***************************************************************** AboutClock V1.15 Copyright 1993 Stuart Davis All Rights Reserved ***************************************************************** Contents Distribution Description Usage Development Author Details ----------------------------------------------------------------- Distribution AboutClock V1.15 is Shareware and NOT Public Domain, and as such a small registration fee of 5 pounds sterling is required if you decide that AboutClock V1.15 should be in your software collection. This will entitle you to future major upgrades and a special custom written version of AboutClock with a special date of your choice coded in making a message of your choice appear on that day(WB2.x|3.x only, sorry 1.3 owners). Payment should be in the form of a crossed cheque drawn from a UK mainland bank payable to the author. The distribution of AboutClock V1.15 MUST be intact, unaltered, and include the following files : AboutClock AboutClock.info AboutClock.s AboutClock.doc ----------------------------------------------------------------- Description Do you remember the good old days when you asked someone the time and they said, "It's nearly five" and not "It's 4:57 and 28 seconds" ? Well now there is a Workbench clock that does just that! AboutClock V1.15 is an unobtrusive clock that nestles neatly at the top of Workbench, telling the time in words in a window that re-sizes itself to account for the length of message required. Not only is AboutClock V1.15 simple and functional, but it is fully compatible with all versions of Workbench! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Usage Either double click the icon, or use "runback", "brun" or similar from the CLI to launch AboutClock. AboutClock V1.15 will appear in the top left corner of the Workbench screen. AboutClock V1.15 has two menu options, ABOUT and QUIT, which give details of the author, and quit the program respectively. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Development V1.12 Some errors related to telling the time occur at certain times of the day. When AboutClock resizes itself, all active processes receiving user input on Workbench are resized, notably ED and SID V1.06, when used under Workbench 1.3 which can prove to be annoying, but not dangerous. This version NOT released to the public. V1.14 Tells the correct time without errors. About and Quit menus added. Opens too large a window, and crashes the machine when About is selected, under Workbench 1.3. No problems noted for Workbench 2 and above. This version released prior to testing on Workbench 1.3. V1.14b Window size corrected, and selecting About no longer crashes the machine, but text is not visible (applies to Workbench 1.3 only). V1.15 About text is now visible. Tells the time perfectly, following error detected in V1.14b. AboutClock V1.15 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 3½" inch disk drives, a 105 Mb, 11ms Quantum hard disc drive, a 550 Mb tape streamer, a single 5¼" 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..!! For Workbench 1.3 compatibility, it was tested on an Amiga 500 with 4.5Mb Fast RAM and 0.5Mb Chip RAM switchable to 4Mb Fast RAM and 1Mb Chip RAM, twin 3.5 inch disk drives, 42Mb GVP hard disc drive, and a KCS PC Emulator. For Workbench 3 compatibility, it was tested on an Amiga 1200, 2Mb Chip RAM, twin 3.5 inch disk drives, and a 60Mb hard disc drive. Although not every possible configuration of hardware has been tested, it is extremely unlikely that AboutClock V1.15 will not work on your machine. Please report any errors / problems to the author when you register your copy of AboutClock. Thanks go to Howard Manwaring BEd MSc MBCS CEng and Liz Warriner BMus Dip Microprocessors & Prod Des of West Herts College for assistance with the debugging of the actual code, Melville Carrie for support and for the use of his Amiga 1200, and Colin Etwell for the icon, documentation and beta testing on his 1.3 Amiga 500. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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... *****************************************************************