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WELCOME TO KID'S ZOO!
Thank you for purchasing Kid's Zoo. We hope to send you off on the
greatest adventure of all . . .
This "README" file has some additional information and late-breaking
news that could not make it into the User's Guide as well as some
important pieces of technical information that bear repeating here.
MEMORY REQUIREMENTS. Kid's Zoo requires approximately 500KB 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 Kid's Zoo under these circum-
stances, please remove other memory resident programs from memory.
LAPTOP/NOTEBOOK COMPUTER DISPLAYS. Kid's Zoo 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 Kid's Zoo will
work fine with your laptop hooked to an external VGA monitor.
Kid's Zoo will run fine on certain laptop screens, such as the
Toshiba 4400SXC, COMPAQ LTE's and the PC BRAND NB 486slx 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 Kid's Zoo 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 show 320 pixels in width.
EGA DISPLAYS. Kid's Zoo requires a VGA color monitor and therefore
will not run on EGA monitors.
MOUSE SUPPORT. Kid's Zoo takes great advantage of your mouse
if you have one, but it does not require one. There are
keyboard equivalents spelled out in the User's Guide which will
allow you to enjoy Kid's Zoo without a mouse.
WINDOWS SOUND DEVICE IN USE MESSAGE. While using a Sound Blaster card
and attempting to launch Kid's Zoo in Windows, you may get a message
stating that your sound device is already in use. To remedy this,
upgrade your SoundBlaster drivers for Windows. If you have a modem
you can download the new drivers by either calling the Creative Labs'
BBS directly or by calling the Knowledge Adventure BBS @ (818) 248-0166
(N,8,1). If you do not have a modem, call our Technical Support
Department at (818) 542-4200.
NORTON DESKTOP FOR WINDOWS AND WINMATE FOR THE TANDY SENSATION. The
Kid's Zoo install program will not generate a Knowledge Adventure
program group when run from Winmate or Norton Desktop for Windows.
You can either run the install program from Windows Program Manager
or manually add the Kid's Zoo Icon to the Norton Desktop or Winmate
after installation is complete.
TANDY SENSATION. If your are running Kid's Zoo from DOS, you will
not hear digital sound during movies. If running Kid's Zoo from
within Windows, you will hear digital sound during movies if you
are using the new Tandy Sensation SoundBlaster compatible Windows
drivers. If you do not have these drivers, and have a modem, you
may download them from the Knowledge Adventure BBS (see paragraph,
above).
COMPAQ PROLINEA. During INSTALL, press enter if you get a message
stating that you do not have a VGA System.
DIGISPEECH PORTABLE. If you are using the Digispeech PortAble Sound
Plus you will need to copy all of the new BMASTER.* files from
your Kid's Zoo directory to your DIGISPEECH C:\PORTSND directory.
SOUND SETUP. If you have difficulty successfully running sound
setup, you may have selected the wrong sound card or you may have
an I/O conflict with other cards in your computer. See Appendix B,
"Commonly Asked Questions", page 16, in your User's Guide for
information about troubleshooting and reconfiguring your system.
To run SETUP in manual mode, type SETUP ? <ENTER> from the DOS
prompt in your Kid's Zoo directory. This will bypass the automatic
sound and music tests.
PC Speaker driver Copyright, 1988-1993 RealSound, Inc.