Click here if your operating system is Windows XP or VISTA. Download demo for Windows XP/VISTA
Practice
MAGIC Demo for Windows (all windows
excluding xp): (Full program including self-running demo) (1.1 mb) To
download a fully functional time-limited copy of Practice MAGIC, you will need several
megabytes of free hard disk space, and a completely empty formatted
floppy disk. (If you do not have a floppy disk drive, click on Download
demo for Windows XP/VISTA above.) You will be downloading a file onto
your hard disk (not directly onto the floppy) which will then write a set of files to
a floppy disk, and finally the Practice MAGIC demo will be installed from the floppy disk
onto your hard drive. The entire process is automatic. After reading the following
instructions, click on MAGICINSTALL.EXE below. You
will be given the options to "run this program from it's present location" or
"save this program to disk." Both options will install the demo; however,
if you are at all uncomfortable with computers, we recommend you select the first of these
options. Both options will also download the program to your hard disk,
permitting you to install it, to begin entering your own data, to print insurance forms,
and to generally play with the program. The first option will place a temporary file
on your hard disk, which will automatically create and run an installation disk in your
floppy drive; the installed demo will then reside on your hard disk and be accessible from
the PROGRAMS section of your WINDOWS START menu. This first option is ideal for
people who have difficulty finding things on their computer. When you are done it will
return you here. If you select the second option, a self-extracting "zipped"
(i.e. "compressed") file called "MAGICINSTALL.EXE" will be downloaded
to the hard disk of your computer into the directory of your choice on the hard
disk. With this option, you should remember to which directory you chose to
download. When you finish downloading, you can often simply click on "OPEN
FOLDER" and the downloaded file ill be displayed on the screen in MY COMPUTER; it's
icon will be an image of a package with the word "MAGIC" over it in blue letters
and the label "MAGICINSTALL.EXE" under the icon. Sometimes, however,
people who select the second option must use MY COMPUTER to find the file and then unpack
it themselves. To unpack it, double click on it. NOTE THAT A NEW FORMAT FOR
STATEMENTS HAS BEEN ADDED TO THE PROGRAM, which we refer to as the CHRON format.
When printing a statement, the dialog box that asks if this is the right client also has a
button you can click on to change the statement format. (If the current format is CHRON,
the button will say "Classic Format," referring to the format we have been using
for the past fourteen years, and visa versa.)
With
either option, you will first see a box with some instructions and then a second box in
which you will need to click the top button (labeled "Unzip"). A MAGIC
installation disk will automatically be created on your blank floppy disk
in your "A:" drive. Then you will be asked if you want to run
"A:SETUP.BAT" which will automatically install the Practice
MAGIC software onto your hard drive.
Afterwards, set the floppy disk aside in a safe place to serve as a backup. The MAGIC
installation program will create a yellow and red icon, an image of a file draw with the
word "MAGIC" above it, that will be displayed on your computer screen.
It will also install "manual.htm," a hypertext version of the Practice
MAGIC user's manual that can be opened with any web-browser like Internet Explorer or
Netscape Navigator, and includes hyperlinks that allow you to jump to subjects of interest
in the manual. We suggest clicking once on each of these icons and dragging
them to your desktop so that it will be easy to find in the future. Double
clicking on the MAGIC icon will run Practice MAGIC. If you do not drag it to the
Desktop, you can reach it by clicking START, selecting PROGRAMS, then selecting
MAGIC and finally selecting PRACTICE MAGIC or the MAGIC Manual. (The
MAGICINSTALL.EXE program that you download is ONLY for INSTALLING Practice
MAGIC. Do not try to use it to run Practice MAGIC.) During installation it is normal
for you to receive some messages indicating that various files being installed are not
newer than the equivalent file that is already installed; it will suggest that you keep
the more recent file that you already have on disk, which is what we recommend.
Once
installed, run the Practice MAGIC program (In Windows XP:
START-->PROGRAMS-->MAGIC-->PRACTICEMAGIC); DO NOT RERUN THE magicinstall.exe INSTALLATION SOFTWARE that you
downloaded. Clicking on MAGIC MANUAL instead of Practice MAGIC will cause your web-browser to be
activated and the MAGIC Hypertext Manual will automatically be displayed, allowing you to
read about all the features, and also offering a Trouble Shooting section that provides
hypertext links to relevant sections of the manual. You can also use the FIND option
in the EDIT menu of your Browser to locate the section(s) of the manual you are interested
in. Each time you run Practice MAGIC you will be given the option of
running the standard program, or running it as a self-prompting demonstration program that
automatically walks you through the program and illustrates on screen many of the features
of Practice MAGIC. Look at the self-prompting
demonstration and then play with the program, entering client information and printing
forms. If you later purchase and install the full program, all the information you have
entered will be transferred to the new program.
Download: magicinstall.exe (1 mb).
(Note: if you would like to
work with the multi-user demo or wish to see how the MAGIC/PALM PILOT interface works, OR
IF YOU HAVE WINDOWS XP and find that MAGIC does not run correctly or your printer will not
print with the above demo, click on magicdem.htm
instead [5 mb].) Note that, although this larger demo includes the multi-user feature and
the Palm Hotsync feature, you do not need to purchase these features when you purchase the
XP version of Practice MAGIC.
Last updated: July 15, 2007
Practice
MAGIC Demo for Windows (all
windows including xp/vista): Full program including
self-running demo (5 mb) To download this fully functional time-limited copy of Practice
MAGIC, you will need five megabytes of free hard disk space. This program demonstrates a
variety of features not all of which you may be interested in. When you purchase the
program, you should specify which features you need. This demo is a multiuser version; it
also hotsyncs with a palm pilot or other PALM OS Handheld. There is an extra charge when
you purchase the program with either of these extra features, but you do not need to
purchase these features when you purchase the XP version of Practice MAGIC. During
installation it is normal for you to receive some messages indicating that various files
being installed are not newer than the equivalent file that is already installed; it
will suggest that you keep the more recent file that you already have on
disk, which is what we recommend.
Once
installed, run the Practice MAGIC program (In Windows XP:
START-->PROGRAMS-->MAGIC-->PRACTICEMAGIC); DO NOT RERUN THE INSTALLATION SOFTWARE
that you downloaded. Clicking on MAGIC MANUAL instead of Practice MAGIC will cause your web-browser to be activated
and the MAGIC Hypertext Manual will automatically be displayed, allowing you to
read about all the features, and also offering a Trouble Shooting section that provides
hypertext links to relevant sections of the manual. You can also use the FIND option
in the EDIT menu of your Browser to locate the section(s) of the manual you are interested
in. Each time you run Practice MAGIC you will be given the option of
running the standard program, or running it as a self-prompting demonstration program that
automatically walks you through the program and illustrates on screen many of the features
of Practice MAGIC. Look at the self-prompting
demonstration and then play with the program, entering client information and printing
forms. If you later purchase and install the full program, all the information you have
entered will be transferred to the new program.
NOTE: IF YOU RECIEVE AN
ERROR MESSAGE THAT Practice MAGIC CAN NOT BE INSTALLED ON YOUR
XP SYSTEM PLEASE CONTACT CORNUCOPIA SOFTWARE AT 510-528-7000 or email us at
.
To download this special
Demo version, click on magicdem.exe)
Last updated: July 25, 2007