~30 WELCOME TO THE BUSINESS MASTER CD-ROM LIBRARY! Advantage Plus Distributors Inc. Copyright (c) 1992, 93, 94 All Rights Resevered ~31 Advantage Plus offers a variety of high quality CD-ROM share- ware software collections. For more information on the rest of our products press F4 or select the ABOUT box when running the Windows version of the program. ÉÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÑÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ» º F1 - Important! Read This First! ³ FUNCTION KEYS jump to º º F2 - Installation Instructions ³ topics. (F1 - F8) º º F3 - What's On This Disk ³ PgUp/PgDn moves 1 page º º F4 - Additional APLUS Products ³ at the time. º º F5 - APLUS Phone Numbers ³ ARROW KEYS move 1 line º º F6 - APLUS Copyright Notice ³ at the time. º º F7 - About Advantage Plus Dist., INC.³ HOME=TOP - END=BOTTOM º º ³ º º F8 - Start the COPYCAT program ³ ESC=TOP/EXIT º ÈÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÏÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍͼ ~f1/important! read this first ~30 IMPORTANT! INSTALLATION AND USE INFORMATION ~31 The Business Master CD-ROM like all of the Master Series from Advantage Plus does not have to be installed to be used. You can insert the CD in your drive then execute GO to have immediate access to the CD-ROM library. Installation will speed up program operation. You can also press the F8 key to have the README program start the COPYCAT program for you. ~f1 ~f2/INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ~30 INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS DOS PROGRAM - COPYCAT.EXE ~31 Installing the COPYCAT program to a hard disk will greatly increase the speed when searching the library. To install the program a simple installation program has been provided. Simply change to the CONTENTS directory then type INSTALL and press ENTER. Follow the instructions by entering a drive and subdirectory name to copy the files to. ~30 MICROSOFT WINDOWS COMPATIBLE PROGRAM - WINCAT.EXE ~31 Running the SETUP.EXE program will create a new APLUS program group and Windows Master icon. It will also create the correct directories and copy the necessary files. MOST IMPORTANT THE PROGRAM WILL EXECUTE MUCH FASTER WHEN RUNNING FROM A HARD DISK INSTEAD OF THE CD. SETUP will also copy the VBRUN100.DLL file to your Windows directory. This file is required by any of the programs in the library that were written using Visual Basic. (A high level programming language from MicroSoft.) NOTE: Be sure to run the program SETUP.EXE. INSTALLING FROM PROGRAM MANAGER: To run the SETUP.EXE program using the Windows Program Manager select FILE from the main menu then select RUN. A dialog box will be opened prompting you to enter the file to execute. The SETUP.EXE program is located in the FORWIN directory on the CD-ROM. Enter D:\FORWIN\SETUP (Where D: equals your CD-ROM drive letter.) Follow the setup program instructions. INSTALLING FROM FILE MANAGER Start FILE MANAGER then select your CD-ROM drive. When the directory is displayed double-click on the FORWIN directory. Now double-click on SETUP.EXE. Follow the setup program instructions. ~30 INSTALLING SPEAKER DEVICE DRIVER ~31 MicroSoft Windows is capable of assigning digitized sound to various events within the Windows environment. If your computer is equipped with sound hardware follow the manufactures directions for installation. If you do not have a sound board you can still utilize high quality sound played thru your PC's speaker. MicroSoft Corporation has made available the Speaker Device Driver. This driver can be obtained from the MicroSoft support BBS or from \FORWIN\SPEAKER subdirectory on this CD-ROM. Inside the \FORWIN\SPEAKER subdirectory are three .TXT file that contain information concerning the installation and distribution of the speaker device driver. Please read these files for installation instructions. ~f2 ~f3/what's on this disk ~30 WHAT'S ON THIS DISK ~31 The following is a summary of the directory structure and contents of the CD-ROM. CONTENTS - This directory contains all of the program files necessary for the CAT.EXE and WINCAT access programs. FILES - This is where all the files are. Each program is stored in a subdirectory named after it's category. FORWIN - Here is where the installation files for the Windows version of the library access program is located. Underneath this directory in a second directory named \FORWIN\SPEAKER is where the Windows speaker device driver is located. GOWIN.EXE - This program is used to start the WINCAT program from the CD-ROM. Use PROGRAM MANAGER or FILE MANAGER to run this file. GO.BAT - This batch file starts the COPYCAT program. Run this to gain immediate access to the library. README.EXE - The DOS program that allows you to view the README. TXT file. README.TXT - This file. VBRUN100.DLL - MicroSoft's Visual Basic runtime library. You will need this file to be installed into your Windows sub-directory if you try to run any programs that have been written using Visual Basic. The SETUP.EXE will install this automatically. VBRUN200.DLL - MicroSoft's Visual Basic runtime library. You will need this file to be installed into your Windows sub-directory if you try to run any programs that have been written using Visual Basic 2.0 The SETUP.EXE will install this automatically. ~f3 ~f4/additional aplus products ~30 ADDITIONAL ADVANTAGE PLUS PRODUCTS ~31 MASTER SERIES The Master Series CD-ROM's consist of four shareware collections. Each disk contains hundreds of programs related to a specific category. All Master disks provide the software in a "ready to use" format. Most programs can be run from the CD-ROM without installing to a hard disk space. All Master disks come with both DOS and Windows CD-ROM access programs. (Windows Master comes with the Windows access program only.) All Master Series disks run straight from the CD-ROM, no installation of the access software is required! Just type GO or GOWIN. The DOS access program provides an easy to use "windowed" interface, context sensitive help, lightning fast global search, ability to run and review the software from within the catalog. The catalog itself contains full descriptions of each program including hardware requirements and a 1 to 5 star rating. Has the ability to "fast format" floppy disks and copy programs to any drive. Running under Microsoft Windows 3.1 the Windows version catalog has most of the same features as the DOS version with some enhancements. In addition to running and reviewing software while within the catalog you can view BMP graphics, ICONS (over 80 Icons on screen a once.) and listen to WAV sound files (Speaker device driver provided for users without sound cards.) thru sound cards or the PC's speaker. GAME MASTER Over 800 of the best games shareware has to offer. Games for every user including Adventure, Sports, Board/Text, Educational, Card games, Arcade, Simulators, VGA/EGA/CGA/Monochrome graphics and more! WINDOWS MASTER More than 1,850 Microsoft windows programs. Includes Games, Educational, Business, Word processors, Financial, BMP "wall paper" graphics, Icons and much more! EDUCATION MASTER A top quality collection of more than 1,400 educational programs covering pre-school to college level topics. Includes Educational games, Astronomy, Math, History, Chemistry, Langauge, Biology, Spelling, Teacher aids and more! BUSINESS MASTER A superior business software resource! Over 1,500 of the best business realated programs. Accounting, Database, Finance, Engineering, Real Estate, Spreadsheet, Word Processing & more! HOLY BIBLE Ready-to-run CD-ROM contains two complete Bible programs. The ONLINE BIBLE KJV in English, German, French and Spanish with a Greek and Hebrew lexicon, 500,000 word cross reference and more! Other versions include: AV-NRSV, AV-RSV, GNT and BHS-BHM. Counting the different language translations there are more than 40 versions of the bible on this CD-ROM. All Bible data is run straight from the CD-ROM. The Bible program, SEEDMASTER, comes in both DOS and Windows versions. Many features including lightning fast search, multiple windows, notepad, cross reference, Greek and Hebrew lexicon and much more! Seedmaster can access most ONLINE BIBLE databases. This is top quality commercial software. Both of these bible access programs were 1994 winners of Christian Computing software awards. A.S.P. CD-ROM The Offical shareware collection of the Association of Shareware Professionals. This is the first edition of a quarterly series of CD-ROM's produced for the ASP. Every program is provided by and supported by the Author. ASP authors are some of the finest software producers in the world and thier adherence to quality is demonstrated by thier willingness to abide by ASP standards. SHAREWARE SOLUTIONS Complete shareware distribution system on CD-ROM. Designed to make starting or operating a shareware distribution business easy. Library has over 3000 current programs (Remastered quarterly with new and updated programs.), a "royalty free" Catalog-on-Disk, complete text files catalog ready for import into your favorite desk top publisher or word processor, automated library access program that can format a disk, copy the program & print the label with a single key press and much, much more! The easy to use Catalog-on-Disk is completely customizable. Opening and Exit screen display your message. You can add menu choices that display text files or execute batch files, you can add your own programs or program categories, even edit or create context sensitive help. Labels print with or without full descriptions & any text you add in any format on almost any printer. Catalog has many features, Lightning fast global search, ability to print any category or the entire catalog, prints a customized tagged file order form, saves tagged files to disk so the library program can read them in and start making copies, queries users computer to determine hardware then informs user what kinds of software will run on thier system and much more! The only way to really see what Shareware Solutions can do is to buy the CD-ROM and try it out. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED OR YOUR MONEY BACK! ~f4 ~F5 ADVANTAGE PLUS DISTRIBUTORS INC. (813) 885-1478 Technical Support .................... (919) 362-8212 Sales and Marketing .................. (919) 362-8212 BBS .................................. (919) 362-7273 FAX .................................. (919) 362-8294 ~F5 ~F6/aplus copyright notice "The Business Master" tm CDROM 4th Edition Copyright 1992, 93, 94 All rights reserved. Advantage Plus Dist., Inc. "The Business Master" is a trademark of Advantage Plus Dist., Inc. Thank you for choosing The Business Master CD-ROM which is a review/retrieval system and compilation of Shareware, Freeware and other programs for evaluation. Regular use of many of these programs (beyond a reasonable review period) requires separate payment to the author and is governed by the license agreement provided by the author and copyright holder of each specific program. The shareware concept provides benefits to both the authors and the users. Authors provide these "Try before you buy" copies of their programs for reveiw unincumbered with the traditional marketing costs. Only after a reasonable period of use, during which the user may determine the suitability of the program, is the user required to pay the author for permission to continue to use the author's work. Please honor the time and effort of the author(s) in creating each of these programs by registering with the authors the programs that are used regularly. No fee has been paid for these programs themselves, and no portion of the sale of this CD-ROM go directly to the authors of the programs except programs authored by Advantage Plus Dist., Inc.. Programs and related files authored and compiled by Advantage Plus Dist., Inc. are hereby licensed for use on a single system for the express purpose of aiding in the review and retrieval process of the other programs (review copies) contained on this CD-ROM and may not be reproduced in whole or part without express permission of Advantage Plus Dist., Inc. Quotes of up to 500 words may be used for review purposes provided proper credits are given this source. Most of the programs contained on this CD-ROM are copyright by others (other than Advantage Plus Dist., Inc.), are reproduced with permission of those authors and are governed by the agreements offered by those authors included with their programs. Limitation of Remedies: Advantage Plus Dist., Inc. makes no claims of suitability for any purpose of any programs authored by others and included in this compilation. Advantage Plus Dist., Inc. will not be liable for any lost profits, lost savings or any incidental damages or other economic consequential damages, even if Advantage Plus Dist., Inc. or its authorized supplier has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Advantage Plus Dist., Inc. will not be liable for any damages claimed based on any third party claim. ~f6 ~f7/about advantage plus ~30 ABOUT ADVANTAGE PLUS DIST., INC... ~31 Advantage Plus Dist., Inc. is a publisher of high quality CD- ROMS and an ASP approved vendor of shareware software. We are based in Tampa, Florida with offices in Apex, North Carolina. High quality products, on going product developement and technical support are standards to be expected when you buy from Advantage Plus Dist., Inc. ~f7 ~F8//GO