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~1f╔═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ * 123-TALK * ║ ║ ──────────── ║ ║ ║ ║ VERSION 3.0 DareWare Inc. ║ ║ COPYRIGHT 3005 GLENMORE AVE. ║ ║ 1990, 1991 BALTIMORE, MD 21214 USA ║ ║ DareWare Inc. (410) 665-0193 ║ ║ ASP MEMBER CIS [70461,3520] ║ ╠═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣ ║ Call TOLL FREE 1-800-327-3929 for CREDIT CARD orders. ║ ╠═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╣ ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ Table of Contents ║ ║ ----------------- ║ ║ PAGE ║ ║ ---- ║ ║ I. Introduction...................................... 1 ║ ║ ║ ║ II. Files on this Disk................................ 2 ║ ║ ║ ║ III. How to INSTALL/RUN 123-TALK....................... 3 ║ ║ ║ ║ IV. Errors/Problems................................... 4 ║ ║ ║ ║ V. How to use 123-TALK............................... 5 ║ ║ ║ ║ VI. Other Speech Products............................. 8 ║ ║ ║ ║ VII. Shareware Distribution............................ 12 ║ ║ ║ ║ VIII. Ordering Information.............................. 13 ║ ║ ║ ║ ║ ╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ To register, send $25.00 (free shipping in USA) to DareWare Inc. / 3005 Glenmore Ave. / Baltimore, MD 21214. I. Introduction --------------- 123-TALK was designed to be an both interactive and creative. This is not the usual type of educational program. This program was created with the concept of having the computer talk to your child to teach them the basics of talking, numbers, counting, addition, subtraction and use of a computer. The object of 123-TALK is to teach children by talking to them: to teach them to say numbers, count, add, subtract and interact with a computer. 123-TALK will teach children ages 1-4 to say the numbers 1 thru 10 and to find numbers on the keyboard. They will also learn to sing the 123 SONG. 123-TALK will teach children ages 4-7 to count, add and subtract. They will also learn to draw with EASY DRAW II. Your child will love the stunning graphics in this package. 123-TALK Page 2 This program will work with any IBM-PC compatible computer and any type of graphic system, with an EGA/VGA graphics card giving the best results. If you find this educational program beneficial and entertaining to your child, Please register your shareware. When you register, you will receive the latest version of 123-TALK with new features, along with a free second program! II. Files on these Disks ------------------------ Below is a list of the files that should be on this distribution disk: 123-TALK.EXE This is the main program file. This file should be executed to run the program. MANUAL.EXE This document file. To print this document file press T now and enter LPT1. README.DOC A introduction document to 123-TALK. RUNME.BAT For the first time user of this package. INSTALLC.BAT RUN THIS to install 123-TALK on you C hard drive. INSTALLD.BAT RUN THIS to install 123-TALK on you D hard drive. PHONE.NO This file holds the phone number information. 123VOICE.SLB This is a sound library of files used by 123-TALK. 123SONG.SLB This is another sound library of files used by 123-TALK. ORDER.FRM Order form for 123-TALK. PRINTDOC.BAT This will print all of the document files. 123-TALK Page 3 III. How to Install/Run 123-TALK -------------------------------- We recommend that you run this package from your hard drive and that you have an EGA/VGA graphics card and monitor. System requirements are: o 512K of memory; o Any graphics card and monitor; Optional mouse for easy draw II. Proceed as follows If you have a FLOPPY based system. Insert the disk into the A drive, then log onto the A drive, by typing and entering A: Then to start the program, type and enter 123-TALK From that point, follow the on-screen instructions or tap Esc key to exit. * HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION ----------------------- To install ABC-TALK on the C drive, insert the ABC-TALK disk in the A drive and type at the dos prompt (A>): INSTALLC * Advanced installation (try this if you have problems) --------------------- If you have a hard drive system, insert the disk into your A drive then make a subdirectory on your hard drive, by typing and entering C: MD\ 123-TALK Then log onto the 123-TALK subdirectory, by typing and entering CD\ 123-TALK Then copy all the files on this disk to the 123-TALK subdirectory on your hard drive by typing and entering COPY A:*.* Then to start the program, type and enter 123-TALK From that point, follow the on-screen instructions or tap Esc key to exit. 123-TALK Page 4 IV. Errors/problems -------------------- If you have any problems running the program, be sure you have 512K of free memory available. If trouble persists, remove all TSR programs. Other possible problems are: o WINDOWS users- If you are running Windows in 386 Enhanced mode, you will need to set the Tasking Option or Execution to EXCLUSIVE. The sound output will be distorted(slow) if this option is not set. OR WHEN YOU START UP WINDOWS, TYPE IN "WIN /S" THIS WILL DISABLE THE MULTI-TASKING MODE. o BGI graphics error message - This is usually means that a graphics card was not detected in your system. This product supports CGA, EGA, VGA, HERC, MDA and SVGA graphics systems. Try using your graphics setup program to select one of the above graphics systems. o Keyboard problem - This may be caused by not having enough memory in your system (512K needed) or by the file size specified in your CONFIG.SYS file being too small. Increasing the file size by adding the line FILES=20 to your CONFIG.SYS file. o Sound output distorted, muffled or slow - This usually reflects the fact that a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program is running. Remove all TSR programs before running 123-Talk. o If the speech output is not loud enough, this is usually caused by a inexpensive PC that has a ceramic speaker built on to the mother board or the speaker is placed in a bad location in your system unit. Your local Radio Shack store has a small inexpensive amplifier that can increase the volume and clarity of the speech output. o If you have any problems other then the ones listed above, please call us or send us a letter, with the error information. This will enable us to correct the error(s). Thanks! 123-TALK Page 5 V. How to use 123-TALK ---------------------- NOTE Press Esc key to exit from any of the menu programs or to exit to DOS. 123-TALK will ask you to verify that you want to exit; tap Y key for YES, N key for NO. This verify procedure protects you in case you press the Esc key accidentally. The Esc (Escape) key is usually located in the upper left-hand corner of the keyboard. 1 - Keyboard Banger 123 ----------------------- "Keyboard Banger 123" is designed for children 1 to 3 years old. This program will teach your child to recognize and say numbers. It will also teach your child to interact with the computer. When your child presses a key on the keyboard, 123-TALK will say a number. During the time your child is not pressing keys, 123-TALK will draw collages, kaleidoscopes and other patterns. After your child starts using Keyboard Banger 123, he/she will start to recognize various numbers and objects hidden in the graphics. NOTE We recommend that when your child starts using this package for the first time, that you remove all objects (telephone, paper, keyboard templates, etc.) away from the system. The reason for this is that at this young age your child's attention span is only a few minutes, and any distractions will reduce the effective keyboard time. Run this package a few times each week and at the end of a few weeks you should start to see progress. Work with your child during this program. Repeat each number as the computer says it, and point to the number on the screen. Example: When 123-TALK says "three" point to the number 3. 2 - 123 Song ------------ The "123 Song" is designed for all ages. This is very entertaining and amusing for the young child. This song is sung in a young child's voice. After a few times running the 123 Song for your child, encourage them to sing along and follow the balloon numbers while singing. If you are running this program from a CGA system, the balloons will not be displayed. 123-TALK Page 6 3 - Your Phone No. Is --------------------- "Your Phone No. Is" is designed for children 2 to 4 years old. This will teach your child to remember your phone number and to remember the emergency number 911. Work with your child and help them with the phone number. Please explain to your child when to use the 911 number. After your child starts to say and reconize their phone number, try turning the sound off and rerunning this program. This will make it a little harder. To change the phone number to your own, refer to menu item 9 "ADULT CONTROL." 4 - Find The Number game ------------------------ "Find The Number" game is designed for children 3 to 6 years old. this will teach your child to find numbers on the keyboard. When your child finds the correct number, 123-TALK will say encouraging words, such as "Way to go, great, super duper, alright," etc. When your child answers are incorrect, 123-TALK will say, "Almost, try again, oops," etc. The correct numbers will appear at the top of the screen and the incorrect numbers will appear at the bottom of the screen. Work with your child on the numbers they are having problems with. When your child answers 40 numbers correctly a wild graphic screen will entertain them. When five questions are answered correctly, 123-TALK will stop saying "Find the number." After your child is able to find all the numbers on the keyboard, try turning the sound off and rerunning this program. This will make it a little harder. 5 - Easy Counting game ---------------------- The "Easy Counting" game is designed for children 3-6 years old. The first screen of Easy Counting will display 9 balloons and count from 1 to 9; it will also encourage your child to count the balloons. The next screens will ask your child to count the balloons on the screen. When your child finds the correct number, 123-TALK will say encouraging words (Way to go, etc.) and it will display a fancy screen as a reward. When your child's answers are incorrect 123-TALK will also say encouraging words (Almost, etc.) When five questions are answered correctly, 123-TALK will stop asking "How many balloons." After your child starts to answer the questions correctly, try turning the sound off and rerunning this program. This will make it a little harder. 123-TALK Page 7 6 - Addition Game ----------------- The "Addition Game" is designed for children 4-7 years old. This game displays two numbers for your child to add, along with the number of balloons to add. Your child should count the balloons at the bottom of the screen to get the correct answer. When your child finds the correct number, 123-TALK will say encouraging words and display a fancy screen. When your child answers are incorrect 123-Talk will say other encouraging words. When five questions are answered correctly, 123-TALK will stop asking, "What does." After your child is able to answer the addition questions correctly, try turning the sound off and rerunning the program; this will make it a little harder. If you are running this program from a CGA system, the balloons will not be displayed. 7 - Subtraction Game -------------------- The subtraction game is designed for children 4-7 years old. This game will display two numbers for your child to subtract, along with the number of balloons. Point to the first number and say, "Takeaway the second number." Ask "If you have five balloons and you take away three balloons, how many balloons are left?" When your child finds the correct number, 123-Talk will say encouraging words and display a fancy screen. When your child answers are incorrect 123-Talk will say other encouraging words. When five questions are answered correctly, 123-TALK will stop asking "What does." When your child is able to answer the subtraction questions correctly, try turning the sound off and rerunning this program. This will make it a little harder. If you are running this program from a CGA system, the balloons will not be displayed. 8 - Easy Draw II ---------------- "Easy Draw II" is designed for children of all ages. A mouse is required to use Easy Draw II. This program is a simple drawing program that will allow the young child to scribble on the screen. After your child has used this program a few times try and see if they can fill the screen with various colors. With older children, let their imagination go and see what they create. Ask them to draw a house, a tree, numbers, or play TIC-TAC-TOE. The left mouse button is used to draw, the right mouse button is used to change the colors, if you press both buttons at the same time the background color will change. Change the drawing color to the background color to erase sections of the screen. To erase the entire screen press the E key. If you have a CGA, MDA, or HERC graphics system, then you will only have 2 colors (black and white) and you will have to press the right mouse button several times to change the color; and you can not change the background color. 123-TALK Page 8 If the mouse operates too fast for your child to use, try reducing the resoution of your mouse. Refer to your mouse manual for more information on how to reduce the resolution of your mouse. 9 - ADULT CONTROL ----------------- Press S to toggle the voice and sound ON or OFF. This is a handy feature, when your child masters saying the numbers you can turn the voice/sound off to make it a little harder. Use this for any of the menu items. Press P to change the phone number for menu item 3. When you press P, 123-talk will ask you to enter a new phone number. Start with your home phone number and advance to other numbers. If you have a MDA or HERC. display the numbers you enter will not be echoed to the screen. You can enter up to 7 numbers and don't forget to put in the - sign. EXAMPLE: 555-1212. Press K to toggle the kalidoscope ON or OFF. (registered users only) Use to to drill or test your child. 123-TALK Page 9 VI. Other Products ------------------ When you register your software we will send you a updated list of other products for multimedia, business, educational and personal use. SOUND BLASTER version of 123-TALK................................ $ 25.00 --------------------------------- ABC-TALK for ALPHABET and WORDS ------------------------------- ABC-TALK is a new educational program with a real human voice that teaches children how to talk, recite the alphabet, read, spell and work with a computer. ABC-TALK will teach young children to say early words ("Hi, mama, dada, I love you, drink, please, thank you, up, bye," etc.) and to interact with a computer. For older children, ABC-TALK will teach them to recite and understand the alphabet, find letters on the keyboard, recognize the letters in words and how to spell words. Also included is the ABC SONG and EASY DRAW to help develop your child's creativity. The voice output will work with any IBM PC compatible and any graphics monitor. This program will give children great encouragement to learn. When a question is answered correctly, ABC-TALK will say positive words ("Way to go, great, excellent," etc.). The hi-resolution graphics are designed to bring out the child's creativity by using kaleidoscopes and collages. The child will learn to recognize various objects, letters and words hidden in the graphics...................................... $ 25.00. SOUND BLASTER version of ABC-TALK................................ $ 25.00 --------------------------------- OTHER PRODUCTS WITH TALKING TEACHER under development. ----------------------------------------------------- COLORS and SHAPES - Designed for children 1-7 years old....... $19.50 ADDITION and SUBTRACTION - Designed for children 4-9 years old.$24.50 MULTIPLICATION and DIVISION - Designed for children 7-11 years old. $24.50 WORD GAMES GRADE 1-3 - Designed for children 6-9 years old.... $29.50 WORD GAMES GRADE 4-6 - Designed for children 9-12 years old... $29.50 EARLY SPANISH - Designed for children 4-12 years old.......... $29.50 KID TALK - New advanced EDUCATIONAL GAMES and learning programs for children (2-14). KID TALK will teach your child colors shapes, direction and logic. VGA required......... $ 25.00 123-TALK Page 10 MULTIMEDIA 1 ------------ MULTIMEDIA 1 will allow you to create your own custom presentations, demo's, tutorials, courseware, reports and much more. With this package you can combine real human speech, music and sound effects with high resolution images (up to SVGA). Use this package to create your own custom talking slide show. This package includes: * OVER 1 MEG. of speech, music and sound effects. * display GIF, PCX, PIC, TIFF and TARGA files. * Supports CGA, EGA, VGA and SVGA (upto 1024 x 768) * MOTION, SPECIAL EFFECTS and TEXT capability. * INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT EDITOR with: * MULTIPLE OVERLAPPING WINDOWS * PULL DOWN MENU * FULL MOUSE SUPPORT * COPY and PASTE features * IMAGE PROCESSING FUNCTIONS * Screen CAPTURE capability * Optional SOUND BLASTER support * NO ROYALTIES As an added service, we can provide you with custom speech for your application and we can digitize (capture) your video recording, photos and any art work that you create. Now you can incorporate sound, graphics and video images into one package. All this for only $59.00 IMAGE PRO with TALKING SLIDE SHOW ───────────────────────────────── The IMAGE PROCESSOR is a scaled down version of MULTIMEDIA 1, that will display, convert, scale, clip, print, change brightness/contrast of GIF, PCX, PIC, TIFF and TARGA graphic image files. Also includes a TALKING SLIDE SHOW PRESENTATION PACKAGE....................... $ 29.00 123-TALK Page 11 PC-TALK (THE VOICE LIBRARY) --------------------------- The VOICE LIBRARY is a new product for business and personal applications. The library consist of words and phrases the can be used in all sorts of possibilities. There is no special hardware need to run the VOICE LIBRARY because it works thru the PC speaker! The voice commands can be put in any batch file (*.bat) and added to your programs/menus. This package is very easy to use, you simply type PC- TALK at the DOS prompt followed by the words you would like to say. For example to hear "Happy birthday" enter this command: PC-TALK HAPPY BIRTHDAY Also included in this package is a PCX display program that can be used to display PCX pictures. This will give you a talking slide show capability. This package contains over 1,000,000 bytes of speech, music and sound effects on three disks. Cost only $29.50. JOKE TALK --------- JOKE TALK is a new type of HUMOR program with real human speech that will say several jokes, play NAME THAT TUNE, VOICE IMPERSONATIONS, ADULT jokes and much more. Some of the nifty funnies are : computer jokes, phone rings, greetings, on-liners and the CANDID CAMERA SHOW. This product will give you hours of entertainment and is has the capability to copy jokes to other computers. This wiil allow you to play practical jokes on your family and friends. (only $29.50) 123-TALK Page 12 VII. Shareware Distribution --------------------------- Shareware is a growing concept for now and the future. It gives YOU the chance to freely obtain and try out software to see if it fits your needs. Shareware means that you try it and if you like it, you should buy it. If you continue to use this shareware program after trying it out, you are expected to register your copy with DareWare Inc. and pay the registration fee. When you register you can use this package with your programs and we will provide you with technical support. Please support the shareware concept. This will enable us to continue to support our products and create new and exciting speech programs. Considering the price of a comparable commercial software package, it's obvious that shareware is a good deal for everyone. There are real advantages to the shareware system. You get to try out software to make sure it's compatible with your system and that it fits your needs before you "buy" it. DareWare Inc. saves the expense of advertising, packaging and distribution and passes the savings on to you. Plus, we are much more accessible than commercial software sources, so your questions and suggestions are much more likely to be responded to. Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether it's commercial or shareware. The shareware system makes finding software easier, because you can try before you buy. Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee - if you don't use the product, you don't pay for it. And if you do use the product you should pay for it. OMBUDSMAN STATEMENT ------------------- This program is produced by a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442 or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY ---------------------- THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS," THERE ARE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES ARE EXPRESSLY AND SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIMED. NEITHER DAREWARE INC. PRODUCTS NOR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF THIS SOFTWARE SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE SUCH SOFTWARE. THIS DISCLAIMER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF MARYLAND. 123-TALK Page 13 VIII. Ordering Information --------------------------- To order the new version of 123-TALK plus a free second program: * Send $25.00 U.S. dollars (free shipping in USA, $2.50 shipping for foreign orders). * Make your check or money order payable to DareWare Inc.. * Send payment to the address below. DareWare Inc. 3005 Glenmore Ave. Baltimore, MD 21214 * VISA, MASTER CARD or AMERICAN EXPRESS credit card orders: ------------------------------------- * CALL toll free 1-800-327-3929 -------------- * To order the SOUND BLASTER version, just ask for the SOUND BLASTER version of 123-TALK. If you have any comments or suggestions, please send us a letter or reach us on CompuServe [70461,3520] or CALL at (410) 665-0193. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT --------------------------