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12 December, 1993
Font Monster Multimedia Upgrade v1.01

Program and documentation written by Steven Fox
and copyright  1993 by Leaping Lizards, Taiwan

WAV samples snagged by Steven Fox,
who claims no copyright to them whatsoever.

This program is distributed as freeware.
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WHY?

Why not? Okay, sure, you don't need sound effects to use Font Monster.
But Font Monster was never intended to be a totally serious, boring, same
as all the rest, utility. My god, if that was the intention, first I'd
change it's name to "Font Man" or "Font Manager" or some other unoriginal
name, then I'd make a really dull icon to go with it, like a picture of a
lowercase letter "a" or something equally as boring as that. Then I'd
totally remove any nice graphics so that it looked like any other Visual
Basic slopped together piece of... It just wouldn't be the same, right?

So...WHY?!?

Well, this may sound silly, but you know those utilities that make sounds
in Windows, like "WhoopItUp" or "IconHearIt" ? Well they can't hook into
Visual Basic forms, so they're not of any use when you use Font Monster.
Now, with the Font Monster Multimedia Upgrade, you can get sounds.

BIG DEAL.

Hey man, if you don't give a hoot then why did you download this?

THE SOUNDS.

I sampled all the included sounds myself using a SoundBlaster Pro at
various sample rates. A hobby of mine is collecting sound effects and all
of these sounds I have laying around at home on tapes or CDs.

Most of the .WAV files are taken from WAV collections I sampled over a
year ago, although they've never been generally released. The sounds
mostly come from the James Brown, Star Trek SFX (not voices), cartoon
SFX, and classic commercial jingles collections. I think there's also one
in here from a classic newsreels and radio themes collection I'm building
now.

HOW TO INSTALL.

Easy. Just PKUNZIP all the files into a single directory. It doesn't
matter which. Run the UPGRADE.EXE program in Windows, and press the
button to install the sounds.

IT'S NOT THAT EASY ACTUALLY!

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention a couple things. First, you must have Font
Monster 3.1 (or higher), and you must have used it at least once so that
it can establish a pointer in your WIN.INI which tells Windows where it
is. If you try to run the Font Monster Multimedia Upgrade without having
Font Monster, it won't let you run it. And although it is impossible that
you could have run Font Monster without these, it's worth mentioning that
you must have VBRUN300.DLL and THREED.VBX in your WINDOWS/SYSTEM
directory if you want to run this program. UPGRADE.EXE is a Visual Basic
3.0 program.

WHAT IT DOES.

Yeah, I know how you feel about letting some unknown, dinky little
program, written by someone you might not consider totally sane, run wild
with your hard disk and your WIN.INI file. Here's the scoop: First it
finds that subdirectory FMONSTER.EXE is located in on your hard disk.
Then it creates a WAV subdirectory in that subdirectory and simply copies
all the .WAV files to there. As it's doing that, it adds the following
lines to the [Sounds] section of your WIN.INI...

FMActivate=,Font Monster-Activate group
FMAdd=,Font Monster-Add icon
FMCancel=,Font Monster-Cancel
FMClick=,Font Monster-Click
FMDelete=,Font Monster-Delete
FMDrag=,Font Monster-Font list change
FMExit=,Font Monster-Exit window
FMGrid=,Font Monster-Font grid
FMGroup=,Font Monster-Font groups
FMHelp=,Font Monster-Help
FMInstall=,Font Monster-Install font
FMKeep=,Font Monster-Keep image
FMNew=,Font Monster-New
FMOk=,Font Monster-Ok
FMOpen=,Font Monster-Open font
FMPrint=,Font Monster-Print fonts
FMCnfg=,Font Monster-Program config
FMQuit=,Font Monster-Quit
FMSave=,Font Monster-Save font
FMStart=,Font Monster-Startup
FMStop=,Font Monster-Stop!
FMUndo=,Font Monster-Undo changes
FMUninstall=,Font Monster-Uninstall font
FMView=,Font Monster-View font
FMWho=,Font Monster-Who?

...and then it attaches the appropriate WAV file to each of those
functions. When it's all done, it launches Control Panel so you can take
a look, and listen, to what it's done.

By the way, you can simply edit in those above lines using Notepad, then
use Control Panel to attach your own favorite sounds. And there is no
reason why you can't move the supplied WAV files to another directory, or
delete them altogether, or assign different sounds. Font Monster doesn't
care. I don't care either.

WHY IS THIS FREEWARE?

The first reason is pretty obvious. There's no way I'm gonna have James
Brown's lawyers ringing me up and asking for a share of the royalties.
Heck, I'm not gonna claim copyright or charge money for something so
blatantly ripped off. The poor guy's been ripped off too many times
already. This policy goes for all the other sound effects too.

The second reason is that the Font Monster Multimedia Upgrade is merely a
limited use add-on to another program which is the real bread winner
(NOT!) -- Font Monster. If you haven't registered Font Monster by now you
must be sick, or injured, or somehow physically unable to stick a twenty
in an envelope and post it off to Taiwan. I sincerely hope you get better
soon.

DISCLAIMER:

I've said it before but it bears repeating:

If this program messes up your system, SUE ME!

(Don't you get tired of seeing a whole page of legal disclaimers, a fair
amount of it ALL IN CAPS, warning you about this that and the other, in a
stupid little README.TXT file. Give me a break.)

MY ADDRESS:

Steven Fox
c/o Leaping Lizards
7F, No. 8, Lane 197
Chuang Ching Road
Taipei 110
Taiwan, R.O.C.

Fax: 886-2-729-0863
Internet E-mail address: steven.fox@f921.n720.z6.fidonet.org

THE END

Note: This copy of Font Monster Multimedia Upgrade is essentially
identical to the one issued 6 June 1993 except that it has been
recompiled with Visual Basic 3.0, and my address has changed.

