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ARoach
Version 1.1
© Copyright Stefan Winterstein 1993. Freely Distributable.
NAME
ARoach - cockroaches hide under your windows
SYNOPSIS
ARoach ROACHES/K/N,SPEED/K/N,SQUISH/S,SCREEN=PUBSCREEN/K,HELP/S
DESCRIPTION
ARoach displays disgusting cockroaches on your screen. These creepy
crawlies scamper around until they find a window to hide under.
Whenever you move or resize a window, the exposed orthopteras again
scamper for cover.
ARoach is based on Xroach for X-Windows. It requires at least
AmigaDOS Release 2.
The roaches live in a backdrop window behind all other windows. So
if your Workbench window is NOT a backdrop window and you don't see
any roaches, look behind it!
To quit the program, you can either close its window, break it with
CTRL-C or squish all roaches with the mouse (see option SQUISH).
OPTIONS
All options can be given either as Tooltypes or command line
options. Tooltypes are parsed _exactly_ like options given from the
shell.
ROACHES=<n>
This is the number of the little critters. Default is 10.
Note: The BOB routines of graphics.library can use a fair
amount of stack with large numbers of objects. So the number of
roaches is currently limited to 1000, which is OK for the
current (internal) stack size of 16000 Bytes.
SPEED=<n>
Use the given speed for the insects instead of the default 20.
For example, in winter the speed should be set to 5. In summer,
30 might be about right.
SQUISH
Enables roach squishing. Point and shoot with the left mouse
button.
PUBSCREEN=<string>
Drop the roaches on the given public screen. Make sure the
screen is nearby, so you can hear the screams.
HELP
Displays a short help text.
EXAMPLE
ARoach ROACHES 5 SPEED=30 SQUISH PUBSCREEN="DOPUS.1"
gives birth to 5 squishable roaches of speed 30, living on the
public screen of DirectoryOPUS.
BUGS
As given by the ROACHES option. Default is 10.
Under AmigaOS 3.0, there is some garbage under a window when you
move it away. This is a bug with graphics.library and interleaved
bitmaps, I suppose.
REVISION HISTORY
1.1 (14-Jul-93)
Fixed bug where roaches would stick at the border of the screen.
1.0 (24-Jun-93)
First public release.
AUTHORS & COPYRIGHT
I can be reached on internet as "winter@cs.uni-sb.de". Suggestions
and comments on the program are welcome.
My snail mail address is
Stefan Winterstein
Schwarzbachstr.7
66424 Homburg
Germany
The original XRoach is copyright 1991 by J.T. Anderson
(jta@locus.com), who kindly gave me the permission for releasing
this port.
ARoach is copyright © 1993 by Stefan Winterstein, all rights
reserved. This program is not in the public domain, but freely
distributable, provided it is not modified in its operation,
distributed together with this documentation and used for
non-commercial purposes only.
Though it was tested rather thoroughly, ARoach is made available
"as-is", without warranty of any kind. Any damage caused by the use
of this program is the sole responsibility of the user.
ARoach uses some of the `animtool' routines from the `ROM Kernel
Reference Manual: Libraries', which is Copyright (c) 1992
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many thanks to J.T. Anderson for his hilarious Xroach. ARoach uses
the original Bitmaps, data structures and many of its functions.
This documentation contains parts of the Xroach man-page.
SEE ALSO
roachmotel (Fish 807)