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- Spectre VR/CD Demo Late-breaking News
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- Thank you for your interest in Spectre VR/CD for Windows. It is important
- that you read the following notes so that you experience Spectre VR/CD fully.
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- Call 1-(800)-VLOCITY to order products, or get a free catalog showing
- exiting new products.
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- If you have questions, please write us at:
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- Velocity, Incorporated
- Four Embarcadero, Suite 3100
- San Francisco, California 94111
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- This file contains information regarding:
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- 1. Game Enhancement.
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- 2. Documentation Changes.
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- 3. Configuration options.
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- 4. Windows Configuration.
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- 5. Video Card issues.
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- 6. Multi-player Play.
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- 7. Modem Play.
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- 8. Other Velocity Products.
- - Remind Me
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- 1. Game Enhancements
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- - For faster game play:
- - Reduce the window size.
- - Turn off filled shapes. This should also turn off movies and
- textures.
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- - To stop a movie from playing, press the space bar or the mouse key
- while it is playing.
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- - QSound:
- - QSound will work if you have an AWE32, or a Sound Blaster 16 with
- the optional Advanced Signal Processor.
- - Out programmers are feverishly working on a patch that will allow
- QSound to work on computers that have a Pentium processor and
- a regular stereo sound card. Please call 1-(800)-VLOCITY to
- get this patch downloaded or sent to you. Thanks for your
- patience. Working on the cutting edge is always frustrating.
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- - Ammo dumps, shield pickups, and anti gravity packs pickups are not
- always color coded, but sometimes they change color, so be careful!
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- 2. Documentation Changes
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- - The tank will no longer coast to a stop. When you release a movement
- key the tank will stop immediately.
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- - When playing network games, you lose your shields and must get new
- ones each time your opponent gets killed.
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- - Spectre VR/CD WILL ONLY RUN IF YOU HAVE A MATH CO-PROCESSOR. This means
- that you MUST have a 486-DX or a Pentium-based computer.
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- 3. Configuration Options
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- - Certain combinations of rendering options are not allowed:
- - If you are running with filled shapes turned off, movies are
- allowed, but textures are not.
- - If you choose textures, filled rendering will automatically be
- selected.
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- 4. Windows Configuration
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- - Be sure that you are using the recommended swap file. This setting is
- made in the "386 Enhanced" section of the Control Panel. Be sure
- to turn the swap file on, and set it to the size recommended in the
- utility.
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- 5. Video Card Issues
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- - If you are using a video card that controls bitmaps with hardware,
- be sure you have hardware control of bitmaps turned off in the
- Windows driver.
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- - There are certain problems with ATI accelerator cards:
- - When using a card which allows palette emulation, be sure that
- you have the 256-color palette turned on.
- - If you have a Mach 32 card, add the following line to the [Mach]
- section of "WIN.INI" in your Windows directory:
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- DeviceBitmap=off
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- - If you have a Mach 64 card, add the following line to the [Macx]
- section of "WIN.INI" in your Windows directory:
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- DeviceBitmap=off
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- 6. Multi-player Play
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- - To play with two players, run install from the CD on each machine on
- which you wish to play. You will need the two serial numbers
- provided with the game. Movies are disabled in network mode, so
- neither player will need the CD in order to play. Follow the setup
- instructions in the manual to set the network configuration.
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- 7. Modem Play
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- - To achieve best performance on high-speed modems, play either at
- 2400 baud or turn off modem packetizing at 9600 baud. Consult your
- modem manual for more on how to do this.
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- 8. Other Velocity Products
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- - Remind Me is a personal reminder utility using all your favorite Looney
- Tunes characters. It offers countless uses for the memory-challenged
- amoung us. Test out the demo we've included by running
- \REMINDME\REMINDME.EXE directly from the CD, or copying it to its own
- directory on your hard drive and running it from there.
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- Read the "README.TXT" file in that directory for more information.
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