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Short: Prog to make letters with graphics/text
Author: di3andpe@ida.his.se (Anders Persson)
Uploader: di3andpe@ida.his.se (Anders Persson)
Version: 5.3
Type: comm/misc
Replaces: comm/misc/BorayLetter52.lha
* * *
Requirements:
BorayLetter needs AmigaDos1.3+ and about 600K of free memory.
* * *
Introduction:
Welcome to Boray Letter, "The king of letter programs". Maybe you
don't know what a letter program is. Well, it was something that
started on the C64. You could use the keyboard to write a message
to your friend, and when he looked at it, it was played in the same
way it was written.... BorayLetter is that, and much more. You can
for example draw lines, wait for a key to be pressed or even
animate and make your own little cartoons!!!
When you for example draw a line in your letter, only the
coordinates for the line are saved to the file. All graphics works
in this way. This leads to an extremely spacesaving fileformat.
For example, the demo letter "Cecdic" contains 4:30 minutes of
cartoons. And it's only 32K big (uncompressed). Yes, it's not even
compressed. If you pack it with SHRINK, it will be 21K, or 24K
with lha.
* * *
Use It:
Well, have fun!!! Next time you intend to send a letter (or
e-mail) to someone, Include a letter that lives! A BorayLetter!
* * *
Copyrights:
Boray Letter is shareware, but you can self decide how much it's
worth. To get more details, press "Help" while reading or making
a letter.
* * *
History/News:
Version 5.3 (January 1998)
* Bugfix: The error handling was disabled in the last version.
* The disk cache was highly optimized. (It's much faster now)
* The program was translated to swedish.
(Aminet: comm/misc/BorayLetter53SV.lha)
* * *
Version 5.2 (November 1997)
* BorayLetter can now run under AmigaDos 1.3!!! So, now you can
make letters to people with old Amiga500's (Like my brothers
children :-) If you are using AmigaDos1.3, the ARP filerequester
will be used instead of the ASL filerequester. arp.library is
included in this archive. But the program "BLC" still needs
AmigaDos2.0+
* New internal disk cache for the graphics brushes/copies. This
speeds up the animations. Especially animations that uses
brushes on floppy disks. So, this is great for systems without
a hard drive! To reset the cache, just go to the main menu.
* Big Bug fixed: Animations wasn't recorded if you didn't
move it around while putting copies.
* More graphics copies in the letters/g directory.
* * *
Version 5.1 (August 1997)
The only thing that is new since 5.0, is that BorayLetter no
longer needs a 68020 to run. First I only made a 68000 version
of 5.0. But when I discovered that this version was in fact a
little bit faster than the 020 version on my 030, I changed my
mind... And released the 000 version as 5.1 (But the program is
not really tested on a 68000, but I think it will work.
If it won't: Send me an email!)
* * *
Version 5.0: (June-July 1997)
This is the greatest update ever!!! (No wonder, I had to catch
up with 5 ears of no development at all :)
Well, For this version I have added:
* Intuition Menus
* Undo
* Insert
* Mouse operated menus on the Main Screen
* MedRes screenmode
* ASL Filerequester
* Mouse operated Y/N requesters
* New Palette requester
* New memory management
* Now possible to draw with brushes and lines
* The interface between you and the graphics functions was reworked.
(You can now see what you are doing)
* New space saving file format
(Takes only about 30% of the space the old format
required!!!)
* Can load and convert old letters
* The program is much faster!!!
* New speed requester
* Now possible to insert a delay of X vblanks without
changing the playback speed.
This way, you can use speed 0 for turbo drawing, and
then insert some delays where you want - Useful for
animations.
* Security aspects are taken care of
A letter can now only write temporary files to the
ram disk. Before, someone could for example make a
letter that destroyed your system files... But not
any longer!!!
* Temporary files are removed when the letter that created
them has ended.
* The program is more system friendly and multitaskig friendly!!!
* The program has in other words become more usable!!!!!
* * *
Version 4.06 (921228)
* * *
Version 3.0 (920223)
* * *
Version 2.x (??????)
* * *
Version 1.1 (910312)
New stuff in...
Main menu: Continue Making, Kill files
Making Letter: Save graphics copy, Load graphics copy, wait for
any key, Circle, Palette, Reset Colors, Auto Foreground/back-
ground-colors
Reading Letter: Save graphics Copy, Set Speed, Print Screen
* * *
Version 1.0 (910223)
First version.
Main menu: Make, Read, Save, Load, Quit, Change Memory Storage,
Read Directory, Change Directory
Make Letter Features: Change color, Get graphics copy, put
graphics copy, Line, Lines, Box, Filled Box, Fill, Clear Screen.
Read Letter Features: Pause. The speed is prompted before reading.
* * *
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* Also Try *
Aminet: util/misc/selector60.lha
Highly configurable launching tool for almost any purpose. But
it is not yet another program like toolsdeamon or launchingpad.
Selector serves as a complement to these types of programs. It's
more like a script language.
Selector is a powerful tool to use within shell scripts or to
make a little GUI for your CLI type program. I have for example
made a GUI for GMPlay (mus/midi/GMPlayGUI15.lha on Aminet) using
selector.
It is really easy to produce a button panel, info window, popup menu
or a little requester with selector.
Last minute update: SELECTOR 7.0 will be released really soon!
That will be, Aminet: util/misc/selector70.lha
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* Also Try *
Aminet: mods/boray
My DigiBooster and Protracker music modules.
Why not try the 4 latest:
mods/boray/DayUnknown.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/12/01)
mods/boray/HELGON.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/11/02)
mods/boray/PsalmAP2Alt.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/09/23)
mods/boray/IAmGenerated.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/09/15)
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* Also Try *
Aminet: mus/midi/GMPlayGUI15.lha
Nice GUI for GMPlay1.3!!! (Made with selector)
Features:
* Play all midi files in a directory in random order.
* Play Next -button (the current playing tune is stopped,
and the next will be played)
* Pause button
* Choose singel file to play
* Alter PlayDir
* Get information about current playing tune
* Options: like Frequence, Priority, Unpacking, Stereo,
filters, font, color and more
* Possibility to save separate options for each midi file.
* Move midi files
* External Play-next command that can be used to get a
Play-next-hotkey
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============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
628 276 56.0% 22-Jan-98 18:28:54 BorayLetter.info
24176 23585 2.4% 20-Jul-97 16:30:20 +BLC
2038 505 75.2% 22-Jan-98 18:28:54 +BLC.info
23 23 0.0% 06-Sep-97 21:56:44 +BLetter.prefs
73680 72185 2.0% 20-Jan-98 19:23:02 +BorayLetter
3622 828 77.1% 22-Jan-98 18:28:54 +BorayLetter.info
7648 3269 57.2% 20-Jan