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Welcome to James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer for Power Macintosh computers.
The epic story of Titanic is divided into three CD-ROM Volumes:
Volume 1 — Ship of dreams, from conception to her maiden voyage.
Volume 2 — From contact with the iceberg to the death of a titan.
Volume 3 — From the heroic rescue to modern-day exploration and salvage.
This document contains a summary of installation procedures and late-breaking tips and troubleshooting information. You should keep this file for future reference.
Welcome to this interactive exploration of Titanic.
During the planning and production of the film “Titanic,” I made it an inviolate goal to honor the more than 1,500 people who perished aboard Titanic by depicting their true stories and by honoring the facts. This CD-ROM is an extension of that goal. I saw it as a unique opportunity to create a kind of living history, combining the massive amount of available historical information and documents with film footage which faithfully recreated events depicting her brief life and heartbreaking demise.
The program chronicles the hubris and optimism of the Gilded Age that produced this great ship, the sailing of her full-steam into disaster, and the aftermath which produced many conflicting accounts of her sinking. Certain of these contradictions, such as whether she actually broke in two before disappearing into the North Atlantic, have been resolved only recently with the evolution of deep sea technology enabling exploration of the wreck site. I am fortunate to be one of the few who has seen and captured the image of the eerie, rusting hulk which is all that remains of Titanic today.
It is my hope that this program will inform and fascinate and most of all celebrate the glorious ship called Titanic.
Before installing, make sure you have an appropriate system configuration as described above. Note: James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer will only run on Macintosh or Mac OS -compatible computers with a PowerPC microprocessor. It will not run on older computers with 680x0-series microprocessors.
To install James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer:
1. Start your computer and insert CD-ROM Volume 1 into your CD-ROM drive. The Titanic disc icon will appear on your desktop and the window containing James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer will open.
2. Double-click the ‘Install Titanic Explorer' icon.
3. Follow the instructions on the screen. The installer will copy the appropriate files to your hard drive, and will allow you to install the current version of QuickTime™ if you do not already have it. (QuickTime™ is system software that enables Titanic Explorer to play video and sound.)
4. If you installed QuickTime™, you will be asked to restart your computer so that the new extensions can take effect.
Once you have successfully installed James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer, you can start your exploration at any time by opening the ‘Titanic Explorer’ folder you installed on your hard drive and double-clicking on the ‘Titanic Explorer’ icon... and prepare to experience the history and drama of Titanic.
(Note: after installing QuickTime 3, it is strongly recommended that you change one of QuickTime’s default settings. In certain instances, computer viruses can take malevolent advantage of this feature and infect your computer. To change the setting: open the ‘QuickTime™ 3 Settings’ control panel that was installed in your Control Panels folder. From the popup menu, choose ‘Autoplay’, and in the resulting pane deselect the second option, labeled ‘Enable CD-ROM Autoplay’ (the checkbox should be deselected). To save the change, close the QuickTime 3 Settings control panel window.)
Here are some tips and tricks you might find useful (and fun!) as you explore Titanic:
Full-Screen Display
James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer displays in a window size of 640 by 480 pixels. To make Titanic Explorer completely fill your available screen area, change the screen resolution of your monitor before starting Titanic Explorer. To do this, open the ‘Monitors’ or ‘Monitors & Sounds’ Control Panel and choose a resolution of 640 x 480. You can change the settings back after you’ve finished exploring Titanic.
Note that reducing the screen resolution may also enable your monitor to display more colors (higher color depths). If this is the case, and your monitor is not already set to ‘Thousands’ of colors (16-bit) or greater, be sure to check the available Color Depths as well and choose the highest available setting. Save your changes by closing the control panel window, and proceed to launch Titanic.
(For more information on monitor settings, refer to the manuals that came with your computer.)
Search
The Search feature lets you search directly through all three Volumes of material in James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer. You access the Search dialog by clicking the ‘Search’ button in the navigation strip on the Timeline or Browser views. Here are some tips for using Search:
• To search for content of interest, type a word in the ‘Search For’ field that best describes what you’re looking for. Punctuation marks such as commas and quotation marks are ignored.
• For quick results, try a keyword search. Type in the name of a person, place, or thing you would like to see information about, such as ‘Ismay’ or ‘Carpathia’. For best results, type as few words as possible. You can also type words for categories of material, such as ‘biographies’, ‘photographs’, ‘quotes’, and so forth.
• The ‘Search Results’ pane can only display the first 300 results of your search. If your search returns too many items, narrow the focus of your search and try again.
• To narrow the focus of your search, indicate only the specific media types or Volumes you are interested in. Additionally, you can specify multiple words in the ‘Search For’ field, separated by spaces or commas. Only items matching all the specified words will be displayed. (This style of search is also known as a logical Boolean-AND search.)
• To further control the scope of your search, you can also specify simple non-nested Booleans between search words. ‘AND’ (the default) specifies that only items with both the surrounding terms should be returned, while ‘OR’ specifies that items with either of the surrounding terms should be returned.
For example:
- a search for items with the keyword “biographies” would return:
-> a list of all biography items.
- a search for items with the keywords “biographies AND Astor” would return:
-> all items associated with both terms; specifically, any available biographies of the Astor family.
- a search for items with the keywords “biographies OR lifeboats” would return:
-> all items associated with either term; this would include all biographies as well as all items relating to lifeboats.
• The ‘Search For’ field will also accept the metacharacter ‘*’ (asterisk) as a ‘search all’ symbol. For example, to get a list of all the movies, type ‘*’ in the ‘Search For’ field and choose ‘Search by Keyword’, ‘Search Media Types: Movies’, and ‘Search All Volumes’.
• The ‘Search By Content’ option can take a few moments to complete. You can cancel a search-in-progress by pressing the Escape key once or twice. Current results will then be formatted and displayed in the Search Results pane.
‘Power User’ Hard Disk Installation
If you have enough available hard disk space, you can minimize disc swapping and improve performance by copying data from one or more of the CD-ROM Volumes onto your hard drive. You will need approximately 500 to 600 megabytes of free space for each CD-ROM Volume you wish to copy to your hard drive. Please note: this is a manual installation procedure that involves copying files directly from the CD-ROM onto your hard drive. If you are not comfortable with such a process, attempting a ‘power-user’ installation is not recommended.
To do a ‘power user’ installation:
1. If you have not done so already, follow the regular procedures to perform a standard installation of James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer on your hard drive. A standard installation requires about 30 megabytes of hard drive space and is necessary to run Titanic Explorer.
2. From your computer’s desktop, locate and open the ‘Titanic Explorer’ folder you installed on your computer. Inside you will see the Titanic Explorer application icon, as well as various support files and folders. Note the folder labeled ‘data’; this is where Titanic Explorer’s application-specific data files are kept.
3. Now, insert the CD-ROM Volume you wish to power-install. If necessary, double-click the CD-ROM’s icon to open its window. Each CD-ROM has its own volume-specific data folder (‘data1’, ‘data2’, and ‘data3’, for CD-ROM Volumes 1, 2, and 3, respectively). Locate the appropriate data folder on the CD-ROM and then copy the entire folder (the folder itself) to inside the Titanic Explorer ‘data’ folder on your hard drive. (Note: for Volume 1, you will have to scroll the window and/or change the list view in order to see the ‘data1’ folder icon.)
For example, if you copied the ‘data1’ folder from CD-ROM Volume 1 onto your hard drive, the folder structure would look like this:
{your hard drive} ... Titanic Explorer : data : data1
4. You can copy any combination of folders ‘data1’, ‘data2’, or ‘data3’, but for any given folder you must copy the entire folder.
5. The next time you run James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer, data for a particular Volume will be accessed from your hard drive if possible.
‘Power-User’ Deinstallation:
If you experience problems after a ‘power-user’ installation, or you simply need your hard drive space back, you can ‘deinstall’ the power-user configuration in the following manner:
1. From your computer’s desktop, locate and open the ‘Titanic Explorer’ folder you installed on your computer.
2. In the resultant window, locate and open the folder labeled ‘data’.
3. In the resultant ‘data’ folder window, locate one or more of the appropriate folder icons (these will be the folders you previously copied to your hard drive): ‘data1’, ‘data2’ or ‘data3’. To remove the data folder and prevent it from being made available to Titanic Explorer, drag the ‘data1’, ‘data2’, or ‘data3’ folder only to the Trash. Do not delete any files or folders other than ‘data1’, ‘data2’, or ‘data3’, or James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer may not work as expected. If you delete other files or folders, or you experience problems after deinstallation, you can always reinstall a fresh copy of James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer by running the installation program on CD-ROM Volume 1.
‘Power-User’ Install Notes:
• Performance may actually degrade if you copy files onto a severely fragmented hard disk. For best results, make sure your hard drive is defragmented before copying data from a CD-ROM Volume onto your hard drive. (You can use any of a number of commercially-available hard drive utilities for this purpose; for more information, check your computer dealer or online resource.)
• You must copy the entire data folder from each CD-ROM. If you omit or delete files, James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer may not work as expected, and in some cases may not run at all.
James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer is designed to use the full multimedia capabilities of your computer. Performance may vary according to the configuration of your computer system and CD-ROM drive.
For best results:
• Make sure you have installed the latest system update for your version of the MacOS, as appropriate. For details and downloadable files, check Apple’s website at:
http://www.info.apple.com/support/software
• Do not use any other programs and turn off all background processes (such as virtual memory, screen savers, and networking services) while exploring ‘Titanic’.
• Make sure your monitor is set to display its maximum bit depth (number of colors). Although Titanic Explorer works with 256 colors, your experience will be significantly improved when your monitor is set to ‘Thousands’ of colors (16-bit color) or greater. If your monitor cannot be set to higher color depths, you may be able to enable more colors by first setting the screen resolution to a smaller size, down to a minimum of 640x480. Setting a smaller screen resolution also has the effect of enabling Titanic Explorer to completely fill your display as you navigate through the story. You can change your monitor settings in the ‘Monitors’ or ‘Monitors & Sound’ control panel.
If you are having problems running James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer, try the following:
• Make sure you have an appropriate system configuration as described in the System Requirements section. In particular, make sure you have enough available system memory.
• Make sure you have installed the Titanic Explorer program files as well as the necessary system extensions, including QuickTime 3 and the Titanic font ‘Arial for Titanic’. For more information, refer to the Installation section in this document, and the informational booklet included with the CD-ROM.
QuickTime Movies:
• James Cameron's Titanic Explorer uses a highly compressed format for storing QuickTime movies (digital video). Consequently, older machines may not have the processor speed necessary to smoothly display some video sequences at full-screen size. If QuickTime playback appears to be choppy, try selecting the ‘Reduced’ video size option in Titanic Explorer’s ‘General Controls’.
• You may also want to check Apple's website for the latest QuickTime updates:
http://www.info.apple.com/quicktime/
Font:
If you do not see the iconic symbols used in some text displays to indicate media types, locations, and views (for example, the ‘eye’ symbol or the ‘1’, ‘2’, ‘3’ bullets that indicate a content item’s CD-ROM Volume location), make sure the custom font ‘Arial for Titanic’ is properly installed. When you originally installed James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer, the font should have been placed in your Fonts folder by the installer.
If the font file is not there, you should reinstall James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer from CD-ROM Volume 1 (note: you may want to make a copy of your bookmarks file before re-installing; you can replace it afterwards).
If the font file is visible in your Fonts folder but the font doesn’t display in Titanic Explorer, you may have to restart your computer for the font to be fully recognized by your system. If the font still does not show up correctly, the file may be damaged. Drag the ‘Arial for Titanic’ font file to the Trash and run the Titanic Explorer installer from CD-ROM Volume 1 to install a fresh copy of the font.
Also:
• Make sure you have turned off virtual memory (if possible) and file sharing.
• Turn off any other unnecessary system extensions. You may wish to use a startup management utility such as Apple’s Extensions Manager to define a minimal startup set to run James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer at its best. Be sure to leave QuickTime 3 and your CD-ROM active.
• To improve performance on slower machines, try increasing the size of your disk cache to at least 512K. The disk cache is accessed from the Memory control panel.
• Allocate as much memory as possible to James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer. To do this, select the ‘Titanic Explorer’ application icon and choose Get Info from the File menu. Set the Preferred memory size value as high as your available memory will allow and close the window. Note: be sure to leave a little extra memory for the System to work with; that is, if you have, say, 20MB free RAM, set Titanic Explorer’s preferred size to something like 19MB. You may experience errors if little or no memory is left for the System when James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer is running.
Known conflicts and workarounds:
• If you have started your computer from a bootable CD-ROM, running James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer is not recommended.
• A 'Type 11' error (‘miscellaneous hardware exception’) may be caused if James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer takes up too much memory without leaving enough left over for the System to fully run. Try decreasing the Preferred size in Titanic Explorer’s Get Info box as described above.
For more information regarding system configurations, please refer to the documentation that came with your computer or contact your dealer.
If you have tried the Troubleshooting tips listed above and are still experiencing problems, check the following resources:
• Website: For the latest information and updates, please go to the Fox Interactive website at:
http://www.foxinteractive.com
and choose the Tech Support section.
• E-mail: Send us an e-mail at: Titanic@fox.com
and type the problem in the subject line. Please include a summary of your computer’s specifications and a clear, concise description of the problem.
• Telephone: If you have a problem that is not addressed by
- the printed User Guide,
- this ‘Read Me’ document, or
- the Fox Interactive website, then
call us at 1-970-522-5369 daily between the hours of 11am and 8pm, Pacific Standard Time. Before making the call, please make a note of your computer’s specifications and a clear description of the problem.
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James Cameron’s Titanic Explorer CD-ROM is copyright 1997, 1998 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.
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This product incorporates copyrighted material from a variety of sources, including Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Lightstorm Entertainment, and others. For a complete list, please refer to the ‘credits’ section of the CD-ROM.
