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- Short: Doctor Who database v2.2 with New Gui
- Author: Thomas Williams (Asimov)
- Uploader: asimov@btinternet.com
- Version: v2.2
- Type: util/wb
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- *********** THE DOCTOR WHO DATABASE ***********
- ***********************************************
- V 2.2
- The New GUI Version
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- ***********************************************
- ********** Written by T.R Williams ************
- ********** Helped An Awful lot by ************
- ********** Mr Jay Cornwall ************
- ***********************************************
- For updates http://www.btinternet.com/~asimov
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- This program is based on a book called "Doctor Who - The Universal Databank",
- by Jean-Marc Lofficier. The information is also stored on Jean-Marc's
- webpage for all to see. I asked him for permission to use the info
- in my program and he wished me good luck.
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- INTRODUCTION.
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- Hello to all you Doctor Who fans out there, or even non-Doctor Who
- fans as well (I'll talk to you whether you're a fan or not). This as the
- title suggests is a Doctor Who Database. Almost all the characters from
- the first Doctor to the Seventh are included.
- I've always loved the idea of having a massive database of my
- favourite all time program, with all the information I ever need about it.
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- This original project took about a year to complete. There have
- been many changes since the original 1.2 version. In fact it seems like
- I have taken a step backwards, as the original version had a nice gui,
- graphics and pictures. The problem was that the original program was
- written in Amospro which is a nice language but has the problem of not
- working too well with graphics cards and interacting with other software.
- If you would like to try out the original with the graphics it will remain
- on my webpage until I sort out the new gui for my new `Doctor Who` database.
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- Right run the program and type help. That is all you need to do.
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- THE TECHNICAL BIT (Or the Boring bit nobody reads, I don't know why I bother).
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- The actual text data for this program originally took a whole
- 880k. Obviously this is quite a lot, and wouldn't leave much room on the
- disk for the program. It took me about 3 months to work out a way of
- actually compressing the text down so that I could fit the program and
- data onto one disk.
- I think the whole project took me about a year to complete,
- and by the end I was desperate to get it finished. It took so long
- that I've probably memorised half the information it displays and I
- don't really need the program.
- I'm sorry if this history is quite short, as I'm not the sort
- of person to write down every date I did a new modification. And I
- suppose you couldn't careless as long as the program actually works.
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- Note for the non Doctor Who Fans : I suppose you think that I'm
- really sad, but I don't really care.
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-
- Anyway enjoy my Doctor Who Database.
-
- **** History ****
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- Doctor Who Database v1.2 Yes there was a few versions before this too but I won't go
- into that. This version had it all, sound pictures and a nice
- graphical interface. The downfall was that is was written in
- Amospro and even though did the job and was very well done,
- some people refused to even look at it because it was done in
- Amos.
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- Doctor Who Database v2.1 Well after about 2 months of learning C and giving Jay Cornwall
- a huge headache, v2.1 was released. It had no gui and only worked
- via the cli/shell environment. I have since found a few mistakes
- in the program since, but it is solid and will work on all amigas
- I should imagine.
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- Doctor Who Database v2.2 Now we are getting back to a workable program. I have added a gui.
- You can now enter a file by clicking on it's name, or by using
- the powerful search engine, by typing in part of a name.
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- ******* What I intend to do in future versions *******
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- Well for a start, somebody called Amimon has given me the idea to use
- buttons to go through the files one by one. Seems like a good idea and will
- hopefully be implemented in the next version.
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- I hope to have sound effects at certain points in the program, not really
- important I know but I am thinking about it.
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- I hope to work out how to put pictures into my gui so that when you select a file
- you will also see a picture. This is not as simple as it sounds I have been told,
- so this may take some time.
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- Any comments,
- please feel free to email me at asimov@btinternet.com
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 8586 3441 59.9% 09-Jun-01 15:58:36 DoctorWhoDatabase_v2.2.info
- 585052 315339 46.1% 12-Jul-01 02:15:52 +Data
- 4802 2069 56.9% 25-Aug-01 12:31:54 +DoctorWho2.2.readme
- 351 248 29.3% 29-Jul-01 16:58:20 +DoctorWho2.2.readme.info
- 58968 58968 0.0% 25-Aug-01 12:16:58 +DoctorWhoDatabase_v2.2
- 16716 2026 87.8% 12-Jan-80 00:58:18 +DoctorWhoDatabase_v2.2.info
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- 674475 382091 43.3% 28-Aug-101 02:45:32 6 files
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