Short: Displays random wise words in Workbench! Author: Chris Spicer (chris@survivor.enterprise-plc.com) Uploader: Robert Iveson (robert survivor enterprise-plc com) Type: misc/misc Architecture: m68k-amigaos THE WISE MAN V1 by CHRIS SPICER (c) MR DOG PRODUCTIONS What is it? ---------- The Wise Man brings to your Amiga the distilled knowledge of the ancients. When you double-click on its icon, it displays a wonderful message to entertain and enlighten you. Hopefully this will raise your karma, thus encouraging you to achieve a level of cosmic one-ness and helping usher in a new period of world peace and love. Do You Believe All That? ----------------------- No, not really. So, What Is It Really? --------------------- The Wise Man is a little program that sits happilly on your workbench and displays a random humerous message when you double-click its icon. No, really. Requirements ------------ The Wise Man should work on any Amiga. It's been tested with a 10 meg A1200 and a 1 meg A500, and works fine on both of those. What Do I Do With It? -------------------- Stick it anywhere you want. As long as the file Thingy.txt is in the same directory as the main executable there'll be no problem. If you have a hard drive, why not put it in your WB-Startup drawer? That way, every time you boot your Amiga into workbench you'll get a random message automatically displayed! See this miracle of the modern era... However, if the file Thingy.txt is NOT in the same directory the Wise Man will attempt to give you a message and realise he has nothing much to say. So he'll close down. Which is a shame, really, innit? Who Wasted Their Time Doing This, Then? -------------------------------------- Why, tis I, Chris Spicer, he of the Mr Dog Productions. I'm 20, going on 21, come from the rock-and-roll town of Nuneaton, and I list my hobbies as crochet, planning world domination and sneaking into ladies changing rooms in the hope of seeing an inch of naked flesh. On a more serious note, I've produced my own comic, contributed illustrations, scripts and short stories to various places, and I write for the excellent new Amiga magazine Amiga Survivor. Now CU Amiga's closed down, you're going to want an excellent new replacement, right? Amiga Survivor can supply you with loads of reviews, up to date news, cheats, interviews much more. Plus, it's the only place you can read a work-in-progress on Gilbert Goodmate, the hottest new adventure title around! For details write to Robert Ivesone, 41 Wellstone Garth, Swinnow, Leeds, West Yorks, LS13 4EJ or e-mail Robert@Survivor.Enterprise-plc.com. There's an Amiga Survivor website at http://www.crystal-software.com/AmigaSurvivor/Survindex.com And What's Your Address? ----------------------- Why do you want to know? Just Curious ------------ Fair enough. If you really must, you can write to me at: Chris Spicer Mr Dog Productions 80 Castle Road Weddington Nuneaton Warwickshire CV10 OEW England Where Did You Nick It From? -------------------------- The source code was borrowed from the NorthC examples disc. The original was by Steve Hawtin. However, I changed it a little bit to make it my own. Inspiration for the Wise Words was taken from the following sources: Murphy's Law Book 2 - More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong ed. Arthur Bloch More Murphy's Law - Wrong Reasons Why Things Go More ed. Arthur Bloch Star Light, Star Bright, First... Johnny Hart However, most of the text was taken from: My Own Head Chris Spicer What About Copyrights And That? ------------------------------ Okay then, if you insist. Ahem, here goes. This program is freeware. You can distribute it as long at the following files remain together: WiseMan Thingy.txt WiseMan.Readme Copyright with this program lies with Chris Spicer. You are NOT allowed to alter the code of the main executable or any of the accompanying files. Copyright of the text in the file Thingy.txt lies with its respective creators. I cannot be held responsible for any damage done to your computer whilst using this program. Usage of the program is deemed acceptance of the above terms. You Finished? ------------ Yep. Thank Goodness. --------------