PC Gamer 2.4/1996-05_-_Disc_2.4.bin/tnnbass/tnnfish/readme.txt

Text File | 1995-12-13 | 12KB | 287 lines

TNN OUTDOORS BASS TOURNAMENT '96 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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* The lure depth can be raised 'snapped' by pressing the
spacebar.

* On the lodge screen you can only browse through the catalog.

* To thumb the line you must press both left and right mouse
buttons down simultaneously.

* To practice with different tackle you are first required to go
into free fishing and borrow the tackle then exit and go into practice.

* Make sure your TNN OUTDOORS BASS TOURNAMENT '96 is in your CD
drive before running the program.

* To clarify the tournament section the positions that are needed
to be attained to progress to the next round are as follows:-

   Junior Round One - first place
   Junior Round Two - first place
   Junior Round Three - top five places

   Senior Round One - first place
   Senior Round Two - top three places

* You can only switch perspectives using the enter key when you
have a fish on your line.


GENERAL HINTS AND TIPS
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* If a fish jumps out of the water reduce the drag instantly to stop your
  line from snapping.

* Keep an eye on the wind direction indicator when you are casting as the
  wind will affect your cast and you may lose your lure.

* Be careful when fishing around obstacles they can break your line if
  you get snagged up in them.

* Take note of the tips given by Fish Fishburne in the free fishing section.

* The fish can become a little 'hook shy' close to the boat.

* Remember to give yourself plenty of time to reach the weigh in point. If
  you get there after the closing time, you will be disqualified, this is
  indicated by your name being displayed in the Rankings table, followed by
  DIS rather than the weight that you have caught (whiich is not valid)

* Use the save game feature, it is useful if you hit a fishing dry spot.

* Catch as many bass as you can. Use the full day even if you  have already
  caught a good weight, to improve your skill.

* Move to another area if a fish shakes loose or your line  breaks. Chances are
  the fish will be spooked or wary.

* When a fish runs, don't try to reel in or you might break the line. Let it
  run and slowly reel him in.

* Large Bass are more difficult to hook, you may need more patience and have to
  run your lure by him for longer.

* Look for cover where fish can hide.

* Don't stay in one area too long, the fish are soon spooked, and you may waste
  valuable fishing time.

* Start far away and move back towards your dock as the day progresses.

* Look for waterways flowing into the main lake. Fish often feed there.

* Fish are attracted to shade and deep water in warm weather.

* Check your tension when you 'snap' your line, it can increase  quickly.

* Sometimes you don't have to go very far to catch one.

* If you have a fish on your line that you don't want reduce your drag as this
  makes it easier for the fish to slip the hook.

                 TROUBLE SHOOTING INFORMATION

INSTALLATION RELATED ISSUES

To change any of the options on the install program, for example
the directory to install TNN OUTDOORS BASS TOURNAMENT '96, first
click on the box then use the cursor to move to where you want
to make changes then use backspace. The delete key is disabled.
Should the INSTALL program be unable to identify your soundcard,
press the ESC key, the installation process will be concluded as
normal, saving the configuration of the game to use NO sound
card. Type SETSOUND (this runs the SETSOUND.EXE installed to your
hard disc), this will enable additional options in order for you
to select the appropriate sound drivers, follow the on-screen
instructions. Remember, this product was designed to be used with
a Sound Blaster compatible sound card.

VIDEO CLIP (FMV) RELATED ISSUES

Your CD drive needs to have at attainable transfer rate of 300Kb
(Double Speed) for the FMV sequences to work correctly.
If your drive is not fast enough you will experience some
stuttering whilst Fish Fishburne is talking. Furthermore, your
system needs to have version 2.23 (or newer) of MSCDEX.EXE This
is the OS system extension through which it carries out all of
its CD manipulation after the initial installation process.

SOUND CARD RELATED ISSUES

This game requires a sound card to run. This can be set up using
the install program or using the SETSOUND program included, just
follow the on screen instructions to set up for the required
card. If you experience problems with the sound,then run SETSOUND
from the same directory and follow its instructions prior to
typing RUN (Enter/Carriage Return). Note, if the install puts up
the values -1 for the IRQ or DMA selection, this means that it
will use the auto-detect values - you can over-ride this by
clicking on the boxes and selecting the values yourself.
Note some soundcards will not configure automatically if they are
set to  operate on DMA channels 0 or 3. You may set the values
manually using  SETSOUND (as detailed above)

VIDEO CARD RELATED ISSUES

This program uses an extended VESA driver if you experience any
video problems run the program UVCONFIG which initializes the
driver according to the video card in your machine. If you
experience problems or wish to cancel the UNIVBE driver then
instead of typing RUN type RUNNOVBE followed by Carriage return
as an alternative.

MEMORY RELATED ISSUES (AND MAKING A BOOT DISC)
This program needs at least 8MB of memory to run, if you have any
TSR or other resident programs that use a lot of memory then it
is advisable to create a boot disk to run the game from. If you
feel that the memory configuration of your system needs
adjusting, run MEMMAKER.Information on how to make a boot disk
follows (note, as you will have to copy information from your
current set-up it would be advisable to get a hard-copy print-out
of the files AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS located on the Root of
your hard disc (locate by DIR C:CONFIG.SYS etc):-

1. From the DOS prompt, change directory to the drive containing
the TNN '96 game  CD(eg D: or E: (whatever designator is assigned
to your CD-ROM DRIVE)).

2. Type MAKEBOOT (and press Enter/Carriage Return)

3. Follow the on-screen instructions.

4. After following these instructions, your floppy disc drive now
contains the basis of your GAME BOOT DISC (this will be useful
with other games, not only TNN'96). It is only a basis as we cannot
know the specifics of your system, such as where the mouse
drivers are stored on the hard disc, what they are called etc.
What we have done is format the floppy disc with a system track
and copied from your written standard command lines (such as
defining the PATH etc). You will now have to edit  the structure
of the two files on the floppy disc in order to pass over all of
the information required.
PLEASE ENSURE THAT WHEN YOU ARE DOING THIS, THAT YOU EDIT THE
AUTOEXEC.BAT AND CONFIG.SYS CONTAINED ON THE FLOPPY DISC, NOT ON
THE HARD DISC.

5. Editing the BOOT DISC CONFIG.SYS File:

Say the BOOT DISC is in Drive A, Type EDIT A:CONFIG.SYS
(Enter/Carriage Return)
The edit window will display the basis of your Boot Disc Config
which you will build upon. The first section are pretty standard
commands, to this you need to add the necessary command lines as
indicated (lines 4 and 5). Your revised Config.Sys should follow
the outline below:
BUFFERS=30
FILES=30
LASTDRIVE=Z
DEVICE=C:\DOS\CD12J27.SYS
DEVICE=C:\SB16\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1 H:5
BUFFERS=32,0

The first 3 lines are as per they were set up by MAKEBOOT. Line
4 identifies the CD ROM Driver. There will be a similar line in
your original Config.sys (from the hard disc), locate it, it may
have a different name, and add it to the file you are editing.
Line 5 identifies the soundcard device driver, again differing
in varying sound cards so this also should be copied from your
original config.sys.
In some cases, your original Config.Sys may have loaded device
drivers High (eg DEVICEHIGH=L\..... C:\MOUSE), you do not want
to have the BOOT DISC loading device drivers High, edit such
lines so that such drivers are loaded LOW into Base memory, in
accordance with the example above.

6. Editing the BOOT DISC AUTOEXEC.BAT File:
prompt $p$g
path c:\;c:\dos
c:\windows\mouse.com /y
C:\DOS\MSCDEX /D:12345678 /L:E

The first 2 lines are as per they were set up by MAKEBOOT, these
are needed to initialize just your hard drive root directory and
the directory where your DOS files are etc.
Line 3 is required in order to run your mouse driver. Again this
line has to be copied from your original Autoexec.Bat, the name
may vary from the example line, but should be easy to spot in
your old AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
Line 4
 sets up your CD drive. This line is very important and should
be copied from your existing Autoexec.Bat including all
parameters following the name of the Execuatble file (should
there be any).
Again, with regards to these two lines, ensure that the command
lines do not invoke loading the items into Hi-Memory, they are
to be loaded into Base memory

NOTE: The auxiliary lines shown here are examples, they need to
be substituted by the appropriate command lines extracted from
your original CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT located on your hard
disc (which is why we stated earlier that a hard copy print-out
of such files would be very useful)


7. Your boot disk should now be ready for use.

Place this boot disk in your primary floppy disk drive and REBOOT
the  computer (whenever you wish to play the game). This will
enable you to run the game using a minimum of memory for system
requirements, hence releasing memory for the game.


WINDOWS RELATED ISSUES

TNN OUTDOORS BASS TOURNAMENT '96 can, on most systems, be
launched from Windows through the RUN option of the FILE's menu.
However this product was not designed as a Windows application
and as such you may  experience problems running under Windows
on some systems. Furthermore,if you experience any problems after
running Windows then reset the machine and run it from the DOS
prompt, or from your boot disc.

RUNNING TNN OUTDOORS BASS TOURNAMENT '96 UNDER WIN95

1. To install TNN OUTDOORS BASS TOURNAMENT '96 from win95 select
the run function from the start menu. Use the browse button and select
CDROM then select the program called 'install' and click on the open
button. Then click on OK to run this program. The program should now
start to install.

2. Once the program has installed click the right mouse button
on the main desktop of win95 to bring the pop-up menu, select NEW then
SHORTCUT.

3. The create shortcut menu window should now appear, click on
the browse button, then double click on the directory that you have just
installed  fishing onto your machine under eg. FISH (the default), then
select RUN and the name RUN should appear in the file name box, next
click on the OPEN button.

4. You should now have returned to the create shortcut menu.
Click on the  NEXT button, you can now enter a name for your shortcut in the
provided box. When you have done this click on the NEXT button and
select a suitable icon and click on FINISH.

5. Your icon should now have appeared on the main desktop. If not
please  consult your win95 manual and follow the steps in creating a
shortcut to check where you might have made a mistake.

6. With the right mouse button click on your new fishing icon and
from the pop-up menu select PROPERTIES.

7. From the properties window first select PROGRAM from the page
tabs and then click on the ADVANCED button.

8. The advanced program settings window should have appeared, now
select the  MS-DOS mode box, click on OK and again click OK to return to
the desktop.

9. You can now run fishing by double clicking on your icon.