ABC FUN KEYS REVISION HISTORY ----------------------------- I owe a great deal of thanks to many users of the ABC FUN KEYS program for their ideas which you see incorporated below. I sincerely welcome any suggestions you may have that will make this program more enjoyable for little children. ABC FUN KEYS VER. 4.12 ---------------------- * Added the command line parameter /T to allow the user to adjust the tempo of the nursery rhyme songs. * Made a slight change to correct an "operational inconsistency" that caused a return to the adult setup menu on succeeding games. (Nice euphemism for bug.) ABC FUN KEYS VER. 4.11 ---------------------- * Added a feature to the control panel to allow the number of pictures played in a game to be limited. At the end of the selected number of pictures, the "childs" menu is displayed. * Fixed a small bug that caused the command line parameter /Q (totally quiet operation) not to work correctly. (Blush) ABC FUN KEYS VER. 4.10 ---------------------- * Added on-screen scrolling lyrics for all twenty-seven nursery rhyme songs. * Many of the nursery rhyme melodies have been revised and improved. * MANY THANKS * to Jeff Elhai of East Lansing, Michigan for these corrections and improvements! Jeff also provided many of the other suggestions which have been incorporated in this latest release. Thank you Jeff! * Shut off NUM Lock, Scroll Lock, and Caps Lock upon initial entry to program to avoid confusion with several features. * Added functional arrow keys to the opening kids menu. * Added adjustable timing for Game 3 and the corresponding control panel settings. * Added an option for easy program restart and exit. * Added an option to allow PrtScreen to function. * The number of songs can be set with a command line parameter to allow users to add their own songs. * Made several changes to differentiate between the registered user and shareware versions of the program in the opening copyright screen and windowed "THANK YOU" screen. * Many improvements were made in the documentation including separate registration instant mailer, an index, hard disk instructions, and "quick start" documentation. ABC FUN KEYS VER. 4.00 ---------------------- * Program completely re-written in Borland's Turbo C Ver.2.0 and Mike Smeldey's excellent "CXL Extended Function Library" available as shareware. * Support for monochrome monitors using the Hercules graphics standard. (This required a lot of code.) * Addition of Game 2 -- Guess Quick. * Addition of Game 3 -- Heaven & Mud. * The addition of the Children's Picture Menu to open the game. * The addition of command line control parameters. * The addition of game configuration files to save letter and feature selections. * The addition of lower case letters in the alphabet picture files. * A greatly improved Picture Selection & Control Menu. * A help screen for the Picture Selection & Control Menu. * The ability to synchronize the nursery rhyme songs to the pictures. * Improved picture compression technique so the program takes up less space on disk. * Use of a single file for nursery rhyme songs to cut down on wasted cluster space on disk. (I really had to work hard to get this program to fit on a single diskette!).