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The Incredible Mock-Gem Auto Booter
Mouse Boot V3.D
(C)1992 SRL-systems
Written By Scott R. Lemmon
>> Revisions for version 3.D <<
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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).
7. Mouse Boot no longer needs a patch program to be run if it encounters
an unknown version of TOS.
>> Changes since Version 2.0 <<
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).
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).
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)
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.
5. File extenders no longer need to be changed to ??X before placing them
in the MOUSEBT folder.
6. The Welcome Screen program will now load Degas compressed (PC1 or PC3)
picture files as well as Degas uncompressed (PI1 or PI3) files.
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).
8. >>> And Now The Big One <<<
The welcome screen will now use the PD program "Singsong" to play a
randomly selected Quartet tune when the computer boots.
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.
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.
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.
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 ).
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.
Version 3.d completed - 02/08/92