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- Short: V1.5 (updated/bugfixed) Another talking Homer for your WB!
- Author: emiespo@tiscalinet.it (Emiliano Esposito)
- Uploader: emiespo@tiscalinet.it (Emiliano Esposito)
- Version: 1.5 (10.08.01)
- Type: util/misc
- Requires: OS 2.0+(V37), some sound.datatype and picture.datatype, some
-
- samples with the voice of Homer Simpson or the old Homer 1.6.
- Replaces: util/misc/NewHomer.lha
-
- (UTENTI ITALIANI: vedere in basso)
-
- !!!README NOW!!! the old NewHomer_DATA.lha archive had a bad config file...
- it was stated into it that it was not complete, but maybe many didn't read!!!
- Now I've put a better .conf file (it was already there to be honest, but the
- installer didn't care about it) and set the installer to replace it.
-
- NewHomer - this is almost like the old Homer1.5/1.6 found on Aminet... but it
- has some more options and is totally RTG friendly (the old one had
- a bad zoom routine on truecolor screens).
-
- BRIEF INTRODUCTION: In case you didn't ever seen original Homer, this is a
- program that shows you an animation of Homer Simpson,
- that can talk, burp (ops! :)) and will change its mood
- while following the mouse pointer with his eyes.
-
- REQUIREMENTS: you could install it over the previous Homer installation if
- you already used it. But someone reported to have troubles this
- way, I suggest to download the file "NewHomer_DATA.lha" that
- contains a good set of samples from the american version and
- then install from scratch. If you already had a BIG list of
- sample you used together with old Homer (maybe they are almost
- the same of that collection) I suggest you to cut+paste the
- names from the old config file into the new one (see docs).
-
- Os V37 at least is required (v36 has too many bugs). I don't
- know if datatypes work under V37, so maybe the minimum sugge-
- sted is v38 (again do they exist under this version?? :)
-
- titlebar.image by Massimo Tantignone is NO LONGER REQUIRED
- (thanks to Massimo ;)). Homer will use it if found, though!
-
- Then you will require ONE sound.datatype and ONE picture.datatype:
- I suggest you to have at least WAVE, 8SVX and ILBM ones, if you
- don't have these, you can't use Homer... or you can convert the
- sound and gfx samples to the datatype you have. ;)
- The file HomerAnim.gif included in the archive is an IFF image
- despite its name... Oh, we're still on Amiga and no lame forced
- extension file-type recognition system... :))
-
- NewHomerITA_DATA.lha is an italian version of the samples, but
- requires the v41wave datatype, or a wave dt that can play 16bit
- ADPCM wave samples (I think there's ONLY that datatype to play
- such samples on Amiga).
-
- INSTALLATION: double click on the provided installer icon, or just copy the
- content of this archive over the old Homer directory.
- Then you can edit (if you want) the NewHomer.conf file (see doc.)
- to add your own samples to the program. After doing this you _CAN_
- delete the following files from the old Homer archive:
-
- Homer - Main program
- homer/libs/ (or LIBS:) - matrix.library and swazconfig.library
- unless some other program uses them...
-
- If you don't have Homer installed, or you don't want to loose time
- editing this file, then you can download my own data file (config +
- samples + iff picture) on Aminet and copy its content to the same
- directory.
-
- VARIOUS: see the included documentation inside for all the rest!
-
- BUGS: required cgx.library even if it didn't used it at all. This
- (update) prevented NewHomer from working on ECS/AGA only systems.
- Also, long paths deeper than two directories didn't work with the
- PROGDIR: tooltype. Now it has been fixed.
-
- ADDITIONS: Nothing interesting here, see NewHomer.guide if really interested.
- (update)
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- INTRODUZIONE: NewHomer è un programma quasi identico al vecchio Homer che si
- trova su Aminet, ma con molte aggiunte ed una migliore compati-
- bilità con gli schermi truecolor e il cybergraphics.
-
- Per chi non ne avesse mai sentito parlare, questo programma
- mostra un animazione di Homer che di tanto in tanto parla, cam-
- bia umore e segue con gli occhi il mouse (e fa pure qualche rut-
- to :))
-
- RICHIESTE Serve un set di sample, si può usare quello dato col vecchio
- DI SISTEMA: Homer se lo avevate già. Altrimenti occorre scaricare il file
- NewHomer_DATA.lha (contiene sample dalla versione americana dei
- Simpson) oppure NewHomerITA_DA.lha (contiene sample dalla versione
- italiana... conviene scaricarsi quello se state leggendo queste
- righe, mi sa, purtroppo sono 4.8 mega, beh su Aminet si può fare
- il resume apposta! ;)
-
- Dopodiché servono: un datatype WAVE per ascoltare i sample (uno
- qualunque per la versione americana dei sample, il V41 WAVE.DT
- per quella italiana, lo si trova su aminet util/dtype/wavdt41.lha
- e util/dtype/sounddt41.lha) un datatype ILBM (ma questo lo dava
- la Commodore insieme all'Amiga, stranamente...).
-
- La "tbi.class" non è più richiesta, ma se è presente al momento
- dell'avvio (è il caso di chi usa VisualPrefs) verrà usata ren-
- dendo il look della finestra + piacevole.
-
- BUGS: sembrano essere stati quasi tutti rimossi, se ne trovate ancora
- (spero proprio di no!! =) fatemelo sapere per favore!
-
- AGGIUNTE: testo in italiano anche per il file guida... non proprio una ag-
- giunta al programma, ma può servire a qualcuno :)
- (consiglio di Antonio "Flip" Sebastiani)
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 2754 1843 33.0% 01-Aug-01 15:52:42 NewHomer.info
- 7287 2420 66.7% 10-Aug-01 11:38:14 +install
- 3230 2214 31.4% 10-Aug-01 11:36:58 +Install.info
- 38080 19371 49.1% 04-Aug-01 00:58:06 +NewHomer
- 3483 1745 49.8% 10-Aug-01 11:29:04 +newhomer.conf
- 22000 8885 59.6% 04-Aug-01 00:54:12 +NewHomer.guide
- 2272 1680 26.0% 10-Aug-01 11:36:58 +NewHomer.guide.info
- 2591 852 67.1% 10-Aug-01 11:36:58 +NewHomer.info
- 23144 9581 58.6% 10-Aug-01 11:27:58 +NewHomer_italiano.guide
- 2272 1680 26.0% 10-Aug-01 11:36:58 +NewHomer_italiano.guide.info
- -------- ------- ----- --------- --------
- 107113 50271 53.0% 18-Aug-101 02:55:28 10 files
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