Download BELIEVE Religious Information
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The NEW downloadable version of the BELIEVE collection of religious
information contains all of the modern file entries that are in our web-site.
After it loads itself in a computer, it exists as all HTML files,
so your computer and browser can view any of them (off-line).
The home page "menu" has all of its hundreds of links
work to access the individual subject entries.
If you put this download in your computer, a LOT of useful information can be
immediately available inside your computer without having to get onto
the Web.
The original downloadable program was created between 1992 and
1995, as a DOS-based, floppy-diskette based Christian information source.
It also then worked in Windows 3.1 and even later Windows. About 400
such diskettes were handed out to inquisitive Christians and Seekers,
between 1992 and early 1997.
Once we realized the scope of the InterNet, we created a web-site
for BELIEVE early in 1997. Within two months, more people had
downloaded the BELIEVE program and files than ALL of the hundreds of floppy
diskettes that had been given out over the previous five years!
Since that time, we have exclusively concentrated on working on the
web-site presentations. This means that the web-site now has
better-formatted presentations that always display perfectly (hopefully), and
where many, many individual pages have been added or expanded. We expect
this to always continue, so the web-site presentations will
hopefully always get better and more useful. In this sense, the
OLD downloadable version is somewhat obsolete! That's why we have
created the NEW downloadable versions below, which have the more recent
and complete pages from our web-site. The more recent versions (since 2007)
of the file is significantly larger
than the older versions, currently being about 13.3 Megabytes.
Everything is compressed in it, and before the installation,
you will need to make sure that you have at least around 70
Megabytes of space on your hard drive.
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The first two links download the exact same NEW version! It is an EXE
self-expanding file which is compatible with 16-bit Windows operating
systems and virtually everything else that is newer. Some business
computer systems do not allow downloading EXE
files, so you may need to download this on your home computer.
Some modern systems won't even try to download an EXE file because
that's one type of file that computer viruses are sometimes in.
If you find this to be the case, we have also provided the second link, the
exact same file, but we have changed the extension to EXF and most
systems will accept that fine! (If you do that, you would have to
know how to find and then re-name the file back to the EXE extension
once it is in your computer, and then double-click on it to start
the expansion process. The (2012) file downloads at around 13.3
megabytes but expands to take up around 38 megabytes of file space
in your computer, so make sure there is enough room for it. It briefly
takes up around twice that much space during installation.
(This file does NOT include the 4,000 Early Christian Manuscript
texts, which are even larger!)
We provide a third link that is the same files, but as a ZIP file, which
is likely to download into a receiving directory of your computer, which
might cause you to then have to move the entire created BELIEVE file set
to a desired BELIEVE location in your computer. (the EXE file does that
automatically.)
Finally, we provide a fourth version of the 2012 compilation of files,
which is again an EXE file but this one is specifically compatible
with newer 32-bit versions of Windows operating systems. If the
16-bit file above does not behave properly during installation,
you might try this 32-bit version of it.
If you happen to have a Macintosh or UNIX computer platform,
it might be necessary for you to transfer the belweb.exe file to a
Windows computer to expand its contents, and then to transfer all
of the files and directories back to your computer, where it should
work fine! We are not really sure how these files are processed
by the very recent versions of Windows which are not compatible with
older Windows. Again, it might be necessary to find an older computer
to create all the many subject files and then transfer those files
to any modern computer.
Click Here to download BELIEVE Information Source
(belweb12.exe 13300 kb) (May 2012)
Click Here to download the exact same file, as described
above (belweb12.exf 13300 kb) (May 2012)
Click Here to download the exact same file, as described
above (belweb12.zip 13300 kb) (May 2012)
Click Here to download the 32-bit BELIEVE Information
Source (belweb32.exe 13300 kb) (May 2012)
An older version of the BELIEVE compilation exists from 2007 which
is nearly as large, the main changes being updates in many of the
files and some improvement in the formatting.
Click Here to download BELIEVE Information Source
(belweb07.exe 12700 kb) (Dec 2007)
Click Here to download the exact same file, as described
above (belweb07.exf 12700 kb) (Dec 2007)
Click Here to download the exact same file, as described
above (belweb07.zip 12700 kb) (Dec 2007)
If you have limited hard disk space available, or if you
want to shorten the download time, we have maintained the earlier
(smaller, less complete) versions that could also be downloaded.
Click Here to download BELIEVE Information Source
(belweb05.exe 8600 kb) (Aug 2005)
Click Here to download BELIEVE Information Source
(belweb03.exe 3800 kb) (June 2002)
Click Here to download BELIEVE Information Source
(belweb01.exe 3100 kb) (June 2001)
Click Here to download BELIEVE Information Source
(belweb00.exe 2200 kb) (2000)
Click Here to download (the original) BELIEVE Information Source
(belweb98.exe 1100 kb) (1998, DOS based)
After downloading BELWEB.EXE to your PC:
- Run belwebXX.exe by double-clicking on it (or the other ways to
run an EXE file, like "START - RUN - BROWSE") This file
should be in your 'DOWNLOAD' directory, which is
probably a sub-directory of your Browser (Netscape, AOL, etc) directory.
The Program should work in any computer that runs any version of Windows.
The installation should be entirely automatic. A screen will appear
that tells you not to change anything and to press UNZIP and then OK.
In a few seconds, it should create a BELIEVE directory and its
sub-directories and put all the files in the correct places.
At any time later, either double-click on the index.html file
(which is in the new BELIEVE sub-directory) or use
your browser to access that file, and the BELIEVE Program should start.
You could also double-click on the indexaz.html file which
is the same but the subjects are listed alphabetically.
If you have ANY difficulty downloading it or later starting/running
it, we would appreciate your letting us know. There are SO MANY
different kinds of computers and browsers out there, there might
be some incompatibilities. With your help, maybe we can figure
them out and provide for them.
If you entered this page from an external link, please visit the
BELIEVE Home Page
http://mb-soft.com/believe/indexaz.html