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- ANNOUNCING "FORAY" (TM) MUSHROOM INFORMATION & IDENTIFICATION FOR THE AMIGA
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- When enthusiasts get together to collect, identify, and learn more about
- mushrooms it's called a "foray." With a keen interest in extending that
- feeling of fun and discovery, eye 2 eye design is pleased to announce
- "FORAY" ... a pictorial mushroom information and identification database
- for the Amiga.
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- Even someone who has never picked a wild mushroom, and doesn't intend to,
- can enjoy FORAY as a pictorial information source. You can modify the included
- records, add new records, or create entire new databases. FORAY is also
- designed to assist the serious mycologist, offering the matrix for an
- extensive multi-genus database. FORAY follows the same Group, then Genus,
- then species naming convention found in mushroom books and field guides.
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- The present version of FORAY supports the four major mushroom Groups:
- Agarics, Boletes, Chanterelles, and Polypores. (Future upgrades will add
- more.) Records may be retrieved by Genus, Genus.species, common name, or
- by selecting feature keys and initializing a search. Features associated
- with any mushroom record may be changed, providing the opportunity to
- fine-tune an entry. Individualized comments and "field notes" may be saved
- with any record.
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- Each mushroom entry can have a picture. The included pictures are a study
- of how the Amiga's basic 16 colors may be expanded to accurately reproduce
- the much wider palette of mushrooms in the wild. Using an Amiga paint program,
- you can create new pictures to add to the database.
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- FORAY opens on its own hi-res screen on any Amiga with 2.0 or greater. It
- has its own proportional font, picture gadgets, and a beautiful, easy-to-use
- interface.
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- *** This archive contains a pre-release demo version of Foray ***
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- FILES that should be in the archive
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- readfirst this file
- readfirst.info
- Botetes.db database of Bolete Group
- Agarics.db database of Agaric Group
- logo.pic title screen picture
- Foray Demo of program
- Foray.info
- MUSHPICS (dir) contains pictures
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- *** PLEASE KEEP ALL THE FILES TOGETHER IF YOU PASS IT ON ***
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- You can run the demo from a floppy by simply clicking on the icon, if you
- copy all the files to the same disk and name the disk "Foray."
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- If you want to install Foray on your hard drive do the following:
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- Make a new drawer on the hard drive.
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- Name the new drawer Foray.
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- Copy "everything" in the archive into the new drawer.
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- Assign "Foray:" to the new drawer by typing this line from the CLI
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- "assign Foray: <path/Foray> "
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- where the path is the place you made the new drawer. For example,
- if you make the drawer in the "Work:" partition, the assignment
- line would be-
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- assign Foray: Work:Foray
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- Foray requires Amiga operating system 2.0 or greater, and likes a
- non-flickering screen.
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- All the pictures are original, created with DPaint... nothing was scanned.
- Please no not separate the pictures from the program.
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- Saving a database is disabled in this demo, but printing is left working.
- Also, you will notice that the Agaric.db is incomplete in that most fields are
- empty. The Bolete.db is fairly complete; use it to get a feeling for how FORAY
- sorts, etc. All pertinent fields will be complete in the released version.
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- So that we can get FORAY launched, we are making the standard "introductory-
- buy direct" offer. You can get the FORAY program disk, the pictures disk,
- and a printed manual for only $40. The "release" version will have all four
- mushroom Groups and 40+ pictures.
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- (include $3 for shipping + 8.2% sales tax for WA residents- $46.53 total)
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- FORAY was designed and executed by Marlin Greene and Gary Hale, and is
- copyright 1993 by eye 2 eye design.
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- All the graphics and pictures are copyright 1993 by eye 2 eye design and
- may not be reproduced for sale without permission.
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- If you need more information about the program contact us.
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- Marlin Greene
- eye2eye design
- 1633 6th Ave West
- Seattle, Wa 98119
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- 206 281-9165
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