Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    
    There is absolutely a way to do exactly what you want.  C-Show will
    display an IFF graphic during startup and will hold it there as a
    background task until C-Show is called again.  For example...
    
    c:SetPatch
    System/FastMemFirst
    c:C-Show FILENAME   ; picture loads and displays
    C:OtherStuffThatHappensDuringYourStartup-Sequence
    c:C-Show		; picture disappears
    c:MoreStuff
    ...
    ...
    C:EndCLI
    
    I'll upload the file this weekend.
    
    Ed.
    
    

    I believe "V" has a timer option.  Unfortunately, I don't think I can
    upload it because it's copyrighted.  Came on a recent Amiga Resource
    disk (I think).

    
    C-ShowII.lzh has been uploaded to TAPE""::USER2:[UPLOAD]
    
    Ed.

    The original Show/View programm by Carolyn Scheppner of CBM has
    a timer option and reacts on CTRL-C/Break signals.
    
    Regards,
    
    <CB>
    

    Re: .3
    
    Thanks, I'll check it out tonight.
    
    
    Re: .4
    
    Must be different than the one I have - where can I get that one?
    
    
    {kgb}

    C-showII works great! Now my system displays a nice hir-res photo of a
    space shuttle astronaut (which I modified to include a "Welcome to the
    Amiga" text) during bootup! I should have known that someone had
    already thought of this. Thanks Ed!

    
    
    Would this space shuttle astronaut happen to appear on the net
    somewhere ?  I have seen one being used a lot to demo VGA graphics
    and I'd like to show off to my unforunate IBM friends.
    
    You could also make use of ARP's ask command to decide to show the
    picture (show off mode) or skip it (work mode).  You can set a timeout
    value if you turn on your system and walk away (work mode but let's
    see if I can avoid it mode).  Even better is is the Public Domain
    program CustReq which puts up a little requester with your title,
    question, and choice of selections (SHOWOFF or WORK modes).  I use it
    to do a full or minimum boot (WORK or GAME modes).  It also has
    a timeout value.  Its on FF242.

>    Would this space shuttle astronaut happen to appear on the net
>    somewhere ?  I have seen one being used a lot to demo VGA graphics
>    and I'd like to show off to my unfortunate IBM friends.

	I'll upload it tonight unless someone beats me to it or states it's
	already here. I believe I got this picture (and 1 or 2 more good
        ones) from an early FF "Ham pics" disk.
    
>    You could also make use of ARP's ask command to decide to show the
>    picture (show off mode) or skip it (work mode).  You can set a timeout
>    value if you turn on your system and walk away (work mode but let's
>    see if I can avoid it mode).  Even better is is the Public Domain
>    program CustReq which puts up a little requester with your title,
>    question, and choice of selections (SHOWOFF or WORK modes).  I use it
>    to do a full or minimum boot (WORK or GAME modes).  It also has
>    a timeout value.  Its on FF242.

I think CustREq is great, but I'm kinda squeezing every second
I can from my startup because it already takes 2 minutes (My harddisk is
served by the XT bridgeboard, so I have no access to it until the bridgeboard
boots - about 90 seconds), so I won't use "timeouts" or "questions/requestors"
in my startup. The C-Show program only takes 2 or 3 secs, so I thought it
was worth it Besides; if you really need to see the startup run for debugging
something just press the Amiga/N or M keys -- it's still there on a background
screen. No need to give yourself a startup option.

    I've uploaded the astronaut pictures (and a bonus picture) to:
    
    		TAPE::USER2:[UPLOAD]HIRESPICS.ZOO
    
    Sorry for the delay, but I ended up performing a fatter agnus
    installation on my system during the weekend.

    
    Thanks much for the upload, the astronaut pics look great.
    
    Which viewer did you use for the BFgoodrich pic? I tried superview,
    showall, shamview and dyna but no luck.  Superview showed something
    like a half done shamview picture (i.e. something but missing lots
    of colors and dots).  I'll have to get this C-Show and give it a
    spin.
    
    Thanks again,
    
    Marty

    
    	I can't seem to get the archive to unfold, I'm using the ZOO.EXE
    	from WJG::, and probably the standard ZOO (on amiga) from ATALKIII
    	packages.
    
    			Any suggestions?
    
    					Jack
    

    Humm. I used SUPERVIEW and didn't have a problem. I'll check the
    .ZOO file out when I get a chance. At least the ones you wanted
    came through OK.

    Hummm. I was able to ZMODEM the .ZOO file down to Ami and unzoo it. All
    three pictures displayed fine with superview.
    
    
    I also found a bug/problem when using C-Show. If it is displaying a
    picture, you will get a GURU if you use BITPLANES (to set 8 color
    workbench) or SIMGEN (for background picture). The error is something
    like "attempt to free memory already free"; and I don't know if the
    bug is in C-Show or the other tasks. I find the problem easy to deal
    with -- just use C-Show to remove the picture before using one of these
    2 tasks. They tend to be the last things in the startup-sequence
    anyway.

    One problem I had with C-Show, it fails if you include a comment on the
    command line.  I put something like this in my startup sequence:
    
    	C-Show whatever.pic                  ; Display startup picture
    
    C-Show reported that it could not find the picture file named
    "whatever.pic                  ".
                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^------- Pretty stupid, huh?