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Short: Crash indicator for Apollo 2030 (v1.0)
Author: agi@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at (Thomas Aglassinger)
Uploader: agi@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at (Thomas Aglassinger)
Type: game/gag
styx (v1.0)
DESCRIPTION:
This tool is dedicated to all users of an Apollo 2030 accellerator.
As you might have noticed, with an Apollo 2030 in your A2000, your
computer crahes all the time.
This is very annoing, especially during compiling or rendering: you
never know if your computer crashed, until you look at the power led
or try to move the mouse pointer.
With styx, here's a solution to this problem: styx opens a window on
the workbench, and immediatly some sticks start moving around in
this window.
If you now start a compiler and your computer crashes (like it's
quite probably with an Apollo 2030), the sticks stop to move (of
course).
So if the sticks stop to move, you know that your computer crashed
and can reset it immediatly without wasting time looking at the
power led or trying to move the mouse pointer.
C-source included (Maxon C).
REQUIREMENTS:
AmigaOS 2.x or 3.x,
Apollo 2030 accelerator card
NOTES:
If you got an A1200 with an Apollo accelerator, please mail me if
styx works with it too.
styx should work with any CPU and accelerator card, but without an
Apollo it's half the fun: Why should you watch moving sticks when
you know that they won't stop anyway?
Apollo-A2000s also often crash without a blinking power led. This
makes styx even more useful!
If you got a Picasso-II graphics board too, you will see another
funny thing with Apollo 2030: Click the styx-window to front/
background several times, and lots of pixel-trash appears in the
window. This is not a bug within styx and only occures on
Picasso-II-screens.
The last paragraph of course beside from the fact that Picasso-II
*always* produces pixel-trash in chunky modes, if an Apollo is in
town..
INSTALLATION:
copy "styx" somewhere into your search-path (e.g. "sys:utilities")
USAGE:
Put the line
run >nil: <nil: styx
into your User-Startup.
AUTHOR:
Thomas Aglassinger <agi@sbox.tu-graz.ac.at> (Tommy-Saftwörx)
Lissagasse 12/9
A-8020 Graz
AUSTRIA
COPYRIGHT:
styx is styx-ware: if you like styx, create another copy of "styx"
and name it "styx.1". Then create "styx.2". Go on with this until
your harddrive is full.