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AboutClock V1.15
Copyright 1993 Stuart Davis
All Rights Reserved
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Contents
Distribution
Description
Usage
Development
Author Details
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Distribution
AboutClock V1.15 is Shareware and NOT Public Domain, and
as such a small registration fee of 5 pounds sterling is
required if you decide that AboutClock V1.15 should be in
your software collection. This will entitle you to future major
upgrades and a special custom written version of AboutClock
with a special date of your choice coded in making a message of
your choice appear on that day(WB2.x|3.x only, sorry 1.3 owners).
Payment should be in the form of a crossed cheque drawn from
a UK mainland bank payable to the author.
The distribution of AboutClock V1.15 MUST be intact,
unaltered, and include the following files :
AboutClock
AboutClock.info
AboutClock.s
AboutClock.doc
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Description
Do you remember the good old days when you asked someone the
time and they said, "It's nearly five" and not "It's 4:57 and 28
seconds" ?
Well now there is a Workbench clock that does just that!
AboutClock V1.15 is an unobtrusive clock that nestles
neatly at the top of Workbench, telling the time in words in a
window that re-sizes itself to account for the length of
message required.
Not only is AboutClock V1.15 simple and functional, but
it is fully compatible with all versions of Workbench!
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Usage
Either double click the icon, or use "runback", "brun" or
similar from the CLI to launch AboutClock.
AboutClock V1.15 will appear in the top left corner of
the Workbench screen.
AboutClock V1.15 has two menu options, ABOUT and QUIT,
which give details of the author, and quit the program
respectively.
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Development
V1.12
Some errors related to telling the time occur at certain
times of the day. When AboutClock resizes itself, all active
processes receiving user input on Workbench are resized, notably
ED and SID V1.06, when used under Workbench 1.3 which can prove
to be annoying, but not dangerous.
This version NOT released to the public.
V1.14
Tells the correct time without errors. About and Quit menus
added. Opens too large a window, and crashes the machine when
About is selected, under Workbench 1.3. No problems noted for
Workbench 2 and above.
This version released prior to testing on Workbench 1.3.
V1.14b
Window size corrected, and selecting About no longer
crashes the machine, but text is not visible (applies to
Workbench 1.3 only).
V1.15
About text is now visible. Tells the time perfectly,
following error detected in V1.14b.
AboutClock V1.15 was developed on a HiQ Tower containing
an Amiga 500 Plus, 4Mb of 16 Bit Fast RAM, 2Mb Chip RAM, SSL
68020 Accelerator Board with 1Mb of 32 Bit Fast RAM,twin 3½" inch
disk drives, a 105 Mb, 11ms Quantum hard disc drive, a 550
Mb tape streamer, a single 5¼" disk drive, a Citizen Swift 24C
printer, two Zipstick joysticks, a Technosound Turbo sampler
and a Naksha Mouse. It was written in 100% assembler using the
most excellent HiSoft Devpac V3.0. Whew..!!
For Workbench 1.3 compatibility, it was tested on an Amiga
500 with 4.5Mb Fast RAM and 0.5Mb Chip RAM switchable to 4Mb Fast
RAM and 1Mb Chip RAM, twin 3.5 inch disk drives, 42Mb GVP hard
disc drive, and a KCS PC Emulator.
For Workbench 3 compatibility, it was tested on an Amiga
1200, 2Mb Chip RAM, twin 3.5 inch disk drives, and a 60Mb hard
disc drive.
Although not every possible configuration of hardware has
been tested, it is extremely unlikely that AboutClock V1.15
will not work on your machine.
Please report any errors / problems to the author when you
register your copy of AboutClock.
Thanks go to Howard Manwaring BEd MSc MBCS CEng and
Liz Warriner BMus Dip Microprocessors & Prod Des of West Herts
College for assistance with the debugging of the actual code,
Melville Carrie for support and for the use of his Amiga 1200,
and Colin Etwell for the icon, documentation and beta testing on
his 1.3 Amiga 500.
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Author Details
Stuart Davis
132 Rempstone Road
Merley
Wimborne
Dorset
BH21 1SX
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England \X/ PC's are crap,
Archimedes are amoebas,
There's only one choice,
And that's the Amiga...
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