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Cheet Sheets
@Introduction
~Welcome to Cheet Sheets, Issue 46 - DEC/JAN 1995/96
Cheet Sheets must be installed to your hard disk before it
can be used. The install program will be run when you exit
this program (by selecting CLOSE) if you have started via
GO.BAT. Alternatively type INSTALL at the DOS prompt.
For legalities please see "The Boring, Legal Bit" within
the main magazine.
~System Requirements
■ 286+ with VGA and (about) 520k free Ram
■ 2.5Mb of free hard disk space
■ A mouse and SoundBlaster are optional but recommended
~We've fully redesigned the interface recently, following
~feedback. The Windows interface has been withdrawn.
~Mouse Control
Use the left mouse button to select any button, close
windows using the close boxes and control the program using
the icon bar.
To move through the pages of an article simply click on the
up and down arrows at the right of the screen, or use the
arrow keys/page up/page down!
~Keyboard Control
Cursor: Move the mouse cursor using the arrow keys and press
the spacebar where you would usually use the mouse button.
Push buttons: If an underlined letter is shown, type that
letter. Otherwise, move the cursor over the button and press
the spacebar.
Closing Windows: If a close box is displayed on the active
window, press escape to close the window.
@Credits
~Credits
Editor: Wayne Roberts
Coding & User Interface: Neil Gorin
Thanks to: Mark Cox & Paul Askew.
Contributions to the magazine should be sent to Wayne
Roberts at:
By-The-Way
Chilsworthy
Gunnislake
Cornwall
PL18 9PB
or addressed on the Internet to cheets@sv.span.com
Comments and suggestions regarding the programing side
should be sent to Neil Gorin at:
NGS
4 Rookwood Drive
Stevenage
Hertfordshire
SG2 8PJ
or addressed on the Internet to neil.gorin@nildram.com
@Music & CLO's
~Music & Command Line Options
INSTALL /m or CHEET /m - Uses the Software cursor - needed
on some amstrads and other machines where no mouse cursor is
visible.
CHEET /silent - Silence. Kills the sound entirely. If you
haven't got a sound card and get fed up of the screech, or
find the program hangs, use this option.
CHEET /SP - Force Speaker to be used for sound output. Don't
know why you'ld want to do this!
CHEET /SB - Force Soundblaster output. Use this switch if
your SoundBlaster (or especially a compatible card) is not
detected.
If your system locks after you select too high a sampling
rate, simply restart - Cheet Sheets will notice that it
has crashed, and reset the sampling rate to the lowest
setting.
~GREAT NEW FEATURE! If you've not got a sound card, using
~the "Play" (Noise Suppressor) in the viewer *vastly*
~improves music quality!
@Submissions
~Submitting your work
If you are thinking of submitting an article or a cheat,
you'll save us a lot of time if you follow these guides...
~Text files
■ All files must be saved in ASCII format (there are options
on all common Word Processors to do so).
■ Each article must be a maximum of 70 characters wide and
no more than 1600 lines. If you require more than 1600
lines, split your text into separate files.
■ An articles first line must be the name of the
program/article. Please include your name in the article.
■ To highlight a line, put a ~ at the start.
■ If you include tables or IBM graphics characters on a
line, start the line with a backwards quote ` found on the
key beneath escape. This makes the line monospaced. You can
highlighted a monospace line by putting ~` at the start.
■ If you send screen shots, please size them to 320x200
with 256 colours and save in PCX format. Use something
like Graphics Workshop or Paint Shop Pro to do this.
■ If you're including screen shots, save us some time! Make
sure the second line of your review is a number, indicating
the no of screen shots, then subsequent lines should hold
the file names (PCX only). Just like this:
Wally's Wallaby - Review
3
WALL1.PCX
WALL2.PCX
WALL3.PCX
<Blank line here>
Start of review
@Trouble Shooting
~Trouble Shooting
~Q: When I went to print a solution/review etc.. I receive
~an error dialogue box telling me that my printer is
~offline, or nothing is printed.
A: The current release of NGS GUI only supports LPT1. If you
printer is connected to a different port, you will not be
able to print.
~Q: I'm bored with the music, but haven't finished reading
~the mag yet... how can I change it?
A: Firstly, remember that there are 3+ tunes with each
issue... have you tried them all? If you have, simply copy
your favourite MOD files into the Cheet directory.
Depending on the free DOS memory on your machine,
modules greater than 200k may not play. Cheet Sheets will
not play the old style 16 voice MOD format!
~Q: Where can I get Cheet Sheets by FTP?
A: Dunno. If you find it somewhere, please tell us! For now,
you can have UUENCODED copies of the magazine sent to your
email address for free - send a request to cs2ei@herts.ac.uk
for this service. We cannot guarantee how long this will be
available.
@Known Bugs
~Known examples of the Negatively Expanded Feature Set
~Scrolling
We've fixed the Scrolling problem found with earlier copies
where you had to select "Safe Scroll". Cheet Sheets now
autodetects incompatible VGA cards and uses a "Page at a
time" scroll instead on such machines. What this does
mean is that the cursor keys work the same as PageUp/PageDown
on such computers.
~Scrolling without mouse
If you've no mouse, the up and down arrows move your cursor
and do not scroll the screen. To scroll either use the PageUp
and PageDown keys, or alternatively use CTRL with these keys
to scroll one line at a time.
~Install
If the INSTALL program fails, you may not have enough free
DOS memory. You need at least 512k free to install and use
Cheet Sheets 31+. Note that this is 512k free and not 512k
total. The actual Cheet Sheets program will run with about
350k free if you can live without the music.
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@Technical Info
~Technical Information
~Cheet Sheets Viewer
HISTORY: May 1994 - Initial versions (two programs)
June 1994 - Combined program. Bug fixes.
Uses English WinMOD under Windows.
August 1994 - Adds System font support
under DOS.
September 1994 (Some August copies) - adds
progress indicator to loading screen.
November 1994 Redesign with Tabbed dialogs.
Windows version removed due to lack of
interest.
December 1994 Bugfix - puts form feed after
print. Different tab headings.
January 1995 Enhanced - scroll with cursor
keys and Noise Suppressor feature. Now with
640x480 16 colour PCX support.
This copy of CHEET.EXE is not compatible with issue 35
or earlier, but you can use it to enhance issue 36.
~Install
Cheet Sheets uses the Sprinter Install from NGS. This
product is available as a separate product bundled with a
registered copy of Microbook... contact us for more details.
~All software developed in the UK by Neil Gorin Software.