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6 June, 1993
Font Monster Multimedia Upgrade
Program and documentation written by Steven Fox
and ⌐ 1993 by Leaping Lizards, Taiwan
WAV samples snagged by Steven Fox,
who claims no copyright to them whatsoever.
This program is distributed as freeware.
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WHY?
Why not? Okay, sure, you don't need sound effects to use Font Monster. But
Font Monster was never intended to be a totally serious, boring, same as all
the rest, utility. My god, if that was the intention, first I'd change it's
name to "Font Man" or "Font Manager" or some other unoriginal name, then I'd
make a really dull icon to go with it, like a picture of a lowercase letter
"a" or something equally as boring as that. Then I'd totally remove all the
nice graphics so that it looked like any other Visual Basic hack. It just
wouldn't be the same, right?
So...WHY?!?
Well, this may sound silly, but you know those utilities that make sounds in
Windows, like "WhoopItUp" or "IconHearIt" ? Well they can't hook into Visual
Basic forms, so they're not of any use when you use Font Monster. Now, with
the Font Monster Multimedia Upgrade, you can get sounds.
BIG DEAL.
Hey man, if you don't give a hoot then why did you download this?
THE SOUNDS.
I sampled all the included sounds myself using a SoundBlaster Pro at various
sample rates. A hobby of mine is collecting sound effects and all of these
sounds I have laying around at home on tapes or CDs.
Most of the .WAV files are taken from WAV collections I sampled almost a year
ago, although they've never been generally released. The sounds mostly come
from the James Brown, Star Trek SFX (not voices), cartoon SFX, and classic
commercial jingles collections. I think there's also one in here from a
classic newsreels and radio themes collection I'm building now.
HOW TO INSTALL.
Easy. Just PKUNZIP all the files into a single directory. It doesn't matter
which. Run the UPGRADE.EXE program in Windows, and press the button to
install the sounds.
IT'S NOT THAT EASY ACTUALLY!
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention a couple things. First, you must have Font
Monster 3.1 (or higher), and you must have used it at least once so that it
can establish a pointer in your WIN.INI which tells Windows where it is. If
you try to run the Font Monster Multimedia Upgrade without having Font
Monster, it won't let you run it. And although it is impossible that you
could have run Font Monster without these, it's worth mentioning that you
must have VBRUN200.DLL and THREED.VBX in your WINDOWS/SYSTEM directory if you
want to run this program. UPGRADE.EXE is a Visual Basic 2.0 program.
WHAT IT DOES.
Yeah, I know how you feel about letting some unknown, dinky little program
run wild with your hard disk and your WIN.INI file. Here's the scoop: First
it finds that subdirectory FMONSTER.EXE is located in on your hard disk. Then
it creates a WAV subdirectory in that subdirectory and simply copies all the
.WAV files to there. As it's doing that, it adds the following lines to the
[sounds] section of your WIN.INI...
FMActivate=,Font Monster-Activate group
FMAdd=,Font Monster-Add icon
FMCancel=,Font Monster-Cancel
FMClick=,Font Monster-Click
FMDelete=,Font Monster-Delete
FMDrag=,Font Monster-Drag&Drop
FMExit=,Font Monster-Exit window
FMGrid=,Font Monster-Font grid
FMGroup=,Font Monster-Font groups
FMHelp=,Font Monster-Help
FMInstall=,Font Monster-Install font
FMKeep=,Font Monster-Keep image
FMNew=,Font Monster-New
FMOk=,Font Monster-Ok
FMOpen=,Font Monster-Open font
FMPrint=,Font Monster-Print fonts
FMCnfg=,Font Monster-Program config
FMQuit=,Font Monster-Quit
FMSave=,Font Monster-Save font
FMStart=,Font Monster-Startup
FMStop=,Font Monster-Stop!
FMUndo=,Font Monster-Undo changes
FMUninstall=,Font Monster-Uninstall font
FMView=,Font Monster-View font
FMWho=,Font Monster-Who?
...and then it attaches the appropriate WAV file to each of those functions. When
it's all done, it launches Control Panel so you can take a look, and listen, to what
it's done.
By the way, you can simply edit in those above lines using Notepad, then use
Control Panel to attach your own favorite sounds. And there is no reason why
you can't move the supplied WAV files to another directory, or delete them
altogether, or assign different sounds. Font Monster doesn't care. I don't
care either.
WHY IS THIS FREEWARE?
The first reason is pretty obvious. There's no way I'm gonna have James
Brown's lawyers ringing me up and asking for a share of the royalties. Heck,
I'm not gonna claim copyright or charge money for something so blatantly
ripped off. The poor guy's been ripped off too many times already. This
policy goes for all the other sound effects too.
The second reason is that the Font Monster Multimedia Upgrade is merely a
limited use add-on to another program which is the main bread winner (NOT!)
-- Font Monster. If you haven't registered Font Monster by now you must be
sick, or injured, or somehow unable to stick a twenty in an envelope and post
it off to Taiwan. I sincerely hope you get better soon.
DISCLAIMER:
I've said it before but it bears repeating:
If this program messes up your system, SUE ME!
(Don't you get tired of seeing a whole page of legal disclaimers, a fair
amount of it IN ALL CAPS, warning you about this that and the other, in a
stupid little README.TXT file. Give me a break.)
MY ADDRESS:
Steven Fox
c/o Leaping Lizards
4F 189 Tze-Lee Road
Chung-Ho City 235
Taipei Hsien, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Fax: 886-2-729-0863
Fido/UUCP E-mail address: steven.fox@f921.n720.z6.fidonet.org
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