RUN LOW
Version 1.0
By Anthony Watson
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RUN LOW is FREEWARE from Mountain Software. The only payment I am asking
for is a little correspondence. If you find this utility useful, I would
appreciate if you would leave me E-mail, or send me a letter through
'Snail-Mail', and just tell me what you liked and disliked about it. Share
your ideas for new software, improvements for my existing software, etc.
Small price to pay! Ha. Ha.
Mountain Software
6911 NE Livingston Road
Camas, Washington 98607
GEnie: A.WATSON6
Delphi: MOUNTAINSOFT
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Run Low is such a simple concept that I'm surprised no one has done it
previously. Put simply, Run Low lets you run low resolution programs
directly from the medium resolution desktop!
At one time I had a program by Double Click (DCRUNREZ) which attempted to do
this, but on my MegaSTE it just bombed or generally did not work. When it
did it was very difficult to use. I finally just deleted it...
But, I just couldn't get the idea out of my mind. Every so often I'd think
about writing such a utility but never bothered until now.
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Run Low will run approximately 70% to 80% of your low resolution programs.
Many others will run, but those that use the AES (GEM Dialogs, Fileselector,
etc.) generally don't work too well. Any program which avoids the AES will
probably do well with Run Low.
Run Low saves your current desktop colors, switches to low rez, and runs
your program. When you leave your program, Run Low switches back to medium
and restores your desktop colors.
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There are three different methods of using Run Low:
1. Rename your low resolution program with a .PR1 extension. Next install
Run Low as an application for .PR1 extensions. Save the Desktop. Then just
click on the low resolution program name and it will load and run as if you
had launched it from low resolution.
2. Launch Run Low from a shell program. Pass the name of the low resolution
program you wish to run as the command line. Again, the low rez program must
have a .PR1 extension!
3. MOST POWERFUL FEATURE!!! Run Low will allow you to click on a file, and
will run the program that uses that file in low resolution. This feature
(And the entire program in fact) were written to allow the use of the Speed
Of Light GIF viewer (By Stuart Denman) from medium resolution.
Run the Run Low utility directly from the desktop. A file selector will
appear. Locate the low rez file you want to have run. (Speed of Light in my
case). Click on OK, and a data file will be written to the disk. Next,
install Run Low as an application for the desired file type. (.GIF in my
case). Be sure to specify that the default directory is the applications
directory or else Run Low will not be able to find it's data file. Then save
the desktop.
Now when you click on your file type (GIF in my case) it will switch to low
resolution, and run your application (Speed of Light in my case), and will
send the file name to your application. When you leave your application Run
Low will return you to the medium resolution desktop.
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I hope you find this program useful...
Anthony Watson