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The KEYS:
Fire - Spacebar
Pick up item - enter or "I"
Drop item - "s"
*IMPORTANT*
When dropping a item press "s" then a white line will appear. Move the line to
the item you wish to drop and press enter.
Help Screen - F1
Memory Problems:
Because of the limitation of the DOS
operating system, there is a limit of 640k of RAM available. So it does not matter whether
you have 4 megabytes or 32 megabytes of Ram in your computer. The only thing that matters
is how the first 640k configured.
This configuration occurs right when your
computer boots up when you turn it on. When the computer is starting up, it reads two text
files from your C: drive. One is called CONFIG.SYS, and the other is called AUTOEXEC.BAT.
Because making changes to your CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT file on your C: is risky, we recommend that you make a boot disk. Then
you can boot DOS from your floppy disk. Then the computer would be reading the CONFIG.SYS
and AUTOEXEC.BAT files from the floppy disk instead of your C: drive.
Creating a Boot Disk:
The Starfury program has a program called
BOOTDISK which will attempt to crate a boot disk for you. Because everybody's sound card
and mouse driver is different, you may need to edit these (CONFIG and AUTOEXEC) files on
the floppy disk.
However, the BOOTDISK program will format
the floppy, and crate a basic CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT on the floppy disk for you.
You can run the bootdisk program directly
from the DOS prompt by typing BOOTDISK.
The BOOTDISK program can attempt to copy
lines from your C: drive configuration files. At one point , you are asked if you want to
do this. Try typing 'Y' first. If your book disk fails, then you may want to try again
later, and next time type a 'N'.
Once the computer tell you that the boot
disk is done, you may reboot your computer. Leave the floppy disk in the A: drive, and hit
Control-Alt-Delete to reboot.
If error messages come up during reboot,
then perhaps there is something wrong with the floppy CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT in the
lines that deal which the mouse. If your MOUSE.COM is not in your DOS directory on your C:
drive, then make sure the lines in your CONFIG.SYS have the full filename of the MOUSE.COM
driver. For Example:
C:\MOUSE\MOUSE.COM
C:\OPTIONS\IMOUSE.COM
DEVICEHIGH=C:\KIDMOUSE\KIDMOUSE.SYS
All of these mouse driver above have full
pathnames, so the computer can find them.
Make sure that you are actually rebooting
from your floppy drive. Most computers are setup to try booting from the floppy disk if
there is one in the A: drive. However, some are set to always boot from the C: drive, even
if there is a floppy disk in the A: drive. In that case, you must go into your computer's
BIOS setup, and change the boot order.
After booting from your floppy disk, you
should have you computer configured in the correct way to use the Starfury game. If you
want to check on how much DOS memory is available, type the word 'mem' at the DOS prompt.
You should have at least 2.5 Megabytes of EMS RAM, and your' Largest Executable Program
Size' should be around 600,000 bytes.
The other very important line in your
config.sys is the FILES=30 line. If this number is too small, the game may act
erratically.
No
Sound
This product depends on have a sound card
installed in your computer that is 100% compatible with the Original Sound Blaster card.
Most sound cards today meet this criteria, but not all.
Most sound card require a driver program to
be loaded in your CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT files. Many sound cards require a few lines
in BOTH CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
There are so many sound cards out there,
that our boot disk program can't be smart enough to identify the lines in your C: drive
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. If your sound card requires drivers, then it will be up
to you to copy these lines from your C: drive's config files to the config files on your
boot floppy.
You can do this with the DOS 'EDIT'
command, or if your have IBM DOS, it would be the 'E' at the DOS prompt. OR, if you are
more comfortable in Windows, your cand fire up Windows, and use the notepad editor to copy
the lines from your C: drive config files to you floppy disk.
NOTE: be very careful not to mess up the
CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT files on your C: drive. If you change the contents of these
files on your C: drive, your computer may become unable to start up properly.
Usually, many modern sound cards put a line
in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file like the following:
set blaster=A220 D1 I5 T3
Many times, a driver will be loaded before
or after this line. But it is also likely that there is a line in your CONFIG.SYS that
needs to be copied to.
If the game product works, but it refuses
to allow you to select sound, or perhaps you get a Error message whenever you try to
select sound, then either your sound card is not Sound Blaster compatible, or else the
drivers still aren't there at boot time. Print out both your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
from both floppy and C: drive, and look harder for the sound driver.
Also, study you sound card manual, or call
your sound card company.
If you don't get any errors, but you do not
hear any sound, then perhaps the volume is set too low. Most sound cards today come with
utilities to change the volume setting on the card.
Other sound cards will require volume
utilities that come with the sound card.
Error Messages:
If you get Critical Error messages, here
are some common causes:
1) If you ignore the low-memory blue screen
, and select option 2 to try to run the product anyway. Many sorts of errors or crashes
can result from having low RAM.
2) A Error can result from have no
subdirectory. The product requires a DATA subdirectory. So make sure when unziping you
have the subdirectory.
3) A error can occur if the line in you
CONFIG.sys file in your C: drive has the FILES=30 set to a lower number then 30. If the
FILES= line is non-existent in your CONFIG.SYS file, or set to a value lower then 30, the
product will not function.
4) If you can't get the product to work,
try playing the product with the sound off.
5) There is only one Video Card known the
is uncompatible with this product and that is the Matrox Impressions card.
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