Giniko-Chan's Utilities Updated 29 May 1998


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 Updated! DirectX 5.2.
    from Microsoft.
    We are now linking directly to Microsoft's DirectX End User Downloads page since we can't keep up with all the changes there. Since Microsoft has improved their servers, it no longer makes sense for us to be an alternate location of DirectX. And now you can always be up-to-date on DirectX without waiting for us!

    Note: none of the programs on Otaku World require DirectX v5.0 although all will run with it.

 * Icon Color Level. Problems with icon color clashes? This may help!
    from Impact Software.
    This simple little utility will modify an internal setting in Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0 to allow for full icon color usage when your screen is setup to display High or True color. In other words, this little tool wacks Windows upside the head and says "I've got all the colors you need so you just make those icons use 'em, ya hear?" You only have to run it once.
    (4/28/1998: self-extracting zip file, size is 32k. Windows 95/NT only!)

 * Multi-lingual Viewer System v3.38 by Albert Chong. View Kanji in U.S. Windows!
    This program will allow Windows applications to display Japanese, Korean, and Chinese glyphs.
    This update adds support for Internet Explorer 4.0 and Netscape Communicator 4.03. Now also supports Office 97. This product is shareware and is worth the enormous expense of $5 ($12 if you want the disk without the software lock). Order instructions are in the english help file.
    This product is shareware but is fully functional.
    (2/8/1998: Windows zip file, size is 1,561k. After unzipping, read SETUP.TXT to install Mview for Win31/95.)
    (The previous version posted for NT was actually v1.2. My apologies for any confusion.)

 * Sailor Moon Multimedia Player v5.5.1. And you thought Sailor Moon only fought bad guys!
    by Igor Bass.
    This is a full-featured program that can play a number of audio and video formats and it features some nice artwork from Sailor Moon! This little number can play MIDI music, WAVE, AU, AIF, and Real Audio sound files (.RA, .RAM, .RM). For video, Sailor Moon can play MPEG, AVI (Microsoft's Video for Windows), and MOV (Quicktime). It can also play your favorite CDs! And, what's more, not only can it tell the time, but it can act as a simple alarm clook to boot! It even supports drag-and-drop play!
    (4/18/1998: self-extracting zip file, size is 3407k. Windows 95/NT only!)

 * Visual Basic Japanese v2.0 Runtime package. VBRJP200.DLL.
    Extract this into your windows\system directory to allow games written with the Japanese version of Visual Basic v2.0 to run.

    (self-extracting zip file, size is 233k. Run to extract VBRJP200.DLL then copy the DLL into your windows system directory.)

 * Visual Basic v3.0 Runtime package. VBRUN300.DLL.
    Extract this into your windows\system directory to allow games written with Visual Basic v3.0 to run.
    (self-extracting zip file, size is 246k. Run to extract VBRUN300.DLL then copy the DLL file into your windows system directory.)

 * Visual Basic v4.0 Runtime package. VB40032.DLL.
    Extract this into your windows\system directory to allow games written with Visual Basic v4.0 to run.
    (Self-extracting Windows zip file, size is 455k.)

 * WinG v1.0 from Microsoft.
    This is the Windows Graphics Package for Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11. It adds system functions for "high-speed" graphics under Windows. Windows 95 has these functions built-in but some older programs insist on trying to load the DLL's associated with WinG which Windows 95 does not have. You can install WinG on Windows 95 as it won't interfere with Windows 95.

    How To Install: put this program into a temporary directory and run it to extract the files. Then run SETUP.EXE to install WinG.

    (Self-extracting zip file, size is 856k.)

 * Otaku World's own WINNLS.DLL v1.1 is a replacement dll for WINNLS.DLL and IMM.DLL.
    It will satisfy the requirements of some screen savers and toys that need WINNLS.DLL and IMM.DLL to run. This version of WINNLS.DLL can be dropped into your system directory under Windows 95. This file is NOT needed under Windows 3.1 but is needed under Windows 3.11! You will not need IMM.DLL with this WINNLS.DLL!

    v1.1 fixes some problems encountered with VBRJP200.DLL. This should fix the crash problems that a number of people have encountered, especially with the EVA screen savers!

    Note for Netscape Communicator users: if your browser saves this file with an extension of .EXE, please rename it to have a .DLL extension.

    (Windows DLL file, size is 2k)
    (Written by Stephen P. Lepisto)


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