The 'Jongg CD!/MORAFF.iso/readme.txt

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The 'Jongg CD:

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Special Programs:
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MAKETILE.EXE: Run this program to make tilesets for Morejongg.

VIEWER.EXE and VIEWER95.EXE: These viewer programs are ideal for
viewing images full screen, particularly the many stunning
backgrounds that come with the MoraffWare CD ROM. Click a
single button and instantly turn any image into the desktop
background! To run this program, just run 'VIEWER' or 'VIEWER95'
from the moraff games directory on your hard drive.

TECHIE.EXE (Personal Technician for Windows '95): This is a
quick and easy reference program that explains how to create
icons and shortcuts, change resolutions, move files, and much
more. It talks to you, and shows you step by step pictures of
everything. To run this program, click 'Start' and 'Run' and
type 'd:\techie" if the D drive is your CD ROM.

CHECKMEM.EXE: This little utility will tell you how much RAM and
virtual memory you have, and how much you have used. It will also
tell you what resolution your screen is set for.

The maketile and viewer programs are located in the moraff
directory on your hard drive. Techie is located in the root
directory of the CD ROM. Checkmem is located everywhere.

DOSGAMES: There is a directory called DOSGAMES on the CD ROM
that contains the whole line of MoraffWare DOS games. The games
need to be copied to your hard drive to run. They are not
compressed, so simply copy them over to your hard drive and
run them. These are very old games, and are present only
because some of our customers are in the middle of one of
them and want to be able to finish the game.

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More backgrounds and tilesets:
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MORETILS directory: This directory includes about 100 more
tilesets for the Morejongg game. This directory is attached
to the root directory of the CD ROM, instead of the moraff
directory. If you copy the games completely to your hard
drive, you may still want to get these other tilesets from
the CD ROM.

BACKGRNS directory: This directory contains over 200 more
backgrounds for use in most of the games. It is also attached
to the root directorym and not the moraff directory.

MORAFF: This contains the complete versions of the 16
game collection, taking about 50 Megs. The Install
routine will by default use this directory as the main
MoraffWare directory.


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The DOSGAMES Directory:
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Here are the instructions for installing the DOS games.

To copy MoraffWare DOS games to a hard drive (Using XCOPY):
1) From the DOS prompt, type æC:Æ to install the games on the C drive.
2) Type æMD MWÆ to create a directory named MW.
3) Type 'CD MW' to enter that directory.
4) Type 'XCOPY D:\DOSGAMES /S' if your CD ROM drive is your
     D drive. This will create subdirectories automatically
     under the MW directory. The DOS collection will take about
     4 megs of hard drive space.
WORLD AND UNFORGIVEN NOTE: To upgrade existing versions of
     World or Unforgiven, simply copy the new version right
     on top of the old version. For example, if your old
     Unforgiven characters are in the C:\UNF directory, you
     would change your dos prompt to C:\UNF, and from that
     prompt you would type æXCOPY D:\DOSGAMES\UNFORGIVÆ. Then
     overwrite all files, and your old characters will still
     be there, but in the new version.

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How the Windows games Install actually works:
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   The Install program actually does very little on this
CD. First, it creates a directory on your hard drive to
install into. Then it creates a file called 'cdpath.txt',
which contains the path to your CD ROM drive. For example,
if your CD ROM drive is your D drive, cdpath.txt would
contain: 'D:\moraff\'.
   Then the Install program copies the files containing
everything needed to run the games from the CD ROM. These
files are contained in the directories 'ext_mwn2' and
'ext_mwn3' on the CD ROM. If you have difficulty
installing the games, you can create your own cdpath.txt
and copy the files from the appropriate directory.
   If you install to run from your hard drive, the
install program simply copies all of the files needed
to run the games to your hard drive. There is no 'setup',
no changes to your Windows directory or autoexec.bat or
config.sys.

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Troubleshooting:
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You get an Abort, Retry, or Fail (or similar) error when
trying to read the CD ROM drive: Try turning your machine
off and start again. Sometimes CD ROM's get confused and
restarting them makes them forget that they are confused.
If you get this error a lot, call [phone] and ask
for a replacement.

The menu does not pop up in Memory Jiggler or Radiation: This
is usually caused by programs like the Microsoft Office 95
Toolbar, which apparently won't allow the mouse into the upper
left corner of the screen. We have added the 'M' key feature
to get around this problem. Simply press 'M' on the keyboard
to pop up the menu.

The menu pops up in the middle instead of on top: You probably
have an ATI or similar video card with a bug in the driver.
You'll have to run the games in 'Normal Screen' mode. Get there
by clicking on 'Help' on the menu, then use the arrows on the
keyboard to move through the menus, until you get to the heading
'Options', then 'Screen Mode', then select 'Normal Screen'. Do
not use the mouse after you click on 'Help', because as you move
it, weird things will happen. Just use curson keys and hit 'Enter'
when 'Normal Screen' becomes highlighted. Once you have a normal
menu, you can click on 'Options' and 'Save Options' so that you
don't have to go through this again. This applies to all games
that have this problem.

The machine crashes while loading a game in Windows '95: Try
running the game directly off of the CD ROM in the 'moraff'
directory. If this yields the same problem, try running the
regular Windows version from the CD ROM. If this works, you can
re-install the CD, and tell it that you have Windows 3.1, and
put it into a different directory from the Windows '95
installation.
    Then simply run the regular Windows 3.1 version of the
problem game. This problem is actually often caused by a badly
written Windows '95 driver in your system. In some cases drivers
like 'wswpd.exe' for the Panasonic laser printer, will chew up
much of the CPU's time, causing the Windows 3.1 version of a
program to actually run faster than the Windows '95 version. This
is because the Windows '95 versions allow the CPU to attend to to
other tasks more frequently than the Windows 3.1 drivers.

Other Problems: Call [phone], and ask for technical support
on the Jongg CD, registered version. We will do whatever is needed
to make our games work on your system. We have sold thousands of
Jongg CD's, and to our knowledge we have resolved every technical
problem to date!