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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. 4.1
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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 kid's 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. 4.0
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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!).