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- ToyCHEST I (tm) v1.1a
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- Copyright (c) 1993 by: jwh: SoftWare All Rights Reserved.
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- Member: Association of Shareware Authors and Distributors (ASAD)
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- A VGA color system and a MicroSoft (tm) compatible mouse is required
- to operate this application.
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- NOTE !! Do not attempt to run this program on a 360k floppy drive.
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- ToyCHEST I is a complete and very user friendly Graphics User
- Interface (GUI) or Menuing system that runs in 256 color VGA mode.
- It provides the user with colorful picture icons for selecting sub
- menus or executing applications or DOS commands. Allows creating up
- to 20 menus or applications on each Menu Page. Sub menus may be nested
- four levels deep. With this configuration, you could access
- up to 160,000 menu selections.
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- ToyCHEST I provides the user with the ability to set screen and
- font colors to a possible of over 30 color combinations. Includes a
- full featured Icon editor with options for creating or painting 256
- color picture icons.
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- Also included is an Icon conversion utility that will convert WINDOWS
- (.ICO) or Design SHELL (.ICN) icons over to the ToyCHEST I format.
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- All options can be fully password protected against entry.
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- To run ToyCHEST I: Copy all files to a directory on your hard drive,
- move to that drive and directory and type: TOYCHEST
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- ToyCHEST I will operate from a HD floppy drive
- with no problems except reading and writing
- to icon files would be very slow.
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- For smoother operation, you may also include this
- drive and directory in your AUTOEXEC.BAT files
- PATH statement. If you do this, you can start
- ToyCHEST I from any drive or directory on your
- system just by typing: TOYCHEST
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- Files needed to run ToyCHEST I:
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- TOYCHEST.EXE -- Main program module
- TOYPAINT.EXE -- Icon painting module
- TCSHELL .EXE -- Shell runtime module
- TC_FILES.EXE -- Archive file containing Icons, Conversion Utility,
- and a user Manual.
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- NOTE !! The first time you run ToyCHEST I, it will automaticaly
- extract the files from the TC_FILES.EXE file.
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- Files found in the TC_FILES.EXE
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- CONVERT .EXE -- Conversion utility for converting WINDOWS (.ICO) or
- Design SHELL (.ICN) icon files to ToyCHEST (.256).
- *.256 -- Extra 256 color Icon files.
- UPDATES .DOC -- List of version updates.
- MANUAL .DOC -- A printable manual for ToyCHEST I.
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