7/5/96


Thanks for trying the ADash Demo Version!

I hope you find it a useful and problem free program.  You can always contact
me via email at this address:  vreeland@earthlink.net.  Or visit the ADash
Product Support Page on the World Wide Web at "http://home.earthlink.net/
~vreeland/adash.html"

The full version of ADash removes timing restrictions from both ADash and
ADashPrefs...the demo version is limited to running for only 15 minutes at
a time and will expire on October 1, 1996.  (A new demo will be available at
that time.)  You also get 52 separate blanker modules (the demo comes with 
only fifteen) and 16 images for use with the display blanker module (the 
demo comes with only 1 single image).  Purchase of ADash also entitles you 
to free upgrades as they become available either via email or by mail for 
the price of shipping and handling and new diskettes.

All this costs only $19.95USD.  (Add $2.00 shipping and handling for addresses
outside the US.)

To purchase the full release of ADash, send a check drawn on a US bank, or
a money order or international money order in US funds to:

Robert Vreeland Jr.
45 Maywood Dr.
San Francisco, CA  94127

Allow about 2 weeks for shipping and processing.


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ADash V2.0 Addenda


***Incompatibilities***

Some beta testers experienced problems when using ADash and an older version
of Thor and/or GetTCP (internet software).  If you experience intermittant 
crashes while using ADash, try adding the following tooltype, 'COMPATREPORT',
to the ADash icon you use to start the program using the Workbench 
'Icons/Information...' menu option.  This makes ADash use an alternate method 
of catching newly started tasks for cpu activity reporting.  This alternate 
method may cause the reported cpu usage to be less accurate for a second or 
two when a new task is spawned but is otherwise identical.


***Display Blanker Module and Datatypes***

ADash comes with a blanker module called 'Display', which allows you to 
create a slideshow type of effect for screen blanking.  Included with the
package are several JPEG encoded images for use with this module.  If you 
have V3.0 or higher of the Workbench, several datatypes, including a JPEG 
datatype are installed in your boot drive.  Display uses these datatypes 
under 3.0 or higher to allow it to read in a variety of types of pictures 
besides the normal system supported IFF format.  However, if your Amiga is 
using V2.0 or 2.1 of the operating system, these datatypes are not supported 
and the Display module can only display IFF format pictures.  In this case, 
you will need to convert the supplied JPEGS into IFF ILBMs using any of a 
number of public domain and shareware programs available through PD 
collections or on Aminet.


***Third Party Graphics Cards and ADash***

Most of the ADash blanker modules will work just fine with graphics cards.
However, a few, due to their hardware dependant nature, may not function
properly, at all, or may crash.  Modules which most likely will not work
except with standard Amiga hardware modes (and thus don't try them with
graphics card displays) include:

EarthQuake
NoHold
OffTheAir