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- WizWorks! In Dash CD Player for Windows
-
- Copyright (c) 1993 WizWorks! All rights reserved
- Portions of this program are copyright Microsoft
-
- ******** This release is ShareWare. Please read on! ********
-
- WizWorks! has released In Dash CD as ShareWare. If you find
- this program useful, you are expected to pay for it. We ask
- only $10.00 for your use of this program. We prefer cash (the
- green stuff) but if you write a check, make it out to "CASH" or
- leave the payee line blank. We also accept MasterCard/VISA
- numbers. Please include your full name as it appears on the
- card, the account number and expiration date. We keep no
- permanent records of MasterCard/VISA numbers.
-
- Send your fee to:
- WizWorks!
- PO Box 45
- Girard, OH 44420
-
- ******** This release is ShareWare. Please read on! ********
-
- >>>>REASONING
-
- Just a quick way to play a CD. This little ditty will play a
- CD start to finish even if you power it down or even if you
- exit Windows. I got tired of waiting for the major full blown
- home entertainment center programs to load when all I wanted to
- do was play a darn pleasant jazz CD while I worked. Those huge
- home centers also used up a lot of processor time and played
- only one track unless you left them in memory. Thus the birth
- of In Dash CD.
-
-
- >>>>INSTALLING
-
- Simply run SETUP-CD.EXE or......
-
- Put MCI.VBX in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder. Overwrite any
- previous version of MCI.VBX that you might have, since this one
- has enhanced 3-D colored buttons.
-
- Put THREED.VBX in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder if you have not a
- copy of that VBX there already.
-
- Put VBRUN200.DLL in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder if you have not a
- copy of that DLL there already.
-
- Put INDASHCD.EXE anywhere you'd like and create an icon and
- group for it in Program Manager.
-
-
- >>>>OPERATION
-
- Run INDASHCD.EXE by choosing RUN from your Program Manager menu
- or double clicking its icon. Once it comes up, using the window
- drag bar, put it where you would like it to come up all the time
- (it remembers). Put a CD in your ROM drive. Click the "CD"
- button once the busy light goes out. Hit the "PLAY" (>) button.
- You can then power down by hitting the POWER button thereby
- reducing the amount of system resources and processor time
- available to other applications (but see REPEAT below).
-
-
- >>>>EXTRA FEATURES
-
- Clicking the little button in the upper left corner of the
- player (/\) toggles the drag bar on and off. You can turn it
- off to use less screen space. You must turn it on to move the
- player around the screen. The player remembers where it was
- when it gets powered down. It cannot be "stored" off of the
- physical screen, however, so it will never "disappear" from the
- screen even if you change resolution. If you run 1024x768 and
- stick it down in the lower right corner of the screen and then
- change to 640x480, the player will still appear in the lower
- right corner of the screen when it comes up in that
- resolution. To minimize the player, click the little button in
- the upper right corner (\/) of the player. The plain-jane
- buttons next to these two buttons are the REPEAT play toggle
- which will cause your player to repeat the current CD forever
- until you hit the STOP button. NOTE: You must MINIMIZE the
- player to REPEAT play. Power down will cause the player to
- play the CD only once regardless of the settings of the
- repeat buttons.
-
-
- >>>>CAVEATS
-
- On occasion, and depending on the CD ROM drive installed in
- your system, now and then you might have to "EJECT" a CD that
- is in the drive then re-insert it to get the player to
- recognize that there is a CD there.
-
-
- >>>>HINTS
-
- In Dash CD Player keeps its configuration in your WINDOWS
- directory in a filenamed INDASHCD.INI. If you edit that file,
- you may confuse the program so it won't run properly.
-
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