Due to the nature of some of the new features in Version 12 of AnzioWin and Anzio Lite, it is available in 32-bit form only. Plans for Anzio for DOS, and 16-bit forms have not been announced. Note that as a 32-bit program, this will NOT run on Windows 3.x. It should run on Windows 95, 98, and NT4 and higher. Please email all issues and questions to , and include your name, phone number, Windows environment, and the exact version number of Anzio. I. DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING You can download the latest demo of AnzioWin from and/or Anzio Lite from Each is a self-installing program. II. THE FONT FILE Included in this distribution is a file named "rsimarc.ttf", which is a font file based on Courier New, but with some added character/diacritic combinations. Because of limitations in our current setup program, you will have to install this font file yourself. Go to the control panel, then to fonts, then to "Add new font", and point to the file. We plan to provide an improved (hinted) version of this file at a later date, along with an improved setup program. III. WHAT'S NEW The exact details of what has been changed can be found in the README.TXT file included in the download. For a general explanation of each major new feature, and how to use it, see below. Much of Anzio's new flexibility is based on Unicode, a 16-bit character encoding scheme that includes definitions for nearly 39,000 characters, including European, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and other characters, and even the line-drawing characters. Windows 95 has more support for Unicode than is commonly believed, and the Courier New font has most characters except Asian. We have carefully crafted Anzio 12.0 to use only the aspects of Unicode that are supported in Win95 as well as 98 and NT. Anzio 12.0 stores its internal character buffers in Unicode form. It can display, print, and accept keystrokes for a wide range, even a mix, of characters. That leaves the questions: how are characters coming from the host, and how should we send them? In the past this was based solely on a) terminal type, and b) font selection. Now, we have more flexibility. The encoding scheme is generally referred to as a "codepage", terminology dating back to DOS and carried into Windows. A codepage can be a one-byte scheme (hex E4 represents a capital sigma in codepage 437, DOS Latin US), or it can be a two-byte or multi-byte scheme, where more than 256 characters are possible. Generally, your host system has been designed to store characters according to a certain scheme, so your task in setting up Anzio is to configure it to match that scheme and test it. Notes below cover particular requirements. Effective with 12.0b, Anzio's Communicate menu contains an item named "Character Set". This opens a dialog box that lets you select the character set encoding used by the host, separately for screen data and passthrough print data. It also lets you choose the 7-bit National Replacement Character (NRC) set. Effective with 12.0c, you can specify directly a port to use for "raw" level printing, such as "LPT2" or "COM1". You can also set the baud rate, etc., for serial printers used "raw". Just use the command RAW-SETUP. See README.TXT for more info. Effective with 12.0d, Anzio supports input from an "aux" port connected to a serial device, such as a barcode reader or electronic scale. See below for more information. Also with 12.0d, Anzio Lite is available as well as AnzioWin. IV. UPDATING YOUR WINDOWS For certain new features, notably multilingual support and support for the Euro character, you may need to update your Windows system using Microsoft's web site, or install optional components from your Windows distribution media.