' Note: MOVIES.EXE will not work if this file is ' modified in any way ' ~1 THE "MOVIES AVAILABLE" SCREEN The upper right hand corner of the TV Screen displays the number of movies in this menu. To read the information about a specific movie, type the first few letters of its title. For example, to read about CASABLANCA type the letters CASA. When the title you want is highlighted, press ENTER to display the "Now Showing" screen. You can also browse through the movie list with the Up and Down Arrow keys, or by scrolling the menu bar with your mouse. Press the F2key to perform a SEARCH. The real power of this movie guide is found in its ability to help you search for particular types of movies. To PRINT the information on a movie or group of movies, press the F7key to MARK that movie, then press the F3key to print the movies that are marked. Press the F10key to quit this program. ~2 MAIN SEARCH SCREEN Use the Arrow Keys to highlight the kind of search you want to do, then press ENTER. To start the Search Routine the press the F5FindIt! key. For example, find all the COMEDIES starring JOHN WAYNE: 1. Arrow over to the CATEGORY Icon on the "Ticket" screen then press ENTER. from this menu. When the category menu appears, arrow over to the COMEDY selection, then press ENTER. 2. Arrow over to the CAST Icon on the "Ticket" screen, and press ENTER. When the cast menu appears, type Wayne,John then press ENTER. 3. The "Ticket" screen will reappear with a red check mark on the Category and Cast Icons. Press the F5FindIt! key. The "TV" screen will appear with a list of movies will appear which features John Wayne in a Comedy. ~3 CATEGORY SEARCH SCREEN This movie guide helps you search for movies which qualify in one, two, or three categories. For example you can search for: COMEDY (1 Category) COMEDY and ROMANCE (2 Categories) COMEDY and ROMANCE and WESTERN (3 Categories) 1st Example From the Category Menu, arrow over to the COMEDY icon and press ENTER. When the "Ticket" screen appears, press the F5Find It! key to search for ALL comedies. 2nd Example From the Category Menu, arrow over to the COMEDY Icon and press F7Mark. Now arrow over to the FAMILY Icon and press the F7Mark key. A red check mark will now cover both the Comedy and Family Icons. Press ENTER. When the "Ticket" screen appears press, F5Find It! to search for all movies which are BOTH comedies AND family movies. ~4 REVIEW SEARCH SCREEN Movies in this software are categorized in one of three categories: Good Average Poor Movies categorized as Good are those movies which were in the Top 10 in box office sales, were nominated for or earned "Best Picture" by the Motion Picture Academy, or were enjoyed very much by the reviewer. Average movies are generally enjoyable to watch but are weak in one way or another. We have tried to keep as many Poor movies out of this movie guide as possible. These movies have major flaws and generally should be avoided. Use the arrow keys to select either "Good", "Average" or "Poor", then press ENTER. When the "Ticket" screen appears press the F5Find It! key. ~5 ACTOR / ACTRESS SEARCH SCREEN To highlight the name of the actress or actor you want to search for, type the first few letters of their last name. For example, to search for all Mel Gibson movies, type GIBS and arrow down to Mel Gibson's name and press the ENTER key. At the "Ticket" screen, press the F5 Find It! key. You can also search for movies which have two actors or actresses. For example, to find all movies with have BOTH John Wayne AND Maureen O'Hara: 1) Highlight John Wayne's name (as described above) and press the F7Mark key. 2) Now highlight Maureen O'Hara's name and press the F7 Mark key. 3) When you are done marking your selections, press the ENTER key. 4) On the "Ticket" Screen, press F5FindIt! All five movies where Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne appeared together will appear on the "TV" screen. ~6 DIRECTOR SEARCH SCREEN As a general rule, if you like a movie, you will enjoy other movies by the same director. To find all the movies by a certain director, type the first few letters of the director's last name, Down Arrow until it appears on the screen. For example, to search for all Steven Spielberg movies, type SPIEL, and when you find his name, press ENTER. When the "Ticket" screen appears, press the F5FindIt! key to begin your search. ~7 "YEAR" SEARCH SCREEN The YEAR search is especially valuable for those who like "old movies" or "recent releases". 1st Example To search for movies from 1990 to present, enter 90 and press the ENTER key (the automatic "TO" year is the present year). Press F5 Find It! to begin the search. 2nd Example To search for movies made in 1939 (which many critics agree was the best movie year ever), enter 39, the TAB key 39, then press ENTER. Press F5 Find It! to search. 3rd Example To search for all the movies made in the 1950s, enter 50, the TAB key, 59, ENTER, and then F5 Find It! 4th Example To search for all movies made before 1940, press TAB (leaving a blank in the first field), 39, then press ENTER. At the "Ticket" Screen press F5 Find It! ~8 MPAA RATING SEARCH SCREEN The MPAA rating has undergone several changes since it was established in the mid 1960s, but is still useful as a general guide. Movies which were formerly rated "GP" we have rated "PG" and movies which received the "M" rating we rated "PG-13". "X" rated movies and recent movies which were released in the movie theaters as "R", but came out in video as "Not Rated" to allow more sex or violence we have generally rated "NC-17". 1st Example To search for all "R" rated movies, Down Arrow to the R Icon then press ENTER. Press F5 Find It! to search. 2nd Example To search for all "G", "PG" or "Not Rated" movies (the movies which contain the least amount of objectionable material) 1) highlight the "G" icon and press F7 Mark. 2) Mark "PG" and "Not Rated" the same way. 3) Press ENTER. 4) At the "Ticket" Screen, press F5FindIt! ~9 KEY WORD SEARCH SCREEN The key word search is perhaps the most flexible and fun search of all because you can search for any word, or consecutive group of words, which appears in the synopsis or in any review. For example, to display the movies which had the highest box office gross each year, enter the key words Number1, then press ENTER. When the "Ticket" screen appears, press the F5FindIt! key. Use the same method to search for Top5 which will display the top five grossing movies of each year, and Top10 to display the top ten grossing movies. COMBINING SEARCHES Combine searches for even more power. For example, to list the Top 10 grossing movies of 1993 combine a Key Word Search for "Top 10" with a Year Search for 1993. more . . . Here's how to find the top 10 movies for 1993: 1) At the "Ticket" screen Down Arrow to the Key Word Icon, and press ENTER. (You have already done this step.) 2) Type the phrase Top10 in the field on the "Candy Bar" screen, then press ENTER. The "Ticket" screen will appear and a red check mark will cover the Key Word Icon. 3) Arrow over to the Year Icon and press ENTER. The "Cup" screen will appear. 4) Input 93 in the first field and press the TAB key. 5) Input 93 in the second field and press the ENTER key. The "Ticket" screen will reappear with a red check mark covering on the Year Icon. 6) Press the F5 Find It! key to display your list. OTHER SUGGESTED KEY WORD SEARCHES Academy Awards Black Comedies Computers Abraham Lincoln Boxing Cop Movies Adultery Box Office Gross Corruption Africa Brainwashing Courage Alcoholism British Films Courtroom Dramas Al Capone Broadway Creature Movies Aliens Buddy Movies Dance Movies Ancient Rome California Disaster Movies Animal Movies Castles Discrimination Assassination Chase Movies Disney Movies Autobiographies Chicago Dog Movies Ballet China Drug Abuse Bank Robberies Chinese Elephants Baseball Christianity English Movies Best Actor Christmas Movies Evolution Best Actress Circus Movies Fairy Tales Best Picture Civil War Family Bible Movies Clive Cussler Famous Battles Big Business College Days Firefighters Football Israel Murder Mysteries Freedom Italian Movies Murderers French Films Japan National Lampoon Friendship Japanese Movies Native Americans Gambling Jesus Christ Nature Gangs Jews Newspaper Movies Gangster Movies Kidnapping New Jersey George Washington Knights New York City Ghosts Korean War Nothing Offensive Gold Lawyers Number 1 Good vs. Evil Legends Number 2 Government Life After Death Number 3 Haunted Houses London, England Number 4 Henry Mancini Los Angeles Number 5 Heroes Love Stories Number 6 Hippies Mad Scientists Number 7 Hitler Melodramas Number 8 Hollywood Midlife Crisis Number 9 Hostages Monster Movies Number 10 Humanitarians Motorcycles Organized Crime Immigrants Movie Making Outer Space Paris, France Roman Movies Stephen King Pirates Royalty Success Stories Political Satire San Francisco Superhero Movies Politics Satires Surfing Prison Camps School Days Swashbucklers Prison Movies Screwball Comedy Swords Prisoners of War Seduction Tearjerkers Propaganda Films Serial Killers Teen Pregnancy Psychopaths Shakespeare Teenagers Psychotic Killers Sheriffs Television Quakers Ships Temptation Racism Skating The Cold War Race Cars Skiing The Depression Recommended Slapstick Comedy The Holocaust Reincarnation Slavery The Press Relationships Soap Operas The Sea Remakes Song & Dance MoviesThe Sixties Revenge Movies Spider Movies The Stage Rich vs. Poor Spoofs The Supernatural Rock 'n Roll Spousal Abuse Thrillers Robin Hood Spy Movies Titanic Time Travel True Stories Weddings Top 5 UFOs Werewolves Top 10 Vampires Witchcraft Topless Veterans Whiskey Tom Clancy Vietnam War Women's Rights Tragedies Vigilante Justice World War I Truck Drivers Vikings World War II True Love Walt Disney World War III ~10 THE "NOW SHOWING" SCREEN Press the Up Arrow to move to the previous movie, and the Down Arrow to move to the next movie. Press the F4 key to read a review on this movie. ESC closes this screen If you have a MOUSE you can also do the following searches from this screen: KEY WORD SEARCH Click the mouse on any word, or between any two words to start a key word search. ACTOR SEARCH Click the mouse on the name of any actor or actress to search for all the movies which star that person. If there is a photo stored for this actor it will be displayed on the screen. DIRECTOR SEARCH Click the mouse on the director's name to search all movies which star this director. CATEGORY SEARCH Click the mouse on any of the categories displayed on this screen to search for all movies which belong to this category. ~11 COMMENT This software allows you to enter your own, 20 character note about each movie. You can use this special field for the following reasons: 1) To catalog your video collection 2) To mark the movies you want to see 3) To mark the movies your children want to see 4) To mark the movies you have seen 5) To mark your favorite movies 6) To mark movies you want to avoid in the future 1st Example To mark movies in your personal video collection, enter TAPENUMBER XXXX in each movie in your collection using the F6Noteskey at the NOWSHOWING screen. After you have done this to several movies, search for the words TAPENUMBER using the "MyNotes" Search at the "Ticket" Screen. A list of all the movies in your personal library will be displayed on the screen, marked, and ready to print. more . . . 2nd Example When you come across a movie you want to see, use the F6Noteskey at the NOWSHOWING screen to enter your initials, followed by "want to see". This way you will have stored notes such as MJP want to see, JLP want to see, and Kids want to see that you can search for. Before you go to the video store, search for the words want to see using the MyNotes Search at the "Ticket" Screen. All the movies your family wants to see will be listed on the screen, and marked for printing. Print the list with the F3Print key and take it with you to the video store. Keep your current want to see list handy for last minute trips to the video store. 3rd Example After you have seen a movie, enter SawXX/XX/XX (date). This will help keep you from renting movies you have already seen. ~12 PRINTER Down Arrow to the movie you want to print and press the F7 Mark key. To print it, press the F3 Print key. More often you will print a list of movies after doing a search. On the "Ticket" screen, after you press the F5FindIt! key, a list of the movies that the computer found in its search will be displayed on the "TV" screen. A small check mark will appear at the right side of the title of each movie listed, and indicates that the computer is ready to print this movie. Press the F7Mark key to Mark / Unmark movies that you want to print. You can print movie information in three formats: 1) 50 Movies Per Page This prints the Title, the Year, and your personal notes on a single line. 2) 3 Movies Per Page This prints the title, director, actors, year, MPAA rating, and your personal notes. 3) 1 Movie Per Page This prints all the information stored about this movie on a page. A few suggestion on how to use print your print outs: 1) Use the 50 Movies Per Page option to print an alphabetical list of your video collection. 2) Use the 3 Movies Per Page to print a list of movies you would like to see to take to your video store. Remember to keep this list in your car so you will always have it when you decide to rent a movie at the last minute. 3) If you loan movies to your friends, be sure to use the F6Noteskey at the NOWSHOWING screen to enter a note similar to LoanedtoJoan and print a list for your records. 4) Keep a list for your insurance records. This suggestion comes from one of our users in Florida who survived Hurricane Hugo. ~ end of help