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- A.C.E. Extractor
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-
- The extractor will unpack the .DMS & .LHA files on our CD's.
-
- EXTRACT.LHA is found in the UTILS directory of the CD, just unpack it to
- your hard drive.
-
- To start the extractor double click on the icon & the
- utility will load in the extractor & data for the CD or CD's.
- (more about that later).
-
- Once loaded you will see the ACE-EXTRACT info screen this
- tells you the version of the extractor, how many titles are
- in the current datafile & the date it was last updated.
- To exit this screen just click on OK to see the Main Menu.
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- Main Menu
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-
- Title Bar (Top of screen) [Right Mouse Button]
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-
- PROJECT:
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- Load or Right Amiga Key & L
- ===========================
- This will load a new datafile if your CD has more than one.
-
- Info or Right Amiga Key & I
- ===========================
- Will bring up the extractors Info screen mentioned above.
-
- About or Right Amiga Key & A
- ============================
- This will bring up a couple of Greetings & Dedication
- screens. Select MORE on the first screen to see the second
- and OK to exit the second.
-
- Quit or Right Amiga & Q
- =======================
- Can't imagine what this one does.
-
- OPTIONS:
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- Filter or Right Amiga & F
- =========================
- This brings up the Select Filter Options screen, the reason
- for this screen is to filter out the data for other CD's
- we may release in the future.
-
- For example:-
-
- On our first CD there will only be one Datafile you can load
- in thats the Datafile for our CD No.1.
-
- On our CD No.2 there will be two Datafiles one for CD No.2 for
- the people who only have CD No.2 & one for people who have both.
-
- On our CD No.3 there will be two Datafiles one for CD No.3 for
- the people who only have CD No.3 & one for people who have more
- than one of our first 3 CD's.
-
- The filter will give these people the option to cut out the
- Datafile for certain CD's they may not have. If they have CD's
- No.1 & No.3 but not No.2 then they can Filter out the Datafile
- for No.2 & the Menu will only show the Titles on CD's No.1 & No.3
- simple or what ?
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-
- Main Menu Screen
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-
- SEARCH or Right Amiga & S:
- ==========================
-
- When you first load in the extractor you will notice a list of
- contents & four buttons at the bottom of the screen of which only
- one is active SEARCH. You can use this button to search for a
- Title for example lets say you only wanted to unpack the game
- Alien Breed 2 but don't want to scroll up & down the listing,
- click on the SEARCH button this will bring up the search
- option screen. Here you could enter BREED & click on the SEARCH
- button & the extractor will search for any title containing the
- word BREED & list the on the screen for you to select & unpack.
- There are also search options of where in the title the string
- is found & if you require them to be case sensitive or not.
- To get back to the full CD listing just click on the SHOW ALL
- button.
-
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- Other Options On The Main Screen
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-
- To activate the other Buttons you will first have to select a
- title to unpack. Done that ? Good!
-
- You will notice that some information has now come up on the
- screen i.e. Cracked by, Trained by, Number of Disks required
- and Comments etc. Also you will notice that three buttons are
- now active UNPACK GAME, SEARCH(as above) & UNPACK DOCS.
-
- NB: UNPACK DOCS may not always be active, it will only be
- active if the Docs are on the CD for that title.
-
- UNPACK GAME or Right Amiga & U:
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- This will unpack the title you have selected with either DMS or
- LHA which the extractor will use directly from the CD you do not
- need either on you Hard Drive.
-
- This will bring up an options screen giving you the option to
- select different Source & Destination Devices if the file is an
- LHA file then the extractor will prompt you for a Path Name, we
- would not recommend using RAM: as some of the files are very large
- best you select a Hard Drive. Just select what is right for your
- system then click on UNPACK. If the title is made up of Disks &
- there are more that ONE disk then the extractor will automatically
- UnDMS all the disks in order for that title be it Game or Utility.
-
- UNPACK DOCS or Right Amiga & D:
- ===============================
- If the docs are on the CD for the title you have selected then you
- can unpack them to you choice of device as above as they are all LHA,
- but once again we suggest you pick a path to a Hard Drive &
- not RAM: as some of these files are very large.
-
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- NB: Anywhere use see a button with a letter in that option with an _
- under the letter then that option can be accessed using the
- Right Amiga Key & that Letter
-
- For Example:-
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- On the UNPACK DOCS button the D has an _,
- so to unpack the documents to a title press the following:-
- Right Amiga & D
-
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-
- Well thats about all there is to it, have fun with this CD.
-
- P.S. We have used the same structure for our CD as the guys who did the
- Ultimate Amiga CD No.1 as they are no longer doing CD's.
- Our reason for copying that structure is coz it makes for a nicely laid out
- CD with not too many files in each directory (Have you ever waited while
- about a 1,000 files list on the screen ? Even with an 030 it's go & make
- a cuppa tea time!).
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- A.C.E. Amiga