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HISTORY OF THE WORLD
version 1.02 update
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The following changes have been made for
version 1.02:
- The advisor has been reworked.
- After playing some events (notably, Disaster,
Plague, Black Death), selecting "Choose it"
from the Advisor box no longer applies the
event to the recommendation IN ADDITION to
areas already selected.
- Problems with the "Empire Fortify" event
card have been corrected.
- Problems with retreating armies have been
fixed.
- Bugs in the Allies event have been corrected.
- Numerous other minor bug fixes.
Be sure you've extracted these two patch files
(HOTW.EXE and README.TXT) into your HOTW
directory (usually C:\HOTW), overwriting the
older files.
Please note that saved games from version 1.0
are NOT compatible with save games from version
1.02. This also means that PBEM games will
have problems if not all the players are using
the same version.
We recommend restarting any PBEM or savegames
with all players using this newer version.
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Thank you for purchasing History of the World!
This file contains late breaking news and
information about the game.
In general, please refer to the manual for
information on playing the game. Some
additional information is also available in
the Help file (hotw.hlp).
If you're not familiar with the Avalon Hill
Board game, we recommend using the Tutorial
feature of the program. Click on Help|Tutorial
to start. You may cancel the Tutorial by
clicking on any Cancel button displayed during
the Tutorial.
You can improve the performance of History of
the World by running your computer in 256
color mode. Running Windows in higher color
modes requires more memory. (Adding memory
will also help the performance of History of
the World).
We also recommend playing in 800x600 resolution.
Lower resolutions (640x480) will result in the
Strategic Map overlapping the main map. You
may close the Strategic Map or resize it to
see both maps at any time during your turn.
If you experience memory problems in Windows
3.1, increase the size of the permanent swap
file to 16 MBytes or greater. Remember that
Windows 3.1, unlike Windows 95, does not manage
swap space automatically.
You MUST have the CD-ROM in your drive to play
History of the World. However, once you start
the game, you may replace the CD with a music
CD of your choice, and conquer the world to your
favorite tunes.
If you have another application that plays
audio CDs, you will be prompted to exit that
application to allow History of the World to
control your CD Player.
History of the World sets the volume of its
sound effects to try and obtain balance with
the CD audio track. You can control the sound
effects volume from the command line -add -WAVE1
for very quiet sound effects, and -WAVE8 to
wake the neighbors - adjust to your taste
with numbers from 2 through 6. The default level
is equivalent to -WAVE5.
Whenever a new empire starts, a flashing marker
is displayed in the start land. If you're not
a big fan of flashing markers, you can add
-NOFLASH to the command line of the application.
Look in Windows help for an example of how to
specify command line options for a Windows program.
Remember, right-clicking on the map brings up a
menu which allows you to see a full description
of the contents of the land, sea or ocean that
you are pointing at.
To select lands for event play or monument
placement, left-click on the land.
When the game completes, the winner may
be added to the high scores list - the score
values are based on the victory points earned
as follows:
Take the winner's victory points. Add the
absolute value of the difference between this
score and each of the other player's victory points.
This is the base score. Then, add 10% of the
base score for each AI player at Level 3
and subtract 10% for each player at Level 1.
If you are running Windows '95 or Windows NT 4.0,
and the game covers up your taskbar, just resize
the tactical map window to use the portion of the
screen you want while the game is in progress.
History of the World will retain your choice of
the window size and position. You can also
use the taskbar's AutoHide setting, which gives
you maximum screen real-estate while allowing
you to get to your other Windows '95 apps. To enable
AutoHide, right-click on any empty part of your
taskbar. Select Properties. Now you'll see the
option to enable AutoHide.
For Windows 95 users, we've included the Avalon
Hill Compendium on the CD, which includes a full
array of demos, screenshots, updates, and movies
for the latest Avalon Hill games. To access the
Compendium, double click on AHC.EXE (or AHC with
the icon of a CD) from your CD-ROM drive in the
Windows Explorer.
The Avalon Hill Compendium is NOT compatible with
Windows 3.1 or DOS..
If you do find an error while playing History
of the World, please have the following
information available:
1. Description of your computer
2. Description of your Operating System
3. Description of the problem - include whether
a human or computer player was currently
playing, what events were in play.
4. A copy of your hotw.ini file
5. If the problem is repeatable, and/or you have
a saved game from just before the problem
occurs, that would be a great help.
Before contacting Avalon Hill tech support, please
check our website (http://www.avalonhill.com) for
frequenty asked questions and updates to your game.
Contact tech support using the information in your
History of the World manual or help file.