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Menu System
Just $5.00!
Ver 2.4s
Intro:
The Awesome Menu System, as far as I know, is the only dos based icon
driven menu system with Sound Blaster support. It has a easy to use graphical
interface completely unique to any other program.
Requirements:
+ 80286 (286) Processor or higher
+ VGA Graphics
+ Mouse
+ 640k Base Memory
+ Hard drive
+ Dos Ver 3.3 and Up except Dos Ver 4.*
Recomendations:
+ Sound Blaster
+ Accelerated Video Card
+ Disk cache such as SmartDrv or Fast
The interface used for this program relies heavily on the harddrive.
I did this since not everyone has EMS or XMS. Any one who doesn't should be
shot. Good caching software such as SmartDrv will dramatically improve the
performance. This software was tested on a 286 and 486 and ran fine on both.
286 Config:
+ Boca SXVGA 1024x768x256 HiColor Video Card
+ 286 20Mhz Processor
+ 1 Meg of RAM
+ 105 Meg HardDrive 9Ms Access Time
+ SmartDrv.Exe 384k Cache
486 Config:
+ Diamond Speed Star Stealth 24-bit video card
+ 486 33Mhz Processor wth Co-Processor with 512k read cache on drive
+ 8 Meg of Ram
+ 210 Meg HardDrive 11Ms Access Time
+ SmartDrv.Sys 2000k Read Cache , 2000k Write Cache
The 486 ran better, of course, but there was no speed problems with the
crappy 286. The whole reason for this boring section was to show how low
powered of a system you can use with the right software, mainly because people
wrote to me telling me how slow it is when they just have slow harddrives.
Keys:
+ "S" - Forces screen saver on (comes on by itself)
+ "P" - Previews Icons
+ "V" - Views Log
Left Mousebutton = next page
Minimize button puts it into the background out of sight
Turn on from AM2.CFT
+ Right mouse button drags items and groups. To Edit drag the item to
to pencil, Delete - Trash. Right mouse button can also be used to
reposition the items or groups. Right mouse button off of then main
program launching window will move you back one group.
Icons:
This version comes with 101 icons, some of which WERE windows icons.
The registered version comes with a Icon drawing utility that I wrote.
PCX's:
To put a .PCX file into the background, you must create one using the
color palette from BASEPAL.PCX. The Awesome interface changes the palette
around, that is why this is needed. The registered version has 256 color
support and you can use any 16 or 256 color PCX you want. The unregistered
version can only display a 640x480x16 color PCX.
Sound:
YOU MUST HAVE A SOUND BLASTER! To change sounds you must copy over the
old .VOC files. The .VOC files must be less than 40,000 Bytes in size.
Files:
Open.Voc - Startup/About Sound
Close.Voc - Exit or run Sound
Error.Voc - Error Sound
Ins.Voc - Done edit, config or change group Sound
Back.Voc - Back one group Sound
Delete.Voc - Delete or Sort Sound
Nothing.Voc - Sound when you click and nothing happens
Info:
Interface, Menu, FileView Utility, Interface Idea and functionality
were all created by Paul Chandler.
Registration:
Fee:
Send $5.00 to the address below.
Contact me at:
6 Dorado
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688
U.S.A.