Robot Helper

       Copyright 1993/1994  W.J. Montgomery VE3EC



Last changed: 23-MAY-94



NOTICE: Robot Helper is a Shareware software product. You are encouraged

to give it a try for a short period of time and to upload it (without

changes) to any BBS or On-Line service.

If you find the program useful and wish to continue to use it past the

short (ie 10 days) evaluation period you are requested to register the

software by sending a cheque or money order for $45 US to:



               William Montgomery VE3EC

               482 Townsend Ave.

               Burlington, Ontario

               Canada.  L7T 2B3



Registered users will receive a copy of the current release of Robot Helper

and a printed users manual. Further development of the product is supported by

your shareware registeration fees.

New versions of Robot Helper will be made available through BBS systems and

InterNet FTP sites. Current distribution sites include:



       o The Antenna Farm BBS, SYSOP Brian Summers VE3DUO,

         (905) 637-4026, 9600 baud V.32, &  2400 baud.



       o The 'Kookie BBS' at (419) 562-6327





       o The Dallas Remote Imaging BBS (214) 394-7438



       o ftp.cciw.ca  /pub/u124/sstv anonymous InterNet FTP site.



       o ucsd.edu  /pub/hamradio/sstv anonymous InterNet FTP site.



The author can be contacted via email at: [email protected], or

AppleLink: CDA0635.







Installation Notes



1/If you downloaded RH from a BBS...

       Unzip the file to a 1.44 meg (or 1.2 meg) floppy and run the

setup program on the floppy from within the File Manager. If you have

a RH.KEY file, place it in the same directory as you intalled RH.EXE.

You should then have RH.EXE, RH.INI, RH.HLP, and RH.KEY together in the

same directory.



2/ If you registered and received a setup disk...

       Insert the disk into a floppy drive. From within the Windows File

Manager double click on the SETUP.EXE file on the floppy. Next, use the

File Manager to copy the RH.KEY (Registration File) from the floppy

disk into the directory where you installed Robot Helper (RH).





       The setup utility will update some of the Windows DLL files

during installation. If you receive any messages during installation that

file xxx.dll is locked or in use, you should quite out of any other

Windows programs or drivers that may be using (& locking...) Windows DLL's.





Notes:

       If your 8255 ports are not at the 'standard' 300HEX address you

should change the default port settings (Edit Menu->Setup) before

sending any images to the Robot.



Note:   If you are running in 8 bit (256 colors) VGA mode you will

       notice somewhat long delays whenever Windows must generate

       a new color palette to try to match the real color images.

       Robot Helper is MUCH FASTER when used with a 16 bit HiColor VGA

       card or 24 bit TrueColor card. Image processing is poor at

       best on 8 bit cards.



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Release Notes



14-NOV-93       Version 1.0b2   Initial release.

16-NOV-93       Version 1.0b3   Fix for port setup in b2. Last minute directory default

                               shuffle caused 1.0b2 to look for the RH.INI

                               file in the 'Windows' directory instead of the

                               default installation directory with RH.EXE.

19-NOV-93       Version 1.0b4   Includes new (updates) to THREED.DLL,SS3D2.DLL

                               and SS3D3.DLL. This should fix the Gen Fault in

                               user.com error that was sometimes showing up

                               when clicking on the menu bar in the storage

                               manager.

                               Added bank switch buttons on the preview window

                               control panel.

                               * Note: If you get a "Function or Sub not

                                       defined" error message, you probably

                                       have an older version of 'SSTV.DLL'

                                       somewhere on your disk. This older

                                       version is about 4K and should be

                                       removed.



7-DEC-93        Version 1.1b2   Moved Robot controls to a separate panel.

                               Added support for selecting Robot modes and

                               speeds.

                               Added Windows Help support.

                               Added EPROM select to setup window (ports).



11-DEC-93       Version 1.1     First Release Version

                               Minor changes from 1.1b2



05-JAN-94       Version 1.2b3   Final 1.2 beta

                               1.2 includes:

                                       -Support for low resolution images.

                                       -Clear preview window buttons.

                                       -Brightness, Contrast, and Color controls.

                                       -Slide show.

                                       -Color Keyed Load/Save clusters.

                                       -Dubble click load support in Storage Manager.



15-JAN-94       Version 1.2.1   -fix minor shareware date timeout problem.

                               -removed OLE2 references.



16-JAN-94       Version 1.2.2   -added support for a transfer delay. This should prevent very

                                fast PC's from overrunning the input buffer in the Robot 1200C.

                               -if you experience laockup problems when talking to the Robot

                                you should use the setup panel (ports etc...) to increase the

                                delay value. 386 machines can generally run with values of 0.

                               -Note: fast PCs may require the use of an 8255A-2 PIA chip in

                                both the interface card and the Robot 1200C.



11-MAR-94       Version 1.2.3   -now saves positions of the four windows in the RH.INI file

                               -new splash screen.



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7-MAY-94        Version 2.0b1   - Version 2 now based on ImageKnife VBX.

                               - Improved 8 bit color support.

                               - Image autoscaling to 256 X 240

                               - Now does TGA, TIFF, PCX, GIF, JPEG, HIRes,

                                 GEST, BMP, DIB images.

                               (distribution: Beta testers only)



8-MAY-94        Version 2.0b2   - Added missing JPEGIO.DLL to distribution.

                               - made load image error handler more verbose.

                               (distribution: Beta testers only)



21-MAY-94       Version 2.0b3   - Revamped SetUp.EXE

                               - Removed reference to DDEML.DLL in setup.

                               (distribution: Beta testers only)



23-MAY-94       Version 2.0     - Frozed for release if no problems are

                                 reported in the B3 vesrion.

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