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- DicePref V1.0
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- © 1992 by Jan Schroeder
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- WHAT IS DICEPREF ?
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- DicePref is the result of my first steps in Amiga-programming and C. In
- 1991 i bought the Dice C-Environment directly from Matt Dillon at the
- Amiga 91 in Cologne. At first i steered Dice by ARexx, but i missed the
- intuitive interface known from the Amiga. So the idea for DicePref was
- born.
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- With the Dice-startup-batchfile (Dice.sh) and DicePref you can steer the
- most important features of Dice. The switches are stored in the DCCOPTS
- environment-variable, the assigns and the object-files have their own
- environment-variables, which are used and set by the startup-file and
- DicePref. If you see a more comfortable way to give Dice the objectfiles
- etc. please let me know.
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- In the upper part of the window you can switch different options, in the
- middle part you can choose the path for the assigns and in the lower part
- the files can be add, which shall be linked. Ok, the switch for 040 is
- not really necessary, but I added it for completition. The 040 will
- automatically switch instructions in his special ones, so this switch
- works like 000.
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- If you select "USE" or "SAVE" the switches and the object-files will be
- stored and the assigns will be made.
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- SERVICE FILES
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- Start your C-environment with the batchfile 'Dice.sh' or an other
- batchfile working by the same way to use the additional environment-
- variables for the paths modified by DicePref.
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- To compile you should use a batchfile working like 'bin/make',
- which adds the environment-variable DCCOBJECTS at the end of the -o
- switch. I didn´t see another - more comfortable - way to get the same
- result.
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- BUGS
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- No bug known, but there is a behavior, which i couldn´t suppress: when
- i examine the path for the assigns a requester will appear, which asks
- for inserting the volume with the requested identifikation, when the
- assigns are NOT made already.
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- I wanted DicePref to be variable, but i wasn´d able to identify the
- screen on which the actual window exists, so i helped me badly with
- searching TURBOTEXT or WORKBENCH or opening an own screen.
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- Because of i found no way to set a system font for the DicePref-window
- alone i proove the screenfont for topaz 11 and open an own screen, if
- there isn´t the needed font (or screensize!).
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- If you have any help or suggestions, please write to me!
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- HOW TO START DICEPREF
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- From CLI : Type 'DicePref' and press return.
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- From Workbench: Double-click on the 'DicePref' icon.
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- COMPATIBILITY
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- DicePref needs kickstart 2.x ! It has been tested on a Golem 030/882
- 6 MB board running at 14 MHz in an AMIGA 2000 B Rev 6 with 1 MB chip
- and XT bridgeboard, Golem SCSI II-controller with Quantum 240 LPS
- and Seagate ST 1096 N, Roßmöller 2 MB RAM-cartridge and a flickerfixer.
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- If any problems encounter with other configurations then let me know.
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- THANKS!
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- At first thanks to Matt Dillon for his C-environment.
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- Many thanks to Henrich Deppenmeier, who supported me with Fish-Disks
- and his ROM-Kernel-Manuals (Version 1.1 ;-) and Klaus Bockrath for
- teaching me the C-basics. Thanks to the many other fish-supporter, too.
- Also thanks to Jan van den Baard for his GadToolsBox.
- And last but not least: Fred Fish.
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- Send bug-reports, suggestions, comments etc. to:
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- Jan Schroeder
- Metzer Str. 4
- 4800 Bielefeld 1
- Tel. 0521/17 20 47
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- or Pit@Genesys.zer.sub.org
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