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<title> Mini vMac 37 Variations Service (Basic) Directions </title>
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<i> <a href="https://www.gryphel.com/index.html">www.gryphel.com</a>/c/<a href="index.html">minivmac</a>/a_var_d
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- <a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/feedback.html">feedback</a> </i>
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Mini vMac 37 *<i>Alpha</i>*
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Variations Service (Basic) Directions
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<p> <b> Alpha! </b> Variations for the current stable version
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are available from the main
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<a href="var/mnvm0159.html">Mini vMac Variations Service</a>
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page.
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For more information about the Alpha, see the
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<a href="alpha.html">Mini vMac 37</a> download page.
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</p>
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<p> Mini vMac has no preference settings, which helps to keep
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it small, simple, and reliable. Instead, options can be chosen
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at compile time. You can compile a variation of Mini vMac
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with options you desire following the instructions on the
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<a href="build.html">Build</a>
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page. </p>
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<p> Or, I can compile variations for you. <p>
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With a
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<a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/wishlist/index.html">donation to the Gryphel Project</a>
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of ten dollars or more, you will receive a
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“<a href="sp_code.html">Sponsor Code</a>”
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that can be used to request custom variations, as many as you
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could reasonably want for a period of a year. You
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can make as many copies of these variations as you want,
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and give them to anyone, under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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Without a Sponsor Code, you can request Demo versions, that
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are identical to the regular version,
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except that the word “Demo” floats around the emulated
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screen.
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<a href="https://www.gryphel.com/index.html">
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<img src="https://www.gryphel.com/d/gryphel-32.gif" width=32 height=32 border=0
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alt="gryphel logo, 1K"
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<h4> Directions </h4>
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<p> Select the options you desire from the
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<a href="a_var.html">Mini vMac *<i>Alpha</i>* Variations Service (Basic)</a>
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page, including your Sponsor Code if you have one, then
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press the “Make custom variation” button at top. (The
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link in each option’s name leads to documentation for
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that option.)
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</p>
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In around 5 seconds, a page will appear with a download link.
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Click on the link to download your compiled variation. (You should
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probably also save the page, to record the options chosen
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and other details.) You can also verify md5 checksum
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and message signature displayed on the page.
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</p>
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Meanwhile, the Variation Server has been double checking,
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by compiling the variation a second time. If you reload
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the page with your web browser (another 5 seconds or so
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after the page first appears), a line at the bottom that
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said “Preliminary Result” should change to
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“Final Result (both compiles match)”. Otherwise,
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an error will be displayed.
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To prevent taking too much space on my hosting provider’s
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computers, older custom variations will eventually be removed.
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So please download your variation promptly.
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</p>
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<p> After you download the variation,
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extract the application from the archive, and place the
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appropriate ROM image file into the same folder,
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just as is done for the standard compile of Mini vMac.
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Mini vMac does not create preference files or change registry settings
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or make any other changes to your computer. So there is no problem in
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having multiple variations of Mini vMac installed.
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The Basic Variations Service offers only a
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few options. Many more options can be accessed through the
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<a href="a_vara.html">Advanced Variations Service</a>.
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For updating an existing variation, either to change some options
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or to use the same options in a newer version of Mini vMac,
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there is also the
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<a href="a_vart.html">Text Based Variations Service</a>.
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</p>
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<h4> Some fine print </h4>
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The Variations Service only promises to build variations
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accurately from the public Mini vMac source. No guarantee is made
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that the built variations are suitable for any purpose.
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(Please <a href="https://www.gryphel.com/c/feedback.html">report any bugs</a>.)
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It is possible that some variations can not be built at all due to
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bugs in the Mini vMac source. Otherwise, requested variations will be
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built eventually, but there is no guarantee of how long it will take,
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due to hardware failures and such issues.
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The Variations Service is reproducible.
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That is, if you ask for the same options
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twice, you will get the exact same application archive. (The
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file name will be different, but the contents are the same.)
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The Sponsor Code used does not effect the
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resulting Variation, so two sponsors requesting the same
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variation will get the same result. (With no Sponsor Code, a
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demo is created, which is different from the sponsored
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variation.)
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</p>
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<p> : </p>
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<p> Back to - <b><a href="a_var.html">Mini vMac *<i>Alpha</i>* Variations Service (Basic)</a></b> </p>
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copyright (c) 2020 Paul C. Pratt - last update 2/9/2020
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