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- Getting Started
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- Copy all of The Multimedia Workshop files into a single
- subdirectory on your hard disk.
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- LET'S GET STARTED
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- There are two ways to learn to use a program like this
- one (Actually there's nothing 'like' The Multimedia Workshop,
- but you know what I mean):
- You can read all this documentation, and then start
- practicing, or you can just start it up, and experiment until
- you understand it. With The Multimedia Workshop, that's
- pretty easy to do, because it is quite user-friendly. But
- you'll definitely want to check these instructions out after
- a while to find out about all the tricks The Multimedia
- Workshop can do.
- Either way, experimentation is very important, because
- there are many things that you'll learn to do, or to do
- better with practice. There's a lot to this multimedia
- business.
- Any time you have a question, you can press the [F1] key
- within The Multimedia Workshop, and this full help system
- will usually pop up. For specific help, go to a likely
- chapter and press the [S] key to search for any word or
- phrase for related or unrelated help.
-
- LET'S REALLY GET STARTED
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- Make back-up copies of your original disks and put them
- somewhere safe.
- If you have a mouse, make sure your mouse driver is
- loaded. Then switch to the drive/directory containing The
- Multimedia Workshop, type TMW, and press [Enter]. (From this
- point forward, for ease of reading, I won't say, "press
- [Enter]" when doing so would be obvious.)
-
- Then you are prompted for a file name. You can type just
- about any DOS-legal filename here, but we recommend that you
- avoid names ending with extensions such as .COM, .EXE, .BAT,
- .PCX or others which may be confused with other types of
- files. If you type a filename which already exists, it will
- be loaded into the program so that you can view or modify
- it. If you type a new filename, it will start with a blank
- screen.
- Actually, if you type a new filename, you are first
- asked whether you want to change video modes. This way, you
- can choose whether you want to create the file as a 4-color
- low-resolution CGA, 16-color high-resolution VGA, or other
- type of picture. You will only be offered options which are
- supported by your computer.
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- end of chapter.
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