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- Note: MusicBox will not run unless you have a Microsoft compatible mouse
- and a color monitor. The monitor can be CGA, EGA or VGA compatable.
-
- Files included with MusicBox:
-
- In MBEXE.ARC:
-
- READ .ME This file.
- MB .EXE The MusicBox program.
- TUTOR .SCR A simplified MusicBox overlay.
-
- In MBDOC.ARC:
-
- MUSICBOX .TXT The MusicBox manual.
-
- MUSICBOX.TXT: Use the DOS Print command to print this. MusicBox is
- not a program you can use without the manual, so this should be
- the next thing you do. Note that unprintable graphics icons are
- identified in the document by a backslash and the hex character
- code (i.e. "\7F"). The information is redundant and should be
- ignored. It is there for those who want ALL the details.
- This file is now on a separate ARC file.
-
- TUTOR.SCR: This is a simplified module source screen overlay, with
- only one or two modules per box, rather than the usual 8 to 10.
- It will load instead of the normal screen whenever it is in the
- default directory when MB is loaded. After you have run through
- the tutorials given in the manual and you are comfortable with
- the MusicBox module layout, you can delete the file, or exile it
- to a special tutorial directory, and the normal MusicBox module
- source screen will become available.
-
- MusicBox is installed with 3 pages of workspace available. If
- you have an EGA or VGA, you can set it to have 7 pages, enough
- for a large-scale composition. To do this, you need to change
- a memory location value (from 3 to 7) with DEBUG:
-
- REN MB.EXE MB.BIN<RET>
- DEBUG MB.BIN<RET>
- E65C6 7<RET>
- W<RET>
- REN MB.BIN MB.EXE<RET>
-
- You can also set MusicBox to work with 2 MPU's. Follow the
- DEBUG procedure above, but "E65C5 3". You can enter 0 to run
- without any MPU's, or return the value to 1, for one MPU.
-
- If you want to run with a floppy disk, you will have to disable
- MusicBox's natural inclination to make a backup and set files.
- With DEBUG, "E65D5 0<RET>" and "E65E2 0<RET>"
-
- Good luck with MusicBox. I hope you find it to your liking.
-
- -- John Dunn
-