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Power Queue
For Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.0 w/ MultiMedia Extensions
by Joe Lee
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Loading
3. To Open A Midi File
4. Legal Notes
5. Questions, Comments, Suggestions, Large Cash Donations?
6. How to Distribute Power Queue
7. Why to Distribute Power Queue
8. Stuff for Techies
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
You must have Windows 3.1 or Windows 3.0 w/ MultiMedia Extensions and a
Sound Card or Midi Synthesizer with Midi Windows drivers installed. If you do
not have Windows installed in the c:\WINDOWS directory then instead of running
INSTALL.BAT, you must manually place GAUGE.VBX, MCI.VBX, and VBRUN200.DLL in
the Windows SYSTEM directory and then POWERQ.EXE in C:\POWERQ or the direectory
of you choice. These files are necessary for execution.
Introduction:
This program plays Midi (*.mid) files in sequence under Microsoft Windows
3.1. In order to run it, it must be installed via INSTALL.BAT. YOU MUST HAVE
THE MIDI SEQUENCER SOFTWARE INSTALLED. See your Midi and/or Sound Card manuals
for how to do this and your Windows manual for help on the Control Panel.
Loading:
Select a Program Group that you would like to place Power Queue in or
create new group using "New" on the Program Manager's "File" menu and then
selecting "Group". Then go to "New" on the Program Manager's "File" menu
and select "Item". Click on Browse, enter the POWERQ directory, and
double-click on POWERQ.EXE. Click on OK.
From this point forward you should be able to open Power Queue by clicking
on its icon.
To open a Midi file:
Use the Drive menu to select the drive of the file. Select the directory
using the directory list. To open a file now, simply double-click on the file
name in the file list. Its name will appear in the song list. Once you have
selected all the songs you wish to hear, click on "Play" to hear them in
sequence from the top to the bottom. To remove a song from the list, select
it in the list, then click on "Remove". To clear the whole list, click on
"Clear". To stop the song at any point, click on "Stop" or "Pause". The
"Pause" button will change to "Resume", which you may click on to resume the
current song. Clicking on "Play" while the song is still playing will cause
the program to play the next song on the list.
At any time, with songs playing or not, you may click on the minimize
button on the right side of the blue bar to minimize "Power Queue", but if a
song is playing, it will continue to play, and then the next, and so on
until the queue runs out of songs. During heavy processing of other
programs, however, the songs may slow down slightly. While "Power Queue" is
minimized, other programs should run without any visible interference, though.
Legal Notes:
Power Queue is provided "as is". By using Power Queue, you are doing so
at your own prerogative and risk. Power Queue is not responsible for
damages including but not limited to, financial, physical, and/or mental,
resulting from use, abuse, or loss of use of Power Queue.
Power Queue is not to be distributed with any other software but that
which is provided with it, namely:
POWERQ.EXE
VBRUN200.DLL
GAUGE.VBX
MCI.VBX
POWERQ.DOC
INSTALL.BAT
Power Queue may only be distributed as these six files, no more, no less.
If Power Queue is distributed with a charge for copying or other such
charges, it may not exceed ten dollars.
The files POWERQ.* are Copyright 1993, by Joe Lee.
--Silly but Essential Part Starts Here--
Questions, Comments, Suggestions, Large Cash Donations??
Send them to:
Joe Lee
10512 Vessey Rd.
Bloomington, MN 55437
No death threats, please.
How to distribute Power Queue:
To distribute Power Queue, group the six unaltered program files, throwing
out any BBS ad files, in a compressed package, preferably *.zip, *.arj, or
*.lzh. Send this package to your friends, neighbors, large multi-national
corporations, or BBS's.
Why to distribute Power Queue:
If you enjoyed this program, you can spread the joy and happiness of Power
Queue to others. The more people who try this program out, the better.
Even if you haven't got a sound card or Windows 3.1 or any Midi files or a
computer, give it to your friends who do.
However, if you didn't enjoy this program at all, mail a letter explaining
exactly what you didn't like to me at the address above. Then distribute
Power Queue to your worst enemies.
What you owe:
Power Queue is the product of many a hard weeks slavery over a keyboard.
However, out of the simple kindness of my heart and that basic need we all
have, namely, to get one's name spread over the nation, I am distributing this
as Public Domain software. Perhaps in a later version I will possibly
consider maybe charging money for the myraid of features that users are sure to
suggest, but for now, anyway, you may have the pleasure of owning a fine
piece of completely free software (one of the few). But if any of you are
one of those rare people who have a strong, urging, psychopathic need to PAY
for the software you receive, or if you simply enjoy the product, send gobs
of cash to the above address.
Sadly, though, I have little spare time for programming these friviolities.
Power Queue may never live to see another version unless there appears to be a
need for it. If enough user response and suggestions come through, and even,
but not including, money, then there is an almost guarenteed chance that a
better version will be written. Otherwise, nothing can be promised.
Stuff for Techies:
Power Queue was written in Microsoft Visual Basic, Professional Edition,
using the multimedia tools. It's been tested on a SoundBlaster Pro, but the
incredible, awe-inspiring universal compatablitly of Windows 3.1 claims that
it should hypothetically work on all systems that have multimedia capablilities
(Snork-Ha-Ha). According to the back of the box, it says that it will even
work under Windows 3.0 with multimedia extensions! Those Microsoft guys really
have a sense of humor. If you have tested Power Queue with a device other
than a SoundBlaster Pro, whether it works or not, mail a letter to me telling
me so, so that I can include a list of devices that it works for or doesn't
work for in the next release, provided that I get enough user response.
These files are being distributed from Bloomington "Home of the MegaMall",
Minnesota in *.ZIP compression on Jan. 1, 1993, as RavenCentral computing
enters a new year. Notice the most important feature: the ever-changing
title bar. ;-)
P.S. For those of you who can't pronounce Queue, it's pronounced Q (cue).
I'm thinking of changing the name to Power Q. Let me know what you think.