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- CyberManager 2.0 Interactive Demo README.TXT file
-
- Cyber Interactive, Inc. 10/20/94
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- This file covers the following information:
- 1) Program Description
- 2) Minimum Hardware/Software Requirements
- 3) Video for Windows (VFW) Performance Problems
- 4) Video Display Problems
- 5) Audio Problems and WAV file messages
- 6) "Out of Memory" Problems
- 7) Miscellaneous Problems
- 8) Running on Windows NT
- 9) Sales/Technical Assistance
- 10) Warranty
- 11) Copyright
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- 1) Program Description
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- If you are serious about Multimedia,
- Add CyberManager to your production team !
-
- CyberManager 2.0 is an easy to use Multimedia Viewer/Player/Manager for
- Windows. Image formats supported are: BMP, GIF, TIFF, TARGA, PCX, JPG, WMF,
- WPG, DCX, EPS, IMG, ICO, and RLE. Audio, Video, and Animation formats
- supported are: AVI (Video for Windows), FLC/FLI (animations), WAV (audio),
- MIDI (music), and RMI (music).
-
- Management features include Move, Copy, Delete, Rename,
- Create/Delete/Rename Directories, Print, Save to other formats,
- disk labeling, and attribute control. Search files by extension or User
- input. On-Screen Volume Control. Automatic and Manual AutoPLAY.
- View and play files at full-size or within the manager's window.
-
- Price: $38.00 U.S., Canada, & Mexico.; $40 everywhere else.
- For ordering information click "Registration" on CyberManager's Menu Bar.
-
- ***** This Demo will view BMP's and play AVI, FLC, and WAV files. *****
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- 2) Minimum Hardware/Software Requirements
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- Hardware:
- 1. At least 4MB RAM
- 2. 486-25 Mhz or greater
- 3. 640x480, 256 color or better Video Display
- 4. Optional: Sound Card or PC Speaker Driver
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- Software:
- 1. Windows 3.1x running in Enhanced mode.
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- 3) Video for Windows (VFW) Performance Problems
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- If you are experiencing a loss of quality in your video playback you might
- want to try one or both of the following possible fixes:
-
- 1. If your computer has only 4 Megabytes of memory, we strongly suggest
- you install an additional 4 Megabytes (or more) of memory. Almost any
- amount of additional memory will significantly increase the performance
- of all applications on your system.
-
- 2. If you experience a loss of quality in playing AVI's from a CD-ROM,
- try increasing the amount of buffer memory that your CD-ROM driver uses.
- Computers communicate with the CD-ROM drive through the Microsoft MSCDEX
- driver. Try adding /M:32 to the MSCDEX entry in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
- See your CD-ROM documentation for more information.
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- 4) Video Display Problems
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- 1. If you are having problems playing a FLC or FLI animation file, try
- installing the standard Windows VGA driver. If animations play correctly,
- you will need to get updated drivers for your video card. Contact your
- video card manufacturer for more information. You may also be able to get
- updated drivers from a CompuServe forum managed by your video card
- manufacturer or from the Microsoft forum.
-
- 2. Some RLE compressed AVI's will not play correctly unless they are played
- at full size.
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- 3. ATI video boards
- CyberManager has experienced incompatibility problems with some features
- of the ATI video system. This video board comes with a number of popular
- systems including most Gateway 2000 machines. The problem is not with
- the video board itself but with the video driver software. Try any or
- all of the following suggestions to remedy the problem.
-
- A) Run the ATI Control Panel application that comes with your video card.
- a) Ensure that you are running in the 256 color mode.
- b) Click Advanced Features and ensure that the 256 Color Palette
- option is turned ON. See the ATI documentation for more
- information.
-
- B) From the Windows Setup application, choose a different video driver
- such as the 8514/a driver.
-
- C) Versions of ATI's video accelerators prior to 2.1 do not work well with
- Video for Windows version 1.1. Installing the accelerator software after
- installing Video for Windows can overwrite Video for Windows version 1.1
- components with components from the previous version.
- Avoid installing any version of the video accelerator unless it is
- specifically noted to be compatible with Video for Windows version 1.1.
-
- The vidc.rlec=ativdacc.drv entry in the [installable compressors] section
- of the SYSTEM.INI file can cause problems when playing large RLE-compressed
- movies. Remove this entry from the SYSTEM.INI file.
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- For updated drivers, contact ATI Technologies Inc.
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- 5) Audio Problems and WAV File Messages
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- We strongly recommend the use of an MPC-compatible sound card in order to
- play sounds and music. You may also use a speaker driver however, a speaker
- driver will not play MID or RMI music files. You can download a PC speaker
- driver for Windows from your favorite BBS.
-
- To find a PC Speaker Driver:
- Browse/search your favorite BBS for SPEAK.EXE or SPEAKR.ZIP and follow the
- installation instructions
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- If you don't hear any sound:
-
- 1. Make sure your sound card's software volume controls are set to an
- audible level.
-
- 2. Make sure that the volume for your speakers is set to an audible level.
-
- 3. Make sure that CyberManager's on-screen volume control is set to an
- audible level (about half way up on the slider).
-
- 4. If you still don't hear any sound, your sound card may be set up
- incorrectly. Check to see that the audio driver that came with your
- sound card is installed correctly and, if necessary, reinstall it.
- Also check your IRQ and DMA settings and insure that they don't conflict
- with other hardware such as a mouse or modem. See the documentation that
- came with your sound card for more information.
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- 6) "Out of Memory" Problems
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- All of your applications use some of your computer's memory. Performance
- will be degraded if your system doesn't have enough free memory. If you
- receive an Out-Of-Memory error, try the following:
-
- 1. Close all unnecessary applications.
-
- 2. Some applications load files in memory but don't remove them after
- being closed. If you've closed all unnecessary applications and are
- still having memory problems, try closing out of Windows and restarting.
-
- 3. If you are running Windows in Enhanced mode (the default mode if you
- are running Windows on a 386 or better machine), create a permanent swap
- file on your hard disk. Refer to your Windows documentation for more
- information.
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- 7) Miscellaneous Problems
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- Occasionally, clicking on a directory folder will cause the cursor to turn
- into an hourglass and the directory folder won't open. When this happens,
- double-click on the directory folder with the hourglass cursor or select
- another directory. This should clear-up the problem.
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- 8) Running on Windows NT
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- Microsoft Windows NT is incompatible with the Microsoft Video for Windows
- drivers which CyberManager 2.0 uses. You will need to use CyberManager
- 2.0 on a machine with a Windows 3.1x system.
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- 9) Sales Assistance
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- Questions or comments? Please, don't hesitate to let us know.
-
- Cyber Interactive, Inc.
- P.O. Box 17181
- Seattle, WA 98107
-
- Tel: (206) 821-7039
- Fax: (206) 821-9065
-
- E-Mail via CompuServe:
- Marketing, Site Licenses, and volume discount rates: 72634,663
- Sales and all other correspondence: 73261,2706
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- 10) WARRANTY
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- CyberManager is being distributed as a shareware demo and is provided
- "as is". There is no warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied.
- Cyber Interactive, Inc. will not be held liable for any damages, direct,
- indirect, incidental, or consequential, including any loss of profit
- arising out of or inability to use CyberManager resulting from any defect
- in the software or media, even if Cyber Interactive, Inc. has been advised
- of the possibility of such damages.
- By using CyberManager, you agree to this.
-
- All Terms Are Subject To Change Without Notice.
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- 11) Copyright
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- CyberManager and associated documentation Is
- Copyrighted 1994-1995 by Cyber Interactive, Inc.
- CyberManager is a trademark of Cyber Interactive, Inc.
- All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
-
- Windows and Microsoft are registered trademarks of Microsoft
- Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their
- respective companies.
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