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WELCOME USER COMMANDS WELCOME
NAME
welcome - displays a message with a little logo during the boot
sequence or while loading an user program
SYNOPSIS
welcome [-iimage] [-sseconds] [-1string] [-2string] [-3string]
[-xcoordinate] [-ycoordinate]
welcome [-iimage] [-sseconds] [-pprogram]
[-xcoordinate] [-ycoordinate]
DESCRIPTION
welcome is a little utility that displays a message when you
bootstrap your Amiga. You can run it from your startup-sequence
and tell it how many seconds to wait displaying the selected
message. The standard message -when you run welcome without any
parameter- is ' Welcome to Amiga! ' (if you have used an Apple
Mac you probably are familiar with this message).
The flags:
-iimage selects an image. There are actually four images in
this version of the program. If you use -i1 or -i3
you have selected a small image otherwise, with -i2
or -i4, a big one. Default is 1.
-sseconds selects the number of seconds to wait after
the message is displayed on screen. Default is 5 and
the maximum is 999 seconds.
-xcoordinate is the x coordinate of the window. The default
settings of (x,y) coordinates are for a 640x256 pal
screen. If you have a Workbench with a different
default resolution (i.e. 1280x512 or VGA 640x480)
change this parameter. An error occurs if, with your
setting, the window goes out of screen.
-ycoordinate is like the -xcoordinate, but for the y coordi-
nate.
-pprogram this option is mutually exclusive with -1,-2 and -3
option. It's used to display the message ' Loading '
program_name ' please wait... '. Here program_name
is a name you want to display. If you do not specify
any name (i.e. only -p ) no name is displayed, only
' Loading please wait... '. If the name you want
to display have blanks use: "-pname with spaces".
The name you can display is twenty chars long, extra
chars aren't displayed.
-1string is used to display the first string of your message.
The default string is ' Welcome '.
The name you can display is twenty chars long, extra
chars aren't displayed.
-1string is used to display the second string of your message
and the default string is ' to '.
The name you can display is twenty chars long, extra
chars aren't displayed.
-1string is used to display the third string of your message.
The default string is ' Amiga '.
The name you can display is twenty chars long, extra
chars aren't displayed.
? with this option you can use the help on line
facility.
EXAMPLES
from shell type the follow:
welcome -i2 -s2 "-pDeluxe Paint AGA"
welcome -i1 -s5 -1This "-2is a demo of" -3Welcome
welcome -s2
welcome -p
welcome -x10 -y40 -i4
welcome -i1 -s5 -1This -x10 "-2is a demo of" -3Welcome -y60
BUGS
NONE KNOWN !!!
There is only a little problem (not a bug !!!) if you use fonts
(under OS 2.0, 2.1 or 3.0) with size larger than 8x8 pixels.You
can see garbage instead of your message ! Really the problem is
that I have not set in my C program a font. I have used the
standard system font (topaz 8). I have tested the program with
topaz 11 and all works fine, but with topaz 24 ...
Since I have not changed the standard font in my default confi-
guration I don't need to fix this problem, but if I'll receive
some money for my program you probably have a chance I fix it.
DIAGNOSTIC
The program has self explaining messages for handle strange
cases.
FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Fixing the little problem with fonts.
The possibility to load different images, so you can draw and
display your personal image.
Support of 8,16,32,64,126 and 256 colors images.
THANKS
Alessandro Benedettini would like to thank the following
(and in no fucking way is this in order of priority):
Ivan 'cause he passed to me some CD that I have played
during the developing and debugging phase of this
program
Massimo 'cause he bought SAS C V5.1 that had passed to me
Giancarlo for games and programs he swapped with me and for
his beta testing on AGA machines
Giacinto for the SAS C 6.00 update, for the modem support
and beta testing on his ECS (Fat Agnus) machine
Didi (he is my little cat) for the great moral support
during developing and debugging phases
and all the Guys who made and are the Amiga ...
AUTHOR
WELCOME was written by
Alessandro Benedettini
Via Moretta, 32
10139 Torino
ITALIA (ITALY)
send MONEY, comments, disks to this address
REQUIRED HARDWARE
welcome needs only a standard Amiga.
TESTED ON THIS HARDWARE & SOFTWARE CONFIGURATIONS
Amiga 500 (rev.5) with standard 512k chip set (PAL), A501 512k
expansion, 2MEGA fast ram, 120MEGA HD, 880k external drive and
rom v2.04 (37.175), Workbench V37.67, color monitor.
Amiga 2000 (rev.6.xx) with 1MEGA ECS Agnus, rom v1.3 (*)
Amiga 1200 AGA standard (rom v3.0) (*)
Amiga 4000 AGA (68040/25 MHz), with 8MEGA fast ram, rom v3.0,
1960 monitor (*)
Amiga 1200 AGA with 4MEGA fast ram, rom v3.0, 1942 monitor (*)
Amiga 500 (rev.5) with standard 512k chip set (PAL), A501 512k
expansion, 2MEGA fast ram, 120MEGA HD, 880k external drive and
kickstart v1.3 (34.5) loaded from disk, Workbench V34.20 and
colour monitor. (**) (***)
Amiga 500 (rev.5) with standard 512k chip set (PAL), A501 512k
expansion, 880k external drive and rom v1.2, Workbench V34.20
and colour monitor. (***)
Amiga 500 (rev.5) with standard 512k chip set (PAL), A501 512k
expansion, 880k external drive and kickstart v1.3 loaded from
disk, Workbench V34.20 and colour monitor. (**) (***)
(*) in 19/7/1993 I have finished the program but not passed to my
beta testers.
(**) you have the visit of Guru (#81000005 - Corrupted memory list)
if you use the -i option. Why ? Is it a problem with my copy
of kickstart (from disk) ? Well, do not use that flag or buy a
copy of kickstart 2.0. I have no intention to fix this bug !
(***) with old kickstart (V1.2 or V1.3) the colors are ... strange !
Sorry ! No my fault ! Please, consider that I have kick v2.04
and have not changed the standard colors ...
MATERIAL USED DURING DEVELOPING AND DEBUGGING
An Amiga (of course !)
SAS C Compiler V6.00 (great program !)
TXED+ V2.2
GOMF V2.2
Deluxe Paint V4.5 AGA
ILBM2C (by Tim Kemp)
Power Windows V2.5
Grabbit V1.0
Internal developing tools (by Alessandro Benedettini)
Amiga Programmer's Handbook (by Eugene P. Mortimore) - Italian
version by IHT
Mapping the Amiga (by Anderson & Thompson) - Compute! Books
Some CDs (Queen, Guns'n'Roses, Renato Zero, Vasco Rossi,
J.S.Bach, L.V.Beethoven)
A Cd player
Aiwa amplifiers (thanks Mario !)
Food (thanks mamma !)
A can of Amiga Cola
...
FINAL CONSIDERATIONS
I would like to thank Todd J. Petit for his Billboard v2.0 that
has inspired my Welcome program. In particular I have grabbed
and modified the 'bored men' from Billboard. S o r r y, Todd !
I need images for my program and I have not a lot of time to
paint ... I' ll change that image as soon as possible, please
do not use it. Todd if you contact me (in Billboard there isn't
your address, and I have only the executable, no docs...) I' ll
send you my source code ...
If you use Welcome, please send me an offer. NOT all programs
used to write Welcome are originals (but ** NOT ** bought from
crackers, they were passed to me by friends who have the
originals) and I want to buy the originals ! But I have not a
great budget (I'm a student...).
RELEASED
on Monday 20/07/1993 Version 1.0.9 beta
An Alessandro Benedettini's Production.
(C)1988/1993 by Alessandro Benedettini.
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