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- THE DISC TECHNICAL HELP GUIDE
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- Q. My computer hangs when I type THEDISC <enter>?
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- A. We use a third party program to handle the large number of non
- VESA supporting video cards on the market. This program titled
- UniVBE from SciTech Software fails to run on some machines and
- therefore sometimes hangs.
- To avoid calling this program start The Disc by typing the
- following:
- THEDISC -VESAOFF <enter>
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- Q. When starting The Disc, a message appears saying:
- "FAILED to load VESA driver!"
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- A. Check that you have at least 12 Kilobytes (12288 bytes) free on
- your C-Drive.
- or/
- Your video card may not have 640x480x256 capabilities.
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- * To check the kind of video card you have, try the UVCONFIG.EXE
- program in the root directory of the CD.
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- Q. The screen is broken up and the background images flicker?
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- A. Your video card may have less than 1 Megabyte of memory on it.
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- * To check the kind of video card you have, try the UVCONFIG.EXE
- program in the root directory of the CD.
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- Q. The movie sequences seem to run slowly or erratically?
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- A. Your processor may be a low-speed 386.
- or/
- Try removing any unnecessary TSRs from memory.
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- Q. In The Disc, I cannot move the cursor with my mouse?
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- A. Check your mouse is plugged in.
- or/
- Check that you have a mouse driver installed.
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- * The keyboard can emulate the mouse by using the cursor keys,
- and SPACEBAR or <ENTER> for the mouse-button.
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- Q. The sound volume is quiet?
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- A. Check the volume of your soundcard.
- This could either be a dial at the back of the computer or a
- program supplied with your soundcard.
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- Q. My Gravis Ultrasound does not seem to be supported?
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- A. Using the SBOS program will allow The Disc to run. We will hopefully
- have full native Gravis support in Issue #3.
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- Published by:
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- ROBOT MADNESS,
- 11 - 17 Dorcas St.,
- South Melbourne,
- Victoria, Australia,
- 3205.
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- Fax: (03) 9690 8337
- Internet: editor@thedisc.com.au
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