@NODE main "LSD & 17Bit Compendium Deluxe #2 Readme" @{" Beginners " LINK BEGINNERS} Beginners start here. @{" Welcome " LINK WELCOME} Introduction to this CD. 17 Bit @{" Important " LINK IMPORTANT} Important - Please Read This! 1st Floor Offices @{" Files " LINK FILES} File types on this CD. 2/8 Market Street @{" AGA Users " LINK AGAUSERS} Notes for AGA Users. West Yorkshire @{" Notes " LINK NOTES} Notes for ALL Users. WF1 1DH @{" Repetition " LINK REPETITION} Notes about File Repetition. @{" Sysops " LINK SYSOPS} Notes for BBS Sysops. Tel: 01924 366982 @{" Your Views " LINK YOURVIEWS} The SoapBox! Fax: 01924 200943 @{"Contributions" LINK CONTRIBUTIONS} How to contribute. @{" Credits " LINK CREDITSFORTHISCD} Blush ;) @{" Copyrights " LINK COPYRIGHT} Legal Information. @{" Technical " LINK TECHNICAL} Technical Information. @{" Search " LINK SEARCH} How to use the search function. @ENDNODE @NODE BEGINNERS "Beginners Start Here" This menu system is totally mouse operated. It is very simple to use, if you see a hilighted button, such as @{"this" LINK This_Because_Its_a_Demo}, it means it is an option available from that area. Clicking on that button will perform a function, such as running a demo, viewing a picture or extracting an archive. Remember when you have finished viewing a text file, listening to a music module etc. to click on the Close gadget to contine. Pressing Help at any time while using this meny will produce a help file. When you have finished in a menu area, clicking on the Retrace gadget at the top of the screen will take you back to the previous page, clicking on Retrace again will take you back a screen further, etc. Basically, try out the gadgets, you can't do any harm. Remember not the click on the close gadget of this AmigaGuide menu, if you do you will have to reload it from Workbench. @ENDNODE @NODE WELCOME Welcome to Compendium Deluxe #2. Thank you for purchasing the second in a series of CD's, brought to you by 17 Bit - The Worlds biggest PD library, and LSD - An internationally renowned Amiga group. On these CD's we intend to bring you as many Amiga Public Domain files as possible - many of which will not have appeared in Amiga Public Domain Libraries before, and the majority of them will not have appeared on an Amiga PD CD collection before - collected from LSD's sources and archives around the globe. @ENDNODE @NODE IMPORTANT Please note that when purchasing this CD, you paid for the compiling, duplication, advertising, packaging, administration and distribution etc. of this disk. You have NOT paid for the contents. Public Domain software is free, we have not charged you even a penny for all the contents. If you use this disk you are bound by the following terms; 1) The compiler and distributers of this disk take no responsibility whatsoever for damage to hardware, software or media through use or misuse of any of the contents of this CD. You de-archive and/or use files at your own risk. This CD has been checked for all known viruses, trojans and variants with the latest versions of the best virus-checkers available and has been found completely free of infection. The checkers we used are; - Virus Workshop 4.6 for the disks before we archived them (stored on here as .dms files). - Virus Extruder 1.3 for the .lha and executables (.exe) files on this CD. - Virus Checker 6.47 left in the background during compilation. - Both VE and VC used Bootblock.brainfile 1.06 and Bootblock.library 3.1. 2) We also make no guarantee whatsoever that files on this CD will do what they claim, or what they are intended to do. Again, we have tested practically everything on this CD (which took a while!), but there is always a possibility of a rogue file when dealing with this amount of data. Please note that some programs included may not work on all Amiga's, some will require specific Kickstarts, Memory types (such as Fastmem), Graphic modes (such as AGA) and/or extra hardware. We have made our best effort to ensure that all data included on this CD is freely distributable (Public Domain) and that it comprises to any limitations laid down by the copyright holders. Some files are distributed as shareware, you should comply with any conditions set out in the individual programs wherever necessary. Under certain conditions a shareware payment should be sent to the authors. Please register shareware programs if you use them often. If you are easily offended, then it is not necessarily a good idea to look at the demos or diskmags, although we do believe most files are free of what may be considered by some as "obscene language", certain "four letter words" may be present. It would be practically impossible, to find and remove these, and as the author(s) have put them there in the first place, it would be (generally) against their wishes to do such. Any political, religious or social views stressed by files on this CD are not necessarily the opinions of the compiler of distributers. @ENDNODE @NODE FILES Wherever possible, every file on this disk is in "Amiga Format", this means the files are in a format that is considered standard to the Amiga. There are no .gif files, no .jpeg (that take around 2-3 minutes to display, and need a lot of memory), all pictures are in IFF format wherever possible, allowing the user to load them into packages such as Deluxe Paint or Brilliance and examine them, or use their favourite display package to show them. All animations are again in IFF format (version 5), allowing loading into art packages already mentioned. All archives are in .dms or .lha format, there's no .zip, .arj or other formats widely used on other computers. All music is in protracker mod. format, allowing you to load the music into a Protracker clone, or (Octa)med and examine how the musician has created the tune. The only format that can be considered alien to the Amiga, are the Screamtracker 3 (.S3M) modules. These are music modules created on the PC, however, the player gives you more channels than the Amiga normally allows, and are of higher quality playblack. @ENDNODE @NODE AGAUSERS In the descriptions for some files you will notice a message stating "AGA users must degrade their system". This can be done in various ways. If you are using our menu, select the "Degrade system" button at the top of the current file list (this turns AGA off), alternatively you can use one of the many degraders available. You can also use the "Early startup Control". This is accessed on the A1200 and A4000 by holding both mousebuttons on reboot, and whan the menu appears, turn off the CPU cache and set the chipset to normal. All programs have been tested on an AGA machine, we used an A1200 with 4 meg of true fastmem. This does not guarentee that they will work on an A4000 if they worked on our A1200 (although theoretically it should, if not try degrading it). If you are a demo fan, you realy will need some fastmem, (or try using a fakefast tool). If there is no remark regarding compatability problems, it should work on your machine. As said earlier, some demos do need Fastmem, some do not work with Fastmem, you are able to turn the fastmem on and off using the menu though, if you have any. @ENDNODE @NODE NOTES There are a few abbreviations used in the file descriptions, the main two are; - RMB, which means Right Mouse Button, and - LMB, which means Left Mouse Button. Unless otherwise stated, an executable in the demo directories in the Ready to run section will (generally) work with Fastmem, and can (generally) be exited with the Left Mouse Button. @ENDNODE @NODE REPETITION Who wants to purchase a newly released CD, and find it half full of files that are on other Amiga CD's in your collection? The policy for the Compendium Deluxe series is value for money, we do not see the need to have the same piece of software in your CD collection more than once, so while compiling this CD, we have tried not to repeat files that are on other Amiga PDCD collections, we have taken many, many hours of our time to cross reference this CD with the following CD's; - 17 Bit Collection, 17 Bit Continuation, 17 Bit Phase 4, CDPD1 through 4, Demo Collection 1 and 2, Euroscene 1, Aminet 1 through 4, Hottest 4, Emerald Mines, Utilities Professional, Fresh Fish 1 through 6, Frozen Fish 04-94, Gold Fish 04-94, Clip art PCX, Clip art GIF, Assassins Games and the following Weird Science disks; Fonts, Clipart, Network, Multi-Media toolkit and Sounds Terrific. We will add to this list as more CD's are released. Of course some minor duplication will still appear, when dealing with this amount of files it's bound to, (but we have tried). The only problem area was the protracker modules, we have renamed all the modules to the authors ORIGINAL FILENAME, also removing and problem ascii characters such as "*", "#", etc. We then truncated the filename to eight characters, followed by ".mod". This has ensured compatability with all Amiga players, plus PC users who wish to use this CD (after feedback from our first CD). If we find a mod that we know is on another Amiga CD, we do not include it. This CD contains approximately 660 meg of files. @ENDNODE @NODE SYSOPS BBS owners (Sysops) will find this CD especially useful, as it is fully "BBS Ready" (see your BBS documentation for further info), with files.bbs and file_id.diz support (Where Appropriate). There is a problem with CNet and the module descriptions, CNet reformats the Files.BBS and the descriptions looked messed up, look out for FPDiz by PMK which is due out very shortly, this was used extensively throughout the compilation and uses the .MOD and .S3M datatype by mUb/LSD - If you cant wait that long mail me at any of the above addresses and ill see what we can work out. @ENDNODE @NODE YOURVIEWS We would love to improve and cater for the needs of our users, so we need to receive feedback from you - what would you like to see on our future CD's? What didn't you like about this CD? What did you like about this CD? How could we have improved it? Do you think CD's produced by other companies better and if so in what way? The compilers of this CD can be reached via Internet at mub@dhp.com, Fidonet Chris Brundell@2:2502/12.0, C-LINK! mUb@912:1000/0.0 or you can send us mail at the LSD contact address (I don't live here so no personal callers please!); LSD CD 39 Riseholme Road Gainsborough Lincs DN21 1SG @ENDNODE @NODE CONTRIBUTIONS We are interested in receiving your files for future CD's, whether you have written a program, drawn or traced a picture (objects and pictures appreciated), written a music module, typed a useful text file, Made a Demo in Demo Maniac or Video Tracker etc. (data and executable appreciated), have some useful source-code (in Assembler, Amos, Blitz Basic etc.), or anything else that may be of interest to others, please mail them to the above address. Company Product demos are also very welcome. The only rule is the file(s) sent must be freely distributable, but you may still retain copyright if you so wish. All disks will be returned, probably containing something similar to what you sent us, which we hope will be of interest to you. @ENDNODE @NODE CREDITSFORTHISCD Compilation: K. Elwick Amigaguide menu creation: Chris Brundell aka mUb/LSD Cover art: Interactive Images, Enterprise House, Unit 3, Cathles Road, London SW12 9LD Mastering: David of Weird Science. Tel. 0116 234 0682 Fax. 0116 236 4932 Thanks go to: Pazza and Mub of LSD for file support. Telebug of the Assassins for written permission to include his highly respected game and Utility compilations. Marcus of 17 Bit for CD support. Toybox (David) for file support. Rattesnake (Don) for file support, text archives and spell checking. PMK for the file_id.diz program and programming help. All sysops who supplied us with files. All the LSD members for their support, especially Rad! (sorry to hear your news ;() Ken D/LSD for being Scottish. Ken Hood at Phantasy Island BBS for the good feedback/ideas. Urban Muller for advice and a good attitude! Visage Computing for Support. The Art and 2-Cool for advertising LSDCD1, all the scene knew about the CD, we couldn`t buy advertising like that! Thanx! The 17 Bit guys for being Modest! To Caroline, Mary and Sarah-Louise for being there. And to Commodore(?) for the best home and business Computer. @ENDNODE @NODE COPYRIGHT This compilation is copyright to K.Elwick in 1995, all rights reserved. No claims to the ownership of trademarks or copyright of the individual contents are made. Every effort has been made to ensure the contents of this CD do not infringe any copyright or distribution agreement. All files on this CD remain copyright to their individual creators. The menu used for this CD was created by Chris Brundell using Commodores versatile "AmigaGuide" @ENDNODE @NODE TECHNICAL Sorry, but we cannot help with technical enquiries involving individual public domain files, these should be taken up with the relevant authors. Other technical enquiries about this, or our future CD's are welcome, write to the address in the @{"Your Views" LINK YOURVIEWS} section. Please enclose a SAE for a reply. @ENDNODE @NODE SEARCH Clicking on any of the search buttons will produce a requester, type the word you wish to search for, and press return, searching may take a while, because of CD access speed, and the size of the search area. A new Amigaguide will then be displayed, showing all the files on the CD with the requested words in either the filename or description. If you wish to save this file for further use it is situated in T: and called "Search.guide", if you choose to keep it, you MUST copy it BEFORE you close the search guide. You can now preform actions with the listed files in your search guide menu as required. When you have finished with this listing, click on the close gadget at the top left corner, this will return you to the main menu. You can also search the current area by pressing Right Amiga and F or by using the pull down menu equivalent. This is a *MUCH* faster method. @{" Search Main Guide " SYSTEM "LSDCD2:Search"} @{" Search Modules Guide " SYSTEM "LSDCD2:SearchMod"} @ENDNODE