: . _________ ________ _____________ _____ | __ / : ___________/ _ \ \ __ _ / | \ ____ : \_/ -A : \______ \ | \___ \_/ \_/ | \ | \_ D_ / / _/ | / ___/ \_ | : : | _______/ `N _/ \ \_________/ | \________/ _____ | : \__________/ \ \_ : : \__________ R \___________/ . C A Y A G . Z G N PRESENTS MORE SHYTE FOR YOU ON THIS FINE BORING DAY ====================================================== WEATHER WATCHER ================= TYPED BY SHARD 17-11-93 BEFORE YOU START ================ Before using any of the programs, please make backup copies of your disks and lock away your master disks. That way, if you ever damage your disk you can always make a fresh working copy. Computer Viruses ---------------- Sharing disks with friends has become the major cause for the rapid spread of computer viruses. Some of these are fairly harmless but nevertheless annoying. Others are very nasty and will show varying symptoms from diskettes not loading unless not write protected, diskettes being destroyed, programs not loading or crashing. Once you have a virus in amongst your disks they are difficult to get rid of, not to say time consuming. imagine spending hours creating a story only to lose it all. Imagine collecting a years worth of data for a project and losing all that. Don't risk it. Be extremely careful who you take disks from. And don't give disks away. If you already have a virus in amongst your disks, your friends will not thank you for corrupting their disks NOTE: ---- If you have a 512K Amiga with an additional external disk drive, you may have to disconnect that drive before you can load some of the enclosed programs. TERMINOLOGY ----------- In this document, to click on something means to move the mouse pointer to and item and then press the left mouse button. To double click is to press the left mouse button twice rapidly. Some of the programs take quite some time to load, please be patient and NEVER take a disk out if the green disk light is on NOTES: ====== If you have a 512k A500 Amiga with an additional disk drive to save memory, you should switch off the external drive, before running WEATHER WATCHER. WEATHER WATCHER is designed to load itself or to be loaded from a standard Amiga workbench by "double clicking" on its icon. Unless you have an extended memory Amiga we recommend you simply turn on your machine and put the working copy of your WEATHER WATCHER disk. REMEMBER - you should be using a working copy, Not the Master Disk supplied in your pack. Keymap ------ If your Workbench is a version before 1.3 you may need to change your keymap to the 1.3 GB version. A copy of this is provided on the "Weather" disk and should be incorporated in your Workbench setup by transferring it to your Devs:keymaps subdirectory and using "Setmap GB". Printers -------- The Devs/Printers directory on your "Weather" disk must contain the correct driver for your printer. If you are having printing trouble check to ensure that the correct driver is present. If not you should install the necessary driver in Weather:Devs/Printers by copying the appropriate file from your Workbench disk or Extras disk. Of course you also have to set your "Preferences" to reflect the new printer driver. Introduction ------------ This program allows you to save data relating to daily weather conditions into a specialised database. Once collected, you can display your data either in tabular or graphical form. If graphical is chosen, the program displays two graphs at the same time, enabling you to compare different data types. Data can be displayed in daily, monthly or yearly detail. Additionally the disk contains some computer graphics and animations that have been designed and included to encourage you to experiment with creating your own weather maps. Any of the data or graphical displays can be printed out if required. When entering data, faulty data will be reprinted in RED and you will NOT be allowed to progress until you have made good the doubtful data. THE DATABASE ============ When the program starts up it will automatically try to load a weather data file named "THISYEAR" (located in the "DATA" directory). Whilst you can save as many different files as you wish, with whatever names you wish, you should always rename your current file "THISYEAR" so that the software can load it on startup. Fictional Data - 1995 --------------------- In order for you to get a feel for how the program works we have included a fictitious partial weather data file for 1995. This file has been named "THISYEAR" as explained above, and it autoloads when you enter WEATHER WATCHER for the first time (and until you save your actual data file under the name THISYEAR). The best way to see all the features of WEATHER WATCHER is to start up the program, which will automatically load the "pretend" 1995 weather file. This will enable you to try everything out. Looking at a day's data ----------------------- While you have any given day's data displayed, by clicking in the main data box (the centre of the screen), the data will be displayed graphically. Making Your Own Weather Map --------------------------- On your "Weather" master disk you will find a directory called "MAP" which you will find the files which create the Weather Map display seen at the start of the program. These were created using Deluxe Paint. If you want to create your own animated Map display all you have to do is replace any or all of these files by your own modified versions. (You MUST keep the names and directory pathname identical). Don't forget to make backups on another disk BEFORE you start making changes.The files you can change are: Font.Pic : Contains the large rainbow colored letters. The colours are automatically generated by the WEATHER WATCHER software, the letters themselves are merely single-coloured shapes. You can modify the letters but each letter must remain in its own position! Message.Txt: The large scrolling text, you can change this with any word processor. NOTE the first character must be 0 or 1 (0 turns off the "balloons" display, 1 turns it on) and the last character MUST be a $.(If the file is simply "0 $" you get no text and no balloons!!) Overlay.Pic: This is a "transparent" overlay which holds the symbols that are superimposed over your map. Use DPaint to move the symbols around or create your own new ones. Remember that the background colour will be transparent, and that the other colours will be "cycled" to produce the animation effects. WeatherMap.Pic: This is the backdrop Map. Use Deluxe Paint to change or modify it. Don't forget that you can use this to create any other animated displays, not necessarily representing a Weather Map. HAVE FUN GUYS AND REMEMBER ITS ALL FOR FUN aLL DoCs DoNE By SHaRD/N&B /\_ ____________ ______/\__________/\___ / \/ |\ __ / \____ / \ |\ __ / / | \ | \/ \/ & | _ \ | \ _/ \/ \_________/\__/ _____________/\__/ +---------------------------------------------+