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This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
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| File size: | 2175 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
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File contents
!Help file for
!DiscBox by Ewen Setti.
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PLEASE NOTE: !DiscBox supports Acorn's interactive !Help Application.
!DiscBox is an easy to use disc management database. Allowing the user to
keep track of what applications, programs and files are on each of their
discs, and how much free space is available on those discs. Comments on each file can also be added. Information on the format and type of each disc is
stored.
To load !DiscBox, move the pointer over the !DiscBox icon in the directory
viewer, and double-click SELECT. The !DiscBox icon will appear on the right
hand side of the icon bar.
Clicking the MENU button over this icon will open the icon bar menu, which
contains the following:
Info..........Information on !DiscBox application.
Quit..........Quit !DiscBox application. If a modified DiscBox
file has not yet been saved, !DiscBox will ask you
if you really want to quit, and loose that file.
Clicking the SELECT button over the !DiscBox icon on the icon bar, will
open up the !DiscBox main windows, ready to start a new DiscBox file.
* Making and editing DiscBox files------------------------------------------
When the main !DiscBox window is first opened, it will be empty. One other
window will also open up: The FILE INFO window.
This window is a pane, and move around when you drag the main window by
the title bar.
To start a new DiscBox file, insert the disc with the programs that you
want store in DiscBox as records, and show the directory viewer in the
normal way by clicking on the required filer icon on the icon bar. Then
simply drag each file, or application icon to the 'Add Record' icon in
FILE INFO window, and its name will be shown on the left side of the
!DiscBox window.
If you wish to record files in a directory, you must open the directory by first double-clicking SELECT on it, and then dragging the files to the 'Add Record' icon as described above.
NOTE: !DiscBox will read from Hard Disc, and floppy filers, and has been
tested with !MultiFS, for use with PC formatted discs.
To add a comment to a record, click on the record name in the main window.
This will open up the COMMENT window, and display the records current
comment, e.g. 'NO COMMENT!'. Move the pointer to the text line in the
COMMENT window where you want to insert text. And then type in the comment
text. Note that by using the <RETURN> key, and the UP & DOWN CURSOR KEYS,
you can move up and down the text lines. The LEFT & RIGHT CURSOR KEYS move
you along the text lines as would be expected.
Once you have typed in your comment, or edited it, then click SELECT on
CHANGE COMMENT icon to store the comment for that record in the computers
memory. Alternatively, BEFORE clicking SELECT, if you wish to retreve the
old comment, click ADJUST on the CHANGE COMMENT icon.
Comments on records are shown in the COMMENT window when that record is
clicked on with SELECT.
* The DISC INFO window------------------------------------------------------
Clicking SELECT on the 'DISC Info' icon in the FILE INFO window displays
the DISC INFO window (And vice-versa for the 'FILE Info' icon in the DISC
INFO window, which returns you to the FILE INFO window!?).
The DISC INFO window is concerned with data about the disc on which all the
records are held as files and applications.
The disc in question could be an 800K ADFS floppy, 3.5 inch; or 640K or
another size. The disc could also be 5.25 inch, or a hard disc, or a MS-DOS
disc, or just a particular Directory of a hard disc.
NOTE: Where 0 is displayed as the disc size, this prompts you to enter the
size according to the units displayed next to the size icon.
NOTE: When a change to the disc size, name or reference number is made, the
user must then click select on the CHANGE icon ('*' icon next to the
'FILE Info' icon) to store the change; or click ADJUST to undo the
change.
The units used for the size of the disc depend on the type of disc used,
e.g. Floppy disc sizes are normally quoted in Kb, Hard discs in Mb.
To change the type of the disc, click SELECT on either of the up or down
arrow icons to cycle through the different types of disc. The size
and free space icons will change accordingly.
* The !DiscBox Menu---------------------------------------------------------
Clicking the MENU button of the mouse over the main !DiscBox windows brings
up the main menu:
Info..........Information on the !DiscBox application.
This File.....Information on the current DiscBox file being edited.
Wipe Record...Delete the currently highlighted record.
Clear.........Clear the current file being edited from memory.
If the current file has not yet been saved, then
!DiscBox will ask you if you really want to clear
it from memory.
Save..........Save the current DiscBox file.
Save as Text..Make a Text version of the current DiscBox file.
Print Report..Send the DiscBox file to the printer.
* Loading files-------------------------------------------------------------
To load DiscBox files, drag the file icon onto the !DiscBox icon on the
icon bar.
Or alternatively - so long as the !DiscBox application has been "seen" by
the Filer (i.e. its !Boot file has been loaded) - just double-click SELECT
on the DiscBox file in the Directory viewer and !DiscBox will be loaded
along with the file that was clicked on.
* Printing Reports, and Making Text Files----------------------------------
NOTE: Before a printout of a DiscBox file can be obtained, a suitable
PRINTER DRIVER for your Printer must be loaded in, e.g. !PrinterDM
which can be found on RISC OS Applications 1 Disc.
The Print Report and Save as Text windows are very similar. The four
'option' icons to the right allow you to specify what will be included in
the printout, or the text file.
Also, if you wish to just obtain a printout or text file of just on record
then click SELECT on that record's name in the main !DiscBox window then
click the MENU button over the main window, and move to either the 'Save as
Text' or 'Print Report' menu options. In the window which is brought up,
click on the Save/Print current selected record icon, then save the file in
the usual way, or click on the PRINT icon.
* Best use of !DiscBox------------------------------------------------------
I would recommend that to get the best from !DiscBox, you copy it to a blank
formatted disc, or to the root directory of your hard disc.
Use the DBFiles Directory within the !DiscBox application directory to store
all the DiscBox files for all your discs. Create sub-directories if you wish
to put discs under categories like Utils, Demos etc. I would then recommend
that name each DiscBox file after the discs name, (this is the default file-
name that is given in the SAVE window) or what is written on the discs
label. So, keep !DiscBox and all your DiscBox files in the same place.
You can now find out which disc an application or program is on, without
having to catalogue discs and dismount them... and so on...
* Application files---------------------------------------------------------
!Boot.........The !Boot file!
!Help.........This file.
!Run..........The !Run file!
!RunImage.....The main !DiscBox program.
!Sprites
& Sprites.......Application sprite files.
DBFiles.......Directory to put DiscBox files in.
Templates
and Interface.....Version 1.3 by Simon Huntington.
!DiscBox uses filetype &0AC, which may clash with some of your own
applications, as it is in the section of filetypes for a users personal
use.
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Version 1.23 Notes:
I discovered that version 1.22 may have not agreed with RISC OS 3 in some
areas, so I have tried to correct the errors I noticed in V1.23.
Known errors:
!DiscBox crashes if a DiscBox file contains too many records - with me, it
failed at around 60 or so. Unable to find the cause of this 'Address
Exception' error, I have placed a 'stopper' in the program which limits
the amount of records to 60, giving you the chance to save your DiscBox
file.
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