ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜ ÜÜ°ÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÛÜÛÛ  ÛÛÜÛÛÛÛÛÜÛ ܱÛÛÛÛÜ ÛÜÛÛÛ  ÜÛÜÛÛÜÛßÛÛÛÜÛÛÜ Û fORCE ÛÛß²   Ûß²ÛÛ  ² ßÛ ²Û Û  ÛÛ²Û²ßÛÛ  ß²ßÛÛÛ ÛÛÛÛßÛ ÛßÛCoded by View 1.7þÛÛÛÛÛÜÜÜÜÛÛÛÛÛþ ß±ÛÛßÛÛÛß ÛÛÛÛÛßÛÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜÛÛ  Red Haze ßß²ß ßß ÝÛÛÛÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÞßßÛÛÛÛßß ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÞþÛÛÛÛ Þß ß²ßß    ÜÛܱÛ ÜÛÜÛܱܲ ÜÛ ßÜÜÜÜÜ ßÛ Û²ÜÜ Ü²ÛܱÛ ÜÛÛÜÛÛ±ÜÛ Ü ÛÛßÛÛÛßanßÛÛÛÛ ÜÛÛÛÛßÜ Û±ÜÛ ßÛÛÛÛÜÜÛÛÛÛßßÛ ÛÛÛÛÛßÛÛÛÛÛÛßÛÛ ÜܲÜþÛÛÛÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÛÛÛÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÛÛÜßßßßÜ ÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÛÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÜ ÛÛ ß  ÛÛßÛÜÜÛßÛÛßÛܲÜÛÛ  ÛÛßÛÛßÛßßÛßÜÜÜÜÜÛÜÜÜÛÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÛÛ ±Ü ÜÜÛÛÛßÛ ÜÛÜÜ ÛÜ ÜÛÜÜßßÛßßßßßßÛßß ÛßÛÛ²ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÜÜ ÜÜÜÜÛÜ ÛÜÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛßÛßßßÛßÛÛßß  ßßÜÛÛÜÛÜÜ ßÛßÛ²ÛÛÜÛÜÜÜÜÜ Ü  ß ßÛß   ßßßßß ß   fORCE ANSi ViEWER  v1.7   This is the doc for fORCE ViEW v1.7, written by Red Haze/fORC E (Darren Hazelton) in November 1995, in South Australia. This viewer i s written for the ansi group Force, so you can view their kewlo ansi art. Y ou can't look at any other groups' art unless you register.    System Requirements:  `~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'   Any 386 compatible computer with a standard VGA graphics card . A sound card is nice, but optional. A monitor helps. A keyboard might also  come in handy. (It needs to be an extended keyboard.)   Note: You can't run it under Windows 3.x or 95, because it cr ashes. (Thanks to Midas.) :( I haven't tried it under any other multit askers yet.   The [boring, long-winded] Instructions:  `~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'   When you run FV, you can run it in one of two front ends, or have it completely command-line driven. The first time you run it, th e Midas configuration screen will appear, where you tell it about you r sound card if you have one, otherwise select 'no sound card'. The file M IDAS.CFG will be created in the same directory where you put FV.EXE. Make s ure you are realistic about the sampling rate you tell it to use, especia lly on a 386 with an SB16 - don't expect 44.1kHz 16bit stereo to work well . (It may, but I doubt it.) :)   If you want to run FV with the ability to play music disabled , put "/N" as the first parameter. (NB: this will not allow you to run FV u nder Windows)  e.g. FV /N   If you want to run FV by command line, just type in the file specifications after FV (and any switches used). Filenames without extension s are assumed to be .*   e.g. FV c:\ansi\* d:\force\somecool.ans   FV will go through *.* in the c:\ansi directory, playing any S3Ms, MODs or MTMs which are in there, and showing you any other files as a nsi text. Then it will show you that cool ansi in your d:\force directory. A fter that, FV will quit to DOS (or whatever other OS you happen to run it u nder.) If you want to view a S3M, MOD or MTM as text rather than hearing it  as music (pretty stupid if you ask me) just use "/n" as the first para meter.  e.g. FV /n c:\ansi\* d:\force\somecool.ans   While viewing all these files, press [ENTER] or [SPACE] to go  to the next picture. [ESC] will quit FV immediately.   Songs will load and immediately go on to the next file. This allows you to do things like:   FV d:\happy.mod d:\happy.ans e:\sad.s3m e:\sad.ans   This will have the effect that you will be able to look at th e happy picture with happy background music, and the sad picture will  have some other suitably sad music. I dunno if anyone will use this fea ture, but its there if you want it.   The other side of the coin is that if you have two songs in a  row, the first one will load, but immediately get stopped to play the next one. However, if a song is the last in the queue FV will play the song FV until you press a key, then it will return to DOS.   NB: You still have control over the volume/pausing/stopping o f songs if you run FV with the command line. See the key listing below f or info.  If you don't specify any files on the command line, FV will g o into one of two "front end" modes, where you can navigate around the dire ctory you ran it from. The default front end has new graphics, and also dis plays file SAUCE descriptions. The parts of SAUCE which are shown are th e Title followed by the Author. The old front end (as in FV versions before 1.5) doesn't try to load SAUCE's - this makes file list loading a lot quicker if there are lots of files in the directory, or if it is a slow drive (e.g. CDROM). It also displays files in 5 columns, and has the old title screen. You can use the old front end by using the switch "/F". This must come AFTER "/N" if you want to specify both.   e.g. FV /F   Note: "/F" is useless if you are using command line file spec ifications.  Functionally the only difference between them is that [LEFT]/ [RIGHT] arrows in the old front end move between columns, but in the new one  [RIGHT] is the equivalent of [ENTER], and [LEFT] is the same as [ESC] wh en you're viewing a file. I did this so you can do everything with the cursor keypad.  Woohoo. :)    Keys:  `~~~'   [ENTER] in a front end will load a file, play a song, change the current directory or change drives, depending on what the cur sor is on. In viewing mode, it will return to the front end if you are using one. If you are using command line file specifications it will load the next file in the list.   [SPACE] is the same as [ENTER].   [ESC] returns to the front end if you are using one and are v iewing a file. Any other time it will quit FV, which is quite a useles s feature. :)  [F1] in a front end displays help, including a list of all th e keys. [F1] or [ESC] returns to the front end.   [F2] toggles the ANSi viewing screen mode between 25 and 50 l ines. The current setting is displayed on the status bar in the fr ont ends.  [F3] in a front end allows you to select a new file extension  filter (e.g. *.ANS). Press [ENTER] to accept what you have type d in, or if you want to cancel it press [F3] or [ESC]. Wildcards may  be used. If this is set to *.*, *.?*, *.??* or *.??? there will b e automatic filtering, allowing only files with extensions ANS, ASC,  DOC, TXT, MOD,  S3M, MTM, NFO, DIZ, RIP, and FRC.   [F4] in a front end displays info and greets. [F4] or [ESC] r eturns to the front end.   [F5] at any time will pause or un-pause the song being played .  [F6] at any time will stop the song being played, and dealloc ate the memory the song was taking up. (Normally EMS)   [F7]/[F8] at any time will adjust the playback volume up/down . This volume level doesn't get reset when you load a new song. Y ou can check the volume level by looking at the status bar in th e front ends.  [HOME]/[END] jump to the top/bottom of the file list in a fro nt end, or to the top/bottom of the file you are viewing.   [PGUP]/[PGDN] move the cursor up/down the file list one page at a time in a front end, or scroll quickly up/down if you are  viewing a file.   [UP]/[DOWN] move the cursor up/down the file list one file at  a time in a front end, or scroll up/down if you are viewing a  file.  [LEFT]/[RIGHT] in the old front end move the cursor between c olumns. In the new front end: [RIGHT] is the same as [ENTER] in the front end, and [LEFT] is the same as [ESC] from the file viewing screen.    Error messages always get displayed so you can try to fix and  problems you have with FV. Most potential problems are with Midas. If you have EMS, but none of it is free, you won't be able to play any songs, beca use Midas doesn't bother trying to load them into conventional memory i f EMS is detected. :( I could change that I guess, but it'd be too muc h hassle...  When FV is loading a file to view, it will show the percentag e loaded so far. You can press [ESC] to stop loading and view the amount currently in memory.    Greetz:  `~~~~~'   Anyway, I've already written too much for anyone to be bother ed reading, so here come the greetz:   Personal shouts go to...   SpoonMan/FTS Nice haircut. You almost look Finni sh now... ;)  Da Schemer/FTS(?) Are you SURE you didn't overclock y our FPU?!  Anubis/fORCE Stop hassling me about VGA code!! : P  Pulse/PoP Impulse Tracker rules! Pity you're in PoP... ;)  Griffin/FTS Get ya board running - we need a HQ . Perhaps I'll get that demo working one day too.. .  Pheon/FTS Get that .XM player working.. and t he diskmag.. and that 3D engine.. and don't forg et to study ;)  NetSlider/FTS(?) Are you still in FTS? :)   Petteri Kangaslampi Thanks for writing Midas! Try to su pport XM's. and Jarno Paananen    Group greetings go to all fORCE, FTS, and PoP members.    Disclaimer:  `~~~~~~~~~'   This program is guaranteed only to take up space on your comp uter. Any extra functionality should be considered an extra bonus.    Legal Stuff:  `~~~~~~~~~~'   This program cannot be altered in any way without the written  permission of Darren Hazelton. No fees may be charged for fORCE ViEW exc ept the nominal cost of distribution, unless other written arrangemen ts have been made with me. You may copy fORCE ViEW as many times as you wa nt, and distribute it as much as you want. By using fORCE ViEW you ar e agreeing to these terms and conditions.    Comments:  `~~~~~~~'   If you find any bugs, or have any comments or suggestions, se nd them to:  redhaze@student.adelaide.edu.au or Red Haze in BloodNET .   History:  `~~~~~~'   (1.7) Pausing, stopping and volume control for any song being  played. (1.7) The front end only lists files with the following exten sions (unless a mask other than *.* or equivalents are specif ied): ANS, ASC, DOC, TXT, MOD, S3M, MTM, NFO, DIZ, RIP, FRC.   (1.6) Filenames on command line without extension now have ". *" appended (used to be ".ANS").  (1.6) Fixed up flickering and most jerkiness while scrolling!  Scrolling is now the same speed on all computers, even while music i s playing.  (1.5) Loads SAUCE file descriptions.  (1.5) A new front end which displays the Title and Author in the SAUCE. Old front end retained, which doesn't load SAUCE -> qui cker loading. (1.5) Stops loading the file at the first EOF character.  (1.5) No more inbuilt song.  (1.5) MOD/S3M/MTM playing thanks to Midas (changed from MikMo d). Midas also supports more sound cards, is smaller, and runs faster than MikMod. Unfortunately no XM support yet. Midas is 386+ only too . Darn. ;) (1.5) Songs play from command line file specifications.  (1.5) Adds the ".." directory to network drives (Netware does n't display a "." or ".." directory).   (1.4) S3M Playing! There is now a kewl song by oZoNE/fORCE wh ich plays if you have a SB/GUS compatible sound card, and you can al so play any other S3M files you want, if you have enough memory fre e. FV uses MikMod by MikMad/HaRDCoDE '95.  (1.4) Probably some minor bugs which have been ironed out.   (1.3) Bugfix for fast computers, where the image got stuck at  the bottom. (1.3) Improved file selection keyboard routines, sorted file list and added option to jump straight to the root directory.  (1.3) Changed (hopefully improved) the scrolling acceleration  parameters.  (1.0-1.2) Unsure!    Known Problems:  `~~~~~~~~~~~~~'   (Bugs? You gotta be kidding...)   - Does not run under Windows 3.x at all. (Midas crashes) Use an older version if you need to run it under Windows.   - The entire file will not load if there is not enough conven tional memory. I may use EMS in later versions.    Coming Soon (in future versions):  `~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'   - VGA/SVGA support. Maybe GIF/RIP/JPG/etc loading also - who knows?  - Tag files while in a front end.   - Jump around file list in front end like Cubic Player does.    Final Comments:  `~~~~~~~~~~~~~'   Registration is not actually necessary to view other groups' art in case you hadn't worked that out by now. ;)   Have fun looking at Force Pack #6, and I'll cya l8r.  SAUCE00fORCE View Docs Red Haze fORCE 19960211¤nP.