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=============================================================================
LEGAL INFORMATION: COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK NOTICES
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Bölz! Copyright 1994 COGnition Development Team
All Rights Reserved
Limited Distribution Rights Granted (Read VENDOR.DOC)
The Bölz! Story Copyright 1994 COGnition Development Team
All Rights Reserved
Bölz! is being distributed as shareware. It is _not_ free software.
Bölz! and the Bölz! logo are registered trademarks of Straffan Production
Company, Limited.
The images of:
Billy Bölz!;
Henry The Butler;
Billy's Father;
The Vacuballopter;
The BolBot;
The ClobberBot;
The BurnBot;
The JunkBot; and
The COGhead Logo are all registered trademarks of Straffan Production
Company, Limited.
COGnition Development Team is owned and operated by Straffan Production
Company, Limited.
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LEGAL INFORMATION: WARRANTY
=============================================================================
NO WARRANTY, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED IS GIVEN AS TO THE FUNCTIONALITY
OF THIS SOFTWARE UNDER ANY POSSIBLE CONFIGURATION. YOU USE IT COMPLETELY
AT YOUR OWN RISK, AND AGREE NOT TO HOLD COGnition Development Team OR ITS
PARENT COMPANY Straffan Production Company, LTD., RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY
DAMAGES, EITHER CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL WHICH MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OR
MISUSE OF THIS COMPUTER SOFTWARE.
BY INSTALLING AND OPERATING THIS COMPUTER SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS
AND LIMITATIONS OF THIS WARRANTY.
ANY AND ALL LEGAL DISPUTES WILL BE SETTLED IN THE JURISDICTION OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
CERTAIN STATES DO NOT ALLOW LIMITATIONS TO BE PLACED AGAINST SUCH WARRANTIES
AS THIS. YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS NOT MENTIONED IN THIS
WARRANTY.
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System Requirements for running Bölz!:
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- 80486sx processor or faster (486 instructions used)
- Keyboard, Joystick or "Game Pad"
- 2 megabytes of RAM
- Color VGA Graphics
- 5 megabytes available hard disk space
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Suggested Accessories:
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- 80486 33MHz machine or faster - Pentium kicks butt!!
- 8 megabytes of RAM is better than two!
- Sound Card
Sound Blaster, SBPro, SB16
Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum, PAS Plus, PAS 16
Gravis Ultrasound with at least 512k On-board RAM (1024k
suggested)
- The Gravis PC Gamepad or similarly styled joystick device is
highly recommended. The "Game Pad"-style joystick is best
suited for games like Bölz!
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Forward (Real quick start, please read on. . . .)
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Hello! Thank you very much for trying our new game, Bölz! Bölz! makes use
of almost every available system resource your computer has to offer, and by
doing that, it has some special requirements:
1) Please do not load any TSR's that are not needed. A mouse
driver is a good example, as Bölz! does not make use of a
mouse. You don't even need to have HIMEM.SYS loaded, as
we are using the DOS/4GW protected mode interface by Rational
Systems which lets us access all the RAM you have. For
example, if you have 8 megabytes of RAM, we can access up
to 8 megabytes of RAM. TSR's will slow your computer down,
though. EMM386.EXE is the worst system speed offender.
Load it ONLY IF YOU REALLY, REALLY, REALLY, REALLY NEED IT!
You can try creating a clean boot disk which you would then
use to start your computer for absolute best performance
while playing Bölz! The installation utility will ask you
if you want to create one, and so will BSETUP. Simply
have a diskette handy and reply "Y" to the question when
asked if you want to take advantage of this feature.
2) You can not run Bölz! from a multitasking environment such
as Quarterdeck's DesqView or Microsoft Windows, for example.
These environments tax your microprocessor way too much to
even remotely enjoy Bölz! Bölz! must be run straight from
the DOS command line. If you need help doing this, there is
a section of this documentation called "Running Bölz!"
later in this document.
3) The faster your video card, the faster Bölz! will not run?
What? Well, Bölz! has enough overhead time (time spent
twidling its thumbs) on a 486 33MHz system to run under
quite literally the oldest and slowest ISA VGA cards.
A 486sx 25MHz system with only 2 megabytes of RAM, however,
will show a definite improvement if your VGA card is newer
or "accellerated."
Bölz! runs at a smooth 30 frames per second, even on slower
486's IF YOU TURN OFF PARALLAXING SCROLLING! Parallax
scrolling requires a screen to be drawn literally twice,
so, if you notice your computer grinding to a halt when you
can see through certain holes in the floors of the mazes,
try using BSETUP.EXE to turn off Parallaxing scrolling. A
486 33MHz - 50MHz is a good starting point at which to turn
on Parallaxing. 486 66MHz systems are absolutely perfect,
and Pentiums (any) seriously kick butt!!
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Getting Started
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Bölz! is a fairly simple game to set up. Hopefully, you are reading this
file immediately after decompressing the first archive you received. If not,
it might be a good idea to go ahead and decompress the ORIGINAL .ZIP files
you received into their own directory. "C:\TEMP" is a good idea, as the
files will be extracted to a directory which you may specify during
installation, and it's a good idea to extract them to a directory which
does not contain the compressed volumes (self-extracting archives).
Once this is done, you are ready to begin installing Bölz onto your system.
The executable file, BINSTALL.EXE will walk you through this process. Type
BINSTALL while in the directory into which you have decompressed the
ORIGINAL compressed file you downloaded.
You will be asked for the drive onto which you want to install the Bölz!
files. This drive must be a fixed disk, "hard drive," or removable high-
capacity cartridge (Bernoulli, SyQuest, etc.) with at least 5 megabytes free
space. Bölz! cannot be run from diskette! Next, you will asked into which
subdirectory you would like to install Bölz! You may type up to 80
characters into this field.
When you have completed the above two steps, BINSTALL takes over and creates
all necessary files and directories to run Bölz! on your system. A permanent
directory will always be created on drive C: to store game saves, top
scores, etc. This directory should never be required to store more than
one megabyte, so don't worry about file space (unless you're _really_ tight
for space! =-)
If you should delete this directory or tamper with or delete any of the files
within, you will need to run BSETUP.EXE again, and will lose any High Score
Tables which may have been created. You also run the risk of losing any game
saves which you have created during game play. It is good practice to just
leave this directory alone once it has been created. Do NOT rename or move
any of the files in this directory to another name or location on your
computer. Bölz! will not be able to find this highly necessary information,
and will reply with an error message during