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MONSTER MEDIA, INC.
PROUDLY PRESENTS
MONSTER MEDIA NO. 15
April 1 - June 30, 1996
Thank you for purchasing Monster Media No. 15. We have made every effort
to ensure that this disc contains programs that were either written,
updated or released between April 1 and June 30, 1996. 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 DOS File Viewer, change to your CD-ROM directory
and type "SETUPDOS.BAT". 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 1.5 Megs of hard drive space.
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.
To start VIEWCD at any time, type the following at the DOS Prompt:
VIEWCD.EXE (ENTER)
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 No. 11 could be named media_11). 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.
Monster Media's Windows CD-ROM File Manager
If this is your first time using the Windows viewer, you MUST install a
few support files BEFORE you can use the CD-ROM viewer.
If you are running Windows 3.1 run SETUP_31.BAT in the main directory of
the Monster Media CD-ROM.
If you are running Win 95/NT run SETUP_95.BAT in the main directory of
the Monster Media CD-ROM.
Alternately you may use the Windows run command. Just enter:
x:\SETUPxx.BAT
^ ^^
| ||........... {Use 31 for Win 3.1} {Use 95 for Win 95/NT}
|
|..........................Your CD-ROM Drive Letter
The setup file will install the support files to your Windows System Directory.
Most of these files will probably be there, so they won't actually be copied,
but you probably will need a few of them. It will also create an UNINSTALL
file you can use if you'd like to clear out the Monster Media CD-ROM File
Manager's support files.
If you run the viewer from the Hard Drive, the program will ask you for your
CD-ROM drive. If you run the viewer from the CD-ROM drive, the program will
start automatically. The MView EXE file is in the MVIEW16 (for Win 3.1) or
MVIEW32 (for Win 95/NT) directory on the CD-ROM.
You will achieve best results by using this viewer in either 800x600 or
1024x768 mode and SMALL fonts. However, it will still work fine if using LARGE
fonts or a resolution greater than suggested. We are not supporting 640x480 at
this time because of the amount of information that must be presented on the
screen. 640x480 places severe restrictions on this.
If you have had problems installing the Monster Media Windows file viewer and
have received errors such as "Unable to load/register XXXXXXXX.OCX", then
please try our fix file located in the MMVIEWFX directory. There are fixes
for both the 16 and 32 bit versions of the Windows viewer.
Please check our Website (http:\\www.monstermedia.com\~mmedia) for new updates
as they become available.
For those programs that require a VBRUN300.DLL runtime library, you can
find them included within the folling files:
FILENAME CD-ROM DIRECTORY ZIP CONTAINING FILE
-------- ---------------- -------------------
VBRUN300.DLL BUSINESS MEDLINSW.ZIP
VROBJ.DLL OS2 REXXIT11.ZIP
BWC.DLL MVIEWDOS BWC.DLL
Copy them to your C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory and any program that needs to
load one of these files will be able to find them.
If your programs require the newer Visual Basic 4.0 support files, you can
find both the 160bit and 32-bit versions in the root directory of the
Monster Media CD-ROM.
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: DreamROM,
EZ-ROM, ROMBrain, ROMDoor and SF-ROM. Just plug the correct files into your
door as required for that particular door.
You will also find specific BBS file listings in various locations as required
by that particular BBS. Please read SYSOP.TXT for the listing and locations of
the specific BBS formats.