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- Menu System
-
- Just $5.00!
- Ver 2.4s
-
- Intro:
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- The Awesome Menu System, as far as I know, is the only dos based icon
- driven menu system with Sound Blaster support. It has a easy to use graphical
- interface completely unique to any other program.
-
- Requirements:
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- + 80286 (286) Processor or higher
- + VGA Graphics
- + Mouse
- + 640k Base Memory
- + Hard drive
- + Dos Ver 3.3 and Up except Dos Ver 4.*
-
- Recomendations:
-
- + Sound Blaster
- + Accelerated Video Card
- + Disk cache such as SmartDrv or Fast
-
- The interface used for this program relies heavily on the harddrive.
- I did this since not everyone has EMS or XMS. Any one who doesn't should be
- shot. Good caching software such as SmartDrv will dramatically improve the
- performance. This software was tested on a 286 and 486 and ran fine on both.
-
- 286 Config:
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- + Boca SXVGA 1024x768x256 HiColor Video Card
- + 286 20Mhz Processor
- + 1 Meg of RAM
- + 105 Meg HardDrive 9Ms Access Time
- + SmartDrv.Exe 384k Cache
-
- 486 Config:
-
- + Diamond Speed Star Stealth 24-bit video card
- + 486 33Mhz Processor wth Co-Processor with 512k read cache on drive
- + 8 Meg of Ram
- + 210 Meg HardDrive 11Ms Access Time
- + SmartDrv.Sys 2000k Read Cache , 2000k Write Cache
-
- The 486 ran better, of course, but there was no speed problems with the
- crappy 286. The whole reason for this boring section was to show how low
- powered of a system you can use with the right software, mainly because people
- wrote to me telling me how slow it is when they just have slow harddrives.
-
- Keys:
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- + "S" - Forces screen saver on (comes on by itself)
- + "P" - Previews Icons
- + "V" - Views Log
- Left Mousebutton = next page
- Minimize button puts it into the background out of sight
- Turn on from AM2.CFT
-
- + Right mouse button drags items and groups. To Edit drag the item to
- to pencil, Delete - Trash. Right mouse button can also be used to
- reposition the items or groups. Right mouse button off of then main
- program launching window will move you back one group.
-
- Icons:
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- This version comes with 101 icons, some of which WERE windows icons.
- The registered version comes with a Icon drawing utility that I wrote.
-
- PCX's:
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- To put a .PCX file into the background, you must create one using the
- color palette from BASEPAL.PCX. The Awesome interface changes the palette
- around, that is why this is needed. The registered version has 256 color
- support and you can use any 16 or 256 color PCX you want. The unregistered
- version can only display a 640x480x16 color PCX.
-
- Sound:
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- YOU MUST HAVE A SOUND BLASTER! To change sounds you must copy over the
- old .VOC files. The .VOC files must be less than 40,000 Bytes in size.
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- Files:
- Open.Voc - Startup/About Sound
- Close.Voc - Exit or run Sound
- Error.Voc - Error Sound
- Ins.Voc - Done edit, config or change group Sound
- Back.Voc - Back one group Sound
- Delete.Voc - Delete or Sort Sound
- Nothing.Voc - Sound when you click and nothing happens
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- Info:
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- Interface, Menu, FileView Utility, Interface Idea and functionality
- were all created by Paul Chandler.
-
- Registration:
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- Fee:
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- Send $5.00 to the address below.
-
-
- Contact me at:
-
- 6 Dorado
- Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688
- U.S.A.
-