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THINGS This file lists all the PIECES, and then other products by Another Company. At the end is information about how to order. ALL THE PIECES These are the Pieces which are currently available: PGIF.EXE - To display any standard .GIF image..........$15.00 PPCX.EXE - To display any standard .PCX image..........$12.00 CLEAR.EXE - To clear the screen and restore text mode...$5.00 DELAY.EXE - To stall for a number of milliseconds.......$5.00 WAITFOR.EXE - To wait until the user presses any key....$5.00 RUN.EXE - To run a series of programs...................$5.00 SEQUENCE.EXE - To run programs like a slide show.......$10.00 ARROW.EXE - To present a moveable arrow on screen......$12.00 HLINK.EXE & MAKELINK.EXE - Make a hyperlinking system..$20.00 LOOP.EXE - To run a sequence over and over again........$5.00 KIOSK.EXE - For unattended repeating presentations.....$20.00 THE SPEECH FILES - 4 megabytes of digitized speech.....$29.95 DREAM.EXE & BUILD.EXE - Writer's Dream.................$29.95 ORDER.EXE - To print an order form (comes with DREAM)...$7.00 PUZZLE.EXE - To make an image into a picture puzzle....$29.95 STITLE.EXE - To a standard font title on a graphic......$8.00 LTITLE.EXE - Like above, but with any .MMF font.........$8.00 SHOWTEXT.EXE - To display block of text, standard font.$10.00 FONTTEXT.EXE - Like above, but with any .MMF font......$10.00 LIVETEXT.EXE - Scrollable text in any graphic image....$18.00 FADE.EXE - Fade any VGA image to black..................$5.00 GRFADE.EXE - Granular fade any graphics image...........$5.00 SOUND.EXE - Play sounds, one line at a time.............$5.00 SOUNDS.EXE & MELODY.EXE - Create and playback melodies.$19.95 PHONE.EXE - Sounds like a ringing telephone.............$5.00 PINK.EXE - Sounds like "pink"...........................$5.00 THINK.EXE - Sounds like a machine thinking..............$5.00 TWINKLE.EXE - Sounds like "twinkle".....................$5.00 LOVEBIRD.EXE - Sounds like a bird call..................$5.00 SORRY.EXE - Sort of an "oh-oh" sound....................$5.00 TEXTBOX.EXE - Display text in a nice-looking box........$7.00 SWIPE.EXE - Clears screen in color, left to right.......$5.00 ROLLER.EXE - Clears screen in color, top to bottom......$5.00 OPEN.EXE - Clears the screen in color, curtains opening.$5.00 CLOSE.EXE - Clears screen in color, curtains closing....$5.00 EBOX.EXE - Clears an expanding rectangular area.........$5.00 FULLEBOX.EXE - Clears screen in color, middle to edges..$5.00 MODEIF.EXE - Determines graphics mode available.........$5.00 FONTS - 30 more .MMF font files........................$29.95 ======== total: $364.80 Pieces can be purchased separately, or in total, called: PIECES PROFESSIONAL - All of above....................$99.95! OTHER THINGS NOTE: Go to the end of this file to find out about Media Magic, our most amazing program. WHAT'S IN THAT BOX? - VGA: A pictures and text tutorial which explains what's in your computer and how it works. Requires VGA and 384k RAM. $9.95 * WHAT'S IN THAT BOX - CGA: Same as above, but in high-res mono-chrome graphics for use with CGA, and EGA systems. $9.95 * THE ALTERNATIVE HEALTH GUIDE: Freeware. 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 colorful, graphics-based hyper-linked menu. Requires hard disk, VGA. $4.95. * PICTURE MENU: This is the ultimate graphical user interface. It is totally free-form, simple & small. Now you can be free of windows, icons, and lightbar menus. Anything you write, scan, draft or draw will work as a menu image, background or icons. End users can run applications with absolutely no training! Writers, artists and programmers can use this program to organize and display their works in an attractive disk-based package. Parents can organize a computer in a way that their smallest children can start and run favorite games and programs. Retailers can use this program to run a customer-driven hands-on demonstration of assorted programs. Managers can use this program to give employees an easy way to locate and run programs and files instantly. Requires EGA or VGA. $29.95 * DIGITIZED SPEECH: 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! 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. This is the same as mentioned in the PIECES package. Not available as shareware. $29.95. 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 * WRITER'S DREAM: A very special program in which 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. Now, version 4.31 includes capacity for up to 100 chapters, full mouse support, bookmark feature, author configurable colors, and ability to display .PCX files and run executable files from menu. This is the same as in the PIECES kit, but with a few more bits & pieces. 29.95 * THE COMEDY GENERATOR: Originally written for entertainers, this program is so much fun it'll entertain you for hours. $9.95 * 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. Not available as shareware. $89.95 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. Not available as shareware. $19.95 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. Works in any IBM-compatible. $29.95 * 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, runs in high-resolution monochrome. $9.95 * SUCCESS WITH SHAREWARE: A text tutorial which teaches everything about the business of writing text, picture based presentations or programs as shareware, and making money! Not available as shareware. $29.95 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 * 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 * COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE HOME-OPERATED BICYCLE BUSINESS: A disk-based book which teaches the whole business of starting your own bicycle business. Written by an author with 14 years experience. Covers basics such as how to deal with limited space, time, knowledge, or money, all about partnerships, as well as information necessary to start a full-service glass-front retail bicycle store. Not available as shareware. $19.95 MONEY: A short text tutorial completely covering several proven ways to make money at home. Freeware. $4.95 * MONEY4: A larger, multimedia tutorial completely covering proven good ways to make money at home. Little or no start-up cost, anyone can do it! Requires VGA. Freeware $4.95. * BGI-Draw, version 1.00, May 1993: For Borland/Turbo C/C++ and Pascal programmers, this package runs like any other drawing program, except your picture is recorded as C or Pascal source code! Simply paint sprites, backgrounds, icons, any sort of graphics image, and then incorporate them into your programs. Includes full support of Borland Graphics Interface and fonts. $29.95 * 583 C Magic, version 1.50, September 1992: For Turbo/Borland C, version 1.5 - 3.1 programmers. Write professional- quality programs, even if you are a beginner, with this library of routines to automatically create pop-up help boxes, dialog boxes, light-bar menus, mouse support, file handling, more. Writing graphics programs is as easy as text, with 2-256 colors, easier file handling and more. Comes with tutorial for beginners and extensive reference file for experts. Available with or without full source code. Shareware version w/o source code. $39.95/$79.90 * 643 PASCAL MAGIC, version 2.0, October 1992: For Turbo Pascal version 6.0 programmers. Add this simple unit to your programs and have pop-up help, dialog, and menu boxes with just a few lines of code in text or graphics applications. You can provide mouse support in your programs, easy file reading and writing, and much more. Also includes incorporation of .CHR and .BGI files into your .EXE programs with ease. This disk comes complete with a very nice tutorial for beginning Pascal programmers. Now includes 7 fonts, 2-256 color modes, .PCX file display with a single line of code! Requires Borland Turbo Pascal version 6.0. Available with or without full source code. Shareware version w/o source code. $39.95/$79.90 * PASCAL MAGIC, verion 3.0, For Turbo Pascal 7.0 programmers. For use with Turbo Pascal 7.0 (not BP or BPW). Same as above plus supports SVGA. $39.95/$79.90 * NON-MEDICAL PAIN RELIEF, version 2.0: A pictures & text tutorial which teaches techniques ranging from Swedish massage to acupressure to relieve minor aches & pains, quickly & effectively. Requires CGA, 512k RAM. $19.95 * BETTER VOLLEYBALL: A color pictures & text tutorial showing the basics of volleyball, and strategies for games with 2,3,4,5 and 6 players per side. Requires VGA, 512k RAM. $9.95 * * Items marked with * are also available as shareware from Gary Smith c/o OEC Systems 4646 North Shallowford Road Atlanta, GA 30338-6304 phone: 404-394-1000 orders only: 800-444-2424 fax: 404-394-1006 BBS: 404-804-7889 MasterCard and VISA accepted - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Would You Like To Know About Media Magic, The $29.95 Multimedia Creation Program? 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. 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 search 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. Because it is easy-to-use, you can start making professional products with Media Magic the first day you own it. To get your copy, send $29.95 in US funds to: Gary Smith c/o OEC Systems 4646 North Shallowford Road Atlanta, GA 30338-6304 phone: 404-394-1000 orders only: 800-444-2424 fax: 404-394-1006 BBS: 404-804-7889 MasterCard and VISA accepted Postage is free, anywhere in the world! Please specify if you need 3.5" disk size. Media Magic - Technical Specifications: (subject to change) Media Magic requires CGA, Hercules, 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: 286136 bytes Runtime program: MSHOW.EXE, size: 44131 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 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, movable 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, .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. Thanks, Jeff Napier d.b.a. Another Company August 16, 1993 This software is copyrighted by Jeff Napier of Another Company, and distributed by Gary Smith of OEC Systems. The shareware or registered versions of PIECES may be purchased from Gary Smith at OEC Systems: Gary Smith c/o OEC Systems 4646 North Shallowford Road Atlanta, GA 30338-6304 phone: 404-394-1000 orders only: 800-444-2424 fax: 404-394-1006 BBS: 404-804-7889 MasterCard and VISA accepted Neither Another Company nor Gary Smith/OEC Systems assume any responsibility for your use of this product or any Another Company product. _____________________________________________________________ end of file.