******************************* * CROSSWORD CREATOR II * * Release Notes * ******************************* Copyright 1991-93 Fair Dinkum Technologies All Rights Reserved ==================================================================== ATTENTION GEnie users: Fair Dinkum Technologies is on-line! We have We have our own topic area in CATegory 29, TOPic 4 of the Atari ST RoundTable Bulletin Board especially for users of Fair Dinkum software. Stop by for a visit or send GEmail to FAIR-DINKUM. ==================================================================== Release 1.70 ------------ This version of Crossword Creator II features several enhancements over earlier versions. As these are new features, they may not be referenced in your manual so please make note of them below: 1. FALCON030 COMPATIBILIITY. CWCII is now compatible with the Falcon030 computer is ST screen resolutions without MultiTOS. TT compatible too. 2. NEW PRINTER DRIVERS. Additional printer drivers have been incorporated in the program, including new FINAL quality drivers for Hewlett Packard and Epson FX printers and DRAFT quality drivers for many others. The SELECT PRINTER button of the print sub-menu screen now allows you to choose your printer type from the following list: EPSON FX Epson FX & compatible 9-pin dot matrix printers. HP DJ Hewlett Packard DeskJet printers. HP LJ Hewlett Packard LaserJet printers. ATARI SLM Atari SLM series of laser printers. EPSON LQ Epson LQ & compatible 24-pin dot matrix printers. IBM PRO IBM Proprinter 24-pin printers. IBM AGM IBM Proprinter 24-pin printers w/Adv Graphics Mode. NEC P6 NEC P6 24-pin and compatible printers. OTHER Bypass built-in drivers and use the system driver. If a printer name is displayed in light text, this indicates this particular printer is not currently available for use with color monitors. All the DRAFT drivers are available in mono mode, however. FINAL quality printing is enabled ONLY when EPSON FX, HP DJ or HP LJ is selected as your printer choice. All other selections will provide DRAFT (similar to screendump quality) printouts. For owners of Atari SLM laser printers desiring very high quality printouts, we recommend the use of Atari's LaserBrain emulation software. LaserBrain, specialized fonts and a guide for using LaserBrain with CWII are available for download from GEnie. Alternatively, you may purchase a printed copy of the guide with disk for $US5.00 to cover shipping and handling from Fair Dinkum Technologies. If you wish to use Atari's standard sreendump printer driver or a third party printer driver (such as Chet Walter's excellent shareware program for HP printers, TTPRSAVE), simply select OTHER as your printer choice. 3. INCREASED WORD LIMIT. Puzzles and word lists may now contain a maximum of 250 words (memory permitting). Computers with only 512K memory will be limited to a maximum of 50 words. Be aware, however, that very large word lists will increase puzzle creation times significantly. Although puzzle and word list sizes of up to 250 words are supported, most puzzles will typically contain 50 words or less using the automatic word fit feature. 4. IMPROVED WORD FIT ALGORITHM. The algorithm used by CWCII for fitting unused words has been improved for even greater accuracy and speed. 5. NEW DELETE OPTION. You now have the option to delete ALL unused words with a single mouseclick under the DELETE WORD option. If any unused words exist, you may delete them all by selecting the ** DELETE ALL ** text which appears at the top of the Unused Words window at the left of your screen. 6. ASCII PUZZLE/SOLUTION SAVE. When you save clues as an ASCII text file (from the PRINT CLUES option), a simplistic ASCII representation of the puzzle will now be automatically added to the top of the CLUES.TXT file. 7. MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE WORD FIT PERCENTAGE OPTION. When creating puzzles with the automatic word list feature, you now have the option of entering the minimum word fit percentage which you are willing to accept. For example, if you enter 80% as a minimum, CWCII will repeatedly create new puzzle structures until an 80% or better fit is obtained. You can also interrupt it by pressing the UNDO key which will cause CWCII to display the best fitting puzzle it had obtained thus far. 8. ADD WORDS TO EXISTING PUZZLES VIA WORD LIST OPTION. You may now use the word list option to add additional words to a puzzle with one or more existing words. Previously, selecting the word list option meant you had to start over with a blank puzzle grid. 9. INTERNATIONAL MODE. The "I" hot key toggles between "Standard" mode (the default) and "International" mode. Standard mode supports letters and numerals only and automatically converts all text into upper case. The International mode supports all keyboard characters and does not convert lower case text into upper case. Note that the International mode is case sensitive; i.e., "cat" is different that "CAT" and that lower case letters will not interlock with a puzzle square which holds an upper case letter. The HELP screen shows which mode you are currently using should you ever become confused. It is suggested that younger users and all users creating English language puzzles leave CWCII in Standard mode (International off). 10. AUTO-FIT UNUSED WORDS KEY. The Tab key is now used to toggle the Auto-Fit Unused Words option on or off instead of the Caps Lock key as referenced in your manual. The Auto-Fit Unused Words option has also been improved for greater accuracy and speed. 11. LINE FEED. The PRINT ALL option in the PRINT PUZZLE submenu has been replaced with the LINE FEED option. This forces your printer to advance the paper by a single line (note: inkjets and laser printers do not feed paper until an actual print command has been received). ======================================================================= NEW FRENCH LANGUAGE VERSION A new FRENCH language version of CWCII (including translated program and printed documentation) is now available. Retail riced at US$39.95, all registered users of the English version of CWCII may purchase the French version for only US$20.00. A GERMAN language version is on the way too! SUPPORT WHEN YOU NEED IT! This is not a new feature, but it is worth repeating... if you have ANY unresolved problems with the use of this software, we want to hear about it. Kindly give us the opportunity to resolve your problems and we'll do our very best to make you happy. That's what we call our FAIR DINKUM PROMISE. It's just one more reason that when you buy software from us, you can have faith in our slogan: ============================================ "No worries, mate... it's from Fair Dinkum!" ============================================ Thank you. We hope you enjoy your Fair Dinkum software. Fair Dinkum Technologies, P.O. Box 2, Los Alamos, NM 87544 USA (505)662-7236 voice order line; (505)662-3787 fax ============================================================================= Product names mentioned are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers. Crossword Creator, Word Search Creator, InfoDisk, The Cryptographer, and the Fair Dinkum logo and slogan are trademarks of Fair Dinkum Technologies. Cyberdrome is a registered trademark of Rhea-FX. ============================================================================= 293