INSTALLATION AND IMAGE DISPLAY:  CLASSIC SAILBOATS

1) INSTALLATION

   a) Make certain you are in Windows. The installation program
        will not run in DOS.

   b) Put Disk 1 (or the shareware disk) into your floppy drive.
        From you File Menu choose the Run option.Type a:\setup.exe 
        or b:\setup.exe, depending upon whether a or b is the letter
        assigned to your 3 1/2" diskette drive. Click on OK.

   c) Alternatively, open the directory and file display for
        your floppy drive and double click on setup.exe.  
   
2) IMAGE QUALITY: SUPER IMPORTANT!! DON'T SKIP THIS!!

    a) The graphics files in this product are superb 24 bit, 
         images sized to 510 x 383 or less pixels/inch.  This 
         nonstandard size is a limit of the developer environment 
        we author within and will no longer be a constraint with our 
        new products as of sometime in 1996. 

   b) Unfortunately, 24 bit images show degredation when 
       displayed at 8 bit, which is the generic monitor setting of 
       256 colors. To view these images with all the 
       brilliance and resolution they contain, change your monitor 
       resolution so as to display 16 million colors at 640 x 480 
       pixels. You have now changed your monitor to display 24 bit 
       images.  If you installed these images as a screen saver, 
       they will look best at 640 x480 because the image then 
       occupies most of the screen area. 

   c) Unless you have an old pre-1990 monitor, you already have 
        installed software to change the resolution of monitor. Such 
        software comes with all graphics cards and is preinstalled 
        when you buy a computer in the retail market. I cannot give 
        specifics here for the dozens of different graphics cards on 
        the market. If you haven't discovered this monitor utility, which 
        will be a Windows applet, consult the manual that came with 
        your graphics card. If you lost it, call the store where you 
        bought the computer or the manufacturer of the computer.

3) SCREEN SAVER   

       Either accept the default path and directory for installation or 
       edit to your own specifications. Choose whether or not to install  
       CLASSIC SAILBOATS as one of your screen saver options  in the 
       Desktop Item of the Control Panel. Notice that the word 
       'default' in the dialog is confusing. There is no 'default' screen 
       saver in the Desktop Item. If you choose this option,CLASSIC 
       SAILBOATS will be installed as just one of your screen saver 
       choices under the name MINICAT in the proper alphabetical 
       position. However, it will automatically become the active 
       screen saver. See below for an explanation of 'MINICAT'. See 
       the text file  'Your Windows Screen Saver' in the album for 
       detailed information about CLASSIC SAILBOATS as a screen 
       saver and how to configure it. 

4) The installation will create a program group called MINICAT
       with a single item in it also called MINICAT. You may change
       the title of this icon to CLASSIC SAILBOATS if you wish but 
       there are reasons not to do so as explained below.

5) Double Click upon the MINICAT icon and the opening screen of
       MINICAT is displayed. Notice the bar on the upper right which
       is labeled either CLASSIC SAILBOATS SHAREWARE or  
       CLASSIC SAILBOATS REGISTERED. Double click on this bar 
       and you will be presented with the CLASSIC SAILBOATS album 
       main screen. If you pause at the opening screen for several 
       seconds, a slide show of all images in the album will begin 
       in the left window.  Notice that you can only exit the program 
       from this opening screen using the Close Button.

6) Registered users should realize that: 

    a) if you did not UNINSTALL the shareware version of  
        CLASSIC SAILBOATS (see manual) and also,

    b) installed the registered version into the same directory as the
        shareware version (which happens automatically if you accept
        the default installation path), 

    c) THEN BOTH versions now reside within your MINICAT. If you 
        click the Open button at the bottom of the main screen, you will 
        see a list of installed CATALOGS:  CLASSIC SAILBOATS 
        SHAREWARE and CLASSIC SAILBOATS REGISTERED. 

        If you wish to delete the shareware version, you MUST use the 
        uninstall procedure outlined in the manual. If you simply delete 
        the directory and files, it is very likely your MINICAT viewer 
        will not function and you will have no access to the program 
        album.
