Menu Creator V4.1 öm2,2 öc+-----------------------------+ öcÅ Å öcÅ Menu Creator Å öcÅ Å öcÅ Version 4.1 Å öcÅ Å öcÅ Created by: Å öcÅ Å öcÅ Å öcÅ Rocky Moore Å öcÅ Å öcÅ Å öcÅ (C) 1987 SOFTWARE UNLIMITED Å öcÅ Å öcÅ Å öc+-----------------------------+ öp This program is not public domain and is fully copyrighted. Do to the giant costs of production and advertising, we have decided to use the SHAREWARE style of marketing. Please read the SHAREWARE notice in the DDS documents. öp öm2,2 öcUSING MENU CREATOR Menu Creator is really a simple utility program which will create a menu and place it on your disk which you can then load and use cursor functions to select a program you wish to use. It is unlike most of the other menu creating programs around. This is for two reasons. One, the menu has a version of WARP/DRIVE (compatible with the 1541 & 1571 disk drives) built into it. This allows the program you choose to load to load into the computer at about 6-7 times faster than normal. The other reason it is so different is that it DOES NOT read the directory of the disk every time you go to use it. Menu Creator will read the directory of the disk you plan on putting it on, and ask you a series of questions about how to load and run the program. Here is how it goes: To use "MENU CREATOR" you first load and run "MENU CREATOR". Next, insert the disk you wish to place the menu on. The program will read the disk directory and ask you, file by file, if you wish to keep that program name in the menu. If you do it will ask you if you want to use WARP/DRIVE to load that program (Remember WARP/DRIVE is tacked onto the end of the menu). It will then ask you if it should be loaded with a ",8,1" or a ",8". Next you will be asked for the starting statement. This is usually "RUN" for a BASIC program. It could also be "SYS" and the address. After you have answered all the questions, it will enter that name in the data statements. After you have gone through the whole disk directory, the part of the menu you just used will be deleted and the cursor will be flashing on top of "RUN300". If you hit the return key, the menu you just created will be saved onto that disk with the file name "MENU". When you run the menu from that point on, it will display the filenames you have selected as acceptable for loading, and allows you to choose the file by moving the cursor with the cursor keys and pressing the return key to select the name to load. This might sound a little confusing, but I am sure you will understand it after you have tried "MENU CREATOR". You may change line 25 to print any name you wish, I would just like my name left alone. Also, the line just above 25 says "FLASH=1". You can change it to "FLASH=0" and the Warp/Drive will no longer flash the border as it loads a program.