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Softbit Inc.
1 Whitewater
Irvine, CA 92715
(714) 251-8600
World Literary Heritage features the complete text of over 700 Classic Works
of Literature, Drama, Poems, History, Politics, Religion and Biography of 150
authors on one CD. This collection of literature contains works from such
authors as Aesops, Aristotle, Bacon, Dickens, Shakespeare and Walt Whitman.
You can hear over 20 minutes of narration by celebrity voices such as Ed
Begley Jr., James Mason for selected passages and see over 150 high resolution
images pertaining to the passage you are reading. There is a complete
biography of each author along with his/her picture.
To view the pictures under MS-Windows operating system, you need to have a
monitor with 256 colors video driver installed. The video drivers are provided
to you along with your video board at the time of purchase.
Each screen comes with a predefined set of buttons to help you and perform
a specific function such as leaving bookmarks or linking to the other topics.
The area between the two colored triangles is the link area to perform
a function as well. The Red triangles are action links that plays a
narration, the green triangles are hyper links between main menu and text. The
area between the blue triangles is used to link to the pictures. Simply place
the cursor between the link symbols and press RETURN key or use your MOUSE.
If you are using mouse, point the cursor at the link button or between
link symbols and press LEFT MOUSE to activate the link. By pressing the
RIGHT MOUSE, you will be returned to the previous topic.
If you are using keyboard only, use TAB to move to the next link button
and SHIFT+TAB to move to the previous link button. When either TAB or
SHIFT+TAB are used to move to a link, that link is displayed with an
inverse video rectangle. When the link button is inverted, the F1 or
RETURN key is used to activate the link.
Use the ESC key to return to the previous topic. If you ever have any
problems running the World Literary Heritage CD, on-line help is available,
or you can call us at (714) 251-8600 for any technical support.