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- NOTICE
-
- NewCon is Copyright (C) 1988 by Bob Crow - All Rights Reserved, except
- as outlined below!
-
- NewCon is being released into the public domain as SHAREWARE and may be
- distributed freely, by any means, as long as it has not been modified
- and this notice accompanies it.
-
- NewCon provides two useful functions. First it monitors the information
- from the keyboard and creates an audible click (actually a "beep") as
- certain keys are pressed. Second, it monitors the InputDevice to
- determine the time interval between input events (inactivity). If this
- inactivity exceeds the value specified by the user, the Amiga's screen
- is blanked. The screen is restored to normal by the first input
- received from the keyboard or mouse.
-
- The resident routines (those that remain in memory after execution and
- provide the features), occupy only 632 bytes of memory.
-
- The volume of the key click and the duration of inactivity are
- adjustable with the utility NewConAdj (see below).
-
- NOTE: NewCon MUST BE IN THE "c" OR "System" Directories FOR NewConAdj
- TO PATCH IT!.
-
- NewCon requires no parameters on its command line:
-
- NewCon(RETURN)
-
- Will invoke NewCon and create a key click and screen blanking functions.
- NewCon may be added to the "s" directory startup-sequence to provide for
- automatic execution at startup. Put NewCon in your "c" directory and
- add this line to the startup-sequence file:
-
- c/NewCon
-
- When NewCon executes, it displays a message informing you of the status
- of that execution.
-
- Default Values for NewCon are:
-
- Key click volume = -12 dB (this is only a relative value from Table 5-8 in
- the AMIGA (TM) Hardware Reference Manual, Page 160).
-
- Screen blanking interval - 5 minutes.
-
- When used with NewConAdj:
-
- The volume is adjustable throughout the range of the above referenced
- Table.
-
- Screen blanking intervals:
-
- INF - Never blanks
- 1 - Minute
- 3 - Minutes
- 5 - Minutes
- 7 - Minutes
- 10 - Minutes
- 15 - Minutes
- 20 - Minutes
-
-
- The following keys will not create a click when they are pressed:
-
- CTRL
- Left SHIFT
- Right SHIFT
- Left ALT
- Right ALT
- Left AMIGA
- Right AMIGA
-
- To obtain the latest version of NewCon, NewConAdj, and a list of other
- software available by me, send a contribution of ten (10) dollars or
- more to:
-
- Bob Crow
- 27711 No. Calypso Ln.
- Canyon Country, CA. 91351
-
- Specify "NewCon UPDATE" or you will just get the software list!
-
- ****************************** Amigans *********************************
- Apparently, the NewConAdj program mentioned above is only given to
- registered users. At least, I was unable to obtain a copy of that
- program from the boards. If you like (or are used to) audible feedback
- from your keyboard, this program will give you that, without sacrificing
- a lot of memory.
-
- Enjoy!
- -jec
-