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- "Here's a guy with a lot of time on his hands..." -- Dave Letterman
-
- It's inevitable. I write a display hack, and people ask for more.
- Well, here's some more. Welcome to ES 2.0.
-
- The following blurb was written by my new PR assistant:
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- The best just keeps getting better.
-
- EwhaCo introduces the latest version of ES: ES 2.0. The latest
- generation of open system-motivated and industry standard starfield
- generators.
-
- The original ES (EuroStars) program established new industry-wide
- standards for starfield programs, including the use of standard system
- displays, complete system compatibility, open systems interconnectivity
- through ARexx, and the innovative new StArgs(tm) starfield manipulation
- argument format.
-
- ES 2.0 offers you complete compatibility with version 1.0, and gives
- you all these new features:
- o Better performance, especially on 68000-based systems,
- o More stars,
- o Finer rotation,
- o Smoother star movement,
- o Supports the A4000, the AA chipset, and v3.0,
- o Improved overscan support,
- o Full support for StArgs(tm) arguments in Workbench icons,
- o Smaller executable.
-
- Your upgrade couldn't be more transparent. Just install the new
- program. That's all. No need to modify system files, change scripts, move
- boards, move cables, or flip switches. What could be simpler?
-
- You can't afford to wait.
-
- ES 2.0. Live in the future. Now.
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- I don't think I'll be using my PR assistant again...
-
- This distribution contains complete documentation and some example
- project icons which can be used to launch the program in various ways.
- Study the icon ToolTypes to see how this is done. It also contains the
- complete way-cool totally-rewritten mega-optimized assembly source code, so
- that you may study, learn, and customize.
-
- BTW, I'd like to offer some thanks I neglected to mention in version
- 1.0. I'd like to thank Glen McDiarmid and The Puzzle Factory for their
- magnificent disassembler, ReSource v4.16, which was used to make the initial
- disassembly; and to INOVATronics and Metadigm for MetaScope v1.50, the
- *ONLY* useful debugger I have ever used.
-
- I also like to again thank Greg Cunningham for bringing the original
- Euro code to my attention, and the European hacking community, without
- whom this program would not have been necessary :-).
-
- I hope you like it.
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- O----^o The Only Way To Fly. (pronounced "EH-wack")
- "Because you never know who might want to sit in your lap."
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