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Blades of Exile
A fantasy role-playing game from Spiderweb Software
This text file contains a full description of Blades of Exile
and some troubleshooting information. If you have trouble installing
or playing Blades of Exile, look below.
DESCRIPTION OF THE GAME:
Blades of Exile is an exciting role-playing system for Windows
3.1/95. Featuring the award-winning interface of Exile III, it
includes not only 3 full-length adventures, but the ability to
design your own adventures and play the adventures of others.
Many hours of role-playing fun! It's from Spiderweb Software,
Inc. $30 shareware. Requires 256 colors, Windows 3.1/95.
Contact: Spidweb@spidweb.com. http://www.spidweb.com
- Jeff Vogel
Keeper of Exile
Spiderweb Software
TROUBLESHOOTING:
The information below should solve many of your problems installing
or running Blades of Exile...
Question: Blades of Exile refuses to install!
Answer: First, make sure you have ten megabytes of free space on the
drive you're trying to install to (the game takes up 7, but the
installer needs a little extra space). Then reboot, make sure no other
programs are running, and try installing Blades of Exile again. If this
doesn't work, your download may be corrupted. Try redownloading.
Question: I can't figure out how to do anything in the first
scenario.
Answer: Run the game and hit F1 for help. The online help contains
a hint book for the first scenario.
Question: Blades of Exile crashes sometimes for no reason!
Answer: Several steps to try, which will eliminate many problems.
1. Select Preferences from the File menu. Select Fewer Sounds. If
this doesn't help, turn off sounds. This will fix most problems.
2. Run Blades of Exile with no other programs running.
3. Make sure you have at least 4 or 5 megabytes of free RAM.
4. Sometimes files become corrupted, either during play or during
download. For really weird problems, it sometimes helps to
redownload the entire game.
Question: I get crashes when targeting a spell or missile, and nothing
helps!
Answer: Select Preferences from the File menu. Select No Targeting
Line.
Question: The Blades of Exile screen is really tiny!
Answer: Go into Windows preferences, and select a monitor mode with a
different resolution. 640x480 is recommended. (On windows 95, right
click on the desktop, select Properties, and click on the settings
tab.)
Question: The Blades of Exile screen colors are all bizarre!
Answer: You need to play Blades of Exile in 256 color mode. Run Blades of Exile,
hit F1 (for help), and read the section on troubleshooting to find
out how to get 256 colors on your screen.
Question: OK. I installed the game. It runs fine. It looks fine. But I
keep starving, if the monsters don't kill me first, and I don't have any
gold!
Answer: Read the Hints For Getting Started section near the end of the
manual (hit F1 to get the manual).
Question: Sometimes, when I switch to another window and
switch back to Blades of Exile, the colors are all strange.
Answer: One of the other programs you're running is messing with Blades of Exile's color management. Quit everything else you're using (including the
fancy front-end programs some computers come with) and try running Blades again.