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- ║ HELP AND INFORMATION ON GENIE LIVEWIRE ║
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- March 1994
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- The IBM-compatible version of GEnie LiveWire features both key and mouse
- selection. To choose an article from the Table of Contents, click on the
- icon to the left of the article or press the associated alpha/numeric key.
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- Once an article is displayed, use the controls at the bottom of the
- screen to move through the text. Alternately, press the Space Bar to
- display the next screen, and Enter or Return to move to the next article.
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- To exit LiveWire, press the X key or click on the Exit switch.
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- The default is for Music On. If you wish to view LiveWire with no music
- or sound you may press the "U" key or click on Music Off. You may, later,
- press the "M" key or click on Music On to turn the sound back on. Music
- On will also re-start the opening theme music.
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- Memory Requirements: A minimum of 475K available conventional DOS memory
- is required to view GEnie LiveWire. To be able to view the animation
- effects in this issue, your system may need at least 1 megabyte of
- expanded or extended memory available. If you don't, you will still be
- able to view everything but most of the animation effects.
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- │ Starting GEnie LiveWire │
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- There are four options to start GEnie LiveWire:
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- 1. For systems with NO sound card, type LW1 at the prompt and press
- enter.
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- 2. For those with a standard Sound Blaster card 1.5/2.0 type LW2 at
- the prompt and press enter.
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- 3. For those with Sound Blaster Pro 2.0, SB16 or SB Pro 2 MCV, type
- LW3 at the prompt and press enter.
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- 4. LiveWire is MS Windows compatible. Tips for installing it are
- available in the Easy Step-by-Step Instructions file for this
- issue, found in the LiveWire Library on GEnie Page 20.
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- The batch files will load the applicable sound drivers where appropriate
- and start this issue of LiveWire. Upon exiting LiveWire, sound drivers
- (if loaded) will be removed.
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- For those without a sound card, we have included music files that will
- play through your PC speaker. These PC speaker files will not play if you
- have installed the Sound Blaster drivers.
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- Sound Card Information: The sound driver installation assumes you have set
- the sound drive/path information. This is normally done in your
- autoexec.bat file with a command that looks like this:
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- SET SOUND=[drive:\path]
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- You may also issue this command from the DOS command line. This tells
- the batch file where the appropriate drivers are located.
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- The IBM compatible version of GEnie LiveWire was created with SuperShow
- IV, multimedia authoring software from PC West. If you would like more
- information on SuperShow IV you may contact PC West at 602-992-0310 or by
- writing to them at P.O. Box 31418, Phoenix, AZ 85046.
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- If you are using MS Windows to view LiveWire, the sound may be very slow
- depending on your configuration. You have two choices in this event.
- Leave Windows and run from a DOS prompt or remove the sound drivers.
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- End of Help
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