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- This file contains the latest information
- for The Heart, The Engine of Life.
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- 1) How to Quit the Program
- 2) Video Modes
- 3) About SVGA Video Modes
- 4) RAM Requirements
- 5) Windows 3.1 considerations.
- 6) Windows 95 considerations.
- 7) Audio Support.
- 8) Written By...
- 9) Contact Information
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- 1) How to Quit the Program
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- PRESS [ALT-Q] TO END THE PROGRAM.
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- 2) Video Modes:
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- SVGA USES VESA 1.2 GRAPHICS MODE 261:
- (1024X768 DOTS, 256-COLOR)
- Requires about 550K BASE RAM.
- Also requires EMM or XMS.
- VGA USES GRAPHICS MODE 19:
- (320X200 DOTS, 256-COLOR)
- Requires about 520K BASE RAM.
- CGA USES GRAPHICS MODE 4:
- (320X200 DOTS, 4-COLOR)
- Requires about 400K BASE RAM.
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- SVGA WILL RUN, OR DROPS DOWN TO:
- HEART.BAT MCGA if you have VGA
- HEART.BAT VGA will also use VGA
- HEART.BAT CGA if you have CGA.
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- 3) About SVGA Video Modes
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- If you have a SVGA video card with
- the required amount of memory,
- but HEART drops down to VGA mode
- you may require a VESA driver.
- Most current video cards have the VESA
- standard built into the hardware, and
- do not require a driver.
- We include a generic VESA driver. It
- is a copyrighted public domain program,
- meaning that it may be distributed
- freely but should not be altered.
- You MUST read the documentation that
- comes with it and install it correctly.
- Reboot to remove. It's name is
- UNIVESA (for UNIversal VESA driver).
- We did not write UNIVESA. Under NO
- circumstances can we support, or take
- any responsibilities for, UNIVESA.
- It is usually better to find the driver
- that probably came with your original
- disks for your video card and install
- that instead, but 95% of the time,
- UNIVESA will work just as well.
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- 4) RAM Requirements
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- If you do not have sufficient BASE RAM,
- The program will go to a lower screen
- resolution too, because the lower
- resolutions use less Base Ram. Base Ram
- is the memory in the first 640K, which
- DOS makes available to programs.
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- If you have trouble running the SVGA
- or MCGA versions you may need to free
- some BASE RAM by temporarily removing
- some TSR programs or DOS SHELLS from
- your computer system.
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- 5) Windows 3.1 considerations.
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- Multitasking in Windows 3.1 is not
- supported in SVGA mode. The Heart,
- The Engine of Life should be closed
- ([ALT-Q]) before returning to
- Windows. Additionally, you may
- experience difficulty running the SVGA
- version from your regular MS-DOS prompt
- within Windows. You should either:
- Create a PIF file, or: Exit Windows
- completely and run our program
- from DOS.
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- 6) Windows 95 considerations.
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- Windows 95 users usually will need 16
- megs of RAM to run the SVGA version
- of our heart tutorial because Win95
- will not release enough memory
- for animation purposes if you have
- less RAM. It will swap disk memory
- instead. Even though the program needs
- only about a meg of RAM, to run with
- less than about 16 Megs in Win95 it
- appears that you should generally
- shut Win95 down and restart in DOS.
- With more than 16 Meg, you can write
- a shortcut. However if disk swapping
- occurs during our animations (i.e.
- your hard drive light flashes and
- the animations appear excessively
- jerky) you might want to try shutting
- Win95 down and see if it gets smoother.
- The hard drive light should stop
- flickering during animation sequences
- and the animations should run much
- smoother.
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- 7) Audio Support.
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- This program supports Sound Blaster
- audio cards and 100% compatibles.
- However, Sound Blaster is not supported
- when run from within Windows.
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- To hear the audio available in the
- program you will need to have a BLASTER
- statement in your DOS ENVIRONMENT. See
- your sound card's documentation if you
- are unsure of how to put a BLASTER
- statement in your DOS ENVIRONMENT.
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- Some Sounds copyright Talon Software
- Other Sounds copyright Sound Ideas
- Other Sounds copyright Animated
- Software Company.
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- See our online documentation for
- more help. Our web address appears
- below.
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- 8) Written by...
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- THE HEART: THE ENGINE OF LIFE
- was written by John Keenan
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- Programming and Graphics by
- Russell D. Hoffman
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- Copyright (c) 1985-97
- Hoffman, Keenan, Schorer
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- 9) Contact Information:
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- Created with software from:
- THE ANIMATED SOFTWARE COMPANY
- P.O. Box 188006
- Carlsbad CA 92009
- (800) 551-2726
- (619) 720-7261
- (Area Code 760 after March, 1997)
- Email:rhoffman@animatedsoftware.com
- Visit us on the World Wide Web!
- http://www.animatedsoftware.com
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