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- Info-File for ´ALERT 3.6 ´
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- An Alert is the red blinking box on the upper side of your screen . If you
- make a mistake this box will appear and shows your error .
- The most of the users or programmers are very unhappy if this box appers .
- Another name for this box was "GURU-MASSAGE" .
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- ´ALERT 3.6´ produces own Alerts ( GURUs ) ... In this Alert can be
- 7 Lines with 77 ASCII-Codes . You can save the Text of the Alert and you
- can save an executeble File who make the GURU .
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- The Program :
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- You can start ´ALERT 3.6´ from Workbench with a click
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- or ...
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- Go to the CLI and type ".../alert3.6" . The program will be started .
- A window on the Workbench-Screen will be open . In the window you
- see 7 String-Gadgets for the 7 Lines and 5 other Gadgets . Also you
- have 2 Menus ( Copyright and Special ) .
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- The Gadgets :
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- Test-Gadget : The text for the Guru will be tested ( you see a GURU
- with you text inside ) ...
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- Save-Gadget : A filerequester ( an info for the filerequester comes
- later ... ) comes and you must type a file .
- If you click in the OK-Gadget of the filerequester
- the text of the GURU will be saved .
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- Load-Gadget : The same as the Save-Gadget but the text will be
- loaded and not saved .
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- Program-Gadget : The same as the Save-Gadget but not for Text .
- ´ALERT 3.6´ will create an executeble file and
- save them . You can start this file from Workbench
- and from the CLI .
- Quit-Gadget : The Programm will be quit .
- Lines-Gadget : You can type a Number from 1-7 for the Lines .
- If you type 5 , 5 Lines you can see .
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- The Menus :
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- In the Copyright-Menu you can the name and adress of the author .
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- Special-Menu - Reset : ´ALERT 3.6´will be reset the computer .
- This reset is a hard reset ( all virus go to
- hell ) .
- Special-Menu - 60 Hz : This option was made for PAL-Users . If you
- click this Menu-Point the Screen will go
- from 50 Hz to 60 Hz .
- If you mix ´60 Hz´ and ´Reset´ you have a
- NTSC ( 60 Hz ) - Amiga . A lot of Games
- ( Xenon II ... ) and Utilities ( DPAINT II ... )
- or very greatfull .
- Special-Menu - 1 Bitplane : This option will make a Workbench with
- 2 colors ( one bitplane ) .
- Special-Menu - New Alert : The active Guru-Text will be deleted .
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- All Menu-points you can also make with a Shortcut ...
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- The Filerequester :
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- This Filerequester is my Standart-Filerequester .
- In a lot of programms ( from my ) you can see it .
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- You can see 5 normal Gadgets ...
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- The ´OK´-Gadget : With this Gadget you tell the program that the
- name and the direktory are corect . With the ´DF0:´-Gadget
- the program will bring the direktory from Drive 0 .
- The ´Cancel´-Gadget ( and the Close-Gadget ) tell the program
- that the Name and the direktory are uncorect .
- In the ´Drawer´-Gadget ( Direktory ) you can see the name of the
- directory . If you want you can edit the name ( "ram: ... " ) .
- In the ´File´-Gadget you can see the name of the file .
- You can edit , delete or change the name .
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- The Name of the files you can see in the middle of the window . You
- can click with the Mouse in one of the Names .
- If the name was a direktory ( another color ) the program will read
- this direktory .
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- ´ALERT 3.6´ was written by Thomas Jansen
- Hauptstraße 21
- 4773 Möhnesee - Körbecke
- W - Germany
- 02924 / 5780
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- !!! ´ALERT3.6´ is Shareware . Please test the programm one or two weeks
- if you find it good and usefull , send me $10 or 20 DM to my adress !!!
- ( I need the money ... )
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- Greetings to : Peter Händle ( Thanks for the talk on the
- Programmer-meeting )
- Oliver Wagner , Fridtjof Siebert , Roger Fishlin ...
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- The Versions of ´ALERT x.x´ :
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- V 1.0 ( Basic ) - 02.02.1989 ( --- )
- V 2.0 ( Basic ) - 02.07.1989 ( --- )
- V 2.3 ( Assembler ) - 10.01.1990 ( --- )
- V 3.5 ( Assembler ) - 31.10.1990 ( --- )
- ---> V 3.6 ( Assembler ) - 16.11.1990 ( Fish-Disk )
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- The Future of ´ALERT´ :
- V 3.7 - The Guru will be saved on the Bootblock ...
- V 4.0 - The Guru can work with 2-Color-Grafic ( Thats not
- a dream , thats reality )
- If you want you can have a disk with GFX-Alerts .
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- I hope you have some fun with this and my other programs ...
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- T. Jansen
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