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ECSLaunch - Written in 1995 by Alastair M. Robinson
ECSLaunch is a small (824 bytes) utility which will help AGA Amiga and Multiscan
monitor users run software which screws up when run from a DblNTSC/DblPAL
workbench. It requires a minimum of Kickstart 2.04 to run, and may help ECS
users who use Multiscan/productivity screen modes.
**-=>Important<=-**
ECSLaunch is provided as is, without warranty of any kind. The author accepts
no responsibility for damages, however caused, arising from the use of this
program, or supporting scripts.
It is released as FreeWare. This means that you may copy it and give
it to anyone you like, but please keep all the files together.
Just copy the whole ECSLaunch Drawer!
The supplied install script copies the ECSLaunch executable to your C:
directory. From then on, it is used as follows:
ECSLaunch <command line>,
where <command line> is anything you could type into a shell.
As an example, take the Jobbo_Spaceballs demo on AUI superdisk 64:
CD <demo directory>
Jobbo_Spaceballs
If the workbench screen is anything other than NTSC or PAL, this will produce a
severly corrupted display, and crash the machine.
If instead the following is used:
CD <demo directory>
ECSLaunch Jobbo_Spaceballs
the demo works without a hitch.
The best way to use ECSLaunch is probably to set up scripts to be run via IconX
which in turn run the required programs. A simple script is included to do
this. It puts a script with an icon into the ram disk. This will normally have
to be placed in the same directory as the program to be run, if the said program
needs to load any data files.
Currently, ECSLaunch cannot help AMOS 1.3, or any program compiled from the
original AMOS compiler. These appear skewed on screen, for some reason. Amos
pro works fine though, even without ECSLaunch.
ECSLaunch was written in 1995 by Alastair M. Robinson.
My address (snail mail only I'm afraid ;^() is:
Alastair Robinson
The Old Chapel,
Syderstone
Norfolk
PE31 8SD