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- MICRO MACHINES 2 HELP FILE
- --------------------------
- MM2 is a DOS program. Do not try to install or run from within
- Windows 3.0 or 3.1. You should choose EXIT WINDOWS from the FILE
- menu of the PROGRAM MANAGER to get to the DOS prompt.
-
- We have tried our best to make this game install and run as
- easily as possible. However, due to the incredible variety of PC's,
- soundcards, video cards, system settings and other software that may
- be on your system, there may be circumstances where the game does not
- work first time. This file is designed to help you adjust things so
- that the game runs, if you are having problems.
-
- There follows sections on:
-
- 1. MEMORY PROBLEMS
-
- 2. SOUND PROBLEMS
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 1. MEMORY PROBLEMS:-
-
-
- The game requires 3400K of free system memory. On a typical
- 4Meg (or more) machine there should be this much free. However, if
- your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files contain lots of commands that
- load programs in, that take away your system memory, then you may not
- have enough. The way to free up memory is to remove offending lines
- in these files, and then re-boot your system. See your DOS manual for
- details on CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. So that you can easily get
- your system back to how it was after you have played Micro Machines 2
- it is a good idea to make a backup copy of these files, which can then
- be restored afterwards. So, the procedure is as follows:
-
- ("Not enough memory to run game" error displayed after MM2 (enter))
-
- Please Note:- All of the following instructions 1 to 8 should be carried
- out, while in your "root" directory. e.g. your prompt
- should be C:\ not C:\MM2.
-
- 1. COPY CONFIG.SYS CONFIG.OLD (enter)
-
- 2. COPY AUTOEXEC.BAT AUTOEXEC.OLD (enter)
-
- 3. EDIT CONFIG.SYS (enter) and delete any commands that you suspect
- may be taking memory away - but not ones that
- will be required for your soundcard, or CD drive
- (if applicable).
-
- 4. EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT (enter) and delete any commands that you
- suspect may be taking memory away - but not ones
- that will be required for your soundcard, or CD
- drive (if applicable). The most likely offenders
- are SMARTDRV, EMM386, QEMM and anything with the
- word CACHE in it.
-
- 5. Re-boot your system
-
- 6. MEM (enter) to see if you have succeeded in freeing up enough
- memory to play the game - if not edit CONFIG.SYS
- and AUTOEXEC.BAT some more, if in doubt chop it
- out!
-
- 7. Try running MM2 again.
-
- 8. If you have had to take things out of your CONFIG.SYS or
- AUTOEXEC.BAT files, in order to get the game to run, then you
- will almost certainly have to put them back in to make other
- applications on your system function properly.
-
- Let's face it, this is not good fun. If you do find yourself
- having to do this, to get the game to run, then why not make
- a copy of your game CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, once you have
- got it working. So, :-
-
- COPY CONFIG.SYS GAMECONF.SYS
- COPY AUTOEXEC.BAT GAMEAUTO.BAT
-
- Then :-
-
- COPY CONFIG.OLD CONFIG.SYS
- COPY AUTOEXEC.OLD AUTOEXEC.BAT
-
- to get things back to the setup you had before you started.
-
- Now, instead of going through all of that, every time you want
- to play MM2, just do the following :-
-
- COPY GAMECONF.SYS CONFIG.SYS
- COPY GAMEAUTO.BAT AUTOEXEC.BAT
-
- Reboot, play, and if you want to go back to your original setup
- again :-
-
- COPY CONFIG.OLD CONFIG.SYS
- COPY AUTOEXEC.OLD AUTOEXEC.BAT
-
- Helpful Hint!
-
- Later versions of MS DOS have a menu system for your setup files
- CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT. Look in your DOS manual under "MENUITEM".
- Using this, you can have a menu of setups, every time you boot up your
- PC. i.e. You can choose 1 for A "Normal" Setup, 2 for "Games" etc.
-
- ALTERNATE METHOD - Boot from a System Disk
-
- If you do not want to change your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files you
- can cause your system to boot off a floppy disk by creating a System
- Disk. Please see your DOS manual (under the FORMAT command) for details.
- You can then copy your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files onto this disk.
- When you power-on with the floppy in drive A it will be these files, not
- the files on your hard drive, that will be used. This way you can edit
- them to remove all lines that do not relate to your sound card or CD
- drive without being concerned that you may mess up your system settings.
- So, the procedure would be as follows:
-
- 1. Create a System Disk, see your DOS manual under FORMAT for details.
- e.g. type FORMAT A: /S (enter) with a BLANK disk in the drive!!!
-
- 2. Type COPY C:\CONFIG.SYS A:\CONFIG.SYS (enter)
-
- 3. Type COPY C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT A:\AUTOEXEC.BAT (enter)
-
- 4. Type EDIT A:\CONFIG.SYS (enter) Then delete all lines that do not
- relate to your sound card or CD drive (if applicable) and save the
- file.
-
- 5. Type EDIT A:\AUTOEXEC.BAT (enter) Then delete all lines that do
- not relate to your sound card or CD drive (if applicable) and save
- the file.
-
- 6. Turn your machine on or reset it with the System Disk in drive A.
-
- 7. Run MM2, e.g
- type C: (enter)
- type CD \MM2 (enter)
- type MM2 (enter)
-
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 2. SOUND PROBLEMS:-
-
- If you have selected your card's settings in the SOUND utility,
- and the game still produces no sound, or crashes, then it is most
- likely that you have one of the following problems:-
-
- 1/ If the game crashes when you try to run it, then it is most
- likely that some other device is conflicting with your sound
- card. Please ensure that no other cards, share the same
- settings. Remember that all devices must have a seperate
- address and interrupt. On some PC's, mice tend to have
- inconvenient interrupts i.e. Interrupt 5.
-
- 2/ If the game runs, but with no sound, then it is most likely
- that the game cannot find your sound card. This may be a problem
- on Soundblaster compatibles which are not 100% compatible,
- although we have not found any problems on the ones that we have
- tried. Other than this, it is most likely that your card is not
- set up correctly, or is set to values that conflict with other
- devices. Or, it is possible that you have entered values that
- are not the same as the card settings. Please refer to you
- sound card manual for specific instructions on how to choose and
- set the settings.
-
- INCOMPATIBLE SETTINGS !!!
-
- It should be noted that interrupt values above 7 cannot be used.
- This restriction is common to many games, and if you currently have it
- set to a higher value you will have to change the setting to either
- 2,3,5 or 7. Refer to your sound card manual for details on how to do
- this.
-
- A FEW EXTRA WORDS...
-
- If you really have no idea what your card's settings are, then
- you are best advised to choose the card, then select the option "I
- have no idea ...". What this does is leave all your existing settings
- alone and when the game runs it will try to detect the settings of
- your card. If you have your card set up correctly using the software
- that came with it, then this option should work.
-
- Therefore, it is probably best to follow this procedure:-
-
- a/ If you definitely know your settings, select them.
-
- b/ If you are not quite sure, select the "Don't know"
- option. However, bear in mind that if you have tried
- to select the settings manually, and got something
- wrong, then you will have changed your sound card
- software settings. So, you will have to reboot to
- re-initialise your card. Then select "Don't Know"
- and the game will go by your software's settings.
-
-
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