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The Best of Food and Wine
Technical Notes (MPC) Version 1.1
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The Best of Food and Wine is Multicom's latest addition to its series
of cookbooks. The What's for Dinner section can access recipes found
in Multicom's other cookbooks. At installation it checks to see which
titles you already own. If you later purchase another Multicom cookbook,
you can re-install the program and it will update itself to allow
What's for Dinner to access the new recipes.
Please call Multicom at 1-800-850-7272 for more information about our
other cookbooks.
System Requirements:
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* MPC or equivalent
* 33 MHz 80486DX or better
* Minimum 8MB RAM
* DOS 5.0 or later
* Microsoft Windows 3.1 or later (Windows 95 compatible)
* MPC-2 Compatible CD-ROM drive (2x or faster)
* SVGA monitor\display at 256 colors
* MPC compatible audio board
* Mouse
General Installation Instructions:
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The following are instructions for installing The Best of Food and Wine on your hard drive. This procedure installs a few small
files onto your hard drive that allow you to run our program. Please
note that after installing, the CD must be in the CD-ROM drive
whenever you wish to run The Best of Food and Wine.
- WINDOWS 3.1 -
1. Insert the Best of Food and Wine CD into the CD-ROM drive.
2. From Program Manager, select RUN from the FILE menu.
3. Type D:\setup (where D is the letter name of your CD-ROM) and
click OK.
4. Answer all installation questions that appear on the screen.
5. Before the Best of Food and Wine is complete, it will
check to see if you have a current version of Quicktime
installed on your system. If you do not, the Quicktime
installation program will begin.
6. Once the installation is complete, you may start The Best of Food
and Wine by opening the Multicom program group and double-clicking
on the Best of Food and Wine icon.
- WINDOWS 95 -
1. Insert the Best of Food and Wine CD into the CD-ROM drive
and the program setup will start automatically.
If your CD-ROM drive does not support Autoplay:
1. Insert the Best of Food and Wine CD into the CD-ROM drive.
2. Go to the START menu on the taskbar and click run.
3. Type D:\SETUP.EXE (where D is the letter name of your CD-ROM
drive) and click OK.
Notes on Uninstallation:
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Should you ever wish to remove The Best of Food and Wine from your
hard drive follow these steps:
- Windows 3.1 -
- Open the Multicom program group and double click the Uninstall
The Best of Food and Wine icon.
- Click YES to completely remove The Best of Food and Wine.
- Finally, click OK to close the Uninstall window.
- Windows 95 -
- Go to the START menu and click SETTINGS, then click CONTROL PANEL.
- Select ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS from the CONTROL PANEL window.
- In the resulting dialog box, select The Best of Food and Wine.
- Click the ADD/REMOVE... button.
- Click YES to completely remove The Best of Food and Wine.
- Finally, click OK to close the Uninstall window.
To avoid conflicts and for best performance:
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* Turn off Wallpaper and Screen Savers [Set to <None> in the Desktop
Control Panel for Windows 3.1 or go to Start, Settings, Control
Panel, Display for Windows 95].
* Make sure no other programs are running in the background while
running The Best of Food and Wine.
Trouble-shooting:
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HELP: The Best of Food and Wine has an extensive on-line help section.
You can access it at any time by clicking on the HELP icon.
Problem: Errors displaying files, reading the CD drive, and
printing (among assorted others).
Solution 1: Do not run any other applications simultaneously
with The Best of Food and Wine. This includes any TSR's or
Startup applications. (e.g. Microsoft Office or Bookshelf, Packard
Bell Navigator) You can check your Windows Task List in Windows 3.1
by holding the Crtl-Esc keys down. Program manager should be the
only task listed. If there are others, highlight them and select
"End Task" for each of them. In Windows 95, there should be no
other programs listed in the task bar at the bottom of the screen.
Solution 2: Increase the size of Virtual Memory Swap File.
Please refer to your Windows manual for instructions on this
procedure. (We recommend a swap file of at lease 7 megabytes.)
If Picture and Video Quality is Poor...
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Make sure you are using the correct video driver for your video
card and not the Windows VGA driver. (Go to the Windows Setup in
your Main group. If it says "VGA" next to Display, then you are
using the wrong driver.) Do not try switching drivers unless
you know what you are doing! It is safest to contact the
manufacturer of your computer or video card to correct this
problem.
Aside from the above listed procedures, try switching your video
card settings to 640x480 and 256 or 65,000 colors. If the problems still
continue, contact the manufacturer of your video card and
confirm that you have the most recent version of their Video
Driver. (Video drivers are updated frequently and are usually
available free of charge.)
No audio...
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In our installation program we have included some tools to assist
you in case you run into difficulties. If you experience audio
problems while using The Best of Food and Wine, run the program setup
again. This time, however, select the 'Utilities' (rather than Install) to
help you determine what the problem may be. If you are unable to
play a midi file or a wave file, you may have a problem with your
sound card driver installation. If this is the case, refer to the
manual for your sound card.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
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For free technical support, call our offices in Seattle, WA at
(800) 850-7272 or (206) 622-5530 during the following hours:
Mon.-Fri. 7:30am -7:30pm (Pacific Time)
Sat. 9am - 5pm
Sun. 10am - 4pm
We can also be contacted via:
Fax: 206-622-4380
E-mail: techsupport@multicom.com