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- Product: Back Soon!
-
- Description:
-
- Designed for the busy home or office environment and has the
- following features:
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- * "Blanks" text screens to prevent phosphor burn-in
- * Displays a customized, scrolling message
- * Accepts messages from visitors
- * Allows you to retrieve, print, or store your messages
- * Optionally plays music/displays graphics between messages
- * Built-in event scheduler
- * German/Spanish/English support
-
- Turns your PC into a message center. Get rid of those notes
- left on your desk.
-
- Back Soon! Version 2.01 is the "intelligent screen saver" for DOS
- systems. Designed for the busy home or office user, Back Soon! acts as
- your personal message taker while you are away. With Back Soon!'s menu-
- driven interface, you can configure the program to display an endless
- variety of custom messages, telling any visitors information such as
- where you've gone and when you'll be back. The program will display this
- message in a scrolling box on your screen, optionally alternating it with
- lively animation, stunning 256-color clip art, music, or virtually any
- other attention-getting program you can think of!
-
- When you do have visitors, the program instructs them how they can enter
- messages for you directly on your PC. No more yellow sticky notes
- plastered all over your monitor! Each message is automatically stamped
- with the time and date, and can be retrieved, printed, or saved to an
- ASCII file upon your return.
-
- The most significant addition to Version 2 is the open-architecture
- multimedia display system. With this clever feature Back Soon! has
- attention-getting capabilities not found in any other program of its
- type. Virtually any graphics display program can be integrated into Back
- Soon!'s display through the creation of a simple DOS batch file.
- Numerous examples are included featuring sample animation clips and
- SuperVGA clip art (animation runtime module and .GIF/.PCX viewer programs
- are included).
-
- Another useful feature is the Event Scheduler. With this feature you can
- have Back Soon! automatically perform unattended tasks like Email
- transfers or tape backups in your absence, then return to its message-
- taking role.
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- Back Soon! supports multi-lingual environments through substitute "prompt
- dictionaries" available from Tay-Jee Software. Spanish and German
- dictionaries are currently available.
-
- Back Soon! directly supports Tay-Jee Software's .CM1 music file format,
- allowing you to incorporate simple melodies as an attention-getting
- device. Tay-Jee Software's simple but revolutionary .CM1 format provides
- for clear, delightful sound reproduction with no special hardware or
- sound cards required.
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- Author: Tay-Jee Software, 800-378-3966
-
- Version: 2.0 (09-01-93)
-
- Needs: IBM PC, DOS 2.0 or better. 256k RAM; EGA monitor; Hard
- disk.
- Strongly recommended: VGA monitor.
- Registration fee: $19.95 (add $5.00 for shipping outside U.S. or
- Canada)
-
- Registration benefits: printed manual; choice of 31/2" or 51/4"
- master disk(s); lifetime unlimited phone, fax, CompuServe, mail
- support; all ASP-wide offers (see page 6); disks of other
- shareware; discounts on other products.
-
- Look for: BACKSN??.ZIP on BBSs; BACKSN.ZIP on CompuServe in
- CIS:IBMAPP forum LIBrary 7 (or contact userID 72330,1776 for
- assistance).
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- Download size: 75k (about six minutes with a 2400 baud modem)
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