Star Trek:  The PC Demo
             Release:  1.10                Date:  3 August 1990

Copyright (C) 1990, 1991  David T. Chappell
All Rights Reserved

    The program included is shareware.  Feel free to make copies and pass
    them out to friends and BBSs as long as no fee is charged, the programs
    are not modified in any way, and this notice is not changed or removed.

WARNING:  YOU MUST HAVE AN 80286 OR BETTER PROCESSOR IN YOUR COMPUTER
          IN ORDER TO RUN THIS PROGRAM.

INTRODUCTION
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        In the past few years, the computer world has been gaining interest
in computer-generated speech and sound.  In this area, the Apple Macintosh
and Commodore Amiga provide built-in sound control so that their machines can
play digitized recordings with little effort from the programmer.  IBM,
however, has chosen not to include advanced sound capabilities in its line of
personal computers.  The market has shown that relatively few people will buy
speech or sound add-ons from either IBM or third parties.  Until such
hardware is standardized, speech software will encounter great difficulty
in gaining acceptance.  In this regard, however, mathematics, engineering,
and software can come to the rescue:  it is possible for a PC to play good
quality sound without additional hardware.
        Over the years, several attempts have been made to play digitized
sound on PCs without additonal hardware.  Many have appeared in the public
domain, but few are coherent.  Commercial software has had greater success,
but most of these programs produce rough speech.  With the recent rise of
interest in multimedia, some developers have produced good quality sound.
Star Trek: The PC Demo (ST:TPD) rivals that of the best public
domain and commercial successes.

INCLUDED FILES
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STARTREK.EXE    Executable demo program
STARTREK.SND    Digitized sound data

    Sample Name      Phase     Stereo     Volume    Freq
    ------------     -----     ------     ------   -----
    STARTREK.SND       N          N          0      8900

USAGE
=====

To run the program, type the filename (omitting the extension) at the
command prompt.  There are no command-line switches.

In addition, the sound file STARTREK.SND may be used with other programs
that play digitized sound.

LIMITATIONS
===========

You must have an 80286 or better processor in your PC.

Your computer system must have enough available RAM to load the sound file.

ST:TPD relies on the system timer interrupt, so any other interrupt-
driven software may conflict with it.  Pressing keys, moving the mouse, etc.
will put a buzz in the output.  ST:TPD will not give proper results if the
DOS 4.0 DOSShell has been run or if it is run in a DOS box under OS/2 or
Windows; however, it runs well under the DOS 5.0 DOSShell.

EGA or better graphics is required for the graphics display; only text mode
is used on lesser systems.

CONCLUSION
==========

    ST:TPD uses a special version of a general-purpose digitized
    sound player that runs on all PCs.  If you are interested 
    in a complete package of sound programs, write for more information.

    Richard E. Zobell wrote the file-loading routine.  Ben Ezzell's
    book _Graphics_Programming_in_Turbo_C++_ helped with graphics.
    Star Trek is a trademark of Paramount Pictures.

    If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, contact:

                   David T. Chappell            Internet address:
                   242 Stonewall Road             david@catt.ncsu.edu
                   Salisbury, NC 28144
                   (704) 633-7535