PC World Komputer 1998 July & August/Pcwk78b98.iso/Gry/ABEODD/README.TXT

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ABE'S ODDYSEE REQUIRES 16-BIT HI-COLOR MODE

If your SVGA display card doesn't support 16-bit High Color
mode, then Abe's Oddysee will not run.

In addition, some older display cards that do support High Color
mode don't switch to it properly under Direct X.  Before you
call technical support, try this :
Select Start->Settings->Control Panel, then Double click on
Display to bring up the Display Properties dialog box.  Choose
the Settings tab, and select "High Color (16 bit)", then click
on OK.  You will be prompted to restart your computer, and
after it restarts, try running the game again.  You may notice
your wallpaper and icons look a lot better now, too!

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USING THE ALTERNATE DISPLAY MODES

If the game runs too slowly on your machine, or if the movies
are jerky, you may want to try the alternate display modes.

You must create a shortcut to run the AbeWin.exe program
with the appropriate command line option.  First, locate
the file AbeWin.exe (in the directory you installed to,
probably C:\Program Files\Abe's Oddysee), and right click
on the file.  Select "Create Shortcut", then find the
Shortcut file created (called "Shortcut to Abe's Oddysee").
Right click on this, then select Properties.  Choose the
Shortcut tab, and edit the "Target" field, adding one of
the following command line parameters to the end of the
line (seperated from AbeWin.exe by a space) :

-interline       Every other line is blacked out.
-vstretch        Lines are doubled (this may not work
                 on some display cards, if it doesn't,
                 use INTRLINE).

Select OK, then click on this Shortcut to run Abe. You
might want to rename the shortcut something more
appropriate.

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USING GAME PADS WITH ABE'S ODDWORLD ODDYSEE SUCCESSFULLY

To provide compatibility with the widest range of
run-of-the-mill game pads out there in the PC market,
we have chosen this way to support game pads that have
more than 4 buttons if those game pads do not have
dedicated Windows device drivers.

For all these settings, and to calibrate the joystick,
use the Windows joystick or gaming devices control
panel applet.  We can only reliably support gaming
devices that are explicitly recognized by Windows,
meaning they have to have a driver made explicitly
for that controller. If the controller you have is not
explicitly recognized, you will probably have to make
a "custom" setting for the controller if the correct
type (axes,buttons) is not available.  This may or may
not be possible due to various device driver suppliers
(including Microsoft) completely replacing the default
joystick control panel applet, and various versions of
DirectX doing the same.

If you have a 6-button game pad, most likely it will
work correctly with Abe if you set it up in the
Joystick control panel as a 3-axis, 4-button game pad.
We treat these devices as if axis 3 going past 80% means
the fifth button is down, and axis 3 going below 20% means
the sixth button is down.  Otherwise, if that doesn't
work, set it up as a 4-axis, 4-button game pad and we will
detect the fact that it only has one button per axis and
use axis 3 going past 50% as the fifth button, and axis 4
going past 50% as the sixth button.

If you have a 8-button game pad, most likely it will
work correctly with Abe if you set it up in the
Joystick control panel as a 4-axis, 4-button game pad.
We treat these devices as if axis 3 going past 80% means
the fifth button is down, axis 4 going past 80% means
the sixth button is down, axis 3 going below 20% means
the seventh button is down, and axis 4 going past 20% means
the eighth button is down.  Unfortunately this means you
cannot use button 5 and 7 at the same time, or button 6
and 8 at the same time.

If neither of those works, just set it up as a 2-axis,
4-button game pad and deal with it.  Try to find a joystick
device driver that works for your controller.

If you have a real analog flight stick or something, you
may want to unplug it and use the keyboard instead, as
otherwise you'll have to keep the throttle centered or
we will think it's a button being pressed.  We have
found that most analog controllers don't work well with
Abe anyway, and it's much easier to control him with the
keyboard.

If all else fails, you can always use the keyboard.  This
is probably your best option if your controller has only
4 buttons or less or is analog, as this game was designed
for a 10 button digital gamepad controller and needs a
minimum of 6 buttons to keep from having to use the keyboard
for anything besides start and select.

For those unfortunate enough to have game pads with only 4
buttons, double-tapping the direction pad left or right will
cause Abe to run.  A double-tap is when you press the pad,
release, and quickly press again, holding it down until you
no longer wish to run.  For 2-button joysticks (we pity you)
we assume they are analog and moving the stick further will
make a difference between walking and running.

If you remap the controller somehow and get it to a state
where you can no longer play or configure normally, delete
the entries in ABE.INI to clear the mappings to default.