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<<<<<<<<<<<< Start-it!!! on line help... >>>>>>>>>>>>>
THE WINDOW BUTTONS:
The 2 buttons on the right side of the window
scroll up or down the list of files available on your
disk. The upper left button is the REVERT button and will
display all the files as they appear on your boot disk.
There is another button in the upper right corner of the
AUTO & ACC windows. With it you can choose to display
files by name or as they appear on your disk. The REVERT
button for the 'other files' window is the info box.
The "COLOR" button will be available only on a color monitor
You will be able to select 8 different color displays. This
setting is saved in the preference files.
The INFO menu:
CREDITS: will give you information about the program.
SYSTEM: will give you information on your system and the
current setup.
HELP: will bring up this text!!!
MEMO will call the Memo editor. You can load, save or clear
the memo. The Memo is 'intelligent', if it contains
something and you have selected the show memo option in
your preferences, it will pop up every time you bootup.
The FILE menu:
ITEM SELECTOR gives you the option to rename or delete a
a file anywhere on your disks.
REORDER AUTO enables you to reorder programs in your auto
folder. Just follow the instructions in the info box.
REVERT ALL will revert all files in every window.
The PRESETS menu:
MAKE: after selecting all the files you need to create a
preset, select this button and follow instructions in the
info box. After clicking on the preset you want to make
STart-it will ask you if you want to choose a program to
auto-launch with that preset.
SAVE: press this button to save your preset to disk.
STart-it will ask you in which bank you want to save your
presets. You can choose any of the 4 banks available.
CLEAN: will clean every preset of any file not present on
your disk at this time.
ERASE: erase a preset. The name of the preset will be
replaced by the word EMPTY.
INCLUDE: include a selected file in every preset.
EXTRACT: extract a selected file in every preset.
AUTORUN PRG: select a program for auto-launching using one
of the 3 methods available in STart-it.
SELECT: bring up the preset selector screen. Press the
preset button you want to instantly run that preset.
The CONFIGURE menu:
CONFIGURE START-IT: calls the main configuration screen.
CONFIGURE FILES1, 2, 3 & 4: Calls the file selector to
select the path where you want these files to be written.
SAVE PREFERENCES: will save your preference to disk. This
is the same function as the SAVE button in the CONFIGURE
START-IT screen.
The "CONFIGURE FILES x" file selector:
enables you to select a path where you want these files to
be written. A file selector will appear. In the lower part
of the file selector you'll see the actual path for that
file. At the left is a window showing you the
directory of actual path and at the right a series of
buttons to select any available drives in your system.
There is also a SELECTION box containing the destination
file name. The file selector works just like the GEM file
file selector. You can enter the name manually or select it
with the mouse. Press CANCEL if you want to keep the path,
press DISABLE to make FILE TYPEx disabled, press ok if you
have choosen a new path.
- AUTORUN PRG: You can select a program to
autorun. If you have TOS 1.4 or higher the name of the
program will be placed in the NEWDESK.INF when exiting
STart-it. If you have an older version of TOS, Start-it
will write a file called STARTGEM.INF so you can autorun
a GEM program with STARTGEM.PRG. StartGem has to be
present in your AUTO folder if you want this to work.
You can also use HEAD START for auto-launching GEM
programs. STart-it will detect the presence of STARTGEM or
HEADSTART in your auto folder to know which one you use...
You have 3 choices when you select an AutoRun program:
1- Select a program to Auto-Run.
2- Select the DISABLE button and no program will be
auto-started.
3- Press the 'Esc' key to clear the selection box, this
will select the DEFAULT AUTORUN program.
If you select DISABLE for a given preset and you start the
boot procedure with that preset, STart-it will remove ANY
AutoRun program it might find in the desktop info file
that will be copied!!! It will also erase the STARTGEM.INF
and HEADSTRT.DAT file and disable STARTGEM and
HEADSTRT program in your auto folder.
- "REORDER AUTO FOLDER PRG": You can reorder programs in
your auto folder. Press this button and select the program
you want to move, then select where you want this program
to go. STart-it will ask you if you want to reorder your
program. If you decide to do so, STart-it will ask you
if you want to put the program to move before or after the
target file.
You can set the correct time and date if you don't have an
internal clock. Just press the time display button or the
date display button.
At the bottom of the screen there are 8 buttons:
- START: will start the boot procedure with the setup
that is currently displayed.
- CANCEL: will bootup with the current settings
on your boot disk.
- MONO: will bootup with the preset #1 and is also the
default preset for monochrome if you exceed the time
limit (the time limit is WAIT TIME in the configuration
screen. It is the time the program will wait before
booting up if you don't touch the mouse). If you press
the SPACE BAR this preset will also be used as default
in monochrome.
- COLOR M: is the default preset for color monitor. It
works the same way as the MONO button.
- COLOR L: will choose preset #3.
- NOTHING: will bootup the computer without any auto
programs or accessories. Useful when you want all the
available memory your computer can offer.
- NO ACC: bootup without any accessories.
- NO AUTO: bootup without any auto programs.
The PRESET window:
*** You can view a preset by clicking on it.***
The upper left button in the PRESET window will show you
a screen with all the 49 presets available. You can click
on any button to choose a preset to run. If you click
on CANCEL you will be returned to the main screen.
The 2 right buttons will scroll the list of all available
presets. There is 49 presets available in STart-it!!!
The first 20 presets can be selected with the f-keys. To
select one of the first 10 presets just hit the
corresponding F-Key. To select preset 11 to 20 press
SHIFT and the corresponding F-Key. Each preset name has a
number to its right corresponding to its assigned F-Key.
There are 2 buttons (LOAD & SAVE) under the preset window.
You can load or save 4 presets banks for a total of 196
presets available.
The "STart-it CONFIGURATION screen":
- "FORCE TIME & DATE INPUT": Will enable you to force the
time and date input when you bootup your computer.
- "Hotkey(s) SKIP/START": This function serves as a flag
to tell STart-it to run or not if certain HOTKEYS
are pressed when you boot your computer. When you select
the "Caps" key you only have to press it once as soon
as you can.
- "WAIT TIME": This is the amount of time that STart-it will
wait before booting with the default preset if you don't
touch the mouse. You can set it to INFINITE if you don't
want the program to AUTO BOOT.
- "SHOW PRESET SCREEN": You can make STart-it show the
preset screen every time you turn on your computer.
- "ACCESSORIES LIMIT": Enables you to set a maximum
number of accessories you can select since MULTITOS
enables you to run more than 6 accessories.
- "SHOW MEMO": You can choose to display the MEMO screen
automatically with this.
- "SHOW PICTURE": You can display a welcome picture when
you start your computer. Start-it can display pictures
in PI1, PI2, PI3, PC1, PC2, PC3 and NEO formats. Just put
the pictures you want in the path you have selected.
- "ORDER": You can choose to display your picture in 2 ways.
If you select RANDOM, pictures will be showed randomly.
If you select ORDER,pictures will be showed sequentially.
- "SCREEN PATH": You can select any path you want when
STart-it searches for a picture to display.Just press the
button and a file selector will appear. Select the drive
and path you want and press OK. The path selected will be
displayed in the button below the SHOW WELCOME SCREEN
button. If you are in the file selector and wish to keep
the actual path press the CANCEL button.
- "PLAY SAMPLE WITH PICTURE": will play a sample with the
welcome picture if you have chosen this option. STart-it
will first try to find a sample with the same name as the
picture to be displayed.
- "SAMPLE PATH": works the same way as the SCREEN PATH
button.The sample must have the extension .SMx where x is
the speed (0 to 5)at which the sample will be played. You
can play samples in AVR format. The samples can be as big
50k, bigger samples will be ignored by the program.
- "ACCESSORIES PATH": If you use a program that enables you
to put your accessories in a folder this function must be
set to that specific path or STart-it will not be able to
locate your accessories.
- "SWITCH SCREEN DISPLAY TO xxHZ": This function selects
the screen display to be 50Hz or 60Hz. Useful if you want
to run European programs. This setting will not be saved
with your STart-it preference. **** If you have switched
the screen display to 50Hz and you want to get it back to
60 when you are on the desktop just use the SWTCH_HZ.PRG
to change it.****
- "SHOW EXIT SCREEN": Enable or disable exit screen.
- "SELECT DEFAULT AUTORUN PROGRAM": The default AutoRun
program is the one that will be selected if you press the
START button and no AutoRun program has been selected
by choosing a preset to display.
- "MORE": Will bring up the "MORE OPTIONS" screen. You can
choose to sort auto programs and accessories. You can also
set STart-it to display write protected files in your auto
folder. These files will be displayed as bold characters.
- "OK": will exit the configuration screen without saving
your preference to disk.
- RELOAD: will reload the preference file if you have made
any changes and you've changed your mind.
- "SAVE:" will save your preference settings to disk.
- THE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS:
- [T] : Set time.
- [D] : Set date.
- [I] : Info.
- [S] : Select AutoRun program.
- [1] : Configure files1.
- [2] : Configure files2.
- [3] : Configure files3.
- [4] : Configure files4.
- [P] : Show the preset screen.
- [Esc] : Same as the CANCEL button.
- [Undo]: Same as the REVERT button.
- [Help]: Call On Line help...
- [C] : Call the configure STart-it screen.
- F1 to F10: Select preset #1 to #10.
- SHIFT F1 to F10: Select preset #11 to #20.
- [Space Bar]: Select default preset.
- [M] : Call the Memo.
- [R] : Reorder Auto folder programs.
Well that's about it for now...
I hope you'll enjoy the program. I've tried my best to
include every function possible. Let me know if you have
any suggestions about functions you'd like to see.
I'm asking only $10 dollars for registering STart-it!. You
will receive a 25 page manual and a copy registered to
your name.
Be seeing you!!!
Christian Ernst
5550 Guy
Charlesbourg PQ
Canada
G1H 4L5
You can call me on my OasiSTe BBS
1-418-623-3729
On the BBS just enter 16 at the "ou New si vous etes
nouveau" prompt and enter SCHAUZMOLL at the
"Entrez votre mot de passe" prompt. Just go to message
base 8. Or to sig# 15 to get the latest version.
Be sure to include your name if you write a message so
I can reply to your specific question.
My voice number is: 1-418-623-3878. Just leave a message
if I'm not there. Some of my family members don't speak
English so be patient with them or practice your French
before calling!!!