WELLTRIS The Soviet Challenge Continues .. Spectrum HoloByte^ CREDITS Product design, management and programming: Dan Kaufman Artwork: Dan Guerra, Jody Sather and Matt Carlstrom Sound: Bogas Productions with Steve Capps Music: Ed Bogas, Dan Kaufman and Paul Mogg Manual layout and writing: Steve Perrin Package design: Karen Sherman and David Bishop Original WELLTRIS design concept by Alexey Pajitnov and A. Snegov Special thanks to: Phil Adam, Anthony Chiang, Albert Durstenfeld, Robert Giedt, Gilman Louie, Ann McCue, Lars Norpchen, Marisa Ong, Bob Strobel and Joe Tretinik Some artwork inspired by A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union Customer Support: If you have questions regarding the use of WELLTRIS, or any of our other products, please contact us at: Spectrum HoloByte 2061 Challenger Drive Alameda, CA 94501 Attn: Customer Support (415) 522-1164 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time Monday through Friday America Online: SPHERE CompuServe:76004,2144 GEnie: HOLOBYTE WELLTRIS game ©1989 Doka. All rights reserved. Licensed by Doka to BulletProof Software. Adaptation and modifications are made by Sphere, Inc. by permission of BulletProof Software. WELLTRIS manual © 1989 Sphere, Inc. A Day in the Life of the Soviet Union © 1987 by Collins Publishing Inc. WELLTRIS is a trademark of Bullet- Proof Software. Spectrum HoloByte is a trademark of Sphere, Inc. Macintosh and Mac are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. A WORD ABOUT THIS GAME We would like to thank you for purchasing one of our products. For your convenience you can make backups in order to protect your investment. Please remember that the developers of this product are relying on you not to give away copies to others. They have spent a lot of time, effort and money to bring this software to you, and are relying solely upon royalties from sales in order to make a living. Your purchase will allow them to invest the time and energy necessary to produce additional high quality software in the future. We are committed to providing products for you that are of the highest quality and value. If you have questions concerning any of our software, or if there are additional programs that you would like to see developed, please con- tact us through any of the means indicated on the next page. Alept llen Phillip G. Adam, President Gilman G. Louie, CEO Sphere, Inc. Sphere, Inc. 4 INTRODUCTION WELLTRIS™ presents another challenge to the western world from the Russian gamemasters. Coming to us from the Soviet Union on the heels of its award-winning predecessor, Republic: Armenia TETRIS', WELLTRIS, in a satisfying display of Area: 11,500 sq. mi. glasnost (openness), is made available to Capital: Yerevan American gamepl…

WILD WEST MATH VERSION 3.11 © 1998-2001 Micrograms Software WINDOWS and MACINTOSH Permission to duplicate this guide is granted to schools. PURPOSE AND SCOPE Wild West Math helps students in grades 2 - 6 develop and refine fundamental math skills. From memorization of basic math facts to the process of long division, important math skills are exercised and strengthened by an amusing assortment of colorful characters from the American Wild West. Program activities can be adjusted by teacher or student to accommodate a wide range of learning needs. Tutorial help screens provide carefully structured assistance when necessary. Informative records on both current and cumulative student work can be developed as the program is used. Wild West Math is just what calculatin’ cowpokes need to round up first class math skills at their computer desktops. GETTING STARTED This program is designed to be installed onto the hard drive of a stand-alone computer or server before it is run. Because the program features 3D SVGA animation and multimedia sound, it requires significant computing power. On fast enough machines, Wild West Math also can be run directly from the CD-ROM drive. However, in that case, satisfactory program performance depends heavily on the speed of both the computer and its CD-ROM drive. Micrograms recommends Pentium level processors for running Wild West Math on Windows 95/98, NT/2000, or ME. SVGA graphics are required. On Macintosh, G3's, iMac's, Power Mac's , or old 1 with 640x480 256 color graphics and 32 MB of RAM are recommend- ed. A computer too slow to run this program well displays sluggish animation and/or lip movements way out of sync with the sound. Installation and startup instructions for Wild West Math are located on page 11 of this teacher's guide. FOUR PROGRAM ACTIVITIES 1. ROUND-UP TRAIL Trailhand Dan spends quiet, moonlit nights with his friendly herd. He has time to work with students on their rounding skills. From Program Options on the Menu Bar, select Rounding. Then select the rounding problems you wish students to practice. These include the following: ROUNDING TO Nearest Ten Nearest Hundred Nearest Thousand Combinations of the Above Now, from the Menu Screen, select ROUND-UP TRAIL by clicking on the appropriate signpost or by using the 1 number key. Trailhand Dan will present 10 problems of the kind(s) selected. …

Whamb Manual Stéphane Thiell May 22, 2003 1 What’s Whamb? 1.1 Concept Whamb is a digital audio player for Mac OS X. Unlike many other players, it has been developped for Mac OS X only. Thus, it is a native player for Mac OS X, which uses several new technologies that this modern operating system offers. This player is light because it avoids the use of any nonnative functionality of the system. Whamb ensures high-quality and exceptional fidelity for a minimal consumption of processor resources, thanks to CoreAudio. But Whamb is a general public audio player intended for a comfortable and ludic use, thus we added a very effective system of Skins (or appearence themes). Only a few knowledge in graphics is enough to create your own Skins. Quality of the Skins is obtained partly thanks to “Quartz”, still another new technology of Mac OS X. Whamb already supports MP3 and Ogg Vorbis, but is intended to be extended. MP3 & Ogg Audio streams are also supported. 1.2 More technical Whamb uses CoreAudio, CoreGraphics (more known as “Quartz”), and IOKit libraries (more precisely Frameworks), and sometimes even some functionality of the BSD layer. CoreAudio is, of course, very significant for Whamb because it ensures a sound quality and exceptional fidelity. Moreover, the direct use of CoreAudio reduces CPU time to the minimum. CoreAudio handles hardware abstraction, you can then use any sound cards recognized by Mac OS X. You can very easily choose specific audio hardware to use in Whamb. Finally, CoreAudio is first of all reserved for the new professional audio applications. Whamb innovates! CoreGraphics or “ Quartz ” support in Whamb allows it to fully take part of the graphic possibilities for the Skins. 2 Requirements Whamb is available only for Mac OS X 10.2 “Jaguar” or later. Version 10.1 of the system is too bugged and important features are missing so we can’t support it anymore. Obviously, you need a PowerPC Macintosh. By the way, Whamb’s code is optimized for these processors, and uses some Altivec possibilities on G4. The MP3ve plugin (ve for Velocity Engine) is Altivec optimized. 3 User guide 3.1 Installation Whamb 1.2 is not anymore distributed in a package (.pkg). Due to recurrent permission problems with the standard installer, we now have our own little quick installer. Just double-click on it. Once the installation is done, the following items are installed: • The application named Whamb.app in ”/Applications/” • The default Skins in ”/Library/Application Support/Whamb/Skins/” • If not possible, the installer puts the default Skins in your user domain: ”/Users/USER/Library/Application Support/Whamb/Skins/” Launch Whamb.app, that’s all! 1 3.2 Get Started Whamb is quite straightforward to use and ergonomic. You can …

WhatURL?! Bookmark helper By Mike Tilstra tils0007@gold.tc.umn.edu http://www.tc.umn.edu/nlhome/g019/tils0007/ WhatURL?! Bookmark helper is based on both the Eudora mailto helper by Christian Huldt, and the bookmark helper that comes with ICeTEe 2, and the URL->Netscape script that comes with WhatURL?!. This simple applescript program is for the people that like ICeTEe 2's new feature of option-command clicking URLs to save them instead of launching them right away. And people that like using the WhatURL?! bookmark utility. The latest version of WhatURL?! (version 10b1) has some applescripting ability, but nothing to handle the stuff ICeTEe 2 sends. This simple script fills that void, util WhatURL?! handles it internally. Also included is a small script that will turn the bookmark helper app back into a running script file, so you can edit it with a script editor. This prorgram is in the public domain. USING • Make sure you have ICeTEe 2 installed. • Set up Internet Config to handle the bookmark helper • In the Helpers area of InternetConfig • Add a new helper for type "bookmark" and this app (Better instuctions are included with ICeTEe 2) •option-command-click away HINTS — Set this as your bookmark helper in the Internet Config application. — If it doesn’t work, rebuild your desktop. — It generally works better when WhatURL?! is already running.

https://web.archive.org/web/20100615072212/http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/exrp/what.htm What Is the IMF? September 30, 2006 Ordering Information Contents What does the International Monetary Fund do? Why was it created? How does the IMF serve its member countries? How does the IMF help poor countries? Who runs the IMF? Where does the IMF get its money? Highlights in the Evolution of IMF Lending Boxes Exchange rate stability The IMF and the World Bank have different mandates Crisis prevention Crisis resolution The IMF's main business: macroeconomic and financial sector policies Terminology IMF lending facilities The IMF provides technical assistance and training mainly in four areas Collaborating with other institutions UN Millennium Development Goals Evaluating the IMF's operations What is the SDR? What does the International Monetary Fund do? The IMF is the world's central organization for international monetary cooperation. It is an organization in which almost all countries in the world work together to promote the common good. The IMF's primary purpose is to ensure the stability of the international monetary system—the system of exchange rates and international payments that enables countries (and their citizens) to buy goods and services from each other. This is essential for sustainable economic growth and rising living standards. To maintain stability and prevent crises in the international monetary system, the IMF reviews national, regional, and global economic and financial developments. It provides advice to its 184 member countries, encouraging them to adopt policies that foster economic stability, reduce their vulnerability to economic and financial crises, and raise living standards, and serves as a forum where they can discuss the national, regional, and global consequences of their policies. The IMF also makes financing temporarily available to member countries to help them address balance of payments problems—that is, when they find themselves short of foreign exchange because their payments to other countries exceed their foreign exchange earnings. And it provides technical assistance and training to help countries build the expertise and institutions they need for economic stability and growth. Why was it created? The IMF was conceived in July 1944, when representati…

Overview "Electrifier Pro is a dream come true for professional web designers." —Giles C. Hendrix, Director of Media Design, webslingerZ,Inc. (High Five "A" List Firm) For the first time, electrify your site with an amazing range of content—images, animation, digitized sound, synthesized music (MIDI), video, 3D, VR, and over 150 special effects—to produce a truly compelling web experience. Electrifier Pro is the ultimate tool for creating streaming, interactive rich media demanded by web users. Its powerful features, drag-and-drop authoring and seamless integration with popular tools, make it a must-have product for every web professional. Best of all, use Electrifier Pro to deliver rich media consistently as industry-standard QuickTime or animated GIF on both Navigator and Internet Explorer, at any connection speed—from 28.8K to cable modems. Benefits "Electrifier Pro lets me do things that were impossible before!" —Rob Terrell, Vice President, Multimedia Engineering, iXL - Los Angeles • Powerful features let you create rich media using every kind of content conceivable—vector and bitmap animation, digitized audio, synthesized music (MIDI), video, 3-D, VR, and over 150 special effects such as fades, transitions, fire and ripples. • Intuitive drag-and-drop authoring lets you create complex animations and stunning interactivity—such as highlighting and URL hotspots—in seconds. Instantly preview and edit your work without exporting. • Excellent, flexible compression lets you easily produce streaming rich media which plays as it downloads. Minimize file sizes while maintaining superior quality! • Seamless integration with your existing content and favorite authoring tools—such as Photoshop, Illustrator, FreeHand, PageMill and Dreamweaver—make you productive from the start. • Output as industry-standard QuickTime or Animated GIFs for consistent playback on either Navigator or Internet Explorer. Deploy on Intranets and CD-ROMs without reauthoring. Features -1- "Rich media on the web is now a reality instead of just a buzzword." —Ros Garland, Senior Lecturer Digital Media, Lincoln University UNRIVALLED POWER • Support for all content: Precisely integrate and synchronize elements from any source. Work with an amazing range of content—animation, digitized audio, synthesized music (MIDI), video, 3D, virtual reality and special effects. • Precise control: Create sophisticated projects with ease and precision using Electrifier Pro's powerful drag-and-drop authoring and instant preview and editing. Synchronize actors to 1/1000th of a second and control properties to the fourth decimal place. • Sophisticated interactivity: Create wired movies, interactive highlighting, URL hotspots, volume controls and even animated image maps in seconds with Electrifier Pro's Modifiable Actions. • 28.8K to cable modem streaming: Use Electrifier Pro to author files which can automatically scale …

FireSite™ Web Site Accelerator FireSite Web Site Accelerator is a powerful new software package that lets you run a high-performance Web server using affordable Internet lines such as ISDN or regular modem lines! • If you already run a Web server, FireSite will dramatically accelerate your Web sites, using your existing Internet connection. FireSite is compatible with Internet connections from 28.8Kbps modems through T-1 lines and beyond. FireSite typically provides a 5x increase in traffic capacity, and a 3x increase in page delivery speed. • If you don't run your own Web server (yet), FireSite makes it simple and affordable to get started. FireSite-powered Web sites are fully interactive and dynamic, serve pages at T-1 speeds, and typically cost less than US$140 per month. All you need to get started is a Mac and a modem! FireSite™ Virtual Domain Manager FireSite Virtual Domain Manager is a the Web's most advanced single-IP-address "virtual domain" system, allowing you to host multiple Web sites on a single Web server, using only a single IP address. FireSite VDM is available as a stand-alone product, and is also available in most FireSite Web Site Accelerator packages. If you are going to host more than five virtual sites, we recommend a combination package, including both FireSite VDM and the FireSite acceleration system. ________________________________________ FireSite ™ Blazing Web Site Accelerator FireSite is a patented new system for serving interactive Web sites faster and more affordably than ever before. FireSite is so powerful that you can run a commercial-speed Web server using your Mac, a plain 28.8K modem or ISDN line. FireSite will serve your pages at T1 speeds and can handle 100,000 hits per day! FireSite accelerates existing Web servers far beyond their bandwidth limits without costly hardware or line upgrades! How does FireSite work? FireSite uses a small amount of disk space on your ISP’s Web server as an ultra-high-speed cache for your Web site’s graphics and multimedia files. Run your own Web server. Set up your Mac as a Web server with a continuous connection to your ISP using a 28.8 modem, an ISDN line, or any affordable connection. FireSite will also work with a dedicated connection such as a 56k leased line. The Internet Your (not to scale) Server Your ISP -1- The Internet Your (not to scale) Server Your ISP Rent a few Mb of Web space from your ISP. FireSite works whether your ISP uses UNIX, Mac, or Windows NT and there’s …

What is QuickTime VR™? As Susan Kitchens puts it in her ground-breaking book from Peachpit Press, The QuickTime VR Book, "What makes a QuickTime VR Movie? There are two parts to the technology. The first is QuickTime, Apple's system-level software that handles all matter of digital media — still and motion images and sound. The second part is QuickTime Virtual Reality, which provides an immersive experience. When playing back and interacting with a QTVR movie, you get the sense that "you are there." The differentiation is in virtual reality and actual reality. Virtual reality is experienced throughout the use of a computer. In actual reality you can move around, looking here and there, and actually reach out and pick up an object. QTVR imitates these actions...looking around is accomplished by the panoramic movie experience, while an object movie allows you to simulate the action of picking something up and turning it around to examine it. Again, Susan Kitchens, "A panorama movie is a cylinder-shaped image; the cylinder surrounds the point of the viewer. The viewer can look all around in a circle, left and right, up and down to see nearly everything that is visible from that single point of view...in QTVR, picking up something and examining is implemented as an object movie. In an object movie, an object can be examined from all sides, rotating it from any horizontal or vertical position. The two movie formats — panorama and object — when combined with the third option of choosing to change one's point of view, comprise the options for QTVR...with QTVR, you can create the essence of being there, by offering the viewer the same viewing choices she would have if she were actually there. The option to look around, move to another spot, look around again (and again and again), and examine things provides a powerful immersive experience for the viewer." Apple Computer, Inc.™ developed QuickTime VR™ as an integral aspect of its QuickTime™ media layer. QuickTime has been the essential ingredient to maintaining Apple™ as the world leader in innovative technologies for the professional digital content creator. Through Apple's vigorous support of the technology's adoption as an industry standard, QuickTime has succeeded in becoming the cross-platform standard, worldwide. With Apple's concurrent (Macintosh™ and Windows™95/NT) release of QuickTime 3.0, QuickTime VR v2.1 and a streaming QuickTime Plug-In v2.0 for Netscape Navigator™ and Internet Explorer™, that standard became de facto. With the upcoming release of QuickTime 4, we are about to witness a new level of multimedia excellence. QuickTime VR is an extension of Apple's basic QuickTime technology and supports two different types of movies, QTVR panorama movies and QTVR object movies; QTVR scenes are the third point of view in QuickTime VR. QuickTime VR is destined to be the ultimate enabling technology for electronic commerce. Usually implemented as a photo- realistic virtual reality, QTVR is find…