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- EURO '96 - READ.ME
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR EURO '96
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- WIN 95, WIN 3.1, MS-DOS, CDROM
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- COMPUTER: IBM and 100% Compatibles.
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- CPU: 486DX2/66 required minimum.
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- OPERATING SYSTEM: MS-DOS 5.0 or greater
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- MEMORY: 8MB RAM Required minimum.
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- CD-ROM DRIVE: Double Speed CD-ROM required.
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- SOUND CARDS SUPPORTED: SoundBlaster (+ Pro, 16, AWE 32), Gravis
- Ultrasound (+ Max), Ensoniq Soundscape, Microsoft Sound System and
- 100% compatibles.
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- VIDEO CARD: VGA / SVGA (VESA drivers recommended)
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- INPUT DEVICE: Microsoft 100% compatible mouse required. Joystick
- Optional
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- HARD DISK SPACE: 26 MB
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- WIN 95: Compatible in MS-DOS mode with 16-bit CD-ROM and mouse
- drivers installed; compatible in MS-DOS box with sufficient free
- RAM
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- NOTES ON INSTALLATION
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- Each of the installations affect performance in different ways, but
- as a general 'rule of thumb'. 'The bigger the installation, the
- better the performance'.
- Regardless of which installation you choose EURO '96 needs
- approximately 4Mb of free disk space to run. This is needed to
- cache the large animations that are played on the menu screens.
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- MINIMUM
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- The minimum installation copies all the data files the game needs
- to play on to your hard disk. All the speech, music and large
- animations played in the menus remain on the CD. As a result of
- this you may experience brief pauses during the game while extra
- speech and animations are loaded.
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- STANDARD
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- The standard installation copies all the data files the game needs
- to play and approximately 50% of the speech on to your hard disk.
- The rest of the speech, the music and the large animations in the
- menus remain on the CD. Pauses in the game will be less apparent
- than with minimum installation, but may still exist.
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- MAXIMUM
- The maximum installation copies all the data files the game needs
- to play, approximately 75% of the speech and the digital music on
- to hard disk. With this installation the game will rarely pause
- when extra speech or animations are loaded.
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- The reason for the pauses occurring is because CD Players are a lot
- slower at reading the data from the CD-ROM than your hard drive.
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- TROUBLE SHOOTER
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- MEMORY PROBLEMS
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- To create more base memory run MEMMAKER at the DOS prompt (i.e.
- C:\DOS:>MEMMAKER) and follow all the on screen instructions. Remove
- any drivers that are not need in your autoexec.bat and config.sys
- by editing these files. Where possible use the REM statement
- instead removing the line. We recommend that you REM out the any
- disk cache such as SMARTDRIVE, if you are having memory problems.
- This program can take up a lot of memory. If you are not sure on
- how to edit these files consult the manuals that came
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- SOUND
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- Q. My computer locks up when autodetecting sound cards in
- setup.What's wrong?
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- A. Due to hardware conflicts, autodetecting for sound cards can be
- risky process. If you know the brand, port address, IRQ, and DMA of
- your sound card(s), it is recommended that you manually configure
- these items. Lockups are also common when autodetection is used
- when no sound cards are installed.
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- Q. Why don't I hear anything when I test my sound in setup?
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- A. You may have the wrong sound card selected, or incorrect port,
- IRQ or DMA settings. Volume may be set too low in your sound
- drivers (or the volume slider on the back of your sound card).
- Hardware conflicts or loose cables may be to blame as well.
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- MOUSE
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- Q. My mouse does not work in DOS!
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- A. Chances are that you don't have the driver running, find the
- directory for your mouse (usually MSMOUSE or MOUSE) and run
- your mouse driver from there.
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- JOYSTICK
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- Q. I can't get my joystick to work, even when I calibrate it.
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- A. Make sure you have set the control method to joystick in the
- player setup screen.
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- VIDEO CARDS
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- Q. My game crashes randomly, what's causing this?
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- A. This is often caused by out-of-date video drivers (Vesa). We
- have included a program to help fix this problem. To run the
- program make sure you are in DOS (don't run from Windows), then
- move to the Euro '96 directory and at the prompt type VESAFIX. This
- will run the program and fix the problem. If this doesn't cure the
- problem you should contact your supplier for the latest version of
- the drivers for your video card.
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- Q. The Menu screens are in black and White but the game's in colour!
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- A. Again, this is due to out-of-date drivers (Vesa), you should
- contact your supplier for the latest version. Or you may have just
- a VGA video card fitted in your machine and which doesn't support
- high resolution 256 colours.
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- WINDOWS
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- When running in a windows environment always run the program from
- the supplied .PIF files or shortcuts supplied.
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