MONSTER MEDIA, INC. PROUDLY PRESENTS MONSTER MEDIA NO. 17 October 1 - December 31, 1996 Thank you for purchasing Monster Media No. 17. We have made every effort to ensure that this disc contains programs that were either written, updated or released between October 1 and December 31, 1996. This ensures that the files you receive are the latest available and also eliminates any duplicates between Monster Media discs. To install the Monster Media DOS File Viewer, change to your CD-ROM directory and type "SETUPDOS.BAT". Follow the prompts. You will then be presented with the text file you are reading now. Please read this to find out how to install the graphics viewer and other features. Total installation requires approximately 1.5 Megs of hard drive space. To view many of the images on the discs, you will need to install a file viewer. We have included CompuShow v8.76 in the Monster directory. This program will directly interface with VIEWCD. To install the necessary files, please run the files CSHOWA.EXE. It is a self extracting file that will install itself to a directory on your hard drive. To allow VIEWCD to find CompuShow, it must either be in your path (add it to the end of the PATH statement in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file) or copy the files into the directory you installed the Monster Media files to. -> YOU MUST ADD THE CSHOW DIRECTORY TO YOUR PATH LIST. -> -or- -> COPY ALL CSHOW FILES TO THE MONSTER DIRECTORY ON YOUR HARD DRIVE COMPUSHOW v8.76 is copyrighted 1994 by Canyon State Systems and Software and is supplied for evaluation purposes only. If you continue to use CompuShow v8.76, you are required to register this program with the author. There are also many other very fine image viewers which may be found in the GRAPHICS directory. To view animations, GIF, PCX, TGA, JPG and MPeg files on the disc, just press the F2 key when the file you wish to view is highlighted. By default VIEWCD uses AAPlay, MPeg and CompuShow as it's image viewers. These are not the only viewers you can use. If you'd like to try another image viewer, please look in the GRAPHICS directory for many other fine programs. If you experience problems viewing images you may have low conventional memory or you need a VESA driver. VIEWCD uses Info-Zip's UnZip to decompress the files on this disc. UnZip is in the MONSTER directory. You may use this version of ViewCD on ALL of your Monster Media discs. You no longer need to keep seperate directories for each disc. You also no longer need all of the DIR files, as ViewCD now reads the file directories and descriptions right off of the disc that's in your drive. To start VIEWCD at any time, type the following at the DOS Prompt: VIEWCD.EXE (ENTER) If you would like to make a database to enable you to search all files for a keyword, or you would like to make databases for other Monster Media discs, choose OTHER from the Main Menu and then Choose the option MAKE SEARCH DATA FILE. Make sure you have the disc in the CD-ROM that you want to make a database of. Name each database with a unique name (ie. Monster Media No. 17 could be named media_17). When you want to do a search just pick the database you'd like to search and find that file FAST! We have already included the DAT file for this disc, but you may add other Monster Media discs using this procedure. Monster Media's Windows 95 CD-ROM File Manager If this is your first time using the Windows viewer, you MUST install a few support files BEFORE you can use the CD-ROM viewer. Run SETUP_95.BAT in the main directory of the Monster Media CD-ROM. Alternately you may use the Windows run command. Just enter: x:\SETUP32.BAT ^ |..........................Your CD-ROM Drive Letter The setup file will install the support files to your Windows System Directory. Most of these files will probably be there, so they won't actually be copied, but you probably will need a few of them. It will also create an UNINSTALL file you can use if you'd like to clear out the Monster Media CD-ROM File Manager's support files. If you run the viewer from the Hard Drive, the program will ask you for your CD-ROM drive. If you run the viewer from the CD-ROM drive, the program will start automatically. The MView EXE file is in the MVIEW32 directory on the CD-ROM. You will achieve best results by using this viewer in either 800x600 or 1024x768 mode and SMALL fonts. However, it will work if you're using LARGE fonts or a resolution greater than suggested but you may have trouble seeing parts of the screen or program buttons. We will be releasing a LARGE font version on No. 18. We are not supporting 640x480 at this time because of the amount of information that must be presented on the screen. 640x480 places severe restrictions on this. If you have had problems installing the Monster Media Windows file viewer and have received errors such as "Unable to load/register XXXXXXXX.OCX", then you should uninstall the previous version before installing this new version. Please check our Website (http:\\www.monstermedia.com\~mmedia) for new updates as they become available. For those programs that require a VBRUN300.DLL, VBRUN400.DLL or the OS/2 VROBJ.DLL runtime library, you can find them in the WIN_DRVR directory on the CD-ROM. Copy them to your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory and any program that needs to load one of these files will be able to find them. IMPORTANT! To speed up the loading of the various file listings while in ViewCD, it is suggested that the buffers in MSCDEX be set for 18 or more. This will greatly decrease loading time. We have provided database files for several popular CD-ROM BBS Doors: DreamROM, EZ-ROM, ROMBrain, ROMDoor and SF-ROM. Just plug the correct files into your door as required for that particular door. You will also find specific BBS file listings in various locations as required by that particular BBS. Please read SYSOP.TXT for the listing and locations of the specific BBS formats.