Marathon-Phile Juggler is yet another program designed to manage your Marathon files. I wrote it because I was not satisfied with any of the current file managers. In addition to managing your start-up files, it also has the neat feature of being able to save your sets as double-clickable icons.
Getting Started
The first thing you need to do is put everything in its proper place. The various Marathon support files should be put in the appropriate folders. The folders must be named: "Maps", "Music", "Physics", "Shapes", and "Sounds" respectively. (You can change these names by editing the STR# resources 300 and 302 of the Phile-Juggler app.) All of these folders and Phile-Juggler should be in the same folder as the Marathon application(s).
Using Phile-Juggler
Using Phile-Juggler is fairly straight forward, but since this is the documentation, I guess I should sorta describe how it works anyway.
When you open Phile-Juggler, it will search the appropriate folders for the various Marathon Files and place their names in the pop-up menus. I have included an application pop-up menu to handle packages, such as USS Raider, that modify the Marathon application. In future versions of Phile-Juggler, I may change this to or add a patches pop-up menu and have it run the appropriate patch beforing launching Marathon.
Making a Set
To make a set, select the various files you want in the set from the pop-up menus and choose the new set command and name the set. The new set will now appear in the sets pop-up menu. After you make a set, don't change the names of the files in the set since all that is saved is the name of the file.
Deleting a Set
To delete a set, just choose the set from the Sets pop-up menu and choose the delete
command.
Saving a Set as an Icon
This is the neat part, and probably the main way you'll use Phile-Juggler. Select a set, or choose the files you want in the set and choose the Save Set as Icon command then select a name and location for the set. Whenever you click on the icon for the set, Phile-Juggler will open, do its thing, and then launch Marathon automatically.
Launching Marathon
I'll let you figure this one out.
Obligatory "don't blame me if your computer blows up" section
This program modifies your Marathon application blah,blah,blah, so be sure to have a backup. Also, it's only been tested on my Power Mac (that's why it's 0.91b and not 0.91), but I don't see why it shouldn't work on any other mac .
Improvements for future versions
Snazzier interface, cool-looking icons
Maybe save AliasRecords for files in a set
Add option to kill finder on Marathon launch
Add support for patches
Associate saved games with sets
and Support for Marathon II of course
Please send bug reports, comments, suggestions, hate mail, etc. to Ricku235@aol.com
