DOGZ, Your Computer Pet (tm)

Welcome to Dogz!

To order Dogz, either go to your local software retailer or call us
directly at 1-800-48-ADOPT.

For more information and other fun stuff, 
check out the Dogz Web Site at...
www.pfmagic.com/dogz/adopt


QUICK START

Getting Started
- After you install Dogz, you'll see a "Dogz" icon in a Windows
  Program Group (or under the "Programs" item of the START menu
  in Windows '95) named "Yourname's Dogz" (where "yourname" is your
  first name).
- Start Dogz by double-clicking on the icon named "Dogz" (or simply 
  selecting the "Dogz" icon under Windows '95).
- This will open the Dogz Adoption Kit
- You can pet and play with any of the five Dogz breeds and decide
  which one is best for you!
- When you decide which one you want to adopt, click the "Adopt 
  Me Now" button.

Important Note
- Dogz love to run around on your computer screen.
- Whenever you let a Dogz loose on the screen, you will not
  be able to click on any other application until you...

  1) put the Dogz back into the Doghouse, or
  2) Quit Dogz, or
  3) Press ALT-TAB to switch to another application, or
  4) Press ESCAPE (this will instantly pop the Dogz back into
     their Doghouses)

In the Adoption Kit you can pet and play with five different breeds 
of Dogz.  Once you have adopted your own Dogz, you will have many 
other things to do.  You will be able to feed, play with and train 
your Dogz.  You will be able to groom them to change their color. 
Your Dogz will be able to act as Guard Dogz, protecting your computer 
from monitor burn-in and file snoops.  Over time, your adopted
puppyDogz will grow up to be a full size Dogz.

IN THE ADOPTION KIT TRY THIS...

Picking up your Dogz
- To pick up Dogz and move them to a new location, click the 
  right mouse button while the cursor is anywhere over the Dogz.
- Don't worry - this won't hurt it.  Releasing the mouse button 
  will drop your Dogz safely to the desktop.
- If you drop the Dogz back on top of its doghouse, it will pop
  back into its doghouse.

Dogz love to be petted!
- You can pet your Dog at any time.  To do this, simply click and
  hold the left mouse button while the cursor is over the Dogz.
  The cursor will change to a "petting hand."
- Stroke the Dog with the cursor while holding down the left 
  mouse button.
- If you pet your Dogz just right and long enough, it might 
  roll over to let you scratch its stomach, or even go to sleep.

Sleeping
- If you leave Dogz alone for several minutes, they usually
  nod off to sleep.  You may even catch them dreaming!
- A nice way to wake up Dogz is to pet them while they're
  sleeping.


KNOWN MISBEHAVIORS ("TROUBLESHOOTING")

"I'm having trouble putting Dogz back into their Dogzhouses."
- Make sure your cursor hand is positioned over the Dogzhouse when
  you drop the Dogz off.

"My Dog disappears from the screen."
- Like a real dog, your Dogz will sometimes run off on its own errands.
- Try double-clicking the mouse to call your Dogz back.

"My Dog sometimes freezes on the screen."
- Digital Dogz need to behave well and make sure they don't slow down
  your system.  If an important application needs to control your
  computer for a few seconds, your Dogz will hold still until that
  application lets go.  It's nothing to worry about!

"The Dogz Playpen window has changed colors."
- If you change your Display resolution or color palette while Dogz is 
  running, your Dogz colors may shift undesirably.  To fix this, simply
  quit and relaunch Dogz.
- Also, when running on a system with only 256 colors, opening or selecting
  another application can sometimes cause Dogz colors to change (the programs
  are competing for the same colors).  If your Dogz turns black, changes
  colors in an unexpected way, or the Playpen background colors become
  distorted, try minimizing the Playpen window and re-opening it.
- If this does not work, close and re-open Dogz and the problem should
  go away.

"Guard Dogz requires a password, but I did not set one!"
- If you had already set a password for another screen saver, you may find
  that this password is still required for Guard Dogz.

"I'm not hearing any sounds."
- To hear your Dogz, you need a SoundBlaster(tm) compatible card 
  installed.
- Remember that if Dogz is ever minimized or another application is
  opened on top of Dogz (even when "Always on Top" is set), your Dogz
  will keep quiet.  Only when Dogz is the foremost application will
  sounds be heard.

"The Playpen window sometimes appears on screen over my screen saver."
- If you set the Playpen window to be "Always on Top" and Dogz is
  left running in Fullscreen mode, on some computers, the Playpen
  window will be visible above other screen savers when they appear
  on screen.  To eliminate this problem, either turn off the "Always
  on Top" setting or be sure to put your Dogz back into the Playpen
  when you are finished playing with your Dogz.

"Does Installing Dogz affect my system files?"
- The files that come with PF. Magic Dogz are as system-friendly 
  as possible.  Dogz won't crawl into your AUTOEXEC.BAT or 
  CONFIG.SYS files and mess them up.


Dogz, Your Computer Pet, and PF. Magic are trademarks of PF. Magic, Inc.
Copyright 1995 PF. Magic, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.