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Welcome to Jeff's Graphic Utilities
This whole package is shareware. Feel free to copy and
distribute as long as all files remain intact and unchanged.
In this package you will find four major programs, and two
minor ones. They are all independent, you can use the ones
you like, ignore the rest. For distribution purposes, they
are displayed to you via Picture Menu (M.EXE) if you typed M
or BEGIN. Using Picture Menu, you can move the arrow to any
word on the left, click the left mouse button or press
[Enter] and see instructions for the major programs. Move the
arrow to the right, click on a word, and see some of the
programs in action.
FAST.EXE, A drawing program which makes the smallest pictures
possible, for fast transfer of graphics across modems, and
storage of up to 100 pictures on a single floppy disk. In
addition to all this, FAST.EXE can be used to make multimedia
presentations incorporating sound effects and hyperlinking.
PICTURE MENU: This is the ultimate graphical user interface.
It is totally free-form, simple and small. Now you can be
free of windows, icons, and lightbar menus. Anything you
write, scan, draft or draw will work as a menu image,
background or icons. End users can run applications with
absolutely no training.
Writers, artists and programmers can use this program to
organize and display their works in an attractive disk-based
package.
Parents can organize a computer in a way that their
smallest children can start and run favorite games and
programs.
Retailers can use this program to run a customer-driven
hands-on demonstration of assorted programs.
Managers can use this program to give employees an easy
way to locate and run programs and files instantly.
PUZZLE.EXE: Make any standard .GIF or .PCX file into a
picture puzzle which you or end users can reassemble with
mouse or arrow keys. Great educational and advertising
utility!
Super-Show: This is the best and easiest-to-use program ever
written to display .PCX and .GIF graphics image files.
Create disk-based presentations within minutes. Use it to
display single files, or chain presentations together in
which end users can go forward or backward, or can use
Automode, in which each picture is displayed in sequence,
over and over again. Additionally, you can use SUPER-SHOW to
display every .PCX or .GIF file on a disk or in a directory,
without having to type those filenames. SUPER-SHOW can
display up to 700 pictures in a presentation, and will
instantly and automatically select the proper video mode for
each picture. It is fast, simple, and small (approx 20k
bytes). You can use SUPER-SHOW from the DOS prompt, or call
it from within batch files or programs.
GIF.EXE: A small utility which automatically and instantly
displays any standard .GIF file.
PCX.EXE: A small utility which automatically and instantly
displays any standard .PCX file.
If you like what you see, you can register the whole package
for $85, or the individual pieces that you like.
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end of introduction section.
Following is a list of other software which you can purchase
from Another Company:
WHAT'S IN THAT BOX?: A pictures and text tutorial which
explains what's in your computer and how it works. Requires
CGA, EGA or VGA and 256k RAM. $4.95 Also available as
shareware.
WHAT'S IN THAT BOX? - VGA: Same as above, but requires VGA.
Better looking because of 16-color high resolution. $9.95
also available as sharaware.
TYPING WORLD: Fun games and lessons to improve your typing
skill whether your are a beginner or a professional, a kid or
an adult. All are presented with a super-easy-to-use menu
system.
This disk includes a colorful pictures & text tutorial
which covers typing basics as well as some unusual tips for
experts. Also, there are two games which build skill.
Falling Letters is easy yet it appeals to all ages and
levels of skill. Trivia Type is more challenging. It shows
you sentences containing fascinating facts, figures and very
short true stories which you copy, letter for letter. The
farther you go into the game, the faster you must type these
interesting sentences. Trivia Type is for 1 to 4 players.
With two or more players, it is guaranteed to liven up any
gathering. We've had beta testers fall out of their chairs
laughing! These games are so much fun that you'll be gaining
skill without realizing you are doing typing exercises.
Requires EGA or VGA and 640k RAM. $19.95 Also available as
shareware.
BETTER EYESIGHT: 5 computer-driven exercises to improve your
vision and a pictures & text tutorial explaining how they
work. Requires CGA, EGA or VGA and 512k RAM. Not
recommended for laptop LCD screens. $29.95 Also available as
shareware.
ALMANAC 1992: A collection of fascinating facts, inside
information and unbelievable yet true stories. Educational
fun for the whole family. Freeware. *
NON-MEDICAL PAIN RELIEF: This pictures and text tutorial
teaches how to relieve minor aches and pains using a variety
of techniques including Swedish massage, acupressure and
others. Requires CGA, EGA or VGA and 256k RAM. (written by
my wife, Lynne) $19.95 Also available as shareware.
WRITER'S DREAM: Virtually anyone's writing can be presented
to thousands and thousands of people. This is an easy-to-use
presentation program for standard ASCII text files. Now you
can create very professional-looking disk-based books,
catalogs, and other products which can be distributed as
shareware, retail software or otherwise. No longer do you
need a publisher or money to reach a huge audience. Make
copies of your electronic book for the mere price of blank
disks. $29.95 Also available as shareware. *
GARAGE SALES FOR FUN & PROFIT: If you have $10 to invest,
where would you put it? Into a money market account? There,
after a year you will have a profit of about $2. Or, you
could go to a garage sale, buy something like a camera or a
drill press, and consign it to a second-hand store.
Typically, within 2 weeks, the store will sell your $10
camera or drill press for $40, but keep $10 commission,
leaving you with only $30! Instead of 20% profit in a year,
you'll have 200% in two weeks.
This is a tutorial that tells you all about buying and
selling second-hand merchandise. It covers garage sales as a
buyer and a seller, it covers consignment, flea market
selling, psychology of "wheeling and dealing" and more. It
gives you charts of current values of second-hand
merchandise. For those interested in the additional profits
of detailing and repairing, there is yet more information.
$19.95 Not available as shareware. *
BICYCLE TUNE-UP AND REPAIR: A pictures & text tutorial which
teaches everything you need to keep your bicycle in top shape
including flat tire repair, wheel alignment, and brake,
derailleur and bearing adjustments. Requires CGA, EGA or VGA
and 256k RAM. $9.95 Also available as shareware.
MONEY: A short text tutorial completely covering several
good ways to make money at home. $5 Freeware. *
MONEY4: A larger, multimedia tutorial completely covering
several good ways to make money at home. Little or no
start-up cost, anyone can do it! Requires VGA. $5 Freeware.
ULTIMATE LABEL MANAGER: Easy-to-use database program to keep
track of and print mailing lists, disk labels, etc. Features
include zip code sorting, adjustable number of copies, mouse
support, and more. $29.95 Also available as shareware. *
PASCAL MAGIC: For TP 6.0 users - our new disk offers easy to
create pop-up windows, dialog boxes, menus and help screens,
graphics support, mouse support, laptop computer support,
sound effects, and more, plus the formerly difficult
incorporation of .CHR and .BGI files into .EXE files with a
single line of code. This disk also carries a tutorial for
beginning Pascal programmers. Requires Turbo Pascal 6.0.
Available w/wo source code $79.90/$39.95. Also available as
shareware.
PASCAL MAGIC v3.0, Same as above, but for Turbo Pascal 7.0
C Magic v1.5, Same as above, but for Borland C/C++ version
3.0 or 3.1.
BGI-DRAW: For Borland/Turbo C/C++ and Pascal programmers,
this package runs like any other paint program, except your
picture is recorded as C or Pascal source code! Simply paint
sprites, backgounds, any sort of graphics image, and then
incorporate them into your programs. Includes full support of
Borland Graphics Interface and fonts. For Turbo C version 1.5
to Borland C/C++ version 3.1, or Turbo Pascal version 4.0 to
7.0. Supports BGI video modes plus 320 x 200 x 256 and 640 x
480 x 256. $29.95 Also available as shareware.
OXY-ACETYLENE WELDING TUTORIAL: Learn to become a safe and
effective gas welder with this pictures & text tutorial.
Includes brazing, welding steel, aluminum and brass, and
cutting steel. Requires CGA, EGA or VGA and 256k RAM.
$9.95 Also available as shareware.
COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE HOME-OPERATED BICYCLE BUSINESS - A very
complete text tutorial. $19.95 Not available as shareware.
THE UNIVERSAL CONVERTER: Over 600 instant conversions at your
fingertips, including area, volume, US to metric lengths,
liquids, temperature, musical frequencies, decimals to
fractions, ASCII and much more. $29.95 (Registered version
is DELUXE 21st CENTURY ALAMNAC, below) Also available as
shareware. *
21ST CENTURY ALMANAC: The program of the future is here
today! Who but Another Company would create a single program
that does your homework, cures insomnia, answers questions,
entertains you and the kids, performs hundreds of common
household and professional conversions, and more?! Runs in
any IBM-compatible computer with at least 512k RAM. (This is
a super-set of the Universal Converter.) $29.95 (Registered
version is DELUXE 21st CENTURY ALAMNAC, below) Also available
as shareware.
DELUXE 21ST CENTURY ALMANAC: All of the above plus Goal
Seeker, Dos Tips, Programmer's Typo Trap, Piano, and more
functions and conversions. $29.95 Not available as shareware.
SUCCESS WITH SHAREWARE: A text tutorial which teaches
everything about making a profit in the business of writing
text, picture-based presentations or programs as shareware,
and making money! A must for beginners in the shareware
authoring business. $29.95 Not available as shareware. *
THE COMEDY GENERATOR: Originally written for entertainers,
this program is so much fun it'll entertain you for hours.
$9.95 Also available as shareware. *
THE SECRETS OF OUR SUCCESS: This text tutorial takes you
inside a successful shareware copying business and reveals
all the details. Learn how to start your own business on the
kitchen table and possibly develop it into a small empire.
There is no risk, because the investment required is
practically $0! All you need is any IBM-compatible computer.
It's so easy, even kids can do it after school. Learn how to
start quickly, make the most profit, have the most fun, and
avoid all the mistakes. Find out where to get disks at
wholesale prices. Find out about the five ways to sell
disks, including three ways that require no customer contact.
We're shipping version 2.30, created in March 1992. It
has even more information, including up to date, easy to use
mailing cost charts, info about inexpensive 800 phone lines,
pros and cons of Pitney-Bowes mailing equipment, new sources
of disks, a new user interface, and more. $79.95 Not
available as shareware. *
BETTER VOLLEYBALL: Learn all about one of America's favorite
team sports. Includes strategies for 2 to 6 players per team.
Animated pictures & text tutorial requires graphics card,
512k RAM. $9.95 Freeware.
THE ALTERNATIVE HEALTH GUIDE: This is a pictures & text
presentation which talks about many subjects ranging from
attitude and exercise to nutrition to help us live happy,
healthy and long lives. Included are massage and relaxation
techniques for nonmedical pain relief, extensive information
about nutrition, and discussion about relationships with
ourselves, our loved ones, and our environment. This disk is
loaded with information, and easy to use with a
graphics-based hyper-linked menu. Requires hard disk, VGA.
$9.95 Freeware.
DIGITIZED SPEECH, Freeware, A collection of .EXE files which
play good digitized speech or sound effects through the
ordinary PC speaker. Use them at the DOS prompt, or run them
from within programs or batch files. Potential uses are
unlimited! On this disk is a menu-driven interface for easy
"previewing" of the speech files. These range from useful
phrases such as "Press any key to continue" to an imitation
of Elvis Presley. Requires hard disk, '286 or better, 8mhz or
faster CPU. VGA recommended but not required. $29.95
(Registered version is LARGE SPEECH LIBRARY, below) Freeware.
LARGE SPEECH LIBRARY, See above. This is 3-3.5" or 6 5.25"
disks full of compressed, self-dearchiving digitized speech
and sound effects .EXE files. Requires hard disk, '286 or
better, 8mhz or faster CPU. $29.95 Not available as shareware.
* NOTE: Items marked with * will work in any standard
IBM-compatible computer.
ANOTHER NOTE: Some of these are available as shareware, some
are not. For shareware versions, ask your favorite shareware
vendor or BBS or purchase directly from Another Company.
AND ANOTHER NOTE: Custom programming available. High-quality,
fast turn around, lots of experience. $75 per hour. $37.50 to
prepare bids. Phone for more info.
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CREATE YOUR OWN:
* COMPUTER-BASED TRAINING
* TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS
* EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS
* DISK-BASED BOOKS & SHOWS
* GRAPHIC DATABASES
* CATALOGS
* RETAIL SOFTWARE & SHAREWARE
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$29.95!
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Incorporate Pictures, Text, Speech, Sound Effects, Music,
Animation, and User Interaction in simple or complex
presentations which run on any standard IBM compatible
computer.
Media Magic
We'd like to tell you about Media Magic, the $29.95
multimedia creation package.
Built-in features include: complete drawing program,
simple word processor to create text in any font and any
color, sound effects library, music composition and optional
synthesized speech through the ordinary PC speaker, Sound
Blaster and other sound card support, resolutions from
2-Color CGA through 256-color VGA, .PCX file display and
creation, store up to 100 pictures on a single 360k floppy,
special effects such as curtains, granular fades, and swipes,
grid and coordinate display for precice drawing creation,
super-imposing, layering, combining files, hook executable
programs and batch files into multimedia presentations,
display text files of unlimited size within graphics windows
or full screen, more, more, more!
And, with an option, you can create full multimedia
multiple-choice tests.
Media Magic comes with a royalty-free, multi-faceted
run-time program called MSHOW.EXE, with which end users can
view your presentation screen by screen, forward, backward or
randomly, and even seacrh for any word or phrase within your
presentation, or via hyperlinks, in which users can point to
anything on screen with mouse-driven or arrow-key driven
pointer and be taken to any location within your
presentation.
How can we do it all for $29.95? Here are the answers:
Media Magic is advertised via shareware, so our advertising
cost is low and therefore the price to you is low. Media
Magic is an efficient, fully self-contained package, with a
complete disk-based owner's manual. Finally, we ship
everything immediately via first class mail, so no cost is
wasted in excess warehousing/order processing. Just like
Henry Ford did with his model Ts, when the product is selling
like crazy, we lower the price and sell even more!
Because it is easy-to-use, you can start making
professional products with Media Magic the first day you own
it.
Media Magic - Technical Specifications:
(subject to change)
Media Magic requires CGA, Hercule, EGA or VGA graphics,
and 512k RAM. Supported but NOT required are mouse, hard
disk, sound card and color monitor. Media Magic works fine
on laptop computers.
Main Creation program: MM.EXE, size: 312136 bytes
Runtime program: MSHOW.EXE, size: 48977 bytes
Video modes: 320 x 480 x 256 XGA, 640 x 480 x 16 VGA, 320 x
200 x 256 VGA, 640 x 350 x 16 EGA, 720 x 348 x 2 Herc,
640 x 200 x 16 EGA 640 x 200 x 2 CGA, 320 x 200 x 4 CGA
640 x 480 x 256 color Super-VGA available as option.
Fonts provided: 10 (total with option: 40)
PC speaker support: 2 digitized speech systems, melody
composition, custom sounds, sound effects library.
Sound Card Support: All brands
File Encryption: (yes - option)
Incorporate external EXE, BAT & COM programs: yes
Multiple-choice & true/false test creation (yes - option
(incl encrypted results file on disk!)
Special features:
Hyper-Link - which presents an on-screen arrow, moveable with
mouse or arrow/number keys, that the user can move to
anything in picture (icon, text, etc) and be taken to any
place in your presentation;
Live Text - Any standard ASCII text file can be displayed
within any picture in any font or color, and it will
scroll with mouse or arrow keys, including search, print
and auto-scroll functions;
ASCII-Vector-Graphics - You can edit exact locations of
objects within your pictures, or the pitch and duration of
sounds, or modify animations, etc;
Presentation Mode - which gives the end user a menu bar from
which to advance to next screen, or back up, or GOTO, or
search for specific word or phrase, or AUTOMODE, for
unattended, self-running presentations.
Help And Documentation: On-line help with [F1] key, 227k of
text files on disk callable from within main program.
Complete "Electronic Owner's manual."
Images: Import or create .PCX in all graphics modes. Import
.GIF in 16 and 256-color modes, ASCII-Vector-Graphics in
all modes.
OPTIONS (each available at $29.95):
30 additional fonts
4 megabytes of speech/sound effects
ASCII-Vector-Graphics line editor
File Encryption
Multiple-choice and True/False test creation (full
multimedia) with on-disk encrypted scores file for each
student, allows honest, unattended study.
Super-VGA
Picture Puzzle creation
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_____ _Jeff's Graphic Utilities_____________ _$85.00_ _______
(includes Media Magic, Puzzle, SS and Picture Menu)
_____ _Media Magic__________________________ _$29.95_ _______
_____ _Puzzle.Exe___________________________ _$29.95_ _______
_____ _Picture Menu_________________________ _$29.95_ _______
_____ _Super-Show___________________________ _$20.00_ _______
_____ _What's In That Box?-VGA______________ __$9.95_ _______
_____ _Better Eyesight______________________ _$29.95_ _______
_____ _Typing World_________________________ _$19.95_ _______
_____ _Non-Medical Pain Relief______________ _$19.95_ _______
_____ _Writer's Dream_______________________ _$29.95_ _______
_____ _Garage Sales For Fun & Profit________ _$19.95_ _______
_____ _Bicycle Tune-Up & Repair_____________ __$9.95_ _______
_____ _Ultimate Label Manager_______________ _$29.95_ _______
_____ _Complete Guide, Home Bike Business___ _$19.95_ _______
_____ _DELUXE 21st Century Almanac__________ _$29.95_ _______
_____ _Success With Shareware_______________ _$29.95_ _______
_____ _The Comedy Generator_________________ __$9.95_ _______
_____ _The Secrets of Our Success!__________ _$79.95_ _______
_____ _Large Speech Library_________________ _$29.95_ _______
_____ _The Alternative Health Guide_________ __$9.95_ _______
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Almanac 1992, Better Volleyball, The Alternative Health Guide
and Money have no registration fee (freeware), so please buy
the 'shareware' version and enjoy.
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P.O. Box 3429
Ashland, OR 97520 USA
phone 503-482-3611, Visa / Mastercard accepted
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