README.1ST                  MATROX GRAPHICS INC          November 11, 1996

		  The Matrox Millennium Multimedia SuperPack
			       Version 1.60

Note: Due to last minute additions, this file is available in English only.
Multilingual versions will be available in the near future.  We apologize
for the inconvenience.

This CD-ROM contains various Millennium software drivers, electronic
documentation, and other utilities:

   * MGA PowerDesk for Windows 95 (Intl 1, Intl 2)
   * MGA PowerDesk for Windows 3.1 (Intl 1)   
   * Millennium Windows NT 3.51 driver (Intl 1, Intl 2)
   * Millennium Windows NT 4.0 driver (Intl 1)
   * Millennium DOS CAD drivers and utilities (Intl 1)
   * Millennium OS/2 Driver
   * MGA PowerDesk and Millennium Installation Guides (Intl 1)
   * Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows version 2.1
   * Papyrus Nascar
   * Asymetrix 3D F/X
   * CompCore SoftPEG MPEG Player 2.0
   * Colorific for Windows 95
   * Microsoft DirectX 2 and DirectVideo   
   * Netscape Navigator 16 bit (v.3.01)
   * Netscape Navigator 32 bit (v.3.01) 
   * MGA CAD Users Guide in Acrobat PDF format (Intl 1)
   * Microsoft Video for Windows 1.1e (English, French, and German versions)
   * MGA Millennium drivers for Intel 3DR
   * 3D demos from Criterion
   
Products available as "Intl 1" supports Matrox main set of languages:
English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.

Products available as "Intl 2" supports Matrox secondary set of languages:
English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Swedish.  

The above products can all be installed from the main CD-ROM install program, 
"mgasetup.exe", except:

   Millennium Windows NT 3.51 driver         - directories \WINNT and \WINNT.I2
   Millennium DOS CAD drivers and utilities  - directories \CAD
   Millennium OS/2 Warp driver               - directory \OS2
   Millennium 3DR drivers for Windows 3.1    - directory \3DR
   3D demos from Criterion		     - directory \crit	
   
See your Matrox Millennium manual for installation instructions for those
drivers.
   
Check regularly the Matrox BBS, Web site, or Compuserve forum to see if more
recent drivers are available. We can be reached at:

   BBS:        514-685-6008
   Web Site:   WWW.MATROX.COM
   Compuserve: GO MATROX

See the Release Notes below for a short description of each CD-ROM component
and any particular note. See also your Matrox Millennium Installation Guide for 
more details on board and driver installation.

			     RELEASE NOTES
				   
MGA Millennium PowerDesk drivers for Windows 95
-----------------------------------------------

There are two versions of the PowerDesk driver on this CD-ROM: 3.18 and 3.14.
Installation instructions are provided in your Millennium Installation manual. 

The DirectDraw driver we provide is compatible with DirectX 2 and includes
Direct3D support. For our DirectDraw/Direct3D driver to be called and benefit
from hardware accelerations, Microsoft DirectX 2 MUST be installed, even for
applications originally made for DirectX 1 such as CompCore SoftPEG.

For your convenience we have placed a copy of the Microsoft DirectX 2 
redistributable code on this CD-ROM. If you are using Windows 95, do not 
forget to install it !

Please refer to the README file copied to your hard disk by the installation 
program of this Windows 95 driver for any last minute notes.

MGA Millennium PowerDesk drivers for Windows 3.1
------------------------------------------------

The version on this CD-ROM is 1.22 (Intl 1). Installation instructions
are provided in your Millennium Installation manual.

This Windows 3.1 product includes a DCI driver. For faster AVI file playback, 
the Microsoft Video for Windows redistributable files should be installed.

Please refer to the README.WIN file copied to your hard disk by the installation 
program of this driver for any last minute notes.

Millennium Windows NT 3.51 Driver 
---------------------------------

The version on this CD-ROM is 2.24. It supports NT 3.51 and 3.5, and comes
with the MGA PowerDesk Control Panel. Installation instructions are
provided in your Millennium Installation manual.

Please refer to the README.NT file found in the \WINNT sub-directory on 
this CD for any last minute notes regarding this driver and for a 
description of the Control Panel.

Millennium Windows NT 4.0 Driver 
--------------------------------

The version on this CD-ROM is 2.31. It supports NT 4.0 and comes
with the MGA PowerDesk Control Panel. 

Please refer to the Release Notes and the README.NT file found in the 
\WINNT40 sub-directory on this CD for any last minute notes regarding 
this driver and for a description of the Control Panel.

Millennium DOS CAD Drivers and Utilities
----------------------------------------

These drivers consist of the Millennium DOS Setup utility, the Millennium
Autodesk ADI drivers for AutoCAD 11, 12, 13 and 3D Studio, and the 
Millennium Microstation driver.

To install any or all of these components, run the INSTALL program from the
\CAD directory on the CD.

Millennium OS/2 Driver 
----------------------

The version on this CD-ROM is 2.03. It supports OS/2 3.0 (Warp) and 2.11
and comes with the MGA Settings notebook. Installation instructions are
provided in your Millennium Installation manual.

Please refer to the README.OS2 file in the \OS2 sub-directory on this
CD for any last minute notes regarding this driver and for a 
description of the MGA Settings notebook.

MGA PowerDesk and Millennium Installation Guides
------------------------------------------------

This product includes the following electronic manuals:

- Matrox Millennium Installation Guide 
- MGA PowerDesk for Windows 3.1 Guide
- MGA PowerDesk for Windows 95 Guide

This electronic documentation is readable through Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows,
version 2.1, which is included on this CD-ROM for your convenience. 

Acrobat supports all popular printers, so the documentation can be easily printed 
in parts or in total.  Please refer to the readme_r.txt in the \ACROBAT directory 
for more information regarding Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows, version 2.1.

Note:

- the installation program adds entries to your MGA PowerDesk group, making
  access to the documentation very easy.

Adobe Acrobat Reader for Windows version 2.1
--------------------------------------------

This well-known product is used to display the MGA PowerDesk and Millennium
Installation Guides described above.

Papyrus Nascar Racing Game
--------------------------

Nascar Racing from Papyrus is a DOS application that must be run from
a DOS session.  In order to run this application once it is installed
you must first exit from Windows, then go to the NASCAR directory and
type "nascar" for the hi-res version and "nascar -l" for the lo-
res version.

Asymetrix 3D F/X
----------------

This software can be used to make real time 3D animations for computer
presentations.  It has been enhanced to utilize the realtime 3D rendering
capabilities of your Matrox Millennium.

To use the enhanced version you must enable the 3D switch in the control panel.
The maximum 3D resolutions that support it are:

For the 2 Mb card, choose either,
	up to 640 x 480 x 16 or 800 x 600 x 8

For the 4 Mb card, choose either,
	up to 640 x 480 @ 32 bit
	up to 800 x 600 @ 16 bit
	up to 1152 x 882 @ 8 bit

For the 8 Mb card, choose either,
	up to 1280 x 1024 @ 8 bit
	up to 1182 x 882 @ 16 bit
	up to 800 x 600 @ 32 bit

3D F/X will work in other resolutions using software accelerated 3D.

Notes for Windows 95:

- when installing under Windows 95, the 3D/FX install program will leave
a couple of DOS boxes open. These will not prevent the program from
installing and can be closed manually after the install is complete.

- the 8 bit modes listed above are not available for 3D accelerations
under Windows 95.

CompCore SoftPEG Player 2.0
---------------------------

This is a Windows driver which allows you to play back MPEG video on
your Matrox Millenium.  CD-I, Video CD, Video Karaoke, and most Windows
MPEG applications are supported by this driver.

Under Windows 95, the Microsoft DirectX software must also be installed
to take advantage of MGA's hardware video acceleration.

For best performances, use this driver in 16 bit color mode.

Microsoft DirectX 2 and DirectVideo   
-----------------------------------

This Microsoft product, together with the Matrox DirectDraw/Direct3D 
driver, help to increase performance of DirectX games and video playback
by allowing efficient use of the Millennium graphic hardware capabilities.

This product is to be used under Windows 95 only.

Colorific for Windows 95
------------------------

Colorific gives computer users better on-screen color and "no-surprises"
display-to-printer WYSIWYG color matching.  Professionals and home users
working with photos, charts, or presentations are able to reproduce these
images accurately in print. Colorific for Windows 95 also lets the user
adjust the color balance on-screen to optimize for multimedia, games, video,
desktop publishing, and other computing tasks. 

Colorific installs as a tab in the Display Properties applet of Windows 95.
If MGA PowerDesk 3.0 for Windows 95 was previously installed, Colorific will
override the MGA "Color" sheet.

NOTE: You cannot recalibrate at 1600x1200.  Instead, recalibrate in the 
desired pixel depth at 1280x1024 and then switch to 1600x1200 afterwards.

Netscape Navigator 3.01
-----------------------

Netscape Navigator 3.01 is a major new release of the world's most
popular Internet client, bringing World Wide Web exploration, email,
newsgroups, chat, and FTP capabilities together in a seamlessly integrated
package. It provides a superior platform for live online applications,
supporting Live Objects and other interactive multimedia content such as
Java applets, frames, and Netscape inline plug-ins. Its Live3D plug-in, a
VRML viewer, lets you experience a rich new world of 3D spaces and interact
with text, images, animation, sound, music, and even video.

We provide 16 bit versions for Windows 3.1 and 32 bit versions for Windows 95.

Millennium CAD Drivers Guide
----------------------------

This is the complete Millennium CAD Drivers Guide in electronic
format. It covers the AutoCAD Dynaview drivers for DOS and Windows, as
well as the MicroStation driver.

This electronic documentation comes with Adobe Acrobat Reader for DOS,
version 1.0. Acrobat supports all popular printers, so the
documentation can be easily printed in parts or in total.

Notes:

- Acrobat Reader for DOS supports VESA SuperVGA modes, which the Millennium
  supports in its BIOS. To display the documentation in high resolution,
  call the Acrobat "Preference" menu, and select the desired SuperVGA mode.
  
- the documentation can be accessed from within an AutoCAD DOS Shell,
  making it an excellent "on-line help" tool.

- the documentation can also be read with Acrobat Reader for Windows.
  Acrobat Reader for Windows is included with the PowerDesk Documentation
  product, on this CD-ROM.
  
- the installation of the Acrobat Reader and the actual doc (.PDF) file
  is handled through a Windows installation called SETUP.EXE. The two
  portions of the product can also be installed manually, if you do not
  have Windows installed on your system.
  
  For manual installation:

  cd \cadguide
  install (to install Acrobat Reader for DOS)
  copy cad_eng.pdf c:\acrodos
  copy cad_eng.bat c:\acrodos

  for other languages, substitute the _eng portion of the above two
  filenames for the other language suffixes (eng=English, fre=French,
  ger=German, ita=Italian, spa=Spanish)

Microsoft Video for Windows 1.1e Upgrade 
----------------------------------------

This is a Microsoft product aimed at upgrading your Video for Windows 1.1
support. It is necessary to have DCI enabled when playing your favorite
AVI file. See the PowerDesk electronic documentation for more details on
DCI and Video for Windows.

This product is to be used under Windows 3.1 only.

Millennium 3DR drivers
----------------------

This is a 3DR driver supporting Intel's 3DR under Windows 3.1 See the 
README.MGA file in the 3DR subdirectory for more details on installation 
and configuration.






