=================================================================== ***** FIVE STAR GAMES: ANIMATIONS ***** =================================================================== Thank you for purchasing this CD. We at Ready To Run CDROM, Inc. is proud to give you a user-friendly and quality product. The whole CD is completely menu driven and unzipped for easy operation. This CD has over 620Mb of animations, sounds, utilities, and games. This is equivalent to over two hours of video and many more hours of fun games! Over 90% of the programs on this CD requires VGA graphics support and is graphics intensive. Most of the programs will run directly from this CD, saving you valuable hard disk space. You can print out this installation file by pressing "P". Make sure your printer is turned "ON". The whole CD has been scanned by McAfee's virus detection software and no virus are found. ==================================================================== SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ==================================================================== -- 386SX-16 or faster computer -- 2Meg RAM, preferrable 4Meg (8Meg or more would be nice) -- VGA card w/512k (preferrable 1Meg) -- VGA color monitor -- Serial mouse (some games do not run without a mouse) -- MS-DOS or PC-DOS 5.0 or later versions -- Windows 3.1 or later versions -- Optional Sound Blaster compatible sound card and speaker (highly recommended, some programs on this CD support a sound card) ==================================================================== INSTALLATION ==================================================================== 1. This CD-ROM assumes your WINDOWS directory is set in the system path (set by your AUTOEXEC.BAT file); an example would be: PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\DOS; D:\MENU; Notes: Normal WINDOWS installation would have done this automatically for you. It would be helpful if you also put the "MENU" subdirectory into the PATH statement. NO INSTALLATION IS NEEDED if you are happy with the default settings of the MENU and you have already installed VIDEO FOR WINDOWS (VFW) in your system. If otherwise, all you need to do is install VFW. Instructions are listed in the FIVE STAR GAMES MENU. 2. Assuming the FIVE STAR CD is put inside the CD-ROM and you log into the CD-ROM ( for example, if "D" is your CD-ROM), type "START" and then key D>START You will see the "FIVE STAR GAMES: ANIMATIONS" menu, simply move cursor bar with up and down arrow keys or use your mouse. Hit or click your mouse on the item that you want to run. Some games write to the disk when updating the configuration file or top score file. This will cause a disk error because CDROM is a READ-ONLY device. This error will NOT damage your system. It's OK as long as you don't care recording down your high scores. If otherwise, you may copy the game to your hard disk and run it from there. Graphics and sound intensive games requires LOTS of memory. Some of the big games here requires 560K plus memory to run. Please use MEMMAKER (MS-DOS 6.x), or RAMBOOST (IBM DOS 6.1), or QEMM to optimized your system memory setting. NOTES: If you get "General Protection Error" or memory address error messages when running Windows, simply exit Windows, reboot system. and run WINDOWS again. Some programs may run OK as the FIRST application loaded in the memory and do not co-exist with other programs running in the background. ======================================================================== TIPS FOR RUNNING WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM ======================================================================== This CD-ROM is completely menu-driven and you should have no problem in running all the programs directly from the CD. However, if you want to copy the programs onto your hard disk, you need to be familiar with the basic steps in running the Windows operating system. If you are a first time Windows user or you are not familiar with the basic operations of Windows, please read your Windows Users Guide on the steps required to run files and manage groups and files under Windows. The following chapters in your Windows User Manual (come with your Windows 3.xx disks) will help you running this CD-ROM. --------------------------------------------------------------------- CHAPTER TOPIC --------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 2 Starting Applications Starting An Application with "RUN" command Chapter 3 Creating And Deleting Groups Working With Program Items Chapter 4 Moving and Copying Files and Directories ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ===================================================================== OTHER IMPORTANT SHAREWARE UTILITIES ===================================================================== PKZIP FILE COMPRESSION AND DECOMPRESSION UTILITY PKZIP is included in this CD for your convenience. You can compress any game for electronic transmisson or copying to diskettes with PKZIP. ELFTREE HARD DISK MANAGEMENT UTILITY This niftly utility helps you view any text file and manipulate file transfer between drives. Please copy the whole subdirectory to your hard disk for smoother operation. ELFTREE creates an index file for high speed sorting, which would create "error opening file" if you run it from the CD. You may ignore the error message and continue the program. DIRECTORY COMMANDER FILE MANAGEMENT UTILITY This is another great hard disk management utility. It differs from ELFTREE in not creating an index for searching and sorting. MCAFEE VIRUS SCAN UTILITIES This is one of the most powerful viruses detection utility. SOUND CARD DEFAULT SETTING The default setting of the sound card for the games on this CD are: (it is the default of the Sound Blaster Card of Creative Lab) --- IRQ7 --- address 220 --- DMA1 These games are tested with Sound Blaster compatible cards from Gallant (SC-3000, 4000) and Zoltrix's Audio Plus Card. 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