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- IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR PEOPLE DOWNLOADING
- THE CREATOR
-
- THE CREATOR (TM) is a quasi-public domain
- program: you can copy it, give it away, and there
- are no royalties due on any programs generated with
- it or with the REPORTOR. But, you can't legally
- SELL THE CREATOR without written permission from me!
- I've retained the copyright and the trademark
- rights, and I've successfully defended them. So,
- give THE CREATOR away with my blessing; download it
- or upload it; generate programs to your heart's
- content - but DON'T SELL IT!
-
- MEMORY REQUIREMENTS, ETC.
-
- THE CREATOR requires 44K (or more) CP/M 2.2 and
- Microsoft BASIC 5.2 or higher. Users have reported
- that THE CREATOR runs under CP/M 3.0, but I can't
- verify that, and I don't (and won't) support CP/M
- 3.0 for any of my programs.
- THE CREATOR won't run under any version of MP/M,
- because Microsoft BASIC won't. Don't write and tell
- me it will; call Microsoft. They'll tell you.
- THE CREATOR should run under XENIX; several
- users have called to tell me it does just fine.
- Don't even bother trying to convert THE CREATOR
- to CBASIC or Microsoft BASIC 4.51. It won't run
- very well under either of those dogs, even if you're
- successful.
- A version of THE CREATOR for the IBM PC has also
- been furnished COMPUTER LANGUAGES magazine; other
- versions are available for the TRS-80 Model I/III
- and the Apple Macintosh (tm, Apple Corp.); please
- write me for further information on price and
- availability if you need those versions.
- There's a newsletter for CREATOR users, and
- disks of utility software, too; write me and I'll
- send you a catalog for those and my other software.
-
- FIXING THE FILES
-
- For ease in uploading or downloading, I've
- furnished THE CREATOR in text form. However, that
- creates a problem: you can't chain to text files in
- Microsoft BASIC. So, you should load and re-save
- the following files as BINARY (program) files before
- trying to run THE CREATOR on your system after
- you've downloaded it:
- CREATOR.BAS CREATOR.OVR CREATOR.OVL
- REPORTOR.BAS REPORTOR.OVL REKEY.BAS MENU.BAS
- To load and save these files as binary files,
- all you need to do is LOAD each of them while in
- Microsoft BASIC, then SAVE them with the command:
- SAVE"NAME.EXT"
- Where NAME is the file name, and EXT is the file
- type extension. The files will automatically be
- saved in binary format for you.
-
- FURTHER INFORMATION IS IN THE CREATOR.DOC FILE