Discovering Endangered Wildlife, Trial Version 1.1
ReadMe File - (15/3/96)

Trial Version
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   Thank you for trying David Bellamy's Discovering Endangered Wildlife from GSP.        

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   All 24 animals in the Game.
   44 animals in the Discovery Tour.

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Contents
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 QuickTime for Windows (tm)
 Starting the Game
 Online User's Guide
 System Configuration Notes
   Video
   Audio
   RAM
   Fonts
 Technical Support


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*** QuickTime for Windows

The setup program will also install QuickTime for Windows on
your system.  QuickTime is used to play the movies contained
within (and is required to run) Discovering Endangered Wildlife.
If you already have QuickTime on your system, it will be updated.

Note: If you see any error messages during the setup of QuickTime
for Windows, you may need to make system adjustments (i.e. free up
some hard disk space or close other programs to free up memory),
and then reinstall QuickTime for Windows.  You may reinstall Quick
Time for Windows without reinstalling Discovering Endangered
Wildlife by running the SETUP.EXE program located in the QT sub-
directory of the CD.

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*** System Configuration Notes

If you experience any difficulties installing or running DEW, you
may wish to scan the notes below as well as those in the
Troubleshooting section of the online "Wildlife User's Guide".

Video ----------------

* If SETUP told you that your video adaptor does not currently
  support 256 colors, yet you're sure that it does (or so the ad
  for your computer said...), the problem is most likely that the
  current video driver loaded by Windows supports only 16 colors.

  First, run Windows SETUP and see if there is a 256 driver
  available.  Windows ships a SVGA 256 color driver that will
  work with most video cards.  Install the Windows SVGA driver,
  restart Windows, then restart the game.  

  If you couldn't find the Windows SVGA driver, check to see 
  if your computer or video card came with a diskette which 
  contains the proper video driver...

  If that doesn't work, check CompuServe, AOL, or Prodigy for
  drivers...

  If that doesn't work (at which point you're probably ready to
  throw something... but relax, life's too short...),  check with
  either (a) the company you bought your computer from; or
  (b) the video card manufacturer.  One of them should be able to
  supply you with the latest drivers.

* If your PC's video card supports more than 256 colors (eg,
  32,000 or 64,000), and you wish to use Windows in one of these
  video modes, you may need more than 8 MB of memory (RAM) to use
  DEW.  If you run into problems, try switching your video driver
  to it's 256 color mode, which uses less memory.

Audio ----------------

* Discovering Endangered Wildlife uses "Extended Midi" (as opposed
  to Basic Midi).  Most sound cards sold in the past couple years
  are automatically setup for Extended Midi.  If you do not hear
  any music when you run the program, check the MIDI MAPPER
  section of the Windows Control Panel to make sure that Extended
  Midi is enabled.

RAM ----------------

* DEW tends to run better when you don't have many other apps
  open at the same time.  If you fail to hear either midi (music)
  or narration, try closing some windows and trying again.

* If pictures mysteriously disappear, it is almost definitely a
  low RAM situation (we're pushing a lot of 256 color images
  around...).  We've found that systems without a permanent swap
  file need to have 10 MB of free disk space before you start
  Windows in order to provide Windows with enough working storage.
  Check in CONTROL panel.

Fonts ----------------

* If you get some strange looking font instead of Lyriq's
  Discovery Bold, run CONTROL panel and install Discovery Bold
  from the D:\DEW\FONTS directory (assuming that D: is your CD-ROM
  drive).


Getting: your videos to run quicker/smoother:
To make your videos run more smoothly (ie. on slow machines), check that
the DEW.INI file in your installation directory contains the line
CPU=1
If you have a faster machines eg. pentium, and wish to view better
quality videos, then set the line to be:
CPU=2


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