"PLAYMATES OF THE YEAR THE 80'S"
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            Copyright 1993 PLAYBOY VIDEO INTERTAINMENT GROUP, INC.

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 *  Welcome to "PLAYMATES OF THE YEAR THE 80'S"                               *
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 *  PLAYMATES OF THE YEAR THE 80'S uses MS Video for Windows to bring high    *
 *  quality graphics and sound to your PC.  The setup program copies all the  *
 *  files needed to run PLAYMATES OF THE YEAR THE 80'S to your PC.            *
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INSTALLATION:
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To install "PLAYMATES OF THE YEAR THE 80'S", use File Manager to run the
setup.exe program in the \RUNTIME directory on the CD-ROM.  The setup program
will copy the Video for Windows (runtime) include MPLAYER.EXE to your
hard drive.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
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To use "PLAYMATES OF THE YEAR THE 80'S", you should have a 386 or better CPU
with 8-bit (256 color), 15-bit (32k color), 16-bit (64k color), or 24-bit
(Truecolor) graphics, a sound card, Microsoft Windows 3.1 and DOS 5.0 or 6.0,
and a mouse.


IMPROVING VIDEO PLAYBACK PERFORMANCE:
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1. Upgrade Your Video Card.
  A graphics (256 color minimum) accelerator card can improve video playback.
You will see maximum performance, measured by frames per second, in a 256-color
mode. Modes with greater than 256 colors provide better color at a slower
frames per second rate. Placing the video card into a system using either PCI
or VESA Local bus will also improve perform. The recommended mode is
640x480x256, 640x480x32k or 640x480x64k.

2. Update Your Graphics Drivers.
  Make sure that you have the most corrent graphics drivers availabe. Call you
graphics vendor or check your documentaion to find out how you can get the
corrent drives.

3. Upgrade Your Microprocessor (CPU).
  For example, a computer based on the intel 486 microprocessor benefits from
install an OverDrive(TM) processor or upgrading to a Pentium(TM) process.


VIDEO PROBLEMS:
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Some high-resolution video cards require updated driver software for 
operation of Video for Windows.  If you experience color display problems,
Please contact your video board manufacturer to see if newer driver software 
is available.

Make sure you are using the most recent versions of HIMEM.SYS, EMM386.EXE,
and SMARTDRV.EXE.  The copies that came with DOS 6.0 are the most recent, and
Windows 3.1 files are better than DOS 5.0 files.  Your config.sys should
have something like the following:

DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM NOEMS

Your autoexec.bat should have something like:

C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE 1024 1024       (if you have 8 MB or more memory)
C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE 1024 512        (if you have less memory)


MEMORY PROBLEMS:
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Video for Windows and Windows 3.1 is very memory hungry.  The best way to
speed-up video quality and display is to have at least 8 MB RAM.  if you have 
less, make sure you do not have EMM386 allocating any expanded memory.  Also,
you should have SMARTDRV using as little memory as possible (512K cache).  The
biggest performance improvement other than upgrading to a 486 is to have more
memory.

You can also use the 386 enhanced Virtual Memory settings to create a permanent
swap file.  This seems to improve performance slightly, but more RAM is better.

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CREDITS and COPYRIGHT NOTICES:
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Video Digitization and programming by IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT INC.

"PLAYMATES OF THE YEAR THE 80'S" is copyrighted by PLAYBOY VIDEO INTERTAINMENT
GROUP, INC.

Video for Windows is copyrighted by MicroSoft Computer, Inc.