Kanga Koe
Boring copyright notice
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KangaKoe Version 1.05
(c) Jt en Dw van Gulik
October 1992
THIS PROGRAM IS PUBLIC DOMAIN
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Please don't change anything
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- Interactive Help supported -
- DCLICK HERE for more help -
index Instructions for use
DClick on the !KangaKoe icon inside
your filer. That's the one which looks like
a little cage with a certain animal in it.
Next, do not hold your breath -you wont
make it- watch the screen and see how your
cute deskbar gets inhabited.
We hope you like it....
P.S. Do not worry, this programme is 100%
riscware, it will not demolish anything
serious (apart from some minor items like
your desk-bar, backdrop and harddisk).
It is also quite neat on processing
time due to legal programming and a
decent PollIdlle
Coming to you...
From the authors of locomotion...
Kanga Koe
created if october 1992 by
index Our addressesHere
Dw Dw van Gulik:
"Lionsight" Residence
Lipperkerkstraat 290
7533 AK Enschede
The Netherlands
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Phone +31 53 303447
Email DWvGulik@Utwente.nl
Dirk Gulik @ 77:8500/505.21
Jt Jt van Gulik
Plein 1813 nr 5a
6824 HX Arnhem
The Netherlands
index The Reasons Why..
The GRAND reason why...
Well those MSDom machines, the decent
ones running windows anyway, do have
nice backgrounds. A bit boring though,
those 'marble' platings. !Aquarium made
a refreshing change, but not quite.
Then a certain duck started swimming in
a nice natural environment.
As usual, within a few years, the local
councils decided that the swampy rural
area was just the place to plan their
filthy train-track. Although there
appeared to have been some protest -only
of long haired, soap sniffing hippies,
which bring their little children as a
pathetic excuse to the protest outings-
of course, but nothing serious. Now,
with the train running its regular runs,
that neighbourhood, its social welfare
and the general atmosphere went down of
course.
And it was not for long that the first
real criminals appeared. As is custom in
the civilized world, at first they let
them do their job. Next after an
politically disastrous media outlet, the
high and mighty were forced to do
something about it. And again, as is
custom in our civilized world they
simply cured the symthoms, with the
usual far to harsh and besides the point
sort of measurements.
Some baddies were caught, more people
got killed and live went on, just as
social, as criminal, as it already was.
Newly created baddies still kept
spoiling the fun.
Meanwhile the council had build some
houses on top of the swampy area...
(there is more to that than it seems,
but thats for another story which is far
to smelly to elaborate on...) The people
living there spend most of their time
unhappy. Some went out robbing trains,
others went out beating up train-robbers
professionally but most of them found a
save outlet in reading nice books (a
few), watching soap opera (a few more),
or dreaming of finding a way out of this
grotty world (most).
And on a certain day, their collective
imaginations joined and the combined
meta-concert created something truly
unexpected. Their visionary inputs
received the images you are about to
unleash.
They picture an imaginary happy world,
with simple things, simple problems and
even simpler solutions...
KangaKoe was born...
index The (c) claim...
THIS PROGRAM IS PUBLIC DOMAIN
It is not allowed to copy this programme
for commercial benefits. If you want to
include this programme in a Public Domain
Library -which charges money- please contact
the authors first to obtain their written
approval and the latest version.
However, for single private users:
Feel free to copy. modify, or rape this
programme as long as the original !Help
file, the (c) claims and the original
!Help-message data are supplied along.
However we DO NOT like that and we have
secretly instructed KangaKoe to do some
serious and heavy bouncing... And
although revenge is ethically not very
sound...... it does make one -and our
dear KangaKoe- feel great!
index Important, read this * IMPORTANT
The authors love to receive feedback,
applepies and chrismascards.
index Boring disclaimer * The Disclaimer
This software is supplied 'as-it-is', using
it remains at your own risk, and no assmump-
tions regarding its use, safety or inner wor-
kings should be made.
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index References to difficult words
Reference section
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DoubleClickselectDClickMenuindex - Mouse handling
* Mouse operations.
Really. I've to refer you to the welcome
guide for all this, and I do not understand
how you've got here in the first place..
However, just to be on the safe side..
The mouse has three buttons, called, from
left to right, SELECT, MENU, and ADJUST.
Pressing a button is called Clicking, pressing
it twice, very quickly, whilst not moving the
mouse, a major feat!, is called double clicking.
- Interactive Help supported -index - About interactive help
* Interactive Help
On your app-1 disc, or if you have upgraded
to RiscOs3 in de resources directory, there is
an application called !Help. Do run it DClick
over it. From then on a window will give
information about the area the pointer is
hovering above. Both KangaKoe and this file-
display-system will give helpful information.
applicationindex - About applications
* Applications.....
An application is a programme.
It appears in the 'filer' window as a little
picture, a landing shuttle this time, with
a name, preceded by a pling underneath.
You can run an application by DoubleClick-
ing with select on it.
You can ask help by pressing Menu over it,
and moving to the second leaf menu, from the
top, with the 'Help' item appearing at the
bottom of the list.
The application lives in a directory along
with its friends, special files with well-
defined names. You can open the directory
by DoubleClicking with select on it
whilst holding the SHIFT key.
poll-idllePollIdlleindex - Poll_Idle
* About Wimp_PollIdle
This is a technical term, see page 1148 of
the advanced reference manual.
All it means is that the application asks
as little processor time as possible during
its live.
applepiesindex - Applepie recepie
* Applepies...
Do not you love them !!
Here is what you need.
- a spare afternoon
- NO computer
- 2 apples, grannies will do.
- 300 gram of flour.
- 200 gram of butter, margarine.
- 100 gram of brown sugar.
This is for a SMALLish pie, multiply the last
four items, but not the first two by any
'real' number you like.
Mix the last three ingredients well. Add a
wee but of salt and perhaps a bit of
lemon(scrapings). Put a fifth of this smooth
paste apart and spread the big lump thinly
in a pie-tin, (or any other shape...)
Slice the apples into tiny bits, thin slices
look best. Add plenty of raisins, a bit of
sugar, lemonjuice, and canel. Mix well. Make
sure it is not toooo wet.
Throw this in the pie tin. Use the remainder
of the paste to make a nice netting, or any
other covering, and spread this over the
apple/raizin mix.
Put all this into the oven, 4-6 , wait for
about 45 minutes. Heat up some apricot jam,
when it starts melting, pour it out over the
cake. Add a bit of fresh clotted cream with
lots of sugar, just before serving....
Happy eating
chrismascardsindex - Chrismascards
*Chrismascards.
Any card will do, really, however, before you
rush out the the postoffice, We would like to
ask you a serious favour, Dirk shares a house
with two other people, Valentin and Adinda,
please do not make them jealous, send them,
or even better all of us a lovely greeting...
And if you would like to say nice things about
the grafix, include them on the chrismascard to
Tijmen, the creator of all those paint-ed
works of art.... and he is surely serious about
the artistic quality of your Xmas-card-choice!
Click Here to see our addresses
We love yee all...........
- DCLICK HERE for more help -
* Xref Help
This helptext is displayed by a special
programme. Rather than just display things
it also knows something about the structure
of the information in this text.
You can DClick on the coloured words to
obtain more info on that subject. A bookmarker
is left, to which you can return by clicking
on the bookmarker icon.
There is an extensive !Help file available with
the !Xhelp application, located INSIDE the
!KangaKoe directory.
And remember, just for a quick starter we have
followed Acorns lovely ideas so:
- Interactive Help supported -
1.05
Versions..
1.00 Evaluation copy
1.01 First release, tested
for RO2.xx and RO3.10
1.03 Tested and ibar-scroll
RO2 problem fixed...
1.04 Squased release version
1.05 2 bug fixed, message file
empty screen, faster redraw
New versions will be uploaded in
Unicorn and Dialis BBS. Information
will be made available through
AcoNet, the dutch fido-like network
of Acorn users.
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And this is the end of the Xreferenced Help
file.. Do not you love it...
Lots of love DW.
Oi! , this is the end I said
MSDom
* MSDom
YOU REALLY SHOULD NOT HAVE HEARD ABOUT THESE
BEASTS. NEITHER INQUIRE ABOUT..
FORGET IT, GET OUT OF THIS SECTION...
general surgeons warning
This text will affect your health. Reading
it will cause diseases, cancer, various virus
infection, sore fingers grown to the Ctrl, Alt,
and delete keys, square eyes and impatience.
minor fact, the excelent BasCrunch
util from Stuart Hickinbottom is not
able to cope with 1e5 sort of notations
you have been warned...