"A PUZZLE OF FLESH" DOS PATCH FOR WINDOWS 95 "ONLY' PRODUCT Thank you for purchasing Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh. In order for you to receive the best possible performance, Sierra has included additional technical tips and game information. The following supplemental information should be considered part of the game documentation. This patch, when installed correctly, will allow owners of the "Win95 "Only" version of A Puzzle of Flesh play in DOS. TABLE OF CONTENTS * Installation Procedures * Handy To Know * Memory Troubleshooting * Legal Information INSTALLATION PROCEDURES Please make sure you have the following minimum hardware requirements: 486-DX4 12MB RAM Hard Drive Space (not including space for a Temporary Swap File) Small Install: 10MB (compressed 30 MB) Medium Install: 15MB (compressed 50 MB) Large Install: 23MB (compressed 80 MB) CD-ROM drive, double speed or better Win95 or DOS SVGA video card that supports 640x480x256 colors Sound card with DAC - Sound Blaster compatible Mouse RECOMMENDED FOR BEST PERFORMANCE: Pentium 16MB RAM Quad speed CD ROM To install this patch, reboot to DOS and follow the instructions outlined below: 1. Copy all patch files to an empty, temporary directory on your hard drive. 2. Change to the directory where you've placed the patch files. Launch the patch by typing PATCH and pressing Enter. 3. Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation WARNING TO WINDOWS 95 USERS: Please note, games saved under the Win95 version are not compatible with the DOS version. To play the game under DOS begin the game anew. Although this patch will work on machines running Windows 95, you may encounter some difficulties if you run it from a DOS "box" (a DOS prompt running in a window.) It is best to run the patch in MS-DOS mode. To put your computer in MS-DOS mode, click on the "Start" button, and choose "Shutdown", and select "Restart the computer in MS-DOS mode." If you do run the patch from a DOS "box", you must make sure the "initial environment" setting is large enough. To change this setting, right click on your MS-DOS prompt shortcut, and choose "properties". Click on the "Memory" tab. The "Initial environment" setting is at the top right of the window. If it is set to "AUTO", the patch will probably fail to work. You must set it to a number; 768 or higher will work for most systems. Finally, this patch accesses your CD-ROM drive. Please note that if you are running Windows 95, your Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh CD will probably attempt to auto-play when you insert it into the drive. You must quit the autoplay dialog when it appears, otherwise the Patch Install program will not have access to the drive. HANDY TO KNOW Do not remove the CD while playing the game unless you are prompted to do so. Phantas is designed to be played in 16 bit (65535 colors) mode. Although it will also operate in 256 color mode, the movie playback performance will be degraded slightly. Running Phantas in other color modes, such as such as 16 million "true color" mode, may also result in degraded performance. To fast-forward through the movies you've already seen before, click the mouse button or press the ESC key on your keyboard. All movies that are important to game play can be replayed via the movie playback dialog. To access this dialog, begin the game and move the cursor to the upper left corner of the game's play area. Clicking on the movie reel which appears will bring the movie playback dialog up. MEMORY TROUBLESHOOTING Some game players have experienced getting enough free memory to run Phantas. This usually occurs on computers with 12 megabytes of RAM, but can happen on machines with more memory. If you are having trouble starting the game because of memory problems or are receiving memory-related errors during the game, please create a bootdisk. LEGAL INFORMATION This entire work is copyright (c)1996 Sierra On-Line Inc. Contains technology described in U.S. Patent applications including 598,174 and 658,297 and 5,377,997 and 5,430,835 All Rights Reserved. Data Compression Software Copyright (c) 1988-1992 Stac Electronics U.S. Patents Pending including 5,106,009. Other patents pending. Universal VESA driver software library Portions copyright (c) 1993-1995 SciTech Software IF YOU STILL HAVE PROBLEMS... If you continue to experience problems, or if you have any questions concerning any of the above steps, Sierra Technical Support will be happy to assist you. You can reach Technical Support at (206) 644-4343 between 8:00 am and 4:45 pm, Monday through Friday. We can also be reached by fax at (206) 644-7697 or by mail at the following address: Sierra On-Line Technical Support PO Box 85006 Bellevue, WA 98015-8506 In Europe, please contact our office in England. The Customer Service number is (0118) 920-9111, between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday. The fax number is (0118) 987-5603. Customer Service can also be reached at the following address: Sierra On-Line Limited 2 Beacontree Plaza Gillette Way Reading, Berkshire RG2 0BS UNITED KINGDOM You can also contact our Technical Support Team on one of the following services: Sierra BBS (206) 644-0112 CompuServe GO SIERRA America Online KEYWORD SIERRA Internet support@sierra.com http://www.sierra.com If you decide to write or fax, please provide the following information so that Sierra Technical support can assist you as efficiently as possible: Name: Fax number: Phone number: Address: Game name, version number and UPC Code (from game box): What problem are you having? Be VERY specific. Is there an error message? What is it? Where does it occur? Does it happen the same way each time? Are you playing in Windows or DOS? Type of computer (386, 486, etc.) Brand of video card (Trident, Diamond, etc.) Amount of RAM (4 meg, 8 meg, etc.) DOS version (MS-DOS 6.0, PC-DOS 6.2, etc.) Windows version (3.1, WFWG, Win95, etc.) Brand of sound card and sound card settings (SoundBlaster Pro, Forte16, Mozart, etc. Please be VERY specific with the brand name. Sound card settings include DMA, IRQ and I/O values.) Any disk compression? What kind? (Doublespace, Stacker, etc.) Any third-part memory manager? What kind? (QEMM, 386MAX, etc.) Largest executable program size or bytes free after booting with the boot disk. (Type MEM to find out.) What have you tried so far? (Boot disk, no sound, etc.) Please attach copies of your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT from your hard drive and the boot disk.