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- Short: Multimedia history of Tutankhamun, with powerful GUI
- Author: sdagnall@btclick.com (Paul Thompson)
- Uploader: sdagnall@btclick.com (Paul Thompson)
- Type: misc/edu
-
- This program traces the birth, life and death of the Tutakhamun. It includes
- music, pictures, diagrams and a powerful easy-to-use GUI. Previously
- Tutankhamun was released commercially as Licenceware, but is now FREEWARE!
-
- Note: Tutankhamun was voted best amiga PD educational package in 1995 by
- Amiga Shopper. In March 1999 is was also on the Amiga Format CD, number 37,
- along with Titanic II. Winning the reader contribution for that month.
-
-
-
- FEATURES
- ========
-
- - 30 High quality scanned pictures
- - 5 pieces of quality music
- - Time line with 44 pictures
- - High quality drawn diagrams
- - Interactive Burial Chamber
- - 50 question multiple choice quiz
- - Demo Mode, sit back and watch the Slide Show
- - Screen Saver
- - Palette Editor
- - And much more!
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- * *
- * Tutankhamun *
- * *
- * Programmed by Paul Thompson *
- * 62a Brows Lane, Formby, Merseyside, L37 4ED. *
- * *
- * Tel: (01704)-830355 *
- * E-mail: sdagnall@btclick.com *
- * *
- * This Program is now FREEWARE! *
- * (But if you really like it, please send me a donation) *
- * *
- ****************************************************************************
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- FREEWARE!
- =========
-
- Tutankhamun was once sold commercially by the Central Licenceware Registry,
- but after this company had ceased trading, Tutankhamun became unavailable
- through any outlet. Around this time i was pursueing a degree in Computers
- and was forced to sell my Amiga to raise money for a PC, an action i later
- regretted. Deprived of my Amiga i lost track of the Amiga scene for nearly
- three years.
-
- The degree is now finished, and as a reward to myself i bought a new Amiga.
- After catching up on the Amiga scene, i was shocked by the amount of
- software and hardware companys that had abandoned the Amiga, a computer that
- had been so good to them in the past!
-
- I now wish to help the Amiga in any way i can, for this reason Tutankhamun
- is now released as FREEWARE. Please ignore any copyright messages in the
- program itself.
-
-
-
- WHAT IS TUTANKHAMUN?
- ====================
-
- Tutankhamun is an educational program designed with ease of use in mind.
- By using a combination of text, diagrams and pictures you can explore the
- fascinating bygone age of ancient Egypt, after which you can delve into the
- incredible discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.
-
-
-
- PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
- ====================
-
- Tutankhamun will work on any Amiga which has at least 1MB of chip memory
- and OS 2.0 or later installed, the floppy disk version will also make use
- of an external floppy drive if available. Titanic II can be installed to
- Hard Disk, see below.
-
-
-
- INSTALLING TO FLOPPY
- ====================
- You will need two blank floppy disks, format both disks and name them
- `Tutankhamun1' and `Tutankhamun2' respectively. Tutankhamun1 should be made
- bootable by using `install df0:' from a shell or CLI.
-
- Un-archive the contents of the file Tutankhamun.lha, copy all the files to
- the Tutankhamun1 disk, execluding pics directory. Copy the pics directory to
- the disk named Tutankhamun2. You should then have a full working copy of
- Tutankhamun on floppy.
-
-
-
- INSTALLING TO HARD DISK
- =======================
-
- Simply drag the Tutankhamun directory anywhere on your Hard Disk. If you
- have the original floppy version you can run the HDInstall program on disk 1
- or you may do it manually. If the manual method is used the following should
- be noted:
-
- Tutankhamun finds all its files by reading in the Tutankhamun.prefs from the
- current System disk (be it floppy or Hard Disk), if this file is not found
- Tutankhamun uses its defaults, consequently it will not know where to
- find its files and the program will abort. Getting around this problem you
- can do the following.
-
- First load the Tutankhamun.prefs into a text editor such as Ed. Looking at
- the file you will see that the first three lines contain the paths of
- Tutankhamun's three directorys:
-
- Tutankhamun1:Music/
- Tutankhamun2:Pics/
- Tutankhamun1:Data/
-
- So if you had installed Tutankhamun to a partition called Work and into a
- directory called Test, you should edit the file to read:
-
- Work:Test/Music/
- Work:Test/Pics/
- Work:Test/Data/
-
- Also if you wish to throw all Tutankamun's files into one directory say for
- instance Test2, you should edit the file to read:
-
- Work:Test2/
- Work:Test2/
- Work:Test2/
-
- Once you have finished editing the file you should save it to your Sys/S
- directory, and when you next run Tutankamun it will hopefully find it's
- files from the paths you have given it.
-
- You should also copy the Egypt fonts, found on Tutankamun disk 1, to your
- fonts directorys.
-
-
-
- OTHER TITLE'S BY THE SAME AUTHOR
- ================================
-
- TITANIC II (also now released as Freeware!)
- ----------
-
- Titanic II is very much in the same format as Tutankhamun, it too uses text,
- diagrams and pictures to convey its information. To get a better idea of
- what Titanic II is about the following text is from Titanic's introduction.
-
- As Titanic sailed out of Southampton on the first leg of her maiden voyage
- on 10 April 1912, she was heralded as practically unsinkable. Four nights
- later she brushed an iceberg and took Captain Smith and 1500 of his
- passengers and crew to their deaths in the freezing water.
-
- Featured on television, in books, the cinema, the press, and even in song,
- history's most famous ship has stirred the imagination for three generations.
- Now, for the first time the entire Titanic story is told through the media of
- computer. From inception to construction, from launch to maiden voyage from
- tragic loss to recent discovery, here is all the detail.
-
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- Please send any comments, suggestions or criticisms to the address at the
- start of this document.
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-