America Adventure/AMERICAADVE.BIN/america/readme.doc

Text File | 1993-12-15 | 7KB | 141 lines

                      WELCOME TO AMERICA ADVENTURE!

  Thank you for purchasing AMERICA ADVENTURE.  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.  AMERICA ADVENTURE 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 AMERICA ADVENTURE
  under these circumstances, please remove other memory resident programs
  from memory.

  LAPTOP/NOTEBOOK COMPUTER DISPLAYS.  AMERICA ADVENTURE requires a color
  VGA monitor to display its high-resolution images.  It will not work on
  the internal plasma or LCD monitors on many laptop PCs.  Most laptops do,
  however, have a connector for an external monitor, and America
  Adventure will work fine with your laptop hooked to an external VGA
  monitor.  AMERICA ADVENTURE 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
  because AMERICA ADVENTURE 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.  AMERICA ADVENTURE requires a VGA color monitor and
  therefore will not run on EGA monitors.

  MOUSE SUPPORT.  AMERICA ADVENTURE 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 AMERICA ADVENTURE without a mouse.

  NEW FEATURES.

         - Music volume.  You can change the level of music while sounds
           are being played in the program.  The default level is 70.  The
           recommended range is 50 to 80; the lower the number the softer
           the music volume. NOTE: this does not change the overall music
           volume; it is lowered only while digitized sound is being played.
           To turn music or sound off completely, Music and Sound must be
           set to OFF.*

         - Mouse sensitivity.  The sensitivity of your mouse can be increased
           or decreased.  The default sensitivity is 50.  The recommended
           range is 25 to 100; the higher the number, the more sensitive
           and responsive your mouse movements.*

                * These settings are in the America configuration text file,
                  KA.CNF.  Use a text editor or click on the AMERICA
                  ADVENTURE Config icon in Windows to modify these settings.
                  For further information about KA.CNF, see Appendix B,
                  "Commonly Asked Questions", in your AMERICA ADVENTURE
                  user's manual.

         - To step backwards along the data line in the Reference Section,
           press the Shift key and click a category button with your mouse.
           Clicking without pressing Shift moves you forward.

         - To turn off sound and music, type ALT-M (music) and/or ALT-S
           (sound).  To turn them back on, press ALT-M and/or ALT-S.

  WINDOWS "SOUND DEVICE IN USE" MESSAGE.  While using a Sound Blaster
  card and attempting to launch AMERICA ADVENTURE 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
  @[phone] (N,8,1).  If you do not have a modem, call our
  Technical Support Department at [phone].

  TANDY SENSATION.  The AMERICA ADVENTURE 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 AMERICA ADVENTURE Icon to Winmate after
  installation is complete.

  If your Tandy Sensation has a Sound Blaster or Sound Blaster Pro
  sound card, choose "Sound Blaster" or "Sound Blaster Pro" during
  install instead of "Tandy Sensation."

  On your Tandy, unless you have a SoundBlaster, during movies,
  you will hear only music, not digital sound.

  DIGISPEECH PORTABLE.  If you are using the Digispeech PortAble Sound
  Plus, you must run BMASTER.EXE in your PORTSND directory before running
  SETUP in AMERICA ADVENTURE.  Your BMASTER files must be dated August 1993
  or later to support AMERICA ADVENTURE.  If this is not the case,
  copy all five of the new BMASTER.* files from your AMERICA ADVENTURE
  directory to your DIGISPEECH directory.

  GRAVIS ULTRASOUND.  The Gravis Ultrasound requires a large driver to load
  its more realistic "wavetable" instruments to the sound card (about 20-25kb
  more than other sound cards).  Consequently, you may have to free up
  additional memory in order to perform properly.

  SOUND SETUP.  If you have difficulty 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", in your User's Guide for information about troubleshooting
  and reconfiguring your system.

  USING VGACAPT.EXE TO CAPTURE GRAPHIC IMAGES.  To use VGACAPT on a
  386 system, log onto the America directory on your hard drive, and then
  type:

        VGACAPT KA.COM KAV.PGM -lC:\AMERICA -rF:\AMERICA -fC:\AMERICA

  Where C:\AMERICA is your hard disk AMERICA subdirectory and
  F:\AMERICA is your CD-ROM AMERICA subdirectory.
  For other processors, see Appendix B.

  HARD DISK SPACE.  Unfortunately, there was an error on the AMERICA
  ADVENTURE box regarding the minimal hard disk requirement.  The
  minimal requirement is 3.25 MB.  You can adjust AMERICA ADVENTURE's
  performance by copying a varying amount of quick access data files
  to your hard disk.  If you desire to increase this hard disk requirement
  to get better speed, you may run SETUP.EXE  from your CD-ROM drive and
  choose either 3.25MB, 4.5 MB, or 7.25MB of disk space for AMERICA ADVENTURE
  CD-ROM.  Because of the slower access time of the CD-ROM, the more you
  copy to your hard disk, the faster AMERICA ADVENTURE will play.

             For the 4.5MB option the quick access files KAHD2.SND
             and KAHD2.IML get copied to the hard drive as KAHD.SND
             and KAHD.IML.  This lets the program access certain
             images and sound files quickly.

             For the 7.25MB option SETUP.EXE copies the larger
             KAHD3.IML and KAHD3.SND.  This option gives AMERICA
             ADVENTURE even faster CD access on various aspects of
             the entire product.


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