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Entombed for Windows 1.0 (shareware release)
Copyright(C) 1993 Chaos Concepts.
YOU MUST HAVE ALL FOUR ENTOMBED ARCHIVES IN ORDER TO RUN THIS GAME.
THESE ARE
ENTV1_1.ZIP
ENTV1_2.ZIP
ENTV1_3.ZIP
ENTV1_4.ZIP
ENTOMBED REQUIRES EITHER 640x480 OR 800x600 256 COLOUR DISPLAY.
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE...
To install Entombed 1.0 for Windows on your hard drive:
1A. If you have downloaded Entombed as an archive, then make sure
that you have download all four archives. These are named
entv1_1.zip through to entv1_4.zip. Unzip the contents of
these archives onto a floppy disk or separate directory.
1B. If you have received Entombed on a floppy disk directly from
Chaos Concepts, then this has already been done for you.
2. Place the disk in the floppy drive of your computer.
3. Open the file menu of the Windows program manager and select Run.
4. In the Run dialogue box, type A:ESETUP or B:ESETUP, or as is
appropriate.
5. Now that you are in the ESETUP utility, confirm that the
installation directory matches the actual directory where the
archives can be found. If it does not then enter the correct path
in the installation directory text box.
6. Next you may choose to modify the drive Entombed will be installed
on to.
7A. Next you choose the archives you wish to install. If you have
downloaded entombed from a BBS then there will be four of these.
One by one you must click on each Archive button to install the
contents of each archive.
7B. If you received entombed on a disk directly from Chaos Concepts
then all you need do is click on the first archive button.
8. Next select the sound options you require. If you are not sure
which ones match your sound card then leave these options
unchecked and consult your sound card documentation. You can
change these options later from within the Entombed game
application.
9. Finally the installation program will reboot your system to
initialise the changes you have made.
Note:
From within Program Manager, you may need to select Arrange Icons
from the window menu, in order to tidy up the desktop.
How to start and quit entombed:
To Start Entombed, open the Chaos Concepts program manager
window, then double click on the Entombed icon.
For more instructions press the F1 or H key from within entombed,
to bring up on-line help.
To Quit Entombed holding down the ALT key press the F4 key.
Purchasing the commercial release of entombed.
Chaos Concepts, the creators of Entombed believe entertainment
software prices are too high. Our research indicates that many
game players in fear of spending good money on a lousy game,
pirate software before they buy it to try it out. They also
jointly buy entertainment software with their friends in order to
reduce the purchase cost. Some simply pirate game software
because they can't afford to buy all the games that they would
like to play. Because of this we decided to let you try out our
game free of charge.
If you like this program then you are free to use it for as long
as you like. The Entombed ver 1.0 shareware release contains the
entire first level of the Entombed game. If you want to see how
the game continues and play it through to the end then you will
have to purchase the commercial release of Entombed. The
commercial release of Entombed is not shareware and you must
purchase it in order to use it.
If you think the shareware release is good, then wait till you see
the commercial release, it contains three new game levels which
include morphing, animation, fully rendered 3D graphics, digitised
speech and comes in a designed box. ( There is a photo of it in
the game ).
Commercial release owners also have access to the hint line
section of our BBS, this has been set up to give you clues on how
to solve the many puzzles, should you get stuck. When you finish
the commercial release of Entombed you can also send us your save
game and you will receive a certificate of completion.
Purchasing the commercial release will entitle you to telephone
support, special access to our BBS, notification of updates and
other worthwhile things. More to the point, it will make you feel
good. We haven't infested the program with excessive beg notices,
crippled it or had it verbally insult you after ten days so we
trust you to support Entombed if you like it.
Australian purchases:
The purchase fee of Entombed is $54.95 (Aust) plus $5.00 postage.
(allow 3 days)
International purchases:
The purchase price of Entombed is $45.95 (US) plus $10 postage.
(allow 3 - 10 days)
Please make your cheque or postal money order out to:
CHAOS CONCEPTS Pty. Ltd.
If you pay us by cheque, please make sure that it's a cheque drawn
on an international bank, and that it will be negotiable in
Australia. If there's no bank clearance number along the bottom
of the cheque, it will not clear.
Paying by credit card:
If you are interested in using a credit card service to purchase
Entombed please contact our BBS for further information.
We are will not ship commercial release copies of our software
prior to receiving a payment. We are interested in dealer
inquiries, but we cannot accept dealer priced orders for single
unit quantities of software.
Our address is:
Chaos Concepts Pty. Ltd.
G.P.O. Box 293
Sydney, NSW,
Australia 2001
Our BBS number is:
Internationally: +(61) 2 550 1728
Within Australia: (02) 550 1728
The bulletin board always has the most recent versions of all our
shareware on it, free for downloading, it also has bug fixes,
drivers and other relevant information. It only exists to support
Chaos Concepts software and is available twenty-four hours a day.
The protocol is 1200, 2400 baud, or 9600 baud v.32bis,
eight data bits, no parity and one stop bit.
______________________________________________________________________
Release notes:
System requirements:
Entombed 1.0 for Windows requires Windows 3.1 or better, a MS-
mouse or compatible windows pointing device, 2 megabytes of system
ram, a 512k SVGA display card and driver that supports the 640 x
480 256 colour SVGA mode, Dos 5.0 or better and 6 Mb of free hard
disk space.
Entombed for Windows has been written in Microsoft C++ and has
been tested with Microsoft Windows 3.1, If you have any problems
with Entombed.. or just some comments.. we'd like to hear from you.
Compression:
As you may have realised the Entombed 1.0 graphics are
uncompressed and so consequently take up 6 megabytes of hard disk
space. The Entombed program does support on the fly decompression
of it's graphic files. However because compressed files do not
archive as efficiently as uncompressed files the designers decided
to disable file compression in order to make the archive as small
as possible seeing Entombed 1.0 is a shareware release. So
although Entombed 1.0 takes up a more hard disk space, the archive
will fit on one 1.44 mb floppy disk and also requires less time to
download from bulletin boards. The commercial version of the game
has the compression enabled, and only requires 8 megabytes of hard
disk space for the entire game which is over 30 megabytes of
graphics uncompressed.
Entombed Error Messages:
type (1) files missing
This error will be reported if files required by Entombed are
missing. The solution is to re-install Entombed using the ESETUP
program. However leave the "Install to program manager" option
unchecked.
type (2) memory low
This error message indicates that windows system resources are
low. If this happens, save your game and close Entombed. Then
from the windows desktop close any open applications that you are
currently not using. Alternatively you could create a larger
virtual drive using the "386 Enhanced" utility within the windows
control panel.
If you ignore this error and continue to use Entombed while memory
is low, then the Entombed application will automatically close if
memory runs out.
type (3) display detection error (message box)
This error appears if the Entombed game application didn't detect
a 256 colour display adaptor. Entombed does this by checking the
display.drv entry in your System.ini under the heading boot
description. Your system.ini should have an entry that looks like
this...
[boot.description]
display.drv=Video 7 1Mb, 640x480 256 colours
What Entombed does, is search for the characters "256" in the
display.drv entry. If it doesn't find them it prompts you with a
type (3) error message before starting the game. If you have a 256
colour display but it is not set to a 256 colour mode, please use
your windows setup program to do so. If your display is set to a
256 colour mode and you still receive this error message, you can
either choose to ignore it or edit your system.ini. If you want to
edit the system.ini, use the windows program sysedit in the system
directory and simply add "256" to the end of the display.drv entry
under the boot description heading.
type (4) required files missing (message box)
This error will be reported if files required by Entombed are
missing or if you have renamed the Entombed directory. The simple
solution is to re-install Entombed using the ESETUP program. When
Entombed is installed ESETUP creates a file in your windows
directory called Entombed.ini which contains information used by
Entombed. The Entombed path is stored in an entry called Dir under
the startup heading.
[Startup]
Dir=C:\ENTOMBED\
If your choose to change or rename the Entombed directory, then
be sure to update the startup entry in the Entombed.ini file.
type (5) save game file missing (message box)
Entombed comes with a save game file called "ENTOMBED.SAV" you
may exchange this with friends, or make backups of it etc.
However do not run the Entombed game application without the
"ENTOMBED.SAV" file. Never try to edit your Entombed save game
data. This is a binary data file and if it becomes corrupted,
the Entombed game application will become unstable.
Midi problems:
In the event that your sound driver fails, you will need to reload
your midi driver. Do this by running the "drivers" utility within
the windows control panel. Click on "add" and select your existing
sound driver from the list. Click on "current" and then select
"restart windows". This will reset your midi driver.
Midi mapping:
If you have a midi sound device, you will need to map it to
general midi using the "MIDI mapper" utility within the windows
control panel. If you have a sound blaster card then we recommend
you map your midi to "Adlib general".
Reporting bugs:
While we have tested Entombed 1.0 thoroughly, it's possible that
you may encounter a situation we haven't anticipated. If this
happens, we would be interested in knowing about it so we can fix
it.
Here's how to report a bug to us.
Copy your ENTOMBED.SAV, ENTOMBED.INI, WIN.INI, SYSTEM.INI,
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files onto a floppy. Provide a
description of what you did and what happened, and tell us with
as much detail as possible what sort of hardware you're using.
Alternately, ZIP up the relevant files and upload them to our
bulletin board.
If we can't recreate it, we probably won't be able to fix it.
Before you contact us with a problem, please make sure you've read
this document thoroughly and that you understand the system
requirements and how the software should work.
Technical support:
We will attempt to answer questions from shareware users who write
to us to the extent that their answers are needed for them to
determine whether they wish to purchase the commercial release of
Entombed.
We can also be reached through the Chaos Concepts bulletin board.
If you have a question about Entombed, feel free to leave it on
the bulletin board. We try to answer all questions within twenty-
four hours. But note that you must call back to retrieve your
answer... we enjoy getting mail.
Commercial release users of Entombed will receive our voice number
for immediate technical support. The voice number is only
available for use from 10:00am to 5:00pm EST (Australia). If you
call and get our answering machine... it does happen... please leave
us a message or call back later. We are only able to return long
distance calls if we can call you back collect. We ask that in
contacting us you appreciate that we are a small company with
limited resources and that extensive technical support is not
available.
Copyright(C) 1993 Chaos Concepts.