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- Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse Demo - Readme Contents
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-
- I. Installing the Game
- II. Removing the Game, Win32s and WinG
- III. Technical Issues
- a. Problems Installing
- b. Sound Card Issues
- c. Video Card Issues
- d. Other
- IV. How to Reach Humongous Entertainment
-
-
- I. Installing the Game
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-
- Windows 95
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- Nothing needs to be installed before running the game. To start,
- simply insert the CD into the drive, clicking Start, then Run, and typing
- D:\AUTOFRED.EXE (where D: is the letter of your CD-ROM drive).
-
- Windows 3.1
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- Before playing the game for the first time, the Install program must
- be run. We install Microsoft's 32-bit Windows system files, Win32s
- (version 1.3), and WinG (version 1.0) to the hard disk. These files
- require only about 3MB of disk space for installation.
-
- To install Win32s and WinG, just follow these steps:
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- 1. Insert the game CD into your CD-ROM drive.
- 2. Open the File menu in Program Manager and select Run...
- 3. Type D:\INSTALL and press Enter
- (Where D: is the letter of your CD-ROM drive)
- 4. Click Quick Install, and follow the prompts
- 5. After installation is complete, click Restart Windows to enable
- Win32s and WinG
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-
- II. Removing the Game, Win32s, and WinG
- ---------------------------------------
-
- The game, Win32s, and WinG may all be removed from within the
- installation program. Because installation of the product is only
- necessary under Windows 3.1, you should never have to uninstall the
- game with Windows 95.
-
- To remove the game files, just follow these steps:
-
- 1. Insert the game CD into your CD-ROM drive.
- 2. Open the File menu in Program Manager and select Run...
- 3. Type D:\INSTALL and press Enter
- (Where D: is the letter of your CD-ROM drive)
- 4. Click the Advanced Options button in the Welcome to Install
- dialog box. This will open the Advanced Options dialog box.
- 5. Click on the Uninstall Options button to open the Uninstall
- Options dialog box. Click Yes to continue.
- 6. Check the components (Game, WinG, or Win32s) which you wish to
- uninstall, then click Continue.
-
- The selected components will be removed from the system, as will the
- icons which they created. The computer may have to be restarted for
- these changes to take effect.
-
- Note: Removing WinG or Win32s will render the system unable to run
- Humongous Entertainment games, or any other programs which require
- these libraries.
-
- III. Technical Issues
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-
- Many of the problems which you may experience with our games are
- caused by outdated hardware drivers. To resolve these problems, you
- may be called on to contact the manufacturer of your hardware device
- for an updated driver. If you have access to the Internet, check
- our web site at www.humongous.com for links to these manufacturer's
- pages.
-
- a. Problems Installing
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-
- Win32s has not been correctly installed
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- One of the Win32s system files required by our game may not have
- been copied correctly during installation, or a file has become
- corrupted.
-
- You will want to run the Microsoft Win32s installer, which is
- included on our game CD. The file is located in:
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- D:\system\setup\win32s.130\disk1\setup.exe
- (Where D: is the letter of your CD-ROM drive)
-
- Follow the prompts and reboot the machine when asked. You will
- not need to install FreeCell, although this game will allow you
- to confirm that Win32s has been installed correctly. In most
- cases, the game should run correctly after reinstalling Win32s.
-
- Your computer does not have enough memory to run the game.
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- To increase the amount of available memory for our game, make
- sure that all other applications are closed. Some programs that
- commonly run in the background are virus scanners, nonstandard
- Windows shells, and third-party screen savers.
-
- A low-memory error message can also be caused by a Windows swap
- file that is not large enough (Windows 3.1). In the 386-Enhanced
- section of your control panel, try increasing the size of your
- swap file to at least 4 MB.
-
- In some cases, corrupted Win32s files may trigger a low-memory
- error message. Try completely removing, then reinstalling the
- game to replace any corrupted files.
-
- A memory error message which refers to Smartdrive can usually be
- solved by reducing the size of your disk cache. Consult your
- MS-DOS documentation for information on disabling or reducing the
- size of your Smartdrive cache.
-
- b. Sound Card Issues
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-
- Gravis Ultrasound and UltraSound Max
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- Older versions of the Ultrasound drivers will not work correctly
- with our games. Contact Advanced Gravis for updated drivers.
-
- Oak Mozart Sound Cards
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- Older versions of the Mozart drivers will trigger an error
- message, and close the game. Obtain an updated driver from Oak
- Technologies, and the game will run correctly.
-
- Turtle Beach Monte Carlo
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- If you experience problems with this sound card, make sure it is
- in standard mode, and not V-synth mode. Consult your sound card
- documentation for information about changing modes.
-
- C. Video Card Issues
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-
- 256-Color Video Drivers
- -----------------------
- A 256-color video driver must be installed for the game to run
- correctly. A higher color depth (such as 16 or 24-bit color) may
- result in slower video performance, so if you are running in one
- of these modes, you may want to switch back to 256 colors.
-
- Unhandled Exception Detected
- ----------------------------
- A message which says "Unhandled Exception Detected" usually
- indicates that the currently installed video driver is not
- working well with WinG and needs to be updated. Contact the
- manufacturer of your video card for an updated driver.
-
- ATI Mach 64 Video Cards
- -----------------------
- In some cases, you may experience extremely slow frame rates,
- resulting in choppy video, freezing, or breaks in the sound. Try
- adding the line "StretchEngine=0" to the [Display] section of
- your system.ini. In many cases, this will result in dramatically
- increased video performance.
-
- ATI cards may also cause problems because they use a utility to
- switch screen resolutions on-the-fly, rather than through the
- Windows Setup icon in the Control Panel. The problem is that
- the ATI driver actually runs in 24-bit color (16.7 million
- colors) and just emulates 256-color mode. Programs which use
- WinG may not recognize the emulation. However, there is a
- setting on the Flexdesk or WinSwitch screens that will allow you
- to turn on color depth switching. This will speed up the game
- because WinG does not have to calculate a 256-color palette from
- 16.7 million possible colors.
-
- d. Other
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-
- Digital Starions
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- When attempting to play the game, you may receive an error
- message which says "This program has performed an illegal
- operation and will be shut down." The details button shows that a
- general protection fault occurred in module "Wstream.dll"
-
- This problem can be remedied by obtaining an updated driver for
- the Diamond Telecommander card. Contact Digital for this driver.
-
- Hewlett-Packard Deskjet Printers
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- Hewlett-Packard printer drivers for Windows 3.1 before version
- 6.1 will not print correctly from our games. Contact Hewlett-
- Packard for updated drivers, or download them directly from HP's
- web site.
-
- Microsoft Mouse
- ---------------
- Versions of the Microsoft Intellipoint mouse driver before 9.01
- conflict with Win32s programs, causing a general protection fault
- in module pointer.dll. Contact Microsoft for an update, or
- download the patch from our web site (www.humongous.com).
-
- Error messages which make references to Scripts, Costumes, Code
- Blocks, Actors, Globs, Music Read Failures, Illegal Sounds, or
- SCUMM
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- In many cases, these types of errors are the result of a disk
- that has become dirty or damaged. The first and easiest thing to
- do in this situation is remove the CD-ROM from the drive and
- examine the shiny side in the light. Quite frequently CDs become
- fingerprinted--especially by little fingers. If the disk does
- look fingerprinted, a simple cleaning of the CD-ROM may get the
- game running. If the disk appears to be scratched, or if
- cleaning does not solve the problem, contact our Technical
- Support department.
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- IV. How to Reach Humongous Entertainment
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- Order Department
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- Phone: (800) 499-8386
- Fax: (206) 806-0480
- Internet Mail: custserv@humongous.com
-
- U.S. Mail:
- Customer Service
- Humongous Entertainment
- 13110 NE 177th Pl. Suite 180
- Woodinville, WA 98072-9965
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- Technical Support
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- Phone: (206) 485-1212
- Fax: (206) 806-0480
- Internet Mail: support@humongous.com
-
- U.S. Mail
- Technical Support
- Humongous Entertainment
- 13110 NE 177th Pl. Suite 180
- Woodinville, WA 98072-9965
-
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-
- Internet
- E-Mail: support@humongous.com
- WWW: http://www.humongous.com
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