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THE INTRODUCER
By J.L. White
(C)1988 Merlin's Software
Welcome to the Introducer. Now you can create your own scrolling demos! Use
your own pictures, your own sounds, and of course, your own text files. I
have seen many different demos and always thought how nice it would be to
use my own files. Well since no one else has put one together that allows you
to customize it, I decided to put one together that I could change for many
different applications. So can you! It is very simple to use. It will accept
any IFF Lo-res picture and any IFF digitized sound. It will play the music in
Stereo! Well what it really does is play the sound in all 4 channels. Not
true stereo but it sure sounds good! Just load up your favorite text editor
and put in what ever text you want to scroll. It will scroll twenty different
lines of text. Scroll from left to right, right to left, or simply have it
appear in the middle. It will scroll accross the top, the center, or the
bottom of the screen. Also included in this arc file is a sample demo I put
together for the Tampa Bay Amiga Group's Disk of the Month Collection plus a
listing of all the disks available from Merlin's Software. Make the Big Time
with the INTRODUCER!
Enjoy...
Instructions:
The Introducer is very simple to use. It will use any IFF lo-res picture. To
use your own just rename it to Intro.Pic and place it in the same directory
as the Introducer. It will not work with HAMs or other formats, but if I get
alot of response from this maybe I will make another version that does. You
can use any digitized sound file also. To use your own, rename the file as
Intro.Sound and place in the same directory. If the program does not find a
file called Intro.Sound, it will bypass the music and load the picture and
text. I did it this way in case some of you have Mark Riley's Play program.
You can run the Play command first then load the Introducer. There are alot
of nice Sonix songs out there so just try it both ways. When you use any
digitized sound it plays it in all four channels. Not true stereo but it
sounds alot better than straight mono. WARNING: Do not use this if you have
another program running that uses sound (ex. CLI-WIZARD). If you do you will
get a visit from you know who!
This program was designed to be put in the startup-sequence. Just cd to the
directory and run Introducer. An icon is included to let you run it from
Workbench also. Now for the text. Load up the file called Intro.Text. The
first line (the one in the box) is your intro line. It appears while the
program loads the sound file. Since most sound files are so large, I thought
it would be nice to say "One Moment Please" or something to that effect. If
you do not use a sound file you should leave this blank. You now have 20
lines of text you can scroll. Just replace the current lines with your own
text. Do not change the length of the lines. They need to be that length for
the program to read in the file correctly. You will notice two characters at
the end of each line. These tell the Introducer how you want that line to
appear. The 1st character tells whether to scroll right to left *R*, left to
right *L*, or appear in the center *C*. The next character tells whether to
scroll at the top *T*, the center *C*, or the bottom *B*. Make sure that
these are in CAPITAL letters.
The program does not multi-task well. It would slow down the scrolling so I
made it take over so it would not. You can still load files in the background
but forget about anything else.
Well that about does it. Oh yes, to exit the program just click the left
mouse button or it will continue to loop through the text. I hope you find a
use for this.
This version is released as Shareware.
If you like it and use it send $10.00 to:
J.L. White
1304 Four Seasons Blvd.
Tampa, Fla. 33613
(813) 971-4451
Read M-List for a listing of all our available disk!