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Getting Interactive with Authorware: Building Simulations & Games

Copyright 1999 Lloyd Rieber

If you want to know more about the book, feel free to download the Preface at no charge. It will explain more about the book's purpose, the intended audience, and a little about my motivation for writing it. It also explains what you should already know before starting this book plus what it won't teach you! It also includes information about Authorware, simulation and games, the "project approach," and details about the book's format. It ends with a little story describing the history of Authorware. (It also includes the book's table of contents.)

This is also an excellent way to familiarize yourself with Acrobat Reader (also available at no cost from Adobe). If you are able to successfully download and print the preface, then you will have no difficulty in downloading the other chapters.

Procedures for downloading the Preface

1. Install Acrobat Reader. The preface (as are all of the book's chapters) is in the Portable Document Format (PDF) and can only be viewed and printed with Acrobat Reader. This application is available for most platforms and is free of charge from Adobe Systems, Inc. (Click here to get a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe's web site.)

2. After Acrobat Reader is installed, click below to download the preface. Note: You can download the preface without installing Acrobat Reader, but you won't be able to view or print the file.

Copyright 1999 Lloyd Rieber

3. Launch Acrobat Reader (if your web browser hasn't already launched it for you -- consider making Acrobat Reader a 'helper application' if you use one of Netscape's browsers).

4. Print the chapter. (Although you can view the preface's pages on the screen, most of the graphics will only be legible when printed.)

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