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- Taking Care of Business V1.0
- (C) 1994 Moonlite Software
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- Taking Care of Business (TCB) is a game of pure fun and logic. Guide our
- hero, Demolisher Dirk, through mind stomping puzzles in search of his long
- awaited vacation.
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- System Requirements
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- - IBM PC compatible with 480K free memory
- - VESA compatible Super VGA graphics card with 1 megabyte of RAM
- - Sound Blaster supported but not required
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- What To Do If Things Go Wrong
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- If the game returns an error message, locks up, or just plain appears
- strange there are several causes and remedies described below.
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- Problem:
- - Returns ERROR 1 - VESA driver not found
- - Returns ERROR 2 - VESA mode 0x101 not supported
- - Returns ERROR 3 - Hardware mode 0x101 not supported
- - Game locks up, strange video output, etc.
- Possible Causes & Solutions:
- - No Super VGA card. This game requires a Super VGA card.
- - Less than 1 megabyte on the Super VGA card. This game requires a
- Super VGA card with at least 1 megabyte of video RAM.
- - Your monitor cannot display the required resolution. A Super VGA
- monitor is required.
- - No VESA driver installed or VESA driver installed does not support
- all the functions that this game requires. The Solution is to run
- UNIVBE.EXE (see section "Using UNIVBE" below.)
- Problem:
- - Game locks up.
- - No SoundBlaster sounds or PC speaker sounds when SoundBlaster
- compatible card is present.
- Possible Causes & Solutions:
- - Interrupt number for SoundBlaster compatible card is not set correctly.
- The interrupt defaults to 7. To run the game with a different interrupt
- number type:
- TCB # (where # is the interrupt you want)
- For example, TCB 5 (ENTER) will start the game with the SoundBlaster
- interrupt set to 5.
- - This game has been tested with the Gravis UltraSound. Run SBOS.EXE
- before running TCB.
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- Using UNIVBE (C) 1993-1994 SciTech Software
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- Included with this software is a program called UNIVBE.EXE that will
- install the proper VESA BIOS extension required for this game.
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- UNIVBE is an amazing shareware utility written by SciTech Software. It
- determines what type of video card you have installed and loads the proper
- VESA driver for it. The complete UNIVBE shareware package is included as a
- PKZIP archive named UNIVBE43.ZIP.
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- Ordering More Fun
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- Taking Care of Business is a game of 60 puzzles. The shareware version
- offers the first 15 puzzles. You may freely copy this first episode and pass
- it along for others to enjoy. Your registration will bag you all 60 puzzles
- PLUS all of the solutions. Look for ordering information in the game.
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- Where to Find the Latest Version
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- Get the latest releases from Software Creations BBS
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- 1200/2400 V.42/MNP Lines : (508) 365-2359
- 2400-14.4k HST US Robotics Lines : (508) 368-7036
- 2400-16.8k V.32/V.42bis US Robotics lines : (508) 368-7139
- 14.4-28.8k V.32/V.42bis/V.fc Hayes Optima lines: (508) 365-9352
- 14.4-28.8k V.32/V.42bis/V.32terbo/V.fc US Robotics lines: (508) 368-3424
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- "Home of the Authors"
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- * Software Creations Voted #1 BBS for 1993 & 1994 *
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- Vendor Information
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- The shareware version of TCB may be freely copied and given away. Please
- apply the following conditions to distribution:
- - Distribute the complete package as described in PACKING.LST
- - Please forward to Moonlite Software, a copy of any article, catalog, etc.
- in which any Moonlite Software product is featured. We will add your
- company to our distribution list to ensure that you get the latest
- releases and updates. This includes CD compilations.
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