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Harvester
Installation / Technical Reference
Thank you for choosing to play the "Harvester" demo. "Harvester" is one of the most
intense adventure game products ever released! Please refer to this brief information
file for quick and easy reference regarding the "Harvester" demo.
HARVESTER INTRODUCTION
Welcome to Harvester. We would like to take a moment to help you become familiar
with the installation instructions if this is the first time you have setup the demo.
During the installation, the screen will guide you through the setup process.
The following are the basic system requirements. Please make sure your system matches
the minimum specifications.
GAME SPECIFICATIONS / REQUIREMENTS
Harvester requires the following MINIMUM configuration in order to play properly:
IBMÖ PC or Compatible 486DX/33 MHz Processor or greater
VESA local bus video card with 512K video memory or greater
8MB RAM or greater (16MB RAM recommended)
Double Speed (2X) CD-ROM drive or greater
Sound device with Digital Sound Capability
MSCDEX drivers v 2.1 or greater
MicrosoftÖ compatible mouse and mouse driver (version 8.0 or greater)
30MB free hard disk drive space
Note: If your system is using disk compression software such as Double Space or
Drive Space, you will probably notice longer program loading time. Harvester will
run on computer systems that have such compression software installed. However,
we cannot guarantee that problems will not occur if other compression software is used.
For better performance we recommend using a drive without software disk compression.
BEFORE INSTALLING
Before installing the game, it is always a good idea to verify the integrity and data
on your hard disk drive. To do this simply run SCANDISK or DEFRAG from the dos prompt
or from Windows. Damaged data on your hard disk may result in your system not working
properly.
INSTALLING HARVESTER FROM DOS
To install Harvester,
1. Insert CD #1 in your drive.
2. Type the letter of your CD-ROM drive followed by a colon. (Example: D:) then press
ENTER. The prompt should display D:\ or similar.
3. Type "INSTALL" and press ENTER
4. Follow the on screen instructions to install "Harvester" on your computer system.
5. When installation is complete, type "HARVEST" to begin game.
ADDITIONAL INSTALLATION NOTES FOR DOS USERS
If you are using the EMS memory option/switch make sure you have at least 8MB
(8192K) or more specified in the device= statement in the config.sys. You may also use
the option switch AUTO or do not specify any optional memory control parameters, such
as the NOEMS option, or you may remove the line from your CONFIG.SYS file entirely.
Example line for the CONFIG.SYS file:
device=emm386.exe 8192, or
device=emm386.exe noems
device=emm386.exe auto
Please make sure your CONFIG.SYS file has the statement "FILES=20" or greater.
"Harvester" requires 500K of FREE available conventional (low) RAM in order to
function properly. If your system has less than 500K FREE conventional (low) memory,
you may need to run the "MEMMAKER" utility in order to increase your FREE RAM.
If your system has only 8MB of RAM, you will need to disable the SMARTDRV or any
other disk caching program. "Harvester" uses approximately 7MB of available memory
so with SMARTDRV or other disk caching programs loaded there is not enough memory
available for the game.
IMPORTANT! "Harvester" requires a swap file of 20MB to be available on your
local hard disk drive. If you do not have at least 20MB of free disk space when playing
"Harvester" the program may stop or crash the computer system. If your system has
16MB of RAM or greater, this swapfile is not needed.
SOUND CARD INFORMATION
NOTE: ôHarvesterö usually detects most sound cards and the appropriate settings when
the game begins. However, should the game not run, you may run the "SETSOUND"
program from the directory in which you installed the game files. The "SETSOUND"
program will guide you in detecting or selecting the correct parameters for your sound
card.
You may also run the SETSOUND program from within Windows 3.1 or Windows 95.
To run the program simply click on the ôSound Setupö icon.
In addition, be sure the appropriate sound drivers are installed. Your sound card should
be supplied with an installation program which configures your sound card to function
properly with DOS games. If these drivers are not installed, or they are incorrectly
configured, the game may not function properly, or may freeze your computer system.
VIDEO CARD (VESA) INFORMATION
ôHarvesterö utilizes hi-resolution graphics and requires your computer system be VESA
compatible. This is usually a software driver which is supplied by your video card
manufacturer.
When starting "Harvester" the game will attempt to "detect" if the VESA driver is loaded.
However some newer computer systems have VESA on the computers motherboard
which is automatically enabled when the game starts.
However, if after allowing ôHarvesterö to run the VESA driver for you, the computer
system freezes or "locks up", you will have to manually place the VESA driver in your
AUTOEXEC.BAT in order to function properly. If you do not have a VESA driver for
your video card, CD #1 has the latest VESA drivers available located in the VESA
directory and may solve the VESA problem. Please also refer to the file VESA.TXT
located in the VESA directory. Simply copy the appropriate VESA driver to your hard
disk and add the name of the driver (usually VESA.EXE, or VESA.COM) to your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Next, re-boot your system with the new VESA driver and try
again.
STARTING HARVESTER FROM DOS
To play ôHarvesterö after it has been installed:
1) Make sure the CD-ROM is properly inserted into your CD-ROM drive.
2) Change to the drive and directory where you previously installed ôHarvesterö.
3) Type ôHARVESTö and press ENTER to begin game.
UNINSTALLING HARVESTER
To remove ôHarvesterö using DOS select the uninstall utility called ôUNSTALLö located
in the directory in which you originally installed the program.