This program traces the birth, life and death of the Tutakhamun. It includes
music, pictures, diagrams and a powerful easy-to-use GUI. Previously
Tutankhamun was released commercially as Licenceware, but is now FREEWARE!
Note: Tutankhamun was voted best amiga PD educational package in 1995 by
Amiga Shopper. In March 1999 is was also on the Amiga Format CD, number 37,
along with Titanic II. 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 Burial Chamber
- 50 question multiple choice quiz
- Demo Mode, sit back and watch the Slide Show
- Screen Saver
- Palette Editor
- And much more!
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* Tutankhamun *
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* Programmed by Paul Thompson *
* 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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Tutankhamun was once sold commercially by the Central Licenceware Registry,
but after this company had ceased trading, Tutankhamun 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 Tutankhamun
is now released as FREEWARE. Please ignore any copyright messages in the
program itself.
WHAT IS TUTANKHAMUN?
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Tutankhamun is an educational program designed with ease of use in mind.
By using a combination of text, diagrams and pictures you can explore the
fascinating bygone age of ancient Egypt, after which you can delve into the
incredible discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922.
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
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Tutankhamun will work on any Amiga which has at least 1MB of chip memory
and OS 2.0 or later installed, the floppy disk version 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 blank floppy disks, format both disks and name them
`Tutankhamun1' and `Tutankhamun2' respectively. Tutankhamun1 should be made
bootable by using `install df0:' from a shell or CLI.
Un-archive the contents of the file Tutankhamun.lha, copy all the files to
the Tutankhamun1 disk, execluding pics directory. Copy the pics directory to
the disk named Tutankhamun2. You should then have a full working copy of
Tutankhamun on floppy.
INSTALLING TO HARD DISK
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Simply drag the Tutankhamun 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:
Tutankhamun finds all its files by reading in the Tutankhamun.prefs from the
current System disk (be it floppy or Hard Disk), if this file is not found
Tutankhamun 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 Tutankhamun.prefs into a text editor such as Ed. Looking at
the file you will see that the first three lines contain the paths of
Tutankhamun's three directorys:
Tutankhamun1:Music/
Tutankhamun2:Pics/
Tutankhamun1:Data/
So if you had installed Tutankhamun 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 Tutankamun'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 Tutankamun it will hopefully find it's
files from the paths you have given it.
You should also copy the Egypt fonts, found on Tutankamun disk 1, to your
fonts directorys.
OTHER TITLE'S BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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TITANIC II (also now released as Freeware!)
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Titanic II is very much in the same format as Tutankhamun, it too uses text,
diagrams and pictures to convey its information. To get a better idea of
what Titanic II is about the following text is from Titanic's introduction.
As Titanic sailed out of Southampton on the first leg of her maiden voyage
on 10 April 1912, she was heralded as practically unsinkable. Four nights
later she brushed an iceberg and took Captain Smith and 1500 of his
passengers and crew to their deaths in the freezing water.
Featured on television, in books, the cinema, the press, and even in song,
history's most famous ship has stirred the imagination for three generations.
Now, for the first time the entire Titanic story is told through the media of
computer. From inception to construction, from launch to maiden voyage from
tragic loss to recent discovery, here is all the detail.
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Please send any comments, suggestions or criticisms to the address at the
start of this document.
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