The Barking Cards 96 Lite Readme File 10/24/96 Barking Cards 96 Lite includes 2 of our favorite cards (a birthday and a holiday card) for you to choose from, personalize and send. You can customize the text in the cards, add more text, add photos or clip art, record voice messages or add pre-recorded sounds. When you're done personalizing a card, simply hit the DONE button on Main Editing screen and follow the instructions for saving the card. You can then send the self playing card to your recipient by attaching it to an email or by saving it to diskette and sending the diskette. The self playing card will run on any Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 system with the following minimum requirements: - 486DX (or higher) IBM PC compatible - 8 MB of RAM - 5 MB of available disk space - VGA or higher Video board - Sound card (if you want them to hear the sounds) Barking Cards 96 and Barking Cards 96 Lite are published by: Blaze Technologies, Inc. P.O. Box 4480 Mountain View, CA 94040-4480 Phone: (415) 691-9450 Fax: (415) 938-1230 E-mail: blazetch@aol.com 76251,1301@compuserve.com support@barkingcard.com (not quite yet, as of 12/1/96, though) To Install the product: 1. Run the Setup.exe program and follow the instructions. NOTE: The installation program doesn't recognize long file names so don't use a directory name of longer than 8 characters (or the files won't install). Barking Cards 96 Lite is a shareware version of our Barking Cards 96 product line. You may use it for 30 days to evaluate it provided you agree to the licensing terms for evaluation users in the LICENSE.TXT file. If you don't agree to the terms then you should remove our product from your computer. After 30 days, if you are satisfied with our shareware version and wish to continue using it, you must register it. Use the ORDER.TXT form for registration. The registration price is $7.95. The Barking Cards 96 Lite software may be distributed freely in the original form (i.e. BARK10.zip) as downloaded from from any of Blaze Technologies' authorized distribution outlets. You are not permitted to modify the software from its original form, and you are not permitted to distribute any installed copy or separate files. Please refer to the licensing agreement (LICENSE.TXT) for more information. Disk Vendors, Shareware Distributors and BBS(s) may charge a nominal fee for distribution of Barking Cards 96 Lite. The recipient of our product must be informed, in advance, that the fee paid to acquire it does not relieve the recipient from purchasing Barking Cards 96 Lite if the recipient continues to use the software. Advantages of Barking Cards 96 Lite Registration: - We will send you (via email) the complete Help file system for the product, additional modules that allow the import of TIF, GIF, JPEG and WMF files and a TWAIN interface module for that enables a direct connection with your scanning device. - Special offers on future products and collections of cards - 6 months free technical support via mail, phone or e-mail. - Special offer for the Barking Cards 96 product (the non-Lite version) - Piece of mind in the fact that the software police will not invade your domicile at some future inconvenient moment! WE ALSO MARKET a higher end animated greeting card product that would make a perfect holiday gift for yourself or a loved one. It's called Barking Cards 96 (the non-Lite version) and includes 25 animated cards covering the following categories: Birthdays Holidays Invitations Thank You Congratulations (new job, baby) Romance Friendship We believe that you'll find that we have the highest quality (and wackiest) animated cards on the market. So if you enjoy the cards in our shareware version you might consider purchasing Barking Cards 96 (it is a CD-ROM product) so you have a wider variety of cards to send. It is priced at $29.95 plus $4.95 for shipping and handling. Thanks again for taking the time to try our product!