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* Tutankhamun *
* *
* 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
========
Tutankhamun 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 companys 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 Tutankhamun
is now released as FREEWARE. Please ignore any copyright messages in the
program itself.
INTRODUCTION
============
Tutankhamun is an educational program designed with ease of use in mind.
By using a combination of text, diagrams and pictures you can explore the
fascinating bygone age of ancient Egypt, after which you can delve into the
incredible discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.
FEATURES
========
- 30 High quality scanned pictures
- 5 pieces of quality music
- Time line with 44 pictures
- High quality drawn diagrams
- Interactive Burial Chamber
- 50 question multiple choice quiz
- Demo Mode, sit back and watch the Slide Show
- Screen Saver
- Palette Editor
- And much more!
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
====================
Tutankhamun 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 is required for this title. In the Tutankhamun 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 Tutankhamun 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:
Tutankhamun finds all its files by reading in the Tutankhamun.prefs from the
current System disk (be it floppy or Hard Disk), if this file is not found
Tutankhamun 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 Tutankhamun.prefs into a text editor such as Ed. Looking at
the file you will see that the first three lines contain the paths of
Tutankhamun's three directorys:
Tutankhamun1:Music/
Tutankhamun2:Pics/
Tutankhamun1:Data/
So if you had installed Tutankhamun 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 Tutankamun'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 Tutankamun it will hopefully find it's
files from the paths you have given it.
You should also copy the Egypt fonts, found on Tutankamun disk 1, to your
fonts directorys.
BUGS
====
For some reason when exiting Tutankhamun, when 'Executive' is running,
will freeze 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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