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- THIS PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED SOLELY FOR THE AEA/G3PLX AMT-1 OR AMT-2
- AMTOR/RTTY/CW/ASCII RS232 TERMINAL UNITS. THIS PROGRAM *CAN* BE
- USED IN A VERY LIMITED WAY ON OTHER RS232 T/U'S (KANTRONICS UTU ETC).
- FILE TRANSMISSION/RECEPTION AND LOGGING WILL FUNCTION AS WELL AS THE
- STANDARD SPLIT SCREEN ACTION, HOWEVER, ALL MODE CHANGES MUST BE DONE
- BY MANUALLY TYPING THE COMMAND FOR YOUR PARTICULAR T/U ON THE KEYBOARD.
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-
- You have already un-archived the file amt-1.arc which contained the files:
- amt1
- sysconfig
- readme.amt1
-
-
- 1)copy file amt1 to your disk
-
- 2)rename file sysconfig to system-configuration and copy it to directory :DEVS
- This sets up the screen colors for no flicker in interlaced 640X400 50 line
- mode display. Re-boot with the new system-configuration if DOS 1.2 (see next)
-
- 3)This program is guaranteed^ only with DOS 1.2 system-configuration. If you
- are running under 1.1, the only way to be sure of getting the program to
- function correctly is to manually enter preferences and set the screen for
- a display that shows minimum flicker. DO NOT COPY SYSTEM-CONFIGURATION!!!
- The best combination of colors is Blue-ish/Grey for the screen (first block
- in preference color pallette), Dead/Black for the text (second block in
- preference menu), Lavender/Blue (dilly dilly) for the window back gadget
- color (third block in preference menu),and peach or flesh for the last
- block in preference which gives you peach colored type-ahead text in the
- AMT-1 program itself.
-
- NOTE: These pastel colors sound like they came from San Fransisco's more
- flamboyant crowd. Actually, they work amazingly well to reduce the
- flicker on the Amiga monitor to a level almost undetectable. The
- 1.2 drag gadget lines are wider and flicker less than the 1.1 DOS.
- The dimmer the grey the better and keep the other bright colors to
- the minimum brightness required for good contrast and readability.
- (The colors have a calming effect on the patients here in the asylum)
-
- This is a very embryonic version of the program. The final version will have
- full console bell beeping, and full help screens and pull down help menus.
- It will probably have a PRINT gadget to turn the printer on and off while
- receiving text. One possibility for an enhanced version would be a
- robot type unmanned message store feature to save one message to a disk file
- each time it is called by a station using amtor ARQ when the proper selcal
- is received. Not a full BBS but a simple message storage feature that is
- useful and not quite as offensive to the FCC and fellow hams. I.E. it won't
- call CQ unmanned and can't be used for 3rd party obscene or illegal traffic
- re-transmission (since it can only receive incoming text and not re-transmit
- it). I happen to agree with the ARRL's position that complaints of obscene
- or otherwise illegal traffic should be directed at the station of origin,
- not any station relaying the traffic. But a program that prints a pre-typed
- "HELLO" message with instructions to the user on how to store a message on
- the system, receives the incoming message text, and transmits a sign off
- message of "Thanks" etc. is truely benign in its operation and hopefully
- a safe bet with the FCC.
-
- There are 2 main command structures, menu and status line. Both utilize
- the mouse to select modes of operation. The menu allows jumping right to
- transmit or receive in a certain mode as opposed to the mode area of the
- status line display which cycles through each of the modes.
- Each area of the status line has a gadget related to it that decends down
- approximately 2 or 3 chars down below the text. This allows pointing UP TO
- a status display in addition to PRESSING ON the text directly. Each click
- on the first text string showing the mode of operation, cycles through RTTY,
- 3 modes of amtor, cw, and ascii. In rtty, clicking on the speed will cycle
- the speeds through the standard 45.5, 50, 75, and 100 baud speeds. In cw,
- a string requester replaces the status line and prompts for the actual cw
- speed. Speed is not functional in amtor or ascii since in the former case,
- the speed is fixed by the protocol and in the latter, the speed of the
- serial port of the Amiga is directly sent through the AMT-1 (Max of 300 baud
- with the AMT-1 but not limited by the Amiga serial port). The serial port
- speed is set with a menu for baudrate.
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-
- * WARNING WARNING WARNING DOS 1.2 USERS WARNING WARNING WARNING *
-
- DO =NOT= END YOUR TEXT STRING IN A REQUESTER WITH A RETURN!!!!!!!!
- SAY GOOD NIGHT TO THE SYSTEM AND REBOOT IF YOU DO.
- THIS IS A MINOR BUG IN 1.2 THAT WILL BE FIXED IN THE RELEASE VERSION
- JUST CLICK THE "DONE" GADGET TO ENTER THE TEXT.
-
- With DOS 1.1 is safe to hit return or no return. You always must click on
- the "DONE" gadget to get rid of the gadget.
-
- The next version of the program will use ActivateGadget() to eliminate the
- need to click in the string gadget area of the requester before typing
- the text. And if is truely possible, the requester will disappear when
- the return is hit and the DONE gadget will be removed.
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-
- When the program is first run, it looks for a file named "infoinfo.txt".
- I will eventually have requesters do the prompting for the information but for
- now you must:
-
- 1)at the prompt type amt-1
- 2)A custom screen will appear...click on the window back gadget in the
- upper right hand corner.
- 3)click in the DOS window and proceed to answer the prompts for your
- selcal, name, qth, and callsign.
- 4)The program will continue normally from that point.
-
- This need only be done once (thank God!) for a given callsign/selcal/qth.
- I wanted to get this up on the board for a friend in Australia to download
- this weekend. My apologies....Next one will not have these quick kludges.
-
- * YOUR COMMENTS, CRITICAL EXAMINATIONS, EVEN INSULTS ARE WELCOME! *
- * BIXMAIL TO: althoff *
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- Or drop a note to: Thomas Althoff K2TA
- P.O. Box K-43
- Greenwood Lake, N.Y.
- 10925
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