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- Welcome to Microshaft!
-
- This "Read Me" file contains the latest information
- about running Microshaft to insure the best playing
- experience possible. Please refer to the printed "User
- Guide" for Microshaft instructions. Also, please refer
- to the printed "Online Guide" for details on configuring
- Microshaft to launch your browser and going online to
- the Microshaft web site.
-
- Note: you do not need the Microshaft CD-ROM to be in
- your CD-ROM drive in order to play the leave-behind
- Exploder game.
-
- System Requirements
- ====================
-
- To run Microshaft, your Windows 95 PC must have at
- least:
-
- - A 66 MHz 486 processor (Pentium processor
- highly recommended)
- - 16 MB RAM for Windows 95
- - 20 MB free hard disk space
- - A double speed CD-ROM (quad speed highly recommended)
- - SVGA video (640x480 resolution with 256 colors)
- - 8-bit sound
-
- To connect to the Microshaft web site, you must also
- have:
-
- - A 14.4 Kbps modem (28.8 Kbps recommended)
- - Netscape Navigator version 3.0 or later, or Microsoft
- Internet Explorer 3.0 or later
- - A subscription to an Internet Service Provider (ISP),
- or America Online 3.0 or later
-
-
- Troubleshooting
- ===============
-
- Video, Animation and Sound:
-
- If you are experiencing problems with video, animation
- or sound:
-
- 1. Set your monitor graphics mode to display 640x480
- resolution with 256 colors.
-
- 2. Before running Microshaft, exit all running programs,
- including those that run automatically when you start
- Windows (especially screen savers and toolbars).
-
- 3. Computers with slower components (66 MHz 486's, 60 or
- 75 MHz Pentiums, older video display chips, 2X CD-ROM
- drives) may exhibit poor audio/video performance, long
- delays (loads) between screens, and sluggish game play.
-
- NOTE: PinBill will take up to a minute to load on slow
- processors - but it's worth the wait!
-
- Going Online:
-
- If you have trouble visiting the Microshaft web site
- from within the Microshaft program:
-
- 1. Run Browser Setup to configure Microshaft to launch
- your browser.
-
- 2. Make sure that your browser and dialer are configured
- to connect to your ISP, then try launching your browser
- to a well-known web page BEFORE running Microshaft and
- going online. If you don't see the web page (make sure
- the browser is not reading from a file on your hard
- drive), call your ISP for support. If you do see the
- web page, try launching your browser to
- http://www.parroty.com next. If you can't enter the
- Parroty site, our web server may be busy or unavailable,
- so please try again later.
-
- 3. You must run Browser Setup after installing or
- updating your Internet browser in order to use that
- browser to go online from Microshaft.
-
- 4. Browser Setup will not find 16-bit versions of
- Microsoft Internet Explorer. Microsoft does not support
- running 16-bit Internet Explorer under Windows 95.
-
- Other:
-
- 1. Windows 95 allows you to run multiple copies of
- programs. Make sure that you are running only one copy
- of Microshaft.
-
- 2. Uninstalling Microshaft will not delete the Parroty
- and Microshaft folders, as well as any user created
- files (PD.INI, *.USR). If you reinstall Microshaft, your
- browser and user tracking information will remain
- intact. To completely remove all traces of Microshaft,
- delete these folders and files manually.
-
- 3. Be careful not to click your right mouse button while
- running Microshaft. Clicking the right mouse button may
- disable the next left mouse button click.
-
- 4. Be careful not to move the cursor to the extreme top
- or bottom of the screen. This action may activate any
- toolbars you may use (such as the Microsoft Office
- toolbar), and deactivate the Microshaft program.
-
-
- Microshaft Technical Support
- =============================
- email: ParrotyHelp@palladium.net
- phone: 812-829-1007
- fax: 812-829-1020
-
-