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*********** THE DOCTOR WHO DATABASE ***********
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V 1.
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********** Written by T.R Williams ************
********** Using Amos Professional ************
********** Dpaint 4 and Cygnes Ed. ************
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INTRODUCTION.
Hello to all you Doctor Who fans out there, or even non-Doctor Who
fans as well (I'll talk to you whether you're a fan or not). This as the
title suggests is a Doctor Who Database. Almost all the characters from
the first Doctor to the Seventh are included. There are over a 100 small
pictures as well, depicting the various characters.
I've always loved the idea of having a massive database of my
favourite all time program, with all the information I ever need about it.
I had to limit the pictures to just over a hundred because I also
wanted the program to work on floppies as well as a hard drive.
HARD DRIVE OR FLOPPY DISC?
The program will work equally well on floppy as well as hard drive.
I'm afraid that to use the program fully on floppy, two disc drives are
needed.
The program will work with one disc drive but will not have the
ability to show the pictures. I thought of various ways of getting this
to work with a single floppy, but failed. You see I wanted a database that
was fast. With two disc drives the program can pick up the picture off
the second drive almost at the same time as accessing the text off the
first drive. The bother of swapping discs would be too much for anyone,
even an avid Doctor Who fan like myself.
Installing the program to hard drive is easy. Just copy both discs
to one directory on the hard drive, this will probably work just as
easily on CD Rom. I give anybody permission to include this program on
any CD Rom.
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****** IMPORTANT! : MAKE SURE YOU RUN THE PROGRAM INSIDE ****
****** THE CURRENT DIRECTORY OR IT WON'T BE ABLE TO FIND ****
****** IT'S DATA. ****
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WHAT COMPUTER AND MEMORY WILL I NEED TO RUN THIS PROGRAM?
The program needs a 1meg Amiga. It will actually work on
an A500 or the A1200. The problem is that to fit all the data onto
the two discs I had to format them for an A1200 system.
This means that A500 owners will have to get a friend with
an A1200 to transfer the program to their A500 hard drive. If they
want to run it on floppy they will have to delete a couple of pictures
to make it work.
HOW TO GET STARTED?
Just double click on the Tardis icon to run the program. Or if
preferred just run it from CLI. You will see a box at the bottom of the
screen. This is where you interface with the program.
If you wish to find out any information on any Doctor Who
character, then just type in the character's name. You can also save
time by just typing in part of a name. The program will search for
the closest match.
If typing the name seems to much of a bother then you can press
the second mouse key. This will bring up a requester, and this will allow
you to list through the files and click on the file you want.
Typing QUIT will make your computer explode in a dazzling white
ball of flame. No seriously, it's pretty obvious what this does.
HISTORY (Or the Boring bit nobody reads, I don't know why I bother).
The actual text data for this program originally took a whole
880k. Obviously this is quite a lot, and wouldn't leave much room on the
disk for the program. It took me about 3 months to work out a way of
actually compressing the text down so that I could fit the program and
data onto one disk.
I think the whole project took me about a year to complete,
and by the end I was desperate to get it finished. It took so long
that I've probably memorised half the information it displays and I
don't really need the program.
I'm sorry if this history is quite short, as I'm not the sort
of person to write down every date I did a new modification. And I
suppose you couldn't careless as long as the program actually works.
Note for the non Doctor Who Fans : I suppose you think that I'm
really sad, but I don't really care.
If you you want to see something that's sad, then just look at
Metallica's new image.
Bonjovi's new image.
Def Leppard's new image.
Little Angel's New image.
Bruce Dickinson's new haircut.
In fact the whole rock and heavy metal scene seems to be getting
really sad. I've got nothing against people cutting their hair short. It's
their hair and it's up to them. But when a whole band suddenly changes
their style, and all suddenly decide to cut their hair short at the same time.
It's pretty obvious it's some record companies ploy to try and sell more
records. Are these bands trying to be creative, or are they just puppets
on the record companies strings. These sad people won't be getting my
money anymore.
By the way I've just seen AC/DC at the NEC and they still Kick Bottom.
I haven't a clue why they got 'The Wildhearts' to support them though.
The biggest load of c**p I've ever seen in my life. The only reason I
sat and watched them was because I got tired of walking around.
Anyway enjoy my Doctor Who Database.