                                                                      
                   TALKING ABC's                                      

        Copyright Karen Crowther 1992                                                  

                 Karen Crowther
                 P.O. Box 892
                 Mendocino, CA 95460


       Installing Talking ABC's from a distribution disk:
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          1.  Put disk #1 in drive A  (or B).
              (3« disks only have 1 disk)

          2.  Type A:INSTALL  (or B:INSTALL)

          3. Answer the questions.  The program  
             will create a directory called      
             ABC and will copy all the files     
             to it. When it is finished you      
             will be able to run the program     
             from your hard disk.                
                                                 
          4. Put away your disks in a safe        
             place.                               
                                                 
          5. You should have about 60 *.tsx files,
             ABC.EXE, BEACH, BEACH.ABC, RMN40.CGA and
             RMN40.GFT in your directory now.
                                                 
       Starting Talking ABC's:                   
       -----------------------                   
         1.  Be sure you are on the hard disk. 
             type:  C: (or whatever drive) and press the 
             enter key.                                  
                                                         
         2.  Change to the ABC directory by typing:  
                  CD \ABC  
             and press the Enter key.                    
                                                         
         3.  Type:   ABC  
             and press the enter key.                    
                                                         


       Stopping Talking ABC's:                           
       -----------------------                           
         1. Press the <Esc> key to get the               
            menu.                                        
                                                         
         2. Press the <Esc> key again to                 
            stop the program.                            
                                                         

     TROUBLE SHOOTING                                                    
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        1. Garbled sound:  Remove programs like Windows Enhanced mode, 
           Deskview and others that multitask.  Note: You can run 
           Windows in standard mode and Talking ABC's will work fine.  
           To start Windows in standard mode type: 
               Win /s
           Windows may be started automatically by your AUTOEXEC.BAT 
           file.  You can go into that file and add the /S to the WIN 
           statement to cause Windows to run in standard mode.  If you 
           do things like receive faxes in the background this might 
           not be a good thing to do.  For most people it will be 
           fine. 
                                                         
        2. Insufficient memory message: Remove TSR's.  Reboot.  
                          
        3. No sound at all.  You may have forgotten the second 
           distribution file called ABCZIP2.EXE.  You need to unzip it 
           to your hard disk.  Follow the installation instructions. 
           If you have files called A.tsx, airplane.tsx etc then you 
           have already done this.  Also, sound does not work if you 
           start the program while running WINDOWS on a 386 (enhanced 
           mode).                           
                                                               
        4. You have an EGA but the program will only run in CGA:
           Try starting ABC's like this:
                  ABC  E   <enter>
           This will force it into EGA mode.  This happens a lot on
           Tandy 1000's.

        5. You type ABC, nothing happens and you have to reboot your
           computer.
             You probably have a program already loaded in memory that 
           is conflicting with Talking ABC's.  One program that does 
           this is the Ultrasound TSR that emulates the SoundBlaster.  
           There may be others. Try this: 

             Create a plain DOS boot disk with the following steps:
                 Put a blank diskette in Drive A:
                 Type: FORMAT A: /S
                 Type: SYS A:
             Now reboot with your disk in the A: drive.
                  Type: C:             (or whatever drive ABC's is on)
                  Type: CD \ABC        (or whatever directory ABC's is in)
                  Type: ABC
           
             If this fixes the problem then there is something in your 
             AUTOEXEC.BAT file that is conflicting with Talking ABC's. 



      ABOUT TALKING ABC's
      ___________________

         If you enjoy Talking ABC's try my other programs, WORD RESCUE 
         which teaches reading and MATH RESCUE.  Both are available 
         from Apogee at 1-800-426-3123.  At the time of this writing I 
         am about to start another program probably called GRUZZLE 
         PUZZLES.

          
       License Agreement:                                 
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         This program is (c)Copyright Karen  Crowther 1990, Mendocino. 
         Artwork  Copyright (c) Bud Pembroke 1991.  Portions are 
         (c)Copyright Genus  Microcomputing Inc. 1988-1990.  
         TurboSound is a trademark of Silicon Shack Ltd. San  Jose, 
         CA. All rights reserved.  Please don't copy this program
         except to make backups.


