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- Jan. 22, 1995
-
- This is the README file distributed with WINCDP version 3.3
- WINCDP stands for WIN CD Player.
-
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- INSTALLING WINCDP
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- The installation of WINCDP is very simple. All you have to do is copy
- all the files to your hard disk. And select WINCDP into one of your
- Window Groups from Windows.
-
- There are things that you have to notice ...
- 1.) Make sure that WINCDP.EXE WINCDDLL.DLL MSDNTB.DLL and WINCDP.HLP
- are in the same subdirectory.
- 2.) Copy CTL3D.DLL to your window\system directory. Don't override
- the newer one in your windows\system directory.
-
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- IN THE 3.3 RELEASE Jan 22. 1995
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- Added the "delete disc" function to database.
-
- Fixed a serious bug in recognizing CD.
- Thanks to Zdenek and Fobix for reporting.
-
- Fixed a couple of minor bugs, mostly are typoes in source codes.
-
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- IN THE 3.2 RELEASE Jan 16. 1995
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- Enhanced printer control, including printer setup and so on.
-
- Scan time is now configurable, it is no longer hard 20 secs.
-
- Better error handling scheme.
-
- WINCDP is now on CompuServe. If you have an account there, you can download
- and register WINCDP via your ID. See REGISTER.TXT for more information.
-
- Registration via e-mail is no longer supported because of the growing size
- of WINCDP package. It is not wise to send such a big file over internet.
- Some users even have problems in uudecoding.
-
- Thanks to Zdenek for suggestions.
-
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- IN THE 3.1 RELEASE Oct 23. 1994
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- The database support is rewritten.
-
- Fixed some minor bugs in the 3.0 release.
-
- My email address has been changed to "u800620@Oz.nthu.edu.tw"
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- IN THE 3.0 RELEASE Aug 3. 1994
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- A lot of changes have been made in this release.
- The main dialog box has been changed from this release on.
- It is much smaller than it was in the previous releases.
-
- Added an option for shutting off music or not on closing WINCDP.
- Now, it is possible to enjoy music even wincdp has been closed.
- Thanks to Koster for suggestion.
-
- WINCDP will try to retain the cdrom settings as possible, such as the
- timer direction, play modes and volume levels.
-
- Restore the "minimize button".
-
- Removed the "gray buttons when disabled" option.
-
- Fixed several minor bugs.
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- IN THE 2.4 RELEASE Jun 15. 1994
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- This version of WINCDP is released for registered users only.
-
- Enhanced the æprogramÆ and æpseudo-randomÆ dialog.
- Now both show the total track time programmed.
- Thanks to Koster for suggestion.
-
- Modified the sequence when autoplay on disk insertion and auto-update of
- the database are both turned on. Now the music is playing which makes it
- much easier on the ears while entering the data.
- Thanks to Morrow for suggestion.
-
- The WINCDP.INI has slight changes.
- Please edit your WINCDP.INI and eliminate the previous
- "program" and "psudo" entries.
- Sorry for the inconvenience.
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- IN THE 2.3 RELEASE Mar 15. 1994
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- Added the "eject in" and "eject out" functionality.
- Thanks to Desrosiers for suggestion.
-
- Added three vertical sliders for users to control volume levels.
- Users can "page-up" or "page-down" or "Thumb-Track" the volume levels.
- Thanks to Michels for suggestion.
-
- Added the "fast-switch" functionality. Users can begin or switch to any
- track of a CD. Thanks to Prince for suggestion.
-
- Added the "Always on Top" option. Users can force WINCDP to stay at the
- upmost position by checking this option.
-
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- IN THE 2.2 RELEASE Feb 18. 1994
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- Fixed a bug which caused WINCDP to display wrong percent information while
- playing songs whose length are longer than 11 minute.
-
- Added a help button. The users can obtain online help by pressing the
- help button.
-
- Added a piece of code to paint the icon when WINCDP is minimized.
- In the previous versions, the minimized WINCDP is a gray icon.
-
- Append the option dialog box to the end of the main window. Thus, you can
- fine-tune the performance of WINCDP. That's what I did in the 1.0 release.
-
- Added 'Sleep' function. You can close WINCDP after a specified time.
-
- Added several checkboxes for users to define the behaviors of WINCDP,
- including 'Show Edit Dialog on New Disc', 'Gray Button when Disabled' and
- so on.
-
- Well, I have changed the bitmaps of some buttons because I found these
- bitmaps were too large and might exceed the height or width of the buttons.
- So I could only change their size or even design newer bitmaps.
-
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- IN THE 2.1 RELEASE Feb 4. 1994
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- Fixed a major bug which caused WINCDP automatically ejects discs from
- CD-ROM deck. OOPS ! Thanks to Phan and Michels for bug report.
-
- Change the name of WINCDP.DLL to WINCDDLL.DLL because it might cause
- WINCDP to fail.
-
- Enhanced Bitmap-button technique. Now the bitmaps won't be screwed when
- WINCDP is running at a display mode other than 800x600.
-
- I have decided not to program the 'RECORD' option.
- Instead, WINCDP adds a 'EJECT' button. It allows users to eject CD from
- CD-ROM if their CD-ROM support 'software-eject'.
-
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- IN THE 2.0 RELEASE Jan 27. 1994
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- There are great enhancements in the 2.0 release.
-
- 1.) Database Support.
- WINCDP supports database. Now you can maintain your own compact
- discs database via WINCDP.
-
- 2.) Add one playing mode : PSUDO-RANDOM.
- You can play all the songs on a disc from the one you like best to
- the one you don't like. (Much like to PROGRAM)
- Thanks to Kress for suggestion.
-
- 3.) Add a meter bar to display how much has been finished.
- Thanks to Gottliep for suggestion.
-
- 4.) Fix several bugs.
- I am sorry for these bugs.
- Thanks to those who helped me find them out.
-
- 5.) Enhanced Program-Dialog box. Now, to make a program list is much
- easier in 2.0 than in 1.0.
-
- 6.) Changed its name from WINCD to WINCDP because there is already a
- commerical software named WINCD.
-
- As you can see, the "record" option is not available in this release.
- It will be finished in the near future. Now, it's keeped as a secret.
- Thanks to vostveen for suggestion.
-
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- IN THE 1.0 RELEASE Jan 10. 1994
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- This is the first release of WINCDP and limited features are finished.
- However, there are still exciting features available ....
-
- 1.) Provide Three Play Modes .
- WINCDP provide three play modes. They are
- (1) Normal Play
- With normal play mode, you can toggle another three modes.
- Don't Repeat, Repeat Disk and Repeat Single.
-
- (2) Shuffle Play
- You can enjoy you compact disc RANDOMLY with this feature.
-
- (3) Program Play
- You can rearrange the order of the songs on a Disc.
-
- 2.) Provide Volume Control
- WINCDP provides volume control. And also if your sound card supports
- Left/Right volume mixing, then WINCDP allows you to tune the L/R volume
- separately.
-
- 3.) Toggle Time Display
- You can toggle time display between COUNT DOWN and COUNT UPON...
- The default is COUNT UPON, which makes WINCDP display the CD position
- from the beginning of a song.
-
- 4.) Introduction Mode.
- You can listen to the first 20 seconds of all the songs on a disc.
-
- 5.) Graphical Control
- WINCDP is fully graphical. Most of the buttons are programmed using
- Owner-Draw-Button and much alike to the control buttons of a normal
- CD player.
-
-
- WILL have
- 1.) WINCDP will support CD database in the near future.
- 2.) WINCDP will allow more configurable options including the colors.
-
- WINCDP acts like a personal CD player. In fact I got all the ideas from
- my CD player ...
-
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- REGISTRATION
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- WINCDP is not free software. It is released as shareware,
- which provides the opportunity for the program to be
- evaluated before it is purchased. Complete information on how
- to register WINCDP is included in the REGISTER.TXT file.
-
- A registered user will be added to the registered-user mailing list and
- will receive irregularly update version. FREE for those who have email
- accessibility and postage required for those who registered by snail mail.
-
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- BUG REPORT
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- If you find any bug, please let me know. You can contact me
- by your favorite way. The author information can be found at
- the end of this file.
-
- I hope there is no bug but I still look forward to hear from you.
-
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- AUTHOR INFORMATION
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- Tony G. Wu
-
- Mail Address:
- #42, Pu-Wei Road, Pitou Shiang,
- Chang-Hua Shien, Taiwan, R.O.C.
-
- Internet Address:
- u800620@Oz.nthu.edu.tw
-
- English is not my native language and I am still learning it ...
- Please don't blame me for my poor English but if I have made any
- mistakes please correct me. I also regard this as a bug -- a bug
- in my document file.
-