I N S T A L L A T I O N



To install:

1. If you have an old version of GMS, DELETE IT.  The old libs:games.library
   and libs:gpi/* files can be deleted safely as these now reside in the
   main directory.  The old GAMESLIB: assign to the demos/ directory is no
   longer necessary, it has been replaced with another assign, below.


2. Assign GMS: to the main directory.  This is a standard assignment that
   *must* be available or else you will not be able to run anything.  To
   make it a permanent assignment, put it in your S:user-startup.

   Example:

     Assign GMS: HD1:System/GMS/


3. Copy StartGMS from GMS:C/ to your C: directory or make an add assign to
   this directory.


4. Copy the includes/ directory to where you keep your INCLUDES:, or
   make an add assign to this directory (assign includes: GMS:Includes/ ADD).

   (If you have E, you may have to move the EModules directory to the
   appropriate place).


5. If you have CygnusEd and are interested in the assembler sources, copy
   Extras/ceddefaults.s to your S: directory.  This will set the correct
   tab stops for the source files (which have a .s extension).


6. Run GMS:Utils/GMSPrefs/GMSPrefs, setup the screen settings to suit your
   machine and save it as the default.  If you have OCS/ECS you must set the
   chipset option correctly, as the default is AGA which could crash these
   older machines.


7. That should be all.  If you have any problems with the executables, try
   running IceBreaker in GMS:Utils/ to find out what is going wrong.


If you are wondering where the icons are, I happen to use a directory
manager so I don't create any.  You will have to make your own if you want
to use Workbench.

What else do you need?  GMS also supports files packed with XPK, so you may
like to get that off Aminet.  The place to go for this is:

utils/pack/xpk_User.lha

Don't bother getting the developer files, GMS handles all the technical
work for you.  Once you have XPK on your system you can go ahead and xpack
all the files in GMS:Demos/data/ to save some HD space.

To run the demos, just open a shell window, CD to the demos/ directory and
execute them.  If they don't work, then there is either not enough chip ram
available, they can't find the GMS:  assign, or the data files are missing.
Most require some sort of joystick or mouse activity if you are to see
anything happen.

If something goes wrong it may be a bug, so you should write and tell me
what happened.


              Demos support Left-Amiga + M screen switching.