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- PAGE MONSTER APPETIZER V1.0
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- Copyright 1996 CultureShock Multimedia
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- Introduction
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- If you are reading this text right now, then you are probably one of
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- the many Amiga users with a growing interest in the World Wide Web.
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- Since its creation, the Web has attracted millions of users to participate
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- in a form of global communication unlike any that has come before.
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- It has created new opportunities for businesses, community service
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- organizations and the average person to present information in an
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- attractive and entertaining format, accessible from anywhere in
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- the world.
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- Unfortunately, development in this area has been lacking for the
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- Amiga.
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- While other platforms have been enjoying a wealth of Internet and
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- Web page creation tools, Amiga users have had to search high and low
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- for programs to aid them in accessing the excitement of the
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- Web explosion.
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- So What is the Page Monster Appetizer ?
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- The Page Monster Appetizer is a Web page creation tool that was
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- created using the AmigaVison professional authoring package.
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- It was specifically designed for Amiga users who are interested in
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- creating a down and dirty Web page for use on the World Wide Web.
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- The Page Monster Appetizer is NOT by any means a comprehensive Web page
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- designers tool, but merely a prelude to our soon to be released commercial
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- product called THE PAGE MONSTER.
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- The Appetizer is not a disabled demo of Page Monster, nor is it a scaled
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- It is a stand alone application with limited capabilities.
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- It was created only to give users a feeling of how Page Monster 1.0 works,
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- and as it's name implies is just an appetizer to what is coming.
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- What it does allow you to do is to create a very simple Web page through
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- a point and click interface, so NO KNOWLEDGE OF HTML IS NECESSARY FOR
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- YOU TO USE THIS PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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- CONFIGURATION SCREEN
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- BROWSER FIELD: Type in the full pathname of the Browser that
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- you will be using to preview your Web page with.
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- The Browser must be able to load
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- local files from the system through the
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- CLI. ( Mosaic-NoNet has this capability.)
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- TEXT EDITOR FIELD: Type in the full pathname of the text Editor
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- that you will be using to edit the HTML code
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- directly. (The default is "Sys:c/Ed")
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- VIEWER FIELD: Type in the full pathname of the picture
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- viewer that you will be using to view
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- graphics files (The default is
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- "Sys:utilities/Multiview")
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- DATATYPE FIELD: Type in the datatype extension of the picture
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- format you will be using.
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- For example:
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- .IFF (Standard Amiga format)
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- .GIF (Graphic interchange format Used
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- on alot of Web pages)
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- .PCX (A IBM Picture format)
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- .TIFF (A Macintosh picture format)
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- IMPORTANT: THE CORRECT DATA TYPE SUFFIX
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- (i.e .IFF) MUST BE ENTERED AND YOU ARE
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- LIMITED TO THAT DATATYPE ONLY!
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- OTHER DATATYPES WILL NOT BE RECOGNIZED
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- (The Default is .IFF)
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- AWEB COMMAND: Type in a cli command that you would like
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- to link your inline image to.
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- (This command can only be utilized
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- when using the Aweb 1.0 + web browser.
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- It is accessible only when loading
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- local files.) SEE EXAMPLE
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- COMMAND OFF/ON: setting this switch to ON will cause the
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- Appetizer to use the Aweb specific
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- reference tag when generating the
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- final HTML code.
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- SAVE SETTINGS: Will save all of the above settings as
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- the permanent defaults of the program.
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- ALL CHANGES MADE IN THE CONFIGURATION
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- SCREEN MUST BE SAVED BEFORE YOU ARE ABLE
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- TO UTILIZE THEM.
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- START APPETIZER: Will open the QUICK PAGE SCREEN.
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- HELP: Brings you to this online manual.
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- EXAMPLE- USING THE AWEB COMMAND
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- During the writing of this doc file the PD version of AWeb 1.0 by
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- Yvon Rozijn was released on Aminet.
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- We were much impressed with its AREXX and SHELL COMMAND capability,
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- so we added a quick routine into the Page Monster that will give you
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- a practical example of how this aweb specific tag could be used.
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- In the AWEB FIELD you will notice that the default value is:
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- SYS:DPAINT/DPAINT Load=Ram:QPAGE/PIC.IFF
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- you can replace "SYS:DPAINT/DPAINT" with the correct path of where DPAINT
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- is located on your system and then click SAVE.
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- Next set the COMMAND switch to ON.
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- The Appetizer should now be activated to create a link to the above
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- command when the HTML code is generated.
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- Once the Aweb 1.0 browser is called by clicking on PREVIEW in the
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- PREVIEW SCREEN.
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- You should be able to edit the inline image directly, using dpaint
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- from inside aweb just by clicking on the inline image.
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- note: Any shell command can be used for example; if you wanted to
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- edit the HTML code directly from inside Aweb you could use:
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- Sys:c/Ed ram:Qpage/Final.html
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- instead of the above example.
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- QUICK PAGE 2.0 SCREEN
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- TITLE FIELD: Type in a title for your homepage. This is the text
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- that will appear in the title bar at the top of the
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- browser when the homepage is loaded.
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- The information will be retained as long as the program
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- is running or until you type in another title.
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- LOAD PIC: Launches REQ a file requestor that is used to select
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- an inline image for your homepage. THE IMAGE MUST BE
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- THE SAME GRAPHIC FORMAT THAT WAS SPECIFIED IN THE
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- DATATYPE FIELD in the CONFIGURATION SCREEN.
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- VIEW: Views the picture currently loaded by the load
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- pic requestor using the VIEWER specified in the
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- CONFIGURATION SCREEN.
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- HEADER: Type in a Header. This is the header text that will
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- appear just below the inline image on your homepage.
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- The information will be retained as long as the program
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- is running or until you type in another header.
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- LOAD TEXT: Launches REQ a file requestor that is used to select a
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- text file. This file will be used as the main body
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- of text in your homepage.
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- TEXT LOADED MUST HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY SAVED IN THE AMIGA
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- ASCII FORMAT common to most text editors and
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- word proccesors.
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- EDIT: Edits the text currently loaded by the LOAD
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- TEXT requestor using the EDITOR specified in the
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- CONFIGURATION SCREEN.
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- You may also edit text on the fly simply by clicking
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- on EDIT without using the LOAD TEXT requestor.
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- ACCEPT: Accepts the currently loaded values and then opens
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- the PREVIEW SCREEN.
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- CONFIGURE: Returns you to the CONFIGURATION SCREEN.
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- HELP: Brings you to this online manual.
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- THE PREVIEW SCREEN
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- DISPLAY SCREEN: Displays the HTML code generated from the values
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- entered in the QUICK PAGE SCREEN. Clicking on the
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- Display screen will allow you to edit The HTML code
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- directly using the EDITOR specified in the
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- CONFIGURATION SCREEN.
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- PREVIEW: Will call the BROWSER specified in the
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- CONFIGURATION SCREEN allowing you to see
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- how your homepage will appear on the Web.
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- SAVE: Will call a save screen requesting a preformatted
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- blank disk in df0: to save your homepage on.
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- Clicking OK will cause the Appetizer to proceed
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- with the save.
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- Clicking CANCEL will abort the operation.
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- CANCEL: Returns you to the QUICK PAGE SCREEN and clears
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- the HTML code.
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- HELP: Brings you to this online manual
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- EXIT: Quits Page Monster Appetizer.
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- Page Monster Appetizer was designed to run on any Amiga running 1.3 or
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- greater operating system with at least 2 megs of ram and a hard drive.
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- 3.0 or greater is strongly recommended especially if you are planning to
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- use a Web browser to preview your completed page.
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- This is due to the fact that it is only with 3.0's Datatype capability,
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- that you can view inline images in your browser.
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- It is also possible to run Page Monster Appetizer using low memory machines
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- such as a A500 or A600 with 1 meg of ram, but you will need to use the
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- special low memory version of the Appetizer provided with this archive.
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- ( SEE Low memory version installation & use ).
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- The obvious drawbacks of using older operating systems is that you cannot
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- preview your work using a browser running WB 1.3 and although with enough
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- memory you may be able to run Mosaic-NoNet on WB 2,0, you won't be able to
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- view inline images.
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- However the alternative could be that if you had access to a IBM or Mac
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- running a Browser such as Netscape and you had either the Crossdos or
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- Maxdos filesystem for the Amiga, you could use this program to create a web
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- page on the Amiga and then save it to an IBM 720K disk or a 1.44mb disk if
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- you have an High Density disk drive.
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- ADDITIONAL FILES NEEDED
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- Since the Page Monster Appetizer was created with the AmigaVision
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- Professional authoring system, you will need to have following files
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- installed in your system or boot disk:
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- 1. The AVplayer installed in your Sys:c Directory
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- 2. The avdb.library installed in your Sys:libs Directory
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- 3. The avtextgad.library installed in your Sys:libs Directory
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- 4. The camd.library installed in your Sys:libs Directory
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- The AVPlayer Archieve is a freely distributable program and can be found
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- http://ftp.wustl.edu/~aminet/dirs/gfx_show.html
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- In addition you must also install the APPEND command written by Oliver
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- Enseling in your Sys:c Directory. If you are using Workbench 2.0 and want to
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- use a file requestor you must also install REQ command a 2.0 file requestor
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- written by Thomas Ansorge in your Sys:c Directory.
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- APPEND is Freeware and can be found on:
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- Fred Fish Disk 379
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- REQ is Shareware and can be found at:
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- Http://ftp.wustl.edu/~aminet/dirs/util_cli.html
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- Your C: directory should at least contain the commands delete,
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- Copy, and IconX for this application to work properly.
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- Low Memory Version Installation and use
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- Included in this archive is the compressed file PM_LOWMEM.LHA, which
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- contains a version of the Page Monster Appetizer that was designed to work
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- on lower memory machines. It can run on a stock A500 or A600 with at least
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- 1 meg of ram and a external disk drive.
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- This version was created for the purpose of giving Amiga users who are
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- using low memory machines a quick and easy way to create simple HTML
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- documents.
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- There is also great potential for use of this program in a educational
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- environment that is utilizing older Amigas. It could be seen as a way to
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- teach students about HTML at a remedial level and at very low cost.
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- To install the Low Memory version Follow the Following step by step
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- 1. First format a blank disk and label it APPETIZER.1
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- 2. Decompress PM_LOWMEM.LHA and then copy all the
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- files and directorys in the drawer named APPETIZER.1
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- to the disk you just formatted in step 1
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- 3. Make a copy of your standard Workbench1.3 disk by
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- clicking on its icon and selecting duplicate from
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- the workbench menu. The resulting copy should be
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- named "copy_of_Workbench1.3"
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- 4. Copy avplay_2.4.lzh, APPEND and LHA directly
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- 5. Insert the APPETIZER.1 disk in df1: open it
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- and click on the STRIP_SYS icon.
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- This is a dos script that will remove a
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- number of files on the copy_of_Workbench1.3
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- to make room for the nessesary files described
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- in step 6 and step 7.
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- If you have LHA copied to the APPETIZER.1
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- and everything setup as described in step 4 then
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- steps 6,7 and 8 will be automated, otherwise...
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- 6. copy the AVPlayer into the c: directory of
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- the newly striped down workbench disk .
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- 7. Copy the AVPlayer libraries into the Libs:
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- directory of the newly striped down workbench1.3
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- disk. They are as follows:
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- 1. The avdb.library
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- 2. The avtextgad.library
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- 3. The camd.library
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- 4. The realtime.library
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- (These files are nessesary for the Page Monster
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- to operate properly if you have not yet obtained
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- them see the end of this file for information
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- on where you can get them.)
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- 8. Make a directory named c on the APPETIZER.1 disk
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- and copy the commands copy, delete, makedir and
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- APPEND into it.
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- 9. Next format another blank disk and label it HTML.
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- This is the disk that your final project
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- will be saved to. Each project will require its own
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- disk.
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- (Please note: This is only the Appetizer it is not designed
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- to create a suite of web pages.)
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- Files needed for this program to operate properly
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- can be found at the folowing places.
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- The AVPlayer Archive is a freely distributable program and can be found at:
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- http://ftp.wustl.edu/~aminet/dirs/gfx_show.html
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- Oliver Enseling in your Sys:c Directory.
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- APPEND is Freeware and can be found on:
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- Fred Fish Disk 379
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- Your C: directory should at least contain the commands, copy
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- makdir & delete.
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- LEGAL STUFF
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- © Copyright 1996 CultureShock Multimedia
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- Page Monster Appetizer is ShareWare and may be freely distributed
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- under the following conditions.
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- 1. That all files in the original archive are intact and are
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- not modified and organized exactly as shown bellow.
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- These are the following files:
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- PMONSTER/8svx/clicks-low
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- PMONSTER/8svx/pm.snd
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- PMONSTER/8svx/theme2
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/INTR.PIC
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/PM-SLIDE1
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/PM-SLIDE2
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/PM-SLIDE7
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/PM-SLIDE8
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/PM-SLIDE9
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/PM.PIC
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/PM2.PIC
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/QPM1.BR
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/QPM2.BR
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/QPCONFIG.SCREEN
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/QUICKPAGE.SCREEN
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/QUICKPAGE1.3.SCREEN
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- PMONSTER/ILBM/QUICKPAGE2.SCREEN
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- PMONSTER/ASSIGN_APPETIZER
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- PMONSTER/ASSIGN_APPETIZER.info
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- PMONSTER/CHECK_RESOURCES
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- PMONSTER/CHECK_RESOURCES.info
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- PMONSTER/COMMDJR.DBF
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- PMONSTER/MONSTER.DOC
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- PMONSTER/MONSTER.GUIDE
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- PMONSTER/QUICKPAGE.AVF
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- PMONSTER/QUICKPAGE.AVF.info
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- PMONSTER/START_APPETIZER
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- PMONSTER/START_APPETIZER.info
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- PMONSTER/PM_LOWMEM.LHA
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- 2. Page Monster Appetizer cannot be sold for profit or distributed
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- with any commercial software without the written permission of
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- the owners of CultureShock Multimedia.
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- DISCLAIMER: PAGE MONSTER APPETIZER SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS-IS"
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- AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE; NO WARRANTIES ARE MADE. ALL USE IS AT
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- YOUR OWN RISK.
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- NO LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY IS ASSUMED ON THE PART OF
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- CULTURESHOCK MULTIMEDIA.
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- COMING SOON
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- PAGE MONSTER VERSION 1.0
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- If you've enjoyed using the Page Monster Appetizer, and its simplistic
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- approach to creating Web pages for the Internet, then as they say
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- in the Biz, "you ain't seen nothin' yet!"
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- Our New Web page creation tool PAGE MONSTER version 1.0 is currently
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- in beta testing and promises some unique features when finally
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- released. Some of these include:
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- 1. USER FRIENDLY POINT AND CLICK INTERFACE
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- 2. AUTOMATED HTML CODE GENERATION
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- 3. SUPPORT FOR LINKS TO EXTERNAL HTML DOCS
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- 4. SUPPORT FOR LINKS TO EXTERNAL MEDIA FILES
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- SUCH AS IMAGES, SOUNDS, ANIMATIONS, VIDEO
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- CLIPS AND MOD FILES.
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- 5. SUPPORT FOR POINT AND CLICK FORMS CREATION
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- 6. AUTOMATED AREXX SCRIPTING WHICH
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- CAN AUTOMATICALLY CREATE AREXX SCRIPTS
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- FOR ADPRO, OCTAMED6, SOX, & AGMSRECORDSOUND
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- FOR FILE CONVERSION, OPTIMIZATION AND SAMPLING
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- FROM INSIDE PAGE MONSTER.
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- 7. ABILITY TO SAVE AND RECALL AREXX SCRIPTS
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- 8. ABILITY TO ENTER, SAVE AND RECALL NEW TAGS
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- 9. AUTOMATED TUTORIAL
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- 10. 32 CONTROL SCREENS
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- AND MUCH MORE BEING PLANNED FOR THE FUTURE.
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- If you're interested in this type of application for the Amiga, please
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- support us. Any donations for further development of this product would be
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- greatly appreciated.
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- We at CultureShock are long time Amiga users and in a time when most
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- American Amiga developers have vanished, it is only our love for the the
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- Amiga platform and its STILL superior technology and design that drives us
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- to find new ways of utilizing such a remarkable computer.
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- You can drop us a line at:
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- quintin@u.washington.edu
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- Or write us at:
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- 4043 Latona N.E. Seattle. Wash 98105
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