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HOW TO DRIVE MEGADISC 27
SEE FULL LISTING OF CONTENTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS FILE
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URGENT REMINDER: MEGADISC WILL ONLY EXIST AS LONG AS YOU BUY IT
IF YOU COPY IT, YOU'LL KILL IT
PLEASE GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT IF YOU'RE TEMPTED TO STEAL IT
For details of how to order from Megadisc, check the MD_Info drawer
For details on using Megadisc's mail order for commercial hardware and
software check the "MD_Mail_Order" file.
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Just like the others, all you have to do is click on icons with the
mouse. But to get a "full view" of it, read the rest of this doc.
TEXT & GRAPHICS DISPLAYER - FULLVIEW
To find out all about FullView's features, read the "FullView_doc" on
the MD24_B disk or our Catalogue disk, or press the HELP key right now,
or select HELP from Fullview's menu. What you used to do with Most also
works with Fullview, but Fullview has more alternatives, specifically
the ability to move up and down through the files at variable speed
using the mouse - try it now: click the mouse once to move up or down
depending on whether the mouse is in the top or bottom half of the
screen; click again to stop. To exit a file press "q" or "ESC" or use
the menu QUIT. Experiment with it, you can run it by mouse, menu or
keyboard as it suits you.
We hope you like FullView (by Jon Potter with thanks), and would
appreciate any feedback about it, good and bad.
KILLING VIRUSES
Regarding disk infestations - Use VIRUSCHECKER in the VIRUS drawer to
check and kill any and all disks and directories for bootblock and File
viruses. Just double-click on the icon, and then press the Right Mouse
Button on the VirusChecker menu bar and up will pop a little window
where you can enter the disk you want to check, say DF0: for example.
By the way, a Version 6.02 of Virus-Checker has been appearing around New
Zealand - it's been hacked by someone, and it's harmless. But use the
version on this issue to get the latest and greatest.
GRAPHICS
To exit the graphics in the HARDWARE drawer and elsewhere, click
the left mouse button in the top left corner of the picture; or press
the ESC key; or press the "q" key. (It's almost hard to stay in it!)
PRINTING OUT FILES - AND STRIPPING ESCAPE CODES
Fullview will print out any file from the Menu - either the current
page or the whole file.
Some printers don't like the Escape Codes that we put in the text
files to liven it up - the NX1000 colour printer tends to print out
slowly in colour, for example. Randall Crook took this problem in hand
and wrote us a little utility called SCSTRIP which takes a normal text
file (ASCII file) and strips out the codes. They can then be printed in
any normal way. Check the program out in the MD_INFO drawer of MD24,
. Meanwhile, you'll have to SAVE the files you want to print, from the
Fullview menu - up will pop a requestor so you can save it to some place
with some name (perhaps RAM:FILE). Then use SCSTRIP on it to strip the
codes, and then you can print it out, with Fullview if you wish, by
LOADing it in via the menu again.
INFO ON MEGADISC - ORDERING, MAIL ORDER, CONTRIBUTING, ETC.
Have a look at the files in the MD_INFO drawer for more info about
MEGADISC, such as how to order public domain disks or Megadisc from us,
how to buy from our mail order hardware and software service, how to
contribute to Megadisc, etc.
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For full contents of all previous Megadiscs, check the MD_INDEX drawer
CONTENTS OF MEGADISC 27
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CONTENTS OF MEGADISC 27A
ARTICLES
Amiga_Upgrades - A few considerations
CrossWord_3 - Next in the series
DTV_Ideas - Hints on desktop-video
Money_Making - Some considerations for doing it with your Amiga
New_Amigas - A bogus file
Not_so_slow_Memory - A few memorial anomalies
Word_Processing - An overview of what it's about
WorkBench2_Hints - A few hints on Workbench 2 and the A3000
Hints_&_Tips - A variety from the editor
MegaBites - News and views from the editor
Bugs_&_Upgrades - A collection of insects and prospects
TUTES_&_CLI
Basic_Programming - Some thoughts
Bootup-Sequence - What does happen when the Amiga starts up?
Disk-customising - How to do it
Icon_Making - A definitive treatment
MightyMouse - Using the utility program
Proforma_Score - About an authoring program
Snap_Grabbing - Using the Snap text utility
Text_Editor - Using the Ed commands
Using_DME_3 - Using DME text editor
FLIGHT_SIMS
Flight_Sim_Theory - a full treatment of flying with pics
Flight_Sim_Overview - of the various packages available
Red_Baron - Review
REVIEWS
ADos_Companion - The book
Pelican_ClipArt - Commercial clip art
C64_Emulator_PD
DataRetrieve_db - the database
Dice_C_Environment - shareware C package
Dinosaurs - educational
Dir_Opus_Pro - the Australian directory utility
Dpaint_Video2
Imagine_2.0
MachIII_Shareware - multiple utility
Modem
PD_Disk_Reviews - a collection of PD disks
PD_Reviews - various utilities
SuperLock_PD
SuperSpell_PD
MD_INDEX
A full index of all Megadiscs 1 - 26 inclusive
PUBLIC_DOMAIN
Fish620-591 - The Latest Fish disks
New_Best_of_Fish and New_AmigOz_disks - like it says
PD_Since_MD26 - Recent public domain disks
PD_Updates - changes to the catalogue
MegaArc_Disks - New collection of arc'ed programs
GAMES
A.Replay_Cheating - Using the Action Replay cartridge
AD&D_Hints&Cheats - Dungeons & Dragons
Alien_Breed
Camelot
Cosmic_Forge - two views and a pic
DragonII_Solution
Fate_Warning - Beware a dog of a program
Llamatron_PD - PD game
Lotus_TurboII
SpaceQuest_Solution
Stealth_Solution
WarLords
CONTENTS OF MEGADISC27B
PROGRAMMING
Basic_Tutorial_8 - the next installment for Basic users
Basic_Routines - A bunch of very useful routines
DataMaker - Making icons in Basic
Integer_Math - some routines
Random - Random generator
PROGRAMS
No_NTSC_Screen - Utility
Iinfo - Updated Info utility
QCD - Improved CD command with Intuition interface
ShowHand - Shows a pic on startup
Requestor - Improved ASK command for branching in scripts
P-Compress - Full compression utility
Mandelbrot - Mandelbrot generator with 2 PD libraries to install
BootDisk_Maker - Create basic boot disks
AMOS
Amos_Part_II - Next installment in using Amos
Amos_Slideshow - Create your own slideshow
Dos_In_Amos - Using AmigaDos from Amos
Palet_doc - An Amos Palette with pics and program
Random_Access_Files
HARDWARE
BBU_Clock_Fix - Battery backed-up clock fix
Colour_Digitising - Doing it with a colour camera, with pics
FSim_Controllers - Some speculation
MUSIC
An original piece with the MEDPlayer program
NUMBERSUP_GAME
An interesting educational game
DTP_&_FONTS
About_Fountain - The WB2 Fonts program
DTP_Fonts - All about fonts in Pagestream and DTP in general
Postscript_Problems - Getting around them
PS_FontManager - Managing fonts in PageStream
FEEDBACK
Classifieds - Ads from readers
Readers' Letters, Questions and Hints
Groups_&_BBS - An update
Thanks to all involved with Megadisc
VIRUS
Virus_Checker V 6.03 - Latest, greatest Virus detector/killer
MD_INFO
Contains info about contributing to, and ordering from, Megadisc, along
with a utility called SCStrip to strip control codes from text files for
printing on fussy printers.
On the main window of MD27GB, "Editorial" where your editor opines or reports and
generally tries to make some sense.
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