Betty Crocker “Holiday
Celebrations” Readme.html file
**Please close ALL
applications BEFORE running this E-CD
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
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.
OPTION 2:
Re-insert the CD.
This CD-ROM is written
for the following
* 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
the recipes or go online. You may also notice that music stops and starts
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.
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.
this machine.
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.
errors will occur when accessing "E-invites". We suggest
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.
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.
cards will print with broken top/bottom borders. We suggest upgrading your
browser version to Netscape 6 or Internet Explorer 5.
movie playback.