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Calypso 2.1 Win95-style shell for Windows 3.x
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Greetings, fellow 16-bit user. This program was designed to
give Windows 3.1 a facelift and a new lease of life. In fact,
after you've installed it as the shell, you might not even
recognize your old Windows. Never mind though, because
I'm sure you'll be pleased with your new interface -- millions
of Windows95 users can't be wrong!
Quick start
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Copy all the files in the package into a new directory
(NOT the Windows directory), then run CALYPSO.EXE.
Check out the help file for more details.
What's new in v2.1
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Main enhancements
Tree view -- get around the disk quicker
Aliases -- shortcuts that live in files
List view -- another look for icon windows
New taskbar -- looks more authentic and fits windows around it
New Start menu -- optionally 3D with icons
Lots more options -- look in the dialog
No parameters -- well, they're gone so you can't see them
Smaller improvements
Faster loading (with old style Start menu)
Lower memory usage
Icon browser
Drag and drop target box
Souped up graphics
Slight menu restructuring
Improved Find dialog
Shutdown dialog
And lots more.
2.0 didn't really get off the ground because it forgot to free
memory and resources after rebuilding the Start menu, so I quickly
replaced it!
Upgrading
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If you are using anything earlier than 1.0, clear you
Calypso directory before installing.
Users of 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 can keep both INI files but it
is recommended that you use the supplied ones as a base to
build your desktop again.
Delete CALTASK.EXE if you are using it. The supplied file
TASKBAR.EXE is required for this version.
Last minute notes
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The help compiler's been compiling for the last half hour, so I'll
have to stick extra stuff in here...
1. In CALYPSO.INI, there is a [patches] section containing the line
FillMenu=1. This colours the 3D Start menu in light grey. If your
menu colour (set in Control Panel) is already light grey, set
FillMenu=0 to skip the fill and slightly speed up the drawing.
2. To expand and collapse branches of the tree view without
updating an attached window, use the right mouse button.
3. If you right click on the System window's minimize or maximize
buttons, Calypso will shut down, because it is equivalent to
double clicking on the close box.
4. Adventurous types can use Borland's Resource Workshop to
hack at the bitmaps in the EXE files. You won't find the Windows
logo for the Start button because it is extracted from Program
Manager at run-time and compressed with a few blits.
5. So you MUST have Program Manager in your Windows directory.
The main Calypso program looks for the Windows and MS-DOS icons
in progman.exe.
6. Don't switch to Calypso using Alt-Tab or the Task Manager,
because that seems to trigger the last shortcut accessed. Third
party task managers and taskbars are generally OK.
7. If you try to read the directory of an audio CD, you won't
get very far...try and manually eject the CD if Calypso hangs.
8. The outline component used to edit the Start menu is beginning
to feel rather slow once you have several nested menus. I'll
replace it with the much faster tree view code in the next update.
9. Windows Help seems to stretch the graphics in the help file
when it is viewed with large fonts. Use a small fonts for best
results.
10. Click on the screenshots and buttons in the help file to
get popup help. Believe it or not, some people didn't know what
to do when faced with just a picture of a dialog box...
11. Wherever you are expected to type in a filename, you can
usually double click on the edit box to browse for files or
folders, so please don't complain that there are no browse buttons!
12. In the icon browser, when you double click to choose a new
icon file, you are presented with the standard "open file" dialog.
The combo box where you type the filename contains previously accessed
files, so there's no need to hunt around for the popular ones like
PROGMAN.EXE.
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Calypso is Freeware, and provided "as is" with no warranty, express
or implied, including but not limited to, fitness for a particular
purpose.
You may freely distribute copies of this program, provided that it
remains in its complete form with all support, documentation, and
configuration files. Distributors are only permitted to charge a
nominal fee for media costs, handling and shipping.