CHANGES TO RED BARON/A10 Red Baron and A10 were originally written when the average PC was much slower than today's fastest machines. Because of this the original versions of these programs run too quickly or exhibit other flaws on many fast machines. Changes have been made to this version to allow the programs to run smoothly and correctly on any machine available. INSTALLING THE MANUAL If you install the manual and the game both from Windows you should encounter no problems, regardless of whether you have chosen MINIMUM or FULL installation, even if you later choose to run the game from DOS. However, if you first install Red Baron/A10 from DOS and later install the manual from Windows, you must be careful to choose the same size install that you used for the game. The manual is always run from the CD, so your installation choice will not affect the operation of the online manual. However, choosing a different install size when you install the manual may result in some files being changed and render Red Baron/A10 unplayable. If this should happen, simply delete the Red Baron/A10 files from your hard drive and reinstall. RED BARON/A10 AND WINDOWS Red Baron/A10 was originally a DOS application, and while we have provided PIFs and icons to allow you to run under Windows, some systems will not be able to properly execute Red Baron/A10 from Windows. If you have any problems running your program under Windows, we highly recommend you run under DOS. Complete instructions for installing and running Red Baron/A10 under DOS can be found in the technical support portion of the printed documentation. MEMORY CONCERNS Some memory managers may be unable to load both CD ROM drivers and compression drivers into high memory. Because of this it may not be possible to free enough conventional memory to run Red Baron/A10 while your CD ROM drive is enabled. It may be necessary to run Red Baron/A10 from a bootdisk that does not enable your CD ROM drive. Complete instructions are in the technical support section of the printed documentation. THE MANUAL AND 16 COLOR WINDOWS We highly recommend that you view the online manual in 256 colors. While the manual supports 16 color systems, the quality of the artwork will be greatly diminished on these systems, and certain color plates may not be displayed. Most VGA cards are shipped with appropriate drivers to support Windows in 256 color mode. Consult your Windows manual on how to use setup to change video drivers. THE NEED FOR SPEED If the frame rate seems too low or the program doesn't seem to be running smoothly, there are several things to try. First, if you are running under Windows, try running Red Baron/A10 under DOS, following the instructions found in the printed documentation. Reducing the detail of the simulation will also improve frame rate, as will turning the ground detail "off" during combat. The detail selections may be called up by pressing F10 at any time from the sim. Also, smoothness will be increased by sliding the Time Scale slider slightly to the left. This will slow the overall time rate of the game slightly, but will decrease the time that passes between frames and smooth out jumpiness. FOR HELP Technical help and troubleshooting hints for a variety of issues are available in the printed documentation included in this package. Please refer to these hints should you have any problems installing or running Red Baron/A10. The address and phone number for additional technical support, as well as warranty information are also available in this section. Copyright 1994, Dynamix, Inc.   RED BARON COMMON PROBLEMS Problem: The cursor moves around by itself. Solution: You may have a joystick port in the computer with no joystick hooked up. Press ALT-J several times to disable the joystick in the program. There may also be conflicting joystick ports in the computer, or you may be using an older mouse driver. Press ALT-D to toggle the mouse off. If these steps fails to help, check the MSCDEX line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and make sure that it has the following parameters: /M:10 /E If they are not there, make a boot disk and add the parameters on it. An example MSCDEX line would look like the following: LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD001 /M:10 /E Problem: You see random yellow and red spots when flying. Solution: This is normal, these are actually flares being fired from the ground.