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- README.TXT FOR MAELSTROM V1.1
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- Thank you for purchasing Maelstrom, the premiere simulation-
- strategy game.
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- Because of the processing and memory requirements of Maelstrom, we
- suggest that you run Maelstrom in a "clean environment". This means
- that your machine should be configured free of "CPU-hogging" and
- "memory-grabbing" TSR's and other programs of the like.
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- Maelstrom requires 589K of available "low DOS" memory to run
- successfully. Most machines do not have this amount of memory
- available on ordinary start-up.
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- If you encounter memory problems in running Maelstrom (such as the game
- refuses to run), you may need to create a "boot-disk" with which you
- can boot your system. You will want to create a disk which can
- boot up your system, but will bypass and not start any of the normal
- TSR's that are part of your normal hard-drive auto-execution sequence.
-
- To help you do this, we have included on this disk (disk #1) two
- sets of files that will aid you in making a bootable start-up disk.
-
- You will need to first format a MS-DOS 5.x system disk. (Please see
- the Maelstrom Technical Reference Guide for detailed instructions.)
-
- To properly prepare your system disk you will want to do one of the
- following, depending on which seems most appropriate:
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- 1) For users of QEMM, you will want to copy the following files off
- this Maelstrom Disk #1 onto a bootable system disk:
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- copy config.000 a:config.sys
- copy autoexec.000 a:autoexec.bat
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- PLEASE NOTE: These start-up files do not load your mouse driver,
- so you will need to load that separately before beginning play.
-
- 2) If you are not using QEMM, you will probably want to copy these
- files off the Maelstrom Disk #1 onto a bootable system disk:
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- copy config.001 a:config.sys
- copy autoexec.001 a:autoexec.bat
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- PLEASE NOTE: These start-up files do not load your mouse driver,
- so you will need to load that separately before beginning play.
-
-
- Now reboot your system with your newly created boot disk and go to
- the harddrive partition and run Maelstrom as normal. This disk that
- you will have created can be used with other programs that require a
- "Clean Enviroment" to operate.
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- IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING WINDOWS SMART DRIVE
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- If your system files automatically load the Windows Smart Drive disk
- cache driver (smartdrv.exe), you will not be able to run Maelstrom
- without first loading EMM '386, or a memory manager such as QEMM-386.
- If you need examples of startup files which load EMM '386, please refer
- to two files on this disk, autoexec.002 and config.002. Use the MS-DOS
- Editor to modify the startup files on your hard drive, based on these
- examples.
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- We hope you enjoy the experience of Maelstrom.
- Thank you from the folks at Bluth, Testing 123, P.A.S. and Merit!
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