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- 7/5/96
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- Thanks for trying the ADash Demo Version!
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- I hope you find it a useful and problem free program. You can always contact
- me via email at this address: vreeland@earthlink.net. Or visit the ADash
- Product Support Page on the World Wide Web at "http://home.earthlink.net/
- ~vreeland/adash.html"
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- The full version of ADash removes timing restrictions from both ADash and
- ADashPrefs...the demo version is limited to running for only 15 minutes at
- a time and will expire on October 1, 1996. (A new demo will be available at
- that time.) You also get 52 separate blanker modules (the demo comes with
- only fifteen) and 16 images for use with the display blanker module (the
- demo comes with only 1 single image). Purchase of ADash also entitles you
- to free upgrades as they become available either via email or by mail for
- the price of shipping and handling and new diskettes.
-
- All this costs only $19.95USD. (Add $2.00 shipping and handling for addresses
- outside the US.)
-
- To purchase the full release of ADash, send a check drawn on a US bank, or
- a money order or international money order in US funds to:
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- Robert Vreeland Jr.
- 45 Maywood Dr.
- San Francisco, CA 94127
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- Allow about 2 weeks for shipping and processing.
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- ADash V2.0 Addenda
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- ***Incompatibilities***
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- Some beta testers experienced problems when using ADash and an older version
- of Thor and/or GetTCP (internet software). If you experience intermittant
- crashes while using ADash, try adding the following tooltype, 'COMPATREPORT',
- to the ADash icon you use to start the program using the Workbench
- 'Icons/Information...' menu option. This makes ADash use an alternate method
- of catching newly started tasks for cpu activity reporting. This alternate
- method may cause the reported cpu usage to be less accurate for a second or
- two when a new task is spawned but is otherwise identical.
-
-
- ***Display Blanker Module and Datatypes***
-
- ADash comes with a blanker module called 'Display', which allows you to
- create a slideshow type of effect for screen blanking. Included with the
- package are several JPEG encoded images for use with this module. If you
- have V3.0 or higher of the Workbench, several datatypes, including a JPEG
- datatype are installed in your boot drive. Display uses these datatypes
- under 3.0 or higher to allow it to read in a variety of types of pictures
- besides the normal system supported IFF format. However, if your Amiga is
- using V2.0 or 2.1 of the operating system, these datatypes are not supported
- and the Display module can only display IFF format pictures. In this case,
- you will need to convert the supplied JPEGS into IFF ILBMs using any of a
- number of public domain and shareware programs available through PD
- collections or on Aminet.
-
-
- ***Third Party Graphics Cards and ADash***
-
- Most of the ADash blanker modules will work just fine with graphics cards.
- However, a few, due to their hardware dependant nature, may not function
- properly, at all, or may crash. Modules which most likely will not work
- except with standard Amiga hardware modes (and thus don't try them with
- graphics card displays) include:
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- EarthQuake
- NoHold
- OffTheAir
-