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THE VIDEO STORE PROGRAM...
IS A MULTI-MEDIA MAGAZINE DEDICATED TO
BRINGING YOU THE VERY BEST IN VIDEO, BOOKS ON TAPE, CD'S, BOOKS
ON DISK, AND EVEN COMPUTER HARDWARE UPGRADES.
IF YOU ARE RUNNING THIS PROGRAM ON A '286, IT WILL BE VERY SLOW,
BECAUSE THE '286 WAS NOT INVENTED FOR MULTI-MEDIA APPLICATIONS.
IN THIS CASE WE SUGGEST YOU CALL US AT THE NUMBER GIVEN IN THE
MAGAZINE AND TALK TO US ABOUT AN UPGRADE TO A '386 OR '486
SYSTEM. WE ARE THE BEST AT THIS KIND OF CONSULTING BECAUSE WE
KNOW MULTI-MEDIA, WE'RE THE NUMBER ONE MULTI-MEDIA COMPANY IN
EXISTENCE RIGHT NOW. AND WE KNOW HARDWARE. WE STARTED OUT AS A
COMPUTER HARDWARE SALES COMPANY.
SO GIVE US A CALL IF YOU NEED TO UPGRADE YOUR PRESENT COMPUTER
SYSTEM for Multi-Media...This will be the fastest growing
component of the computer industry for the next ten years!
INSTALLATION NOTES:
THIS IS THE INSTALL PROCEDURE TO GET THE VIDEO STORE ONTO YOUR HARD DISK.
>>> IF YOU ARE READING THIS AT THE END OF THE INSTALL PROCEDURE
UNDER WINDOWS, THEN EVERYTHING WENT SMOOTH AND YOU CAN NOW CLICK
ON THE VIDEO STORE ICON AND BEGIN.
>>> WINDOWS 3.0 AND 3.1 USERS NOTE:
In order for our film clips to run, you need the Microsoft
"Multi-Media Extensions" files which you can get from Microsoft
or from us. If you have Windows 3.1 - "Multi-Media Extensions"
are included.
After you have confirmed that you have Multi-Media Extensions
you must load them into memory by making sure the 'MCI Autodesk
Animation driver' is present in your drivers. If our film clips
come up with the error message 'Not recognized by MCI' or any
words to that effect, you should go to the Control Panel, click
on the 'Drivers' Icon. Then click on 'ADD', then click on the
drive A: where you insert our disk1. Or you can specify the
sub-directory on your hard disk where we installed our program,
usually '\Videos'. The driver will then be installed with an OK
click on your part. Now, our movie clips should run. IF they
still don't give us a call and we can probably rectify the
problem for you.
IF YOU ARE READING THIS UNDER DOS, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO
DO NEXT, HERE ARE THE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS.
IF YOU ARE ALREADY INSTALLED, SKIP THIS SECTION AND GOTO 'ALL
ABOUT VIDEO STORE'
INSTALLATION
FIRST: YOU NEED TWO DISKS.
1. VIDEO STORE 'SETUP DISK' 1 OF 2
2. VIDEO STORE 'GRAPHICS DISK' 2 OF 2.
STEP ONE.
YOU MUST BE RUNNING WINDOWS 3.0 OR HIGHER ON YOUR 286,386, OR 486, 586
IBM COMPUTER OR COMPATIBLE.
INSERT 'DISK1 - SETUP' DISK INTO YOUR FLOPPY DRIVE A: OR B:
THEN PULL DOWN THE 'FILE' MENU
LOOK DOWN AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS MENU AND CLICK ON ... 'RUN' COMMAND.
A DIALOG BOX POPS UP ASKING YOU THE FILE NAME TO RUN.
TYPE IN THIS BOX 'A:SETUP' OR 'B:SETUP' IF INSTALLING FROM 'B: DRIVE'
THAT'S ABOUT IT. WINDOWS WILL AUTOMATICALLY INSTALL BOTH OUR DISKS
PROMPTING YOU FOR EACH.
IF YOU'RE INSTALLING FROM A HARD DRIVE. DO THE FOLLOWING:
MAKD A DIRECTORY AND CALL IT ANYTHING YOU WANT EXCEPT 'VIDEOS'
COPY 'DISK1' AND 'DISK2' TO THIS NEW DIRECTORY. EXAMPLE 'NEWDIR'
TYPE 'MD\NEWDIR'
TYPE 'CD\NEWDIR'
GO TO WINDOWS
PULL DOWN 'FILE' MENU
CLICK ON 'RUN' COMMAND
TYPE IN 'C:\NEWDIR\SETUP.EXE' IN THE FILE DIALOG BOX.
THE VIDEO STORE WILL UNCOMPRESS AND INSTALL INTO A WINDOWS PROGMANAGER
WINDOW CALLED 'TOOLBOOK'
NEXT >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
{If the clips don't run...
YOU MUST INSTALL THE MULTI-MEDIA DRIVERS IF YOU WANT TO WATCH OUR FILM
CLIPS ON YOUR COMPUTER. IF YOU HAVE WINDOWS VER 3.1, THIS MAY NOT BE
NECESSARY. BUT WE FIND IN MOST CASES YOU HAVE TO DO THE FOLLOWING.
1. GOTO the control panel
2. Click on the 'Drivers' Icon
3. Click on 'ADD' a driver.
4. You will see a list of installed drivers.
5. If you don't see 'MCI AUTODESK ANIMATION DRIVER' ...
You must click on 'UNLISTED' TO ADD THE DRIVER
6. Fill in the dialog box with either 'A:mciaap.drv'
or the hard drive subdirectory where the files from disk1 & 2
were installed. example: 'C:\newdir\mciaap.drv'
This should complete the installation of this Multi-Media Magazine.
CLICK ON THE VIDEO STORE ICON
YOU SHOULD SEE THE FRONT PAGE OF OUR MAGAZINE.
IF YOU'RE INSTALLING FROM A HARD DRIVE. DO THE FOLLOWING:
NOTE: YOU CAN NOW DELETE EVERYTHING IN THE '\NEWDIR'
SUBDIRECTORY OR WHATEVER DIRECTORY YOU INSTALLED FROM BECAUSE
THE PROGRAM INSTALLS INTO A DIRECTORY CALLED 'VIDEOS'. THIS
WILL SAVE YOU ABOUT THREE MEGABYTES OF SPACE. YOU DON'T NEED TWO
COPIES OF THE PROGRAM ONCE INSTALLATION IS COMPLETE! {IF YOU DO
NOT HAVE ENOUGH HARD DISK SPACE THE PROGRAM WILL PROMPT YOU TO
CONTINUE, CLICK ON NO AND THEN AT THE INSTALLATION SCREEN
UNSELECT THE 'GRAPHICS FILES' BY CLICKING ON IT. THIS WILL BE
CLEAR TO YOU BECAUSE IT WILL CHANGE COLOR. THEREFORE ONLY THE
EXECUTIBLES WILL BE DARKENED OR SELECTED. NOW IT ONLY REQUIRES
ABOUT 2 MB AND WILL WORK FINE, YOU SIMPLY WILL NOT HAVE A FEW OF
THE FLICKS ATTACHED TO SOME OF THE BUTTONS.}
WHEN DONE, THE VIDEO STORE ICON SHOULD APPEAR ON YOUR DESKTOP.
IF IT DOESN'T, YOU CAN FIND IT BY LOOKING AROUND YOUR VARIOUS WINDOWS.
OR YOU CAN AGAIN CHOOSE 'FILE', 'RUN' AND TYPE 'C:\VIDEOS\TBOOK.EXE
THEN OPEN THE FILE, 'VIDEO.TBK'.
IF YOU HAVE PROBLEMS!!!!!!!!!!!! >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
THE FIRST DISKETTE IS THE ONLY IMPORTANT ONE AND WILL RUN OUR
PROGRAM JUST FINE. IF YOU GET PAST DISK1 ON THE INSTALL.
SOMETIMES WITH VARIOUS HARDWARE OUT THERE, THE 2ND DISKETTE
MAY NOT INSTALL PROPERLY. THIS IS NO PROBLEM.
GOTO: 'FILE', ON THE MENU
PULL DOWN THE 'RUN' COMMAND
TYPE IN THE FILE BOX 'C:\VIDEOS\TBOOK.EXE'
THIS SHOULD RUN OUR PROGRAM. IF DISK 2 DID NOT INSTALL PROPERLY
YOU WILL NOT HAVE A PROGRAM GROUP AND YOU WILL NOT HAVE A FEW
GRAPHICS FILE. BUT THE PROGRAM WILL STILL RUN NICELY. YOU CAN
ALWAYS MAKE YOUR OWN ICON USING THE WINDOWS PIF EDITOR, NORTON
DESKTOP.
ANOTHER NOTE: SOMETIMES THE 'THERMOMETER' BAR WHICH TELLS YOU
THE STATUS OF THE INSTALLATION PROCEDURE WILL BE BLANK ON SOME
MONITOR CARDS. YOU CAN TELL IF EVERYTHING IS IN PROGRESS BY
WATCHING YOUR FLOPPY DRIVE LIGHT AND LISTENING FOR FILE COPYING
NOISES. WHEN THEY HAVE STOPPED, YOU'RE DONE. THE WHOLE
INSTALLATION SHOULD TAKE ABOUT 5 TO 10 MINUTES DEPENDING ON THE
SPEED OF YOUR COMPUTER.
THESE ARE THE FILES THAT ARE FOUND ON DISK ONE AND THESE ARE THE
ONLY ONES YOU NEED TO RUN OUR PROGRAM.
THE SECOND DISKETTE CONTAINS ONLY TWO FILES
TREK.FLI
& LEGS.FLI
YOU MUST HAVE THESE:
TBOOK.EXE, "ToolBook Executables"
VIDEO.TBK
SETUP.EXE
SETUP.INF
TBKBASE.DLL
TBKCOMP.DLL
TBKDLG.DLL
TBKFILE.DLL
TBKNET.EXE
TBKUTIL.DLL
TBKWIN.DLL
TBKMM.SBK
VIDEO.ICO
VGAVCR.FLI
README.TXT
THAT'S IT. ANY QUESTIONS CALL 1-408-423-8580
P.S. IF YOU DOWNLOADED THIS PROGRAM FROM A BULLETIN BOARD, YOU WILL NEED
TWO FILES. UNZIP EACH SET OF FILES AND COPY THEM TO A SEPARATE DISKETTE
FOR EACH ZIPPED FILE. THEN FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ABOVE.
{THIS WAS DONE SO THAT YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE MAJOR PROGRAM ONE NIGHT, USE
IT AND THEN DOWNLOAD THE SECOND FILE AT ANOTHER SESSION. THE ONLY THING
MISSING IF YOU DOWNLOAD IN TWO SEPARATE SESSIONS ARE A FEW FLICKS OR
ANIMATION FILES THAT WILL NOT FIRE UP WHEN YOU PRESS THE BUTTON. YOU
JUST CANCEL OUT AND PROCEED.}
YOU NEED: VIDEO1.ZIP
AND VIDEO2.ZIP
THE PROGRAM WILL RUN WITH ONLY VIDEO1.ZIP INSTALLED, BUT YOU ARE
MISSING SOME OF THE GRAPHICS FILES.
ALL ABOUT THE VIDEO STORE
THE VIDEO STORE PROGRAM IS A MULTI-MEDIA MAGAZINE DEDICATED TO
BRINGING YOU THE VERY BEST IN VIDEO, BOOKS ON TAPE, CD'S, BOOKS
ON DISK, AND EVEN COMPUTER HARDWARE UPGRADES.
IF YOU ARE RUNNING THIS PROGRAM ON A '286, IT WILL BE VERY SLOW,
BECAUSE THE '286 WAS NOT INVENTED FOR MULTI-MEDIA APPLICATIONS.
IN THIS CASE WE SUGGEST YOU CALL US AT THE NUMBER GIVEN IN THE
MAGAZINE AND TALK TO US ABOUT AN UPGRADE TO A '386 OR '486
SYSTEM. WE ARE THE BEST AT THIS KIND OF CONSULTING BECAUSE WE
KNOW MULTI-MEDIA, WE'RE THE NUMBER ONE MULTI-MEDIA COMPANY IN
EXISTENCE RIGHT NOW. AND WE KNOW HARDWARE. WE STARTED OUT AS A
COMPUTER HARDWARE SALES COMPANY.
SO GIVE US A CALL IF YOU NEED TO UPGRADE YOUR PRESENT COMPUTER
SYSTEM.
THE VIDEO STORE PROGRAM IS A MULTI-MEDIA MAGAZINE DEDICATED TO
BRINGING YOU THE VERY BEST IN VIDEO, BOOKS ON TAPE, CD'S, BOOKS
ON DISK, AND EVEN COMPUTER HARDWARE UPGRADES.
IF YOU ARE RUNNING THIS PROGRAM ON A '286, IT WILL BE VERY SLOW,
BECAUSE THE '286 WAS NOT INVENTED FOR MULTI-MEDIA APPLICATIONS.
IN THIS CASE WE SUGGEST YOU CALL US AT THE NUMBER GIVEN IN THE
MAGAZINE AND TALK TO US ABOUT AN UPGRADE TO A '386 OR '486
SYSTEM. WE ARE THE BEST AT THIS KIND OF CONSULTING BECAUSE WE
KNOW MULTI-MEDIA, WE'RE THE NUMBER ONE MULTI-MEDIA COMPANY IN
EXISTENCE RIGHT NOW. AND WE KNOW HARDWARE. WE STARTED OUT AS A
COMPUTER HARDWARE SALES COMPANY.