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- Dancad 3D
- Copyright (c) 1986 - 1990 by Daniel H. Hudgins, All Rights Reserved
- File README.BAT for use with DANCAD3D.COM v2.5
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- DANCAD3D by Daniel H. Hudgins, 466 Diamond St., San Francisco, CA 94114, U.S.A.
- To use DANCAD3D v2.5 you need this hardware:
- 512KB to 640KB DOS memory, 400KB or more of it as free memory.
- CGA, Color Graphics Adapter video board or
- A EGA, Enhanced color Graphics Adapter video board or
- A Hercules (tm), Monochrome Graphics Card type video board.
- A Hard-Disk or RAM disk with more than 2MB of free disk space.
- DOS 2.1 or higher and a fully IBM compatible computer.
- Make a back-up copy of these five 360KB disks or three 720KB disks.
- Enter COPY A:*.* B: with the blank formatted disk in drive B:
- and one of the five DANCAD3D disks in the A: drive.
- To print the DANCAD3D.DOC information file:
- Put the disk number four (4 of 5) in drive A:, then enter:
- COPY A:DANCAD3D.DOC PRN (for the parallel printer port LPT1)
- or
- COPY A:DANCAD3D.DOC AUX (for the RS-232C serial printer port COM1)
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- The DANCAD3D.DOC has information to get you started using DANCAD3D.
- To install DANCAD3D on your HARDDISK enter INSTALL A C, where C is the
- letter for your harddisk and A is the letter for the floppy drive you will
- be putting the DANCAD3D disks in, or INSTALL B C if you need to use floppy
- drive B. You can use Harddisk D in place of C if you want to also.
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- To run one of the demos that are on the disk enter DEMO1 after you install
- DANCAD3D on your harddisk. There are other example MACRO files on the set of
- disks that come with the manuals. They include some that show you how to
- animate a robot, some mechanical simulations, and a macro that demonstrates
- DANCAD3D v2.5's ability to animate mathematical formulas.
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- Enter DANCAD3D to start the program. Press [T]utor from its main menu to
- read some help screens. Press [D]raw from the main menu to draw. When you
- run the program for the first time it will ask you for the video mode you want
- it to use. If you do not know what type of video board you have read the
- instruction book that came with your computer. Be sure and read the
- disclaimer in the file DANCAD3D.DOC before you run the program.
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- Enter DEMO1 to see the demo run. To run DANCAD3D when you turn your
- computer on again enter CD DC25 then enter DANCAD3D.
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