CFX Viewer 1.0                               - "The readme file"
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I. Why?

Simple. This is a replacement for Goodbyte's good-but-not-awesome CFXNEWS
reader. Apparently he whipped his in a hurry and didn't have much time to
improve it, so we (Holograph and Protopad of BSP) sat down and wrote this
peace of work.


II. What?

This  little proggy is  a viewer for  CFXNEWS issues.  It was successfuly
tested with issues 12 through 31,  and will hopefully work on other past/
future issues.   It is far more comfortable than  reading the issues in a
regular text viewer,  because it divides the file into sections according
to the file structure set by Civax, and then allows the user to view each
of these  sections individually  using a (hopefully) innovative  and eye-
appealing interface.


III. How?

Using this reader is easy.  Simply run READER.EXE with the issue's number
or actual file name.   The viewer will display a  splash screen  with the
issue header and publication info,  and will then proceed to the section-
selector.   Select a section, and you will be  introduced into the actual
scrolling viewer.   Use the arrow keys to  move within the article,  then
press Escape to re-enter the section-selector. Press Escape again to quit
the viewer.

The viewer  requires a 100%-compatible VGA graphics adapter  and probably
around half a meg for a medium-size issue.  A Pentium with 2 or more megs
is highly recommended.


IV. Who?

The editor was written by two people,  i.e. Holograph and Protopad / BSP.
The font was  created in Font Mania  by Rexxcom systems,  and is based on
Pooter2, a font found in the same package. We used AcidDraw to create the
interface.  Intro is compressed with PMWLITE by Tran.  Credit is also due
to  Future Crew  for producing YO!,  the best text mode demo we have ever
seen.  It inspired us in the making of this reader  (which is also in VGA
text mode).

The entire reader  is (naturally) written in  Watcom C++ with very,  very
little Assembler. The VGA routines were also mostly written in Assembler.
Since the reader  uses VGA registers and special tweaking heavily,  it is
highly recommended that you do not run it under a non-100% VGA compatible
adapter.


V. Final words

We hope you'll enjoy this.   Since I'm not a humble person, I'll just say
that we've managed to produce the smoothest reader I've ever seen :)
Just so you'd know, this reader contains 4 different easter eggs, so feel
free to either find them yourself or send me a message on the subject.  I
may feel inclined to submit some of the secret access codes :)

                                               - Tomer Gabel
                                                 Holograph / BSP
                                                 Main reader programmer
                                                 A very obnoxious person
                                                 If you hadn't noticed :)