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- The Incredible Mock-Gem Auto Booter
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- Mouse Boot V3.D
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- (C)1992 SRL-systems
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- Written By Scott R. Lemmon
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- >> Revisions for version 3.D <<
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- 1. Mouse Boot's user interface has been totally re-designed with new 3-D
- buttons and dialog boxes similar to Windows 3.0 for the IBM or
- Workbench 2.0 for the Amiga. After all, why should they have all the
- neat looking screens.
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- 2. Mouse Boot Now has a built-in AUTO folder reorderer, To use it first
- click on the Autoboot bar at the top of the screen. Next, the screen
- should show just the AUTO programs (including ones previously hidden
- with Read Only status). To reorder a file, Click on the file you want
- to move then click on its new location - do this for every file you
- want to reposition (as of yet, no actual changes have been made on the
- disk). Now click on the bar at the bottom of the screen - a dialog box
- will pop-up asking if you want to reorder or cancel; if you click on
- reorder the process will begin.
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- A very safe reorder method is used (actually the files are just renamed
- - never really moved). The process used may not be the fastest, but
- even if the power went out in the middle, chances are no data would be
- lost.
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- 3. if using Mouse Boot from the AUTO folder it will now offer to reset the
- computer if you change any program that ran before Mouse Boot. To make
- sure this works do not change the name of MOUSEBT3.PRG
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- 4. Any time Mouse Boot resets the computer it will automatically bypass
- itself and the welcome screen. Note: any memory-resident program that
- forces a cold boot instead of a warm boot (like the DC Format
- bootsector) may prevent this from working.
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- 5. Presets may now be selected by HOT KEYS - when naming your presets give
- them a number or capital letter indicating which key you want to be the
- hot key - for example, a preset named "turbo C" would use the 'C' key
- as a hot key. Now a preset can be selected by just hitting its hot
- key. The space bar will abort the timeout and select the default
- preset instead of just any key - also, If more than one preset have the
- same letter the first preset to have the letter will be used.
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- 6. A problem with running Quick ST after Mouse Boot has been fixed
- (actually this is the fault of Quick ST which does a rather bogus check
- for the presence of a VDI workstation).
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- 7. Mouse Boot no longer needs a patch program to be run if it encounters
- an unknown version of TOS.
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-
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- >> Changes since Version 2.0 <<
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- 1. All files except the AUTO programs are now sorted by name. (AUTO
- programs are left unsorted so the order in which they will run can be
- seen).
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- 2. Mouse Boot is now smaller than ever thanks to compiling it in Turbo
- "C". Because of this, Mouse Boot V 1.0 is not included (as its only
- advantage was its smaller size).
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- 3. Holding down the left mouse button just after Mouse Boot has loaded
- will bypass the preset screen (if there are any presets stored) and go
- straight to the selector screen. (see MOUSEBT.DOC for more info)
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- 4. Mouse Boot and the Welcome screen program will both now run from the
- desktop. If changes are made in Mouse Boot during this time, the user
- will be given the option of rebooting to install the changes.
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- 5. File extenders no longer need to be changed to ??X before placing them
- in the MOUSEBT folder.
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- 6. The Welcome Screen program will now load Degas compressed (PC1 or PC3)
- picture files as well as Degas uncompressed (PI1 or PI3) files.
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- 7. Pressing the '*' key on the keypad before the programs load can bypass
- both Mouse Boot or the welcome screen (press twice to bypass both).
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- 8. >>> And Now The Big One <<<
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- The welcome screen will now use the PD program "Singsong" to play a
- randomly selected Quartet tune when the computer boots.
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- To use this feature you must have SINGSONG.PRG, a quartet voice set,
- and one or more quartet songs in the MOUSEBT folder. Now about one second
- after the welcome screen is run, a random Quartet song will be loaded and
- played - the delay lets you skip this if you're in a hurry. The song will
- play until the space bar is hit ( Sorry, but I have no control over the
- way the player routine works ). After the first song, pressing the
- Alternate key will load another random song to play.
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- You can have as many songs as you wish, but they all must use the same
- voice set - also watch that the voice set and song do not exceed your
- computer's available memory ( a song file must be under 40k - the rest of
- the memory goes to the voice set ). If I have room I'll include a sample
- voice set and some songs for you to play with - however, due to the size
- (some over 300k) of some of the voice sets, I can't include many Quartet
- examples in the Mouse Boot LZH file. If anyone is interested in more sets
- and songs contact me at the address listed in the main DOC file.
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- If you don't want to use the Quartet player feature, just don't put
- SINGSONG.PRG or a Quartet voice set and songs into the MOUSEBT folder.
- If the welcome screen fails to find any of these files it will just go on
- its merry way.
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- The SingSong program is a public domain Quartet player routine written
- by the authors of Quartet (an alltogether excellent program by the way)
- and can be used in any program to play Quartet songs ( my thanks to
- Illusions for a brilliant program ).
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- QUARTET HINT - everyone says the sharp key in Quartet Doesn't work,
- everyone is wrong. To make a note a sharp continue to hold down the left
- mouse button and press SHIFT+'#' then release all keys and "presto" a
- sharp (it takes a little practice).
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- Mouse Boot 3.D is the 3rd release of the Mouse Boot programs, All
- preset and data files used by the earlier version will work with this
- version - no reconfiguration is needed.
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- Version 3.d completed - 02/08/92
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