FEFA - Front End For ATARI 11,7,2004 - Version 2.6 - By Israel Geron T. 
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Introduction
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It all started as I run across Greg Chance page "History of Home Video Games" and
found the Labels images in the atari 2600 section, I thought that we all have memories
of the real carts and some of us still own a real atari with real carts but who has the 
time and power to hook him to tv. so I decieded to create a front end that will run an
Atari emulator and show you as preview the real cart something like jeff miller did for 
MAME only showing the carts instead of the screenshoot of the game. I look for package that will
help me with jpg and I found in a newsgroup Julian Smart's CImage class it was very easy
to use, and from here it a little subclassing and ownerdraw in MFC and it's nearly over,
I added as last thing a support of showing the carts
manulas as they are also in Greg Chance page.

Installation
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Just unzip fefa.zip to the directory of the ROMs, thats also will create five dir's:

1. Labels  - contain the images of atari labels
2. Docs    - contain the atari game manual in txt format.  
3. Images  - contain the games screen shots.
4. Boxes   - contain the games boxes
5. Manuals - contain the games manuals in jpg format.

A simple rule must be for the picture and documents file names, The names must be the same as
the rom file names for example: a Kaboom.bin will have a Kaboom.jpg for the label picture and
a Kaboom.txt for the document. The Images, Boxes and Manuals folders will also contain a 
kaboom.jpg file. 

Label images and docs can be downloaded from:

http://www.atariage.com/

http://www2.best.com/~jearney/images/images.html

http://videogames.org/

http://atarihq.com/museum/2678/games/index.html

http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/8683/index.html

http://www.myplanet.net/rickyz/list2.html


System Requirements:
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This program requires Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP with MFC run time dll's 

if you are missing one of the files you can download them from:

http://www.tera-it.com/html/Topic/TechSupport/download.htm


Distribution:
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Freely distribute this game under the following condition:  
always distribute the following files, contained in the original upload ZIPfile:
None of the following files may be modified!

		FEFA.EXE     
		FEFA.TXT  

Additional Keys:
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[ENTER]   - Start a game.
[F1]      - Show the game manual (text file).
[ESC]     - Quit.


Additional Credits:
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Alebrt from AtariAge that gave me constructive comments.
John Dullea, John Saeger, Bradford W. Mott and the Stella team: 
Keith Wilkins, Jeff Miller.
for Great emulators for the Atari 2600, keep on the good work.
Julian Smart for his great CImage class that I use to show the jpg images.
Greg Chance for his his great "History of Home Video Games" page 
that supply the Images and the Documents
Jeff for the great atari icon.

Additional Notes:
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This FrontEnd is complete freeware, you don't have to register/pay/contribute
or whatever, it's free !!!.
This software is provided "as-is," and I sincerely hope that you
enjoy using this front end. 

	
History:
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Version 1.0

	First release

Version 1.1

	Fix a bug that show junk on an empty list box ( thanks keith ).
	Add some images and documents to the front end archive.
	
Version 2.0

	Removed the script files and start using the registry to store the games
	properties, support of windows 95 taskbar, improve preformence of loading
	the images by using some sort of cache system. use fixed font for the docs.

Version 2.1

	Add support for other types of images: screen shots, manuals, boxes. every
	mouse click on the image will display the next image type in cyclic order.   

Version 2.2
	Add support multiply manual screen shots.
	Add support for selecting wplaybin.exe in the properties dialog.

Version 2.3
	Switch to 1024x768 video mode.
	Fix the 16x16 icon.

Version 2.5
	Fix some focus problems.

Version 2.6
	Switch video mode to 1280x1024.
	

Internet Support:
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Contact israelgeron@hotmail.com for support via email.

