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- NOTE: HacMan II requires a color monitor and 1 meg of memory to run.
- If you don't have the requisite hardware, trying to run the
- program will only cause you grief!
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- How to Unpack HacMan II
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- Follow these instructions carefully and you will have no trouble
- installing the game. Even if you think you know what you're doing
- READ THIS FILE.
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- What you've got
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- This archive should contain the following files:
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- DISK1.TOS Self-extracting archive for Disk 1
- DISK2.TOS Self-extracting archive for Disk 2
- README.NOW This file
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- IMPORTANT NOTE:
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- When extracting the archives, make sure you have enough free space.
- For reasons beyond my control, both ARC and the self-extracting archives
- will sometimes not report errors if they run out of disk space. If
- after you extract the files the game will not run, check to see if there
- are any files with size 0. If so, you need to make your RAMdisk or
- hard drive directory bigger. In particular, if you have a floppy drive
- and no hard drive, be sure to follow the installation instructions
- carefully; forgetting to delete a file or not making a big enough RAMdisk
- will very likely cause the extraction to fail. HacMan II is a very big
- game, but I've spent many hours trying to make installation as fool-proof
- as possible.
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- Almost all problems with HacMan II installation have been traced to
- insufficient disk space. As of this writing, no one has reported a
- system configuration that the game would not run on. (This includes
- different TOS versions, TSR programs and desk accessories installed, etc.)
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- Hard Drive Instructions:
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- If you have a hard drive, put DISK1.TOS and DISK2.TOS in a folder
- called HACMAN2. Make sure you have at least 750K free in the
- HACMAN2 directory, then run DISK1.TOS and DISK2.TOS to extract
- HacMan II. (Be sure to read the section General Info below.)
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- Double-Sided Floppy Drive Only:
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- If do not have a hard drive you will have to extract the files in a
- RAMdisk. Create a 600K RAMdisk, copy DISK1.TOS into it, and run
- DISK1.TOS. Then delete DISK1.TOS and copy all remaining files onto a
- blank double-sided floppy. Clear the contents of the RAMdisk, copy
- DISK2.TOS into it, and run DISK2.TOS. Then delete DISK2.TOS and copy all
- the remaining files onto the double-sided floppy.
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- Single-Sided Floppy Drive Only:
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- If you have only a single-sided floppy drive, you will have to
- extract the files in a RAMdisk. Create a 600K RAMdisk, copy DISK1.TOS
- into it, and run DISK1.TOS. Then delete DISK1.TOS and copy all remaining
- files onto a blank single-sided floppy. This floppy will be "Disk 1."
- Clear the contents of the RAMdisk, copy DISK2.TOS into it, and run
- DISK2.TOS. Then delete DISK2.TOS and copy all the remaining files onto
- another blank single-sided floppy. This floppy will be "Disk 2."
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- General Info
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- Once the files are extracted, BE SURE to read the files README.DOC and
- GAMEINFO.DOC before playing. (These files will be on Disk 1 of a
- single-sided disk set.)
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- If you will be uploading the game to another place, BE SURE TO KEEP
- THE ORIGINAL .ARC FILE YOU DOWNLOADED. Don't try to create your
- own archive file. If you create your own "ARC" or "ZOO" file you will
- very likely make the game impossible to install on a single-sided
- floppy system, and besides that it'll take forever to archive all
- the data. Please upload only the .ARC file you downloaded. (Trust me,
- people have already made bad archives. I HAVE gotten irate phone calls.
- Just say NO!) Thanks!
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- Dave Baggett
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- HacMan II Release 1.15
- April 8, 1991
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