WizWorks! In Dash CD Player for Windows Copyright (c) 1993 WizWorks! All rights reserved Portions of this program are copyright Microsoft ******** This release is ShareWare. Please read on! ******** WizWorks! has released In Dash CD as ShareWare. If you find this program useful, you are expected to pay for it. We ask only $10.00 for your use of this program. We prefer cash (the green stuff) but if you write a check, make it out to "CASH" or leave the payee line blank. We also accept MasterCard/VISA numbers. Please include your full name as it appears on the card, the account number and expiration date. We keep no permanent records of MasterCard/VISA numbers. Send your fee to: WizWorks! PO Box 45 Girard, OH 44420 ******** This release is ShareWare. Please read on! ******** >>>>REASONING Just a quick way to play a CD. This little ditty will play a CD start to finish even if you power it down or even if you exit Windows. I got tired of waiting for the major full blown home entertainment center programs to load when all I wanted to do was play a darn pleasant jazz CD while I worked. Those huge home centers also used up a lot of processor time and played only one track unless you left them in memory. Thus the birth of In Dash CD. >>>>INSTALLING Simply run SETUP-CD.EXE or...... Put MCI.VBX in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder. Overwrite any previous version of MCI.VBX that you might have, since this one has enhanced 3-D colored buttons. Put THREED.VBX in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder if you have not a copy of that VBX there already. Put VBRUN200.DLL in your WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder if you have not a copy of that DLL there already. Put INDASHCD.EXE anywhere you'd like and create an icon and group for it in Program Manager. >>>>OPERATION Run INDASHCD.EXE by choosing RUN from your Program Manager menu or double clicking its icon. Once it comes up, using the window drag bar, put it where you would like it to come up all the time (it remembers). Put a CD in your ROM drive. Click the "CD" button once the busy light goes out. Hit the "PLAY" (>) button. You can then power down by hitting the POWER button thereby reducing the amount of system resources and processor time available to other applications (but see REPEAT below). >>>>EXTRA FEATURES Clicking the little button in the upper left corner of the player (/\) toggles the drag bar on and off. You can turn it off to use less screen space. You must turn it on to move the player around the screen. The player remembers where it was when it gets powered down. It cannot be "stored" off of the physical screen, however, so it will never "disappear" from the screen even if you change resolution. If you run 1024x768 and stick it down in the lower right corner of the screen and then change to 640x480, the player will still appear in the lower right corner of the screen when it comes up in that resolution. To minimize the player, click the little button in the upper right corner (\/) of the player. The plain-jane buttons next to these two buttons are the REPEAT play toggle which will cause your player to repeat the current CD forever until you hit the STOP button. NOTE: You must MINIMIZE the player to REPEAT play. Power down will cause the player to play the CD only once regardless of the settings of the repeat buttons. >>>>CAVEATS On occasion, and depending on the CD ROM drive installed in your system, now and then you might have to "EJECT" a CD that is in the drive then re-insert it to get the player to recognize that there is a CD there. >>>>HINTS In Dash CD Player keeps its configuration in your WINDOWS directory in a filenamed INDASHCD.INI. If you edit that file, you may confuse the program so it won't run properly. Watch for more from WizWorks!