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- Short: Prog to make letters with graphics/text
- Author: di3andpe@ida.his.se (Anders Persson)
- Uploader: di3andpe@ida.his.se (Anders Persson)
- Version: 5.3
- Type: comm/misc
- Replaces: comm/misc/BorayLetter52.lha
-
- * * *
- Requirements:
-
- BorayLetter needs AmigaDos1.3+ and about 600K of free memory.
-
- * * *
-
- Introduction:
-
- Welcome to Boray Letter, "The king of letter programs". Maybe you
- don't know what a letter program is. Well, it was something that
- started on the C64. You could use the keyboard to write a message
- to your friend, and when he looked at it, it was played in the same
- way it was written.... BorayLetter is that, and much more. You can
- for example draw lines, wait for a key to be pressed or even
- animate and make your own little cartoons!!!
-
- When you for example draw a line in your letter, only the
- coordinates for the line are saved to the file. All graphics works
- in this way. This leads to an extremely spacesaving fileformat.
- For example, the demo letter "Cecdic" contains 4:30 minutes of
- cartoons. And it's only 32K big (uncompressed). Yes, it's not even
- compressed. If you pack it with SHRINK, it will be 21K, or 24K
- with lha.
-
- * * *
-
- Use It:
-
- Well, have fun!!! Next time you intend to send a letter (or
- e-mail) to someone, Include a letter that lives! A BorayLetter!
-
-
- * * *
-
- Copyrights:
-
- Boray Letter is shareware, but you can self decide how much it's
- worth. To get more details, press "Help" while reading or making
- a letter.
-
-
- * * *
-
- History/News:
-
-
- Version 5.3 (January 1998)
-
- * Bugfix: The error handling was disabled in the last version.
-
- * The disk cache was highly optimized. (It's much faster now)
-
- * The program was translated to swedish.
- (Aminet: comm/misc/BorayLetter53SV.lha)
-
-
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- * * *
-
- Version 5.2 (November 1997)
-
- * BorayLetter can now run under AmigaDos 1.3!!! So, now you can
- make letters to people with old Amiga500's (Like my brothers
- children :-) If you are using AmigaDos1.3, the ARP filerequester
- will be used instead of the ASL filerequester. arp.library is
- included in this archive. But the program "BLC" still needs
- AmigaDos2.0+
-
- * New internal disk cache for the graphics brushes/copies. This
- speeds up the animations. Especially animations that uses
- brushes on floppy disks. So, this is great for systems without
- a hard drive! To reset the cache, just go to the main menu.
-
- * Big Bug fixed: Animations wasn't recorded if you didn't
- move it around while putting copies.
-
- * More graphics copies in the letters/g directory.
-
-
-
- * * *
-
- Version 5.1 (August 1997)
-
- The only thing that is new since 5.0, is that BorayLetter no
- longer needs a 68020 to run. First I only made a 68000 version
- of 5.0. But when I discovered that this version was in fact a
- little bit faster than the 020 version on my 030, I changed my
- mind... And released the 000 version as 5.1 (But the program is
- not really tested on a 68000, but I think it will work.
- If it won't: Send me an email!)
-
-
- * * *
-
-
- Version 5.0: (June-July 1997)
-
- This is the greatest update ever!!! (No wonder, I had to catch
- up with 5 ears of no development at all :)
-
- Well, For this version I have added:
-
- * Intuition Menus
- * Undo
- * Insert
- * Mouse operated menus on the Main Screen
- * MedRes screenmode
- * ASL Filerequester
- * Mouse operated Y/N requesters
- * New Palette requester
- * New memory management
- * Now possible to draw with brushes and lines
- * The interface between you and the graphics functions was reworked.
- (You can now see what you are doing)
- * New space saving file format
- (Takes only about 30% of the space the old format
- required!!!)
- * Can load and convert old letters
- * The program is much faster!!!
- * New speed requester
- * Now possible to insert a delay of X vblanks without
- changing the playback speed.
- This way, you can use speed 0 for turbo drawing, and
- then insert some delays where you want - Useful for
- animations.
- * Security aspects are taken care of
- A letter can now only write temporary files to the
- ram disk. Before, someone could for example make a
- letter that destroyed your system files... But not
- any longer!!!
- * Temporary files are removed when the letter that created
- them has ended.
- * The program is more system friendly and multitaskig friendly!!!
- * The program has in other words become more usable!!!!!
-
-
-
- * * *
-
- Version 4.06 (921228)
-
-
- * * *
-
- Version 3.0 (920223)
-
- * * *
-
- Version 2.x (??????)
-
- * * *
-
-
- Version 1.1 (910312)
-
- New stuff in...
- Main menu: Continue Making, Kill files
-
- Making Letter: Save graphics copy, Load graphics copy, wait for
- any key, Circle, Palette, Reset Colors, Auto Foreground/back-
- ground-colors
-
- Reading Letter: Save graphics Copy, Set Speed, Print Screen
-
-
- * * *
- Version 1.0 (910223)
-
- First version.
-
- Main menu: Make, Read, Save, Load, Quit, Change Memory Storage,
- Read Directory, Change Directory
-
-
- Make Letter Features: Change color, Get graphics copy, put
- graphics copy, Line, Lines, Box, Filled Box, Fill, Clear Screen.
-
- Read Letter Features: Pause. The speed is prompted before reading.
-
-
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- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- * Also Try *
-
- Aminet: util/misc/selector60.lha
-
- Highly configurable launching tool for almost any purpose. But
- it is not yet another program like toolsdeamon or launchingpad.
- Selector serves as a complement to these types of programs. It's
- more like a script language.
-
- Selector is a powerful tool to use within shell scripts or to
- make a little GUI for your CLI type program. I have for example
- made a GUI for GMPlay (mus/midi/GMPlayGUI15.lha on Aminet) using
- selector.
-
- It is really easy to produce a button panel, info window, popup menu
- or a little requester with selector.
-
- Last minute update: SELECTOR 7.0 will be released really soon!
- That will be, Aminet: util/misc/selector70.lha
-
- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- * Also Try *
-
- Aminet: mods/boray
-
- My DigiBooster and Protracker music modules.
-
- Why not try the 4 latest:
-
- mods/boray/DayUnknown.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/12/01)
- mods/boray/HELGON.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/11/02)
- mods/boray/PsalmAP2Alt.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/09/23)
- mods/boray/IAmGenerated.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/09/15)
-
- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- * Also Try *
-
- Aminet: mus/midi/GMPlayGUI15.lha
-
- Nice GUI for GMPlay1.3!!! (Made with selector)
-
- Features:
-
- * Play all midi files in a directory in random order.
-
- * Play Next -button (the current playing tune is stopped,
- and the next will be played)
-
- * Pause button
-
- * Choose singel file to play
-
- * Alter PlayDir
-
- * Get information about current playing tune
-
- * Options: like Frequence, Priority, Unpacking, Stereo,
- filters, font, color and more
-
- * Possibility to save separate options for each midi file.
-
- * Move midi files
-
- * External Play-next command that can be used to get a
- Play-next-hotkey
-
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