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- Short: V3.0 Doctor Who database
- Author: Thomas Williams (Asimov)
- Uploader: asimov@btinternet.com
- Version: v3.0
- Type: util/wb
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- *********** THE DOCTOR WHO DATABASE ***********
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- V 3.0
- Now with images.
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- ********** Written by T.R Williams ************
- ********** Helped An Awful lot by ************
- ********** Mr Jay Cornwall ************
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- 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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- ** Copyright Notice *********
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- Right I was dead worried about the copyright of the pictures I was using
- until I found a webpage which used pictures which could be used as long
- as no money was made from them. It states on this page that all pictures
- can be used for any purpose as there is no profit involved.
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- Right now for the long disclaimer bit.
- Doctor Who and associated names, titles, logos and screen captures are
- owned by © BBC Worldwide LTD.
- No copyright infringement is intended. No profit is made, no money is
- collected from the use of this program.
- All images used have been reduced to low resolution 32 colour pictures,
- downloaded from the Doctor Who Image Archive http://www.shillpages.com.
- Further copyright information can be found on this site.
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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.
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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.
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- **** 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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- Doctor Who Database v2.3 Added new buttons for browsing through the files.
- You can also use the arrow keys to do the same.
- Many thanks goto Amimon for this suggestion.
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- Doctor Who Database v3.0 Right someone who goes under the nick of Drwho (coincidence or
- what) suggested I add alphabet buttons. So I added them.
- Unfortunately I had to fix the font on this version to topaz.
- This was necessary to get this out on release. This will change
- in the MUI version (when I learn MUI). Had lotsa problems with
- this version. Took ages to get the pictures to work. Took ages
- to find some decent pictures. Then the beta testing began.
- Most people had no trouble with the program including me. But
- for some reason one person with the nick of _ELF_ continously
- had crashes with it. After about 2 weeks I found out what the
- problem was and put it right. Thanks to _ELF_, Abbadon, Mudbucket
- and Amimon for beta testing my program. By the way Amimon is now
- known as Boofuls. If he changes his nick again he can edit the
- docs for me heh heh. I just have to add _ELF_ must have tested
- about 20 versions of my v3.0 beta, thanks alot _ELF_.
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- Also added a 100 pictures. I am coninually adding more pictures
- but this first release of v3.0 will start with a 100.
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- ******* What I intend to do in future versions *******
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- Right I hope the next version will be in MUI.
- Basically v3.0 is the last gadtools version and is finished.
- MUI will allow more configuration.
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- Not sure what else I can do with it now except for adding more pictures.
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- Any comments,
- please feel free to email me at asimov@btinternet.com
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