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- ZeroVirus III
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- The Ultimate Virus Elimination System
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- © Copyright 1989,90 by Jonathan Potter
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- This program is freely distributable, but is NOT public domain.
- ZeroVirus III MAY NOT be included in any commercial package, or sold for
- ANY amount, including "COMPILATION VIRUS DISKS for only $20", etc.,
- without written permission from the author.
- ZeroVirus III MAY be included on any freely distributable package,
- including packages for which a nominal copying fee of no more than $5 is
- charged. This includes Fred Fish's Amiga Library Disks, and other similar
- public domain libraries.
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- Well, that was boring, wasn't it? But it had to be said. Too often I hear
- of ZeroVirus II being sold, with the seller making an enormous (percentage)
- profit. The decision was made to release ZeroVirus III as freely distributable
- rather than commercial software, so please don't abuse this.
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- #### NOTE THAT YOU WILL NEED THE FREELY DISTRIBUTABLE req.library TO USE ####
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- USAGE : ZeroVirus [-i] [-xnum] [-ynum] [-bfilename] [-n] [-c]
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- [-i] Start up iconified
- [-xnum] Set iconified window's default LeftEdge to num
- [-ynum] Set iconified window's default TopEdge to num
- [-bfilename] Load BrainFile from the file "filename"
- [-n] No window in iconify, run in background
- [-c] DON'T check memory every second when iconified
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- At any time, ZeroVirus can be activated by pressing AMIGA-AMIGA-Z
- simultaneously. If ZeroVirus is iconified, it will de-iconify.
- Otherwise, the ZeroVirus screen will be brought to the front.
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- HOW TO USE ZEROVIRUS III ? ? ?
-
- Well, I suggest that you get a copy of the ZeroVirus II documentation.
- Read it, then read the changes listed below.
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- CHANGES TO ZEROVIRUS III
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- (Roughly in order of appearance)
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- Firstly, ZeroVirus now detaches itself, so you do not need RUN or RUNBACK.
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- Screen is back to NTSC size - why not?
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- You now no longer have to press the left mouse button to enter the program.
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- Brilliant title screen, eh? Thanks to Adrian Jones for that. Any enquiries
- on Amiga graphics, or offers for contract work can be sent to Adrian via me
- (see address at the bottom of this text).
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- A new menu item, Memory, allows you to
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- a) Re-check memory for viruses. This repeats the procedure that
- occurs when the program is run.
- b) View memory, to look for any suspicious text.
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- Palette requester is much nicer. Sorry, Andrew Wong. I know ZeroVirus is not
- a paint program, but when you have 4096 colours available, it's silly (no, not
- ridiculous, just silly) not to take advantage of them.
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- New Credits requester, showing names of all those marvelous people who helped
- making this program what it is.
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- Into BootBlocks section.
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- Click on a drive gadget. Zoooom.. yes, bootblock display is several million %
- faster.
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- A new bootblock, Message, displays a scrolling message on a green copper list.
- If this disappears from a disk you know it was on, it is likely a virus has
- overwritten it.
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- Hide Drive allows you to switch off a drive, hiding it from DOS. This would be
- used if you are checking lots of non-DOS disks, that would normally throw
- up DOS requesters when you insert them. Disk change is not detected when a
- drive is hidden, so you have to keep clicking on the drive gadget to check
- each new disk.
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- Back to main menu, into Files section.
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- File viruses currently recognised are BGS9 (or TTV1), LAMER, IRQ and XENO.
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- Catalogue files lets you generate a catalogue of all files in a directory
- (or on disk). These files can later be checked against the catalogue (using
- Check Catalogue) for changes in size, date and protection bits.
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- Into BrainFiles section.
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- Nothing much changed here, except you can move using cursor (shift/ctrl, etc)
- keys.. easier, I think.
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- The file requester is better. DRIVES gives you a list of all available
- devices (disk, assigns...). In ARP fashion, SHIFT-RETURN jumps to the other
- string gadget.
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- ZeroVirus III generally is more memory efficient than earlier versions. Only
- 1K of chip RAM is used when it is iconified.
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- That's about all the changes there are. Sorry about the lack of proper
- documentation, but, hey! It's free! What more could you want?
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- PLEASE send any new viruses, or suspected viruses, to me at the address below.
- Or, if you live in Europe, send them to
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- Erik Løvendahl Sørensen
- Snaphanevej 10
- 4720 Præstø
- Denmark
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- and Erik will pass them along to me.
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- Changes v1.11
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- a) Workbench screen is now brought to front if "Warning" requesters are
- opened.
- b) "Select an item from the menu" replaced by snazzy graphic.
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- Changes v1.12
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- a) Unless run with the -c option, ZeroVirus will now check memory for viruses
- approximately every second or so, when it is iconified.
- b) Test for BGS9 and LAMER file viruses now more stringent.
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- Changes v1.14
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- Catalogue files now does not record the name of the directory specified. This
- means that you can check any disk against a catalogue.
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- Changes v1.15
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- ZeroVirus now recognises the changes to system vectors made by SetPatch r on
- machines with the super Agnus chip, and does not complain about them.
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- Changes v1.18
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- (v1.16 & 1.17 were never released).
- ZeroVirus now REALLY recognises the changes to system vectors made by
- SetPatch r. There is a new function from the main menu, Virus List, which
- simply displays an alphabetical list of all the viruses recognised by the
- current version/brainfile.
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- ZeroVirus now uses the req.library for a file and palette requester. A nice
- advantage of this (apart from the better requesters) is that the executable
- is about 14k (uncrunched) shorter. The req.library MUST be present for
- ZeroVirus to run.
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- Enjoy...!
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-
- Jonathan Potter
- P.O. Box 289
- Goodwood, SA 5034
- Australia
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- ph : (08) 2932788
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-
- (All donations gratefully accepted. Not only that, but you'll get back a copy
- of the latest version/BrainFile. Thanks.)
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