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* Titanic II *
* *
* Programmed by Paul Thompson *
* 7-9 Queens Road, Formby, Merseyside, L37 2HF. *
* *
* Tel: (01704)-877591 *
* E-mail: spcpthom@livjm.co.uk *
* *
* This Program is now FREEWARE! *
* (But if you really like it, please send me a donation) *
* *
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FOREWARD
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Titanic II was once sold commercially by the Central Licenceware Registry,
but after this company had ceased trading, it became unavailable through
any outlet. Around this time I was pursuing a degree in Computers and was
forced to sell my Amiga to raise money for a PC, an action i later
regretted. Deprived of my Amiga I lost track of the Amiga scene for nearly
three years.
The degree is now nearly finished, and to reward to myself I bought a new
Amiga. After catching up on the Amiga scene, I was shocked by the amount of
software and hardware companies that had abandoned the Amiga, a computer
that had been so good to them in the past!
I now wish to help the Amiga in any way i can, for this reason Titanic II
is now released as FREEWARE. Also included is the source code for Titanic II
along with related files. Please ignore any copyright messages in the
program itself.
INTRODUCTION
============
Titanic II is an interactive exploration of one of the greatest maritime
disasters of all time. The disaster occurred on April 14, 1912, when the
Royal Mail Ship Titanic, on her maiden voyage, brushed an iceberg and took
1,500 souls to their deaths in freezing water. The program not only covers
that fateful night, but also the reasons she was built, the reaction to the
disaster and finally the discovery of the wreck.
FEATURES
========
- 30 High quality scanned pictures
- 5 pieces of quality music
- Time line with 44 pictures
- High quality drawn diagrams
- Interactive Cross Section
- 50 question multiple choice quiz
- Demo Mode, sit back and watch the Slide Show
- Screen Saver
- Palette Editor
- And much more!
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
====================
Titanic II will work on any Amiga which has at least 1MB of chip memory
and OS 2.0 or later installed, the floppy disk version will also make use
of an external floppy drive if available. Titanic II can be installed to
Hard Disk, see below.
INSTALLING TO FLOPPY
====================
Two floppy disks are required for this title. In the Titanic II directory
is another directory called 'Disks', which contains two files in DMS format.
To recreate the original disks double click on the appropriate icon and
follow the instructions.
INSTALLING TO HARD DISK
=======================
Simply drag the Titanic II directory anywhere on your Hard Disk. If you
have the original floppy version you can run the HDInstall program on disk 1
or you may do it manually. If the manual method is used the following should
be noted:
Titanic II finds all its files by reading in the Titanics.prefs from the
current System disk (be it floppy or Hard Disk), if this file is not
found Titanic II uses its defaults, consequently it will not know where to
find its files and the program will abort. Getting around this problem you
can do the following.
First load the TitanicII.prefs into a text editor such as Ed. Looking at
the file you will see that the first three lines contain the paths of
Titanic's three directorys:
Titanic1:Music/
Titanic2:Pics/
Titanic1:Data/
So if you had installed Titanic II to a partition called Work and into a
directory called Test, you should edit the file to read:
Work:Test/Music/
Work:Test/Pics/
Work:Test/Data/
Also if you wish to throw all Titanic's files into one directory say for
instance Test2, you should edit the file to read:
Work:Test2/
Work:Test2/
Work:Test2/
Once you have finished editing the file you should save it to your Sys/S
directory, and when you next run Titanic II it will hopefully find it's
files from the paths you have given it.
You should also copy the Titanic fonts, found on Titanic disk 1, to your
Fonts directorys.
BUGS
====
For some reason when exiting Titanic II, when 'Executive' is running,
freezes Workbench and the user is forced to reboot. When I originally
developed this title this program was around, and I am at a loss on how
to solve it, other than by turning 'Executive' off.
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Please send any comments, suggestions or criticisms to the address at the
start of this document.
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