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ABC FUN KEYS REVISION HISTORY
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I owe a great deal of thanks to many users of the ABC FUN KEYS
program for their ideas which you see incorporated below. I
sincerely welcome any suggestions you may have that will make
this program more enjoyable for little children.
ABC FUN KEYS VER. 4.30
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* The only change was an UPDATE to the MAILING ADDRESS. Due
to lease arrangements beyond our control, we are being
forced to change our address. Address changes are
traumatic for shareware programs. We will greatly
appreciate your help to distribute this new version of ABC
Fun Keys to BBS's and shareware libraries. See the file
PLS_READ.ME for more information.
ABC FUN KEYS VER. 4.21
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* Major addition was the integrated installation program,
INSTALL.EXE. This will automatically install the ABC
program to hard or floppy disk, unpack files if necessary,
introduce the user to some of the more important game
configuration features, and allow the documentation to be
viewed and/or printed.
* Three minor program bugs were fixed. For the most part,
these were inconsequential. The most serious was a bug
which could cause ABC to hang in Heaven & Mud on very slow
XT computers running monochrome monitors.
ABC FUN KEYS VER. 4.20
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* Modified the opening "childs" menu to allow easier and more
intuitive entry into the setup features of the program.
Setup and Help are now Ctrl-S and Ctrl-H respectively.
* Changed the animation technique in Heaven and Mud. As a
result, pictures cross over each other better and move more
realistically to heaven or mud. Animation is smoother.
* Minor changes were made to the automatic speed selection in
Heaven and Mud. Performance is better on XT class
computers.
* Changed the "Please Press a Key" window in Game 4 (Select)
to a graphic image. Keys that do not have a picture file
associated with them like "%" now have a graphic image of
the key displayed on the screen. The earlier error message
has been eliminated.
* Added a surprise picture to the win and lose endings of
Heaven and Mud.
* Changed the "0" "O" and "i" "j" confusing typefaces in
Heaven and Mud to more easily distinguished symbols.
* Removed Num-Lock key from program use. It used to shut off
the sound. Unfortunately, it was confusing to many people.
* Rearranged many pictures to display better graphics in the
Hercules monochrome mode.
* Made the scrolling lyrics go completely across the top of
the screen instead of the upper left corner.
* Added a command line switch to turn off the scrolling lyrics
for the nursery rhyme songs.
* Made speed changes in Heaven and Mud "semi-permanent" until
the ABC is exited. Speed / performance changes done in
setup are permanent as always.
* A few small bugs were fixed like new routines for turning
the cursor on and off -- hopefully no more lost cursor on a
few graphics boards. Also fixed an inappropriate use of
color in one of the monochrome mode help screens.
ABC FUN KEYS VER. 4.12
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* Added the command line parameter /T to allow the user to
adjust the tempo of the nursery rhyme songs.
* Made a slight change to correct an "operational
inconsistency" that caused a return to the adult setup menu
on succeeding games. (Nice euphemism for bug.)
ABC FUN KEYS VER. 4.11
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* Added a feature to the control panel to allow the number of
pictures played in a game to be limited. At the end of the
selected number of pictures, the "childs" menu is displayed.
* Fixed a small bug that caused the command line parameter /Q
(totally quiet operation) not to work correctly. (Blush)
ABC FUN KEYS VER. 4.10
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* Added on-screen scrolling lyrics for all twenty-seven
nursery rhyme songs.
* Many of the nursery rhyme melodies have been revised and
improved. * MANY THANKS * to Jeff Elhai of East Lansing,
Michigan for these corrections and improvements! Jeff also
provided many of the other suggestions which have been
incorporated in this latest release. Thank you Jeff!
* Shut off NUM Lock, Scroll Lock, and Caps Lock upon initial
entry to program to avoid confusion with several features.
* Added functional arrow keys to the opening kids menu.
* Added adjustable timing for Game 3 and the corresponding
control panel settings.
* Added an option for easy program restart and exit.
* Added an option to allow PrtScreen to function.
* The number of songs can be set with a command line parameter
to allow users to add their own songs.
* Made several changes to differentiate between the registered
user and shareware versions of the program in the opening
copyright screen and windowed "THANK YOU" screen.
* Many improvements were made in the documentation including
separate registration instant mailer, an index, hard disk
instructions, and "quick start" documentation.
ABC FUN KEYS VER. 4.00
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* Program completely re-written in Borland's Turbo C Ver.2.0
and Mike Smeldey's excellent "CXL Extended Function Library"
available as shareware.
* Support for monochrome monitors using the Hercules graphics
standard. (This required a lot of code.)
* Addition of Game 2 -- Guess Quick.
* Addition of Game 3 -- Heaven & Mud.
* The addition of the Children's Picture Menu to open the
game.
* The addition of command line control parameters.
* The addition of game configuration files to save letter and
feature selections.
* The addition of lower case letters in the alphabet picture
files.
* A greatly improved Picture Selection & Control Menu.
* A help screen for the Picture Selection & Control Menu.
* The ability to synchronize the nursery rhyme songs to the
pictures.
* Improved picture compression technique so the program takes
up less space on disk.
* Use of a single file for nursery rhyme songs to cut down on
wasted cluster space on disk. (I really had to work hard to
get this program to fit on a single diskette!).