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Dear Shareware Vendor
This file contains our distribution policy and information on this software.
-- DISTRIBUTION POLICY
You have permission to distribute our shareware in its original form as long
as you:
* identify it as shareware (with an appropriate definition)
* leave all intellectual property (copyright) notices in place, and do not
alter the files in any way
* do not remove any files other than the optional files (the list is at the
end of the README file)
... and as long as we do not request that you stop.
That's it.
The easiest way for you is to use the CDBOX300 archive, but if you need to,
you may archive our programs (whatever the format, whether self-extracting
or not), unarchive them, include/exclude optional files, include them with
other programs on the same diskette (including your own installation
routines), and do essentially anything you want as long as you follow these
simple rules. We want the widest possible distribution, and don't want to
stand in your way so long as you are honest with our mutual customer.
The suggested archive name for BBS or FTP server use is CDBOX300 (whatever the
extension). This will provide consistency for future updates.
If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints, please contact me:
Jeffrey BELT
7 rue de la Garenne
77240 - CESSON
FRANCE
I include no phone number since it will change in the next months. However,
mail sent to the above address will always reach me.
International: if you are a publisher interested in translating and supporting
this product in another language, please contact me to discuss an exclusive
agreement for your language and country. If you are interested in providing
registration and support services, I am interested in working with you on a
non-exclusive basis.
-- SOFTWARE DESCRIPTIONS
Descriptions of this software are included below for your convenience, you may
of course use a different description in your catalog.
*** ONE-LINE
CDBOX300.ZIP VGA/mouse driven multiple-format sound player & playback shell
*** SHORT
CD-Box is a VGA & mouse player & playback shell to play music on an AdLib or
SoundBlaster card (or better). It provides a common high-level interface to
multiple sound file formats (.CMF .MID .MOD .MUS .ROL .VOC .WAV) with
extras: internal .CMF, .ROL, .MOD, .VOC and .WAV support (with Pause &
Repeat & Volume control), multiple and random song selection, automatic
handling of bank files, song titles and lengths, playback from .ARC, .ARJ,
.PAK and/or .ZIP archives, and nice graphics and animation!
*** FULL
CD-Box is, stated simply, a program which plays back music files on the AdLib
Music Synthetizer Card and the SoundBlaster card. However, it is also very
pretty and fun to use - it runs in 256 colors and can use your mouse.
CD-Box's main features:
- A pretty ray-traced interface and fun animation - CDs pop up and down and
start and stop spinning, pages scroll... including random events I'll
let you discover!
- Support for .CMF, .MID, .MOD, .MUS, .ROL, .VOC and .WAV music/sound files
(.CMF, .MOD, .VOC and .WAV files work with SoundBlaster only), with
Pause & Repeat buttons. These files can also be stored in .ARC, .ARJ,
.PAK and/or .ZIP files to save disk space - CD-Box will find them and
play them from the archive (using a RAM drive if you want). There are
also volume control, skipping forward and backward and echo effects
available for some formats.
- CD-Box allows you to easily program a selection of songs; it waits for you
to select the songs you want to hear before starting to play the first
one.
- Instead of selecting songs, you can tell CD-Box how long you want the
playback to last, and it will automatically select songs for you. You
can even do that from the DOS command line (or a batch file), and CD-Box
will play the songs, then exit right back to DOS.
- CD-Box makes it easy to choose files in which to pick songs - so if you
ARJed or ZIPped your songs by category, you can tell CD-Box which
categories to use!
- No data file to keep to date; bank filenames and song titles can be
modified directly from CD-Box, which will save your changes to disk.
CD-Box also knows the titles and lengths of numerous songs, and when it
encounters unknown songs, can sometimes (it depends on the format)
extract data from the files on disk.
- CD-Box is able to use EMS or XMS memory to some extent, and to examine the
SOUND environnment variable and of loading drivers and player programs
from there if necessary (as any good SoundBlaster software should do).