StartRAGE 0.9.1; readme.txt

by Dennis Piet
d.piet@student.utwente.nl
http://start.at/startm72

beta-testers for 0.9.1: Sean, Chri, Gerardo,Dave and Maaike, thanx!

StartRAGE is a full-featured Windows 95/98 frontend for
R.A.G.E (C) 1997 Anders Nilsson & Janne Korpela.
Because M72 still doens't emulate some of the games RAGE does,
I decided to build a frontend for RAGE too.
StartRAGE looks just like StartM72 plus a few extra features.

Features in StartRAGE 0.9.1:

- Automatically detects supported games. 
- StartRAGE only checks for new games on startup when a new version of RAGE.exe is found.
- Checks RAGE readme for these games' real names. 
- Check for installed games. 
- View installed/uninstalled/all games. 
- Zipped roms path; you can now keep zipped roms in another location.
  StartRAGE will take care of unzipping them in the dir RAGE expects the roms to be and
  wil also remove any files it unzippped.
- User can set all options supported by RAGE 0.9
- Default settings or settings per game selectable. 
- Remember last gamelist position.
- Scalable window 
- Hide tabsheet   
- Preview Screenshots (scaled/stretched/original).
- Screenshotcapture. Just hit 'print-screen' to take a new screenshot.
- Screenshot player:
  > supports unlimited number of screenshots per game
  > configurable play-speed (1-10 secs. delay between shots)
  > show/hide controls (play, pause, prev, next, timer, delete, hide)
  > show/hide screenshot filename
  > last selected screenshot is remembered (per game)
  > New screenshotpack (titlescreen + gameplayscreen for all games) available on website.
- Screenshot: 'Reset all to Titlescreen' (must be named <gamename>01.jpg)
          and 'Reset all to Titlescreen' (must be named <gamename>02.jpg)
  Tip:    you can download RAGEJpg.zip containing title + gameplay screens for
          all games from my website.
- Designed for both smal/large fonts settings.
- ViewTabSheet, ViewStatBar, Gamelist-width and Window-settings are saved.
- Keyboard shortcut for some menu-actions.


Install:
- Unpack both RAGE (ragepack.zip including gamedirs & gamedrivers) and StartRAGE
  to the same directory. Make sure every gamedir hast its .rge file (rage driver).
- If you are to lazy to take some screenshots yourself,
  you can download RAGEJpg.zip and unzip it to your ScreenShots directory 
- Doubleclick StartRAGE.exe to start

Working with StartRAGE is so easy, I won't bother explaining right now.
I have include a FAQ in this archive. If you have any troubles running StartRAGE or
having problems running RAGE in windows (system-lockups can occur), please read the FAQ.
If you do have any trouble running this frontend, please send me an email.

Thanks:
- Anders Nilsson 				      (anders.nilsson@mbox8.swipnet.se) &
  Janne Korpela 				      (janne@mbox370.swipnet.se),
  for writing this a great emulator. 
- Chris Granger, for the new StartRAGE icons.         (chris.granger@home.com)
- Chris Vleghert, for Delphi Zip v1.52j.	      (cvleghrt@worldonline.nl
- Todd Fast, for the TBrowseFolder component.         (tfast@eden.com)
- Kevin Savko, for his Delphi TExecFile component.    (phunk@msn.com)
- Mark D. Rafn, for his DCPcx component.              (mdrafn@mr.net)
- Daniel Lorch, for the Raylight URL label component. (daniel@lorch.cc)

Enjoy StartRAGE!

Dennis Piet
21/04/99
