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- ! Please do read -- new informations since version of 13.1.1990 !
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- Hepberg, 2/5/1989
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- Welcome
- to
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- FastCopy III
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- Faster than Light!
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- 0. Program-Information
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- Concept, Design, Documentation and Development
- Martin Backschat
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- Beta-Tester
- Rupert Kaiser & "Gogl", Manfred Messner und Stephan Englhardt
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- Designer of the title picture
- Ralph Seth
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- Thanks to
- Everybody, who supports the development of FastCopy III,
- Everybody, who critizes contructively,
- Everybody, who financially supports the project,
- Everybody, who financially supported FastCopy 2.00, and
- thus indirectly also supports the III.rd part
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- 1. Installation
- FastCopy runs as a program and as an accessory. To start it from
- the Desktop, call it >>FCOPY_3.PRG<<. To make TOS recognize it as
- an accessory call it >>FCOPY_3.ACC<< and put it on the boot-disk
- (A: for drives and C: for harddisks).
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- 2. How to use
- You find a brief Survey of all functions FastCopy offers you
- in main menu under >>Help<<. But to exhaust the variety of all
- functions you need the manual. For 50 Deutsch-Mark (30 US $
- respectively) I'll send you an printed english manual and the
- latest version of FastCopy on disk. In addition to that you'll be
- registered in the update-list, that means you'll always get a new
- version immediately.
- The disk also contains a demonstration program. To load it,
- click on the file >>fcpydemo.prg<< (runs in any resolution; I
- recommend low-res!). After a moment the outstanding title
- picture appears on screen and again after a short time an
- outstanding digital sound will come out of your monitor
- (extracts of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana). To quit the demo make
- a reset.
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- 3. How to copy
- A) FastCopy is Freeware. That means everbody is allowed to copy
- and use it for free. PD-/Freeware-mailing services should
- consider of acting fair against me and of making a special
- donation to the hard working author.
- B) You are only allowed to copy FastCopy as a package. This
- package has to contain the following files:
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- FCOPY_3.PRG - The copy program itself
- and/or
- FCOPY_3.ACC
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- FCOPY_3.DOC - Text in German (Wordplus)
- FCOPY_3.TXT - Text in German (ASCII)
- FCOPY_3.EDC - Text in English (Wordplus)
- FCOPY_3.ETX - Text in English (ASCII)
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- 5. Please notice...
- ...that when using the function "New Conf." and converting a
- bigger format into a smaller one while needing two or more
- reading-acts (Insert...) you really have to use two diskettes as
- source and destination. This happens for example if you want to
- convert a 890 KByte-Disk into a 720 KByte one and only have less
- than 890 KByte free.
- But when using the function properly, that means converting a
- smaller format (e.g. 9 sectors per track) into a bigger one (e.g.
- 11 sectors per track), this problem doesn't appear.
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- 5. What to do in case of...
- For all not having read the manual, here some useful hints:
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- What to do in case of...
- ...the format function doesn't work, too many damaged tracks?
- Some drives, especially older 5ΒΌ-inch ones, may have
- problems with the Fast-Format. In this case I recommend
- to switch to the saver regular Format-mode "Format
- Dest." by <q>.
- The same problem may appear if you are using processor-
- speeders like Hyper-Cache a.s.o. In this case use the
- regular format mode, too.
- ...copying a strange disk format (e.g. Spectre-128, Minix)?
- In case of formats uncompatible to TOS (and MS-DOS)
- always switch off the automatic configurations
- recognition ("Read Disk Conf.") by <r>. Read the manual
- of the emulator (e.g. Spectre, Minix) and install the
- format they use in the field titled "Set Disk
- Configuration".
- ...copying only the used sectors (Get Sectors: used) doesn't
- work?
- This problem can result from several reasons:
- a. The Disk has a strange format
- In this case have a look on the hint above...
- b. The FAT of the disk is damaged
- The table containing the information which sectors
- are free, used or damaged is unreadable. In this
- case switch off to the "Get Sector: all"-mode by
- <g>. In this mode FastCopy ignores the FAT.
- ...the step rate is always set to 3 ms?
- The step rate is installed with help of TOS.
- FastCopy only supports the official versions 1.0, 1.2
- (Blitter-TOS), 1.4, 1.6 (STE) and later. Different
- (inofficial) versions may cause problems. In this case
- you can't set up the step rate. Solution: Boot an
- official TOS.
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- The final Note:
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- Everbody, for who FastCopy is a precious tool for working with
- the ST, can send their donations and/or their contructive critic
- to
-
- Martin Backschat
- Bergstr. 16
- 8071 Hepberg
- West Germany
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