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KeyBang
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Version 1.0
by Mike Stark
KeyBang is a program which I have developed to entertain my son. He is 17
months old at this release and he likes to bang on the keyboard and play with
the mouse of my Amiga. Unfortunately, he likes to watch the screen change
while he plays with the keboard and mouse which was especially unfortunate
the few times I left the editor unattended in a document. Keybang gives my
son something to do while at the same time protecting my Amiga from his
enthusiastic intervention.
KeyBang draws random shapes and plays random sounds in response to keypresses
and mouse button presses. The shapes are circles and simple polygons. The
sounds are samples loaded from disk files.
Operation
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To run KeyBang either select its icon or type its name. To exit the program,
you must press the difficult key combination "Alt-Alt-F5" which was selected
because of the unlikelyhood that a one-year-old could reach all of those keys
at once.
KeyBang recognizes two command line options: "-colors" and "-oneshape". The
"-colors" option lets you specify the number of colors on the KeyBang screen.
Selecting fewer colors will speed the program up on slower Amigas. The
"-oneshape" option causes KeyBang to clear the screen before each shape is
drawn. These options may also be specified with the Tooltypes of KeyBang's
icon. The Tooltypes "COLORS=2|4|8|16" and "ONESHAPE" are recognized by
KeyBang.
You can supply your own sounds for KeyBang. KeyBang looks in a subdirectory
of the current directory or in a device called "Sounds:". It loads the
samples described in whatever IFF 8SVX files are in that directory. KeyBang
is distributed with a few sounds. You can supply others simply by copying
them to the sounds directory.
Installation
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If you want KeyBang to play sounds you must either run the program from a
directory which contains a subdirectory named "Sounds" or assign "Sounds:" to
some directory which contains IFF 8SVX sound sample files. If you don't want
KeyBang to play sounds, it may be a good idea to assign "Sounds:" to an empty
directory so that you won't be bothered by a requester telling you to "insert
Sounds in any drive."
Bugs
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While KeyBang attempts to make the keyboard impotent, the key combination
Ctrl-Amiga-Amiga will still reset the Amiga. This reset is accomplished
by the keyboard hardware so KeyBang can't get around it. There is some hope
that a later version of KeyBang will be able to prevent a reset in all but
the Amiga 500.
If you notice any other bugs, please send me a note at one of the addresses
below. I'll correct any reported bugs in later versions.
Shareware
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KeyBang is released with source into the public domain. If you wish to
contribute to the education of my son and be remembered as this program
is updated to keep track with his development (And your child's development,
too) please send a shareware contribution to me at the address below. A
contribution of $15 (US) will assure you a copy of the next major
update when it becomes available. All people who so request can be notified
by mail of the next update.
There is no "enhanced" version of this program which you will receive when
you send you shareware contribution. How could you possibly decide if you
like a program if you only get to test a crippled version.
As of 1992 my address is:
Mike Stark
11417 July Drive #304
Silver Spring, MD 20904
E-Mail:
stark@umdhep.umd.edu