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- Welcome!
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- First, thank you for downloading Bölz! We sincerely hope you'll enjoy
- playing Bölz! enough to consider purchasing the full game directly from us
- for only $29.95 + shipping and handling. Please, after installing the
- full game, read the ORDER.DOC file or select Ordering Information from the
- Main Menu of the game!!
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- System Requirements
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- 80486 or higher CPU.
- 2 megabytes of RAM
- 5 to 10 megabytes of free Hard Dive space
- VGA Graphic Card and Color Monitor
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- Suggested Minimum System
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- 486DX 33MHz CPU or faster
- 4 megabytes of RAM available
- 10 megabytes of Hard Drive space
- Local or PCI bus VGA prefered
- Gravis Gamepad/Joystick
- Sound Blaster, SBPro, SB16, Gravis Ultrasound, Pro Audio Spectrum, PAS
- Plus, PAS 16.
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- Installation Procedures
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- Now, let's get you up and running! Bölz! must have a certain directory
- structure in order to run. We have created BINSTALL.EXE to help you get
- this game set up correctly on your hard drive.
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- From the DOS prompt in this directory, please type BINSTALL then press
- ENTER. Following the on-screen directions, the first thing you should do
- is tell BINSTALL where you would like to put Bölz! Simply pressing Enter
- will accept the default of C:\BOLZ. If you have another directory or drive
- where you'd rather have Bölz! installed, please type the full pathname in
- standard DOS format into this text field.
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- Let's say you wanted to put Bölz! on drive D: in the directory of
- \GAMES\BOLZ. All you have to do is press the backspace key a few times to
- clear out this text field then type: D:\GAMES\BOLZ and press Enter. You
- will asked if you are sure this is where you want to put Bölz! If you are
- sure, then press Y for "Yes." If not, or if you've changed your mind, press
- N for "No."
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- Once you have confirmed where you want to install Bölz!, the installation
- will begin automatically. You will see the progress indicated on the screen,
- and when this is done -- you're ready to play the game!!
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- BINSTALL will tell you what the command is to start Bölz! Usually, a small
- batch file will be created in the root directory of drive C: named BOLZ.BAT
- which will take care of everything for you. All you'll usually need to type
- is C:\BOLZ.BAT then press Enter to enjoy the game.
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- If you ever change sound cards or would otherwise like to reconfigure the
- options of Bölz!, simply run BSETUP in your Bölz! directory. Follow the
- on-screen prompts.
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- Technical Notes
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- Bölz! is a "Protected Mode" video game. This means that we were able to
- put _more_ game into a DOS-based video game.
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- If your system has at least 2 megabytes of free RAM when you run Bölz!, every-
- thing will be just fine. It doesn't matter if it's Extended RAM or Expanded
- RAM or Conventional RAM -- don't worry about that. If you have 2 megabytes
- of RAM available _somewhere_, we'll find it!
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- Because of the sound system we used in this video game (fully digital sound
- track, no FM synthesis used!), you will not be able to run Bölz! while
- running Windows 3.x. Windows 95 (maybe) promises that you'll be able to run
- all of your DOS software, however, and this is not yet tested -- so we
- can't comment on it. If you are running Windows 4.0, Chicago, or whatever
- the giant has decided to name it upon release, give Bölz! a try! It might
- work under this new operating system.
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- Generally, though, you'll want to exit Windows entirely until you see the
- black DOS screen - usually with the prompt:
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- C:\
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- displayed on your screen. It is _here_, at the DOS prompt, that you will
- type "C:\BOLZ.BAT" (without the quotes) and press Enter to run Bölz!
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- Also, Bölz! has proven itself to be somewhat unstable under the Quarterdeck
- QEMM program. This program is a high-performance replacement for DOS's
- EMM386.EXE Exanded Memory Driver. If you are using QEMM to manage your
- Expanded Memory, please boot your system "clean," without loading QEMM. We
- have not tested Bölz! under any other memory managers, but if it simply
- "locks" or does not perform with stability, a good guess would be to remove
- any non-DOS memory managers you may be using.
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- Bölz! will not, usually, run in an OS/2 or OS/2 Warp DOS box. You will need
- to boot your system using the alternate DOS boot in order to play Bölz! We
- apologize for this minor inconvenience.
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- If you have any further problems, please feel free to call our technical
- support department between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Eastern
- Standard Time (East Coast, USA). Someone will be more than happy to help
- you get Bölz! up and running on your system!!
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