ABE'S EXODDUS REQUIRES 16-BIT HI-COLOR MODE

If your SVGA display card doesn't support 16-bit High Color
mode, then Abe's Exoddus will not run.

In addition, some older display cards that do support High Color
mode don't switch to it properly under Direct X.  Before you
call technical support, try this :
Select Start->Settings->Control Panel, then Double click on
Display to bring up the Display Properties dialog box.  Choose
the Settings tab, and select "High Color (16 bit)", then click
on OK.  You will be prompted to restart your computer, and
after it restarts, try running the game again.  You may notice
your wallpaper and icons look a lot better now, too!

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USING THE ALTERNATE DISPLAY MODES

If the game runs too slowly on your machine, or if the movies
are jerky, you may want to try the alternate display modes.
You must create a shortcut to run the AbeWin.exe program
with the appropriate command line option.  First, locate
the file AbeWin.exe (in the directory you installed to,
probably C:\Program Files\Abe's Exoddus), and right click
on the file.  Select "Create Shortcut", then find the
Shortcut file created (called "Shortcut to Abe's Exoddus").
Right click on this, then select Properties.  Choose the
Shortcut tab, and edit the "Target" field, adding one of
the following command line parameters to the end of the
line (seperated from Exoddus.exe by a space) :

-interline       Every other line is blacked out. 
-vstretch        Lines are doubled (this may not work
                 on some display cards, if it doesn't,
                 use INTRLINE).

Select OK, then click on this Shortcut to run Abe. You
might want to rename the shortcut something more
appropriate.