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- ACTS OF THE APOSTLES
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- Purpose:
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- Jesus commanded his disciples, "Go ye therefore, and teach all
- nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of
- the Holy Spirit: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have
- commanded you" (Matthew 28:19-20). The disciples obeyed their Master's
- instructions, and were soon found preaching the things concerning the
- kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ in lands near and far. The
- book of "Acts" records many of the places in which the apostles traveled as
- they preached the gospel and exhorted the ecclesias. Cities such as
- Seleucia, Antipatris, and Paphos may have been familiar names 2000 years
- ago; today, however, the average Bible reader has little idea as to their
- locations.
-
- This program, therefore, is an attempt to help the reader of the
- book of "Acts" appreciate more what the apostles of Christ endured, as they
- travelled from city to city, preaching the word of God. It is an attempt to
- make the book of "Acts" come alive. The combination of computer graphics
- and text display is the medium through which this is attempted.
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-
- Requirements:
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- An IBM PC computer (or 100% compatible) with a graphics adapter
- and using DOS 3.0 or higher will run this program. Users with EGA/VGA
- video monitors will be pleased to know that this program will run in
- high resolution 640 x 350 mode if it detects an EGA/VGA video card (see
- below). For those users who have old PCs and XTs with CGA monitors, the
- program will also auto-detect your CGA card and will run in low-resolution
- CGA mode. Older machines with Hercules graphic cards may need to obtain a
- CGA simulator before you can run this program. "Acts of the Apostles" also
- requires a hard disk drive to run. Although the program does NOT have to
- RESIDE on your hard disk, a hard disk is nevertheless a necessity! I
- realize that this may sound strange to some, but trust the author - no
- hard disk, no run! Explaining why this is so would be too technical for
- the average user to understand, so take my word when we state that your
- computer must have a hard disk drive to run the program.
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- To start:
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- To begin, insert the program disk into your computer's drive, and
- at the appropriate DOS prompt, type ---> ACTS then press [ENTER]. For
- users with EGA/VGA color monitors, the high resolution color graphics mode
- will be auto-detected when loading the program. Should you wish to force
- a low resolution black and white (CGA) mode, add the "/C" parameter behind
- "ACTS" on the command line (e.g., "ACTS /C"). If for some odd reason the
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- program does not sense your EGA/VGA card, you can also force the high
- resolution color mode by adding a "/E" or "/V" parameter at the command
- line. After the opening title screen, a map and "Main Menu" selections
- will appear (see below):
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- Press the key of your choice:
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- [B] Bookmarker, Go to [L] Locate/print map [X] Exit program
- [D] Documentation [Q] Quiz/test knowledge [+] Next chapter
- [E] Exposition [R] Read chapter/verse [-] Previous chapter
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- To make a selection, simply press the key corresponding to the
- function you wish to activate. For example, to view the program documen-
- tation, press the [D] key on the keyboard. To read a chapter from the book
- of Acts, press the [R] key, and so forth.
-
- Below is a review of the above key functions:
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- Bookmarker:
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- Press [B] only if the user wishes to return to an earlier viewed
- chapter/verse. The bookmarker will not function unless "[R] Read chapter/
- verse" had been earlier performed (see below "Read chapter/verse").
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- Documentation:
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- This function allows the user to display this document on the
- screen.
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- Locate feature:
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- Although this program was written with the book of "Acts" chiefly
- in mind, the program can also be used to locate cities/regions that are
- mentioned by name in other books of the New Testament. Automatic city/re-
- gion display is only available for the book of "Acts", but the user can
- manually locate a city/region by selecting "[L] Locate city/region" from
- the "Main Menu". To locate a city/region, press [L] once more to obtain
- a menu list of all the names of the topographic features available.
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- Within "[L] Locate city/region" the following options are also
- available:
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- [I] Information [M] Main menu [^] Previous item (A-Z)
- [L] List all items [P] Print map [v] Next item (A-Z)
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- Selecting the "[I] Information" feature will display a 1-5 line note
- about the located feature which is currently displayed in the map.
-
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- Print a map:
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- This option will print the current screen to a Hewlett-Packard
- LaserJet/DeskJet series printer, or Epson compatible or IBM compatible
- dot-matrix printer. Make sure your printer is on-line before selecting
- this option. If you receive random letters and characters, instead of a
- map, press the [ESC] key immediately to abort the print. Unfortunately,
- with the hundreds of printers in use, the author could only support
- those printers that he was able to gain access to. Although I
- would be interested in knowing what printers do not work with this
- program, we will not be obligated to fix the program to support your
- printer.
-
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- Read chapter/verse:
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- To gain access to the text of the book of "Acts" the user must
- first press "[R] Read chapter/verse". Upon this selection the user will be
- prompted for the chapter or chapter and verse combination they wish to view.
- For example, if the reader desired to view the fourth chapter of the book
- of "Acts" the user would respond to the "Enter chapter/verse:" prompt with
- the entry of ---> 4 then press [ENTER]. If the user wished to view the
- fourth chapter of "Acts" starting at verse 8, then the user would enter
- ---> 4:8 then press [ENTER].
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- Once the text has been displayed, the cursor control keys will move
- (scroll) the text. Up and down arrow, Page Up and Page Down, Home and End
- keys will control the text movement. To return to the "Main Menu" at any
- time, press the [ESC] key.
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- One nice feature of this program is that when a topographical item
- (i.e., city or region) is mentioned in the displayed text, the item (or
- items) will be located automatically within the map above. As the reader
- progresses through the book of Acts, the cities/regions will display
- themselves with no effort from the user.
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- On some occasions there will be found more than just one city/
- region within a line of text. On such occasions each item will be
- displayed alternately, back and forth - first Phrygia, then Galatia,
- then Phrygia, then Galatia, and so on...
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- Try reading Acts chapter 16 and scroll through the text LINE BY
- LINE to experience firsthand what the above discussion is about.
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- Next chapter/Previous chapter:
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- This function advances or returns the user to the next chapter or
- previous chapter of the book of "Acts", depending upon where the reader
- last left off viewing text. If no text had yet been viewed, the program
- will default with chapter 1 in both cases.
-
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- Exit program:
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- To quit/exit this program, press the [X] key from the Main Menu.
-
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- Credits:
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- The following reference materials were used in compiling data for
- this program:
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- Eerdmans' Atlas of the Bible. (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub-
- lishing Co., 1978).
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- The People's Bible Encyclopedia. (Chicago: The People's Publication
- Society, 1916).
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- The New Harper's Bible Dictionary. (New York: Harper & Row, Pub-
- lishers, 1973).
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- Key to the Understanding of the Scriptures, Mansfield, H.P. (South
- Australia: Logos Publications).
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- Thank you folks!
-
-
- Disclaimer:
-
- We shall not assume any direct or indirect responsibility for
- losses incurred from the use of "Acts of the Apostles". This program is
- provided on an "as is" basis with no guarantees whatsoever. If you
- purchased this program from a source other than the author directly, the
- author will not be obligated to provide you with a working copy. Please
- contact the vendor who sold you the evaluation disk. We do not wish to
- play mechanic when the vendor has sold you a defective disk.
-
-
- Shareware:
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- "Acts of the Apostles" is NOT free software. NEITHER is it public
- domain software. This program is copyrighted shareware software. Shareware
- is user supported software. If you use this program repeatedly, then you
- are obligated to support the author. Please use the registration form at
- the end of the program to register. The author does NOT receive any money
- from the distributor of this disk. If you paid $4-5 for this program from
- a vendor, the author receives nothing. The only financial income we receive
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- the Apostles" can do so as long as the file date stamp on ACTS.EXE is no
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-
- Closing comments:
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- I hope that "Acts of the Apostles" may be found useful in your
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