Dear Ozzie's World Owner, Just a quick note to make the running of Ozzie's World a little easier for those of you who didn't dive right in to the manual! If you have seen the introduction to any of the scenes one too many times, you may skip it while it is playing by pressing the space bar once. You may also go directly to the active scene by holding down the shift key while clicking once on the map or the icons at either corner of the scenes. The entire Ozzie development team hopes you have as much fun using Ozzie's World as we had creating it! Have Fun! The Ozzie Team ------------------- GETTING STARTED QUICKLY ------------------- Step 1 - Place the Ozzie's World CD in you CD-ROM drive. Step 2 - The first time you use Ozzie's World you'll need to create an icon for it in your Windows Program Manager. To do this simply select "Run" from under the "File" menu at the top of the Program Manager. At the command line type in D:\SETUP. An icon for Ozzie's World will be created. Step 3 - To start the program, double-click on the Ozzie's World icon. Step 4 - Wait. The title screen will appear, then the opening scene. Listen carefully as Ozzie shows you around, especially when he shows you how to use the signpost... Be sure to set your monitor size to 640 x 480 and your resolution to 256 colors (8 bit). For additional help and instructions, click on the ambulance in the program. For serious problems call the Ozzie's World Technical Support Department at 918-742-2022. -------------Technical Hints for PC/Windows Users ------------- 1. Changes that can be made to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file This modification to AUTOEXEC.BAT seems to offer the best operating environment for Ozzie's World. Even with this setup, we have observed some "jumpieness" in the puzzles, and hidden pictures. To make this change open the NOTEPAD application in the ACCESORIES group. Then select Open command in the File menu. Then change the List Files of Type by selecting All files (*.*) from the list that appears when the down arrow is clicked. Under Directories, double click on the C:\ to change to the main (or root) directory of the C: drive. Then double-click on AUTOEXEC.BAT in the list on the left side. This will open the AUTOEXEC.BAT and allow you to edit it. Add the following line: LH C:\DOS\SMARTDRV.EXE 1024 256 /X (If this line already exists in this file, just add the "1024 256 /X" to the end of it.) Please Note: Any "/L" arguments that are seen in this command should not be changed. They are placed there by MEMMAKER for system optimization. Removing them or altering them will change the amount of Low or Conventional memory you have available and this could affect system performance. After the changes have been made, select the Save command from the File menu. This will write the changes you have made back to the hard drive. Then select the Exit command from the same menu to exit this program. Windows should be exited and the computer rebooted to allow the changes take effect. 2. General Protection Faults If any General Protection Fault errors are experienced during execution of Ozzie's World, there are two probable causes. First, Windows 3.11 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 have a driver named SuperVGA 640x480, 256 colors that should be selected from the WINDOWS SETUP program. If the driver is present, you should opt to KEEP the current driver. The Windows version can be determined from the ABOUT PROGRAM MANAGER selection under the HELP menu in the PROGRAM MANAGER. If this driver is not available, the driver for your display set to 65K colors should operate effectivly in most cases. Please note that 65K colors slows the graphics down immensely and the first scene may draw erratically, but no other ill effects should be noticed. 3. Ghosted Animations When the video controller is set to 16 colors, the video is very sketchy, animation is slow, and most figures are seen only as Outlines. Please see the Note 2 above about preferred video driver settings. 4. Sluggish Operation If the Puzzles and Games are very sluggish and there is a lot of CD access the first minute or so of game useage see Note 1 about the changing your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Packard Bell and Acer computers may experience sluggishness outside of these bounds. The Navigator program (and others like it) that load up automatically will not unload normally. They must be deleted from the StartUp folder and Windows restarted. This can be done, by selecting the icon with a single mouse click, and pressing the Delete key. Windows should then be exited and re-entered to ensure that Navigator is no longer active. Low conventional memory resources can also cause sluggishness. The amount of executable memory available should be greater than 560K as indicated by the MEM command at the DOS prompt (C:>). If this is not the case, a memory optimizer should be run to change this condition. For most users, the MEMMAKER command will solve this. We recommend responding NO when asked about programs needing EMS if all your applications are in Windows. This should make the maximum amount of RAM available. If you have games that require EMS, the respond YES instead. For users with QEMM, the OPTIMIZE command will do the same. 5. No Sound Use the mixer program that came with your specific sound card. This will typically be in a folder in the PROGRAM MANAGER named the same as your sound card (ie. Forte 16, SB Pro, Galaxy Pro). The cause is often one level, such as the Wave level being set to zero. ------------------- WARRANTY INFORMATION --------------------- Digital Impact warrants for 90 days within the original retail purchase date of this software that it is free of substantial errors interfering with its operation as is described in this documentation. This warranty applies only to the initial purchaser and when this software is used with the specified equipment. If you find the enclosed software to be defective within 90 days of the original retail purchase, please contact the Digital Impact technical support department at 918-742-2022, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Moday - Friday, Central Standard Time. If the problem cannot be corrected over the telephone, Digital Impact will replace the software free-of-charge. Digital Impact warrants only that the software will perform as is described in its documentation. 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