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FAST Graphics Creation Program Copyright 1993, Jeff Napier & Another Company WHAT IS FAST? Fast is a drawing system which is specially designed to make and display the smallest files possible. This means that you can now send complex graphic images across modems in a very short time, and you can put up to 100 pictures on a single 360k floppy disk. In addition, FAST has functions not found in other drawing programs: You can incorporate sound effects and melodies into your pictures, you can build in timing effects and animation, and even user interaction. FAST has a hyperlinking system in which you can give your users an on-screen arrow which they can move with the arrow/number keys or a mouse. Anything you have drawn can be pointed to, and when the users click a mouse button or press [Enter], they will be taken to another picture. You can have 30 such links in every picture, and an unlimited number of pictures! There are two main files in FAST - FSHOW.EXE which you copy and distribute with your finished products to show them, and FAST.EXE, the creation program. FAST runs on any IBM-compatible computer with EGA or VGA graphics (except the old-fashioned 64k EGA cards). Supported but NOT required are mouse, MS-Windows, EMS and XMS. The sound effects all play through the ordinary PC speaker, sound card is NOT required. WHO IS FAST FOR? FAST was created for anyone who has something to say. Use it to make professional-quality disk-based illustrated catalogs, teaching tutorials or computer-based training (CBT) materials, electronic books, multimedia presentations, retail or shareware products. Fast uses ASCII-Vector-Graphics, a wonderful system in which each element of a picture is recorded in an ordinary ASCII text file on disk as it is drawn. For instance, a rectangle appears in the file as R followed by integers representing the location and size of the rectangle. A circle is represented by a C, followed by numbers marking it's location and radius. A line is represented with an L, an ellipse is an E, and so on. Color changes have codes, sound effects have codes, everything has corresponding codes. Text that appears in the pictures is plain text in the ASCII file, although it is preceded by some numbers representing the position of the text in the picture. The advantages of AVG are tremendous. Most significantly, a whole lot of graphic information can be written into a really small file. This means you can put up to 100 separate pictures on an ordinary 360k floppy disk! Furthermore, Ascii-Vector-Graphics is the secret behind sound effects, animation and user-interaction within pictures. If you communicate on BBS's you'll especially appreciate that complicated illustrations can be sent by modem very quickly, because of their small size. AVG files compress to a fraction of their original size when using programs such as PKZIP or LHA. HOW IT WORKS The files which compose a presentation are simply ASCII files which contain codes for picture elements, sound effects, animations and more. We call them SCRIPT FILES. FAST reads these files and follows the coded instructions, line-by-line, to recreate your pictures, animations, sounds, etc. LEGAL STUFF There are probably a few bugs. This program a reduced set of Media Magic, which is a very solid program. However, in creating the reduction, some small bugs may have been introduced. I plainly state right here: You use this at your own risk. I will take no responsibility for any results of the use of this program. - Jeff Napier - June 4, 1993 THE CONVENTIONS IF YOU ARE USING A MOUSE: The left mouse button generally selects an action and answers questions affirmatively. It is also like pressing [Enter]. The right mouse button ends or cancels actions and answers questions negatively. It is also like pressing [Esc]. In most drawing modes such as circles and boxes, the right mouse button is held down when you want to change the size/shape of an object. With three-button mice, the center button is useful. In most drawing modes such as lines and ellipses, it will cancel an object. In other cases, it will bring up help. The spacebar on your keyboard will work the same as the center mouse button to cancel drawing objects, so two-button mice are fully capable of three-button operations. In most cases, when the program calls for pressing [Enter], you can click the left mouse button for the same result. And a click of the right mouse button can replace pressing [Esc] in many parts of the program. KEYBOARD: Whether or not you have a mouse, you can also control Media Magic from the keyboard. The [Enter] key simulates the left mouse button. Use [Enter] to select actions or answer questions affirmatively. The [Esc] key simulates the right mouse button. Use it to end or cancel actions, answer questions negatively or bring up on-line help. TO MOVE THE CURSOR (ARROW) WITH THE KEYBOARD: For fine control, use the arrow keys. Turn the [Num Lock] key off for fine control. You can also move the cursor diagonally with [Home], [End], [Page Up] and [Page Dn]. For coarse control, turn the [Num Lock] key on, and use the same keys. In other words, with [Num Lock] off, the right arrow or [6] key moves the cursor one pixel at a time to the right. But when the [Num Lock] is on, the [6] key moves the cursor about 10 pixels to the right each time it is pressed. FOR COARSE CONTROL: [Num Lock] = ON FOR FINE CONTROL: [Num Lock] = OFF SIZE MODE / MOVE MODE Many drawing options involve placing a rectangle or other object in the picture and adjusting its size. With a mouse, moving the object is done by moving the mouse while no mouse buttons are held down. To change the size or shape of the object, the mouse is moved while the right button is held down. From the keyboard, this is done differently. To move an object, use the arrow or number keys. Then, to change it's size, toggle SIZE mode with the spacebar. Click it once. Now, when you press number or arrow keys, the shape or size of the object changes. To return to MOVE mode, click the spacebar again. The spacebar also toggles SIZE and MOVE mode with the mouse, so if SIZE is in effect, even without any mouse buttons pressed, an object will stretch without moving on the screen until the spacebar is pressed again. This point can be confusing. If an object misbehaves, chances are, you have to press the spacebar. Line Drawing Drawing lines is a bit different with FAST and MEDIA MAGIC than with other programs, because of an extra feature. When LINE is selected from the menu, an arrow appears. Move the arrow to where the line is to start, and press [Enter] or the left mouse button. Move the mouse or press arrow keys to stretch the line to it's end location. Press [Enter] or the left mouse button when satisfied. You can make as many lines in this way as you wish. When done, press [Esc] or the right mouse button. The special feature is "Float Mode." You can use the spacebar to toggle Float Mode. If you have a three-button mouse, you can also use the center mouse button. Once you have started a line, by toggling float mode, the entire line can be moved to another location while maintaining it's length and angle. Try it, you'll like it! The Menu System Fast uses an object-oriented menu system, consisting of series of icons. When a menu is visible, you can move the arrow into any menu item and press [Enter] or click the left mouse button to select that function. Some special menu items are: STOP: Select the Stop sign to quit the program, or click the right mouse button when at the main menu. MOVE: Select the Move icon to move the entire menu from one location on screen to another. This way, you can see the image you are creating by moving the menu out of the way. When selected, a yellow rectangle appears. Move the rectangle, then press [Enter] when satisfied with the new location. SPECIAL EFFECTS: In the upper right corner of the main menu is a complex boxy looking icon. This is the special effects menu. When selected, several options are presented, including Definite Jump, and Hyperlink, discussed later in this file. TIME: By selecting the icon which looks like a pocket watch, you can choose options which regulate the timing of your presentation. The Many Features Even though FAST has far fewer features than Media Magic, there are still a whole lot of hoops this program can jump through. Unfortunately, because this is the shareware version, we do not have room to document every feature. Fortunately, most are self-explanitory. Consider it an adventure to figure out what some of the obscure entries in the menus do. Hyperlinks And Definite Jumps One of the most complex concepts in multimedia creation is hyper-linking (also known as hyperlinking). Not all multimedia creation programs have this feature, and it is not required for making presentations, but if you master it, you can add wonderful user interaction to your presentations. Hyperlinking (as I define it) is the ability for an end user to point to and select something on the screen and be taken to another part of your presentation based upon that selection. It is up to you to design screens containing text, icons or objects which the end user can select. It is also up to you to create the links. In other words, if the user points to X, then you can have the presentation run file Z. You might, for instance, design a screen with a frog, a cat, a lizard, and an ant. The user can point to one of these animals, and be taken to script file with more information about amphibians, or mammals, or reptiles, or insects. Here's another example. You draw a sewing machine. If the users select an area around the needle, you take them to a script about threading the needle. If they point to the bobbin winder, you take them to a "winding bobbins" script, and if they point to the tensioner, you take them to a script which explains the tensioner settings. Normally you build a presentation by completing the screens containing icons, text or whatever you use to indicate hyperlinks first. We'll call these menu screens. Then, you build the scripts or files which are to be hyperlinked. Finally, you go back to the menu screens and actually create the links. For each link, select HYPERLINK from the Special Effects menu. You will be asked to type a filename, then a rectangle will appear on screen. Size, shape and move the rectangle to enclose the area in which your users can click to get a link. From this point on, when your users use FSHOW, and the menu screen is visible, if users move the arrow into the invisible hyperlinked rectangular region, the presentation will then show the hyperlinked script. Of course you can have up to 30 links per menu screen, and as many menu screens as you like. For instance, you could have a menu screen which shows several bugs including spiders and insects. If they click on a picture of an insect, then the presentation could show a second menu screen showing bees and ants (both insects). If they click on bees, they could be shown yet an other menu screen with honey bees, bumblebees, etc. If they click on bumblebees, you might finally present a script talking about bumblebees. Definite Jumps At the end of your bumblebees script, you need a Definite Jump. A Definite Jump will unconditionally take the user to a specific script after the current script is shown. When your users are done learning about bumblebees, the program should not end. The users may want to find out about different bugs. So at the end of the bumblebee script you insert a Definite Jump back to the bugs menu script so they can go through the process again. In fact, there should be a Definite Jump back to the bugs menu script from every single hyperlinked script in your bug presentation, so the user never gets lost, but always returns to the main bug menu. There are other uses for Definite Jump, too, with or without hyperlinking. I often use it as a way to concatenate scripts. For instance, I have a standard advertising script for Media Magic which I put in almost all of my shareware presentations. The last screen in each presentation uses a Definite Jump to show the Media Magic ad. What If What if you have two overlapping hyperlinked regions? If your insects area overlaps your spiders area, what happens? The last one in order in your script file is the one which will take effect. If you made a hyperlink for insects first, then the spiders one, and if your end user clicks where both hyperlinked areas overlap, then the last hyperlink is the one which will work. In this case, your user will be taken to the spiders script. What if the user confronted with your bug menu script clicks on an area which has no hyperlink. Perhaps the user clicks on a blank area between your spider picture and your insect picture. Normally, this would cause the presentation to continue. If your whole thing is based on the bug menu script (in batch mode), then the user would get dumped out to DOS. Your user would have to restart FSHOW to learn more about bugs. But there is a more elegant way. You can hyperlink the whole bugs menu screen, and have the whole screen hyperlink recall the bugs menu script. This creates a bit of a quandary, however. If you add the whole screen hyperlink last, then the user can never get out of the bugs menu, since anytime they click anywhere on the screen, the bugs menu script will be replayed. If you make the whole-screen hyperlink first, you cannot continue to work on your own picture, 'cause you'll put FAST.EXE into an endless loop. So what you do is make your full screen hyperlink last, then, using a text editor, move that line to the top of the list in your script file. Now, if you are sharp, you'll see another little problem. How do you let your users out? There are two ways. One is to make an icon or something in your menu showing the exit, then hyperlink a script which does not do a Definite Jump back to the bugs menu script. You can use this as a dropout or advertising script. The other way is to hyperlink using STOP, in capital letters as the filename. "STOP" is not a file, but a special code to the hyperlinking mechanism, to let users out of a full screen hyperlink. Editing Script Files Since pictures are recorded as plain old ASCII text, you can use any standard text editor or word processing program in ASCII mode to make modifications to your pictures. There is not enough room in this shareware version to tell you how to work with these script files (It is fully documented in the registered version, called Media Magic, however). But, if you are reasonably intelligent (and you must be, because you selected this software!) you may be able to figure it out without documentation via experimentation. Technical Support phone 503-482-3611: Available only for users intending to register, and registered users. Hours: 2-5pm Pacific Time, Monday - Friday. Shareware As I guess I've made all to clear by now, this is a shareware product. It is fully functional in that you can make perfectly complete presentations of your own. However, by registering, you can get Media Magic which has many more features and works in a variety of video modes. If you create anything for distribution of any sort, you must register by sending $29.95 to Another Company. This price includes free worldwide postage. Shareware distributors, sysops, friends of friends, etc, are invited and encouraged to make and distribute copies of this program in it's unmodified entirety. Written permission is not required. However, if you do phone or write, I'll assist you in getting the latest version. Send check (drawn on a US bank) or money order (US dollars) to: Another Company P.O. Box 3429 Ashland, OR 97520 USA Or, for faster service, phone 503-482-3611. Visa / Mastercard accepted. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - end of instruction section. Following is a list of other software which you can purchase from Another Company: WHAT'S IN THAT BOX?: A pictures and text tutorial which explains what's in your computer and how it works. Requires CGA, EGA or VGA and 256k RAM. $4.95 Also available as shareware. WHAT'S IN THAT BOX? - VGA: Same as above, but requires VGA. Better looking because of 16-color high resolution. $9.95 also available as sharaware. TYPING WORLD: Fun games and lessons to improve your typing skill whether your are a beginner or a professional, a kid or an adult. All are presented with a super-easy-to-use menu system. This disk includes a colorful pictures & text tutorial which covers typing basics as well as some unusual tips for experts. Also, there are two games which build skill. Falling Letters is easy yet it appeals to all ages and levels of skill. Trivia Type is more challenging. It shows you sentences containing fascinating facts, figures and very short true stories which you copy, letter for letter. The farther you go into the game, the faster you must type these interesting sentences. Trivia Type is for 1 to 4 players. With two or more players, it is guaranteed to liven up any gathering. We've had beta testers fall out of their chairs laughing! These games are so much fun that you'll be gaining skill without realizing you are doing typing exercises. Requires EGA or VGA and 640k RAM. $19.95 Also available as shareware. BETTER EYESIGHT: 5 computer-driven exercises to improve your vision and a pictures & text tutorial explaining how they work. Requires CGA, EGA or VGA and 512k RAM. Not recommended for laptop LCD screens. $29.95 Also available as shareware. ALMANAC 1992: A collection of fascinating facts, inside information and unbelievable yet true stories. Educational fun for the whole family. Freeware. * NON-MEDICAL PAIN RELIEF: This pictures and text tutorial teaches how to relieve minor aches and pains using a variety of techniques including Swedish massage, acupressure and others. Requires CGA, EGA or VGA and 256k RAM. (written by my wife, Lynne) $19.95 Also available as shareware. WRITER'S DREAM: Virtually anyone's writing can be presented to thousands and thousands of people. This is an easy-to-use presentation program for standard ASCII text files. Now you can create very professional-looking disk-based books, catalogs, and other products which can be distributed as shareware, retail software or otherwise. No longer do you need a publisher or money to reach a huge audience. Make copies of your electronic book for the mere price of blank disks. $29.95 Also available as shareware. * GARAGE SALES FOR FUN & PROFIT: If you have $10 to invest, where would you put it? Into a money market account? There, after a year you will have a profit of about $2. Or, you could go to a garage sale, buy something like a camera or a drill press, and consign it to a second-hand store. Typically, within 2 weeks, the store will sell your $10 camera or drill press for $40, but keep $10 commission, leaving you with only $30! Instead of 20% profit in a year, you'll have 200% in two weeks. This is a tutorial that tells you all about buying and selling second-hand merchandise. It covers garage sales as a buyer and a seller, it covers consignment, flea market selling, psychology of "wheeling and dealing" and more. It gives you charts of current values of second-hand merchandise. For those interested in the additional profits of detailing and repairing, there is yet more information. $19.95 Not available as shareware. * BICYCLE TUNE-UP AND REPAIR: A pictures & text tutorial which teaches everything you need to keep your bicycle in top shape including flat tire repair, wheel alignment, and brake, derailleur and bearing adjustments. Requires CGA, EGA or VGA and 256k RAM. $9.95 Also available as shareware. MONEY: A short text tutorial completely covering several good ways to make money at home. $5 Freeware. * MONEY4: A larger, multimedia tutorial completely covering several good ways to make money at home. Little or no start-up cost, anyone can do it! Requires VGA. $5 Freeware. ULTIMATE LABEL MANAGER: Easy-to-use database program to keep track of and print mailing lists, disk labels, etc. Features include zip code sorting, adjustable number of copies, mouse support, and more. $29.95 Also available as shareware. * PASCAL MAGIC: For TP 6.0 users - our new disk offers easy to create pop-up windows, dialog boxes, menus and help screens, graphics support, mouse support, laptop computer support, sound effects, and more, plus the formerly difficult incorporation of .CHR and .BGI files into .EXE files with a single line of code. This disk also carries a tutorial for beginning Pascal programmers. Requires Turbo Pascal 6.0. Available w/wo source code $79.90/$39.95. Also available as shareware. PASCAL MAGIC v3.0, Same as above, but for Turbo Pascal 7.0 C Magic v1.5, Same as above, but for Borland C/C++ version 3.0 or 3.1. BGI-DRAW: For Borland/Turbo C/C++ and Pascal programmers, this package runs like any other paint program, except your picture is recorded as C or Pascal source code! Simply paint sprites, backgounds, any sort of graphics image, and then incorporate them into your programs. Includes full support of Borland Graphics Interface and fonts. For Turbo C version 1.5 to Borland C/C++ version 3.1, or Turbo Pascal version 4.0 to 7.0. Supports BGI video modes plus 320 x 200 x 256 and 640 x 480 x 256. $29.95 Also available as shareware. OXY-ACETYLENE WELDING TUTORIAL: Learn to become a safe and effective gas welder with this pictures & text tutorial. Includes brazing, welding steel, aluminum and brass, and cutting steel. Requires CGA, EGA or VGA and 256k RAM. $9.95 Also available as shareware. COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE HOME-OPERATED BICYCLE BUSINESS - A very complete text tutorial. $19.95 Not available as shareware. THE UNIVERSAL CONVERTER: Over 600 instant conversions at your fingertips, including area, volume, US to metric lengths, liquids, temperature, musical frequencies, decimals to fractions, ASCII and much more. $29.95 (Registered version is DELUXE 21st CENTURY ALAMNAC, below) Also available as shareware. * 21ST CENTURY ALMANAC: The program of the future is here today! Who but Another Company would create a single program that does your homework, cures insomnia, answers questions, entertains you and the kids, performs hundreds of common household and professional conversions, and more?! Runs in any IBM-compatible computer with at least 512k RAM. (This is a super-set of the Universal Converter.) $29.95 (Registered version is DELUXE 21st CENTURY ALAMNAC, below) Also available as shareware. DELUXE 21ST CENTURY ALMANAC: All of the above plus Goal Seeker, Dos Tips, Programmer's Typo Trap, Piano, and more functions and conversions. $29.95 Not available as shareware. SUCCESS WITH SHAREWARE: A text tutorial which teaches everything about making a profit in the business of writing text, picture-based presentations or programs as shareware, and making money! A must for beginners in the shareware authoring business. $29.95 Not available as shareware. * THE COMEDY GENERATOR: Originally written for entertainers, this program is so much fun it'll entertain you for hours. $9.95 Also available as shareware. * THE SECRETS OF OUR SUCCESS: This text tutorial takes you inside a successful shareware copying business and reveals all the details. Learn how to start your own business on the kitchen table and possibly develop it into a small empire. There is no risk, because the investment required is practically $0! All you need is any IBM-compatible computer. It's so easy, even kids can do it after school. Learn how to start quickly, make the most profit, have the most fun, and avoid all the mistakes. Find out where to get disks at wholesale prices. Find out about the five ways to sell disks, including three ways that require no customer contact. We're shipping version 2.30, created in March 1992. It has even more information, including up to date, easy to use mailing cost charts, info about inexpensive 800 phone lines, pros and cons of Pitney-Bowes mailing equipment, new sources of disks, a new user interface, and more. $79.95 Not available as shareware. * BETTER VOLLEYBALL: Learn all about one of America's favorite team sports. Includes strategies for 2 to 6 players per team. Animated pictures & text tutorial requires graphics card, 512k RAM. $9.95 Freeware. THE ALTERNATIVE HEALTH GUIDE: This is a pictures & text presentation which talks about many subjects ranging from attitude and exercise to nutrition to help us live happy, healthy and long lives. Included are massage and relaxation techniques for nonmedical pain relief, extensive information about nutrition, and discussion about relationships with ourselves, our loved ones, and our environment. This disk is loaded with information, and easy to use with a graphics-based hyper-linked menu. Requires hard disk, VGA. $9.95 Freeware. DIGITIZED SPEECH, Freeware, A collection of .EXE files which play good digitized speech or sound effects through the ordinary PC speaker. Use them at the DOS prompt, or run them from within programs or batch files. Potential uses are unlimited! On this disk is a menu-driven interface for easy "previewing" of the speech files. These range from useful phrases such as "Press any key to continue" to an imitation of Elvis Presley. Requires hard disk, '286 or better, 8mhz or faster CPU. VGA recommended but not required. $29.95 (Registered version is LARGE SPEECH LIBRARY, below) Freeware. LARGE SPEECH LIBRARY, See above. This is 3-3.5" or 6 5.25" disks full of compressed, self-dearchiving digitized speech and sound effects .EXE files. Requires hard disk, '286 or better, 8mhz or faster CPU. $29.95 Not available as shareware. * NOTE: Items marked with * will work in any standard IBM-compatible computer. ANOTHER NOTE: Some of these are available as shareware, some are not. For shareware versions, ask your favorite shareware vendor or BBS or purchase directly from Another Company. AND ANOTHER NOTE: Custom programming available. High-quality, fast turn around, lots of experience. $75 per hour. $37.50 to prepare bids. Phone for more info. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CREATE YOUR OWN: * COMPUTER-BASED TRAINING * TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS * EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS * DISK-BASED BOOKS & SHOWS * GRAPHIC DATABASES * CATALOGS * RETAIL SOFTWARE & SHAREWARE ******* $29.95! ******* Incorporate Pictures, Text, Speech, Sound Effects, Music, Animation, and User Interaction in simple or complex presentations which run on any standard IBM compatible computer. Media Magic We'd like to tell you about Media Magic, the $29.95 multimedia creation package. Built-in features include: complete drawing program, simple word processor to create text in any font and any color, sound effects library, music composition and optional synthesized speech through the ordinary PC speaker, Sound Blaster and other sound card support, resolutions from 2-Color CGA through 256-color VGA, .PCX file display and creation, store up to 100 pictures on a single 360k floppy, special effects such as curtains, granular fades, and swipes, grid and coordinate display for precice drawing creation, super-imposing, layering, combining files, hook executable programs and batch files into multimedia presentations, display text files of unlimited size within graphics windows or full screen, more, more, more! And, with an option, you can create full multimedia multiple-choice tests. Media Magic comes with a royalty-free, multi-faceted run-time program called MSHOW.EXE, with which end users can view your presentation screen by screen, forward, backward or randomly, and even seacrh for any word or phrase within your presentation, or via hyperlinks, in which users can point to anything on screen with mouse-driven or arrow-key driven pointer and be taken to any location within your presentation. How can we do it all for $29.95? Here are the answers: Media Magic is advertised via shareware, so our advertising cost is low and therefore the price to you is low. Media Magic is an efficient, fully self-contained package, with a complete disk-based owner's manual. Finally, we ship everything immediately via first class mail, so no cost is wasted in excess warehousing/order processing. Just like Henry Ford did with his model Ts, when the product is selling like crazy, we lower the price and sell even more! Because it is easy-to-use, you can start making professional products with Media Magic the first day you own it. Media Magic - Technical Specifications: (subject to change) Media Magic requires CGA, Hercule, EGA or VGA graphics, and 512k RAM. Supported but NOT required are mouse, hard disk, sound card and color monitor. Media Magic works fine on laptop computers. Main Creation program: MM.EXE, size: 312136 bytes Runtime program: MSHOW.EXE, size: 48977 bytes Video modes: 320 x 480 x 256 XGA, 640 x 480 x 16 VGA, 320 x 200 x 256 VGA, 640 x 350 x 16 EGA, 720 x 348 x 2 Herc, 640 x 200 x 16 EGA 640 x 200 x 2 CGA, 320 x 200 x 4 CGA 640 x 480 x 256 color Super-VGA available as option. Fonts provided: 10 (total with option: 40) PC speaker support: 2 digitized speech systems, melody composition, custom sounds, sound effects library. Sound Card Support: All brands File Encryption: (yes - option) Incorporate external EXE, BAT & COM programs: yes Multiple-choice & true/false test creation (yes - option (incl encrypted results file on disk!) Special features: Hyper-Link - which presents an on-screen arrow, moveable with mouse or arrow/number keys, that the user can move to anything in picture (icon, text, etc) and be taken to any place in your presentation; Live Text - Any standard ASCII text file can be displayed within any picture in any font or color, and it will scroll with mouse or arrow keys, including search, print and auto-scroll functions; ASCII-Vector-Graphics - You can edit exact locations of objects within your pictures, or the pitch and duration of sounds, or modify animations, etc; Presentation Mode - which gives the end user a menu bar from which to advance to next screen, or back up, or GOTO, or search for specific word or phrase, or AUTOMODE, for unattended, self-running presentations. Help And Documentation: On-line help with [F1] key, 227k of text files on disk callable from within main program. Complete "Electronic Owner's manual." Images: Import or create .PCX in all graphics modes. Import .GIF in 16 and 256-color modes, ASCII-Vector-Graphics in all modes. OPTIONS (each available at $29.95): 30 additional fonts 4 megabytes of speech/sound effects ASCII-Vector-Graphics line editor File Encryption Multiple-choice and True/False test creation (full multimedia) with on-disk encrypted scores file for each student, allows honest, unattended study. Super-VGA Picture Puzzle creation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Order Form _________________________________________________ name _________________________________________________ address _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ _________________________________________________ phone (optional) disk size required: (please circle one) 5.25" 3.5" _____ _Jeff's Graphic Utilities_____________ _$85.00_ _______ (includes Media Magic, Puzzle, SS and Picture Menu) _____ _Media Magic__________________________ _$29.95_ _______ _____ _Puzzle.Exe___________________________ _$29.95_ _______ _____ _Picture Menu_________________________ _$29.95_ _______ _____ _Super-Show___________________________ _$20.00_ _______ _____ _What's In That Box?-VGA______________ __$9.95_ _______ _____ _Better Eyesight______________________ _$29.95_ _______ _____ _Typing World_________________________ _$19.95_ _______ _____ _Non-Medical Pain Relief______________ _$19.95_ _______ _____ _Writer's Dream_______________________ _$29.95_ _______ _____ _Garage Sales For Fun & Profit________ _$19.95_ _______ _____ _Bicycle Tune-Up & Repair_____________ __$9.95_ _______ _____ _Ultimate Label Manager_______________ _$29.95_ _______ _____ _Complete Guide, Home Bike Business___ _$19.95_ _______ _____ _DELUXE 21st Century Almanac__________ _$29.95_ _______ _____ _Success With Shareware_______________ _$29.95_ _______ _____ _The Comedy Generator_________________ __$9.95_ _______ _____ _The Secrets of Our Success!__________ _$79.95_ _______ _____ _Large Speech Library_________________ _$29.95_ _______ _____ _The Alternative Health Guide_________ __$9.95_ _______ _____ ______________________________________ ________ _______ _____ ______________________________________ ________ _______ _____ ______________________________________ ________ _______ (shareware versions) _____ ______________________________________ $5.00_ _______ _____ ______________________________________ $5.00_ _______ _____ ______________________________________ $5.00_ _______ _____ ______________________________________ $5.00_ _______ _____ ______________________________________ $5.00_ _______ _____ _Free postage, worldwide!_____________ ___0.00_ _______ total: _______ Almanac 1992, Better Volleyball, The Alternative Health Guide and Money have no registration fee (freeware), so please buy the 'shareware' version and enjoy. Please send check or money order to: Another Company P.O. Box 3429 Ashland, OR 97520 USA phone 503-482-3611, Visa / Mastercard accepted _____________________________________________________________ end of file.