A team of astronauts is mysteriously transported to an alien world where they uncover artifacts of an ancient, yet advanced civilization. They must sift through the ruins and assemble the necessary technology to take them home. In the process, the basic elements of greed and self-preservation erupt as an important discovery tips the delicate balance of the group and forces them to examine the hidden motivations behind their actions.
This demonstration version of The Dig challenges you to solve a couple of the full game’s many puzzles. If you enjoyed playing the demonstration version of The Dig and would like to order the full game, please check with your local software retailer or call 1-800-98-LUCAS.
Topics
Controls
Solutions to Common Problems
Technical Support
Controls
In the game, you control commander Boston Low. Controlling Boston in the game is very straightforward. To walk around, simply click the mouse where you want to go. To interact with objects, just click on them; if there is an appropriate action to be taken, it will be chosen automatically. To view the contents of your inventory, click on the “i” icon in the lower-left corner of the screen.
Solutions to Common Problems
The Dig loads, but claims it doesn’t have enough space left to play sounds.
The Dig is probably using up almost every last scrap of memory, and there is no room left over in your system to initialize the Sound Manager. To fix this, you should make sure you have quit out of any other applications that may be taking up valuable memory. You might also need to disable some control panels and/or extensions, or lower The Dig’s Preferred memory partition (if you have it raised up).
Try as I might, I can’t seem to find enough free memory to run The Dig.
It is possible that with certain system configurations, there may not be a way to free up enough RAM to run The Dig on an 8MB machine. In this case, we recommend that you play with virtual memory turned ON. Go into the Memory control panel and click the “On” button next to the virtual memory section. Then use the arrow control to adjust the amount of virtual memory you wish to use. For best performance, we recommend setting your virtual memory to the lowest possible value. Once you have virtual memory turned on, you will get a warning when you launch The Dig; simply press on in spite of the warning and you will be able to play, with some performance degradation.
The sound breaks up and stutters during play.
You probably either have virtual memory turned on in the Memory control panel or you are running with a third-party RAM extender utility installed. In either case, the solution is to disable the offender. To disable virtual memory, select the Memory control panel and click the “Off” button in the virtual memory section. To disable your RAM extender utility, use the Extensions Manager control panel to turn it off before playing. In either case, you will need to restart your Mac for the changes to take effect.
Technical Support
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