HomePage-Penguin v1.63 ---------------------- Written by Matthias Jaap - English doc - If you have ST-Guide installed you should read the HPPING_E Hypertext. It is more detailed than this Readme. 1. Status --------- HP-Penguin 1.65 is SHAREWARE. The work on this program is enormous and I think that a shareware fee of 20 DM is something that everybody can afford. So please support the work that has gone into this program and I promise that there'll be many more updates... After 14 days you have to register or remove this program from your harddisk. Unregistered users have some limitations: They have to wait longer and disturbing info messages appear. Sorry, but there were only a few registration although a lot of people are working with this program. Please transfer the money to: Account nr: 5866 31-209 Account holder: Christine Jaap Bank: Postbank Hamburg Bank sort code: 200 100 20 UK users should register via CyberStrider. Please write that you registered for HP-Penguin on the transfer paper. Please make sure that you have everything correct before transfering. If you are unsure, contact me before transfering. ----------------------------------------- Changes to the the text, resources or the program are forbidden! Distribution by PD libraries and BBSs is allowed. Penguin may not be included on cover disks or CD collections without my written permission. 2. Improvements --------------- Version 1.3 - 1.451: HP-Penguin runs also as an Accessory and even under MultiTOS. This has been achieved by using the GFA-Flydial-Library 4.9 by Gregor Duchalski. Version 1.45 - 1.451: Complete translation of the comments! The headings can now be set seperately few bugs fixed in the German RSC-file 1.452: Bug fixes! English RSC should now work. Image name converted to lower case letters. Image size automatically recognized (GIF only) 1.5: 'Set Layout' dialog. 'Extended' and 'Freestyle' are planned for version 1.7 . 'Professional' modus: In this modus you can change the size of the headings, use up to 10 links and set the colour for activated links. The HTML file can be put onto the clipboard. Problems with Atari fileselector fixed. 1.63: French RSC file. Colour for the headings can be defined seperately from the text. Support for Geneva 3D look. 1.65: full OLGA support (HP-Penguin is an OLGA server) Colour icons 3. System requirements: ----------------------- Computer : Atari ST/TT/Falcon Operating system: TOS 1.4 - 4.4, MultiTOS, MagiC(PC/Mac), Geneva Resolution : 640 * 200 or higher Memory : HP-Penguin will take about 120KB of memory. Application type: ACC or PRG. Pure GEM. With the HP-Penguin you can create your own HTML-page without knowing any HTML-commands. You create it by answering a few questions. You can choose a background, make a two-column-text, insert a picture and many more. Please note that HP-Penguin has NOT an integrated editor. You have to use an editor to write the text for your web page (it must not contain html commands). The reason why HP-Penguin has not an own editor is, that it would increase the program length dramatically. And there are already some great editors around. By the way, the Penguin will recognize the paragraphs correctly (okay, it's just a very stupid little routine that sets a paragraph if the length of the line is lower than a user definged length). The program explains itself so it would be the best if you start it right now! This program has been written with GFA-Basic 3.5E on an Atari Falcon. It is inspirated by a similar program for Windows (Home Page Wizard). 4. The language --------------- As said before, HP-Penguin is bi-lingual German/English. A French version will follow soon. 4.1 Falcon owners You are lucky when you have a Falcon because HP-Penguin will look at the _AKP-cookie and will load the correct RSC-file. If the desktop language is set to other values than German or English, HP-Penguin will automatically choose the English resource file. 4.2 ST/TT owners, MagicPC/mac If you are owner of an Atari ST/TT you have to choose the language differently. There are two methods: I) Rename one of the two resource files will cause HP-Penguin to load the other. Example: Rename HPPING.RSC to HPPING.RSX HP-Penguin will load HPPING_E.RSC. This will also work on a Falcon. II) Start the program without renaming one of the RSC- files. A box will appear with the question which language you want to have. 4.3 Emulator users and ST compatibles As I have no experience with Atari emulators or the new clone machines, I can not say if you need to rename the files or not. 5. Known bugs/limitations ------------------------- 1. Please close the HP-Penguin window if you are using the Penguin as an ACC under Single-TOS and are starting a program! 2. Webspace 1.45 doesn't view HP-Penguin pages correctly. This is not an error of the Penguin! Wait until a better version of this very young program or use CAB to view the pages. 6. Future enhancements ---------------------- * You can see one in the start dialogue: Load HTML file. * Perhaps I will use FaceValue for the next versions of HP-Penguin. This would allow new features. * Support for tables and the 'Extended' & 'Freestyle' option in the layout dialog. 7. I would like to thank... --------------------------- Sven Betz and Joachim Lhr of Betz Computer for their betatesting and GFA-Basic tips. Gregor Duchalski for his fantastic GFA-Library. Noah Silva and Mille Babic for putting this and the other programs on their download bays 8. Contact: ----------- If you have any new ideas or you want to translate HP-Penguin to another language, please e-mail me: E-Mail: mjaap@hsw.ifl.uni-hamburg.de 9. Other Internet utilities --------------------------- 9.1 HTML-Help Conversion of special characters between HTML, Windows, Atari and DOS (important for non-English texts). A conversion of paths is also possible. Other features: * HTML commands can be removed to get the pure ASCII text * The Information option shows you the specs of your page * Hotlist * Runs also as an Accessory and fine with editors like Edith * Filenames in a HTML file can be converted to upper/lowercase letters or shortened to the 8+3 TOS format. 9.2 Tabi! Tabi converts ASCII tables which can be produced e.g. by Atari Works via 'Import file...' to HTML 3 tables. You can set different font styls, colours etc. for every cell. The file created by this program can be insert in a HTML page and you have a table without typing a single HTML command! 10 Compatibility HP-Penguin should run on all Atari computers. It has been successfully tested by various people on the following computers: * Atari Falcon, TOS 4.04, TOS 4.92, Multi-TOS * Atari Falcon, Geneva * Atari TT * MegaSTE * 1040STF, TOS 1.4 * Hades * Macintosh, MagiC-Mac * Windows 95 PC, MagiC-PC * PC 486, PaCifiST