Thank you for getting The Fishin' Hole! But first of all, a few words.
• The game requires 3.5 MB of RAM to run, as it said at my web site and other places. But please, I strongly advise giving it four and especially more, because strange things could happen. Under NO circumstances should you give it less than 3MB, though, or else it will crash your computer. I only say it needs 3.5MB of RAM for Macs that only have 8MB of RAM and run System 7 or 7.5, in which case you'll only have about that much to give up. Of course, it will run like that! Just not as comfortably as if you gave it, say, 4.5MBs.
• Also, follow the directions the game tells you! If you have your monitor set at something more or less than 256 colors, go into the Options menu, click Optimize Monitor and follow let the game change your monitor! This will make the game run well, otherwise it will go mollasses-like slow and the animation will be choppy.
• Don't run it off of a Zip disk or any other optical disk, else it'll run slow as molasses.
• I hate technical notes. You probably do, too, so I'll stop now.