This demo starts mid-way through a level 2 game. Because of space restrictions on the CD, over 93% of the retail version of the game has been left out. The full, retail version offers over 4,500 different solutions, with millions of different games. It is designed to work best as a multi-player game (1-6 players, ages 7+), and the most difficult game should take only about an hour to solve -- perfect for a Saturday afternoon with the whole family.
We hope that you enjoy this taste of our murder mystery game.
Please contact us on-line if you like it:
eMail: foul-play@armchair-travel.com or web: http://www.armchair-travel.com/
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We have created a native PowerMacintosh version of the game to provide you with superior game performance. Please follow these guidelines for best results:
** If you don't follow these instructions, you may get poor performance from this product!
1) You will find the the Foul Play™ PPC application will run much more quickly on PowerMac machines. To run this version of the game, you should first copy it over to your hard disk; it will take about 8 Mb of disk space.
2) You MUST use QuickTime 2.0 or later and the QuickTime PowerPlug (v2.0 or later) for this version to work properly on your Macintosh. OLDER VERSIONS OF QUICKTIME will NOT work properly. We also recommend the Apple Multimedia Tuner. If you have older versions, REMOVE THEM, and copy the QuickTime files from "For Extensions Folder" on the CD into the Extensions folder inside the System Folder on your hard disk.
3) Please TURN OFF as many system extensions as possible. They WILL slow down the game play significantly, ESPECIALLY under System 7.5
You will also note that the PowerMac version of the game requires more memory to run properly, just as is the case with most PowerMac native software. The memory partition set for the program is 7,000 K bytes.
If your PowerMac has 16 Mb or more of RAM, you will have plenty of RAM to run the game. You should *TURN ON* "Modern Memory Manager" in the Memory Control Panel for best performance.
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================= If your PowerMac has only 8 Mb of memory ====================
You should run the program as follows:
1) Open the Memory Control Panel and set up Virtual Memory for at least 12 Mb RAM.
2) You must *TURN OFF* "Modern Memory Manager" in the Memory Control Panel.
3) RESTART your machine.
4) The audio in this game may be intermittent when using Virtual Memory. This is typical of virtual memory systems for playing audio -- the hard disk is much slower than actual RAM, and often cannot keep up with the needs of real-time audio/video performance.
