GeoTutor: 2 S. A. SG geotutor static staticgraph 0,71 AG geotutor animation T #1-12 1 13,128 8 B T #13 1 165,103 8 T #1-12 0 13,128 8 B ^Cby Lynda Fowler & Cregg Hardwick Welcome to our second installment of the GeoTutor series. This month we present South America for your geographic perusal. Geotutor is designed not only to teach the location of countries but to teach a little bit about them as well. In addition to a paragraph or two about each country, the following information is included in GeoTutor: Official Name Official Languages Population Type of Government Capital Name Of Monetary Unit Description and Picture of Flag National Anthem, Holiday, Motto Natural Resources, Exports, Imports Location, Area, Highest Point, and Lowest Point We also added a feature to test your knowledge of this month's geographic area. You may choose between five different quizzes to see how much geographic information you've retained. The GeoTutor uses a special mouse/keyboard interface that's very easy to use. Of course we've provided complete on-line help just in case. Press F1 at any point in the program to get help. ^SOUTSIDE ON DISK MONTHLY^S To run ^BGeoTutor^B outside On Disk Monthly, invoke the batch file ^BGEO.BAT^B in any of the following ways: ^BGEO^B - Invoke GeoTutor normally. ^BGEO /m^B - Invoke GeoTutor in monochrome mode. ^BGEO /?^B - Invoke a pick-list of available video modes to choose from, then run GeoTutor in that mode. These parameters may be issued in any order and in any combination. Use the /m parameter to force Geotutor to use "safe" monochrome colors even if it detects a color card. This will make it much easier to read the screen if you are using a laptop or other machine that has a color graphics card with a monochrome display. When you issue the /? parameter, you will see an initial configuration screen that lets you choose the graphics adaptor, or input device that you are going to use. GeoTutor recognizes all the popular graphics adaptors, including Hercules Monochrome, CGA, EGA, and VGA. On most systems, the program will correctly detect the video hardware and run without any problem. Press ENTER from the opening screen to select the default adaptor and mode, but if the graphics don't appear to function on your system or you wish to experiment with other modes supported by your system, press "D" from the opening screen to get to a pick- list of other graphics adaptors and modes. Similarly, there is a menu to choose what kind of mouse you have (if any). Press "I" to get to this menu. A mouse is not required to run this program, but it certainly makes things easier. If you get a message telling you that the graphics driver is already resident, try removing any TSR's from your system. The graphics driver used by Geotutor can be installed as a TSR and therefore checks to see if it is already resident before running Geotutor. Sometimes it may mistake another TSR for a copy of itself. Disk files this program uses: ^FGEO.BAT ^FMETASHEL.EXE ^FGT.EXE ^FGEOTUTOR.CFG ^FGEO.DOC ^F*.FNT