,that's why I like letters more. Don't call me: -If you lack the mental development to use this tool. -If you want to buy an intro for less than 65 guilders (I get very sick of people who want me to write the fucking best intro for under 20 Guilders,and then complain about it. My motivation to make 'true art' rises when my bank account shows me a somewhat 'motivating' number...) -about Source files. If I give you (intro) sources, you would not understand them, 'cause if you would, you would not need them because you could write them yourselve. So asking sources is a paradox. They're useless to you. Swapping sources: I have never seen someone come up with a (for me) usefull sourcefile when swapping sources. Not that I would not like to give my sources away, for about $200 Dollar I'd give you just about any source, swapping is almost out of the question, for the reasons mentioned before. I can't understand that some people value source-files so high.... Not that I don't mind helping some people with their programming troubles, just write me (include self adressed stamped enveloppe!), and I'll try to solve it for you ! If possible write, so I can keep record of who contacted me,when you contacted me and what you wanted. That makes life easier for me and you!