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- **** PowerWindows is now Freeware ****
-
- I'm too busy with AROS (http://www.aros.org) right now and don't have any
- time to work on PowerWindows. So I decided to make it Freeware.
-
- Several things in the docs in this archive are probably obsolete.
-
- As a cool surprise for most of you, you will find a special version of
- PowerWindows which is called PowerWindowsNG. It has formerly been available
- only to the people who were registered.
-
- This special version of PowerWindowsNG is faster, safer and allows dragging
- windows out of screen in any direction. See screenshot!
-
- PowerWindowsNG unfortunately will only work with a patched ROM, because it
- relies on some internal ROM check routines in Intuition to be disabled.
- So PowerWindowsNG will only work if you have a machine where ROM Kick utilities
- like BlizKick work.
-
- There are two possibilities to get the ROM patched.
-
- 1) Use BlizKick and the special PowerWindows BlizKick ROM Module which you
- can find in the BlizKick drawer (which is in the PowerWindows Drawer in
- this archive). Read the README file there on how to install the BlizKick
- module.
-
- 2) Use some other ROM kick utility which allows you to use a ROM kickstart
- file from HD. First save your ROM to a file. This can be done with
- the SaveROM shell tool in PowerWindos/Tools/Shell. Important: you should
- use SaveROM only while having booted without tools like BlizKick, to make
- sure you are not saving a maybe patched ROM which is actually in RAM
- and maybe patched by tools like BlizKick.
-
- SaveROM ram:kickstart
-
- Then you can patch the PowerWindows changes into the ROM file by using
- the tool PatchROMForPW which you can also find in PowerWindows/Tools/Shell:
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- PatchROMForPW ram:kickstart ram:kickstart_pw
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- Now you have the patched ROM file in ram:kickstart_pw. Copy this file some-
- where on your HD and tell your ROM kick utility to use this ROM file.
-
- I will also release the source code on Aminet! So if someone wants to
- improve PowerWindows, fix bugs, make a completely new PowerWindows like
- tool based on this source ... feel free to do so!
-
- Even PowerWindowsNG is already several years old and hasn't been updated
- since then (except some very minor fixes/changes). I will not fix bugs
- so dont waste your time reporting them! You'll have to find someone who
- wants to continue development of PowerWindows based on the sources I will
- release on Aminet.
-
- Hope you have fun anway ;-)
-
- Georg Steger (georg.steger@rolmail.net)
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