BOOTSCREEN ~~~~~~~~~~ Startup screen program for Amigas with Workbench release 37 (2.04) or higher. Copyright ©1994 by Joseph Luk. All rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------------------ README FILE $VER: 2.00 (2/5/94) UNREGISTERED VERSION IMPORTANT ~~~~~~~~~ BootScreen 2.00 is now ShareWare. Registration instructions are included at the bottom of each doc file. The version that you have here is complete except it only contains one sample picture file -- I chose not to hand out crippled versions or annoying requesters in the hope that the Amiga community hasn't come to need them. You do get benefits by registering, and the least of them is the smaller executable size of the registered versions. :> Please read the main documentation and registration instructions for more information. LEGAL ~~~~~ All contents of this archive are Copyright ©1994 by Joseph Luk. They are to be distributed ONLY in the exact same way as they are presented here. No tampering with executables is allowed under any circumstance. Note that this includes "patching" them with third-party programs. The one and only exception is for those who wish to use RTPatch by Nico Francois to make the Preferences Editor use ReqTools requesters. This is allowed only for your own copy of this program. NO DISTRIBUTION OF REQTOOLS PATCHED PROGRAMS IS ALLOWED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE WHATSOEVER! The files contained in this archive are ShareWare. They are offered here on a trial basis only. The user may use them for up to one month, after which they must be removed or replaced with registered versions. Distribution of this archive may be conducted for reasonable costs only. The end user must pay no greater than $10 to acquire this demo version. If one or more of these terms cannot be met, all files in this archive must be deleted from all locations on this system immediately. You can report fraud to me, and I will take it to the SPA if necessary. The "Commodore Windows" graphic is a reasonable parody based on the startup screen for Microsoft Windows, a registered trademark of Microsoft corporation. It was totally reconstructed originally and is not intended to infringe upon the copyrights of said corporation. THANKS ~~~~~~ Christian A. Weber, for iff.library. And for WBVerlauf. Great stuff! Jan Van Den Baard, for GadToolsBox. Wow, it sure works nice after if you bother to read the manuals! All the people who have registered versions, you know who you are and why I'm thankful to you! RELEASE HISTORY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2.00 05-Feb-94 First ShareWare release. Code rewritten from scratch. - New configuration program works just like standard Preferences editors - PAL support - Automatic screen centering - Install, Upgrade, and Remove scripts - Documentation rewritten - Synchronous loading saves time and wear on hard disk - No more seperate versions for Workbench 2.x and 3.x+ machines. - Icons created for preferences editor (MagicWB and standard 4-color) - "Commodore Windows" graphic shrunk to take advantage of screen centering. - BootScreen loads configuration off Preferences editor icon -- no more command line arguments! 1.01 21-Jan-94 - Added overscan support. Uses the old 1.3 method for creating overscan, since 2.0 methods are not available at boot-time. 1.00 19-Jan-94 BootScreen37 improvised to support Workbench 2.x. 1.00 25-Dec-93 Initial release. Public domain. REGISTRATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~ When you register, you will receive a disk containing the latest version of BootScreen, and it will be a custom registered version just for you. I don't feel that specially compiled versions for 020 or higher are necessary, since the routines aren't particularly time-intensive, and the marjority of execution time is spent opening or displaying the picture, which are functions in iff.library. Also on the disk will be as many sample pictures as will fit, more than enough for your startup screen needs! The registration levels are as follows: $5 Basic registration. This is a small amount of money!!! This covers the registered version of the disk and U.S. postage ONLY. For International orders, add $5 U.S. to any order. $10 Uprgade registration. Will get you upgrade notices in the mail for one year and significant discounts on upgrades. Will also get you my personal approval as well as notices for other products by myself. :> $11+ If you choose to send additional cash or other gifts (even a postcard will be cherished), we can arrange specific rewards. I might even consider that 020 version. :> To register, fill out the following form and mail it to me, along with a check or money order made out for the amount you wish to donate. BOOTSCREEN 2.00 REGISTRATION Date _________________ Full name ________________________________________________________________ Address __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Telephone # ______________________ E-mail address(es) _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Amount _____________________ -- Mail to: Joseph Luk P.O. Box 884401 San Francisco, CA 94188-4401 U.S.A. THANK YOU!!!!