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| Scripture Memory |
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| User's Manual |
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Copyright (C) 1986 MVP SOFTWARE
1035 Dallas SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49507
All rights reserved. No portion of this manual may be repro-
duced, in whole or in part, in any media, including electron-
ic data transmission, facsimile, xerography or any other form
of reproduction or transmittal without the written permission
of MVP SOFTWARE.
DISCLAIMER
MVP SOFTWARE makes no warranties with respect to its pro-
grams, with the exception that the customer shall be entitled
to one (1) updated or modified version of the purchased soft-
ware package for a fee of 50% of the price of the updated
version and upon return of all copies of the original pur-
chased program.
The foregoing warranty is in lieu of all other warranties,
expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the im-
plied warranties of fitness for a particular purpose and mer-
chantability. In no event will MVP SOFTWARE be liable for
consequential damages even if MVP SOFTWARE has been advised
of such damages.
The customer shall not make available or provide any copies
of materials or portions thereof copyrighted by MVP SOFTWARE,
including but not limited to, program listings, source code
and object code, and program documentation, in any form, to
any person other than customer or MVP SOFTWARE employees,
without prior written consent from MVP SOFTWARE. The custo-
mer may, however, make backup copies of programs for custo-
mer's own personal use only.
If any of the provisions, or portions thereof, of this Dis-
claimer are invalid under any applicable statute or rule of
law, they are to that extent deemed to be omitted.
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SPECIAL SHAREWARE NOTICE
This version of Scripture Memory is distributed under the
"user supported" concept. It is a full working version of
the program. However, because of copyright laws, it is
supplied in the King James Version of the Bible only. In
addition, MVP Software receives no royalties from the dis-
tribution of this software and cannot support users who do
not register their copies. To register your copy of the
program with MVP Software, please send the registration price
of $15.00. If you register, you will receive the following:
(1) The latest version of Scripture Memory in your choice of
the King James, New King James, New International, New
American Standard, or Revised Standard version of the
Bible. The program comes in a vinyl binding with a full
printed documentation manual.
(2) Full telephone support and bug fixes.
(3) The right to purchase new versions of the program for 50%
off list price.
(4) The knowledge that you have supported the development of
Bible-related software. The author of Scripture Memory
is a Presbyterian minister, who has devoted many hours to
the development of the product. He receives royalties
from the sale of the program. Your registration fee
helps to support him in his work.
(5) As a special incentive, if you register you will receive
free Bible game software, plus a demo of the fantastic
Bible Concordance program GodSpeed. All told this offer
is a $10.00 value, free with your registered copy of
Scripture Memory. However, you must request it at the
time of your order.
To register your copy of the program, send $15.00 to:
MVP Software
1035 Dallas SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49507
Or order by phone with MasterCard or Visa:
(616) 245-8376
Please specify which version of the program you want (IBM or
Sanyo 550/555), and which version of the Bible (KJV, NKJV,
NIV, NASB, RSV).
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Scripture Memory
Employing your computer to assist in Bible memorization,
Scripture Memory takes you step by step through the process
of initial memorization and review. Through an exclusive ar-
rangement with NavPress, it comes with 66 verses on disk or-
ganized under the Navigators' Topical Memory System (tm).
However, you may choose to use or not use the TMS. You may
add as many verses to your Scripture Memory disk as your disk
capacity will allow -- the program itself places no limits on
how many verses you can memorize and review! All the steps
necessary to run Scripture Memory will be explained in this
manual. And although it is very easy to use, please read the
manual thoroughly so that you will get maximum benefit from
the program.
How Does Scripture Memory Work?
Scripture Memory uses the technique of associating top-
ic, reference and verse to make it easy to memorize and re-
tain what you have learned. The program uses two files -- a
current review file and a back review -- to store the verses
you are currently memorizing and the ones you have already
memorized. Each time you use the program, which can easily
be every day, you should work on your current review. In ad-
dition, Scripture Memory will choose from 5 to 40 back review
verses (you can decide how many you want) for you to review
that day. Once you have built up a sufficient number of
verses in your back review file, the program will select at
random different verses each day. You should not need to re-
view these verses as often, since you have already memorized
them, but Scripture Memory will help you remember what you
have learned.
The Navigators have developed the Topical Memory System
to assist in Scripture memorization, and we are happy to use
it in Scripture Memory. However, you can use your own system
if you would like. If you are not familiar with the TMS, it
is a complete basic course in Scripture memory. This entire
course is included with your Scripture Memory distribution
disk in your choice of Bible versions. Below is a summary of
the TMS.
Topical Memory System
Unit 1
A. Live the New Life
Christ the Center II Cor. 5:17 Gal. 2:20
Obedience to Christ Rom. 12:1 John 14:21
The Word II Tim. 3:16 Josh. 1:8
Prayer John 15:7 Phil. 4:6,7
Fellowship Matt. 18:20 Heb. 10:24,25
Witnessing Matt. 4:19 Rom. 1:16
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B. Proclaim Christ
All Have Sinned Rom. 3:23 Isa. 53:6
Sin's Penalty Rom. 6:23 Heb. 9:27
Christ Paid the Penalty Rom. 5:8 I Peter 3:18
Salvation not by Works Eph. 2:8,9 Titus 3:5
Must Receive Christ John 1:12 Rev. 3:20
Assurance of Salvation I John 5:13 John 5:24
Unit 2
C. Rely on God's Resources
His Spirit I Cor. 3:16 I Cor. 2:12
His Strength Isa. 41:10 Phil. 4:13
His Faithfulness Lam. 3:22,23 Num. 23:19
His Peace Isa. 26:3 I Peter 5:7
His Provision Rom. 8:32 Phil. 4:19
His Help in Temptation Heb. 2:18 Psalm 119:9,11
D. Be Christ's Disciple
Put Christ First Matt. 6:33 Luke 9:23
Separate from the World I John 2:15,16 Rom. 12:2
Be Steadfast I Cor. 15:58 Heb. 12:3
Serve Others Mark 10:45 II Cor. 4:5
Give Generously Prov. 3:9,10 II Cor. 9:6,7
Develop World Vision Acts 1:8 Matt. 28:19,20
Unit 3
E. Grow in Christlikeness
Love John 13:34,35 I John 3:18
Humility Phil. 2:3,4 I Peter 5:5,6
Purity Eph. 5:3 I Peter 2:11
Honesty Lev. 19:11 Acts 24:16
Faith Heb. 11:6 Rom. 4:20,21
Good Works Gal 6:9,10 Matt. 5:16
If you wish to use the TMS, you must add the verses to
your current review file one at a time. This is because
Scripture memorization works best when you attempt to memo-
rize one verse at a time, not many at once. You currently
have no verses in your current or back review files. To add
the verses from the TMS, from the main menu press F1. When
the program asks for the topic, simply type in the word
"NEXT" (without quotes). The word "NEXT" must be in capital
letters or the program will not recognize the command.
Scripture Memory will automatically go to the proper file and
select the next verse (in this case the first one) and place
it in your current review file.
If you wish to use the TMS, you must add 10 of the TMS
verses the first time you run Scripture Memory. If you fail
to add at least 10 verses the program will not work properly.
If you add more than 10 verses some will be placed in your
back review file. Your current review file must always con-
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tain 10 verses for the program to work properly. When you
add more, some verses that you had added previously will
automatically be placed in your back review file. For this
reason, it is important that you not add new verses until you
have thoroughly learned the ones already in your current re-
view file. In fact, after you have begun memorizing your
initial 10 verses, each time you want to add new verses it is
best to add only a few to your current review file and not
start out with 10 unfamiliar ones again.
Remember, however, that the program will work correctly
even if you do not use the TMS. But in this case keep in
mind that you must add 10 verses of your own choosing the
first time you run the program. You also must supply a topic
of your own choosing for each verse you add. Choose one
which will help you to remember the content of the verse.
How to do that will be explained below.
Scripture Memory was written to be easy to use. After
all, you want to spend your time memorizing Scripture, not
learning how to use computer programs! This manual will ex-
plain each part of the program.
A WORD ABOUT COPY PROTECTION AND COPYRIGHT
MVP SOFTWARE doesn't copy-protect its distribution pro-
gram diskettes. We hate to work with copy-protected software
as much as you do, it's expensive, and the schemes are broken
almost as fast as they are devised. We do, however, realize
that some unscrupulous users likely will take advantage of
this and illegally copy our copyrighted programs. But if you
want to continue to have low-cost quality software available,
don't give your software away. We can only continue to main-
tain our low prices as long as our customers recommend that
those interested in our programs purchase them.
Getting Started
Before going any further, please make a working copy of
your Scripture Memory distribution disk. To do so, first
make sure drive A is the logged drive. Then place your
Scripture Memory distribution disk in drive A and a blank
formatted disk in drive B. Type copy *.* b:, followed by
<RETURN>. If you have a one drive system, place the system
disk in the drive. Type DISKCOPY, followed by <RETURN>.
Follow the directions on your screen until the diskcopy is
completed. Now put the distribution disk in a safe place,
and use only your new working disk. Do not place a write
protect tab over the notch on the side of the disk.
Because of the space needed for the back review file,
you will probably not want to put files from any other pro-
grams on your Scripture Memory disk. In fact, if you have
two disk drives, you may want to create a separate Scripture
Memory data disk, which will contain only your back review
file. The file BACKREVW.DTA must be copied onto this disk,
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and you must install the program so that it looks for this
file on a drive other than drive A. How to do this is ex-
plained later. Since Scripture Memory is not copy protected,
it is easily transfered to a hard drive.
To run Scripture Memory, put your working disk in drive
A. Then type SCR <RETURN>. After the intitial two screens
with the title and copyright information has disappeared, the
program will display the system date and ask you if it is
correct. If it is not, enter the correct information and
press <RETURN>. Then if it is the last day of the month, en-
ter L. Otherwise, hit any other key. This is important if
you want to take advantage of one of Scripture Memory's
special features. If you miss a day or more, the program
will ask you if you wish to take a zero for any of those
days. (It will use this information when it displays your
progress.) There will be days when you do not have access to
your computer or you do not normally review, and you may not
want to take a zero for those days. But if the discipline of
Scripture memorization is important to you, you may wish to
register days missed by receiving a zero for those days,
which will then be figured into your monthly average. If you
press (Y)es to take a zero, and if you have missed more than
one day, the next question will ask you to indicate for how
many of the days you missed do you want zeros figured in.
The decision is up to you. Type in the number and then press
<RETURN>.
Now the main menu will be displayed. To execute any
Scripture Memory function, you must press the function key
corresponding to your choice. Function keys are marked "F"
(followed by a number).
Adding New Verses
By pressing F1 you will be able to add new verses to
your current review file. Remember, if you are adding TMS
verses, at the prompt for the topic, simply enter NEXT.
Don't worry about when you will get to the end of the TMS;
the program will tell you that automatically. If you are
adding a verse of your own choosing, you must first enter the
topic, then the reference, and finally the verse, pressing
<RETURN> after each entry. When you enter the verse, press
<RETURN> only when you have finished typing the entire verse.
Do not press the <RETURN> key before then or add extra spaces
to avoid splitting your words on the screen. Just like a
word processor, Scripture Memory handles all of that for you,
and later your verse will be correctly displayed on the
screen.
Keep in mind that the first time you enter verses, you
must enter 10 of them of them for the program to operate
properly, whether you are using the TMS or not.
There are limitations on how many spaces may be used for
the topic (16), the reference (16), and the verse (224).
Scripture Memory will not permit you to go over these limits.
If the verse is longer than 224 characters, split it up into
two parts, and enter it as two verses. If you press an in-
correct key as you are entering the information, you may cor-
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rect it by pressing the backspace key and typing over the
mistake. After you have entered the topic, reference and
verse and pressed <RETURN>, you will be asked to review the
information to make sure that it is correct. If it is not,
press I, and reenter the information. If it is correct,
press the space bar. If you catch an error after this point,
you must correct it using a word processor. This will be
covered later.
Quotation marks will not be accepted by the program,
since they confuse it when it is trying to read data from
your data files. Simply use an apostrophe in place of quota-
tion marks. Finally, it is important that you do not turn
off your computer during option 1. Otherwise you could lose
your entire current review file. Always return to the main
menu and exit the program before turning off the machine.
Current Review
Here is where you review the verses you are currently
memorizing. Once you have entered a new verse, that verse
goes into the current review file. There will always be 10
verses in the current review. They will always be the same
10 verses until you add a new verse with option F1. Upon
pressing F2 from the main menu, you will be given a reference
and asked to quote the verse. You will have the lower half
of the screen on which you can type out your quote. This is
used as a "scratch pad" since you, not the computer, will
decide whether your quote is correct or not. You should type
or write out your quote, since this is good practice, and if
you do this you will find that you learn much more quickly.
However, you can simply review verbally.
Whichever method you choose, when you are ready to com-
pare your attempt to the actual verse, press * and the verse
will appear. At this time, you must decide whether you got
the verse correct. This allows you to take into considera-
tion spelling, punctuation, etc., which a program cannot.
Following your review of the 10 verses in your current
review file, you will be returned to the main menu. If for
any reason you wish to stop the current review before you
have covered your 10 verses, press # and you will be returned
to the main menu immediately. If you do this, your percen-
tage for the day (see "Performance Profile" below) will be
figured on the number of verses you actually have reviewed,
not on the full 10. If you press # on the first verse,
nothing will be figured in.
Back Review
To review verses in your back review file, press F3.
The back review functions like the current review, with two
important differences:
1. The back review consists of a new set of verses, selected
from among those in your back review file, each time you
run Scripture Memory. If you want to review the same
verses more than once, do so without turning off the pro-
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gram or re-running it. The verses in the back review
should be more familiar to you and will not need to be re-
viewed as often as those in the current review.
2. You may change the number of verses covered in the back
review by customizing Scripture Memory. The number of
verses contained in your back review file and the fre-
quency with which you need to review them will determine
how many you wish to review each time. The default value
is 5. A chart is included in the "Technical" section of
this manual as a guide.
Performance Profile
This is one of the nicest features of Scripture Memory.
If memorizing Scripture is important to you, then you want to
know how well you're doing. If you press F4, you will be
shown how well you did that day, and what your average is for
the month and the year, both for your current and back re-
views. If your computer has a color graphics adapter, an
easy to read bar graph will portray your progress, and the
exact percentages will be printed beneath the bars. If you
do not, just the percentages will be displayed. (Scripture
Memory automatically detects whether your computer has graph-
ics capability.) Pressing the space bar will return you to
the main menu.
By pressing the PrtScr key you may send the graph to
your printer. For this to work you must have loaded the pro-
gram GRAPHICS.COM (from your system disk) into memory before
running Scripture Memory, and you must have a printer with
graphic printing capability.
Memory allocated for this feature of Scripture Memory
allows for up to 100 runs per month, or over 3 per day. Af-
ter 100, the program will continue to function, but your
monthly average will reflect only your first 100 entries.
Review of Current or Back Misses
Pressing F5 allows you to review incorrectly quoted
verses from your current review, and pressing F6 allows you
to review incorrectly quoted verses from the back review. If
you wish to use either of these functions during a session,
you must do so before you turn off your computer, since the
information on which verses you have missed that session is
kept in machine memory only, and will be lost once you have
shut off the power.
After viewing the missed verse on the screen, you have a
choice. By pressing <RETURN>, you will simply advance to the
next missed verse. If, however, you wish to review later but
will not be able to use your computer, by pressing P you can
tell Scripture Memory to print out the verse on your printer.
Make sure your printer is turned on and has paper in it be-
fore you do attempt to print the verse.
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Customizing Scripture Memory
If you press F7 you may customize Scripture Memory to
suit your own needs. There are four areas you can change.
For the first three, if you want to leave any of them un-
changed, simply press N when asked, "DO YOU WANT TO CHANGE
THESE PARAMETERS? (Y/N)".
The YEAR. When a new year begins, you'll have to change
the year so that the program will display the correct year.
The DRIVE ON WHICH YOUR BACK REVIEW FILE WILL BE FOUND.
Your options are drives A, B, C, D, or (L)ogged. Unless you
use a hard drive, normally you will want to enter either A,
B, or L if your backreview file (BACKREVW.DTA) is on your
Scripture Memory working disk. Each verse in the back review
file occupies 256 bytes or 1/4 K memory. Therefore, 400
verses will take up 100K of disk space. If you memorize a
lot and have limited disk space, you may choose to keep your
back review on a separate data disk. This can be done by
copying the file BACKREVW.DTA onto another disk and then
changing the program to look for it on a drive other than
drive A. All other files must be kept on the program disk,
which should usually be executed from drive A.
The SIZE OF YOUR BACK REVIEW. As your back review file
grows, you may wish to increase the number of verses you re-
view each session. Scripture Memory comes with 5 as the de-
fault number in a complete review. You may choose any number
between 5 and 40. We recommend, however, that you choose a
number between 5 and 15. Scripture Memory will not let you
review verses in your back review file unless there are at
least as many verses in your back review file as the size you
choose for your back review.
The COLORS you wish to use for your program. Scripture
Memory's default setting is light green for the current re-
view, light red for the back review, and brilliant white for
everything else. If you have a color monitor, you may wish
to change these to taste.
Printing Your Current and Back Reviews
By pressing F8 you can be freed from your computer.
Many times it is helpful to have a "hard copy" of your verses
for the day if you know you will have a chance to review
while you are not around the computer. This option allows
you to print out all the verses in your current review file
and today's back review verses. Again, make sure your
printer is ready to go before choosing this option. Once you
press F8, a new menu will appear. Press the function key
corresponding to your choice. Most printers have a buffer,
which means that Scripture Memory will return to the main
menu before your printer is finished printing. At that point
you are free to continue with the program.
Word Search
This is another attractive feature of Scripture Memory.
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There are times when you will want to pull together all the
verses you have memorized according to certain words. Scrip-
ture Memory will find all these verses for you from among the
verses in your back review. It can search for the word you
enter from among the Topics, References or in the Verses
themselves. From the main menu, press F9.
Don't worry about whether the word you enter is in upper
or lower case; Scripture Memory will take care of that for
you by converting the word into upper case. As the search is
progressing, you may look at the verses one at a time as they
are displayed, and then decide to either (P)rint the verse,
go to the (N)ext verse, or (E)nd the search. If you simply
want a listing of all verses containing a certain word, after
indicating what word you are looking for and what area is to
be searched, press P. Every verse will be sent automatically
to your printer, and you won't have to make a decision each
time.
Here's a helpful hint. Suppose you are looking for all
the verses with the word "man" in them. If you ask the com-
puter to search for verses with "man" in them, you will also
be given verses with words such as "many" and "commandment".
To avoid this, type in a space before and after the word,
e.g., " man ". Then you'll get only what you want.
Technical
A GUIDE FOR REVIEWING VERSES
Less than 150 verses . . . . . . cover every week
150-300 . . . . . . . . . . cover every other week
300-500 . . . . . . . . . cover once every 3 weeks
500-1000 . . . . . . . . . . . cover once a month
1000-2000 . . . . . . . . . cover every two months
2000+ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . up to you
ERROR MESSAGES
The most common error that occurs is that a file neces-
sary for Scripture Memory is not on the disk in the logged
drive. Also, Scripture Memory requires a full 128K RAM in
IBM and compatible computers. That means that if your compu-
ter has 128K, you cannot load any "memory resident" programs
when running Scripture Memory, such as print spoolers, RAM
disks, or anything else that requires memory. You should
boot only the operating system when you want to run the pro-
gram. If an error occurs, usually you will have to re-start
the program. Occasionally an error will occur that won't
stop the program from running. In that case, follow the
directions on the screen.
SCRIPTURE MEMORY PROGRAM FILES
The files that are included on your Scripture Memory
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distribution disk are the following:
SCR.EXE -- This is the main program file.
BV.DTA -- Data file used by Scripture Memory to deter-
mine which version of the Bible your TMS
verses are from.
PREVDATA -- Data file containing information on the
present year, the month the program was last
run, the last verse reviewed in the back re-
view, the drive on which your BACKREVW.DTA
file is found, the number of verses you wish
to cover each back review, and color code
numbers.
CURFILE.DTA -- Current review data file.
BACKREVW.DTA -- Back review data file.
TMS.DTA -- Data file containing the Topical Memory Sys-
tem.
All of these files must be on your Scripture Memory
working disk for the program to operate properly. The only
exception is the file BACKREVW.DTA, which can be copied onto
a separate disk and deleted from your working disk. See
"Customizing Scripture Memory", above.
We have made Scripture Memory as "friendly" as possible
and taken every precaution to prevent mysterious errors.
However, if an "unexplained" error occurs, you will see an
error message consisting of two numbers, and the program will
terminate. Should this happen, please note the two numbers,
and exactly what you were doing when the problem occured.
Then please call MVP Software at 616-245-8376. We will cor-
rect the problem, but we can do so only if we get complete
information on what went wrong.
USING A WORD PROCESSOR TO CHANGE YOUR
CURRENT OR BACK REVIEW FILES
If you discover a mistake in either your current
(CURFILE.DTA) or back review (BACKRVW.DTA) files, you can
correct it with your word processor. You must access the
file with the mistake in it using the "non-document" or ASCII
mode or else Scripture Memory will not be able to read the
file once you have changed it. Make sure that you do not
change the number of spaces allotted for the Topic, Reference
or Verse. For example, if you delete a character from the
verse, add a space onto the end of that verse.
We hope you will find Scripture Memory useful and fun.
Please let us know what you think of the program, and what
improvements you would like to see incorporated into it.
Are others in your church interested in Scripture Memo-
ry? We have special group purchase plans and site licenses,
which allow groups to purchase the program for substantial
savings. The program is available in the KJV, NKJV, RSV,
NIV, and NASB versions of the Bible, for IBM and Sanyo compu-
ters. Call MVP Software for details.
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