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- Short: TheChoice V2.22 - Simple Program Selector
- Author: c_wich@river.prima.ruhr.de (Carsten Wich)
- Uploader: c_wich@river.prima.ruhr.de (Carsten Wich)
- Type: util/boot
-
- ===================
- = TheChoice V2.22 =
- ===================
- Release: 27.02.1997
- Copyright 1993-97
- by
- Carsten Wich
- Hagebuttenweg 34
- D-44289 Dortmund
- Germany
- E-Mail: c_wich@river.prima.ruhr.de
-
- Bank Account No. 315 1048 400
- BLZ 441 600 14
- Volksbank Dortmund
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
- ============
-
- The Choice is a small Program Selector especially useful for Game Partitions
- on Harddisks, SyQuests or even CD-ROMs.
- I first wrote it in Modula2 (M2Amiga) because I just found no simple program
- selector that fully suits my needs. Although the first version of it worked
- good enought for me, some of my friends liked the program very much and made
- some proposals for future versions. I switched to SAS-C because the support
- for M2Amiga is not that good anymore. Especially the lack of actual includes
- for OS3.1 really bothered me. I have completly rewritten the code in the C
- programming language and made a lot of improvements.
- TheChoice runs on every possible screenmode, even on graphic cards !
-
-
- LEGAL THINKS
- ============
-
- TheChoice Copyright (c) 1993-1997 Carsten Wich can be freely distributed,
- as long as the whole archive 'TheChoice2.lha' is copied and all of the
- files are in their original form without any changes.
- Upload to BBS's and includions on any cover disks or CD's is WELCOMED.
- This software is published without any warranties. The author does NOT take
- any responsibilities for any defects on soft- or hardware, that may result
- by this program or by using this program.
- I have tried to write the program code according to the AMIGA User Interface
- Style Guide and the AMIGA ROM Kernel Reference Manuals V2.04 so that the
- program should run correctly on any future operating systems. It is also
- tested with Enforcer.
- Although this program may be freely distibuted and used it would be very nice
- of the people who permanently use it to send me a small fee (I would say at
- 15,- DM or $10,- US) as a little acknowledgement for my work. You can send
- it cash, as a EuroCheque or via a Bank Transfer on my Bank Account.
- This would increase my motivation to develop the program even further.
-
-
- FILES
- =====
-
- Listing of archive 'TheChoice2.lha':
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 14196 8518 39.9% 27-Feb-97 22:01:56 TheChoice
- 14076 8448 39.9% 27-Feb-97 21:42:46 TheChoice.020
- 411 198 51.8% 14-Oct-95 10:28:04 TheChoice.config
- 904 603 33.2% 09-Sep-96 13:25:20 TheChoice.info
- 12527 5006 60.0% 27-Feb-97 22:11:38 TheChoice.ReadMe
- 1432 538 62.4% 14-Oct-95 10:29:22 TheChoice.ReadMe.info
- -------- ------- ----- --------- --------
- 43546 23311 46.4% 27-Feb-97 22:12:16 6 files
-
-
- SYSTEMREQUIREMENTS
- ==================
-
- The program only needs a minimal Amiga System :
-
- - Any Amiga with at least 512 KB RAM
- - OS >= 2.04 (V37)
- - diskfont.library min. V36 when you want to select another font than the
- default one
- - OS >= 3.0 (V39) for CLOSEQUIET option (optional)
- - lowlevel.library >= V40 for Joystick support (optional)
-
-
- HISTORY
- =======
-
- 2.22 - 27.02.1997 - Sixth AmiNet Release
- - Bugfix: TheChoice tried to call AllocMem with a length of 0 if the
- gadgets would be larger than the screen
- - Bugfix: Memory management was faulty
- - Special 68020 Version included
-
- 2.21 - 25.12.1996
- - Changed Window Refresh to Smart
- - Changed Skript to ENV:TC.script
-
- 2.20 - 09.09.1996 - Fifth AmiNet Release
- - Added Joystick and Keyboard control (Joystick control requires
- 'lowlevel.library' >= V40)
- - Added the CLOSEQUIET option
-
- 2.13 - 21.01.1996 - Fourth AmiNet Release
- - Bugfix: TheChoice crashed if a new configfile could not be read in for
- some reason
-
- 2.12 - 20.01.1996 - Third AmiNet Release
- - Renamed the RAMSCRIPT Tooltype and shell argument to SCRIPT
- - some more code optimization resulting in the executable beeing about
- 7K (!) smaller
- - TheChoice now returns errorcodes to the calling environment
-
- 2.11 - 16.01.1996 - internal beta version
- - some code optimization resulting in the executable being 150 bytes
- smaller
-
- 2.10 - 16.01.1996 - internal beta version
- - compiled with SAS-C V6.56
- - some code cleanup
- - added the possibility to read in a new config file
-
- 2.00 - 14.10.1995 - Second AmiNet Release
- - Completly rewritten in SAS-C V6.55
- - Runs on any screenmode using any font.
- - The maximum number of programs / gadgets now depends on the chosen screen
- mode and font.
- - Can be configured using shell arguments or tooltypes.
- - Supports borderless windows and onebitplane screens.
- - No source code made publically available anymore.
-
-
- ============================= Archive contents =============================
-
- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
- -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
- 14196 8518 39.9% 27-Feb-97 22:01:56 TheChoice
- 14076 8448 39.9% 27-Feb-97 21:42:46 TheChoice.020
- 411 198 51.8% 14-Oct-95 10:28:04 TheChoice.config
- 904 603 33.2% 09-Sep-96 13:25:20 TheChoice.info
- 12527 5006 60.0% 27-Feb-97 22:11:38 TheChoice.ReadMe
- 1432 538 62.4% 14-Oct-95 10:29:22 TheChoice.ReadMe.info
- -------- ------- ----- --------- --------
- 43546 23311 46.4% 28-Feb-97 02:10:20 6 files
-