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- Fortuna v1.0
-
- (15.06.95)
-
- by
- Alex Van Boxel
-
-
- Introduction
- ============
-
- Welcome to the first release of Fortuna, a fortune cookie displayer.
- A fortune cookie is a random quote, item of trivia, joke shown to the
- user from one of the cookie file.
-
- Fortuna first select one of the cookie files that are in the COOKIES
- directory. Then it select one of the, may-be 1000, fortune cookies in
- the cookie file. It then displays it in a window, centered on the
- screen.
-
- Fortuna uses a custom indexed file format for high speed access to a
- cookie. The benefits of this file format are that it won't delay much
- of the boot process and that it doesn't use much memory, just enough
- for the program and the selected fortune cookie.
-
-
- Features
- ========
-
- - A full 32 bit application for Windows95
- - High speed access to a cookie in a cookie file through indexing
- - Low memory usage
- - Popup Menu
- - Get a new cookie at runtime
- - Custom font Support
- - Custom font and background color
- - Multiple cookie files
- - Per-user-customization by use of the registry
- - FreeWare
-
-
- Minimum Requirements
- ====================
-
- - 386SX with 4MB
- - 1MB free disk space
- - Windows95
-
- Note that you need a NT or Windows95 unzip to extract the full filenames
- of the files in the zip archive.
-
-
- Installation
- ============
-
- When you decompressed Fortuna with its full directory structure and full
- Windows95 long filenames, you should be ready. Make sure there is at least
- one fortune cookie file in the Cookies directory, if you want to get a
- fortune cookie. The directory where Fortuna looks for its cookie files
- must be named COOKIES and should be in the same directory as FORTUNA.EXE.
-
- If you like a cookie every time you start your computer, create a shortcut
- of Fortuna (not Fortuna itself) in your Startup directory.
-
-
- Usage
- =====
-
- Just start the program by clicking its icon or its shortcut. When you
- have done this Fortuna will choose a random cookie in a randomly selected
- cookie file. When you have read the cookie you can get ride of it just by
- clicking on its window or by pressing escape.
-
- When you don't like the cookie or when it's too long you can get a new
- cookie by using the popup menu item "New Cookie". You can bring up the popup
- menu by pressing the right mousebutton when you are over the cookie window.
-
- You can customize Fortuna by using the menu items "Select Font..." and
- "Select Background Color..." in the popup or system menu. The custom
- settings are registered in the registry. This has as wonderful side
- effect that if your computer is used by different people (and are logged
- in as different users), the settings are stored per user and not as a single
- setting for all users.
-
-
- Conversion
- ==========
-
- If you have existing ASCII cookie files there is a extra command line
- program FConvert to convert to the Indexed Fortuna Format. For more
- information read "FConvert.txt".
-
-
- Other Computers
- ===============
-
- There will be (or is, depending on when you read this.) a version of Fortuna
- for the Macintosh, ported by Daniel Van Den Broeck. The cookie files are
- interchangeable.
-
-
- Thanks
- ======
-
- Thanks to Nico Franτois and Peter Stuer for suggestions and testing.
- Thanks to Daniel Van Den Broeck for porting Fortuna to the Macintosh.
-
-
- History
- =======
-
- Version 1.0
- - First Release
-
-
- CopyRight
- =========
-
- This program can be freely distributed and used as long as it is not sold
- or made part of any commercial product.
-
-
- Disclaimer
- =========
-
- THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
- EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF
- MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT WILL
- THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING INCIDENTAL OR
- CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE PROGRAM, EVEN IF
- ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. YOU ARE USING IT AT YOUR
- OWN RISK.
-
-
- Contact
- =======
-
- All suggestions, comments (negative and positive) may be send to one of the
- following addresses:
-
- - Alex Van Boxel
- Perksesteenweg 16
- B-1910 Kampenhout
- Belgium
-
- - fidonet: 2:292/603.30
-