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- RR_Germany Jim Butterfield & Günter Kirrbach
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- A German version of RoadRoute, the latest English version
- of which is on disk 504). Documentation and program
- prompts are in German.
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- Günter has produced data files containing 2641 cities (towns,
- hamlets, etc.) with 5555 connecting roads! Locations are
- almost all within Germany, plus a few border cities.
- The huge amount of data calls for a 1M Amiga.
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- If you are English-speaking, you will probably be able to
- fake your way through the prompts, especially if you have
- used an English language version of RoadRoute. But you may be
- thrown by city names: for example, the city we call Munich
- is named München in Germany.
-
- About those two dots over letters (as in Günter, Köln, or
- München). You don't need a German keyboard. Just tap
- key combination ALT-K before the desired vowel, and you'll
- get the "umlauts".
-
- I have made one small adjustment to Günter's program. He
- opens a CON: window of size 640/240 .. that works fine on a
- PAL system, but not on NTSC, which is what we have in North
- America. So I've trimmed this to 640/200.
-
- If you run RoadRoute in CLI, do not prefix the program name
- with RUN. I'm still annoyed that I haven't found a simple
- way to allow this and also support general redirection.
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- Enjoy your walk in the Black Forest .. or wherever.
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- Jim Butterfield
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