¢The CREATER!...¢¢ for the CASTELL MENU¢¢¢NOW YOU CAN EASILY CREATE YOUR OWN PROFESSIONAL LOOKING MENU!¢¢ This great machine language menu program was created by David Castell of Peterborough, Ontario. It is only 12 sectors in length, and is designed to boot up as an autorun file. Booting a disk with this menu takes less than 10 seconds.¢¢ The menu will permit the loading of both Basic and Machine Language files, and will also display text files. It features an attractive heading which may be customized using this program. It's one of the best!¢¢¢MENU INSTRUCTIONS¢¢This menu is very easy to use.¢¢ - Pressing [SELECT] or [OPTION], cursor up or down (arrows), or moving the Joystick forward or backward will cause the screen menu to scroll and highlight the various files contained on the disk.¢¢ - Pressing [START], [Return] or the Joystick trigger will cause the highlighted file to be loaded, run and/or displayed.¢¢ - Pressing [SELECT] & [OPTION] together will refresh the menu display. Useful when changing disks.¢¢ - The commands listed below are executed by simply pressing the relevant key. Be very careful, however, because they allow no second chances. (i.e. pressing "D" will immediately delete any highlighted file!)¢¢The commands are:¢¢ [Control][D] = Delete¢ [L] = Lock¢ [U] = Unlock¢ [Q] = Quit to BASIC¢¢ As long as they have the extension ".DOC", the menu will display text files when selected. DOCumentation files will fill one screen at a time and then wait for a key to be pressed before continuing to scroll. Pressing the [Esc] key will cause an immediate return to the menu.¢¢¢HOW TO USE THE MENU CREATER¢¢ First, prepare a disk to receive your new menu by formatting it and writing Atari DOS onto it.¢¢ Now boot CREATER.OBJ and you'll see a sample 4-line menu heading displayed at the top of the screen. Beneath the display is the prompt: "Press Return when you're finished making changes?".¢¢ You may replace the 4-line menu heading with any words or design of your choice. Using your Atari's editing keys, simply type over the current heading using any of the keyboard characters generated by your computer, including upper and lower-case, inverse, and graphics characters. Let your creativity flow.¢¢ Note: It's wise to include some menu instructions similar to what is shown in the sample heading. Otherwise, when someone boots your menu they will not know how to access it.¢¢ Don't press Return until you are satisfied with your menu heading. Also, make sure you have your formatted disk containing Atari DOS in your drive ready to receive the new menu.¢¢ When you press Return the screen will clear and you will be asked: "SAVE THIS VERSION OF 'CREATE'?"¢¢ If you answer Y, then the program will save a NEW version of the CREATER.OBJ program complete with your changes (replacing the sample heading) onto the disk, giving it the filename "CREATER".¢¢ If you answer N, or press Return, then you will immediately see the prompt: "Filename:". Type in a filename for your newly designed menu, which can be anything. REMEMBER, if you wish the menu to autoboot you must be sure to name it "AUTORUN.SYS"!!¢¢ (Problem: When you press Return, if you should let your finger linger on the key too long, you may pass by the option to save a new version of CREATER. Never fear, after you have saved a copy of the new menu you will be returned to the menu display screen. You can then 'carefully' press Return and try again.)¢¢ After saving your new menu, the program will return you to the menu display screen. You can now make changes to the current menu heading displayed or you can press [Reset] to return to DOS.¢¢ If you do make changes and save another design, remember to give it a different filename than the last. Also remember that if you decide to save the current version of CREATER, and you haven't changed disks, it will save it with the same filename "CREATER" and thereby over-write the version contained on your disk. Be careful.¢¢ Once you have created the menu design of your choice, simply copy it onto your disks.¢¢ HINT: You might wish to place the menu twice on a disk containing BASIC program files. First named AUTORUN.SYS and secondly named DUP.SYS. This way THE MENU is quickly available when the disk is booted and also when "DOS" is typed while in BASIC. This saves having to reboot the disk when you wish to simply load in another Basic program. Try it.¢¢Enjoy.¢
