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- TrackStepper 1.12 05-Oct-94
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-
- Introduction
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Last year me and a friend were making a trackdisplay, and we wanted an easy
- way to check it, so I did the first version of TrackStepper. The first
- version was done for 1.3 and used hardware addresses for controlling the
- diskdrive. Now I have got an A500+, so therefore I started doing a version
- for 2.0 and at the same time change it to use trackdisk-device instead of
- direct hardware programming (that isn't so good in case that someone is
- writing to disk at the same time as you are moving the read/write-head).
- Here comes the legal stuff...
-
- Disclaimer
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- THIS SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS". NO REPRESENTATIONS OR
- WARRANTIES ARE MADE WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, PERFORMANCE,
- CURRENTNESS, OR OPERATION OF THIS SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION, AND ALL USE IS
- AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE AUTHOR DOES NOT ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY
- WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USE OF THIS SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION.
-
- Copyright
- ~~~~~~~~~
- This program is FREEWARE. It may be freely distributed as long as all files
- in it remain unchanged and are included in the distribution. Also no more
- than a nominal copy fee may be charged for the distribution. This program
- cannot be used for commercial purposes without written permission from the
- author.
-
- Function
- ~~~~~~~~
- TrackStepper is a program that is able to step the read/write-head of the
- diskdrive up or down. It's mainly done for testing trackdisplays.
- There are eight gadgets in the window, I'll give a quick explanation of
- them. The character to the right of most functions is the keyboard shortcut.
-
- StepUp or 'U':
- ==============
- Steps the read/write-head of the drive selected with the 'Drive'-
- gadget up so many steps that is chosen in the 'Steps'-gadget.
-
- StepDown or 'D':
- ================
- Just like StepUp, but it steps down instead.
-
- ABOUT:
- ======
- Shows a small about text (what did you think? :)
-
- Goto Track Zero or 'Z':
- =======================
- This moves the read/write-head to position 0.
-
- Steps or 'S':
- =============
- Here you enter the number of steps that StepUp and StepDown will
- do.
-
- Drive:
- ======
- Here you select the drive to be used. First choose the drive, then
- you press On/Off to turn the motor on, then you can start testing
- all the other functions.
-
- Track or 'T':
- =============
- This works as a trackdisplay, it will always display which track
- that the read/write-head is on (except when you start the program,
- then it will only display zero until you select something). You
- can also enter a number in here, then the read/write-head will
- move to that track.
-
- On/Off or 'O':
- ==============
- This is used to turn on or off the motor of the diskdrive. This
- should always be chosen after that you have selected which
- drive you want to use.
-
- History
- ~~~~~~~
- V1.0 This was done using OS1.3 and was a bit unsafe to use, because
- of the use of direct hardware fiddling.
-
- V1.10 Totally rewritten version, this uses gadtools-library (no 1.3 =(
- and trackdisk-device, and should be a lot safer to use.
-
- V1.11 Minor update. Keyboard shortcuts to most functions, and iconify.
-
- V1.12 I changed the program a bit. Now uses a requester for the about
- text, and I also did an EditHook for the cylinder & steps gadgets,
- so that you can't enter illegal characters, such as '-' and '+'.
-
-
- Notes
- ~~~~~
- I don't think that anybody could be able to damage anything using this
- program, but if somebody would, then I can't take any responsibility
- for that. Use it at your own risk!
-
- Bugs
- ~~~~
- NONE KNOWN
-
- Send bug reports, ideas, PD Programs etc. to:
-
- Staffan Hämälä
- Pellovägen 268
- S-957 93 Pello
- SWEDEN
-