Harvester Installation / Technical Reference Thank you for choosing to play the "Harvester" demo. "Harvester" is one of the most intense adventure game products ever released! Please refer to this brief information file for quick and easy reference regarding the "Harvester" demo. HARVESTER INTRODUCTION Welcome to Harvester. We would like to take a moment to help you become familiar with the installation instructions if this is the first time you have setup the demo. During the installation, the screen will guide you through the setup process. The following are the basic system requirements. Please make sure your system matches the minimum specifications. GAME SPECIFICATIONS / REQUIREMENTS Harvester requires the following MINIMUM configuration in order to play properly: IBM™ PC or Compatible 486DX/33 MHz Processor or greater VESA local bus video card with 512K video memory or greater 8MB RAM or greater (16MB RAM recommended) Double Speed (2X) CD-ROM drive or greater Sound device with Digital Sound Capability MSCDEX drivers v 2.1 or greater Microsoft™ compatible mouse and mouse driver (version 8.0 or greater) 30MB free hard disk drive space Note: If your system is using disk compression software such as Double Space or Drive Space, you will probably notice longer program loading time. Harvester will run on computer systems that have such compression software installed. However, we cannot guarantee that problems will not occur if other compression software is used. For better performance we recommend using a drive without software disk compression. BEFORE INSTALLING Before installing the game, it is always a good idea to verify the integrity and data on your hard disk drive. To do this simply run SCANDISK or DEFRAG from the dos prompt or from Windows. Damaged data on your hard disk may result in your system not working properly. INSTALLING HARVESTER FROM DOS To install Harvester, 1. Insert CD #1 in your drive. 2. Type the letter of your CD-ROM drive followed by a colon. (Example: D:) then press ENTER. The prompt should display D:\ or similar. 3. Type "INSTALL" and press ENTER 4. Follow the on screen instructions to install "Harvester" on your computer system. 5. When installation is complete, type "HARVEST" to begin game. ADDITIONAL INSTALLATION NOTES FOR DOS USERS If you are using the EMS memory option/switch make sure you have at least 8MB (8192K) or more specified in the device= statement in the config.sys. You may also use the option switch AUTO or do not specify any optional memory control parameters, such as the NOEMS option, or you may remove the line from your CONFIG.SYS file entirely. Example line for the CONFIG.SYS file: device=emm386.exe 8192, or device=emm386.exe noems device=emm386.exe auto Please make sure your CONFIG.SYS file has the statement "FILES=20" or greater. "Harvester" requires 500K of FREE available conventional (low) RAM in order to function properly. If your system has less than 500K FREE conventional (low) memory, you may need to run the "MEMMAKER" utility in order to increase your FREE RAM. If your system has only 8MB of RAM, you will need to disable the SMARTDRV or any other disk caching program. "Harvester" uses approximately 7MB of available memory so with SMARTDRV or other disk caching programs loaded there is not enough memory available for the game. IMPORTANT! "Harvester" requires a swap file of 20MB to be available on your local hard disk drive. If you do not have at least 20MB of free disk space when playing "Harvester" the program may stop or crash the computer system. If your system has 16MB of RAM or greater, this swapfile is not needed. SOUND CARD INFORMATION NOTE: “Harvester” usually detects most sound cards and the appropriate settings when the game begins. However, should the game not run, you may run the "SETSOUND" program from the directory in which you installed the game files. The "SETSOUND" program will guide you in detecting or selecting the correct parameters for your sound card. You may also run the SETSOUND program from within Windows 3.1 or Windows 95. To run the program simply click on the “Sound Setup” icon. In addition, be sure the appropriate sound drivers are installed. Your sound card should be supplied with an installation program which configures your sound card to function properly with DOS games. If these drivers are not installed, or they are incorrectly configured, the game may not function properly, or may freeze your computer system. VIDEO CARD (VESA) INFORMATION “Harvester” utilizes hi-resolution graphics and requires your computer system be VESA compatible. This is usually a software driver which is supplied by your video card manufacturer. When starting "Harvester" the game will attempt to "detect" if the VESA driver is loaded. However some newer computer systems have VESA on the computers motherboard which is automatically enabled when the game starts. However, if after allowing “Harvester” to run the VESA driver for you, the computer system freezes or "locks up", you will have to manually place the VESA driver in your AUTOEXEC.BAT in order to function properly. If you do not have a VESA driver for your video card, CD #1 has the latest VESA drivers available located in the VESA directory and may solve the VESA problem. Please also refer to the file VESA.TXT located in the VESA directory. Simply copy the appropriate VESA driver to your hard disk and add the name of the driver (usually VESA.EXE, or VESA.COM) to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Next, re-boot your system with the new VESA driver and try again. STARTING HARVESTER FROM DOS To play “Harvester” after it has been installed: 1) Make sure the CD-ROM is properly inserted into your CD-ROM drive. 2) Change to the drive and directory where you previously installed “Harvester”. 3) Type “HARVEST” and press ENTER to begin game. UNINSTALLING HARVESTER To remove “Harvester” using DOS select the uninstall utility called “UNSTALL” located in the directory in which you originally installed the program.