ARCHIMEDES - a Merlin Pro Enhancement Utility
by TC Wilson

A Public-Domain Program
GarbageRight (G) by Chump Industries Unlimited

A Short Documentation File Containing A Few Notes
(Docs by Jerry Kindall)


Archimedes is a Merlin Pro enhancement utility.  It was written to
work with version 2.54 of Merlin Pro but testing has revealed that
the internal Merlin locations that Archimedes calls haven't changed
much since then.  It has been tested with 2.55 and 2.58 and works
fine with both of those too.  It may not work with YOUR version, but
then again it just might.  I should mention that we're talking about
the ProDOS 8 version of Merlin here, not the DOS 3.3 version or the
16-bit version.


Installing Archimedes is a pretty simple task.  It can be done in
several ways.  The first is to simply hit D for Disk Command from the
Merlin main menu and enter BRUN ARCHIMEDES.  A caution: Archimedes
loads itself low enough in memory to leave room for the full screen
editor.  If you don't use the Full Screen Editor you will be wasting
a lot of memory.  You could, however, change Archi's ORG and
re-assemble it, but you'll need Archimedes installed to assemble
Archimedes.  (Heh heh heh.)

Another way allows automated installation of both Archimedes and the
Full Screen Editor when you start up Merlin.  Put ENHANCER in
Merlin's startup buffer.  The ENHANCER program will load FS.ED (or
ED.16 if you have a 65802/816) and Archimedes.  If you press ESC
before one of those two programs starts to load, that program and all
following programs will not be loaded.  For example, if you don't
want to load FS.ED or Archi, just hit ESC while Merlin is booting. 
If you want FS.ED but not Archi, hit ESC while FS.ED is booting.  If
you hit S while Merlin is booting you won't get FS.ED OR Archi,
you'll get Sourceror instead.  (Call Sourceror in the usual way with
the USER command.)

Enhancer assumes that FS.ED (or ED.16) and ARCHIMEDES are in the same
directory as MERLIN.SYSTEM and ENHANCER.  Things work out best that
way, but if you want to keep ENHANCER, FS.ED, ED.16, and ARCHIMEDES
in the UTIL subdirectory as supplied by Roger Wagner, that's easy to
do.  Just change the STR psuedo-ops at the end of ENHANCER and
re-assemble it.


Other than the tricky points of installation this doc file isn't
going to describe Archimedes' operation in detail.  For further
information, print out a source code listing of Enhancer and
Archimedes; everything's documented there.  Suffice it to say that
Archimedes adds a great deal of power to Merlin.