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- Siege Watch v 2.0 April 19, 1994
- ** use the Map control panel to set your time zone **
- Description:
- The major function of this clock is to keep track of the time until the next
- U.S. Presidential inauguration, so you can remember to get your tuxedos pressed
- and brush up on the words to "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow". The app
- makes heavy use of the Speech Manager.
-
- Requirements:
- Requires System 7 or above.
-
- The Speech Manager is highly recommended.
-
- RAM requirements vary quite a bit depending on your color setup. If you
- have a black & white system you should be able to get flicker free updates
- with a relatively small partition size (≈ 65K) while 24-bit systems require
- a larger amount (≈120K). If you don't mind flickering updates 50K should work
- ok.
-
- History:
- initial release: v1.0d0
- minor bug fix: v1.01f
- • Fixed bug involving not having tested for a minimum amount of available
- memory when allocating an off screen GWorld.
- • Now makes sure that speech is finished before doing anything major.
- current release: v2.0
- • Added a whole lot of speech manager related enhancements such as controls
- to choose a voice and set its characteristics. Used in conjunction with
- Speech Daemon GH (which actually manages the voice).
- • Changed way in which view is changed back and forth between extended and
- condensed view (using cute little flag control).
- • Pie chart around clock face to give graphical indication of time elapsed in
- administration.
- • Now accept the open/close apple events.
- • At random intervals will speak a short phase which I consider funny (your
- mileage may vary).
-
-
- Conceived by:
- Joseph G. Howes
- Art by:
- James M. Howes
- Code by:
- Glenn R. Howes
-
- Bites by:
- George Orwell, the Beatles, Frank Baum, the Borg, George Washington, Terry Gilliam,
- Mel Brooks, Joseph Stalin, David Letterman, Abraham Lincoln, me (or was it Joe Biden),
- Cheech & Chong, Gordon Jump, Jesse Jackson, Ronald Reagan, Ren & Stimpy,
- Queen Victoria, Jon Lovitz, Jack Kennedy, Rush Limbaugh, Samuel Clemens, misc. dead
- guys who can't sue, and of course our Fearless Leader.
-
- Bites are used without permission under the fair use doctrine, and the God given right
- of every American to hold our elected officials up to public ridicule.
-
- Written in Think Pascal 4.
-
- Warranty:
- None whatsoever. Any damage or loss caused by this program is entirely the
- users responsibility. I'll be sorry about it though.
-
- I (Glenn Howes) place this program into the public domain. Feel free to
- distribute it wherever and however you like, but please do not distribute
- modified copies without consulting me.
-
- Speech Daemon GH is free but is not in the public domain. Do not
- distribute it without Siege Watch and this Read Me file.
-
- Misc:
- The included copy of Speech Daemon GH will work with Remote Speech GH 1.0 and
- Speak Note GH 2.0.
-
- This app uses 2 custom controls, a flag and a slider, which I have
- released along with code for other programmers to use with their own
- applications.
-
- This app creates a preference file which stores the state of the clock window
- and the speech setup.
-
- When the current administration is over, the time till the end of the one after
- that will be displayed.
-
- You need to set your location on the globe using the Map control panel. This is
- because the presidential swearing in ceremony occurs in Washington D.C. at noon
- and the application needs to know the time difference between there and the
- location of the computer.
-
- You might want to put an alias (or the app itself) into the Startup Items folder
- in your system folder. Put the Daemon in there too.
-
- When the first version of this went out, there was some reference on the net to
- "poor loser Republicans." Let the record show that I voted Libertarian in the
- most recent Presidential election and the only person I ever voted for who won is my
- Congressman, Scott Klug, whose intermittent taxpayer-mailed newsletters about how much
- money he's saving are getting on my nerves.
-
- Thanks to the rest of the family: Mom, Dad, Anne, John, David, Andy, Tommy, and
- Sarah.
-
- Doing a copy from the edit menu will put the current date/time into the clipboard.
-