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. * * * -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * 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) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- * 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 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-