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- WELCOME TO KID'S ZOO!
-
- Thank you for purchasing Kid's Zoo. We hope to send you off on the
- greatest adventure of all . . .
-
- This "README" file has some additional information and late-breaking
- news that could not make it into the User's Guide as well as some
- important pieces of technical information that bear repeating here.
-
- MEMORY REQUIREMENTS. Kid's Zoo requires approximately 500KB 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 Kid's Zoo under these circum-
- stances, please remove other memory resident programs from memory.
-
- LAPTOP/NOTEBOOK COMPUTER DISPLAYS. Kid's Zoo requires a color VGA
- monitor to display its high-resolution images. It will not work on
- the internal plasma or LCD monitors on laptop PCs. Most laptops,
- however, have a connector for an external monitor, and Kid's Zoo will
- work fine with your laptop hooked to an external VGA monitor.
- Kid's Zoo will run fine on certain laptop screens, such as the
- Toshiba 4400SXC, COMPAQ LTE's and the PC BRAND NB 486slx which have
- 256 shades of grey or color screens. The only problem will be that
- the right edge of the screen will be slightly cut off. This is due
- to the fact that Kid's Zoo runs in the extra high resolution VGA
- video mode of 360 x 480 pixels with 256 colors and most of the
- internal laptop screens can only show 320 pixels in width.
-
- EGA DISPLAYS. Kid's Zoo requires a VGA color monitor and therefore
- will not run on EGA monitors.
-
- MOUSE SUPPORT. Kid's Zoo takes great advantage of your mouse
- if you have one, but it does not require one. There are
- keyboard equivalents spelled out in the User's Guide which will
- allow you to enjoy Kid's Zoo without a mouse.
-
- WINDOWS SOUND DEVICE IN USE MESSAGE. While using a Sound Blaster card
- and attempting to launch Kid's Zoo in Windows, you may get a message
- stating that your sound device is already in use. To remedy this,
- upgrade your SoundBlaster drivers for Windows. If you have a modem
- you can download the new drivers by either calling the Creative Labs'
- BBS directly or by calling the Knowledge Adventure BBS @ (818) 248-0166
- (N,8,1). If you do not have a modem, call our Technical Support
- Department at (818) 542-4200.
-
- NORTON DESKTOP FOR WINDOWS AND WINMATE FOR THE TANDY SENSATION. The
- Kid's Zoo install program will not generate a Knowledge Adventure
- program group when run from Winmate or Norton Desktop for Windows.
- You can either run the install program from Windows Program Manager
- or manually add the Kid's Zoo Icon to the Norton Desktop or Winmate
- after installation is complete.
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- TANDY SENSATION. If your are running Kid's Zoo from DOS, you will
- not hear digital sound during movies. If running Kid's Zoo from
- within Windows, you will hear digital sound during movies if you
- are using the new Tandy Sensation SoundBlaster compatible Windows
- drivers. If you do not have these drivers, and have a modem, you
- may download them from the Knowledge Adventure BBS (see paragraph,
- above).
-
- COMPAQ PROLINEA. During INSTALL, press enter if you get a message
- stating that you do not have a VGA System.
-
- DIGISPEECH PORTABLE. If you are using the Digispeech PortAble Sound
- Plus you will need to copy all of the new BMASTER.* files from
- your Kid's Zoo directory to your DIGISPEECH C:\PORTSND directory.
-
- SOUND SETUP. If you have difficulty successfully running sound
- setup, you may have selected the wrong sound card or you may have
- an I/O conflict with other cards in your computer. See Appendix B,
- "Commonly Asked Questions", page 16, in your User's Guide for
- information about troubleshooting and reconfiguring your system.
-
- To run SETUP in manual mode, type SETUP ? <ENTER> from the DOS
- prompt in your Kid's Zoo directory. This will bypass the automatic
- sound and music tests.
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- PC Speaker driver Copyright, 1988-1993 RealSound, Inc.
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