ATARI FILE DESIGNER (AFD)
                 Written by Philippe VUILLERME
	          Copyright (c) 2001 by PVBest
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
    any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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1. USAGE:
    Atari XFD Rom file designer (creation) with the PC connected 
    to the Atari 8 bits Disk Drive Device
    NOTA : The 1050_2_PC cable is required !
    For Doc go to Nick Kennedy's SIO2PC web pages:
    http://www.cswnet.com/~nkennedy/sio2pc.htm)

2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENT:
    PC MS-DOS, works under Windows 9X/NT: see 6.REMARKS

3. HELP and BUGS:
    Please visit my Web Site for help:
    http://pvb.free.fr/Atari/
    Please send me an email to report me bugs:
    mailto:pvbest@free.fr

4. NOTA:
    XFD Rom file saved at 1040*128 bytes (133120 bytes: 130kb)

5. CREDITS:
    Thanks to the people from the Atari 800 Emulator Project :
    To design my software, I used the article from Mark Nelson entitled
    ''Servicing COM Port Interrupts on PC DOS''. To see the article go to
    Mark Nelson's Home Page: http://www.dogma.net/markn/index.html.
    This article gives all the advices and the features for the control of the PC UART
    (this is the PC serial port communication chip). 
    In this article we find also the way of programming UART in C language: this 
    is very useful, and not only for a Atari application, but for all PC serial 
    communication purpose.
    Some AFD source code 'prompts.cc' and 'prompts.h' are taken
    from Atari 800 Emulator written by David Firth and his
    Emulator development team.
    "This code and my software are yours !"

6. REMARKS:
    My AFD application software must be run under MS-DOS to be efficent. Under Windows 
    95/98 it sometimes reports communication errors, especialy in the reading 
    sector loop, because of the other Windows processes running in batch or especialy 
    if another main process sotware is running on the foreground. MS-DOS software 
    is not multi-threaded! The best is then to run it under native MS-DOS, which 
    allows it to have all the PC resources and to be always in the foreground.

5. SPECIAL COMMENT:
    ATARI IS STILL ALIVE! So Use and Enjoy!

6. NORMAL COMMENT:
    ATARI FILE DESIGNER is currently under Revision 1.70c
    The revision 1.70c is the first public released for Beta Test
    Atari is a registered trademark.
    MS-DOS and Windows are registered Trademarks of Microsoft Corp

7. REVISION HISTORY:
    REV 1.70c 14/01/2002 : ajout file_length de 720*128 dans Load_Memory_With_PC_File()
                           First Public Released for Beta Test.
    REV 1.70b 02/11/2001 : ?? I've lost my Post-it !!
    REV 1.70  09/03/2001 : Brand new revison 1.70 fully operationnal...

8. KNOW ISSUES:
    Error report on the display screen is not comprehensive.
    Menu is not complete (like F9)
    Bottom Status display may be not comprehensive for the file loaded in memory. 

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  Atari ATARI FILE DESIGNER (AFD) is for education and fun purpose only...
  I make no profit. It's a free software for the Atari fans and lovers !
  It's to be used in conjonction with the Atari 800 Emulator.
  Philippe   -Made in Savoie (France) Feb 2002-