Contents
Demonstration

Contents:

About this demo

Contacting QSound

Un-Installing Demo

Problems Running Demo

(This QSound Demonstration is ©1994 by QSound Labs, Inc.)


About the QSound Demonstration
QSound™ Demonstration

The QSound demo you have installed on your computer requires...

Windows 3.1.

A sound board capable of reproducing 22k - 16bit stereo samples.

External speakers, one on either side of the video monitor.

It can be run from the Program Manager by double clicking its icon (assuming you asked the setup program to create such an item), or by choosing File|Run from the Program Manager's menu, specifying the install path followed by 'QDEMO' and selecting "OK". So if you installed QDEMO in the default path you would type "C:\QDEMO\QDEMO" into the "Run" dialog box and select "OK".

It can also be started from the file manager by double clicking "QDEMO.EXE" in the appropriate window.


Contacting QSound
QSound™ Demonstration

Contact QSound:

QSound Labs, Inc.

2748 - 37th Avenue N.E.

Calgary, Alberta  Canada

T1Y 5L3

voice: 	(403) 291-2492

fax:	(403) 250-1521


Removing the QSound Demonstration
QSound™ Demonstration

The QSound Demonstration Installer installed most of the QDemo files in the path you specified at the beginning of the install. Removing this directory, as well as the directories and files it contains, will take care of removing nearly all of the demo files.

The demo required 2 files in the Windows\System directory. If these files were already present at the time of the install, they were not overwritten with the ones included with the demo. The files in question are:

"MCIAAP.DRV"

"AAPLAY.DLL"

These files are freely distributable, and are MCI extensions to Windows which allow the playback of .flc and .fli animation files. Since they are shareable Windows resources, there is no way to tell if any other application installed on your system needs them. They take up approximately 190k of hard disk space. If you are not sure if any of your other applications require these files, we suggest you create a directory outside of your Windows\System directory and move these files into that directory. If, after a reasonable time (or after testing all of your applications), there are no errors reported by either your applications or Windows, delete them.

These two files along with the files in the directory you specified at the time of the install were the only ones added to your system.


Problems with the QSound Demonstration
QSound™ Demonstration

PROBLEMS:

The included QSound samples require a stereo sound board capable of reproducing 22khz - 16bit samples.

The demonstration uses the MCI interface to play the included animation files. If an MCI error is reported by Windows, QDemo.exe has no choice but to skip the playback of the animation. There are no sound samples which are played exclusively during an animation, so you should be able to hear all of the included samples.

One possible cause for an error such as this is an outdated .dll or .drv file. The installation program checks to see if either of these files exists on your system before installing those included with the demo. If either does exist, and their date stamp does not match that of the included file, you will be shown the file in question, and asked if you would like to replace the existing file with the demo file. It is suggested that you select "Replace" if the existing file is older than the demo file. A backup of the original file will be made before the new file is installed.

If you have further problems with the demo, feel free to load the .wav files located in the "STUFF" directory into any .wav player and experiment with them.