GameStar 2000 July/Gamestar_20_2000-07_cd2.bin/DOS/DOSREAD.TXT

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                      Faery Tale Adventure II
                       The Halls of the Dead
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                MS-DOS README Notes


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Contents
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  This and other documentation files
  Known problems
    Alliance ProMotion video cards
    AMD and Cyrix based systems
    Aztec Sound Galaxy Nova-16 Extra II
    Removing the game CD while in use
  Manual Configuration Options
    File locations
    Other options


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This and other documentation files
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    This file contains notes pertaining specifically to the MS-DOS
  version of the game. For other information you may want to look at one
  of these other files:

  README.TXT - Installation and general cross platform notes
  Contents of README.TXT
    This and other documentation files
    Choosing Windows 95 or DOS
      Do you have Windows 95 installed?
      Systems that will favor the DOS version
      Systems that will favor the Win95 version
      Once you know which version you want to install
      Installation for advanced users
    Installing the Windows 95 version
    Installing the DOS version
      Installing the DOS version from DOS
      Installing the DOS version from Windows 3.x
      Installing the DOS version from Windows 95
    Windows 95 installation notes

  WINREAD.TXT - Notes specific to the Windows 95 version.
  Contents of WINREAD.TXT
    This and other documentation files
    Known problems
      Alliance ProMotion video cards
      AMD and Cyrix based systems
      Aztec Sound Galaxy Nova-16 Extra II
      Removing the game CD while in use
    Manual Configuration Options
      File locations
      Other options



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Known problems
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  AMD and Cyrix based systems
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  This game uses the floating point processor for compression of voice
  data. You may want to disable voice playback if your processor is
  'floating point challenged'.  This applies to most AMD and some slower
  Cyrix CPUs.

  Voice playback can be disabled by adding the line
    Voice=0
  to the [Sound] section of the FTA2.INI file in your Windows directory.



  Removing the game CD while in use
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  Unless you used the unreasonably large instllation of the game, you
  should leave the game CD in the drive while playing the game, and
  even then you should not eject the CD while the videos are playing.

  If the CD is ejected while the game is using it, the system may halt,
  and you will probably need to reboot.



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Manual Configuration Options (for advanced users)
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  Note: The uninstall program is likely to give you a "Not all
    components could be uninstalled" type warning if you change
    your configuration manually. You can safely ignore this warning.


  File locations
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  The game uses entries in the [Paths] section of the FTA2.INI file to
  locate all its files. You can manually configure where these files
  are by moving the files and changing these entries.

  FILE          INI entry   CD path    Description
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  FTAIMAGE.HRS  ImageFile   d:\RES     All graphics data
  FTASOUND.HRS  SoundFile   d:\RES     Music and non-voice sound FX
  FTAVOICE.HRS  VoiceFile   d:\RES     Compressed voice data
  FTA.HRS       MainResFile d:\RES     Game objects and other data
  FTADATA.HRS   DataFile    d:\RES     Behavior and spell tables
  SCRIPTS.HRS   ScriptFile  d:\RES     Game interaction scripting
  *.SMK         VideoPath   d:\VIDEO   Intro and ending videos



  Other options
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  Note that these options are unsupported, and if you have any
    problems with them, then don't use them.

  Disabling audio: You can disable particular aspects of the audio in
    the game by adding one of these options to the [Sound] section
    of the INI file.
      Voice=0    disables voice playback
      Sound=0    disables one shot sound effects
      Loops=0    disables looping background sounds
      Music=0    disables MIDI music