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                       TrackStepper 1.12                           05-Oct-94
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Introduction
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Last year me and a friend were making a trackdisplay, and we wanted an easy
way to check it, so I did the first version of TrackStepper. The first
version was done for 1.3 and used hardware addresses for controlling the
diskdrive. Now I have got an A500+, so therefore I started doing a version
for 2.0 and at the same time change it to use trackdisk-device instead of
direct hardware programming (that isn't so good in case that someone is
writing to disk at the same time as you are moving the read/write-head).
Here comes the legal stuff...

Disclaimer
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THIS SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS". NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
WARRANTIES ARE MADE WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, PERFORMANCE,
CURRENTNESS, OR OPERATION OF THIS SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION, AND ALL USE IS
AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE AUTHOR DOES NOT ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY
WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION.

Copyright
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This program is FREEWARE. It may be freely distributed as long as all files
in it remain unchanged and are included in the distribution. Also no more
than a nominal copy fee may be charged for the distribution. This program
cannot be used for commercial purposes without written permission from the
author.

Function
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TrackStepper is a program that is able to step the read/write-head of the
diskdrive up or down. It's mainly done for testing trackdisplays.
There are eight gadgets in the window, I'll give a quick explanation of
them. The character to the right of most functions is the keyboard shortcut.

StepUp or 'U':
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         Steps the read/write-head of the drive selected with the 'Drive'-
         gadget up so many steps that is chosen in the 'Steps'-gadget.

StepDown or 'D':
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         Just like StepUp, but it steps down instead.

ABOUT:
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         Shows a small about text (what did you think? :)

Goto Track Zero or 'Z':
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         This moves the read/write-head to position 0.

Steps or 'S':
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         Here you enter the number of steps that StepUp and StepDown will
         do.

Drive:
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         Here you select the drive to be used. First choose the drive, then
         you press On/Off to turn the motor on, then you can start testing
         all the other functions.

Track or 'T':
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         This works as a trackdisplay, it will always display which track
         that the read/write-head is on (except when you start the program,
         then it will only display zero until you select something). You 
         can also enter a number in here, then the read/write-head will
         move to that track.

On/Off or 'O':
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         This is used to turn on or off the motor of the diskdrive. This
         should always be chosen after that you have selected which
         drive you want to use.

History
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V1.0     This was done using OS1.3 and was a bit unsafe to use, because
         of the use of direct hardware fiddling.

V1.10    Totally rewritten version, this uses gadtools-library (no 1.3 =(
         and trackdisk-device, and should be a lot safer to use.

V1.11    Minor update. Keyboard shortcuts to most functions, and iconify.

V1.12    I changed the program a bit. Now uses a requester for the about
         text, and I also did an EditHook for the cylinder & steps gadgets,
         so that you can't enter illegal characters, such as '-' and '+'.


Notes
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I don't think that anybody could be able to damage anything using this
program, but if somebody would, then I can't take any responsibility
for that. Use it at your own risk!

Bugs
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NONE KNOWN

            Send bug reports, ideas, PD Programs etc. to:

                            Staffan Hämälä
                            Pellovägen 268
                            S-957 93 Pello
                            SWEDEN