The Lim Slide Show Version 4.40
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Thank You for acquiring the Lim Slide Show. This is a Shareware product
that is free for evaluation and distribution for a 30-day period, after
which, you must register the product in order to continue its use legally.
Once registered, you are not allowed to distribute your registered copy of
the program, but can continue to freely distribute unregistered copies of 
our program for purposes of playing slide shows produced by you.

The Lim Slide Show is a multimedia slide show presenter/manager that helps
you to create slide shows/screen savers of your images, video clips, animation, 
sound effects, text narratives and plays them with your music selection on a 
beautiful background of changing colors with over 100 special transition effects. 

It is optimised for 16-bit or higher (high color & above) color display systems 
but will also work in 256-color modes. In 256-color mode, the user has only 236
colors to use since Windows reserves 20 colors for itself. Thus, the user has to 
be careful when combining images of different colors on the same screen. The Lim
Slide Show will attempt to compose an optimum color palette containing all the major
colors of the combined images, but color distortions may occur if there are
insufficient colors to cater for all the colors used. Image quality may also
deteriorate if there are insufficient colors. Thus, It is highly recommended that 
you set your display to at leaset 16-bit color(high color) & above for best image & 
color quality with a screen resolution of 800X600 pixels.

This evaluation version is fully functional except that it will play up to 20 slides only.
After 5 slides, a Reminder to register the program will be displayed. Also, the
unregistered version does not allow you to produce slide shows for distribution.

Once registered, a Registration Number will be generated to remove these limitations 
and you will get another file to allow you to configure your favourite slide show as 
a screen saver. Registered users will also be able to distribute their slide shows to 
external parties.

FREE DEMO SLIDE SHOWS
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Version 3.00 & above, has the capability to play multiple demo slide show files with no restrictions,
even for unregistered users. At the moment, we offer the Lim Family's TRIBUTE TO PRINCESS 
DIANA, the Lim Family's Christmas & the 1998 Chinese New Year Celebrations slide shows. 
These slide shows also serve to demonstrate the capabilities of our product. You can download 
our Princess Diana slide show or any other demo slide shows we offer.

These slide shows were designed for 16-bit color with 800X600 screen resolution and is best 
viewed in this resolution. However, 1 of the powerful features of our product is that it can 
resize images & text automatically to fit any screen resolution & therefore can run the Demo 
slide show on other screen resolutions. Preferably, the color resolution should be at least 
64K colors (16-bit). It will also run on 256-color mode but image quality may deteriorate 
slightly (there aren't enough colors on the 256-color pallete).

To run these demo slide shows, click on the RUN button without selecting anything. From the file
selection dialog box, click on DIANA.FGA or CHRIST.FGA or CNY.FGA. We recommend that you run 
these demo slide shows as an introduction to the power of our product.

You can use our program to create your own Princess Diana or any other 
slide shows of the same or even better quality than our demo. By registering
our program, you will receive setup files to configure our Princess Diana
Slide Show into a screen saver, or you can replace it with your own slide
shows as the screen saver. You will also have the capability to distribute your
work to external parties.

Win 3.x users with 256-color screen resolution
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If your are a Win 3.1 or 3.11 user with 256-color screen resolution, you may find that certain
display effects are disabled. If you encounter this problem on your system, then you'll need to
install Microsoft's Video For Windows or WinG APIs. These APIs can be downloaded FREE from
Microsoft's web site. These APIs are used to speed up graphic transitions under 256-color modes.
Our recommendation is to switch to at least High color in order to fully enjoy our program.

Installation
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To install the product, unzip limss232.zip (the 32-bit version) or limss216.zip
(the 16-bit version) to extract the contents into a directory of your choice.

Execute lssetup.exe to install the product. When prompted to select a
directory to install the product, you can choose the same directory or a
new one. Upon successful installation, lssetup.exe will create a windows
program group and generate a Product Serial Number. This Serial Number
will be stored in a file called Limss.inf, together with other relevant
information. You can also view the Serial Number by clicking on the REGISTER
button.

When you decide to register this product, the file called Limss.inf must be
sent via email attachment to the author for use to generate a Registration Number
which will unlock the full capabilities of the product.

Besides installation, lssetup.exe will be used to enter your Registration Key,
setup your screen saver and to uninstall the product.

It is important for you to record the Serial Number and Registration Key
somewhere as they are proof that you are a registered user of the Lim Slide
Show and entitles you to benefits such as free upgrades and technical
support.

Getting Started
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The Lim Slide Show has been designed with an intuitive user interface and is
extremely easy to operate. It takes only a few seconds to create a basic but 
dazzling multimedia slide show. First click on the SELECT button & from the 
pop-up box, click on FILE MODE to select individual files or groups of files 
(by clicking while holding down the Ctrl key). To select files from a whole 
directory, click on DIRECTORY MODE & click on the TGA, JPG, BMP or GIF sub-buttons 
to automatically select files of the desired type. If you want background music, 
click on the EDIT button, select EDIT MUSIC & click ADD to select wav, midi or 
CD Audio tracks. That's it - just click on the RUN button & your slide show will 
play on a beautiful background of randomly changing colors with special transition 
effects to the accompaniment of your music selection.

Of course, you can create a much more elaborate presentation by clicking on the EDIT 
button & select EDIT SLIDES. You may refer to the program Help File for further details 
on all the features available to create a spectacular multimedia presentation. Click on 
the HELP button on the program main screen to invoke the Help File.

Registration
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If you would like to have unlimited slide displays, the ability to distribute
your work as well as to setup your favourite slide show as a screen saver, you 
must register the program.

The registration fee is US$25 and you can perform this online securely via the Internet
at https://commerce.mindspring.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/www09282/reg_it_offsite.pl?2496. 

Once registration is confirmed, we will email to you the Registration
Number, a screen saver setup file and our Tribute to Princess Diana Slide Show file for
you to configure as a screen saver.

Please click on the HELP button on the Lim Slide Show main screen for further
details.

Contact
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For any queries or problems, please contact

lsshow@yahoo.com

Thank You.

