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- !MakeBBCap
-
- By Richad Harker
- (C) Richard Harker 1995
-
- This is a very basic shell for making a program that
- runs in !65host into an application
-
- what it does, is when it is run it loads your copy
- of !65host, and executes a file called !boot in the
- MAIN directory, inside the !BBCapp directory, this
- file then chains, or *runs etc, the program, in this
- case the file PROGANAME is chained.
-
- To use this Application with one of your own
- programs-
-
- 1) Drag the applicaton !BBCapp to another disc.
-
- 2) rename the application to what you want.
-
- 3) rename the name of the sprite in the !Sprites
- file to the new name of the application, and edit
- the sprite if you wish.
-
- 4) open the directory MAIN.
-
- 5) delete the file PROGNAME.
-
- 6) drag into the MAIN directory the files for your
- BBC program (be careful not to overwrite the !boot
- file, if your program has it's own boot file rename
- it to something like !boot2)
-
- 7) Open up the !boot data file, by shift-double-
- clicking it, or dragging it to the !Edit icon on the
- icon bar.
-
- 8) Find the words CHAIN"PROGNAME", and change them
- to *RUN, or CHAIN, etc and then type in the name
- of the file from your program, that is run first,
- remembering to make sure to use the quotes if the
- file is to be CHAINed, then resave the file as !BOOT.
-
- 8) Now the application is ready to run.
-
- 9) Don't forget to make sure that the computer has
- seen a copy of !65host.
-
- This application is supplied free to everyone 'as is
- ', I do not give any guarantee that it is free of
- bugs, or supply any warranty about its suitabliliy
- for use. I hope that this has been of use to you.
-
- PS have you bought the Warm Silence Software, BBC
- emulator yet. It is a bit slow on my A4000, but for
- 10 quid I don't think that you can go wrong. It is
- like !65host, except it can run BBC games, yes all
- the favourites, like ransack, despatch rider,
- clogger, and (so I have been told) ALL the play it
- again sams.
-
- Please write to me if you have any suggetsions on
- how it could be made better or any problems,(I
- will write back),or if you would like to swap some
- BBC or Arc software or games.
-
- Cheers! Rich 1995
-
- My Address is
-
- Richard Harker
- Elmlea
- Sewardstone Road
- Chingford
- London
- E4 7RG