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- VENDINFO standard v1.04, produced by VendEdit v1.30, 17-Jan-1997
-
- ===== Product Information ==============================
- Product: "Multimedia Greeting Card Maker"
- Version: 2.00
- Version Date: 16-Jan-1997
- Product Type: Software
- Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
- Shareware, freely distributable by all channels
-
- Product Description: Multimedia Greeting Card Maker 2.0 <ASP> for
- Windows multimedia systems. This allows you
- to create multimedia cards for all occasions.
- Comes with 3 sets of, music, voice, and
- graphic files to create 3 different Christmas
- cards. Load photograph and voice files of you
- and your family into your cards and make them
- something worth keeping. This is a great
- customer relations and advertising tool for
- businesses.
- Reason for version: Bug Fix, New Files
-
- Category: Home & hobby; Other
- Keywords: CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY HANUKKAH KWANZAA VALENTINE
- BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY GREETING CARDS
- Required Packages: MMCARDS2
- This Package: MMCARDS2
- Registration Fee: 25.00 (U.S.)
-
- Required Configuration
- Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 80286 (AT))
- Minimum OS: Windows 3.1
- Standard RAM: 1000K
- Hard Drive Space: 2373K
- Required:
- Hard drive
- Video Graphics Array (VGA)
- Color monitor
- Keyboard
- Sound card (specific types may be shown below)
- Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
- Won't Work With:
- Floppy only
- Monochrome Display Adapter (MDA)
- Hercules Graphics Card
- Monochrome monitor
-
- Orders:
- Address: Impact D. Publishing
- P.O. Box 1596
- Palm Desert, CA 92261
- Toll-Free Phone: 1-800-699-6395
- Phone: 1-800-699-6395
- FAX: 1-803-699-5465
- AmOnLine: Starmail
- CompuServe: 71561,2751
- Internet: 71561.2751@compuserve.com
- Other E-mail: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/star
- mail
-
- Support:
- Address: Impact D. Publishing
- P.O. Box 1596
- Palm Desert, CA 92261
- Phone: 619-346-6609
- CompuServe: 71024,3501
- Internet: 71024.3501@compuserve.com
-
-
- ===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
-
- MGCM (Multimedia Greeting Card Maker v1.0)
- Notices, Support, and Registration
-
- NOTICE: This program is produced by Stephen D. Groll a member of the
- Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure
- that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve
- a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member
- directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you
- resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide
- technical support for members' products. Please write to the ASP
- Ombudsman at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442-9427 USA, FAX
- 616-788-2765 or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to ASP
- Ombudsman 70007,3536.
-
- ABOUT THE PROGRAM: Multimedia Greeting Card Maker v2.0 <ASP> for Windows
- multimedia systems, 486/better, 256 color. This allows you to create
- multimedia cards for all occasions. The shareware version is fully
- functional. It comes with enough music, voice, graphic files to easily
- create 3 Christmas card designs. The registered version (registration
- fee is $25 total) comes with 6 more sets of, music, voice, and graphic
- files to create 9 different card designs total. Load photograph and
- voice files of you and your family into your cards and make them
- something worth keeping. A demo card is included to show you what can be
- done using this software. This can also be a great customer relations
- and advertising tool for businesses.
-
- NOTICE: Users of Multimedia Greeting Card Maker must accept this
- disclaimer of warranty: Multimedia Greeting Card Maker is supplied as
- is. The author disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied,
- including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability and of
- fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no liability for damages,
- direct or consequential, which may result from the use of Multimedia
- Greeting Card Maker.
-
- SUPPORT POLICY: Paying the $25 registration fee (see below for
- registration details) entitles user to support from the author. If you
- have questions or problems you may write to Impact D. Publishing, P.O.
- Box 1596, Palm Desert, CA 92261, contact author by Cserve at 71024,3501,
- Internet Email address 71024.3501@compuserve.com or leave a message 24
- hours a day at 1-619-328-8151. If we need to return a phone call we
- will use the 1-800-COLLECT service.
-
- REGISTRATION: This shareware requires a $25 registration fee to be sent
- to the authors if this software is used to create greeting cards to be
- given away or displayed or used in any way other than for evaluation.
- There are many benefits that make it worthwhile to register. See below
- for details.
-
- For $25 you will receive:
-
- 1. The latest registered version of MGCM on a 3.5 disk. The registered
- version creates greeting cards without the advertisement on the
- closing screen of the greeting card. Also it does not have the
- shareware notices at the start and close of this program.
- 2. 6 more sets of MIDI, WAVE, and static graphic files to use with
- MGCM to create birthday, anniversary, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa cards.
- These files will be sent as they come available.
- 3. One dozen 3.5 holiday disk labels for your card disks.
- 4. Documentation telling you how to create your own animated graphics.
- 5. Registered user discounts and announcements of new greeting card
- files for all occasions. These card files will be available to
- REGISTERED USERS ONLY.
- 6. Impact Product Information Kit full of samples, demos, and free stuff!
- 7. Most important, you receive permission to use MGCM to create greeting
- cards. Creating greeting cards with an unregistered version of MGCM
- for other than evaluation purposes is in violation of copyright.
-
- Items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 listed above available through 1998.
-
- TO REGISTER by Visa/MasterCard/Discover: from the U.S. call NorthStar
- Solutions at 1-800-699-6395 other 1-803-699-6395. from 10:00 a.m. to
- 8:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. 24 hour service, Email Internet
- 71561.2751@compuserve.com, fax 1-803-699-5465. Be ready with: name of
- software, product Id. #1017, disk size, mailing address, number and
- expiration date of credit card, and your Email address so your order
- can be confirmed and so we can contact you easily with follow-up
- information. The registration fee is $25 plus you can order extra
- holiday disk labels at $3 a Dz.
-
- TO REGISTER by mail see below.
-
- _________________________________________________________________
- Order Form
-
- Please RUSH all the items listed above to:
-
- Name______________________Address________________________________
-
- City_______________________State_______________Zip_______________
-
- You may order more labels over your original 12 free labels at $3
- per Dz.
-
- Fill out the order form and mail it with check/money order for
- $25 + $3 per Dz. extra labels in United States currency to:
-
- Impact D. Publishing, P. O. Box 1596, Palm Desert, CA 92261
-
- For more information Email: 71024,3501@compuserve.com Phone:
- 1-(619)-328-8151. If it is necessary for us to return a phone
- call, we will do so using the 1-800-COLLECT service. If you have
- questions, suggestions, or comments, we want to hear them. Thank
- you for supporting the shareware concept and Impact.
-
-
- ===== Packing List =====================================
-
- As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
- following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
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-
-
- ===== Installation =====================================
-
- The installation procedure for "Multimedia Greeting Card Maker" is quite
- simple. The package include a SETUP.EXE program to be run from Windows.
-
- The exact steps you need to take will depend on how you received MGCM.
-
-
- INSTALLING FROM DISKETTES
-
- To install from diskette(s), you need to perform the following steps.
-
- o Place MGCM distribution diskette in the appropriate diskette drive.
-
- o Make sure the drive where your diskette is located is the active
- drive. If your disk is in drive A: then select A:. Then double
- click the setup.exe file and follow prompts.
-
- o To run the program select the Make Multimedia Card icon from the
- new MN Card Maker program group.
-
-
- INSTALLING FROM A HARD DRIVE
-
- If you downloaded "Multimedia Greeting Card Maker" from a BBS or
- received it in the form of archive files from some other source, you
- will need to perform the following steps.
-
- o Extract the contents of the archive file(s) in a temporary
- directory on your hard drive. The procedure for doing this
- varies, depending on the form in which you received the package.
- In all likelihood, the fact that you are reading this text means
- that you already have the necessary tools and knowledge to
- perform this step. If not, you should be able to obtain
- directions for this from the same source from which you received
- the package.
-
- o Execute the "SETUP.EXE" program which you have extracted. For
- example, if the temporary directory into which you have extracted
- the MGCM package is C:\TEMPDIR, you would make sure your hard
- drive is the active drive. Then from C:\TEMPDIR\ double click the
- SETUP.EXE. Follow the prompts.
-
- o When you're satisfied that the installation was successful, you
- should delete the temporary directory FROM which you installed
- Multimedia Greeting Card Maker program (C:\TEMPDIR, in the above
- discussion, including all its contents).
-
-
- ===== Warranty =========================================
-
- LIMITED WARRANTY
-
- THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED FOR EVALUATION ONLY, ON AN "AS IS" BASIS.
- IMPACT D. PUBLISHING AND STEPHEN D. GROLL DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
- RELATING TO THIS SOFTWARE, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT
- NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR
- A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NEITHER IMPACT D. PUBLISHING NOR STEPHEN D. GROLL
- NOR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION, OR
- DELIVERY OF THIS SOFTWARE SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT,
- CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY
- TO USE SUCH SOFTWARE, EVEN IF IMPACT D. PUBLISHING AND/OR STEPHEN D.
- GROLL HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR CLAIMS. THE
- PERSON USING THE SOFTWARE BEARS ALL RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND
- PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE.
-
- This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of California
- and shall inure to the benefit of Impact D. Publishing, Stephen D. Groll
- and any successors, administrators, heirs and assigns. Any action or
- proceeding brought by either party against the other arising out of or
- related to this agreement shall be brought only in a STATE or FEDERAL
- COURT of competent jurisdiction located in Riverside County, California.
- The parties hereby consent to in personam jurisdiction of said courts.
-
-
- ===== License for Use and Distribution =================
-
- TRIAL USE LICENSE
-
- "Multimedia Greeting Card Maker" is NOT a public domain program. It is
- copyrighted by Stephen D. Groll & Robert E. Rowell. This software is
- protected by United States copyright law and also by international
- treaty provisions.
-
- Stephen D. Groll & Robert E. Rowell grant you a limited license to use
- this software for evaluation purposes only. If you create greeting card
- programs to give or display using this software you MUST make a
- registration payment of $25 to Impact D. Publishing. Creating and giving
- away or displaying greeting card programs with an unregistered version
- is in violation of copyright. Greeting cards may be created using an
- unregistered version for evaluation purposes only.
-
- You may not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile,
- disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed
- program except as provided in this agreement. Any such unauthorized
- use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of this license.
- All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to Stephen D. Groll.
-
-
- LIMITED DISTRIBUTION LICENSE
-
- The following may distribute "Multimedia Greeting Card Maker" completely
- unaltered, without further permission...; for other cases or to
- distribute in modified form, you must consult the attached VENDINFO
- data record which is hereby incorporated by reference. Any distribution
- satisfying all the distribution requirements expressed in that data
- record is hereby authorized.
-
- Permission to distribute the "Multimedia Greeting Card Maker" package
- is not transferable, assignable, saleable, or franchisable. Each vendor
- wishing to distribute the package must independently satisfy the term
- of this limited distribution license.
-
- U.S. Government Information: Use, duplication, or disclosure by the
- U.S. Government of the computer software and documentation in this
- package shall be subject to the restricted rights applicable to
- commercial computer software as set forth in subdivision (b)(3)(ii) of
- the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at
- 252.227-7013 (DFARS 52.227-7013). The Contractor/manufacturer is
- Impact D. Publishing, P.O. Box 1596, Palm Desert, CA 92261.
-
- Stephen D. Groll may revoke any permissions granted here, by notifying
- you in writing. All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to
- Stephen D. Groll.
-
-
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- Parker, CO 80134-5904 USA FAX: 303-841-6269 RIME: 1235
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