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S.G.D.
(Sierra Games Delete)
(Public Domain)
A Delete-Utility by Maico Ditzel
Created in August 1990
This program can be freely distributed as long as it is
distributed together with this SGD.doc-file
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INTRODUCTION
When you play 'Leisure suit Larry 3' or other Sierra games, you do not want to
start all over again if you make a fatal move.
For this reason, Sierra has built in SAVE and RESTORE options.
Unfortunately, they left out a DELETE option.
S.G.D. is a utility that provides the comfort of such an option.
You can use it if your disk is full or if you want to delete saved games that
you do not need anymore.
USAGE
Unfortunately, my program does not work with the old Workbench 1.2 and
it needs 1 MB (or more) to run.
If you want to copy this program to a bootable disk, the following files
must be on that disk :
SYS:C/ DELETE,LIST,RUN,SORT,ASSIGN,COPY
SYS:L/ RAM-HANDLER
This program creates a preference-file called 'SGDPREFS'.
This file will be saved in the directory path, that is assigned to
SGDPREFS:
If you copy this program to a bootable disk, you must assign SGDPREFS: ,or
execute the file 'SGD.script'.
I PROJECT :
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DELETE : If you choose this item, the program asks which game you want to
delete.
You must enter one of the numbers displayed on the screen.
If you want to Abort the DELETE-option you can enter a '0'.
ABOUT : This item shows you a brief explanation of this program and tells you
how to contact me.
QUIT : The purpose of this option is pretty obvious.
II SELECT :
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PATH : It displays a window, which shows you the current Directory Path,
and asks you to enter a new path name. If you want to keep the
current path, just press RETURN.
III OPTIONS :
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LEARN : If you look in the Adventure-Menu you will see that this program can
handle several Sierra adventures.
It would be a pity if Sierra creates a new adventure and my program
could not handle it.
Therefore I have created this marvelous option.
It explores a certain directory for games, saved by new Sierra
adventures and adds the adventure to the adventure-list.
Instructions:
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Select 'LEARN'
Question: 'Do you want to select another path'
If your answer is 'Y' you can select a new path. (Please
read the explanation of menu II)
The program then explores the selected directory for unknown
saved games. On floppy-disks this may take several minutes.
If it finds games which have been saved by new Sierra
adventures, it displays the Adventure-ID and asks you to enter a name
for that new adventure.
If you do not want to enter a name then press RETURN. It then
uses the Adventure-ID.
If you have entered all names, the program asks 'Do you want to
change any Adventure-Name'.
If your answer is 'Y' you can enter the names again.
UNDO : 1) If you have added new adventures with the LEARN-option, and you
made a mistake, you can restore the old settings by selecting
'UNDO'.
2) If you selected the RESET-option by mistake, and you want to
restore the old settings, you can also select 'UNDO'.
* If you selected 'UNDO', you can select it again to reverse it.
RESET : If you want to rebuild the Adventure-list, you can select 'RESET'
to clear it.
IV ADVENTURE :
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This menu contains the Adventure-list. Just select an adventure with the mouse.
EXAMPLE
One day, you buy a Sierra adventure (for example Space Quest 3).
You start playing it and you save games to a Data-disk in the
'SAVE'-directory.
To delete some of these games, please follow these steps:
1) Start this program and wait until it is ready
2) Insert the Data-disk in any drive (just make sure that you leave the
boot-disk in any other drive)
3) Select 'LEARN' and answer 'Y' to the question
4) Enter the name of the drive with the Data-disk and add 'SAVE'
(for example DF1:SAVE)
5) The program displays : Adv.-ID = SQ3
Enter 'SPACE QUEST 3'
Answer 'N' to the question
6) Select 'SPACE QUEST 3' in the Adventure-menu
7) The program displays the games that you have saved with Space Quest 3
Select 'DELETE' in the Project-menu and enter the number of the game
that you want to delete.
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I hope you find this program useful.
If you have any remarks or questions, or if you want to obtain an updated
version, you can contact me at this address :
M. Ditzel
Ds. M. L. Kingweg 94
1444 EG PURMEREND
HOLLAND
TEL. (0)2990-30323