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- TESTCARD GENERATOR FOR SERVICE ENGINEERS.
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- Questions:-
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- 1) Do you own an AMIGA A500 or better with 512Kb of memory.
- 2) Does this Amiga have Workbench 1.3 or better.
- 3) Are you a Television and/or Monitor service engineer.
- 4) Would you like your Amiga to become a piece of test gear for
- the workshop instead of gathering dust in the cupboard, then
- this software will be of use to you.
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- Minimum operating requirements are:-
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- 1) Standard Amiga A500 with 512Kb or more of memory.
- 2) Workbench 1.3x.
- 3) An external floppy disk drive is required.
- 4) The mouse is not used.
- 5) OCS.
- 6) PAL/NTSC Television or Monitor to be tested with connecting leads.
- 7) A second TV/Monitor for general viewing.
- 8) The software has NOT been tested on an Amiga A1000.
- 9) The software has NOT been tested on Workbench 1.2x or less.
- 10) The software has NOT been tested on Workbench 3.1x or greater.
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- General information:-
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- This software was written using ACE basic compiler and some assembler.
- Simple audio tones are generated for basic alignment and audio checks.
- There is an ~IBM~ PC version that is freeware and has had extensive
- testing and uses video modes 0 to 6. This is also supplied.
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- See the ~TestInfo~ text file for further information on how to use
- this program.
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- Now the legal stuff:-
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- This program is the copyright of (C)1998 Barry Walker with all
- rights reserved.
- It is freeware and no profit will be made from it, also all of the
- files must remain unaltered, complete and intact.
- The author is not responsible for any damage to, or loss of, or
- failure of equipment or data caused in any way by the use of this
- program.
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- Testing evaluation:-
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- This was tested on an A500 with various memory configurations,
- the same A500 switched to 1MB Chip Ram and emulating WB2 using
- the A500+ emulator, an A600 with various memory configurations,
- the same A600 emulating WB3 with various memory configurations,
- an A1200 with various memory configurations. A similar A1200 using a
- Turbo LC accelerator board with an ~030~ and 10MB total memory.
- (thanks to Laurence J Greatorex).
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- Bug Reports:-
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- All bug reports should be sent in plain text to my Compuserve Email
- address i.e. 106161.3245@compuserve.com and I will endeavour
- to cure them.
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- Contact:-
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- Mr Barry Walker,
- 70 King George Road,
- Loughborough,
- Leicestershire,
- LE11 2PA,
- England.
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- Email to:-
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- wisecracker@tesco.net
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- BYE.....
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