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- WELCOME TO SPEED!
-
- Thank you for purchasing SPEED. We hope you enjoy the first
- interactive IMAX movie . . .
-
- This "README" file has some additional information and late-breaking
- news that could not make it into the User's Guide as well as some
- important pieces of technical information that bear repeating here.
-
- MEMORY REQUIREMENTS. SPEED requires approximately 490KB of RAM in
- order to run. Even when there is adequate total RAM to run the
- program, there may be conflicts with other programs occupying memory.
- If you experience difficulty in running SPEED under these circumstances,
- please remove other memory resident programs from memory.
-
- LAPTOP/NOTEBOOK COMPUTER DISPLAYS. SPEED requires a color VGA monitor
- to display its high-resolution images. It will not work on the
- internal plasma or LCD monitors on laptop PCs. Most laptops, however,
- have a connector for an external monitor, and SPEED will work fine with
- your laptop hooked to an external VGA monitor. SPEED will run fine on
- certain laptop screens, such as the Toshiba 4400SXC, COMPAQ LTE's and
- the PC BRAND NB 486slx which have 256 shades of grey or color screens.
- The only problem will be that the right edge of the screen will be
- slightly cut off. This is due to the fact that SPEED runs in the extra
- high resolution VGA video mode of 360 x 480 pixels with 256 colors and
- most of the internal laptop screens can only show 320 pixels in width.
-
- EGA DISPLAYS. SPEED requires a VGA color monitor and therefore will not
- run on EGA monitors.
-
- MOUSE SUPPORT. SPEED takes great advantage of your mouse if you have
- one, but it does not require one. There are keyboard equivalents spelled
- out in the User's Guide which will allow you to enjoy SPEED without a
- mouse.
-
- NEW FEATURES. Some new and undocumented features are:
-
- - Music volume. You can change the level of music while sounds
- are being played in the program. The default level is 70. The
- recommended range is 50 to 80; the lower the number the softer
- the music volume. NOTE: this does not change the overall music
- volume; it is lowered only while digitized sound is being played.
- To turn music or sound off completely, Music and Sound must be
- set to OFF.*
-
- - Mouse sensitivity. The sensitivity of your mouse can be increased
- or decreased. The default sensitivity is 50. The recommended
- range is 25 to 100; the higher the number, the more sensitive
- and responsive your mouse movements.*
-
- * These settings are in the SPEED configuration text file,
- KA.CNF. Use a text editor or click on the SPEED Config
- icon in Windows to modify these settings. For further
- information about KA.CNF, see Appendix B, "Commonly Asked
- Questions", in your SPEED user's manual.
-
- WINDOWS "SOUND DEVICE IN USE" MESSAGE. While using a Sound Blaster
- card and attempting to launch SPEED in Windows, you may
- get a message stating that your sound device is already in use. To
- remedy this, upgrade your SoundBlaster drivers for Windows. If you
- have a modem you can download the new drivers by either calling the
- Creative Labs' BBS directly or by calling the Knowledge Adventure BBS
- @(818) 248-0166 (N,8,1). If you do not have a modem, call our
- Technical Support Department at (818) 249-0212.
-
- TANDY SENSATION. The SPEED install program will not generate a
- Knowledge Adventure program group and icon if you run under Winmate
- - even if you said YES to the Windows question during install.
- Manually add the SPEED Icon to Winmate after installation is complete.
-
- Note: In order to hear sound during the movie, you must have
- a sound card, such as a Sound Blaster.
-
-
- COMPAQ PROLINEA. During INSTALL, press ENTER if you get a message
- stating that you do not have a VGA System.
-
- DIGISPEECH PORTABLE. If you are using the Digispeech PortAble Sound
- Plus, check the date of your BMASTER.* driver files. Conatct Digispeech
- or our BBS if dated earlier than August, 1993.
-
-
- GRAVIS ULTRASOUND. In your UltraSnd directory, type SBOS and then
- press <enter> to activate Sound Blaster compatibility and duirng
- Sound Setup, choose "Sound Blaster and Compatibles."
-
- SOUND SETUP. If you have difficulty successfully running sound
- setup, you may have selected the wrong sound card or you may have
- an I/O conflict with other cards in your computer. See Appendix B,
- "Commonly Asked Questions", in your User's Guide for information about
- troubleshooting and reconfiguring your system.
-
- PROAUDIO 16 BIT SOUND CARDS. If you have set the DMA channel to
- 5, 6 or 7 on the Proaudio side of your sound card, and the DMA
- channel on the Sound Blaster side to 0, 2 or 3: Install might not
- successfully run the digitized sound test and sound will be missing
- from the program. Choose "Change Sound Settings" and select the
- correct Sound Blaster side DMA channel (DMA 0, 2 or 3).
-
- PC Speaker driver Copyright, 1988-1993 RealSound, Inc.
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