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- ** Boot Intro Construction Set **
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- ** Author : Roger Fischlin **
- ** Steigerwaldweg 6, D-6450 Hanau 7, Germany **
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- ** Version : V1.10 / releasing date 1.st Februar 1992 **
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- ** Copyright : Freeware/ Shareware US $5 **
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- Distribution
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- This program is FREEWARE/SHAREWARE. All rights are reserved by the
- author. It may be freely distributed if you copy the doc file, too .
- It's FORBIDDEN to gain any profit by distributing or/and using
- this program without my written permission !
- Intros you have created with this program may be freely distributed
- also with commercial software.A remark about 'Boot Intro Construction
- Set' would be nice.
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- Purpose
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- 'Boot Intros' are small programs (1012 bytes) which are put on the
- bootblock of a disk. They appear if insert a disk into the drive for
- booting. 'Boot Intros' are often used for important messages or
- notices. These intros cannot be installed on a hard disk !
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- Instructions
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- Just double click the icon or enter the name as a CLI command.It will
- open its own screen with eight lines for text (up to 44 characters)
- and a string gadget at the bottom for the text of the scrolling line.
- The number (1-8) of that line is defined at the left side of the
- string gadget. You may also change the colour of a line by click its
- colour gadget on the right side. If you use the freeware version the
- scrolling line is always line 7 and line 5,6 & 8 are missing ! At the
- top you'll find the following eight gadgets :
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- Read me : try it !
- Author : try it !
- Clear : clear all text gadgets
- Quit : guess ?
- Read : Read a previously created intro and copy it to the buffer.
- Write : Write the intro to a disk.
- Install : Install a disk and delete an intro on the bootblock.
- Show : Show the intro
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- 'Read', 'Write' and 'Install' will open a requester and ask you for
- the drive number. If you just have one drive then it's time for you
- to insert the disk. 'Boot Intro Construction Set' will verify the
- bootblock after writing. If you get a verify error, be careful! There
- are two possible reasons :a virus is running and intercepts the write
- command or a virus killer does the same - check it out !
- 'Write' and 'Show' will put up the intro and will check if the code
- and whole text will fit into 1012 bytes (about 200 bytes are reserved
- for characters). If it doesn't fit you will get the number of
- overlapping characters. To exit the intro just press the left mouse
- button and move the mouse pointer away from the gadget before you
- release the button.PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WRITING A NEW BOOT BLOCK WILL
- DESTORY THE OLD ONE. SO SOME PROGRAMS WHICH USE THE BOOT BLOCK WILL
- BE DESTROYED BY WRITING A BOOT INTRO - YOU USE "BOOT INTRO
- CONSTRUCTION SET" AT YOUR OWN RISK !!!
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- NTSC & PAL
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- The intros will run on NTSC and PAL machines. The eighth line won't
- be visible on NTSC screens. In this case you should use black without
- any text otherwise you'll see the colour on the top of the intro.
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- About
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- There are two versions : a freeware and a shareware version. To get
- the shareware version please send me US $ 5 (DM 8);
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- Roger Fischlin, Steigerwaldweg 6, D-6450 Hanau 7, Germany
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- Thank you very much !
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- 1.st Februar 1992 Roger Fischlin
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