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- WELCOME TO KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURE!
-
- Thank you for purchasing Knowledge Adventure. We hope to
- send you off on the greatest adventure of all . . .
-
- We would love to hear from you -- if you have any questions,
- suggestions, or ideas, please don't hesitate to call us at
- 800-542-4240 or fax us at 818-542-4205. Our mission is to make
- exciting, breakthrough educational software, and the more
- feedback we get from you, the better we will be able to do that.
- Also, remember to send in your registration card so we will know
- where to send the FREE KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURE BONUS DISK and can let
- you know about future updates!
-
- We have designed Knowledge Adventure to be as clear and
- intuitive as possible. We have tested it extensively with
- children and adults so that you probably won't even need to open
- our manual. But we do suggest you take a look at our User's
- Guide for additional ideas on how to make your experience with
- Knowledge Adventure even more rewarding.
-
- This "readme" file has some additional information and
- late-breaking news that could not make it into the User's Guide.
-
- ADDITIONAL KEYBOARD SUPPORT. In addition to the keyboard
- equivalents to certain mouse-based actions described in the
- User's Guide, the following may also be used (where more than one
- action is indicated, the result will depend on the location of
- the cursor):
-
- Ctrl + Enter Locks/unlocks category buttons; and
- Fast scroll through the index
-
- Ctrl + PgUp Page Up/Page Down in the text window
- Ctrl + PgDn
-
- Ctrl + PrtScr Print text window
-
- Tab Cycles through buttons or "travel"
- or areas; when a dialog box is
- Shift + Tab displayed, cycles only through the
- buttons within it
-
- SOUND. Even if you do not have a supplemental sound card or
- other specialized output device for sound, Knowledge Adventure
- will reproduce its sounds through your computer's speaker on all
- but the oldest machines. In general, if you have an IBM AT-class
- (286) machine or its equivalent, you will have no problems using
- the PC speaker for sound.
-
- ADDING A SOUND DEVICE AFTER INITIAL INSTALL. If you
- purchase a new sound device after you've installed Knowledge
- Adventure, you will need to rerun a portion of the Install
- program in order to take advantage of the device's sound
- capabilities. To accomplish this, run Install from the
- beginning, starting with Disk 1. Advance through the Install
- questions providing the same responses as you did during the
- initial installation until you come to the screen that asks which
- sound device you have. Select one by pressing the number next to
- its name on the screen. When the Install program asks for the
- second disk, press the Control and Break keys simultaneously to
- exit from Install. All of the necessary changes will have been
- made at that point, and you will be able to use the software with
- your new sound device.
-
- IF INSTALL SEEMS SLOW. Depending on your computer,
- installing the first Knowledge Adventure Disk may seem to take a
- long time. Don't worry, nothing has gone wrong; the Install
- program is preparing the compressed files for your hard disk.
- Subsequent disks will be finished more quickly.
-
- USING DISK COMPRESSION PRODUCTS. Programs such as
- Stacker(r) that compress your files on the hard disk may indicate
- that you have enough disk space to install Knowledge Adventure
- completely when you really do not. These programs report on your
- disk space based on how much they are usually able to compress
- your files. The files Knowledge Adventure copies to your hard
- disk are already compressed and your disk compression program
- will not be able to compress them further to give you more space.
-
- IF YOU DIDN'T COMPLETE INSTALL BECAUSE OF LOW DISK SPACE.
- You have the option of installing a portion of Knowledge
- Adventure when you do not have the full 7.5 megabytes required on
- your hard disk. (Note: When Knowledge Adventure is finished
- installing, you will see that the files amount to just over six
- megabytes on your hard disk; the additional space is used during
- Install for temporary files that are later deleted.) If you
- choose to do this, the program will still run. You will notice,
- however, that at times Knowledge Adventure does not appear to
- respond when you click on an icon or one of the other "travel
- button" areas. This happens because the program is looking for a
- particular screen that isn't there. Just click again, or try
- clicking on another area, and the program will respond.
-
- KNOWLEDGE ADVENTURE WITH WINDOWS(r) OR DESQVIEW(r).
- Knowledge Adventure will run under both Windows and DESQview.
- Because of conflicts with certain aspects of those operating
- environments, however, sound output may be limited. In Windows
- Enhanced Mode and in DESQview, you will only get sound output by
- using a Sound Blaster(r) card. In Windows Enhanced mode, be sure
- to add the line DMABUFFERSIZE=050 (or a higher value) in the "386
- enhanced" section of the SYSTEM.INI file to allow the Sound
- Blaster to work correctly. In Windows Standard mode, all types
- of sound output will work fine. For Windows users, we have also
- included a KA.PIF file that is optimized for using Knowledge
- Adventure under Windows (Windows will use it automatically).
-
- CONFLICT WITH MEMORY-RESIDENT PROGRAMS. Knowledge Adventure
- requires approximately 340KB of RAM in order to run. Even when
- there is adequate total RAM to run the program, there may be
- conflicts with other programs occupying memory. If you
- experience difficulty in running Knowledge Adventure under these
- circumstances, please remove other programs from memory.
-
- ADDITIONAL CREDITS. Additional photographs or illustrations
- were provided by Comstock, Inc.; Phototech (a division of
- PhotoBank, Inc.); Patrick O'Neil; Mark Porterfield; Larry Hill;
- and Colleen Grogan. Music segments were performed by Steve
- Hall. The Install program was written by Larry Gross.
- Supplemental globe development was provided by Michael "Binky"
- Batchelder.
-
- SPECIAL THANKS. Special thanks to the families of everyone
- involved in Knowledge Adventure for all of their time, patience,
- understanding and support throughout the many very long days and
- nights of work in the past months. And a special thanks to David
- Gross, 5, for the inspiration for this product, and for letting
- us use his computer for scanning images and testing the product.
-
- Thanks again for your interest in Knowledge Adventure!
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- Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
- DESQview is a registered trademark of Quarterdeck Office Systems.
- Stacker is a registered trademark of Stac Electronics.
-