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- Andrew Hunter
- Mathew Bland
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- Presents...
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- Prettify!
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- Have you ever looked at Windoze '95 and thought we Acorn users could do with
- such nice start-up screens/ shutdown screens (the best bit of Windoze!)?
- Well, here is a way of providing them...
-
- All the files here are © Andrew Hunter, 1996, and are FREEWARE. You may copy
- them freely so long as the original files remain intact, you don't try to
- take credit and you don't charge an enormous fee for so doing... Also the
- author disclaims any resposibility for crashed hard discs/lost sleep/etc
- arising through your use or misuse of this software.
-
- DrawFile is © Acorn Computers Ltd. I have distributed it as part of the
- application, which admittedly bends the rules slightly on its distribution,
- but I thought a full copy of !System/!SysMerge/etc was a bit much...
-
- Sorry. Have to do that, though, 'cos I don't want anybody sueing me...
-
- Anyway, to use these aptly named utilities, all you have to do is make sure that
- they are loaded before the desktop starts (!AcornLogo is best loaded before
- anything else, so stick it in your !Boot.!Run file, just after the bit that
- says 'Set Boot$Dir <Obey$Dir>' or similar...). You now have a new desktop
- banner, a swish animation, and a better shutdown sequence.
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- Customising
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- Obviously you might want to change the things that come up. Well, the AcornLogo
- animation is easily changed by anyone who knows about BASIC. !Prettify
- contains several files which may be of interest to the customiser:
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- 'Welcome' contains the Drawfile that is loaded & displayed on desktop startup.
- Feel free to edit it any way you like.
- 'ShutDown' is the obey file executed to intercept a system shutdown.
- 'Common' is a load of WIMP functions you might steal for your own programs
- (feel free!)
- 'Bzzt', goes, well, bzzt.
- 'Reset' - resets the machine immediately after system shutdown.
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- Contacting meee
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- Email - Arcade 'Ahunter'
- ahunter@spuddy.mew.co.uk
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- Snailmail - Andrew Hunter
- 18 Warren Close
- Elmswell
- Suffolk
- IP30 9DS
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- Feel free to send chat, bug reports, praise or money (not by e-mail - digitised
- dosh is not yet much use...). Sticks of rhubarb or other vegetable produce
- may be sent, if you really want to be weird...
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