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: 2.1 (2/11/94) UNREGISTERED VERSION IMPORTANT ~~~~~~~~~ BootScreen 2.1 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. All documentation, and other files must be preserved if redistrbuted. No tampering with executables is allowed under any circumstance. Note that this includes "patching" them with third-party programs. I make one and only exception 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! Kenneth Fribert, for making me come up with the really crazy idea of loading the monitor driver early. Michael Nielsen, for reporting the enforcer hit bug. Whew, and I thought I had tested it to the bone! Everybody who reported bugs and made suggestions for the 2.00 version! All the people who have registered versions, you know who you are and why I'm thankful to you! FORTHCOMING ENHANCEMENTS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Here's a quick look at what's on my "To do" list: - "Emergency break" feature would allow you to break your startup-sequence while BootScreen is active. - Blank the pointer during display - Making it so that other screens don't show up behind the "Test" screen when automatic centering is on. - Adjustable centering. - 3rd party graphics board support. Anyone willing to give me code? - Copperlist support. Again, anyone willing to donate code? - Integrating the close daemon into the BootScreen program. Please see the technical article on "Why So Many" files for more information. - Install script should have an option whereby the user can choose which line to add the BootScreen command after. This will allow Dirk Wrocklage to have his special startup-sequence work properly. :> RELEASE HISTORY ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 2.1 Future Mostly bug fixes, but some new features added. This version was sort of rushed out, because of important bugs in 2.00. Sorry beta testers! - Version number only has tenths now because the literal "BootScreen200.lha" was one character too long for BBBBS bulletin boards. - Added "BYPASS" monitor option. This allows you to keep the monitor ID for advanced mode selection. See the technical article on "Alternate Modes and Early Monitor Loading." - Fixed enforcer hit (AARGH!) when file requester opened with empty string gadget. - 2.00 should not have required V38 (2.1) ASL library as I had already written code to cope with the V37 ASL library. This has been fixed. - Fixed "Test" screen close bug. The old method I used was to peek at IntuitionBase and wait until the active screen changed -- quite bad, but it saved some code size. This broke on some machines, so I now open a window on the screen and use the system-friendly I/O method. - Minor aesthetic install script changes. - Icon positions adjusted. I use Times for my icon font so it's narrower than Topaz. :> - Changes to the documentation: - new article on alternate mode possibilities - rewritten monitor mode descriptions - added "to do" list - added troubleshooting guide in readme first file - removed registration instructions from readme first file 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 personalized version just for you. Also on the disk will be as many sample pictures as will fit, and perhaps a utility or two that might be relevant to BootScreen. 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 2.1 REGISTRATION Date _________________ Full name ________________________________________________________________ Address __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Telephone # ______________________ E-mail address(es) _______________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Registration Amount ________ Check if International postage required [ ] + $5.00 Total Amount Sent ________ -- Mail to: Joseph Luk P.O. Box 884401 San Francisco, CA 94188-4401 U.S.A. Your disk will be mailed within four weeks. You may check with me via e-mail as to the status of your order, if you so choose. THANK YOU!!!!