ChipPeek 2.2 documentation DISTRIBUTION This software is FreeWare ! PURPOSE You can see your chip ram contents as a graphics screen, like any other mempeek. I coded my own, because there were not AGA mempeek when I bought my AMIGA 1200. ('93) But now it is '96. See the history from 2.0 below for improvements. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Any AMIGA with min. Kickstart 2.0 and the disk based commodities.library. Only 15 Khz PAL supported. It works fine on AGA machines too. It's not a bad thing to own some chip ram (.5/1/1.5/2Mb)... INSTALLATION Simply start from WB or CLI. Tooltypes are handled by WB only, no CLI arguments. USAGE Start peeking - CX_POPKEY (def. ) or both mousebuttons Quit peeking - CX_POPKEY (def. ) or both mousebuttons Vertical scroll - move your mouse up/down Quick vert. scr. - move your mouse up/down + right mousebutton Horizontal scroll - press AND move your mouse right/left. I coded this two direction move 'cause practical reason: I didn't like mempeek at that I couldn't set the right memposition fast. But with this method you can go fast through the mem (there are many dirty mouses...), and when you want to go only to left or right press shift.) Quick hor. scr. - the above + right mousebutton Switch resolution - press left mousebutton (lores/hires/superhires) Set Modulo - press AND move your mouse left/right Set mark - press or or Jump to mark - press <1> or <2> or <3> Set to zero - press to zero picaddress and modulo - press to zero picaddress only - press to zero modulo only Remove - press when you are peeking What numbers can you see: xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx address the leftmost highlighted word in bits modulo See tooltypes below from the 2.0 features. HISTORY 1.0 - First public release. 1.9 - Second public release. It is prerelease of 2.0 - totally reworked - more system friendly - now it is commodity, all input handled by commodities.library - hot key - quick searches - setmarks 2.0 - Third public release. - tooltypes (WB) - CX_POPKEY (def.: control lalt p) - CX_POPUP (YES or NO) - PIC1 (pic address in hex, ie.: 1fe00) - MOD1 (modulo in hex, ie.: 28) - RES1=0 (lores) 1 (hires) 2 (shires) - PIC2,MOD2,RES2, PIC3,MOD3,RES3 like above - zero key (z) for pic address, modulo or both - 16 bit zoom has been redone - peek start with both mousebuttons 2.1 - 4th public release. Small update. - nice MWB and 4 color icons by Rendall - stack is set to 2048, cos it's enough - BMB tooltype added -> peek start with both buttons is optional! - most of the copper routines now is handled by the OS - it should work correctly with especially multisync monitors (sometimes the sync went away while peeking) - you can enable or disable the peek start via comm. Exchange - def. hotkey changed to 2.2 - 5th public release. Bug fix. - the numbers and the screen won't be shifted any more (I hope...) at some monitor drivers - found and fixed an Enforcer writing hit on quitting with mouse - in all icons the stack is set to 2048 byte - yes. Rendall has made nice icons, not fonts. NOTE Enforcer can show read hits, but it is because reading the first word of the highlighted line from memory. All input handled via hotkeys with commodities.library. So there maybe some collosions with other programs using the same hotkeys. For example the has problems with MCP multi comm. (Insert into Inputscreen's hotkey is lalt z) Using screen blankers set them to avoid task ChipPeek. In other case the sync will probably go away after the start of blanking. Try to set to avoid promoting ChipPeek's own false screen or the sync also goes away... Anyway, I am going to do sg with these problems 8) FUTURE x.x will have: - file peek !!! Suggestion by EFT. - dynamic 16 bit zoom refresh - perhaps input will be handled by intuition, or a totally systemless method for lowmem people - fastram peek - if anybody want free move (to up/down/right/left) at the same time, it will be switchable TESTED ON Amiga 1200 with: - 4 Mb fast ram, made by DERKO - Blizzard IV 030/50Mhz 4Mb with Enforcer - 405 Mb Conner CFS425A winchester, 2.5"->3.5" adapter made by DERKO - 2x speed Sony CDU-55E CD-ROM - 12" Reuters multisync monitor THANKS TO Psybu for his suggestions. Rendall for his nice icons. EFT for his suggestions and bugreports. DERKO for his great hardwares. Nemtom for his fonts. SPECIAL THANKS TO Ferenc Riczák for repairing my power supply so fast. OTHER PRODUCTS LessSeek - Small validatewait like program on Aminet: disk/misc/LessSeek11.lha HunAminetDocs - Hungarian transl. of Aminet docs on Aminet: docs/misc/HunAminetDocs.lha FastOff - Turns off the Fast mem expansion on Aminet: util/misc/FastOff10.lha SetTime - A simple but practical SetTime script on Aminet: util/time/SetTime.lha THE AUTHOR Szabolcs Pethő e-mail: petho@spike.fa.gau.hu s-mail: Szabolcs Pethő Gorkij krt. 81. 3104 Salgótarján HUNGARY Send your suggestions, bug reports, if you have ! Bye, Szabolcs