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- "Read Me" file
- Star Trek(tm): 25th Anniversary Enhanced CD-ROM
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- This file contains late-breaking information that you should know about.
-
- This file has the following entries in it.
-
- MEMORY RECOMMENDATIONS
- INSTALLATION AND SETUP
- PROBLEMS WITH NCACHE
- SOUND CARDS
- TROUBLESHOOTING
- INTERPLAY DEMOS
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- MEMORY RECOMMENDATIONS
-
- You need 560K free low memory and 1024K free EMS memory to play the game.
- If you can free up even more memory, the game will play faster.
- We recommend playing the game with 2048K (or more) free EMS memory.
- The game will also play faster if you can free up more low memory.
-
- Use the MEM command (with DOS 4.0 or higher) or the CHKDSK command
- (with versions of DOS before 4.0) to see how much free memory you have
- in your computer. Refer to your DOS manual for more information on
- freeing up low memory and EMS memory.
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- INSTALLATION AND SETUP
-
- To install the game for the first time, you need to run the INSTALL.EXE
- program on the CD-ROM. Make sure you have about 10MB of free space on
- your hard disk before you begin. Installation will take 2 or 3 minutes.
-
- If you are running EGA instead of VGA, run the program INSTEGA.EXE instead.
-
- If you change your sound card after you install the game for the first
- time, type the following commands from the DOS prompt before you play the
- game again.
-
- C:
- CD \TREKCD
- SETUP
-
- The SETUP program will customize the game for your sound card. You do NOT
- need to run the SETUP program if you have already run the INSTALL program
- and selected your sound card settings; the SETUP program is only necessary
- if you need to _change_ your sound card settings.
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- PROBLEMS WITH NCACHE
-
- You may experience game freezes or erratic mouse behavior if you use the
- disk cache program NCACHE or NCACHE2 with expanded memory. If you use one
- of these programs and you experience problems, try running the program with
- the flag
-
- NCACHE /ext
-
- or
-
- NCACHE2 /ext
-
- This may solve the problem. If you continue to experience problems,
- try to set up your memory configuration so you have 1500K free EMS memory
- before you begin. If you still experience problems, try disabling NCACHE
- before running the game.
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- SOUND CARDS
-
- If you have a sound card that is not listed in the INSTALL program:
-
- First try installing the game with the option "100% SOUND BLASTER COMPATIBLE".
- If this option does not work, try tweaking your BLASTER variable as listed
- below in the "Troubleshooting" section, below.
-
- If you just can't make it work, then install the game again, using the
- option "MOSTLY SOUND BLASTER COMPATIBLE". This has a greater chance of
- success on certain machines, but the sound quality will be lower with some
- pops and clicks in the speech.
-
- Technical explanation: All sound cards except "MOSTLY SOUND BLASTER
- COMPATIBLE" use a feature of most sound cards called "autoinitialize DMA".
- If you know that your computer system or sound card does not support this
- feature, you will have to use the "MOSTLY SOUND BLASTER COMPATIBLE" setting.
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- TROUBLESHOOTING
-
- Q: "I don't hear any speech."
-
- A: 1. Make sure you have speakers or headphones hooked up to your sound
- card, and that you have turned up the volume by using the volume
- controls on the back of the sound card, or by using a software
- volume control program. See your sound card manual for details.
-
- 2. Make sure you are not running a DOS shell from Windows or any other
- program that will shell to DOS. To ensure this, type the word EXIT
- at the C: prompt. If nothing happens, go on to step 3.
-
- 3. Make sure you selected the correct sound card settings when you ran
- the INSTALL program. If you need to change these settings, go into
- the TREKCD directory on your hard disk and type SETUP. (See
- "Installation and Setup," above.)
-
- 4. If you still don't hear any speech, there may be an error in the
- SET BLASTER variable in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Make sure that this
- statement correctly reflects the IRQ and DMA settings of your sound
- card. The installation program that came with your sound card
- probably correctly set up the SET BLASTER statement. Just in case
- the statement is wrong, try putting one (and only one) of these
- statements in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
-
- SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 T3
- SET BLASTER=A220 I7 D1 T3
-
- These two statements are typical of most sound cards. If you have
- altered your sound card settings, be sure to adjust the SET BLASTER
- statement accordingly.
-
- 5. If the settings are correct and you still don't hear any speech,
- try using the 100% SOUND BLASTER COMPATIBLE setting in the SETUP
- program.
-
- 6. If you still don't hear any speech, try using the MOSTLY SOUND
- BLASTER COMPATIBLE setting in the SETUP program.
-
-
- Q: "The background sounds seem to have a fragment of speech in them, or
- sometimes it sounds like the background sounds seem to hiccup."
-
- A: Check your CONFIG.SYS file and see if there is a /E somewhere after the
- line containing the text "MSCDEX". If there is a /E, then try removing
- the /E. This may solve sound problems on certain systems.
-
-
- Q: "It says I don't have enough memory."
-
- A: See page 5 of the manual for some ways to free up more memory for
- the game.
-
-
- Q: "The music is too loud."
-
- A: Each sound card comes with a software program that will adjust the
- volume of music and digitized sound that is played through the card.
- See your sound card manual for details on the volume control of your
- particular card.
-
- If you think the music is drowning out the sound of the voices, you
- should be able to use this volume control program to reduce the volume
- of the music while maintaining the volume of the speech.
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- INTERPLAY DEMOS
-
- This CD-ROM contains a number of demonstration versions of other Interplay
- games. To get to the demos, type DEMOS from the root directory of your
- CD-ROM.
-
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