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- T H E A M O S P R O P I C T U R E S L I D E R V 2.2
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- M.VERNAGLIONE * HEGELSTR.72 * 63303 DREIEICH
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- Fido: 2:2461/318.3
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- 19.11.94
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- If you don´t have got the Fullversion by me, or you have tested the Demo-
- version, so please let you register. You can do this by sending a Euro-
- Cheque about 15 DM. For orders please include 5 DM for Disc and Charge fee
- ( Germany ) or 7 DM for other countries.
-
- When you attempt to put any of your Slideshows in Public Domain, or you
- give it to a friend.... please use the sliplayer program to show the
- Slideshow. There will be more space for pictures and modules.
-
-
- -/- MANUAL -/-
-
-
- Files : Slider2.2 - mainprogram for generating and testing your
- slideshows
- Sliplayer - this do not have a syntaxchecker and is shorter.
- (for presenting your slideshows)
- Checker - a scriptchecker
- - call as the slider
- Slider2.2.Dok - german manual
- Slider2.2.Doc - this english manual
-
- - Slider2.2 needs always Mathtrans.library and Medplayer.library just
- for playing MED Modules.
-
- ATTENTION: Slider works on Machines with OS1.3 up to 3.0. Under OS3.1 it
- is unable to display interlaced screens ( Bug in Amospro ).
-
-
-
- Starting: Slider [ Scriptfile Path ] ( example: ' Slider df0:s/ ' )
- If you start Slider without path it will get ' Sys:s/ ' as Default.
-
- You can also start your Slideshows from Workbench:
- You need a Project-Icon with defaultool ' IconX ' and rename that as
- example: Slideshow.info.
- Then you generate a ASCII-textfile with following lines:
-
- Disc:path/slider disc:scriptpath/ example : Slide:c/slider Slide:s/
-
- and save this with the name Slideshow.
-
- Now you can doubleclick the Slideshow Icon to start the Slideshow!
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- -/- The script file -/-
-
- * Can contain up to 256 lines and 100 characters.
- All above this limits can cause program errors or too long waittimes.
-
-
- Displaying a picture:
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- Discname:path/picturename Inscroll Speed1 Outscroll Speed2 Wait
- .
- .
- .
- .
- repeat or end
-
- MUSIC or NOMUSIC
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-
- - Inscroll:
-
- Fades or scrolls in a picture
-
- up - scroll up
- dn - scroll down
- ru - decrease height of the old picture, the back (second) picture becomes
- visible.
- rd - same as 'ru' but down
- sh - shows a picture immediately
- fd - colorfading
- fl - Flickereffect for a definite time
- you can see the new picture and the old picture, black screen or
- a rainboweffect shining through.
-
- su - same as 'up' but the old picture will be replaced by the new one from
- bottom to above
-
- sd - same as 'su' but down
- an - loads a ANIM-IFF5 animation and plays
- you can use scrollcommands for first and last picture by a trick:
-
- example:
-
- - Anims:anim.01 up 1 ne 0 0 - loads first picture and scrollup
- - Anims:anim.01 an 0 fd 3 5 - loads whole animation and after
- playing 5 times colorfades out
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- - Outscroll:
-
- Out scroll or fading the Picture.
-
- ne - no Effect, the old picture will be at the same place for next effect
- up - scrolls up
- dn - scrolls down
- fd - fades out
- Fl - Flickereffect same as 'fl' from inscroll
- cl - cleans the screen immediately
- a1 - a horizontal linepattern cleans the screen in two passes, first the
- even lines then the odd lines
- a2 - same effect as 'a1' but vertically
- a3 - cleans horizontally the odd end even lines in one pass, the even
- from left to right and the odd from right to left
- a4 - same as 'a3' but vertically
-
- b1 - effect similar that when you turn off a TV (not really realistic)
-
- c1 - a checkerpattern cleans the screen in two passes
-
- e1 - a line cleans with circular movements the screen
-
- * Do not use fd a2 a4 b1 c1 and e1 with HAM Pictures (fringes)
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- - Speed1
-
- - sh - no sense
- - up/dn/ru/rd/su/sd - Effectspeed (1-Slow)
- - fd - Effectspeed (1-Fast)
- - fl - Effecttime (1-Very short)
- - an - nope
-
-
- - Speed2
-
- - cl - nope
- - up/dn - Effectspeed (1-Slow)
- - fd - Effectspeed (1-Fast)
- - fl - Effecttime (1-Very short)
- - a1/a2/a3/a4 - nope
- - b1 - Fadeoutspeed of remaining spot
- - c1 - dimension of boxes, high number = little boxes
- - e1 - step
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- - Wait
-
- Waits for n seconds before loading next picture or apply scrollout effect.
- You can break the waitloop by pressing right mousebutton.
-
- If you have put 'an' in commandline, so 'wait' is the amount of times were
- the animation will be played.
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-
- - repeat/end repeat loop slideshow
- end break slide after last picture
-
-
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- *** COLORBACKGROUNDS ***
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- You can put colorcommands in the script:
-
- Back <Color> <pos> <cchng/scan>
-
-
- - Color:
-
- WHITE : CopperBar Color
- RED :
- GREEN :
- BLUE :
- RGB :
- CYAN :
- MAGENTA :
- YELLOW :
- DEL : kills the Copperbackground * no parameters there
-
-
- - Pos:
-
- vertical Positionadjust of rainbows
-
- - Cchng/Scan:
-
- color change per scanline.
-
- A value of 1 changes the color every line, 2 changes the color every 2
- scanlines and so on.
-
-
- Example :
-
- Back BLUE 0 1
- Pictures:Infopic up 1 up 1 10
- Back DEL
- pictures:pic1 sh 0 up 5
- .
- .
-
- Colorregister 0 is transparent for Copperbackgrounds.
- When you want to display pictures over a copperbackground, you must
- kill the colorregister 0 from the contens of the picture.
-
- The Slider is not able to display ECS or AA pictures.
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- *** Playing Musix in Slideshows ***
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-
-
- - MUSIC/NOMUSIC
-
- - The last command in a slidescript and must be ever been in script
- followed by a ´Return´
-
- MUSIC : Slider searchs the script > muz.script < in the same path
- where the Slidescript is and plays the modules listed
- in the script
-
- If you want to hear one single music trough the slideshow, you put
- just only one module in the list
-
- For more musix after a slidepass put more modules in the list
-
-
- NOMUSIC : No musix
-
-
-
- The Music-Script
-
- Discname:Path/Musicname
- .
- .
- .
-
-
- Slider2.2 can play :
-
- - Med Modules (MMD0/MMD1)
- - Sound/noise/ProTracker-Modules
- - Amos Bank (.abk) Modules
-
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- * Script-Syntax-Errors were only listed by Slider2.2 and not by Sliplayer *
- Sliplayer is to use in finished and tested Slideshows
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- You can quit slideshows by pressing both mousebuttons, but you must press
- in the waitdelay. When a scrolleffect is running you cannot abort.
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- ******************************************************************************
-
- When you have a combination of 16-Color-Hireslaces pics and Coppereffect, so
- you have probably irregularitys in smooth scroll, because the CPU not even
- becomes the necessary CPU-cycles for the scroll loops.
- When you own an Amiga with 68000 CPU or/and you habe only chipmem, i suggest
- to only use Lowrespics and background. Laced Pics are better displayed without
- copperbackground.
-
- Only the scrollcommands UP,DN,SU,SD,RU,RD have this restriction.
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- ******************************************************************************
-
- The programm tells you what´s wrong when you have put nonexisting pictures
- or modules in the scripts.
-
- ******************************************************************************
-
- New features probably included in the next version 2.3:
-
- 1) User-interface (?)
-
- 2) play samples (??)
-
- 3) Support of powerpacked files (??????)
-
- ? = probability to include this function
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- ******************************************************************************
-
- History:
-
- * V0.9 *
-
- I was searching a good slideshowprogram in PD, but theese was not good enough
- for my pourposes, so i decided to program one. As base for the Slider i've got
- the code of an slidedemo, that i programmed to present my videodigis.
- This demo had the pictures embedded into the code and the effects implemented
- was UP, DN and FD.
-
-
- * V1.0 *
-
- Scriptcontrol over the slideshow
-
- * V1.8 - V2.0 *
-
- All effects and Copperbackgrounds.
-
- * V2.1 *
-
- Changes since v2.0
-
- - Audiofilterbug fixed
-
- - RD: Last line was invisible * fixed
-
- - C1: After the effect the screen was not closed * fixed
-
- - better errorhandling
-
- - wait abort by pressing RMB
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- * V2.2 *
-
- Changes since V2.1
-
- - Syntaxchecker
-
- - even better errorhandling
-
- - scriptprocessing optimized
-
- - effect d1 and moving rainbows killed, because not useful and bad routines
-
- - requester will be open on Workbench
-
- - on errors the files were not closed * fixed
-
- - rainbow variable intensity killed
-
- - changes in the syntax of copperbackground commands
-
- * textscrolling was implemented for a time, but the textmovement was too
- silly. It´s better to program in assembler by other people. If you have
- any interrests please contact me...
-
- (you have to be able to programm in AmosPro and Assembler)
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- -/- TO ALL USERS OF THIS PROGRAM -/-
-
- Please send me an error-report if you get errors or if you see errors in
- the scrolleffects. Please include the bad slideshow-disc and backcharging fee.
-
- Asta la vista...
-
-
- Thanx to all registred users of my program :
-
- Richard Diezmann
-
- Holger Helmprecht
-
- R.CH.Blume
-
- Hans-Joachim Johns
-
- Klaus Moeckel
-
- Robin Wernard
-
- Thorsten Nilson
-