From crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu Sun May 16 21:15:23 1993 Received: from mailhost1.cac.washington.edu by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.3) id AA05955; Sun, 16 May 93 21:15:21 PDT Received: from glia.biostr.washington.edu by mailhost1.cac.washington.edu (5.65/UW-NDC Revision: 2.28 ) id AA25883; Sun, 16 May 93 21:15:20 -0700 Posted-Date: Sun, 16 May 1993 21:19:00 -0700 Message-Id: <9305170419.AA01267@glia.biostr.washington.edu> Received: by glia.biostr.washington.edu (911016.SGI/Eno-0.1) id AA01267; Sun, 16 May 93 21:19:02 -0700 From: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Crysta|) Date: Sun, 16 May 1993 21:19:00 -0700 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.4 2/2/92) To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: ANNOUNCING "FORAY" (TM) MUSHROOM INFORMATION & IDENTIFICATION DATABASE Status: RO Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce Subject: ANNOUNCING "FORAY" (TM) MUSHROOM INFORMATION & IDENTIFICATION DATABASE Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc Reply-To: crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu TITLE FORAY Mushroom Information and Identification Database VERSION 1.0 - Pre-release demo/evaluation version SAVE is disabled in this demo, but printing is left working. AUTHOR Marlin Greene eye2eye design 1633 6th Ave. West Seattle, Wa. 98119 206-281-9165 DESCRIPTION When enthusiasts get together to collect, identify, and learn more about mushrooms it's called a "foray." With a keen interest in extending that feeling of fun and discovery, eye 2 eye design is pleased to announce "FORAY" ... a pictorial mushroom information and identification database for the Amiga. Even someone who has never picked a wild mushroom, and doesn't intend to, can enjoy FORAY as a pictorial information source. You can modify the included records, add new records, or create entire new databases. FORAY is also designed to assist the serious mycologist, offering the matrix for an extensive multi-genus database. FORAY follows the same Group, then Genus, then species naming convention found in mushroom books and field guides. The present version of FORAY supports the four major mushroom Groups: Agarics, Boletes, Chanterelles, and Polypores. (Future upgrades will add more.) Records may be retrieved by Genus, Genus.species, common name, or by selecting feature keys and initializing a search. Features associated with any mushroom record may be changed, providing the opportunity to fine-tune an entry. Individualized comments and "field notes" may be saved with any record. Each mushroom entry can have a picture. The included pictures are a study of how the Amiga's basic 16 colors may be expanded to accurately reproduce the much wider palette of mushrooms in the wild. Using an Amiga paint program, you can create new pictures to add to the database. FORAY opens on its own hi-res screen on any Amiga with 2.0 or greater. It has its own proportional font, picture gadgets, and a beautiful, easy-to-use interface. All the pictures are original, created with DPaint... nothing was scanned. Please do not separate the pictures from the program. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS FORAY requires Amiga operating system 2.0 or greater, and likes a non-flickering screen. LHA to unpack the archive. SUGGESTED ENVIRONMENT At least 1M of memory, OS2.0 or greater HOST NAME/FILE NAME ForayDemo.lha 184660 bytes ForayDemo.readme 342 bytes These two files can be retrieved via anonymous FTP from all 12 AmiNet sites in the directory: /pub/aminet/util/misc Three of these sites are: wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) amiga.physik.unizh.ch (130.60.80.80) ftp.luth.se (130.240.18.2) PRICE So that we can get FORAY launched, we are making the standard "introductory- buy direct" offer. You can get the FORAY program disk, the pictures disk, and a printed manual for only $40. The "release" version will have all four mushroom Groups and 40+ pictures in the databases. (include $3 for shipping + 8.2% sales tax for WA residents- $46.53 total) FORAY is copyright 1993 by eye 2 eye design. All the graphics and pictures are copyright 1993 by eye 2 eye design and may not be reproduced for sale without permission. If you need more information about the program contact us. Marlin Greene Email contact: eye2eye design crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu 1633 6th Ave West Seattle, Wa 98119 206-281-9165 DISTRIBUTABILITY The demo version can be freely distributed, provided that the contents of the archive remain intact. However, the demo version is only intended for evaluation. FILES that should be on the disk: readfirst readfirst.info ForayBasics.txt short instructions ForayBasics.txt.info Boletes.db database of Bolete Group Agarics.db database of Agaric Group logo.pic title screen picture FORAY Demo of program FORAY.info MUSHPICS (dir) contains the pictures *** PLEASE KEEP ALL THE FILES TOGETHER IF YOU PASS IT ON *** OTHER You can run the demo from the floppy by simply clicking on the icon. It may also be installed on a harddisk. The release version of FORAY is hard drive installable. It will include at least 48 pictures and database records and a printed manual. This Usenet announcement and the files themselves were uploaded by Crystal@glia.biostr.washington.edu with permission from the author.