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THE ULTIMATE FINANCE MANAGER HAS ARRIVED!
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Contents of this document:
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What is MEGA-Check 2? (find "two")
Using the demo (find "demo")
Changes in version 2.04 (find "2.04")
Changes in version 2.03 (find "2.03")
Changes in version 2.02 (find "2.02")
Changes in version 2.01 (find "2.01")
WHAT IS MEGA-CHECK 2?
After two and a half years of development, Muller Automation is
proud to bring you the Juggernaut of account and finance managers,
MEGA-Check 2. This state-of-the-art program will provide enough
power to track any of your personal, investment or business
enterprises for years to come.
How will it do this? Just look at these outstanding features:
- Full GEM interface, easy to use.
- MEGA-Check 2 is an "interactive expert system." It asks you
questions in PLAIN ENGLISH about what you want and provides
exactly what you tell it. This is state-of-the-art technology.
- The built-in Alarm/Scheduler won't let you forget anything.
Important transfers, paying regular bills or generating important
financial reports automatically on a regular basis is no sweat for
MEGA-Check 2. You can even tell it to prompt you ahead of time.
- Fully automated checkbook balancing.
- Prints checks on any printer.
- Support for any number of checking, savings, investment, credit or
expense accounts. And MEGA-Check 2 doesn't require you to enter
archaic "codes" to identify your accounts. Accounts can be added
or changed at any time, even after you've entered hundreds of
transactions, which is made easier using MEGA-Check 2's unique
Account Selector that works much like the GEM fileselector you're
used to.
- Accounts can be grouped into categories and sub-categories (just
like files and folders on your disk drives). The total of the
balances of any group of accounts in a category can be seen
immediately by clicking on the main account for that group.
- If you wish, MEGA-Check 2 will even warn you if the balance of an
account gets too low or too high. Never incur another bank
service charge, or, for investors, set automatic "stop loss"
points for your speculative investments.
- Track "hypothetical" investments to see "what would have happened
if..." Easily generate reports that run side-by-side comparisons
of these investments with real or low-risk investments.
- Automatically tracks appreciation or depreciation of investments
or assets.
- Extended notes (up to eight lines) can be entered to describe any
transaction.
- Keeps track of names, addresses, phone and other info on all
clients, suppliers, customers, creditors and other associates.
Associates can be added, changed or deleted at any time. An
Associate Selector, similar to the GEM fileselector you're used
to, is available at any time to select the Associate you want from
a list.
- MEGA-Check 2 gives you the most powerful report generator of any
finance manager available for the Atari (probably for other
computers too!). You can specify every aspect of your reports.
What they look like, what appears on them, where they print, what
fields to total... everything, all with an easy to use point and
click interface! Any report definition can be saved to be printed
later, and any report can be made interactive, allowing it to be
customized on the fly by simply answering one or more plain
English questions.
- And don't worry about having your computer tied up while
MEGA-Check 2 generates a complex report because we've also
included MULTITASKING! That's right, all MEGA-Check 2 reports are
generated in the background, allowing you to continue to enter
transactions, view other reports, balance your checkbook, or use
any of your desk accessories. When the report is finished you can
view it right away or wait until later.
- Built-in file compression conserves memory and keeps your files
small with no noticable performance degradation.
- On-line context sensitive help is available at all times by
pressing the Help key. Almost the entire manual has been put
on-line with a full help index to take you quickly to any topic
you need help on. Of course, we're always here to answer your
questions too.
- A 150 page manual complete with a How Do I...? section that talks
you through, step by step, exactly how to perform various real
life operations.
- MEGA-Check 2 will run in color or monochrome on any ST or TT with
at least 1 MB of RAM. A hard disk is recommended, but not
required. Only $99.95 (plus $5 s/h).
The original MEGA-Check won rave reviews by the Atari magazines.
MEGA-Check 2 is sure to do the same.
"If you get the feeling that I liked MEGA-Check, you're right! I have
found a finance program that I can USE!" - ST Informer, July 1992
"MEGA-Check seems to position itself in the mid- to upper range of
personal accounting programs. It easily surpasses the program
Microcheck and seems to have few, if any, of the technical limitations
of Personal Finance Manager." - Atari Advantage, June/July 1992
Using the demo:
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Before running MC20.PRG, create a folder called HELPLIB in the same
directory as MC20.PRG. Then MOVE all files with the extension .HLP
to that directory. Then double-click on MC20.PRG.
MEGA-Check 2 is completely resolution independent. It runs best in
monochrome or higher resolution. In medium res, some of the panels
have buttons that are scrunched up, which is nothing more than a
cosmetic disadvantage to running in high-resolution. No functionality
is missing.
One megabyte of memory or more is REQUIRED (and you need about 800K of
free memory).
The SAMPLE.MC2 file contains a sample 3-month file that can show you
the way the report generator works and how the automatic bill paying
works, as well as a few of MEGA-Check 2's other powerful features.
Just select "Open" from the "File" menu and then double-click on
SAMPLE.MC2.
MEGA-Check 2 DOES create temporary files, so don't run it from a write
protected disk. Don't panic if you see it writing to your hard drive.
This is normal. All help and report files are accessed RANDOMLY,
also, so you may see the disk access as you scroll down through a help
file or report.
Much of the manual is included in this demo in the online help files.
A lot of the capabilities of MEGA-Check 2 can be gathered by reading
through some of these files. Just press the HELP key to access the
scrollable context sensitive help window panel. Clicking on the INDEX
button on this panel will bring up an alphabetical index of all
available help topics. When in a help topic, clicking on any gray
text will jump to help on that topic. The manual contains more
tutorial information as well as lots of screen shots but the help
files are direct excerpts from the manual.
As always, we're here to answer any questions you might have. Call
us at 816-322-4919 or leave a message to C.MULLER3 on GEnie.
We hope you like the progam.
- Muller Automation
CHANGES IN VERSION 2.04
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Fixed a couple of bugs, including the duplicate account # bug. Fixed
the ACCT search field (before it worked just like DBAC).
ANALYZ20.PRG can be used to determine if you have been affected by
this bug.
Added more keyboard support. You can now use the Control+Up arrow and
Control+Down arrow to scroll one line at a time through windows. You
can use Shift+Up arrow and Shift + Down arrow to scroll a page at a
time through windows. You can also use Control+Return to exit from
windows that just have a standard close box (in the upper left
corner).
CHANGES IN VERSION 2.03
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Fixed lock up problem on TOS 1.0 and 1.2.
CHANGES IN VERSION 2.02
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To upgrade to version 2.02, you only need replace MC20.PRG,
DIALOG.DAT.
The built-in FILE COMPRESSION has been optimized in version 2.02.
MEGA-Check 2's file compression feature compresses certain portions of
your data files, saving both memory and disk space. The
de-compression is done on the fly and is almost unnoticable, even on a
stock ST.
CHANGES IN VERSION 2.01
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To upgrade to version 2.01, you only need replace MC20.PRG,
DIALOG.DAT. FIX20.MMU should be copied to your models directory if
you have been affected by the version 2.0 bug described below.
ANALYZ20.PRG can be used to determine if you have been affected by
this bug.
Several new report components have been added. Most notably, MAX1
thru MAX8 have been added to keep track of the highest memo value
used in the transactions selected for that report.
Compatibility has been improved with older versions of TOS.
MEGA-Check version 2.0 had a SMALL bug which has caused us a BIG
headache. But we tracked it down and got it fixed (had to change one
byte of program code!).
The bug would only occur on those files that were originally
converted with the 1 to 2 converter (CONVERT.PRG) included on the 2.0
master disk and only if you have added an account since the
conversion. Every transaction that uses that account has been using
the Assets account instead. ANALYZ20.PRG was written to find out if
your data has been affected by this bug. If it has, it tells you
which account and FIX20.MMU (a.k.a. "Fix 2.0 data") can be used to
fix it. It is an update model that will appear in the Model list
if you copy it to your model directory. More details are included
when you run ANALYZ20.PRG.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us.