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Collection 4 - International edition - NOV. '95
This title is distributed by:
MIND LOGIC
5508 Guadalupe Court,
Concord,
California 94521-2447
USA
tel. (510) 673-0101
fax. (510) 673-0103
WEB: http://www.xmission.com/~wwwads/mind/logic.html
e-mail: jdulaney@crl.com
FTP site: ftp.crl.com catalog contained in the file: users/jd/jdulaney/c.zip
______________________________
CD ROM Paradise S.r.L.
CD ROM Development, Premastering, Consulting, Audio Synthesis, Multimedia.
P.O.BOX 10177
20100 Milano
ITALY
tel./fax. +39-2-70603189
WEB: http://WWW.cdrom-paradise.com/
e-mail: cdrom-paradise@tab.com
This file contains important information about The Collection 4 CD ROM
ATTENTION : Please be sure to read point "C", near the end of this file.
The names of all other products mentioned herein are trademarks of their
respective companies.
The Visual Basic VBRUN DLL libraries, used by some of the programs contained
in this CD ROM, can be found in the _VBRUN directory.
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Installation troubleshooting
First of all you don't absolutely have to install the CD ROM browser program
(search.exe). It can be invoked straight off the CD ROM, for instance by using the
file manager or by using the RUN option from the FILE menu of the Program Manager.
By installing the search program you will get a bit more speed, but not much, and
it's going to take some space on your hard disk.
NEVER EVER INSTALL THE LOOKUP PROGRAM INSIDE THE WINDOWS OR SYSTEM DIRECTORIES!
If the setup program aborts with the message "THREED.VBX already in use",
this means that you are running another application that also uses that
library.
Solution: (expecially Windows 3.1 & Windows 3.11)
1) don't run other programs while running the setup program
2) Move all .VBX files from the WINDOWS directory to the SYSTEM directory,
rename the old THREED.VBX library (dated 1992) and substitute it with the one
you will find in the root directory of our CD ROM (dated 1993).
If the lookup program signals that "Updated THREED.VBX is required" and aborts,
proceed as stated at point 2).
Basic Windows applets like Notepad, Write, Paintbrush and Multimedia player are
REQUIRED. This program viewer requires in particular WRITE.EXE, an applet of Windows 3.1.
If you are using Windows 95, you'll want to copy WORDPAD.EXE to WRITE.EXE in the WINDOWS
directory. If the required applets are not found, the search program ABORTS signaling
a "file not found" error.
Install all multimedia drivers required for your audio board.
Video for Windows runtime can be installed by running the SETUP.EXE program
from the VIDFWIN directory. Don't install Video for Windows runtime if you
have Windows 95. Install it only on Windows 3.1.
The CD ROM search program requires a C: hard disk unit, for its temporary files.
Temporary files are stored in the C:\___TTEMP directory.
The WINDOWS directory must be in system path.
Never delete any file from the program's directory.
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Bonus files:
PHOTO directory
JPEG Photos courtesy of Studio Artico - photographers since 1900
All photos copyright 1993-1995 Studio Artico all rights reserved.
Used by permission.
web: http//www.cdrom-paradise.com/artico/
You can display these images with CD ROM Paradise's free bonus
Image Viewer for MS Windows, special Collection 4 - NOV 1995 edition.
The free Image Viewer supports JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PIC & PCX.
You can install it by executing the INSTALL.EXE program from the
directory PHOTO, or you can run VIEW.EXE directly off the CD ROM.
The free Image Viewer is Copyright (c) 1995 CD ROM Paradise Srl
all rights reserved. Please the readme.txt file in that directory.
VIDEO directory
Video for Windows .AVI movie files copyright (c) 1995 CD ROM Paradise Srl
all rights reserved. Can be used in your own multimedia presentations
& programs. Please read the readme.txt file in that directory.
WAV directory
Wave files copyright (c) 1995 CD ROM Paradise Srl all rights reserved.
Please the readme.txt file in that directory.
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A - ZIP file format
The ZIP files on this CD ROM are compressed using ZIP 2.0 format: we used
this format because it is extremely popular. At the moment, the latest version of
the complete PKZIP package should be 2.04G, and can be obtained from:
PKWARE, Inc.
9025 N. Deerwood Drive
Brown Deer, WI 53223
USA
Our CD ROM interface program is capable of decompressing the ZIP files
you will find in this CD ROM indipendently, so no other program is required,
but you'll want to register PKZIP anyway because it's extremely useful.
Our CD ROM interface is capable of decompressing ZIP files from any
disk, but won't run without Collection 4 CD ROM inserted in your
CD ROM drive.
The PKZIP Program is in the _PKZIP directory
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B - The CD Shell
In the root directory of the CD ROM, you will find a program SEARCH.EXE
that can be used to browse files, look into compressed files and expand them.
To install the program from DOS, enter the command
WIN D:\SETUP
where D: is the letter corresponding to your CD ROM Drive.
If you prefer you can launch it via the RUN option from the Windows
Program Manager, or from the FILE MANAGER.
The lookup shell requires roughly 1.5 megabyte of disk space for
the installation, at least 4 MB of RAM to run at an acceptable speed,
Windows 3.1+ running on a 386 SX processor or better, and enough disk space
for the files and program you'll be decompressing. It will refuse to allow
viewing really big ZIP files, which you'll have to decompress and
view at a latter time.
If you like, you can run SEARCH.EXE directly off the CD ROM, without
installing it (however Windows is still needed), without significant loss of
speed compared with a complete installation on hard disk, expecially if you
own at least a double speed CD ROM drive.
B.1 - Installation
Installation procedure is straightforward:
after launching the Setup program with
INSTALL
or
WIN D:INSTALL
or from the RUN option in the Program Manager; when prompted by the install
program, press the INSTALL
button on the set-up's program window and then choose whether you want Collection4
to become a separate program group on your desktop or not.
The INSTALL program will copy required files in the directory of your choice
and will create icons for the WINPAR.EXE shell program and for the on-line
documentation.
Read the help files if you need help about the CD ROM interface shell,
it's very visual and easy to use, chances are that you'll seldom need
help, but it's there.
B.2 HOW to use the CD ROM lookup program:
Short guided tour to decompressing a program.
Start the program, choose your language clicking on the appropriate flag.
If CD ROM Paradise Collection is not inserted in the CD ROM drive, the program
will ask you where it is, otherwise the program will automatically recognise it. You
will be presented the list of the topics directories in the CD ROM, each
directory containing files related to a topic. Browse through it. You'll see
the description of the directory you are pointing at inside the pane on the
upper right of the window.
Double click on a directory name and you'll zoom into it, seeing the list of
the files contained inside the directory.
Double click on an archive name and you'll be able to see it's contents.
Double click on a file belonging to the archive contents and, if this file is
displayable or playable, you will be bailed into the appropriate Windows
applet, while the search interface is temporarily minimised to give you full
working space. Exit from the viewer invoked application (e.g.: Notepad for text
files, the Multimedia Player for the MIDI files or animation, Paintbrush for
bitmaps), and the lookup interface is given back control This of course
provided you have enough disk space on C: unit, the appropriate drivers and
basic system applets properly installed.
To expand the file you are viewing first select the desired destination drive
and directory, then click on the magnifying lens push-button.
Watch the status bar reach 100% for each decompressed file, and wait for the
"Zip Expanded" message. If you want to copy the archive without expanding it
click on the floppy disk push-button instead.
Want to exit from a window? Click on the push-button with the icon of the open
door. The escape key works in the same way.
Want to quit? Click on the icon with the red stop sign.
Go back to the list of the directories and click on the pointing hand push-
button, select a ZIP file using the file dialogue and enter the zip viewer
directly, on any ZIP, not necessarily on Win Paradise CD ROM.
C.1 - SHAREWARE
Shareware software requires separate payment to the authors if found useful,
for more information see the program's help file at the topic SHAREWARE.
C.2 - Disclaimer - legal statements
Please read carefully the document _LEGAL.ENG which contains the legal
disclaimer.
CD ROM Paradise,
CD ROM Paradise Collection,
Win Paradise,
The Game Programming CD ROM,
ZipScope,
and FMED are trademarks belonging to CD ROM Paradise SrL
This CD ROM is
Compilation Copyright 1995 CD ROM Paradise Srl - ITALY,
Copyright 1995 Mind Logic - USA
The Windows search program is Copyright 1994-1995 CD ROM Paradise Srl
and was programmed by Michele Fadda & Carlo De Cristofaro
The free Windows Image Viewer utility is copyright 199 CD ROM Paradise Srl
and was programmed by Michele Fadda.
MIND LOGIC is a trademark belonging to Mind Logic
All other trademarks mentioned in this CD ROM belong solely to their owners.
_____________________________________________________________________________
If you are the author of a program contained in this CD ROM you are
entitled to a free copy!
_____________________________________________________________________________
C.3 - We want YOU!
If you have developed content information suitable for a new multimedia
title please contact us via Internet e-mail: cdrom-paradise@tab.com .
We are particularly interested in something not closely related to information
technology itself: music, practical skills, sports, technology, etc...
If you are expert enough in one field to write a very good book on the subject,
please consider contacting us. We want creative people, not yet another
programming gee whiz. We may not necessarily be interested in following your
own path, and maybe we are not enamoured of that particular multimedia tool
you considered using: We like content information and fresh ideas, we don't
like canned multimedia applications.
_________________________________________________________________________
C.4
If you'd like to see your shareware programs on our CD ROMs, please send
your vendor disks with the needed authorizations to:
CD ROM Paradise SRL
P.O. BOX 10177
20100 Milano
ITALY
We can't return any material (disk and/or paper) received.
We can't guarrantee that we'll insert any program received.
On the other hand, if you are the author of any files we included on this
CD ROM, and you'd like to see your files removed, let us know, and we'll
do it in the next edition.
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