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- CAPITALISM 1.0 Demo Version Version Read Me Document
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- Published by: Interactive Magic
- Developed by: Enlight Software
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- Contact Information
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- System Requirements
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- - IBM or 100% compatible computer, 386DX CPU or above
- - 4MB RAM minimum
- - 10MB hard disk space
- - SVGA graphics card and monitor
- - Mouse
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- Trouble-shooting
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- If you have any problems running Capitalism, please read the
- following sections:
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- - The FILES parameter in CONFIG.SYS
- - Graphics Cards
- - Memory Requirement
- - Creating a Boot Diskette
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- The FILES parameter in CONFIG.SYS
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- Capitalism needs to open a number of files simultaneously during
- its running. There is a parameter named "FILES" in the CONFIG.SYS
- file which controls the number of files can be opened at the same
- time. It should be set to at least 30 in order to run the game.
- To edit the CONFIG.SYS file, you can use EDIT, the standard DOS
- editing utility.
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- Graphics Cards
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- Capitalism requires a graphics card and monitor that are capable
- of running in 640 x 480 x 256 colors Super VGA mode. If
- Capitalism fails to run because it cannot recognize the SVGA
- feature of your graphics card but you are sure that it supports
- SVGA graphics, you can try to load a VESA driver.
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- VESA is a standard for programming SVGA graphics cards. Loading a
- VESA driver allows the SVGA feature of your graphics cards to be
- recognized by most programs. Since each different SVGA card
- requires a custom VESA driver, you must find the VESA driver of
- your card first.
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- Unless your card is very old, you can probably find the VESA
- driver in the diskette which came with your SVGA card. Copy the
- driver from the diskette to your hard disk and run the driver
- before running Capitalism. As a convenience, you could add the
- VESA command to your "autoexec.bat" so that it would be
- automatically loaded each time your system starts.
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- If the VESA driver did not come with your graphics card, contact
- your card's manufacturer.
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- Memory Requirement
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- Basically, Capitalism requires at least 4MB RAM to run. Though,
- in the event that the memory available is less than the amount desired,
- Capitalism is capable of using the harddisk space as the virtual memory.
- However, you may notice a considerable reduction in the game
- speed as a result of using virtual memory.
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- The game will refuse to run if there is not enough memory available
- for the game to start up properly. If this occurs you should either
- free up more memory or create a boot diskette.
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- In the early stages of a game, there is not much game data to store
- in memory. However, as the game continues, more memory will be used
- to store game information. At some points if there is not enough
- physical memory, virtual memory will begin to be used. As a result,
- the speed of the game may be slowed down.
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- Thus, to have the game run at the best possible performance, you
- should provide more memory for the game. Generally 5MB-6MB of free
- memory allows the game to run smoothly in most cases. If you have
- 8MB of physical memory, you can allocate 2MB memory to the Smart
- Drive, for improving disk access performance, and leaving the
- rest for the game.
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- Creating a Boot Diskette
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- To create a boot diskette, you should first format the diskette
- with the "FORMAT A: /S" command.
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- Next, create an AUTOEXEC.BAT and a CONFIG.SYS file on the boot
- diskette by using EDIT, the standard DOS editing utility. The
- content of the files should be as follows:
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- AUTOEXEC.BAT
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- PROMPT $P$G
- C:\MOUSE\MOUSE (type the path of your mouse driver here)
- C:\DOS\SMARTDRV 2048 (only add this if you have 8MB of memory)
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- CONFIG.SYS
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- FILES=30
- BUFFERS=20