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Dear Shareware Vendor
This file contains our distribution policy, update policy, a note on
publications, and software descriptions.
-- DISTRIBUTION POLICY
If you are an ASP Vendor or Bulletin Board member, you are granted permission
to distribute this product.
If not, you have permission to distribute our shareware in its original form
as long as you:
* identify it as shareware (with an appropriate definition)
* leave all intellectual property (copyright) notices in place, and do not
alter the files in any way
* do not remove any files other than the optional files (the list is in the
PACKING.LST file)
... and as long as we do not request that you stop.
That's it.
The easiest way for you is to use the CDBOX303 archive, but if you need to,
you may archive our programs (whatever the format, whether self-extracting
or not), unarchive them, include/exclude optional files, include them with
other programs on the same diskette (including your own installation
routines), and do essentially anything you want as long as you follow these
simple rules. We want the widest possible distribution, and don't want to
stand in your way so long as you are honest with our mutual customer.
The suggested archive name for BBS or FTP server use is CDBOX303 (whatever the
extension). This will provide consistency for future updates.
--- UPDATE POLICY
1. New versions are offered to our registered users and are automatically
shipped to new registrants.
2. New versions are posted on saffron.inset.com, oak.oakland.edu and garbo.
3. ASP distribution members are included in the regular ASP mailing. This
saves both of us both money and effort; if you are not an ASP vendor or
bulletin board member, please consider joining.
4. Then, we send copies of major revisions of software to non-ASP vendors who
have notified us of their interest. If you are a catalog house, send us a
copy of the catalog in which the program appears, together with a copy of
the diskette(s) containing the program(s) which you wish to distribute;
we will send you a copy of any major updates to our software. If you run
a bulletin board, send us a diskette(s) containing the program(s) you
wish to distribute, and your mailing address, and we will update the
diskette and send it back to you. Since all program copies are serialized
by to whom they were originally sent, we are able to track registrations
by vendor. As long as we receive registrations containing your number for
any product, we will continue to provide you with updates for all
products.
If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints, please contact me:
Jeffrey BELT
2A Crothers Hall
Stanford, CA 94305
U.S.A.
Phone: (415) 497-5573
E-mail address (fastest way to reach me): belt@cs.stanford.edu
IMPORTANT: these addresses and phone number are valid until December 15, 1994.
After this date, please try to obtain an updated version with my new
addresses, consult an up-to-date copy of the ASP database, or call the ASP
and ask them how to reach me (but please don't flood them with calls
either).
International: if you are a publisher interested in translating and supporting
this product in another language, please contact us to discuss an exclusive
agreement for your language and country. If you are interested in providing
registration and support services, we are interested in working with you on
a non-exclusive basis.
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| ____|__ | Association of
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|___|___| MEMBER
-- PUBLICATIONS
We would appreciate copies of anything you print regarding this software.
Please send us a copy of any reviews, articles, or other information you
print or distribute regarding this software product.
-- SOFTWARE DESCRIPTIONS
Descriptions of this software are included below for your convenience, you may
of course use a different description in your catalog.
*** ONE-LINE
CDBOX303.ZIP VGA/mouse driven multiple-format sound player & shell <ASP>
*** SHORT
CD-Box is a VGA & mouse player & playback shell to play music on an AdLib or
SoundBlaster card (or better). It provides a common high-level interface to
multiple sound file formats (.CMF .MID .MOD .MUS .ROL .VOC .WAV and
user-defined formats) with extras: internal .CMF, .ROL, .MOD, .VOC and .WAV
support (with Pause & Repeat & Volume control), multiple and random song
selection, automatic handling of bank files, song titles and lengths,
playback from .ARC, .ARJ, .PAK and/or .ZIP archives, and nice graphics and
animation!
*** FULL
CD-Box is, stated simply, a program which plays back music files on the AdLib
Music Synthetizer Card or the SoundBlaster card (or better). However, it is
also very pretty and fun to use - it runs in 256 colors and can use your
mouse.
CD-Box's main features:
- A pretty ray-traced interface and fun animation - CDs pop up and down and
start and stop spinning, pages scroll... including random events I'll
let you discover!
- Support for .CMF, .MID, .MOD, .MUS, .ROL, .VOC and .WAV music/sound files
(some work with SoundBlaster only) and any other user-defined formats in
multiple drive/directories. These files can also be stored in .ARC,
.ARJ, .PAK and/or .ZIP files to save disk space - CD-Box will find them
and play them from the archive (using a RAM drive if you want). There
are also volume control, skipping forward and backward and echo effects
available for some formats.
- CD-Box allows you to easily program a selection of songs; it waits for you
to select the songs you want to hear before starting to play the first
one.
- Instead of selecting songs, you can tell CD-Box how long you want the
playback to last, and it will automatically select songs for you. You
can even do that from the DOS command line (or a batch file), and CD-Box
will play the songs, then exit right back to DOS.
- CD-Box makes it easy to choose files in which to pick songs - so if you
ARJed or ZIPped your songs by category, you can tell CD-Box which
categories to use!
- No data file to keep to date; bank filenames and song titles can be
modified directly from CD-Box, which will save your changes to disk.
CD-Box also knows the titles and lengths of numerous songs, and when it
encounters unknown songs, can sometimes (it depends on the format)
extract data from the files on disk.
- CD-Box is able to use EMS or XMS memory to some extent, and to examine the
SOUND environnment variable and of loading drivers and player programs
from there if necessary (as any good SoundBlaster software should do).