===LATE-BREAKING NEWS====================================================== This document contains some general information, late-breaking news and Technical information about the Discoverers program. MEMORY REQUIREMENTS. THE DISCOVERERS requires approximately 520KB of RAM in order to run. Even when there is adequate total RAM to run the program, there may be conflicts with other programs occupying memory. If you experience difficulty in running THE DISCOVERERS under these circumstances, please remove other memory resident programs from memory. In MS-DOS versions 5.0 and above type "MEM /C | MORE" to see what programs and drivers are loaded in memory. To verify the RAM available, check the next screen for "Largest executable program size" parameter in K. In MS-DOS version 6.0 and above try running the MEMMAKER program to free more conventional RAM. For more information about conventional memory and memory management please consult your DOS manual. RUNNING FROM WINDOWS. To avoid possible complications under the Windows environment, clicking on THE DISCOVERERS icon will actually shut down Windows, run THE DISCOVERERS, then re-start Windows on exit from THE DISCOVERERS. You may get a message saying, "Application still active. Quit the application before quitting Windows." Switch to any other running DOS applications and exit them normally, then click on THE DISCOVERERS icon again. If you have Windows applications already running, they will be shut down and you will be asked to save any unsaved data. REINSTALLATION. This product has been pre-installed by IBM. If it is necessary to reinstall, perform the following: 1. Exit Windows and install from DOS. For detailed instructions on DOS installation see the Getting Started section. Be sure to answer YES to the question about running from Windows. 2. Restart Windows, by typing WIN. 3. When in Program Manager, click on the KA program icon to select it. Then go to the File menu and choose Properties. A change must be made to the Command Line of the Program Item Properties box. It will have a line similar to: C:\DISCOVER\KAWIN.EXE DISCOVER.BAT -p Edit that line to the following: C:\PS1TOOLS\ARIADOS DISCOVER.BAT -p 4. To restore the original icon, click on Change Icon in the Program Item Properties box. Click on OK when the Change Icon box indicates no icon can be found. Click on Browse in the Change Icon box. Double click on C:\ under Directories in the Browse box. Double click on the DISCOVER directory. Double click on DISCOVER.ICO then click on OK twice. 5. Repeat step 3 for the Read Me icon. Change the Command Line of the Program Item Properties box from: C:\DISCOVER\KAWIN.EXE README.BAT to: C:\PS1TOOLS\ARIADOS README.BAT 6. To restore the original icon, follow step 4 using the README.ICO instead of DISCOVER.ICO. ALT-S/ALT-M. These keys will toggle sound and music (respectively) off and on; this feature may not be functional in all areas of the program. LAPTOP/NOTEBOOK COMPUTER DISPLAYS. THE DISCOVERERS requires a color VGA monitor to display its high-resolution images. It will not work on the internal plasma or LCD monitors on laptop PCs. Most laptops, however, have a connector for an external monitor, and THE DISCOVERERS will work fine with your laptop hooked to an external VGA monitor. THE DISCOVERERS will run fine on certain laptop screens, such as the Toshiba 4400SXC, COMPAQ LTE's and the PC BRAND NB 486slc which have 256 shades of grey or color screens. The only problem will be that the right edge of the screen will be slightly cut off. This is due to the fact that THE DISCOVERERS runs in the extra high resolution VGA video mode of 360 x 480 pixels with 256 colors and most of the internal laptop screens can only display 320 pixels in width. MONO, CGA, and EGA DISPLAYS. THE DISCOVERERS requires a VGA color monitor and will not run on Mono, CGA or EGA monitors. MOUSE SUPPORT. THE DISCOVERERS takes great advantage of your mouse if you have one, but it does not require one. There are keyboard equivalents which will allow you to enjoy the product without a mouse. Refer to "USING THE DISCOVERERS" for more information. DIGITIZING TABLETS. Digitizing tablets are not supported by THE DISCOVERERS. If you are using a digitizing tablet and it is not functioning properly, unplug the tablet, plug in a mouse, and restart THE DISCOVERERS. Your tablet manufacturer may be able to provide a software solution to any problems experienced. LOW VOLUME SOUND OR MUSIC. Sound cards that allow software volume control may have different volume levels for sound and music. If you hear a noticeable difference, you should run the volume control program that came with you sound card to equal out the settings. WINMATE USERS. THE DISCOVERERS install program will not generate a Knowledge Adventure program group and icon if you run under Winmate - even if you said YES to the Windows question during install. Manually add THE DISCOVERERS Icon to Winmate after installation is complete. COMPAQ PROLINEA. During INSTALL, press ENTER if you get a message stating that you do not have a VGA System. If you receive a similar message while executing THE DISCOVERERS, please contact Compaq Technical Support for a patch program that will correct this problem with some early model Prolineas. REVEAL SOUND FX. For inquiries about your Sound FX, contact Reveal at (800) 4-REVEAL or fax (818) 340-2379. GRAVIS ULTRASOUND. The Gravis Ultrasound requires a large driver to load its more realistic "wavetable" instruments to the sound card requiring a total of 570 K. Consequently, you may have to free up additional memory in order to perform properly. If you plan to run THE DISCOVERERS from Windows, please do NOT run your ULTRAMID or ULTRASND TSR program before entering Windows. THE DISCOVERERS will load and unload this program itself. NOTE: The Gravis Ultrasound will not play sound/music tests during SETUP. ROLAND SOUND CARDS. Roland sound cards have high quality music but no digital speech capability. You will not get digitized speech and sound effects without an additional sound board. If you have a second sound card, you will have to manually edit the SoundDriver and SoundDevParams section of the KA.CNF file. An example setup for a Sound Blaster card with a hardware configuration of base address 220, interrupt 5, and DMA channel 1 would be: soundDevParams : a220 i5 d1 soundDriver : D:\DISCOVER\drivers\SBDIG.DRV (where D: is your CD-ROM drive) Other sound cards can be configured in a similar way, choose the correct driver from the following list: ALGDIG.DRV - Ad Lib Gold MSFTDIG.DRV - MicroSoft Sound System PASDIG.DRV - Pro AudioSpectrum/Studio 8/16 (DMA's 0 - 3, otherwise configure for Sound Blaster) SBPDIG.DRV - Sound Blaster Pro NOTE: For further information on sound cards and editing KA.CNF, please, refer to "About sound and sound devices." If your second sound card uses the default I/O Address you can use the Change Sound Settings menu. DIGISPEECH PORT-ABLE Sound Plus. If you are using the Digispeech PORT-ABLE Sound Plus, check the date of your BMASTER.* driver files. If the files are dated earlier than August, 1993, contact Digispeech or our BBS for an update. EXTENDED LEARNING MODULE, PROJECT 6. Text has been changed that differs from the printed manual - Now reads, "Use a prism to experiment with light". EXTENDED LEARNING MODULE, PROJECT 7. Project 7 in the printed manual has been replaced by "Understanding Topography" which was previously Project 8.