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- Welcome to Star Warped.
-
- This "Read Me" file contains the latest information about running
- Star Warped to insure the best playing experience possible. Please
- refer to the printed "User Guide" for Star Warped instructions.
- Also, please refer to the printed "Online Guide" for details on
- configuring Star Warped to launch your browser and going online to
- the Star Warped web site.
-
-
- System Requirements
- ====================
-
- To run Star Warped, your Macintosh must have at least:
-
- - A 33 MHz 68040 processor (PowerPC processor recommended)
- - 8 MB RAM (16 MB recommended)
- - 10 MB free hard disk space
- - A double speed CD-ROM (quad speed recommended)
- - System 7.1 (7.5 or later recommended)
- - QuickTime 2.5 (supplied on the CD-ROM) or later
-
- To connect to the Star Warped web site, you must also have:
-
- - At least12 MB RAM recommended
- - A 14.4 Kbps modem (28.8 Kbps recommended)
- - Netscape Navigator version 2.0 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
- - MacTCP 2.0.6 or later, or Open Transport 1.1 or later
-
-
- Troubleshooting
- ===============
-
- If Star Warped Launcher fails to launch Star Warped:
-
- 1. Before running Star Warped, close all open windows (except the
- Star Warped folder) and quit all running programs, including those
- that run automatically when you start up your Mac (such as screen
- savers and toolbars).
-
- 2. Turn off nonessential extensions and control panels using the
- Extensions Manager control panel (restart your Mac afterwards).
- The extensions needed to run Star Warped are:
- - Apple CD-ROM
- - QuickTime
- - QuickTime Powerplug (PowerPC's only)
- - Sound Manager (System 7.1.x only)
- In addition, to go online, you need:
- - MacTCP, Open Transport and PPP extensions
- - Dialer (PPP) control panels
-
- 3. If the above two steps fail to correct a launching problem,
- please upgrade your RAM to 12 MB or greater.
-
- 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. To do so, launch the Monitors control panel.
-
- 2. Turn off virtual memory. To do so, launch the Memory control
- panel. You must restart your Mac for this to take effect.
-
- 3. Before running Star Warped, close all open windows and quit all
- running programs, including those that run automatically when you
- start up your Mac.
-
- 4. Computers with slower components (33 MHz 68040's, 60 MHz Power
- PC's, 2X CD-ROM drives) or smaller memories (8 MB RAM) may exhibit
- poor audio/video performance and long delays (loads) between screens.
-
- 5. If you don't see the opening Star Warped title video, you may not
- have QuickTime (QT) installed. Star Warped requires QT version 2.5
- (or later) which is included on the CD-ROM. You can check to see if
- you have QT installed and your QT version number. Open the Systems
- folder, open the Extensions folder, select QuickTime (if installed),
- and press Command-I to get the version information. If you need to
- install QT, double-click on the "Install QuickTime" icon in the
- CD-ROM folder.
-
- 6. If you have a 68040-based MacIntosh (e.g. Quadra or an early
- Performa model), make sure that you set the Cache Switch control
- panel to "Faster."
-
- Going Online:
-
- If you have trouble visiting the Star Warped web site from within the
- Star Warped program:
-
- 1. Run Browser Setup to configure Star Warped to launch your browser.
- Browser Setup cannot find an open browser -- make sure that you quit
- your browser before running Browser Setup.
-
- 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 Star Warped and going online. If you don't see the web
- page (make sure it's not "cached" 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 the AT&T Worldnet
- browser, or any updated browser you choose to install later.
-
- 4. To return to Star Warped after going online, make sure you quit your
- browser. Closing the last (or only) open browser window won't quit
- your browser.
-
- 5. Open Transport improperly unloads from memory, resulting in a Type
- 11 system error, requiring you to restart your Mac. Make sure that Open
- Transport doesn't unload when you disconnect from your ISP:
- - Open the TCP/IP Control Panel.
- - Select Edit, then select User Mode.
- - Click the Advanced button and click OK.
- - Click Options (lower right of screen).
- - Click to uncheck "load only when needed" and click OK.
- - Close the TCP/IP Control Panel and click Save.
-
- 6. Apple's PPP dialer installed with Open Transport doesn't run reliably
- with System 7.6. Please upgrade your system to version 7.6.1 or later.
-
- 7. Some 68040 configurations fail to launch Netscape Navigator 2.0x
- browsers (including the WorldNet browser found on this CD-ROM) to
- the Star Warped web site from the Star Warped program. If this is the
- case, please use Netscape Navigator 3.0 or later, or Microsft Internet
- Explorer 3.01 (recommended with 8 MB RAM Macs) or later.
-
- 8. If Star Warped fails to launch your browser, see troubleshooting
- items (1) through (3) above under "If Star Warped Launcher fails to
- launch Star Warped."
-
-
- Other:
-
- 1. If you have a PowerPC-based MacIntosh, make sure that you turn on
- the Modern Memory Manager in the Memory control panel.
-
-
- Star Warped Technical Support
- =============================
- phone: 812-829-1007
- fax: 812-829-1020
-