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- Short: Amiga Emulation of the BEST BIT of Windows98
- Author: bauk@tinyonline.co.uk (Nick Clover)
- Uploader: bauk@tinyonline.co.uk (Nick Clover)
- Version: 0.2
- Type: util/wb
-
- Requires minimum:
- * OS 3.0
-
- Additionally recommended:
- * An Amiga, monitor, mouse, keyboard etc...
- * Winslows Startbar type program (DOpus Magellan II is good).
-
- Installation:
- Copy ShutDown and the 2 logo files (logow.sys & logos.sys) anywhere you like
- but keep them together.
-
- Using your favourite startbar software, install Shutdown as the bottom item
- in the first menu...
-
- Usage:
- When it is run, one of the most discusting things you will ever see will
- pop up on your workbench screen (Antiperil sunglasses recommended!).
-
- This hideous box shaped collection of perverted pixels offers you 4 options.
-
- 1. Standy by - your monitors screen will turn black until you press the
- left mouse button.
-
- 2. Shut Down - this displays an even worse picture for about 10 seconds
- to alow drive access to finish, then puts up a "It is now
- safe to turn off your computer" picture. You can then switch
- off safely! (what a lot of crap PC owners have to put up
- with!).
-
- 3. Restart - displays the first picture, waits 10 seconds then resets.
-
- 4. Restart in MS-DOS mode -
- This takes a bit of setting up, but simply an empty file
- called .DosBoot is written to your SYS: partition. If you
- edit your S:Startup-Sequence and add the following lines:
-
- If Exists "SYS:.DosBoot"
- Delete "SYS:.DosBoot" >nil:
- Quit
- Endif
-
- Preferably after the mount dosdrivers section, when you
- reset, you will be dumped into a CLI window.
-
- The Gadgets:
- Drag the window with the 'Shut Down Windows' titlebar.
-
- Close the window with the 'X' gadget in the top right corner (Bloody
- stupid place for a close gadget - Left is best).
-
- 'OK' activates your selected option (I thought I'd better explain this
- just in case a pc user accidently reads this (can they read?) ).
-
- 'Cancel' quits the program (see above comment).
-
- 'Help' just displays a version requester (just like microsoft, it is
- technically helpful but totaly useless).
-
- The 'Emergency Escape Hatch' (EEH)
- If you have clicked on 'OK' then change your mind you have 10 seconds to
- activate the EEH. To do this just press (hit, smack, bash, thump or fondle,
- it's your keybaord after all) ESC. You will then be safely returned to
- workbench.
-
- The sys files:
- There are just 320x512 32 colour IFF pictures, replace them with anything
- you like but they MUST be no bigger then 320x512 and no more than 32 colours.
-
- the pictures are opened on a Pal Lo-Res 5 bit screen (laced or not depending
- on the picture). If you use a bigger picture, or more colours it won't be
- displayed progerly. Anything other than IFF format will probably result in a
- visit from the crash fairy...
-
- logow.sys is the first pic, logos.sys the safe message...
-
- To Do:
- Maybe add DPMS to the Stand By mode.
- Any more suggestions?
-
- History:
-
- V0.2 First public release.
-
- V0.1 Very dodgy beta.
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 456 363 20.3% 28-Jul-01 20:53:52 ShutDown.info
- 8896 2457 72.3% 28-Jul-01 02:42:26 +Logos.sys
- 57648 35121 39.0% 28-Jul-01 02:23:46 +Logow.sys
- 57008 25701 54.9% 28-Jul-01 17:12:30 +Shutdown
- 2087 1160 44.4% 27-Jul-01 20:56:48 +Shutdown.info
- 1539 936 39.1% 28-Jul-01 20:55:42 +Shutdown.readme.info
- 3226 1637 49.2% 28-Jul-01 21:04:24 +Shutdown.readme
- -------- ------- ----- --------- --------
- 130860 67375 48.5% 29-Jul-101 20:40:54 7 files
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