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- WELCOME TO ANIMAL QUEST 1.00 ( SHAREWARE VERSION ) 01-DEC-1991
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- This README file answers some common questions and contains important,
- last minute information in addition to documentation file AQ.DOC, order
- form ORDER.DOC and ALIVE's catalog ALIVE.DOC
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- ANSWERS TO COMMON QUESTIONS
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- A) SETUP: Before you start the game, run the installation program SETUPAQ
- To make a selection, use the Up or Down keys to move and press <Enter>.
- The SETUPAQ will create a batch file, QUEST.BAT, containing your
- preferences. From then on, simply type QUEST <Enter> to start the game.
- Please note that ANIMAL QUEST requires a minimum 512K of System memory.
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- B) GRAPHICS: To use ANIMAL QUEST, an EGA or VGA adapter is required.
- Optional Super VGA graphics support for:
- ATI TECHNOLOGIES: VGA WONDER & WONDER PLUS, VGA INTEGRA, VGA CHARGER
- GENOA: SUPERVGA 5300 & 5400, MICRO LABS: VGA SOLUTION, ULTIMATE VGA
- ORCHID TECHNOLOGY: PRO DESIGNER PLUS VGA, PRO DESIGNER IIs
- TSENG LABS: ET-3000, ET-4000 VGA, VIDEO SEVEN: V-RAM VGA; VRAM II;
- WESTERN DIGITAL (PARADISE): 1024, VGA PROFESSIONAL, VGA PLUS 16
- Also any SuperVGA card compatible with any of the above should work as
- well. To use Super VGA graphics, your card must have at least 512K
- video memory on board and your monitor must be able support 800X600 .
- We plan to add support for new SuperVGA boards as we go along. For
- example the new VESA and TRIDENT Super VGA chipsets will be supported
- in the next release of ANIMAL QUEST.
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- C) OCEAN and JUNGLE animals are only available in the Registered version,
- available through Alive Software. The Registered version is Enhanced
- with over 1 Megabyte of graphics and sound effects data files.
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- D) MOUSE support is available in the Registered version. A Microsoft
- compatible mouse is required. The mouse driver must be loaded before
- running the program. The driver must be a recent one, 1989 or later.
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- E) DIGITIZED SOUND support is available in the Registered version. You
- can hear the voices of the animals clearly, either through the IBM PC
- speaker with no extra hardware, or through one of the following sound
- card options: ADLIB, COVOX, MEDIA SOURCE, SOUND BLASTER, SOUND
- COMMANDER and the Tandy SL/TL internal sound chip. Also any sound
- board compatible with any of the above should work as well.
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- UPDATE HISTORY
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- Ver 1.0 01-DEC-1991 First publication of ANIMAL QUEST
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- ALIVE SOFTWARE, P.O. BOX 4004, SANTA CLARA, CA , 95056 U.S.A.
- Information: 408-982-0109 Toll Free Orders: 1-800-GET-ALIV
- FAX: 408-982-0780 Free Access BBS : 408-982-9345
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