TNN OUTDOORS BASS TOURNAMENT '96 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------- * The lure depth can be raised 'snapped' by pressing the spacebar. * On the lodge screen you can only browse through the catalog. * To thumb the line you must press both left and right mouse buttons down simultaneously. * To practice with different tackle you are first required to go into free fishing and borrow the tackle then exit and go into practice. * Make sure your TNN OUTDOORS BASS TOURNAMENT '96 is in your CD drive before running the program. * To clarify the tournament section the positions that are needed to be attained to progress to the next round are as follows:- Junior Round One - first place Junior Round Two - first place Junior Round Three - top five places Senior Round One - first place Senior Round Two - top three places * You can only switch perspectives using the enter key when you have a fish on your line. GENERAL HINTS AND TIPS ---------------------- * If a fish jumps out of the water reduce the drag instantly to stop your line from snapping. * Keep an eye on the wind direction indicator when you are casting as the wind will affect your cast and you may lose your lure. * Be careful when fishing around obstacles they can break your line if you get snagged up in them. * Take note of the tips given by Fish Fishburne in the free fishing section. * The fish can become a little 'hook shy' close to the boat. * Remember to give yourself plenty of time to reach the weigh in point. If you get there after the closing time, you will be disqualified, this is indicated by your name being displayed in the Rankings table, followed by DIS rather than the weight that you have caught (whiich is not valid) * Use the save game feature, it is useful if you hit a fishing dry spot. * Catch as many bass as you can. Use the full day even if you have already caught a good weight, to improve your skill. * Move to another area if a fish shakes loose or your line breaks. Chances are the fish will be spooked or wary. * When a fish runs, don't try to reel in or you might break the line. Let it run and slowly reel him in. * Large Bass are more difficult to hook, you may need more patience and have to run your lure by him for longer. * Look for cover where fish can hide. * Don't stay in one area too long, the fish are soon spooked, and you may waste valuable fishing time. * Start far away and move back towards your dock as the day progresses. * Look for waterways flowing into the main lake. Fish often feed there. * Fish are attracted to shade and deep water in warm weather. * Check your tension when you 'snap' your line, it can increase quickly. * Sometimes you don't have to go very far to catch one. * If you have a fish on your line that you don't want reduce your drag as this makes it easier for the fish to slip the hook. TROUBLE SHOOTING INFORMATION INSTALLATION RELATED ISSUES To change any of the options on the install program, for example the directory to install TNN OUTDOORS BASS TOURNAMENT '96, first click on the box then use the cursor to move to where you want to make changes then use backspace. The delete key is disabled. Should the INSTALL program be unable to identify your soundcard, press the ESC key, the installation process will be concluded as normal, saving the configuration of the game to use NO sound card. Type SETSOUND (this runs the SETSOUND.EXE installed to your hard disc), this will enable additional options in order for you to select the appropriate sound drivers, follow the on-screen instructions. Remember, this product was designed to be used with a Sound Blaster compatible sound card. VIDEO CLIP (FMV) RELATED ISSUES Your CD drive needs to have at attainable transfer rate of 300Kb (Double Speed) for the FMV sequences to work correctly. If your drive is not fast enough you will experience some stuttering whilst Fish Fishburne is talking. Furthermore, your system needs to have version 2.23 (or newer) of MSCDEX.EXE This is the OS system extension through which it carries out all of its CD manipulation after the initial installation process. SOUND CARD RELATED ISSUES This game requires a sound card to run. This can be set up using the install program or using the SETSOUND program included, just follow the on screen instructions to set up for the required card. If you experience problems with the sound,then run SETSOUND from the same directory and follow its instructions prior to typing RUN (Enter/Carriage Return). Note, if the install puts up the values -1 for the IRQ or DMA selection, this means that it will use the auto-detect values - you can over-ride this by clicking on the boxes and selecting the values yourself. Note some soundcards will not configure automatically if they are set to operate on DMA channels 0 or 3. You may set the values manually using SETSOUND (as detailed above) VIDEO CARD RELATED ISSUES This program uses an extended VESA driver if you experience any video problems run the program UVCONFIG which initializes the driver according to the video card in your machine. If you experience problems or wish to cancel the UNIVBE driver then instead of typing RUN type RUNNOVBE followed by Carriage return as an alternative. MEMORY RELATED ISSUES (AND MAKING A BOOT DISC) This program needs at least 8MB of memory to run, if you have any TSR or other resident programs that use a lot of memory then it is advisable to create a boot disk to run the game from. If you feel that the memory configuration of your system needs adjusting, run MEMMAKER.Information on how to make a boot disk follows (note, as you will have to copy information from your current set-up it would be advisable to get a hard-copy print-out of the files AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS located on the Root of your hard disc (locate by DIR C:CONFIG.SYS etc):- 1. From the DOS prompt, change directory to the drive containing the TNN '96 game CD(eg D: or E: (whatever designator is assigned to your CD-ROM DRIVE)). 2. Type MAKEBOOT (and press Enter/Carriage Return) 3. Follow the on-screen instructions. 4. After following these instructions, your floppy disc drive now contains the basis of your GAME BOOT DISC (this will be useful with other games, not only TNN'96). It is only a basis as we cannot know the specifics of your system, such as where the mouse drivers are stored on the hard disc, what they are called etc. What we have done is format the floppy disc with a system track and copied from your written standard command lines (such as defining the PATH etc). You will now have to edit the structure of the two files on the floppy disc in order to pass over all of the information required. PLEASE ENSURE THAT WHEN YOU ARE DOING THIS, THAT YOU EDIT THE AUTOEXEC.BAT AND CONFIG.SYS CONTAINED ON THE FLOPPY DISC, NOT ON THE HARD DISC. 5. Editing the BOOT DISC CONFIG.SYS File: Say the BOOT DISC is in Drive A, Type EDIT A:CONFIG.SYS (Enter/Carriage Return) The edit window will display the basis of your Boot Disc Config which you will build upon. The first section are pretty standard commands, to this you need to add the necessary command lines as indicated (lines 4 and 5). Your revised Config.Sys should follow the outline below: BUFFERS=30 FILES=30 LASTDRIVE=Z DEVICE=C:\DOS\CD12J27.SYS DEVICE=C:\SB16\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1 H:5 BUFFERS=32,0 The first 3 lines are as per they were set up by MAKEBOOT. Line 4 identifies the CD ROM Driver. There will be a similar line in your original Config.sys (from the hard disc), locate it, it may have a different name, and add it to the file you are editing. Line 5 identifies the soundcard device driver, again differing in varying sound cards so this also should be copied from your original config.sys. In some cases, your original Config.Sys may have loaded device drivers High (eg DEVICEHIGH=L\..... C:\MOUSE), you do not want to have the BOOT DISC loading device drivers High, edit such lines so that such drivers are loaded LOW into Base memory, in accordance with the example above. 6. Editing the BOOT DISC AUTOEXEC.BAT File: prompt $p$g path c:\;c:\dos c:\windows\mouse.com /y C:\DOS\MSCDEX /D:12345678 /L:E The first 2 lines are as per they were set up by MAKEBOOT, these are needed to initialize just your hard drive root directory and the directory where your DOS files are etc. Line 3 is required in order to run your mouse driver. Again this line has to be copied from your original Autoexec.Bat, the name may vary from the example line, but should be easy to spot in your old AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Line 4 sets up your CD drive. This line is very important and should be copied from your existing Autoexec.Bat including all parameters following the name of the Execuatble file (should there be any). Again, with regards to these two lines, ensure that the command lines do not invoke loading the items into Hi-Memory, they are to be loaded into Base memory NOTE: The auxiliary lines shown here are examples, they need to be substituted by the appropriate command lines extracted from your original CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT located on your hard disc (which is why we stated earlier that a hard copy print-out of such files would be very useful) 7. Your boot disk should now be ready for use. Place this boot disk in your primary floppy disk drive and REBOOT the computer (whenever you wish to play the game). This will enable you to run the game using a minimum of memory for system requirements, hence releasing memory for the game. WINDOWS RELATED ISSUES TNN OUTDOORS BASS TOURNAMENT '96 can, on most systems, be launched from Windows through the RUN option of the FILE's menu. However this product was not designed as a Windows application and as such you may experience problems running under Windows on some systems. Furthermore,if you experience any problems after running Windows then reset the machine and run it from the DOS prompt, or from your boot disc. RUNNING TNN OUTDOORS BASS TOURNAMENT '96 UNDER WIN95 1. To install TNN OUTDOORS BASS TOURNAMENT '96 from win95 select the run function from the start menu. Use the browse button and select CDROM then select the program called 'install' and click on the open button. Then click on OK to run this program. The program should now start to install. 2. Once the program has installed click the right mouse button on the main desktop of win95 to bring the pop-up menu, select NEW then SHORTCUT. 3. The create shortcut menu window should now appear, click on the browse button, then double click on the directory that you have just installed fishing onto your machine under eg. FISH (the default), then select RUN and the name RUN should appear in the file name box, next click on the OPEN button. 4. You should now have returned to the create shortcut menu. Click on the NEXT button, you can now enter a name for your shortcut in the provided box. When you have done this click on the NEXT button and select a suitable icon and click on FINISH. 5. Your icon should now have appeared on the main desktop. If not please consult your win95 manual and follow the steps in creating a shortcut to check where you might have made a mistake. 6. With the right mouse button click on your new fishing icon and from the pop-up menu select PROPERTIES. 7. From the properties window first select PROGRAM from the page tabs and then click on the ADVANCED button. 8. The advanced program settings window should have appeared, now select the MS-DOS mode box, click on OK and again click OK to return to the desktop. 9. You can now run fishing by double clicking on your icon.