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- KeyBang
- -------
- Version 1.0
-
- by Mike Stark
-
- KeyBang is a program which I have developed to entertain my son. He is 17
- months old at this release and he likes to bang on the keyboard and play with
- the mouse of my Amiga. Unfortunately, he likes to watch the screen change
- while he plays with the keboard and mouse which was especially unfortunate
- the few times I left the editor unattended in a document. Keybang gives my
- son something to do while at the same time protecting my Amiga from his
- enthusiastic intervention.
-
- KeyBang draws random shapes and plays random sounds in response to keypresses
- and mouse button presses. The shapes are circles and simple polygons. The
- sounds are samples loaded from disk files.
-
- Operation
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-
- To run KeyBang either select its icon or type its name. To exit the program,
- you must press the difficult key combination "Alt-Alt-F5" which was selected
- because of the unlikelyhood that a one-year-old could reach all of those keys
- at once.
-
- KeyBang recognizes two command line options: "-colors" and "-oneshape". The
- "-colors" option lets you specify the number of colors on the KeyBang screen.
- Selecting fewer colors will speed the program up on slower Amigas. The
- "-oneshape" option causes KeyBang to clear the screen before each shape is
- drawn. These options may also be specified with the Tooltypes of KeyBang's
- icon. The Tooltypes "COLORS=2|4|8|16" and "ONESHAPE" are recognized by
- KeyBang.
-
- You can supply your own sounds for KeyBang. KeyBang looks in a subdirectory
- of the current directory or in a device called "Sounds:". It loads the
- samples described in whatever IFF 8SVX files are in that directory. KeyBang
- is distributed with a few sounds. You can supply others simply by copying
- them to the sounds directory.
-
- Installation
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-
- If you want KeyBang to play sounds you must either run the program from a
- directory which contains a subdirectory named "Sounds" or assign "Sounds:" to
- some directory which contains IFF 8SVX sound sample files. If you don't want
- KeyBang to play sounds, it may be a good idea to assign "Sounds:" to an empty
- directory so that you won't be bothered by a requester telling you to "insert
- Sounds in any drive."
-
- Bugs
- ----
-
- While KeyBang attempts to make the keyboard impotent, the key combination
- Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga will still reset the Amiga. This reset is accomplished
- by the keyboard hardware so KeyBang can't get around it. There is some hope
- that a later version of KeyBang will be able to prevent a reset in all but
- the Amiga 500.
-
- If you notice any other bugs, please send me a note at one of the addresses
- below. I'll correct any reported bugs in later versions.
-
- Shareware
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-
- KeyBang is released with source into the public domain. If you wish to
- contribute to the education of my son and be remembered as this program
- is updated to keep track with his development (And your child's development,
- too) please send a shareware contribution to me at the address below. A
- contribution of $15 (US) will assure you a copy of the next major
- update when it becomes available. All people who so request can be notified
- by mail of the next update.
-
- There is no "enhanced" version of this program which you will receive when
- you send you shareware contribution. How could you possibly decide if you
- like a program if you only get to test a crippled version.
-
- As of 1992 my address is:
- Mike Stark
- 11417 July Drive #304
- Silver Spring, MD 20904
-
- E-Mail:
- stark@umdhep.umd.edu
-