Re: [AD] updated fix.bat to simplify MSVC target

[AJ <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Newbies always seem to pick MSVC as their target, and have huge
> problems interpretating the current usage of fix.bat. I've seen many
> cases where the person's only problem is that he doesn't use
> --msvcpaths...


its documented in /docs/build/msvc.txt
all that needs to be done (unfortunetly constantly) is to tell newbies 
to RTFM msvc.txt   poluting the makefile with every problem on a newbies 
system isn't the role of the makefile.
well it kinda is, kinda is not...  just how far do we go, sometimes we 
just need to say "rtfm msvc.txt"

i have been thinking about how to better help newbies, and part of the 
problem is reading that  msvc.txt  its long, its very texty, its very 
tedious, it seems to go on and on and on, for a newbie that often 
doesn't understand the terminolgy/language/jargon, they are often 
confused and scared by the volume of confusing text..  so some ideas i 
had was to make a simple walk thru tutorial/guide, with plenty of screen 
shots, and/or maybe a video MPEG that shows how its done, a small video 
can be good for 2 reasons, it informs, and it removes much of the fear 
newbies face when tackling the msvc.txt file, its less scary than 
reading text, it seems interactive.

any suggestions ?
comments ?
is this a good idea?
are they videos for allegro setup already?
whats the best format for making videos?   for windows users there are 
codecs for doing screen based tutorials.. which would limit the file 
format to AVI.  or is a MPEG more appropriate.
if these files turn out to be large-ish, where can we host them ?