I am sure that everybody would like to be able to do a little more
with the "Slideshow" of the "Caleidoscope" than what it does in its present
state.
     I played with it a little bit and I discovered that you can actually
use it for a slideshow of your own with nice "text" slides and beautiful
"Polyscope" pictures.
     The "schedule" of the Slideshow is based on the file "script" which
resides in the "eatext" directory. By modifying the contents of that file,
you can have your own schedule with your own pictures!!
     I am going to give you an example of what you can definitely do. You
can modify this to your liking of course. The possibilities are endless.

     1) Print the file "script" of the "eatext" directory of the "Calei-
doscope" disk in order to see the large number of possibilities of sche-
duling the slideshow.
     2) Prepare a disk containing the "Slideshow", the "Polyscope",the "Note-
pad" from the Workbench. The disk should also contain the directory eatext
from Caleidoscope with only the files ooo.txt and ealogo.txt in it.
     3) Run the "Polyscope" and get two pictures from it by pressing
"SHIFT D" (forget the double quotes here!!). Naturally, you can't have
two pictures carrying the name "Poly.pic". Get one with that name, and
then rename it poly1.plbm. Then get another one with the name Poly.pic
and rename it poly2.plbm. Don't try to press "D" with the "Caps/Lock" on.
It doesn't work here.
     4)Now, activate the notepad and write the following text in it:

      load text :eatext/ealogo
      wait 5
      pullup text lores
      load lores :poly1
      wait 5
      scrollup lores text

      load text :eatext/ooo
      wait 5
      pullup text lores
      load lores :poly2
      wait 5
      scrollup lores text
      restart

      Save the file with the above text as eatext/script. WAD!! (We Are
Done).
      All you have to do now is press: "Slideshow" and ... there it is.
      Obviously, the text files eatext/ealogo and eatext/ooo are irre-
levant to this particular show, but all the ingredients for a good Po-
lyscope-Text show are here.
      To write your own text files, use your notepad. This program does
not work with text files from the Amiga Editor. Your own text files can
of course reside in the same directory as that of the Slideshow. How-
ever, the "script" file must reside in the "eatext" sub-directory.
     You may use the spacebar to pause/continue the show.
     To stop the show, use the spacebar and then go "CNTL-Left Amiga-Right
Amiga" to reboot the Workbench. Don't try to add "Stop" at the end of
the "script" file. You will most probably get a Guru Meditation number!!
      You may use the "Space Bar" to pause/continue the show.
      I would definitely like to know of any developments in this direc-
tion. Good luck!!


                                                    HERMES