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OHP version 2a (OverHead Projector Simularor)
Copyright 1995 by Robert Tsien
Creation Videographics
This program is freely distributable, as long as the entire archive remains
intact. This program has expressed permission to be used in any form except
for commercial purposes. That means no money is to be made with this
program.
I do not expect any monetary rewards for this program, but would like to
know where this program is used. So if you use this program, just let me
know so that I have an idea who and what it is used for in order to better
improve future versions.
My contact address is:
Robert Tsien
12 Erskine Crescent
Wheelers Hill 3150
Victoria
Australia
The best way is to let me know via conventional mail as I am temporarily
stationed at Singapore. But you can also get me at:
e-mail: edisys@einstein.technet.sg
Only for a limited time, ie. until mid 1996
REQUIREMENTS:
* Any Amiga computer with composite/RF output
* At least 1MB RAM.
DESCRIPTION:
This is an Overhead Projector simulator. It is designed to be used in
churches or cell-group meetings for displaying worship songs.
The idea came when we have regular cell-group/house-church meetings, when
we had to display some songs to be sung for worship. Traditionally, many
many sheets of perfectly clean paper are used to write the words of hymns
and choruses. Some use to photocopy a set to distribute to everyone at the
meeting. Being a little green, I hate to see that happen and came up with
displaying songs cleany on an ordinary television set. Songs are typed into
the computer to form a database and can be called at anytime to be
displayed. This program can be used in larger installations as well, if you
have a projector or any type of video display devices.
This program is written in CanDo v1.6.
INSTALLATION:
The program is ready to be run straight off the archive after decompressing
to disk. If you have only 1 MB RAM, you will have to not load workbench.
The expanded disk is self booting without workbench. If you have more than
1 MB of RAM then you can double-click the OHPv2a icon from Workbench. Make
sure that you have the fonts that are in the disk in you FONTS: volume.
To install in hard drive, you will need the program OHPv2a in a
directory somewhere and a songs directory in the same directory. In the
songs directory are further subdirectories labeled A-Z for fast indexing.
Just follow the structure on the expanded disk.
RUNNING THE PROGRAM:
To run the program, just double-click on the OHPv2a icon.
On the top left corner of the screen you will see a box with an exclamation
mark. This is the Quit gadget. Double-click on it to quit the program.
On the larger left portion of the screens are button labeled 1-10. These
are the slide numbers. Double click on the first one to place a song on the
first slide. This will bring you to a screen to select songs. The screen
contains buttons labeled A-Z on the right side of the screen which will
directly list the corresponding directory. Double click on the songs name
to select the songs. This will bring you back to the main screen. Continue
this till you have chosen all the songs you want to present. You should
find this quite intuitive.
On the main screen, the set of buttons labeled Present is to present the
current script (selection of songs). To save the current selection of
songs, click on the Save script and type in the script name. To load a
script click on the Load script button.
Edit Songs and Preference options are not available in this version and
will have no effect upon clicking them.
The New button will clear the current script so that you can work on a new
script.
Clicking once on the slide button will highlight the particular slide as
selected. Once select you can operate the Insert, Delete and Show functions
on them. Show will jump straight to present the selected slide.
There is another hidden function to this program. Pressing the SHIFT-F1 key
will transfer you current script to a floppy disk on the internal drive.
If you examine the script file, you will see it contains the full path to
find the file. Therefore any created script will only know where to find
the songs in it's original machine. You can use the SHIFT-F1 function which
will transfer all the required songs onto a disk in DF0: and reassigns all
the paths to the drive so that the script in the floppy will be
transportable to other systems.
Hope that you will find this program useful and drop me a line to let me
know what you think.
KNOWN BUGS:
If a line in a song is longer than would fit into the width of
the screen, the program will end up in an infinite loop.