The MULTIMEDIA CATALOGUE v. 1.0 UK - 1994 ------------------------------------------ Technical Notes --------------- The Multimedia Catalogue (MM-CAT) is a software developed with Asymetrix Multimedia Toolbook v. 1.52. It consists of the following files: MMCAT10.TBK The application MMCAT10.TXT This technical note MMCAT10.ICO Icon file README.TXT General Information Information are contained in text files (.TXT), bitmap (.BMP), digital video (.AVI), animation (.FLI or .FLC) and must be located in the same directory of the MM-CAT. To display AVI files you need to have already installed the Microsoft Video for Windows Runtime, as well as the AAPLAY runtime to view the animation contained in FLI and FLC files. Information are grouped in Topics and refer to unique initialization files that have .BRW extension. As an example, here is the contents of the Introduction file named INTRODUC.BRW. [Introduction] About this software,about.bmp,about.txt Adding new data,techdata.bmp,techdata.txt Importing new data,modules.bmp,modules.txt Further freeware,software.bmp,software.txt Scripts of this book,scripts.bmp,scripts.txt The structure is organized as follows: [Topic Name] Subject Matter,image/video/animation file name,text file name (no blanks before or after the commas) MM-CAT is NOT a real database and has no links with DBIII files. Please feel free to add every improvement you think necessary. Minimum Requirements -------------------- To run correctly the MM-CAT you should have on your hard disk and in your path: - Microsoft Windows 3.1 - Run Time of Asymetrix Multimedia Toolbook v. 1.52 (the TBKMM extensions must be updated to 03/93) and about the hardware: - PC IBM or compatible 386 sx - 3 Mb Hard Disk - 2 Mb RAM - VGA More Information ---------------- I welcome any suggestion from you that may be useful to improve this software in a further release. Please refer to: Paolo Tosolini via Bembo, 5 34015 Muggia (TS) Italy tel. +39-40-275030 fax. +39-40-311850 email: tosolini@psicosun.univ.trieste.it