amideck 1.1

Short:        Amiga Audio/Video Multiplayer
Author:       TAO  chantao@hotmail.com
Uploader:     chantao hotmail com
Type:         mus/play
Version:      1.1
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

Requires an accelerated AGA Amiga with minimum 1.5m chip ram and 4m fast ram. It runs better
with maximum chip ram and more fast ram. You will also need MUI3.8 if you want the CD interface  
to work. 

 
What is new
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My apology to all if the programme did not work on your system.  In the last version a font name was 
left in the main script causing workbench to lock up if the font is not in your font directory.  The problem 
was caused by a fault of Scala because it did not automatically delete a text string after a page was 
deleted. Obviously, I did not detect the problem because the font was installed on my system and the 
programme has been running happily with or without the font. 

Thank you all for informing me with the problem.

 

Introduction  
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Although Amiga is the first true Multimedia Personal Computer the OS GUI is getting a bit ancient,  
very naff and unprofessional for today's standard. With the new OSes on their way I thought it  
would be nice to produce an idea of a good looking multiplayer. Hopefully, it will inspire  
talented programmers to work towards the concept. In order to put the total idea across I made up  
this working prototype.  Most of the system is kind of working ;). You can even play audio CD with  
it. Thanks to Stéphane Barbaray for his superb OptyCDPlay and its Arrexx port acting as a  
background engine. 



About the Author 
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Qualification: BA(Hons) Industrial Design(Engineering) 
 
Work Experience: 2D/3D design & PC Multimedia authoring using Amiga for most of the  
graphical/Video development. 
 
 
You can contact me via Email:chantao@hotmail.com  

                     
 
Recent Involvement with the Amiga Community 
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1. Designed/contributed art work for Black Blade's TSotTM (version 1 & 2) 
 
2. Designed/contributed art work for Geosync Media's Star Fighter. 
 
3. Author of Amiwin95.LHA (An Amiga Workbench conversion kit for Win95 environment) can be  
   downloaded from Aminet under misc/emu. 
 
 
 
Future 
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I don't see any point to make another version of Amideck because it is only a dummy programme,  
therefore, the future development of Amideck is entirely in your own capable hands when the  
OS5Dev Machine is out.  However, if I conceive another idea in the future, I will certainly  
construct another prototype and upload it to Aminet. 
 
 
 
COPYRIGHT 
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All mentioned trademarks & archives are subject to their owners including myself of course. 
 
 
 
NO WARRANTY 
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The author can not be held responsible for any damage caused by the use or misuse of this  
documentation and/or the programme. 
 
 
 
DISTRIBUTION 
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This software package is for free (re)distribution. You are not allowed to change it in any form,  
except for compression purposes.