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- Configure Help
-
- This screen lets you tell
- Game-Maker about the hardware
- information which is specific
- to your system.
-
- Yellow rectangles highlight
- the current hardware infor-
- mation.
-
- To enter new hardware infor-
- mation, use the mouse or the
- arrow keys to select a menu
- item; then press <Enter> or
- <Return> to change to that
- selection. Selecting an item
- highlights it with a yellow
- rectangle and unselects the
- previously selected item.
-
- Sound And Music:
-
- If you own a Sound Blaster
- compatible sound board you can
- listen to digitized sound and
- music while playing games.
-
- If you have a Sound Blaster
- Pro and you installed it nor-
- mally, the correct set up
- should be highlighted. Other-
- wise, you first need to enter
- which Port and Interrupt your
- Sound Blaster is set to use.
- If you do not know what to
- choose, try experimenting. If
- the port is wrong, neither
- music nor sound will work. If
- the interrupt is wrong but the
- port is correct, music will
- work but sound will not.
-
- You also need to specify a
- Sound Blaster driver for sound
- to work. The default driver
- is called "sndblast.drv" and
- is located in the current
- directory (.\). SNDBLAST.DRV
- and .\ are preinstalled in the
- two menu fields found on the
- lower left side of the
- configureation menu. This
- driver is compatible with the
- "CT-Voice" driver used by
- Creative Labs' Sound Blaster.
-
- If the preinstalled driver
- does not work, then use the
- driver that your sound card
- supplies. Put the driver's
- full name in the first field
- (e.g., CT-VOICE.DRV), and put
- its path in the second field
- (e.g., C:\sound\).
-
-
- Video Cards:
-
- Ninty-nine percent of the VGA
- chips will be correctly de-
- tected automatically. Thus
- you should leave "AUTO-DETECT"
- chosen unless you have video
- problems.
-
- If during a game you move
- vertically and the character
- seems to disappear, or random
- dots scroll onto the screen,
- your VGA chip was incorrectly
- detected. To remedy this
- problem, select your chip type
- from the menu.
-
- Video card manufacturers
- usually obtain their video
- controller chips from one of
- the chip vendors that this
- software supports. So if the
- name of your video board isn't
- on our list, just experiment
- with different video choices
- until one works. The few
- boards that won't work with
- any of the choices are not
- supported.