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- C.SITTE SOFTWARETECHNIK │c.sitte │
- Postfach 42 │software│
- A-5025 Salzburg, AUSTRIA │technik │
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- SHAREWARE INFORMATION
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- HiVIDEO is distributed under the shareware marketing concept.
- This means that you can try the program for a limited amount of
- time to see if it meets your needs. After the trial period, you
- are required to register and pay the registration fee. Shareware
- is a distribution method, NOT a type of software. The primary
- difference between shareware and retail software is that with
- shareware you know if it fits your needs BEFORE you pay for it.
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- LICENSE
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- Non-registered users are granted a limited license to try HiVIDEO
- for a period of four weeks. After the trial period you are
- required to register and to pay the registration fee or stop
- using it. The four week evaluation period is a legal requirement
- based on the license agreement, NOT a time bomb inserted in the
- program! HiVIDEO will not stop working or cause any damage to
- itself or your system at the end of the four week period.
- You are encouraged to freely copy and distribute HiVIDEO provided
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- 1. No fee beyond normal media, duplication, and shipping costs
- may be charged.
- 2. It must be copied in unaltered form complete with this license
- and copyright information
- 3. It is advertised as "shareware" and not as "free" or
- "public domain" software.
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- ASP OMBUDSMAN STATEMENT
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- 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
- 49442-9427, USA or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail
- to ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536.
- The Ombudsman may be contacted by FAX by sending to the ASP FAX
- number: (616) 788-2765. In communication with the Ombudsman
- please include a telephone number and/or FAX if available.
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- WARRANTY
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- C.SITTE SOFTWARETECHNIK MAKES NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
- IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTIES OF
- MERCHANTABILITY AND/OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
- C.SITTE SOFTWARETECHNIK SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES,
- WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL ARISING FROM A
- FAILURE OF THIS PROGRAM TO OPERATE IN THE MANNER DESIRED BY THE
- USER. C.SITTE SOFTWARETECHNIK SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY
- DAMAGE TO DATA OR PROPERTY WHICH MAY BE CAUSED DIRECTLY OR
- INDIRECTLY BY USE OF THE PROGRAM.
- IN NO EVENT WILL C.SITTE SOFTWARETECHNIK BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY
- DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS OR OTHER
- INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF OR
- INABILITY TO USE THESE PROGRAM, EVEN IF C.SITTE SOFTWARETECHNIK
- HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY
- CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY.
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- EDITION
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- May 1993
- Copyright 1993 by C.Sitte Softwaretechnik
- All rights reserved
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- NOTICE
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- This manual is based on the software revision V2.03 of May 1993.
- The information in this document is subject to change without
- notice. C.Sitte Softwaretechnik assumes no responsibility for any
- errors that may appear in supplied materials or programs.
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- REQUIRED HARDWARE
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- The HiVIDEO DOS Memory Expander can be installed on personal
- computers with a 256k (or more) VGA or EGA display adapter and
- 640k conventional DOS memory.
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- ORDER INFORMATION
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- The registration fee for a single copy of HiVIDEO is US$ 15.-.
- Payment of this fee entitles you to:
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- * Disk with the latest version of the HiVIDEO DOS memory
- expander which does not display the evaluation notice text.
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- * Printed manual
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- * Free support by electronic mail or by mail for the first six
- month after payment.
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- * Additional disk labels for the number of ordered copy licences.
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- * Notification of the next major upgrade.
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- The following per-unit prices apply for registration of one or
- more copies of HiVIDEO on the same order form:
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- 1 US$ 15.-
- 2 - 9 US$ 10.- (-30%)
- 10+ (negotiable)
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- It is also possible to obtain an additional site licence (copy
- license). A minimum of one disk with documentation must be
- ordered. The licensee is responsible for duplicating the diskette
- and documentation as needed, and for ensuring that the number of
- installed copies is not exceeded. Additional disk labels for the
- number of ordered copy licences will be delivered.
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- 25 User US$ 120.-
- 50 User US$ 200.-
- 100 User US$ 320.-
- 100+ (negotiable)
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- An additional shipping charge of US$ 5.- must be added to the
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- Payments can be made by credit card (MC/Visa/AmEx/JCB), cash,
- international postal money order or eurocheque. If you use an US
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- The accompanying file ORDER.FRM includes a detailed order form.
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- T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
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- 1. GENERAL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- 1.1 FIRST MEGABYTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- 1.2 VGA/EGA DISPLAY ADAPTER. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- 1.3 DEFINITION OF TERMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
- 1.4 HiVIDEO CONCEPT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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- 2. INSTALLATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- 2.1 Packing List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
- 2.2 Installation Procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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- 3. "HIVIDEO.COM" DOS Memory Expander. . . . . . . . . . . 3
- 3.1 Commandline Arguments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- 3.1.1 "?". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- 3.1.2 "RESIDENT" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- 3.1.3 "ON" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
- 3.1.4 "OFF". . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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- 4. To help you - help us! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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- 5. Revision history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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- 6. SUBJECT INDEX. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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- 1. GENERAL
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- In 1981, the 1-megabyte address space of the newly introduced IBM
- PC seemed spacious, indeed. Less than a decade later, however,
- that same amount of space seems claustrophobic. DOS users search
- continuously for any nook or cranny into which they can stuff a
- few kilobytes of valuable RAM, to provide a little more breathing
- room for today's insatiable application programs, network
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- 1.1 FIRST MEGABYTE
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- The first megabyte of DOS memory can be viewed as consisting of
- 16 segments of 64 kBytes (kilo Bytes). The first 10 segments are
- reserved for the RAM into which you load DOS, device drivers, and
- application programs. These 10 segments - from address 0000
- through address 9FFF - make up conventional memory (640 kByte).
- The next two segments (A000 and B000) are reserved for video
- buffers. Hard disk drive and video controller ROMs are often
- located in the C000 segment. The 128 kByte of space in the D000
- and E000 segment are usually available for expanded-memory cards,
- network-interface-cards, and the like. And last, the ROM BIOS is
- located in the F000 segment. Not all segments are used in a given
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- 1.2 VGA/EGA DISPLAY ADAPTER
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- Most of the VGA and EGA display adapters have 256k (or more)
- video memory installed. This memory isn't fully used, if the
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- 1.3 DEFINITION OF TERMS
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- 'Conventional memory' is the first 640 kByte (655,360 bytes of
- RAM). It is not possible to use all of it for applications, since
- DOS and various resident programs consume some of it. The amount
- of available memory is important, because PC software can
- normally run only when it's in conventional memory. Meanwhile,
- the 384 kByte between 640kB and 1MB (1024kB) is called 'upper
- memory'. RAM above 1 MByte is called 'extended memory' (not
- 'expanded memory', which swaps pages of RAM in and out of
- conventional memory or upper memory). The first (or lowest)
- 64 kByte of extended memory is called 'high memory' and should
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- 1.4 HiVIDEO CONCEPT
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- HiVIDEO uses the unused graphics memory of the VGA/EGA display
- adapter in text mode to expand the conventional memory by 96kB
- (with a color monitor, 64kB with monochrome monitors). The
- graphics modes are disabled if the conventional memory is
- expanded in this way. The expansion can be switch on and off
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- 2. INSTALLATION
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- 2.1 Packing List
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- Shareware copies of HiVIDEO may be "packaged" in a variety of ways
- depending on who distributed them. Regardless of packaging, the
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- HIVIDEO .COM HiVIDEO DOS Memory Expander (TSR)
- HIVIDEO .DOC Program Documentation
- ORDER .FRM Order Form
- DESCRIBE.DOC Product Description & Author Info
- VENDOR .DOC Vendor/Distributor Information
- FILE_ID .DIZ Program Description for BBS's
- !!READ .!ME Last Minute Information
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- 2.2 Installation Procedure
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- Once you have copied the HiVIDEO files on your hard disk, you
- must change your PATH environment variable to include the
- subdirectory HiVIDEO or move the file HiVIDEO.COM to a
- subdirectory already in the DOS path. An optional procedure for
- execution would be to always execute HIVIDEO.COM from its own
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- 3. "HIVIDEO.COM" DOS Memory Expander
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- The HIVIDEO.COM program is a resident utility wich allows the
- dynamic expansion of conventional DOS MEMORY with 96kB of
- graphics memory on a VGA or EGA display adapter. When the
- expansion is "ON" all graphics modes are disabled. To use the
- graphics mode, HiVIDEO must be switched "OFF" to release the
- graphics memory. When HIVIDEO.COM is executed without any
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- HiVIDEO V2.03 #0000XXXXXXXXX - DOS Memory Expander
- (C) Copyright 1993 C.Sitte Softwaretechnik, All Rights Reserved
- UNREGISTERED EVALUATION VERSION
- >>> HiVIDEO is NOT resident
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- 3.1 Commandline Arguments
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- There are four arguments possible:
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- 3.1.1 "?"
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- This argument displays a message about the commandline syntax:
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- Syntax: hivideo [on | off | resident| ?]
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- 3.1.2 "RESIDENT"
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- This argument forces the HiVIDEO program to stay resident, but
- does not expand the memory. The expansion can be activated later
- with the "ON" argument.
- If a XBDA (extended bios data area) is found at the end of the
- 640k conventional DOS memory area, this area is relocated into
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- 3.1.3 "ON"
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- This argument activates the memory expansion of the conventional
- memory area from 640kB to 736kB (+96kB). All graphics modes are
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- If there is less than 640kB conventional DOS memory available,
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- >>> Top of memory NOT at 640K.
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- If the conventional memory is successfully expanded, the
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- >>> HiVIDEO is resident, Graphics is disabled,
- Memory size is 736K
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- If an application tries to enable any graphics mode the following
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- >>> WARNING: Graphics video modes are disabled.
- Press ESC key to Continue.
- Press any other key to Abort.
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- This argument deactivates the memory expansion of the
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- >>> HiVIDEO is resident, Graphics is enabled,
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- 4. To help you - help us!
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- If you have questions about the HiVIDEO DOS memory expander
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- o Contents of AUTOEXEC.BAT file
- o Contents of CONFIG.SYS file
- o Information about:
- - Type of computer
- - Version of operating system
- - Programs (where the problem occurs)
- - BIOS (manufacturer, version)
- - Video adapter
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- Send this information to:
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- Mail:
- C.SITTE SOFTWARETECHNIK
- Postfach 42
- A-5025 Salzburg/Austria
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- Electronic Mail:
- CompuServe: 73030,1070
- Internet : 73030.1070@compuserve.com
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- X400 : Country=us
- ADMD=CompuServe
- PRMD=csmail
- DDA Type=id
- DDA Value=73030.1070
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- MCI users should enter these values
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- To: Chris Sitte (ems)
- EMS: CompuServe
- MBX: p=csmail
- MBX: d=id=73030.1070
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- 5. Revision history
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- v2.03 May/93 Bug fixes
- v2.02 Oct/92 DOS5 UMB support added
- FILE_ID.DIZ description file added
- v2.01 Jun/92 Initial shareware release
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- "?", 3
- "HIVIDEO.COM" DOS Memory Expander, 3
- "OFF", 4
- "ON", 3
- "RESIDENT", 3
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- HIVIDEO.COM, 3
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