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MONSTER MEDIA, INC.
PROUDLY PRESENTS
MONSTER MEDIA `94 - No. 3
September 1, 1994 - December 31, 1994
Thank you for purchasing "Monster Media `94 - No. 3. We have made every
effort to ensure that these discs contain programs that were either
written, updated or released between September 1, 1994 and December 31,
1994. 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 File Viewer, change to your CD-ROM directory
and type "INSTALL". 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 2.6 Megs of hard drive space.
You may delete the intro Monster Media pic, MONSTER.GIF, if you want a bit
more space.
We have included a Windows version of ViewCD. It is also installed to your
hard drive. Before attempting to run WinVCD, you'll have to use a text
editor to change the WINVCD.INI file to reflect you CD-ROM drive and
working directories. This can also be edited when you're running WinVCD from
within Windows. You also need to copy the file, BWC.DLL, from the MONSTER
directory to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory. To run Windows ViewCD, choose RUN
from the Program Manager, and then type:
C:\MONSTER\WINVCD1.EXE
You should now be able to access your Monster Media discs through Windows!
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.
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 `94 - No. 3 could be named MM94_3). 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.
For those WINDOWS programs that require a VBRUN300.DLL runtime library, or an
OS/2 program that requires a V?OBJ.DLL library you can find them included
within the folling files:
FILENAME CD-ROM DIRECTORY ZIP CONTAINING FILE
-------- ---------------- -------------------
VBRUN300.DLL WINDOWS I A-M DWATCHER.ZIP
BWC.DLL MONSTER BWC.DLL
VROBJ.DLL OS/2 ETELR212.ZIP
Copy them to your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory or your C:\OS2 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: EZRom,
ROMDoor and SFDoor. Just plug the correct files into your door as required
for that particular door.
Included in several of the BBS directories are utilities to directly convert
the FILES.BBS file listings to a specific BBS format. Please check the
directory of the BBS you are interested in.
If you would like to start VIEWCD now, press the (ESC) Key and then type the
following at the DOS Prompt: VIEWCD.EXE (ENTER)