Betty Crocker “Holiday Celebrations” Readme.html file
 
**Please close ALL applications BEFORE running this E-CD**

***General Notes***

Win95 users must and all other users are recommended to close all folders and
applications before proceeding. Macintosh users must turn Virtual Memory "On"
and have 128MB RAM available. To restart, hit escape key and reinsert CD or
follow instructions below for manually launching a CD.
 
Welcome to the Betty Crocker “Holiday Celebrations” Enhanced CD(E-CD).  E-CDs
contain both multimedia material that runs via your CD-ROM and audio material
that runs in a standard CD audio player.
 
This disc has been designed to automatically start the program after being
placed in your computer. It takes approximately thirty seconds or less for the
program to begin.

This disc is designed to give users the choice to run a Standard or Multimedia
version. Both versions have the same information, but the Multimedia version
has more animation and other items that require higher end processing power.
Our program will check your computer's specification and suggest which selection
you should make. If you choose Multimedia and experience slow performance,
restart the program (as described below) and choose Standard. On older computers,
and particularly on Windows 95, users may experience slow performance. If so,
make sure that ALL applications are closed BEFORE running the E-CD.

Instructions for manually launching a CD:

If “Holiday Celebrations” CD does not autolaunch, please do the following:

***PC***

OPTION 1:
1. Double-click “My Computer” on desktop
2. Double-click on “Betty” CD

OPTION 2:
Re-insert the CD.

***Mac***

1. Double-click on “Betty” CD on desktop.

 
This CD-ROM is written for the following hardware/software configurations:

 
***Browsers***
 
* Internet Explorer 3.0 or later
* Netscape 3.0 or later
 
***PC***
 
* Pentium 166Mhz
* 32 MB RAM
* 640x480 resolution
* 16-Bit High Color
* 4 MB Video Card
* 4X CD-ROM drive
* Windows 95/98/Me/2000
* 16-bit SoundBlaster compatible sound card and speakers

Note: If movie audio levels do not appear to be adjusted to speaker volume
or music levels, you might need to adjust the wave levels in the Sound
Dialog Box.

***Macintosh***

* iMac, G3
* 32 MB RAM
* Thousands of colors
* 640x480 resolution
* 4X CD-ROM drive
* OS 8

Note: Virtual Memory must be "on" and have 128MB RAM available.


***Miscellaneous***

*All Users: The music may stop and start when you open a browser to view
the recipes or go online. You may also notice that music stops and starts
when you scroll through any web page. You can lower or mute the volume
to minimize the effect.

*PC Users: If problems are still experienced during playback, please
restart your computer and close as many applications as possible in
the taskbar (located in the lower right hand corner of your screen).


*Mac users: If you uninstalled Netscape for any reason and are using AOL, you
will need to reinstall Netscape, www.netscape.com. When accessing E-invites, the
site will not function properly due to system incompatibility.


*Mac users: After you visit any web page, you may notice that the mouse pointer
may stop transitioning to a hand when you roll over program "hot" spots. If you
return to the "Historical Advertising" section or restart the program, that
functionality will return. There are no other known solutions to this problem,
a result of a bug in the authoring program.

*Music plays slightly distorted on IBM ThinkPad 770ED Pentium II 266
laptop with a Crystal / Cyber9397 Board. We suggest muting the music on
this machine.

*Win 95 Users: When opening web pages (Recipes, Special Touches, Preparation
Guides)from within the program, the Betty window moves to the back of all
other open windows/folders. We suggest closing all applications and folders
to ease navigation. If you are running the program, simply click the Alt
& Tab keys concurrently to bring up the task bar. Go ahead and close all the
open programs other than "Betty."

*Win 95 (Retail Version) Users: When exiting the program you may experience the
following error:

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

BETTY caused an invalid page fault in
module KERNEL32.DLL at 0137:bff9a28c.
Registers:
EAX=c0016f74 CS=0137 EIP=bff9a28c EFLGS=00010216
EBX=0062fd24 SS=013f ESP=0052fdd8 EBP=00530074
ECX=00000000 DS=013f ESI=00000000 FS=23d7
EDX=bff76648 ES=013f EDI=bffb8aa8 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
53 8b 15 7c c2 fb bf 56 89 4d e4 57 89 4d dc 89
Stack dump:


You should click "Close" to remove the error message. This is a common error
on Win 95 retail machines and should not crash your system. We suggest updating
your system with all available Microsoft Win 95 updates via the Mircrosoft site,
www.microsoft.com.

*IE 3.0x Users: The Recipe Pages will be slightly skewed, but the recipe
type will remain intact. When accessing "E-invites", the site will not function
properly due to browser incompatibility.
We suggest upgrading your browser
version to Internet Explorer 5.

*Netscape 3.0x Users: Recipe pages and cards will print off set. JavaScript
errors will occur when accessing "E-invites". We suggest
upgrading your browser
version to Netscape 6 for optimal printing.

*Netscape 4.01 Users: When opening links from within the Betty program, there
may be a need to double-click from the Netscape browser window into the Betty
program to regain functionality.

*Netscape 4.7x (MAC) Users: The outline of a spacing graphic will print in the
cards. There will be a slight break the card outline. We suggest upgrading
your browser version to Netscape 6 for optimal printing.

*Netscape 4.75 Users: If you consistently open and close browser windows
a page fault error occurs. We suggest not closing the Netscape browser window
after initial start up to remedy this problem.

*In Netscape 4.77, 4.51, 4.05 or Internet Explorer 4.051 and 4.05 the recipe
cards will print with broken top/bottom borders. We suggest upgrading your
browser version to Netscape 6 or Internet Explorer 5.

If your system supports millions of colors, leave the monitor
control panel settings at the highest level for the best quality digital
movie playback.
 
Additional notes may be found at:
http://www.technotes.discmarketing.com/bettycrocker/