TV*TEXT PROFESSIONAL(tm) VERSION 1.00 ReadMe October 2, 1989 This file contains important additional information concerning the use and operation of TV*Text Professional. Please take the time to read through it. CONTENTS Register This Software Speeding Up Load Time From Floppy Disk Hard Disk Installation Hard Disks and Overscan Overscan Screen Dimensions Screen Positioning and Overscan Overscan and MoreRows Workbench(tm) Info Program Bug ColorFonts(tm) and ColorText(tm) Technical Support Phone Number REGISTER THIS SOFTWARE Returning the enclosed registration card not only makes you eligible to recieve technical support, but also places you on our mailing list so that we can keep you informed of future updates to this software. SPEEDING UP LOAD TIME FROM FLOPPY DISKS When TV*TEXT Professional starts up, it loads all of the render preference files found in the RPrefs drawer from disk. If you are using a floppy disk, this may take up to 2 or 3 minutes. You can speed this process up by removing those preference files that you don't use from the RPrefs drawer. Do this on Workbench by opening the RPrefs drawer and dragging those preferences you wish to remove into the Trashcan, or into another drawer. Removing unwanted preference files from the RPrefs drawer will also make more memory available to TV*TEXT Professional. HARD DISK INSTALLATION The instructions for installing this program as described in the TV*TEXT Professional User's Guide are correct, but two points need clarifying: 1. You will not be able to drag the Trashcan icon into the TVT Pro drawer's window. This is OK since it's unnecessary to do so. 2. You will not be able to drag the TVT Pro drawer icon into its own window. This too is OK. HARD DISKS AND OVERSCAN When using 16 color, Maximum Overscan, Hi Res Interlace or Hi Res No Lace screens, some hard disk/controller combinations will report read/write errors. This is due to the machine bandwidth required to support this display mode. IT IS NOT A PROBLEM CAUSED BY BUGS IN TV*TEXT PROFESSIONAL. If you experience such problems, the following suggestions may help: 1. Make sure your hard disk has been formatted using the Fast File System (FFS). 2. Check with the manufacturer of your hard disk controller to make sure you have the latest version of the controller software. 3. When saving or loading, either drag the screen down to the bottom of the display, or flip it behind the Workbench screen. (NOTE: TV*Text Professional closes the Workbench screen if no other applications are running. You can prevent this by opening a CLI on Workbench before running TV*TEXT Professional, but this will waste chip memory). 4. If you are using a Genlock, removing it or the video input to it may help in some cases. If all else fails, your options are using less overscan and/or less colors, or replacing your hard disk controller. REMEMBER: This problem is a result of the screen mode you have chosen and the hardware you are using, not TV*TEXT Professional. OVERSCAN SCREEN DIMENSIONS The NTSC Screen sizes for this version of TV*TEXT Professional are: Mode None Medium Maximum Lo Res NoLace 320 x 200 336 x 222 352 x 240 Lo Res I'Lace 320 x 400 336 x 444 352 x 480 Hi Res NoLace 640 x 200 672 x 222 704 x 240 Hi Res I'Lace 640 x 400 672 x 444 704 x 480 SCREEN POSITIONING AND OVERSCAN When using MAXIMUM overscan, you may need to shift the position of your display to the left using the Workbench(tm) Preferences Program. 1. Start TV*TEXT Professional with Hi Res Interlace and Maximum Overscan. 2. Move the mouse pointer as far as it will go to the top of the screen. 3. Click the left mouse button once. This will cause the title bar to drop down and become visible. 4. Make sure that both screen depth gadgets at the right end of the title bar are visible. If they are not, you will have to reposition your display a bit to the left using the display positioning control in Workbench Preferences. See your Amiga manual for information on how to do this. OVERSCAN AND MOREROWS MoreRows is a program (not included with TV*TEXT Professional) which permits the user to increase the dimensions of the standard Workbench screen through the use of overscan. The use of MoreRows will affect how TV*TEXT Professional interprets the Overscan selections in the Screen Format requester. If NONE is selected TV*TEXT Professional will open with the same degree of overscan as the MoreRow'd Workbench screen adjusted for the selected screen mode. If MEDIUM or MAXIMUM are selected, it will open an overscan screen whose overscan dimensions are not greater than the ones above, but not less than the degree of overscan added to the standard Workbench by MoreRows. For example, if the dimension of a MoreRow'd Workbench screen is 672 x 222, selecting either NONE or MEDIUM degrees of overscan in Hi Res No Lace will result in a 672 x 222 screen size. The same choices in Hi Res Interlace would result in a 672 x 444 screen size; in Lo Res a 336 x 222 screen. Selecting MAXIMUM will open a 704 x 240 screen in Hi Res No Lace, etc. WORKBENCH INFO PROGRAM BUG There is a bug in all versions of Info prior to 1.3.1 which can garble entries made to the Tool Types list. You may be using this program to customize the startup of TV*TEXT Professional. You will not encounter this bug if you follow the instructions for adding, deleting, and modifying the Tool Types in Appendix A of the User's Manual. The procedure described there avoids modifying an existing entry in the Tool Types list by first Delete'ing the entry then Add'ing it anew. ColorFonts(tm) and ColorText(tm) TRADEMARKS & COPYRIGHTS ColorFonts(tm) standard designed by Inter/Active Softworks ColorText(tm) Copyright 1987 Inter/Active Softworks,Inc. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 1988 Commodore-Amiga, Inc. All Rights Reserved. TECHNICAL SUPPORT PHONE NUMBER FOR REGISTERED USERS PHONE: 602.246.4238 Monday - Friday 1-4 PM MST FAX: 602.246.6708 24 hours Zuma Group, Inc., 6733 N. Black Canyon Highway, Phoenix, AZ 85015