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- Shivers - Harvest of Souls Demo
- 3/6/97
- Version 1.0
-
- Thank you for trying the Shivers - Harvest of Souls demo. If you enjoy the demo and would like to
- purchase the full version of this product, you can contact our Direct Sales department, or see your
- local software vendor.
-
- Sierra On-Line
- Direct Sales:
- Phone: 1-800-757-7707
- Internet: www.sierra.com
-
- Minimum Requirements:
- 486/66
- 12 MB RAM
- Windows 3.1 or higher
- 640x480 with 256 colors
- Mouse
- 2x CD-ROM
- WIN compatible soundcard, DAC required
-
- Recommended:
- Pentium
- 16 MB RAM
- Windows '95
- 4x CD-ROM
- Soundcard
-
- Installation:
- To install the Shivers Demo, run the file s2demozp.exe. The "Win-zip self-extractor" will automatically
- install the demo under the directory: "C:\Sierra\S2Demo". If you would like to install to a different
- directory, you will need to substitute that directory in the "Win-zip self-extractor" dialog box.
-
- To Run Demo:
- Double-click on "S2Demo" icon in the directory you have installed the demo. If you would like to add a
- short-cut to your desktop (Win Æ95 only), left-click and drag the "S2Demo" icon onto your desktop.
- Double-click on this icon to start the demo.
-
- Optional Video & Slide Show:
- Follow the same extraction process to see the movie and slide show located in "movie.exe" and
- "slide.exe" respectively. These will now be available through the main screen of the demo.
-
- How to Play:
- The Shivers demo contains 360 degree panoramas in which you can use your mouse or arrow
- keys to look around. You can get close-ups by clicking on certain objects. To quit, press the Esc
- key.
-
- Options:
- There are several options in this demo that you can toggle on and off.
- 1. Press the F2 key to change the resolution of the screen. You can press it four times for a total
- of four different resolutions.
- 2. Press the F3 key to turn the caption option on. Press it again to turn it off.
- 3. Press the F4 key to turn the "hot" cursor off. The "hot" cursor indicates what you can click on.
- Press it again to turn it on.
- 4. Press the F5 key to reduce the movie screen. Press it again to return to the original size.
-
- Performance Tuning
- If the game is not quite running smoothly, there are several ways you can improve your
- performance on your system. The first two deal with the "Options" listed above, the third fine tunes
- your audio by eliminating stuttering sounds.
-
- PANORAMA
- 1) If, while looking around in a panoramic scene, you are experiencing slow refresh rates, you
- can use the F2 key to toggle to a smaller resolution. Once at the smallest resolution, pressing F2
- will return the screen to the largest resolution.
-
- MOVIE
- 2) If you are experiencing poor performance while viewing the movie clip, you may use the F5 key
- to toggle to a half-screen sized movie. This should vastly improve your viewing capabilities.
-
- SOUNDS
- 3) If you are experiencing stuttering sounds throughout the game, you should return to the main
- title screen and click in the upper left hand corner. This will display a dialog box that will ask you to
- click Yes or No regarding the quality of sounds that you are hearing. Upon closing of the dialog
- box, you are required to shut down the game and restart it. Continue this exercise until you do not
- hear stuttering sounds.
- Note: You should only do this if you are experiencing stuttering or skipping sounds, as side effects
- (such as latency sounds) may occur.
-
-
- Connecting to the web site:
- If you are connecting to the Shivers web site from within the demo, you will not be able to hear the
- wave files (web downloadable sound files) as we cannot play two wave files at the same time.
-
- SIERRA ON-LINE, INC. DOES NOT WARRANTY OR PROMISE THAT THE
- INFORMATION HEREIN WILL WORK WITH ANY OR ALL COMPUTER SYSTEMS.
- SIERRA DOES NOT ASSUME ANY LIABILITY, EITHER INCIDENTAL OR
- CONSEQUENTIAL, FOR THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN,
- INCLUDING ANY AND ALL DAMAGE TO OR LOST USE OF COMPUTER
- HARDWARE OR SOFTWARE PRODUCTS, LOSS OF WARRANTIES, OR LOST
- DATA BY THE CUSTOMER OR ANY THIRD PARTY. NO ORAL OR WRITTEN
- INFORMATION OR ADVICE GIVEN BY SIERRA, IT'S EMPLOYEES,
- DISTRIBUTORS, DEALER OR AGENTS SHALL CHANGE THE RESTRICTION
- OF LIABILITY OR CREATE ANY NEW WARRANTIES. IN NO CASE SHALL
- SIERRA'S LIABILITY EXCEED THE PURCHASE PRICE OF THE SIERRA
- SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
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