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DOGZ, Your Computer Pet (tm)
Welcome to Dogz!
To order Dogz from within Europe, call
+44 (0) 1664 481991 between 9am to 5pm GMT,
Monday to Friday.
For more information and other fun stuff,
check out the Dogz Web Site at...
www.pfmagic.com
QUICK START
Getting Started
- After you install Dogz, you'll see a "Dogz" icon in a Windows
Program Group (or under the "Programs" item of the START menu
in Windows '95) named "Yourname's Dogz" (where "yourname" is your
first name).
- Start Dogz by double-clicking on the icon named "Dogz" (or simply
selecting the "Dogz" icon under Windows '95).
- This will open the Dogz Adoption Kit
- You can pet and play with any of the five Dogz breeds and decide
which one is best for you!
- When you decide which one you want to adopt, click the "Adopt
Me Now" button.
Important Note
- Dogz love to run around on your computer screen.
- Whenever you let a Dogz loose on the screen, you will not
be able to click on any other application until you...
1) put the Dogz back into the Doghouse, or
2) Quit Dogz, or
3) Press ALT-TAB to switch to another application, or
4) Press ESCAPE (this will instantly pop the Dogz back into
their Doghouses)
In the Adoption Kit you can pet and play with five different breeds
of Dogz. Once you have adopted your own Dogz, you will have many
other things to do. You will be able to feed, play with and train
your Dogz. You will be able to groom them to change their color.
Your Dogz will be able to act as Guard Dogz, protecting your computer
from monitor burn-in and file snoops. Over time, your adopted
puppyDogz will grow up to be a full size Dogz.
IN THE ADOPTION KIT TRY THIS...
Picking up your Dogz
- To pick up Dogz and move them to a new location, click the
right mouse button while the cursor is anywhere over the Dogz.
- Don't worry - this won't hurt it. Releasing the mouse button
will drop your Dogz safely to the desktop.
- If you drop the Dogz back on top of its doghouse, it will pop
back into its doghouse.
Dogz love to be petted!
- You can pet your Dog at any time. To do this, simply click and
hold the left mouse button while the cursor is over the Dogz.
The cursor will change to a "petting hand."
- Stroke the Dog with the cursor while holding down the left
mouse button.
- If you pet your Dogz just right and long enough, it might
roll over to let you scratch its stomach, or even go to sleep.
Sleeping
- If you leave Dogz alone for several minutes, they usually
nod off to sleep. You may even catch them dreaming!
- A nice way to wake up Dogz is to pet them while they're
sleeping.
KNOWN MISBEHAVIORS ("TROUBLESHOOTING")
"I'm having trouble putting Dogz back into their Dogzhouses."
- Make sure your cursor hand is positioned over the Dogzhouse when
you drop the Dogz off.
"My Dog disappears from the screen."
- Like a real dog, your Dogz will sometimes run off on its own errands.
- Try double-clicking the mouse to call your Dogz back.
"My Dog sometimes freezes on the screen."
- Digital Dogz need to behave well and make sure they don't slow down
your system. If an important application needs to control your
computer for a few seconds, your Dogz will hold still until that
application lets go. It's nothing to worry about!
"The Dogz Playpen window has changed colors."
- If you change your Display resolution or color palette while Dogz is
running, your Dogz colors may shift undesirably. To fix this, simply
quit and relaunch Dogz.
- Also, when running on a system with only 256 colors, opening or selecting
another application can sometimes cause Dogz colors to change (the programs
are competing for the same colors). If your Dogz turns black, changes
colors in an unexpected way, or the Playpen background colors become
distorted, try minimizing the Playpen window and re-opening it.
- If this does not work, close and re-open Dogz and the problem should
go away.
"Guard Dogz requires a password, but I did not set one!"
- If you had already set a password for another screen saver, you may find
that this password is still required for Guard Dogz.
"I'm not hearing any sounds."
- To hear your Dogz, you need a SoundBlaster(tm) compatible card
installed.
- Remember that if Dogz is ever minimized or another application is
opened on top of Dogz (even when "Always on Top" is set), your Dogz
will keep quiet. Only when Dogz is the foremost application will
sounds be heard.
"The Playpen window sometimes appears on screen over my screen saver."
- If you set the Playpen window to be "Always on Top" and Dogz is
left running in Fullscreen mode, on some computers, the Playpen
window will be visible above other screen savers when they appear
on screen. To eliminate this problem, either turn off the "Always
on Top" setting or be sure to put your Dogz back into the Playpen
when you are finished playing with your Dogz.
"Does Installing Dogz affect my system files?"
- The files that come with PF. Magic Dogz are as system-friendly
as possible. Dogz won't crawl into your AUTOEXEC.BAT or
CONFIG.SYS files and mess them up.
"Dogz booted me back to the Adoption Kit, and is asking me for an Unlock Code!"
- If you installed the Retail CD (or floppies) over any previously
installed demo versions of Dogz, the Retail version may "revert" and think it's
the demo. Even if you are not sure that you installed over another version, the
following solution is highly recommended for this problem:
a)Search your computer for all Dogz-related files (see outline below)
b)Uninstall (delete them)
c)Re-boot your machine
d)Re-install from your retail CD (or floppies).
I. In the WINDOWS DIRECTORY (C:\WINDOWS, C:\WIN, or C:\Win95) find and delete
the following files:
1) Dogzdll.dll
2) Guarddog.dll
3) Guarddog.ini
4) Guarddog.scr (If you don't have all of the Guarddog.* files, skip 'em)
II. In the root of your C: drive delete the following directory:
Dogz.xxx <-- (where xxx = the 1st three letters of the registered owner
or the letters "fir")
* The location of the WINDOWS and DOGZ.xxx directories may vary depending on whether
you chose to use their default locations upon install.
TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Should you experience any technical problems with this software, such as it failing
to operate, please contact our Technical Services Department:
Address: Technical Services, Mindscape International Ltd,
Priority House, Charles Avenue, Maltings Park,
Burgess Hill, West Sussex, RH15, 9PQ, England.
Telephone: From inside the UK: 01444 239600
From outside the UK: (international code) 44 1444 239600
Fax: From inside the UK: 01444 248996
From outside the UK: (international code) 44 1444 248996
Hours of Business: 09:30 to 13:00hrs and 14:00 to 16:30hrs Monday to Friday
We regret that we cannot offer game hints and tips, as the service is provided for
technical difficulties only.
*No animals were harmed in the making of this product.*
Dogz, Your Computer Pet, and PF. Magic are trademarks of PF. Magic, Inc.
Copyright 1995 PF. Magic, Inc. All Rights Reserved.