Doom Fever/Doom_Fever-1995_Maple_Media.iso/fever/readme.txt

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TERMS:
The software and data on this CD has no guarantee of any type whatsoever.
By purchasing this CD, the buyer agrees to that Maple Media, Inc. will not
be held liable for any damages, including lost profits, savings, and any
other consequential or incidential damages arising out of the use of any
images and/or programs on this CD.   Some states do not allow the
disclaiming of liability, so these terms may not apply to you if you
reside in those states.

The purchase price of this CD covers only the manufacturing and
distribution costs.  It does not necessarily include registration nor
the rights to use the programs and images.  It's the buyer's
responsibility to register with the shareware authors.

This disc has been tested with anti-virus software and no viruses have
been found.

SHAREWARE
Some of the programs on this disc are Shareware-- a method of software
distribution that allows you the consumer to try the software before
paying for it.  By "paying" or registering the software with the
shareware author you may get additional updates, features and
technical support.  Please support shareware authors.

-- All trademarks recognized and are properties of its respective owners


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              HOW TO USE DOOM FEVER
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There are over 500 programs that provide you with new
levels, sound, music, and  backgrounds for DOOM.  MOST OF THESE
ACCESSORIES WORK ONLY WITH THE REGISTERED VERSION OF DOOM.

We have enclosed three shareware versions of DOOM: version 1.2,
1.5, and 1.666.  Some accessories only work with certain versions.
Patch for upgrading registered version 1.2 to 1.66 is also
enclosed.

The CD-MANAGER provided allows you to scroll through the different
areas, view a description, and to copy and/or unzip the file to
your harddrive.

This disc also contains a description file for each area, so you
may put this on a BBS or online service so users may downloading from
this disc.  However no additional charges may be levied beyond regular
subscription fee to the online service or BBS.

This CD-ROM is protected under U.S. and international copyright
laws.  While other publishers may use the individual files in this
CD, they may NOT use the same organizations, categories, or
compilation styles.  The CD Manager is proprietory software and
is licensed through Century software for the exclusive use by Maple
Media, Inc. only.

Please register your shareware, especially DOOM.  You will miss a lot
of fun and excitement if you don't have a registered copy.
Most of the accessories in this CD-ROM reguire a registered copy.
Please refer to "id Software Catalog" on how to get your copy.

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                    TROUBLE-SHOOTING GUIDE
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If you attempt to PLAY DOOM from the menu you may encounter a problem
of insufficient memory.. You may try playing from OUTSIDE the menu
program or:

a.  Install more memory
b.  Run MemMaker (from MS-DOS 6.x) to optimize your memory setting
or use any memory manager to reconfigure your system.
c.  Remove as many as non-essential drivers and TSR programs.

2.  Problems due to programs try writing to the CDROM.
(CD is a READ-ONLY device, cannot be written to)
Correction:  Some games need to update the highest score when you
exit the game.  Your computer may hang or give an error message when
the game tries writing to the CDROM.  Either ignore the error and
reset the system OR copy game to hard drive.

3.  Certain games, especially the graphics-intensive ones, tends to
take a long time to load program into screen, WHY?  How to speed it up?
Answer:  The access time of most single speed CD-ROM drive is about
350- 700ms (compare to hard drives' 10- 30ms), so it is a lot SLOWER
when loading big games.  You may want to get a double-speed CD-ROM
or install cache program that will speed up CD-ROM drive.  Note that
not every cache program speeds up CDROM access time.

4.  Some games run fine on its existing settings, it freezes, hangs,
or give a disk error or I/O error message when I try to change its
setting.
Answer:  Since CD is a READ-ONLY media, game settings that have been
written onto it cannot be changed.  You get the above symptoms if you
try to change it.  Either play the games as is OR copy it onto your
hard disk, then you can change its setting without problem.

5.  Program still freezes or gives "I/O error" or "Access Denied"
messages even after I have copied program from CD-ROM to my
hard disk.
Answer:  The file attribute of the programs is set to "R" (read-only)
when they are copied to the CD-ROM.  You have copied these files
with the "R" attribute.  If you don't remove the "R" attribute, your
PC will not be able to write or update certain data files and give
you I/O and access error messages. Run the following command
to remove the "R" attribute:
       ATTRIB *.* -R /S

6. How to figure out the playing commands?
Answer: There are two ways:
a.  Most programs has a help key, "F1" is the most popular one.
The help key will give you command summary and other essential info.
So look for the help key on your screen.  If no help key is found,
see if you can found a cursor on screen.  You may control the cursor
with arrow keys or mouse.  Then try out different buttons or choices.
b.  Exit the program and manually log into the subdirectory in which
the game resides.  Look for any file with .DOC or .TXT extension and
read it with DOS's EDIT or the LIST, SEE utility (copies in the NOTES
sub-directoy). Most games comes with instructions in the form of
README file, or README.TXT, or README.DOC, or MANUAL.TXT, or
MANUAL.DOC.  You can print out the instruction with EDIT (from DOS),
or SEE or LIST or your favorite word processor.
For Windows programs, look for the files with .WRI extension, you
can read it by simply "clicking" on the file.

7.  How to EXIT or get out of certain games and demo?
Answer:  Some software authors are too lazy to write the exit routine.
Most common commands to get out of a program are:
   ESC       F10
   CTRL-X;   CTRL-Q;  CTRL-U;  CTRL-Break; CTRL-ESC;  CTRL-PRINT SCREEN
   ALT-X;    ALT-Q;   ALT-ESC
   F10       CTRL-ALT-DEL
FOR WINDOWS: ATL-F4

When everything fails, use CTRL-ALT-DEL keys.  DON'T use reset button
when running WINDOWS, you may damage the hard disk.

8.  Some games run fine under certain DOS version like DOS 5.0 and do
not run under 6.0 or later.
Suggestion:  Make sure you have this line "DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE"
in your CONFIG.SYS.  Then run SETVER to set the game program to the
DOS version that it will operate.  For example, if GAME.EXE will run
under DOS 5 and you are using DOS 6, run this command:
        C:>SETVER GAME.EXE 5.0

You need to reboot system for the changes to be effective.
Refer to DOS manual on SETVER if you have any questions.

9.  Problem due to insufficient video memory and incorrect video
card driver. (Some games require you to choose a video driver,
some high-resolution games need more than 512k video RAM)
Symptoms:  There's no picture on screen, but the hard disk sounds like
           it is retrieving something.
           Strange colors in pictures.
Correction:  If you have another VGA card, try it to see if problem
persists. Find a VGA card with more memory. Choose a different video
driver to see if problem goes away.

10.  Problem due to pointing devices such as mouse and joystick
(Some games won't run without a mouse)
Correction:  Load the mouse driver and install a mouse.  If the mouse
is jumpy or erratic, check if the mouse driver load is the correct one.
Also check if serial port and/or mouse is defective or not.

11.  Problems due to incorrect sound drivers, program crashes or
refuses to run.
Correction:  If the program assumes you have a sound card installed
and you have none, run the setup or install utility of the program,
select PC speaker or none (no sound card).  Then the program won't
look for a sound card when running.
If you have a sound card and the program reports no sound card or
incorrect driver, re-install your sound card driver that comes with
the card; check if problem goes away; if not; run the setup or install
utility of the program.

 (c) Copyright 1994-95, Century Software Ltd.
 (c) Copyright 1994-95, Maple Media, Inc.