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INSTALLATION AND IMAGE DISPLAY:
EPIPHANIES OF THE GODDESS
1) INSTALLATION
a) Make certain you are in Windows. The installation program
will not run in DOS.
b) Put Disk 1 (or the shareware disk) into your floppy drive.
From you File Menu choose the Run option.Type a:\setup.exe
or b:\setup.exe, depending upon whether a or b is the letter
assigned to your 3 1/2" diskette drive. Click on OK.
c) Alternatively, open the directory and file display for
your floppy drive and double click on setup.exe.
2) IMAGE QUALITY: SUPER IMPORTANT!! DON'T SKIP THIS!!
a) The graphics files in this product are superb 24 bit,
images sized to 510 x 383 or less pixels/inch. This
nonstandard size is a limit of the developer environment
we author within and will no longer be a constraint with our
new products as of sometime in 1996.
b) Unfortunately, 24 bit images show degredation when
displayed at 8 bit, which is the generic monitor setting of
256 colors. To view these images with all the
brilliance and resolution they contain, change your monitor
resolution so as to display 16 million colors at 640 x 480
pixels. You have now changed your monitor to display 24 bit
images. If you installed these images as a screen saver,
they will look best at 640 x480 because the image then
occupies most of the screen area.
c) Unless you have an old pre-1990 monitor, you already have
installed software to change the resolution of monitor. Such
software comes with all graphics cards and is preinstalled
when you buy a computer in the retail market. I cannot give
specifics here for the dozens of different graphics cards on
the market. If you haven't discovered this monitor utility, which
will be a Windows applet, consult the manual that came with
your graphics card. If you lost it, call the store where you
bought the computer or the manufacturer of the computer.
3) SCREEN SAVER
Either accept the default path and directory for installation or
edit to your own specifications. Choose whether or not to install
EPIPHANIES OF THE GODDESS as one of your screen saver
options in the Desktop Item of the Control Panel. Notice that the
word 'default' in the dialog is confusing. There is no 'default'
screen saver in the Desktop Item. If you choose this option,
EPIPHANIES OF THE GODDESS will be installed as just one
of your screen saver choices under the name MINICAT in the
proper alphabetical position. However, it will automatically
become the active screen saver. See below for an explanation
of 'MINICAT'. See the text file 'Your Windows Screen Saver' in
the album for detailed information about EPIPHANIES OF THE
GODDESS as a screen saver and how to configure it.
4) The installation will create a program group called MINICAT
with a single item in it also called MINICAT. You may change
the title of this icon to EPIPHANIES OF THE GODDESS if you
wish but there are reasons not to do so as explained below.
5) Double Click upon the MINICAT icon and the opening screen of
MINICAT is displayed. Notice the bar on the upper right which
is labeled either EPIPHANIES OF THE GODDESS SHAREWARE
or EPIPHANIES OF THE GODDESS REGISTERED. Double click
on this bar and you will be presented with the EPIPHANIES OF
THE GODDESS album main screen. If you pause at the opening
screen for several seconds, a slide show of all images in the
album will begin in the left window. Notice that you can only exit
the program from this opening screen using the Close Button.
6) Registered users should realize that:
a) if you did not UNINSTALL the shareware version of
EPIPHANIES OF THE GODDESS (see manual) and also,
b) installed the registered version into the same directory as the
shareware version (which happens automatically if you accept
the default installation path),
c) THEN BOTH versions now reside within your MINICAT. If you
click the Open button at the bottom of the main screen, you will
see a list of installed CATALOGS: EPIPHANIES OF THE
GODDESS SHAREWARE and EPIPHANIES OF THE GODDESS
REGISTERED.
If you wish to delete the shareware version, you MUST use the
uninstall procedure outlined in the manual. If you simply delete
the directory and files, it is very likely your MINICAT viewer
will not function and you will have no access to the program
album.