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MindRover: The Europa Project
DEMO
V1.05 - Release Notes
4/11/00
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Copyright CogniToy, LLC, 2000. All rights
reserved.
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The most up to date information can be found at
our website. Please read this file and then come
to our website for more info:
http://www.mindrover.com
Contents of Release Notes:
- Min System Requirements
- Install
- Uninstall
- Compatibility questions
- Demo Limitations
- Download/Upload vehicles
- Contacts at CogniToy
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Minimum System Requirements
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Win95/98/NT
200Mhz processor
3D graphics accelerator, with OpenGL drivers
32M RAM
70M hard drive space
Sound card
4X CDROM drive
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Install
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To install the demo, download the file
MRDemoV105.exe to any folder and double click
on it. Follow the install instructions. The
default folder for the installation is:
c:\games\mindrover
If you buy the full game, you should install it
in the same folder as the demo. You do not need
to uninstall the demo first.
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Uninstall
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To uninstall this demo click on the Start menu,
Settings, Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs and
click on MRDemo. Follow the instructions. This
uninstall program will not remove any folders
where you have customer vehicles. You will have
to delete those files by hand.
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Compatibility Questions
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OS AND GRAPHICS CARDS
This version of the demo should work with more
graphics cards and operating system combinations
than previous versions.
Please be sure you have the latest OpenGL drivers
and DirectX drivers. Goto the following websites
to get the drivers:
OpenGL - http://www.glsetup.com
DirectX - http://www.microsoft.com/directx
If MindRover crashes on your machine during
startup, please send us an email with your system
configuration (processor type, speed, RAM,
Graphics card, and Operating system) and the
'mindrov.log' file, which can be found in the
install folder. The default install folder is
c:\games\mindrover
Emails and contact info is below.
IT'S TOO DARK
If your monitor is too dark, then login to the
game, click in the command line text box near
the bottom center of the screen and type:
setgamma .8
Gamma is not a linear setting. The smaller the
number, the brighter the game will appear.
The default setting is 1, so you can get a
brighter picture by choosing a value between
.6 and .8. Greater than 1 will be darker.
HOW DO I TURN DOWN THE SOUND
With the demo, we substituted midi sound for the
much nicer Red book audio that you get in the
full game. Unfortunately you cannot control the
volume of the midi music from the options screen
in the game. You must use your windows volume
control and adjust the midi slider.
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Demo Limitations
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This demo MindRover game allows for full
playability with a limited number of scenarios
and a limited number of components.
There are two tutorials, one testing ground, and
three other scenarios. The 'Track Battle' scenario
is replaceable, so we can develop a new scenario
that demo players can download later. It will
overwrite the 'Track Battle'.
Once you have created a custom vehicle, you can
send it to your friend or submit it to a contest
(see the section called Download/Upload vehicles).
But you will not be able to run any vehicles that
include components that you do not have in the demo.
So if your friend has the full game and creates a
vehicle for 'Track Battle', most likely you will
not be able to see his vehicle in your demo
version of the game. But he should be able to see
your vehicle in his version of the full game.
The full game has over 20 scenarios, and about 50
components. Plus you can download new components
and scenarios from our website.
Get the full game:
http://www.cognitoy.com/store/store.htm
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Download/Upload vehicles
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Once you have created a custom vehicle, you may
want to send it to your friend or submit it to
a Demo Contest.
Before leaving MindRover, rename your vehicle
to something unique. Two vehicles with the same
name cannot run in MindRover.
Use Windows Explorer to find the folder where
you installed the demo. The default is:
c:\games\mindrover
In this folder you will see the 'vehicles' folder
and within that folder will be 'guest' folder.
You will see three versions of your vehicle file:
<name>.ice - the ICE program file
<name>.wst - the wire state file
<name>.vmf - the virtual machine file
If you give someone just the <name>.vmf file,
they will be able to compete their vehicle
against yours, but will not be able to see your
vehicle's wiring or modify anything about your
vehicle.
If you give someone all three vehicle files, they
will be able to modify your vehicle and see its
wiring. Do this when you are ready to share your
strategies.
These vehicle files are very small and can be
attached to an email.
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Contact Us
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If you have questions or comments, you may find
a quick response from someone at our forums:
http://www.cognitoy.com/players/players.htm
Or if you would prefer to send us a direct email:
bugs@cognitoy.com (for problems/bugs)
support@cognitoy.com (general support issues)
webmaster@cognitoy.com (general website support)
Or call us at our toll free number (US and
Canada):
888 788-1792
Or our regular phone number (and international):
978 264-3945
We also receive snail mail:
CogniToy
236 Central Street
Acton, MA 01720