D-I-Y can be an expensive exercise if you use qualified tradesmen,
but not everyone has the knowledge to do it themselves. Now Europress offers
a multimedia solution packed with everything you need to do 100 practical tasks
inside and outside the home. Europress Tommy Walsh's D-I-Y Guide gives you
the confidence to achieve your aspirations.
Experience the satisfaction from fixing a dripping tap through to working
safely with electrics, from mixing concrete to using advanced painting
techniques, Europress Tommy Walsh's D-I-Y Guide contains essential advice
on garden construction, decorating, plumbing, electrics and maintenance.
Use the real power of 3D animations, video, sound, text and imagery to show you how it's done.
Let the intuitive yet powerful functionality give you control over thepace and level of instruction
for a complete understanding.
Each task starts with a summary, planning the objectives and detailing the
tools and materials needed. Step by step instructions guide you through the
task giving tips, tricks, potential pitfalls and safety requirements as you learn.
Finally a clear focus on best practice and safety is underlined by direct access to
safety tasks dealing with stepladders, power tools and working with electrics.
Europress Tommy Walsh's D-I-Y Guide provides the knowledge to deliver a professional
finish to all your projects.
Features:
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* 100 practical tasks with approximately 800 instructional steps
* Over 200 visualiser reference photographs
* Over 800 3D instructional images and diagrams
* Over 200 3D instructional animations
* Approximately 20 minutes of instructional video and sound
* Provides a comprehensive overview of each task including tools and materials
* Gives clear step by step printable instructions to complete the task
* Includes full hypertext linked illustrated glossary of terms, tools and materials
* Provides ready reckoners to help you calculate materials
* Displays real time safety advice, tips and features information for tasks and steps
* Contains specific electrical, power tool and stepladder safety tasks
* Integrates with Europress Interior and Garden Designer products
* Links direct to the Europress Lifestyle WWW site
System requirements:
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Recommended:
IBM PC or compatible with a Pentium 200MHz processor
32Mb RAM
Microsoft Windows '95
256 colour display
800x600 screen resolution
Sound Blaster or compatible soundcard
12x speed CD-ROM drive
450Mb hard disk space
Minimum:
IBM PC or compatible with a Pentium 133MHz processor
16Mb RAM
Microsoft Windows '95
256 colour display
800x600 screen resolution
Sound Blaster or compatible soundcard
4x speed CD-ROM drive
12Mb hard disk space
Credits
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Vega development team:
David Iball, Chris Parker, Jason Watson, Richard Beecroft, Amanda Barlow,
Rob Stone, Simon Miller, James Harpham, Paul Biver, Kris Avery, Andrew Horrocks,
Steve Cronshaw, Marc Davison, Amelia Williams,Mike Foster, Phil Smith
Europress Team:
Chris Phillips, Ian Young, Patrick McCormack
Our Special Thanks
Dr Phil Johnson for Electrical Advice
John Casey for the filming work Tel 0161 434 7836
Mr Kenneth Underhill for the kind donation of shots from his portfolio of Garden Design - Construction - Brickwork Block Paving and Tree Surgery. Increase the Value of your property and Enjoy your garden. For quotations and advice Tel :0161 286 1901
Trouble Shooting
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Following an incorrect shutdown
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It is highly unlikely that you will experience an incorrect shutdown
of the application during use. However, if you do experience a problem
of this kind and on next running the application experience problems within
the step instruction level, this may be due to corrupt data files which
have been created by the previous application failure.
Solution:
1. Completely exit the framework.
If you cannot exit using the normal application controls you should
force it to close using the following procedure:
a) Press the Ctrl-Alt-Delete keys once simultaneously to bring
up the Close Program dialog box. (In Windows NT: press
Ctrl-Alt-Delete keys once, click on the 'Task Manager' button.)
b) Select "Runa4w32" task (if present) and press the 'End Task' button
to remove it. The application may recover at this point (notable
by the 'Task Selector' and the 'Task Visualiser' appearing on the
screen. If the application fails to recover or "Runa4w32" is not
present progress to step 'c'.
c) Press the Ctrl-Alt-Delete keys once simultaneously to bring
up the Close Program dialog box. (In NT: press Ctrl-Alt-Delete
keys once, click on the 'Task Manager' button).
d) Select "Tommy Walsh's D-I-Y Guide" task and press the 'End Task'
button to remove it. This will close down the entire application.
2. Delete the corrupt data files.
a) Using Windows Explorer enter the directory C:Windows/A4w_data
(In Windows NT: C:Winnt/A4W_data.) (where "C" is the drive
letter that Windows is installed on).
b) Delete any files of the following format:
TXXx.rec - Where XX is a number between 1 and 30, and x is
a lower case letter between "a" and "m".
IMPORTANT! Do not delete any files that are not in this format.
No files must be deleted whilst the application is open.
256 colour display setup
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If you experience palette problems, it is recommended that you set the
windows system desktop scheme to the Windows standard setting.
256 colour palette conflicts
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Switching from a different application e.g. Internet Explorer to
Tommy Walsh's D-I-Y Guide by means of clicking on the
instruction level step window may corrupt the palette of the
instruction level Toolbar window.
Solution:
a) Switch to another application e.g. Internet Explorer
by using alt+tab.
b) Fully cover the corrupted window with the application.
c) Switch back to Tommy Walsh's D-I-Y Guide by using alt+tab.
Incompatibilities with Device Drivers
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You may experience visual problems with still graphic and animation fades
with some ATI 3D Rage Pro cards. However this does not affect the running
of the program.
You may experience visual problems using Diamond Fire GL 1000 (Pro) cards
using 3D Labs PERMEDIA (2 and NT) drivers. E.g. Where the mouse pointer
is clicked on screen the display corrupts to show small black boxes. This
