Excel Progs Distribution Information (C) 1995 Andrew Malek of Excel Progs. I. Introduction for Excel Progs II. Current Product Information III. How to Become a Distributor Site IV. Current List of Sites V. Distribution Site Form VI. Contacting Excel Progs VII. Warranty/Disclaimer/License. Please Read! I. Introduction for Excel Progs Excel Progs is a small yet rapidly growing shareware development organization whose members combined have decades of experience in the computer industry. While Excel Progs currently is focusing on Windows applications, Excel Progs has also created computer-independent .MID (Midi) songs and is always into new ideas for computer products on all platforms. II. Current Product Information: o Midi Machine V2.0 Demo Multimedia Extravaganza! Midi Machine V2.00 Demo for Windows (c) 1995 Andrew Malek/Excel Progs. See just what the upcoming, heavily anticipated Midi Machine V2 can do for you with demonstrations of business, entertainment, and electronic magazines, as well as a draft of all of the upgrades! Plenty of graphics, digitized sound, original music, and informative text will guide your way through this exciting demonstration. Extremely easy to set up. REQUIRES the file VBRUN300.DLL. o CaniPrompts Prompt Pack 1 CaniPrompts Prompt-Pack #1, with ten new animated prompts for the program CANIPROMPTS: Bopping Exclamations, Smiling Face, Christmas Tree, Jackpot!, rolling dice, and plenty more. From Excel Progs. o Excel-FND Taking the classic "find-the-word" games to the next level, Excel-FND is an audio and visually enhanced version of the classic logic game for Win3.1+. Easy to set up and play with its extensive help facilities, this program is sure to keep you entertained for hours. Lots of surprises are included in this package, including letters dropping from the puzzle. This version contains several puzzles; other puzzle-packs are available from Excel Progs in groups of 75. o Excel-FND [LITE] A "LITE" version of the popular "find-the-word" game for Windows, this version is the same as Excel-FND except a few of the sounds have been removed, making it quicker to download. o Caniprompts A trumpet player doing a wild dance... a sunrise over a series of mountains... no, this is NOT another .FLI animation, but what YOU can have over your boring old DOS prompt with CANIPROMPTS, a shell over your old DOS prompt giving it new color, visibility, and life. Be the talk of the town (or at least the computer-user community). o Excel-FND Screenshots Screenshots in .BMP format of Excel Prog's logic game Excel-FND, a find-the-word puzzle game with plenty of twists. Requires 640X480X256 SVGA to see the pictures correctly. o Midi Machine V1.20 Screenshot A screenshot in .BMP format of Excel Prog's powerful sound player/file manager, Midi Machine. o Midi Machine V1.21 Midi Machine V1.21 is a .MID/.WAV jukebox/file manager for Win 3.1+ Midi Machine plays songs in many different ways: random, shuffle, backwards, continuous, or combinations of the previous. Album Load/Save is supported, allowing you to listen to your favorite sounds all at once. Auto-play after drag&drop sound selections from programs such as File Manager is supported. Icon animations "dance" to the sound of your favorite tunes - over a dozen are included with support for externals. Command-line options allow you to run your favorite albums and play modes at start-up. There is mouse-sensitive help as well as an external text documentation file. Midi Machine V1.21 is a state-of-the-art .MID/.WAV player and file manager, combining many features of other such players and adding unique features such as icon animations "dancing" to the sound. o Icon Animations 1-3 30 animated icons for Midi Machine V1.x, this pack contains animations with a Christmas theme and our "Notes and Staves." o Icon Animations 4-6 30 animated icons for Midi Machine V1.x, this pack contains a wide potpourri of icons, everything from a coffee cup to moving fractals to fireworks. o Icon Animations 7-9 30 animated icons for Midi Machine V1.x, this pack contains another large selection of icons, everything from a bouncing soccer ball to a lip sipping a beverage to circles splatting on the screen. o MALEK1.MID (MIDI Song File) An alternative to the normal classical style. Auxillary percussion (timpani, vibes, and bells) start the file in a very jarring motion, leading to a string and choir introduction and a temporary calming of the bass. The bells return along with short bursts of the timpani. Vibes signal the introduction of a softer mode, and the piccolo takes a brief stint as soloist. Once again, auxillary percussion commences as the string dies down and the sound returns to its original state. At last, the timpani beats a few dying notes and decays. o MALEK2.MID (MIDI Song File) This movement begins with a slight auxillary percussion base, with the New Age/Flute and Vibes alternating melody. The melody begins to get higher and higher; a peak is reached and the base lowers. Soon a running part is established by the clarinet/flute duet as the piece reflects beginning melodies. This reflection leads to the first climax as the SoundTrack FX rumbles in the bottom underneath the string melody. The Choir takes the lead as the sound mellows. After its turn at solo, the flute running part begins again; the song reaches its final climax and toms are beaten in the background. The New Age penetrates the lower voices reaching higher and higher, breaks free, and decrescendoes to the end. o MALEK3.MID (MIDI Song File) This movement begins with a percussion start to the familiar high-low rhythm found in earlier movements, with strings formulating texture as choir pads and leads fall into the fray. The sound of New Age powers in on its high tonalities, while Aahs provide a lower counter-melody. Soon multiple counter- melodies vie each other for the attention and the percussion drops out. Bass takes over as the tempo decreases, but the high melody only relinquishes its power temporarily and return to the mixture. A slow pattern travels amongst the various instruments and morphs into odd chords and a re-emergance of percussion. Pulses of Soundtrack FX spike as Aahs begin their measures of running notes as a slow, dark, melody continues. Portions of the original melody return to haunt in the form of the Accordion. All voices break away, the tempo speeds, and the original melody takes over with loud orchestral hits. The melody experiments with an assortment of keys and the orchestra relaxes. Soon all that remains is the percussion and a low 5ths lead. Strings bring in a syncopated rhythm which finds its way to the Choir Aahs. The old melody will never die, however; the accordion once again asserts its prescence in a faster version of the original high-low rhythm. A break for orchestra hits - and the original bass counter-melody with the Choir Aahs return, also faster. The instruments slip away, but bounce back with a vengance, with powerful orchestral hits making its rounds as the bass counter-melody. When the sound gets almost too powerful, everything save a few lonely voices fade..they share a brief chord, and fade themselves to the end. o Excel-PWD V1.0 Excel-PWD is a Windows application allowing you to create difficult passwords "on-the-fly" for usage on bulletin boards, Internet, or computer services. You can create passwords of multiple types, depending on how long you wish the passwords can be and what characters the host system supports in the password. Also included is an E-Text discussing why passwords are so extremely important in this day and age. o STI V1.1 (Studley The Icon) S.T.I. is described as "Your Personal Desktop Excercise Motivator." In plain English, Studley will try to motivate you to exercise a little more. While the iconized Studley performs his helathy regiment of moves, why not join him! This program is now *POSTCARDWARE.* III. How to Become a Distributor Site Excel Progs is looking for more bulletin boards and information services to serve as distributor sites. This works well for both parties: Excel Progs is able to send its software to a larger audience, and your service has more to advertise about. Your users know that the latest in Excel Progs utilities, songs, and games (coming soon!) can be found first on your service. Excel Progs is accepting applications on the basis of "first come, first serve." There will be one distributor site per county. A "county" is described in this text as a place which holds a telephone connection to your service for the public (i.e., if you have a service in Knox County (Knoxville, TN) which has an Anderson County (Oak Ridge, TN) connect line open only to members, your site will be considered to be an Knox Co. site ONLY. If the line becomes public and no site has already appeared in Anderson Co., you will be considered to be a site for both counties. Excel Progs shall have the sole task of determining whether two or more services are considered "too close" to both become distribution sites. We are asking for services that have been up for at least a year, show promise of being up for much longer, and have potential for growth. If your service goes down for a small period of time you will retain your site number when you return; in cases of serious down-time the site number may be awarded to someone else. Thus, it is imperative that if your service goes down for a time greater than a month or if it is to go down permanently that you immediately contact Andrew Malek of Excel Progs. We are looking for "family" services. Note that this does not mean exclusively religious services, just those that don't cater exclusively to adult users. This also does not exclude services that responsibly have adult sections hidden to the general public. We are looking for public domain/shareware/freeware/post-cardware/ ..etc services ONLY! If you are a pirate site or hold ANY pirate files, then we appreciate you not applying. Excel Progs is new, and is currently an organization, not an official business. As a new group, you have the opportunity to be one of the first to be a distributor site. In the event Excel Progs formally is established as a business, your distributor site numbers shall be transfered in the proper ways, if necessary. As a distributor site, you need to keep up with the newest Excel Progs products. We ask that you call The Other World BBS at least once every 3-6 months, and, if you wish, in the meantime, acquire all Excel Progs products at your convenience from sources such as CompuServe (C) and Internet FTP sites, where they are uploaded on a semi-regular basis (Feel free to call The Other World BBS as often as you wish...the 3-6 months is only a suggestion for software acquisition). If you run Major BBS with Majornet, we ask that you take the official support forum (mentioned later in this file). We also ask all sites to mention that they are a support board in opening screens, bulletins, advertisements,..etc, if possible. Regarding The Other World BBS, you will receive an account and password regarding your formal confirmation (when you receive postal mail regarding the confirmation). ALL Excel Progs files shall be on The Other World BBS in the file area EXCEPROG. Just type /GO EXCELPROGS to access e-mail to Andrew Malek, the Excel Progs message area, and official file base. You may download individual files or download the entire batch as EPALL.ZIP (all such downloads are free from time restrictions to ALL users!) If for some unknown reason The Other World ceases to exist, Excel Progs will try all possible routes of establishing a new home board or new methods of distributing its files. To apply, simply print and fill out the form located near the end of this text and mail to the address specified. Upon approval, you shall receive in the coming weeks your confirmation letter, number, and other information Excel Progs feels appropriate. IV. Current List of Sites This list is as of 6/25/95. #1 Knoxville, Tennessee (615)577-9342. The Other World BBS, Excel Progs Home Board. SysOp: Joseph Passmore #2 Sevierville, Tennesseee (615)428-5883. The Other World BBS, Excel Progs Home Board. SysOp: Joseph Passmore #3 Boise, Idaho (208)345-6306/(208)389-9365. Idaho Interactive BBS,/EXCEPROG MailLink Home BBS,telnet idibbs.com SysOp: Bob Cooper #4 Arlington, Virginia (703)527-3175 The Missing Link BBS (a service of Online Solutions) SysOp: Charles Norton III #5 Reston (Fairfax County), Virginia (703)620-8900/(703)648-0250 World Data Network 703.620.8900/301.654.2554 or telnet wdn.com SysOp: Tony McClenny #6 Netherton,Liverpool,Merseyside England +44-0151-284-8645 Pyramid BBS-A wealth of shareware with 1200+ *new* programs monthly SysOp: Kevin Watson #7 Lewiston, Maine (207)784-2130/(207)377-3214 The Kobayashi Alternative BBS, IBM/Windows/Amiga, telnet tka.com Co-SysOp: Paul Leclair, IBMOp: Barry Grant V. Distribution Site Application: Name: _____________________________________________________________________ Address: _________________________________________________________________ Internet E-Mail Address: _________________________________________________ CompuServe(c) E-Mail Address: ____________________________________________ City(s): __________________________________________ State: _____________ County(s) ________________________________________________________________ Zip: ___________________-__________________ Country: ___________________ In 68 characters or less, give your BBS/info. service name and description (for being displayed in Excel Progs products and this file): ___________________________________________________________________________ Storage Size: ____________________________________________________________ Time Since Establishment: ________________________________________________ Do you have adult files?: _________ Are you PD/Shareware ONLY? _________ Please write up to 6 of your PUBLIC phone numbers: 1: ______________________________ 2: ___________________________ 3: ______________________________ 4: ___________________________ 5: ______________________________ 6: ___________________________ Why you wish to be a distributor site: ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ Please give any extra information regarding your service on the back of this application. Thanks for your application. Andrew Malek of Excel Progs shall contact you regarding your acceptance or your denial. Mail to: Excel Progs Please allow a couple of c/o Andrew Malek weeks for processing of the 434 Gallaher View Rd. Apt. 60 application. Thank you! Knoxville, TN 37919 VI. Contacting Excel Progs Andrew Malek of Excel Progs can be contacted by the following ways: 1) SASE at the Excel Progs address: Excel Progs c/o Andrew Malek 434 Gallaher View Rd. Apt. 60 Knoxville, TN 37919 2) The Other World BBS (Excel Progs Home BBS, 615-577-9342) E-Mail: Andrew Malek. 3) Internet E-Mail: admalek@sacam.oren.ortn.edu 4) Maillink: Andrew Malek@IDI 5) The Excel Progs Official Message Forum (/EXCEPROG) on MailLink. The MailLink forum address is: ML@EXCELPROG.IDI# 6) CompuServe E-Mail: 76023,1175 If you are on Internet, send e-mail via Internet. Likewise, if you are only on CompuServe, send mail that way. Mail crossed between these two systems may not be read. Thank you. VII. Warranty/Disclaimer/License. Please Read! EVERY EFFORT WAS MADE BY EXCEL PROGS/TOW DEVELOPMENT TO ENSURE THE QUALITY OF THE PRODUCTS AND EVERY ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO MAKE THE PRODUCTS AS ERROR-FREE AS POSSIBLE. Microsoft, Windows, are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corp. All trademarks are the property of their respective companies. You have the license to place this file on bulletin board systems, information systems, shareware compilations, or on cd-rom compilations, provided that you distribute the ENTIRE version with file descriptions (FILE_ID.DIZ and DESC.SDI) UNMODIFIED.