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- TALKING ABC's
-
- Registering you copy of Talking ABC's:
- -------------------------------------
- Send $23 to:
-
- Karen Crowther
- P.O. Box 892
- Mendocino, CA 95460
-
- Include:
- Your address,
- Phone number (in case of questions),
- Disk size (5¼ Double Density, 5¼ High Density, 3½ or 3½HD)
- Where you got your evaluation copy (and the company
- name on the package if you bought it in a store.)
-
- We will send you the latest version of Talking
- ABC's plus the FREE games, plus the technical support
- phone number. Disk space permitting, we will send you
- other shareware games to try. (So if you can use high
- density disks be sure and tell me so I can put more on
- the disk.)
-
- Installing Talking ABC's from a distribution disk:
- -------------------------------------------------
- 1. Put disk #1 in drive A (or B).
- (3½ disks only have 1 disk)
-
- 2. Type A:INSTALL (or B:INSTALL)
-
- 3. Answer the questions. The program
- will create a directory called
- ABC and will copy all the files
- to it. When it is finished you
- will be able to run the program
- from your hard disk.
-
- 4. Put away your disks in a safe
- place.
-
- 5. You should have about 60 *.tsx files,
- ABC.EXE, BEACH, BEACH.ABC, RMN40.CGA and
- RMN40.GFT in your directory now.
-
- Starting Talking ABC's:
- -----------------------
- 1. Be sure you are on the hard disk.
- type: C: (or whatever drive) and press the
- enter key.
-
- 2. Change to the ABC directory by typing:
- CD \ABC
- and press the Enter key.
-
- 3. Type: ABC
- and press the enter key.
-
-
-
- Stopping Talking ABC's:
- -----------------------
- 1. Press the <Esc> key to get the
- menu.
-
- 2. Press the <Esc> key again to
- stop the program.
-
-
- TROUBLE SHOOTING
- ----------------
-
- 1. Garbled sound: Remove programs like Windows Enhanced mode,
- Deskview and others that multitask. Note: You can run
- Windows in standard mode and Talking ABC's will work fine.
- To start Windows in standard mode type:
- Win /s
- Windows may be started automatically by your AUTOEXEC.BAT
- file. You can go into that file and add the /S to the WIN
- statement to cause Windows to run in standard mode. If you
- do things like receive faxes in the background this might
- not be a good thing to do. For most people it will be
- fine.
-
- 2. Insufficient memory message: Remove TSR's. Reboot.
-
- 3. No sound at all. You may have forgotten the second
- distribution file called ABCZIP2.EXE. You need to unzip it
- to your hard disk. Follow the installation instructions.
- If you have files called A.tsx, airplane.tsx etc then you
- have already done this. Also, sound does not work if you
- start the program while running WINDOWS on a 386 (enhanced
- mode).
-
- 4. You have an EGA but the program will only run in CGA:
- Try starting ABC's like this:
- ABC E <enter>
- This will force it into EGA mode. This happens a lot on
- Tandy 1000's.
-
- 5. You type ABC, nothing happens and you have to reboot your
- computer.
- You probably have a program already loaded in memory that
- is conflicting with Talking ABC's. One program that does
- this is the Ultrasound TSR that emulates the SoundBlaster.
- There may be others. Try this:
-
- Create a plain DOS boot disk with the following steps:
- Put a blank diskette in Drive A:
- Type: FORMAT A: /S
- Type: SYS A:
- Now reboot with your disk in the A: drive.
- Type: C: (or whatever drive ABC's is on)
- Type: CD \ABC (or whatever directory ABC's is in)
- Type: ABC
-
- If this fixes the problem then there is something in your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file that is conflicting with Talking ABC's.
-
-
-
- ABOUT TALKING ABC's
- ___________________
-
- I (Karen Crowther) support my kids by writing programs. In
- fact, my 5 year old, Chris, is the voice on Talking ABC's.
- After I wrote Talking ABC's I learned that retail stores do
- not want anything on their shelves with a list-price under
- $50. (Those "under $15" programs are usually give-aways that
- the publisher is dumping - although we shareware authors may
- change this.) It seemed to me that parents of young
- children are the ones least able to afford these high prices.
- Then I looked into the costs of publishing and found that in
- many cases the BOXES cost more than the publisher paid for
- the program! I have purchased several children's games from
- stores. One was great, but the rest were disappointing. My
- kids played them for an hour and never looked at them again.
- What a waste of $50! (But what a great looking box!)
-
- That's when I decided to distribute Talking ABC's via
- shareware. It seemed the fairest way for both my customers
- and for me. My customers get to try the program first so
- they don't get stuck paying for something their children
- don't like, and they get a commercial quality program at a
- low price. I don't have to pay the artist yet more money to
- design a box, and I get my program out on the market in the
- shortest possible time.
-
- If you enjoy Talking ABC's try my other programs, WORD RESCUE
- which teaches reading and MATH RESCUE. Both are available
- from Apogee at 1-800-426-3123. At the time of this writing I
- am about to start another program probably called GRUZZLE
- PUZZLES.
-
- Your registration fee is absolutely crucial to allow me to
- continue writing games. I rely on your support.
-
-
- HOW TO CONTACT ME:
- -----------------
-
- Registered users can call any time between 7:30 AM and 5:00
- PM Pacific time for help. Please, Please don't call when it
- is the middle of the night or early morning in California!
-
- Nonregistered users can call if you are having trouble
- getting Talking ABC's to work. I actually WANT to hear about
- any problems you encounter.
-
- You can also leave messages for me on COMPUSERV:
-
- Phone: (707) 937-3320 7:30AM - 5:00PM Pacific Time only!
- Compuserv: 71501,3553
-
-
- License Agreement:
- -----------------
- This program is (c)Copyright Karen Crowther 1990, Mendocino.
- Artwork Copyright (c) Bud Pembroke 1991. Portions are
- (c)Copyright Genus Microcomputing Inc. 1988-1990.
- TurboSound is a trademark of Silicon Shack Ltd. San Jose,
- CA. All rights reserved. You may try this program out and
- give it away (complete and unmodified) but you are expected
- to register your copy if you continue to use it.
-
-
- BBS's and Disk Vendors:
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- Please read VENDOR.DOC
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-