Compendium Deluxe 2/LSD and 17bit Compendium Deluxe - Volume II.iso/readme.guide

Amigaguide Document | 1995-01-14 | 16KB | 273 lines

@NODE main "LSD & 17Bit Compendium Deluxe #2 Readme"
 @{"  Beginners  " LINK BEGINNERS}  Beginners start here.
 @{"   Welcome   " LINK WELCOME}  Introduction to this CD.                  17 Bit
 @{"  Important  " LINK IMPORTANT}  Important - Please Read This!        1st Floor Offices
 @{"    Files    " LINK FILES}  File types on this CD.               2/8 Market Street
 @{"  AGA Users  " LINK AGAUSERS}  Notes for AGA Users.                  West Yorkshire
 @{"    Notes    " LINK NOTES}  Notes for ALL Users.                     WF1 1DH
 @{" Repetition  " LINK REPETITION}  Notes about File Repetition.
 @{"   Sysops    " LINK SYSOPS}  Notes for BBS Sysops.                Tel: [phone]
 @{" Your Views  " LINK YOURVIEWS}  The SoapBox!                         Fax: [phone]
 @{"Contributions" LINK CONTRIBUTIONS}  How to contribute.
 @{"   Credits   " LINK CREDITSFORTHISCD}  Blush ;)
 @{" Copyrights  " LINK COPYRIGHT}  Legal Information.
 @{"  Technical  " LINK TECHNICAL}  Technical Information.
 @{"   Search    " LINK SEARCH}  How to use the search function.
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@NODE BEGINNERS "Beginners Start Here"
This menu system is totally mouse operated.  It is very simple to use,
if you see a hilighted button, such as @{"this" LINK This_Because_Its_a_Demo}, it means it is an option
available from that area.  Clicking on that button will perform a
function, such as running a demo, viewing a picture or extracting an
archive.  Remember when you have finished viewing a text file, listening
to a music module etc.  to click on the Close gadget to contine.
Pressing Help at any time while using this meny will produce a help
file.  When you have finished in a menu area, clicking on the Retrace
gadget at the top of the screen will take you back to the previous page,
clicking on Retrace again will take you back a screen further, etc.
Basically, try out the gadgets, you can't do any harm.  Remember not the
click on the close gadget of this AmigaGuide menu, if you do you will
have to reload it from Workbench.
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@NODE WELCOME
                    Welcome to Compendium Deluxe #2.
Thank you for purchasing the second in a series of CD's, brought to you
by 17 Bit - The Worlds biggest PD library, and LSD - An internationally
renowned Amiga group.  On these CD's we intend to bring you as many
Amiga Public Domain files as possible - many of which will not have
appeared in Amiga Public Domain Libraries before, and the majority of
them will not have appeared on an Amiga PD CD collection before -
collected from LSD's sources and archives around the globe.
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@NODE IMPORTANT
Please note that when purchasing this CD, you paid for the compiling,
duplication, advertising, packaging, administration and distribution
etc.  of this disk.  You have NOT paid for the contents.  Public Domain
software is free, we have not charged you even a penny for all the
contents.
If you use this disk you are bound by the following terms;
1) The compiler and distributers of this disk take no responsibility
    whatsoever for damage to hardware, software or media through use or
    misuse of any of the contents of this CD.  You de-archive and/or use
    files at your own risk.
   This CD has been checked for all known viruses, trojans and variants
    with the latest versions of the best virus-checkers available and has
    been found completely free of infection.
   The checkers we used are;
   - Virus Workshop 4.6 for the disks before we archived them (stored on
      here as .dms files).
   - Virus Extruder 1.3 for the .lha and executables (.exe) files on
      this CD.
   - Virus Checker 6.47 left in the background during compilation.
   - Both VE and VC used Bootblock.brainfile 1.06 and Bootblock.library
      3.1.
2) We also make no guarantee whatsoever that files on this CD will do
    what they claim, or what they are intended to do.  Again, we have
    tested practically everything on this CD (which took a while!), but
    there is always a possibility of a rogue file when dealing with this
    amount of data.
Please note that some programs included may not work on all Amiga's,
some will require specific Kickstarts, Memory types (such as Fastmem),
Graphic modes (such as AGA) and/or extra hardware.
We have made our best effort to ensure that all data included on this CD
is freely distributable (Public Domain) and that it comprises to any
limitations laid down by the copyright holders.
Some files are distributed as shareware, you should comply with any
conditions set out in the individual programs wherever necessary.  Under
certain conditions a shareware payment should be sent to the authors.
Please register shareware programs if you use them often.
If you are easily offended, then it is not necessarily a good idea to
look at the demos or diskmags, although we do believe most files are
free of what may be considered by some as "obscene language", certain
"four letter words" may be present.  It would be practically impossible,
to find and remove these, and as the author(s) have put them there in
the first place, it would be (generally) against their wishes to do
such.
Any political, religious or social views stressed by files on this CD
are not necessarily the opinions of the compiler of distributers.
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@NODE FILES
Wherever possible, every file on this disk is in "Amiga Format", this
means the files are in a format that is considered standard to the
Amiga.  There are no .gif files, no .jpeg (that take around 2-3 minutes
to display, and need a lot of memory), all pictures are in IFF format
wherever possible, allowing the user to load them into packages such as
Deluxe Paint or Brilliance and examine them, or use their favourite
display package to show them.  All animations are again in IFF format
(version 5), allowing loading into art packages already mentioned.  All
archives are in .dms or .lha format, there's no .zip, .arj or other
formats widely used on other computers.  All music is in protracker mod.
format, allowing you to load the music into a Protracker clone, or
(Octa)med and examine how the musician has created the tune.
The only format that can be considered alien to the Amiga, are the
Screamtracker 3 (.S3M) modules.  These are music modules created on the
PC, however, the player gives you more channels than the Amiga normally
allows, and are of higher quality playblack.
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@NODE AGAUSERS
In the descriptions for some files you will notice a message stating
"AGA users must degrade their system".  This can be done in various
ways.  If you are using our menu, select the "Degrade system" button at
the top of the current file list (this turns AGA off), alternatively you
can use one of the many degraders available.  You can also use the
"Early startup Control".  This is accessed on the A1200 and A4000 by
holding both mousebuttons on reboot, and whan the menu appears, turn off
the CPU cache and set the chipset to normal.
All programs have been tested on an AGA machine, we used an A1200 with 4
meg of true fastmem.  This does not guarentee that they will work on an
A4000 if they worked on our A1200 (although theoretically it should, if
not try degrading it).  If you are a demo fan, you realy will need some
fastmem, (or try using a fakefast tool).
If there is no remark regarding compatability problems, it should work
on your machine.  As said earlier, some demos do need Fastmem, some do
not work with Fastmem, you are able to turn the fastmem on and off using
the menu though, if you have any.
@ENDNODE
@NODE NOTES
There are a few abbreviations used in the file descriptions, the main
 two are;
 - RMB, which means Right Mouse Button, and
 - LMB, which means Left Mouse Button.
Unless otherwise stated, an executable in the demo directories in the
Ready to run section will (generally) work with Fastmem, and can
(generally) be exited with the Left Mouse Button.
@ENDNODE
@NODE REPETITION
Who wants to purchase a newly released CD, and find it half full of
files that are on other Amiga CD's in your collection?  The policy for
the Compendium Deluxe series is value for money, we do not see the need
to have the same piece of software in your CD collection more than once,
so while compiling this CD, we have tried not to repeat files that are
on other Amiga PDCD collections, we have taken many, many hours of our
time to cross reference this CD with the following CD's;
- 17 Bit Collection, 17 Bit Continuation, 17 Bit Phase 4, CDPD1 through
4, Demo Collection 1 and 2, Euroscene 1, Aminet 1 through 4, Hottest 4,
Emerald Mines, Utilities Professional, Fresh Fish 1 through 6, Frozen
Fish 04-94, Gold Fish 04-94, Clip art PCX, Clip art GIF, Assassins Games
and the following Weird Science disks; Fonts, Clipart, Network,
Multi-Media toolkit and Sounds Terrific.
We will add to this list as more CD's are released.  Of course some
minor duplication will still appear, when dealing with this amount of
files it's bound to, (but we have tried).
The only problem area was the protracker modules, we have renamed all
the modules to the authors ORIGINAL FILENAME, also removing and problem
ascii characters such as "*", "#", etc.  We then truncated the filename
to eight characters, followed by ".mod".  This has ensured compatability
with all Amiga players, plus PC users who wish to use this CD (after
feedback from our first CD).  If we find a mod that we know is on
another Amiga CD, we do not include it.
This CD contains approximately 660 meg of files.
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@NODE SYSOPS
BBS owners (Sysops) will find this CD especially useful, as it is fully
"BBS Ready" (see your BBS documentation for further info), with
files.bbs and file_id.diz support (Where Appropriate).
There is a problem with CNet and the module descriptions, CNet reformats
the Files.BBS and the descriptions looked messed up, look out for FPDiz
by PMK which is due out very shortly, this was used extensively
throughout the compilation and uses the .MOD and .S3M datatype by
mUb/LSD - If you cant wait that long mail me at any of the above
addresses and ill see what we can work out.
@ENDNODE
@NODE YOURVIEWS
We would love to improve and cater for the needs of our users, so we
need to receive feedback from you - what would you like to see on our
future CD's?  What didn't you like about this CD?  What did you like
about this CD?  How could we have improved it?  Do you think CD's
produced by other companies better and if so in what way?
The compilers of this CD can be reached via Internet at [e-mail],
Fidonet Chris Brundell@2:2502/12.0, C-LINK!  mUb@912:1000/0.0 or you can
send us mail at the LSD contact address (I don't live here so no
personal callers please!);
                                 LSD CD
                           39 Riseholme Road
                              Gainsborough
                                 Lincs
                                DN21 1SG
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@NODE CONTRIBUTIONS
We are interested in receiving your files for future CD's, whether you
have written a program, drawn or traced a picture (objects and pictures
appreciated), written a music module, typed a useful text file, Made a
Demo in Demo Maniac or Video Tracker etc.  (data and executable
appreciated), have some useful source-code (in Assembler, Amos, Blitz
Basic etc.), or anything else that may be of interest to others, please
mail them to the above address.  Company Product demos are also very
welcome.  The only rule is the file(s) sent must be freely
distributable, but you may still retain copyright if you so wish.  All
disks will be returned, probably containing something similar to what
you sent us, which we hope will be of interest to you.
@ENDNODE
@NODE CREDITSFORTHISCD
Compilation:                    K. Elwick
Amigaguide menu creation:       Chris Brundell aka mUb/LSD
Cover art:                      Interactive Images, Enterprise House,
                                Unit 3, Cathles Road, London SW12 9LD
Mastering:                      David of Weird Science.
                                Tel. [phone]  Fax. [phone]
Thanks go to:                   Pazza and Mub of LSD for file support.
                                Telebug of the Assassins for written
                                 permission to include his highly
                                 respected game and Utility
                                 compilations.
                                Marcus of 17 Bit for CD support.
                                Toybox (David) for file support.
                                Rattesnake (Don) for file support, text
                                 archives and spell checking.
                                PMK for the file_id.diz program and
                                 programming help.
                                All sysops who supplied us with files.
                                All the LSD members for their support,
                                 especially Rad!  (sorry to hear your
                                 news ;()
                                Ken D/LSD for being Scottish.
                                Ken Hood at Phantasy Island BBS for the
                                 good feedback/ideas.
                                Urban Muller for advice and a good
                                 attitude!
                                Visage Computing for Support.

                                The Art and 2-Cool for advertising
                                 LSDCD1, all the scene knew about the
                                 CD, we couldn`t buy advertising like
                                 that!  Thanx!
                                The 17 Bit guys for being Modest!

                                To Caroline, Mary and Sarah-Louise for
                                 being there.
                                And to Commodore(?) for the best home
                                 and business Computer.
@ENDNODE
@NODE COPYRIGHT
This compilation is copyright to K.Elwick in 1995, all rights reserved.
No claims to the ownership of trademarks or copyright of the individual
contents are made.  Every effort has been made to ensure the contents of
this CD do not infringe any copyright or distribution agreement.  All
files on this CD remain copyright to their individual creators.
The menu used for this CD was created by Chris Brundell using Commodores
versatile "AmigaGuide"
@ENDNODE
@NODE TECHNICAL
Sorry, but we cannot help with technical enquiries involving individual
public domain files, these should be taken up with the relevant authors.
Other technical enquiries about this, or our future CD's are welcome,
write to the address in the @{"Your Views" LINK YOURVIEWS} section.
                   Please enclose a SAE for a reply.
@ENDNODE
@NODE SEARCH
Clicking on any of the search buttons will produce a requester, type the
word you wish to search for, and press return, searching may take a
while, because of CD access speed, and the size of the search area.  A
new Amigaguide will then be displayed, showing all the files on the CD
with the requested words in either the filename or description.  If you
wish to save this file for further use it is situated in T:  and called
"Search.guide", if you choose to keep it, you MUST copy it BEFORE you
close the search guide.  You can now preform actions with the listed
files in your search guide menu as required.  When you have finished
with this listing, click on the close gadget at the top left corner,
this will return you to the main menu.  You can also search the current
area by pressing Right Amiga and F or by using the pull down menu
equivalent.  This is a *MUCH* faster method.
          @{"  Search Main Guide  " SYSTEM "LSDCD2:Search"}   @{"  Search Modules Guide  " SYSTEM "LSDCD2:SearchMod"}
@ENDNODE