Short: Multimedia history of the Titanic, with powerful GUI
Author: sdagnall@btclick.com (Paul Thompson)
Uploader: sdagnall btclick com (Paul Thompson)
Type: misc/edu
Architecture: m68k-amigaos
This program traces the birth, life and death of the Titanic. It includes
music, pictures, diagrams and a powerful easy-to-use GUI. Previously
Titanic II was released commercially as Licenceware, but is now FREEWARE!
Note: Titanic II was voted PD Utility of the month for June 1997 by Amiga
Computing, two years after its release! In March 1999 is was also on the
Amiga Format CD, number 37, along with Tutankhamun. Winning the reader
contribution for that month.
FEATURES
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- 30 High quality scanned pictures
- 5 pieces of quality music
- Time line with 44 pictures
- High quality drawn diagrams
- Interactive cross section
- 50 question multiple choice quiz
- The full story of Titanic
- Slide Show generator
- Demo Mode, sit back and watch
- Screen Saver
- Palette Editor
- Easy-to-use Hard Disk Installer
- much more, to many to list!
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* Titanic II *
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* Version: 1.0 *
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* Programmed by Paul Thompson ©1997 Stallion Software *
* 62a Brows Lane, Formby, Merseyside, L37 4ED. *
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* Tel: (01704)-830355 *
* E-mail: sdagnall@btclick.com *
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* This Program is now FREEWARE! *
* (But if you really like it, please send me a donation) *
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FREEWARE!
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Titanic II was once sold commercially by the Central Licenceware Registry,
but after this company had ceased trading, Titanic II became unavailable
through any outlet. Around this time i was pursueing a degree in Computers
and was forced to sell my Amiga to raise money for a PC, an action i later
regretted. Deprived of my Amiga i lost track of the Amiga scene for nearly
three years.
The degree is now finished, and as a reward to myself i bought a new Amiga.
After catching up on the Amiga scene, i was shocked by the amount of
software and hardware companys that had abandoned the Amiga, a computer that
had been so good to them in the past!
I now wish to help the Amiga in any way i can, for this reason Titanic II
is now released as FREEWARE. Please ignore any copyright messages in the
program itself.
TITANIC II REVIEWS
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When it was released Titanic II was reviewed by popular Amiga magazines,
presented here are the rating of these reviews, some magazines did not give
a rating, and so in these cases the the reviewers comment is mentioned.
Magazine Date Version Rating/Comment
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Amiga Computing June 1994 Titanic I Superb
Amiga Computing January 1995 Titanic I Good Educational Program
Amiga Shopper May 1994 Titanic I 88 %
AUI April 1994 Titanic I 85 %
Amiga Format March 1999 Titanic II Reader of the Month
Amiga Computing June 1997 Titanic II Utility of the Month
Amiga Format Sep 1995 Titanic II Excellent & User Friendly
Amiga Shopper August 1995 Titanic II 92 %
CU Amiga June 1995 Titanic II 80 %
Note: there have been two versions of Titanic, I and II.
WHAT IS TITANIC II?
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Titanic II is an interactive exploration of one of the greatest maritime
disasters of all time. The disaster occurred on April 14, 1912, when the
Royal Mail Ship Titanic, on her maiden voyage, brushed an iceberg and took
1,500 souls to their deaths in freezing water. The program not only covers
that fateful night, but also the reasons she was built, the reaction to the
disaster and finally the discovery of the wreck.
Titanic II will be of great interest to students studying Maritime history
or for those simply interested in Titanic. Full instructions for operating
the program can be found within Titanic II.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
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Titanic II will work on any Amiga which has at least 1MB of chip memory
and OS 2.0 or later installed, the program will also make use of an
external floppy drive if available. Titanic II can be installed to Hard
Disk, see below.
INSTALLING TO FLOPPY
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You will need two floppy disks, format both disks and name them `Titanic1'
and `Titanic2' respectively. Titanic1 should be made bootable by using
`install df0:' from a shell or CLI.
Un-archive the contents of the file Titanic1.lha, copy all the files to the
Titanic1 disk, execluding the source and pics directorys. Copy the pics
directory to the Titanic2 disk. You should then have a working copy of
Titanic II on floppy.
INSTALLING TO HARD DISK
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Simply unarchive and drag the Titanic II directory anywhere on your Hard
Disk. If you have the original floppy version you can run the HDInstall
program on disk 1 or you may do it manually. If the manual method is used
the following should be noted:
Titanic II finds all its files by reading in the Titanics.prefs from the
current System disk (be it floppy or Hard Disk), if this file is not
found Titanic II uses its defaults, consequently it will not know where to
find its files and the program will abort. Getting around this problem you
can do the following.
First load the TitanicII.prefs into a text editor such as Ed. Looking at
the file you will see that the first three lines contain the paths of
Titanic's three directorys:
Titanic1:Music/
Titanic2:Pics/
Titanic1:Data/
So if you had installed Titanic II to a partition called Work and into a
directory called Test, you should edit the file to read:
Work:Test/Music/
Work:Test/Pics/
Work:Test/Data/
Also if you wish to throw all Titanic's files into one directory say for
instance Test2, you should edit the file to read:
Work:Test2/
Work:Test2/
Work:Test2/
Once you have finished editing the file you should save it to your Sys/S
directory, and when you next run Titanic II it will hopefully find it's
files from the paths you have given it.
You should also copy the Diskfont.library and Titanic fonts, found on
Titanic disk 1, to your Libs and Fonts directorys.
THE FUTURE
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I still have the original source to Titanic II and intend to transfer the
program to CD, this will give the freedom to add video, audio and other
goodies to the program.
The project will be entitled Titanic III (original!). If you are in any way
interested, and you are a programmer, graphic artist, musician or a person
who would to help in writing text, scanning pictures, producing video, or
can help in any other way, please contact me!!!
OTHER TITLE'S BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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TUTANKHAMUN (also now released as Freeware!)
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Tutankhamun is very much in the same format as Titanic, it too uses text,
diagrams and pictures to convey its information. To get a better idea of
what Tutankhamun is all about the following text is from Tutankhamun's
introduction.
The tomb of Tutankhamun, with its breathtaking treasures has exerted a
unique hold on the popular imagination ever since its discovery in 1922. It
remains the greatest tomb find ever made. The story of the boy king, buried
in splendour at the height of Egyptian civilization, the determined quest
for his tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon, the unforeseen riches
eventually revealed, these are the ingredients unparalleled in the history
of archaeology.
Yet for all the publicity at the time of discovery and since, given added
spice by the linking of Carnarvon's early death with the legend of the
pharaoh's curse, it remains a story but partly told. Now, with the help of
the computer, the entire Tutankhamun story can be finally told. From the
search to discovery, from excavation to the exhibations of the 60s and 70s,
here is all the intriguing detail."
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For suggestions, bug reports or general interest in Titanic, please write
to the address at the top of this document. All letters will be answered.
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