19-Oct-87	Moose Version 1.0 & MooseCtrl Version 1.0 documentation.

       At last! By popular demand! The Talking Moose comes to the Amiga!
I saw this on the Mac some months ago, and decided that Amy needed it, also.
This version works much like I remember the Mac version did, with the exception
of the bulging eyes. Maybe in the next version (rsn). For those who haven't
seen it, a small window pops up on the screen with a picture of a Moose, the
Moose says something, and then disappears for a while. There is a separate
program (MooseCtrl) which allows you to adjust the speech parameters (pitch,
volume, etc.) that sends messages to the Moose task. Both programs are RUNnable
from CLI or the Workbench (icons included). Written in assembly language. As
much time was spent fine-tuning this program, it is being offered as Shareware.
A donation ($5-$10) is requested by the author:

                               Bill Perkins
                               142 Burban Drive
                               Branford, Ct. 06405


Documentation:

   Moose is a background task for the Amiga, runnable from CLI or
 Workbench. The Narrator.device is needed in SYS:devs for operation. If
 narrator is not available, the Moose will not come up.

   MooseCtrl is a separate task that will allow you to change pitch,
 sample rate, volume, speed, and delay between appearances of the
 Moose (up to about 30 minutes). An executable file (Install.Moose)
 is included to add the special Moose.font to the SYS:fonts directory,
 run it before starting MooseCtrl. MooseCtrl will only operate if the
 Moose is already running.

   Moose.Phrases is a text file with most of the phrases the Moose will
 say. These phrases are in translated format, with a few modifications
 for clarity or whatever. You can edit this file so the Moose will say
 your own stuff, just make sure all phrases are in acceptable format
 (TRANSLATED) before running the Moose. I used Say and Speechtoy to set
 up the phrases. NOTE: you must have an even binary number of phrases
 in the Moose.Phrases file for proper operation (2,4,8,16,32,64,128, etc.)
 otherwise some or most phrases will never be heard. Separate phrases with
 a single NL (newline) character (ascii 10, or 0A hex), and put 2 NL's or
 form-feed (ascii 12, or 0C hex) to mark the end of the file. Moose.Phrases
 MUST be in the root directory of the disk it is called from, and not in any
 subdirectories or drawers.

   Distribution: This package may be freely distributed, as long as the
 COMEPLETE package is distributed unmodified:

	Moose
	MooseCtrl
	Moose.Phrases
	Moose.font
	6b
	Moose.doc
	Install.Moose

   You can change the .info files if you wish (icons for Moose and MooseCtrl),
but the rest of it MUST remain intact for proper operations. Also, again, this
is Shareware, meaning if you like and decide to keep the package, or any parts
of it, a donation is requested ($5-$10) by the author. For $15 and a disk, I
will send you the comeplete source code (in assembler, with comments), and a
Moose.Editor which will let you translate and test phrases for the Moose, as
soon as it's ready, along with a few other PD programs I have floating around
here. Your support will enable me to continue writing strange programs for the
Amiga, both Shareware and Public Domain, and is greatly appreciated.

                           Bill Perkins
                           142 Burban Drive
                           Branford, Ct. 06405

            Compuserve: 72245,710 for comments, suggestions, etc.

   If you have ideas for PD programs, and would like to see them on Compuserve,
E-Mail me an outline of your idea and I'll look intuit. If I decide to write
the program, I will contact you before starting on it if you wish to sell it
or Shareware it, or if I have any questions. Full credit will be given in the
documentation and/or the program itself where appropriate for original ideas.

   This program is released "as is", and no warrantee of any kind is expressed
or implied.