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Arnhem, apr 1991
About Spy Head V1.0
SpyHead is a little software trackdisplay, it will give you information
about the actual place of the READ/WRITE head, of one of the four poss-
ible drives. SpyHead detaches itself from your cli, so you don't have
to run it (SpyHead.A1000 will not detach itself because it could crash
on a A1000. I still not know why that is. A friend of my has one of those
machines, and it always crashed during exit() routine. You know why let
me know please) After starting it, SpyHead opens a window with six gadgets,
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| C | T & M | D | J | B | F |
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C: CloseGadget
T: TrackDisplay
M: DragWindowGadget
D: ChangeDriveGadget
J: JumpToNextScreenGadget
B: BackDownGadget
F: FrontUpGadget
About CloseGadget
I think that this one speaks for itself, but for al those people who
have just started, the CloseGadget is a Gadget that one can select to
close a Window. YEAHHH!! WELL DONE!!
About TrackDisplay and DragWindowGadget
The TrackDisplay has the following format: B:xxxx T:xxx S:xx DFx: ,
where the B stands for current Block, the T for current Track ( the T
stands actualy for cylinders, but most people refer to them as tracks ) and
the S: for the current Sector. The DFx: give's information about which drive
is currently spyed. So it give's you more information than the hardware
TrackDisplay can. The Display is also used to move the window in the screen.
About ChangeDriveGadget
This gadget is used to change, to one of the four possible drives, to
know DF0: DF1: DF2: and DF3:. If a drive is not available you will hear
a beep. par example: Your system recognize DF0: and DF1:. SpyHead will
always start from DF0:, with the ChangeDrive Gadget you can change it
to the next available drive. If SpyHead find it not available it will
let you know by a beep. So it change from DF0: to DF1: then beeps twice,
once for DF2:, and once for DF3:. Then it change back to DF0:
About JumpToNextScreenGadget
Use this one with care! Before closing another apllication's screen where
you opened SpyHead in, you have to jump to another screen or close Spy
Heads window! If there is no other Screen available, you here a beep.
About BackDownGadget
This gadget will move our window behind other windows if they are avail-
able.
About UpFrontGadget
This gadget will move our window in front of all the other windows.
About other features
One of the nice features I added is that, it automaticly change to the
drive that did get a new disk. It will not work on all drives, like
some 5.25 drives. Those drives will not recognize a diskchange. For
those drives you use the DiskChange command. The DiskChange command
will not update the TD_CHANGECOUNT counter.
Some Bad Things To Know
I tested this nice looking bugger with kickstart 2.0 and, it works but,
it won't look as nice as on a KS1.[1/2/3] machine. Once in a while SpyHead
will not get the proper TD_CHANGECOUNT (how that comes I still don't know,
I'am no pro so let me know, you pro).
Lars Van Jeurissen
Paterstraat 35
6828 AG
Arnhem
085-455693
The Netherlands