MICROLEAGUE TIME OUT SPORTS BASEBALL ------------------------------------------------------------ Overstressed? Overburdened? Overworked? Get Over it! Bernie and his dog, Jock, are here to brighten your day with their irrepressible antics. They're on 24-hour duty to prevent your screen for burn-in and your mind from burn-out. Random hourly or pre-set attention grabbers featuring Bernie and Jock pop-up on screen to remind you to take a break -- with any of the four fast and fun filled baseball games included. Batting Practice: Select normal, contact, or power hitting and take a swing for the fences. Fungo Fielding: Are you a gold glover? Try your hand at shagging these towering fly balls. Sign Calling 101: Take a crash course in base coaching as you try to keep pace with a wickedly clever third base coach. Umpire Arguing: How much verbal abuse can you dump on the ump -- without getting tossed out on your ear? So play ball with Bernie and Jock. They're a sure bet to put a smile on your face! This Time Out Sports Demo features a small sampling of the Time Out Sports Baseball package: 1 Screen Saver, 1 Reminder and the Batting Practice Game. To order the complete Time Out Sports Baseball package see the "Ordering Information" file in the MicroLeague Group, or check your local software retailer. Time Out Sports Baseball is the first in a series of new applications for Microsoft Windows (tm). It's utility software that entertains, too: Utilitainment. Only MICROLEAGUE has it. TROUBLESHOOTING ------------------------------------------------------------ QUESTION: I don't hear any sounds or voices, what gives? ANSWER: First, be sure the sound selection in the Options menu of Time Out Sports is turned on and marked with a tick. If your Windows compatible sound card is installed properly and the speakers are connected, you should hear sounds and voices throughout the game. To check that the card and the associated Windows drivers are in working order, go to the Main/Control Panel/Sound option. Choose one of the .WAV files (for example, chord.wav) and press the Test button. If everything is in working order; you will hear a short sound. If you hear nothing now, you will hear nothing in the game. For more information on installing a Windows compatible sound card, drivers and speakers, refer to your Windows manual or the Help file from Main/Control Panel/Drivers. QUESTION: How do I remove the Time Out Sports Demo from my hard drive? ANSWER: Time Out Sports was designed to make as few changes to the Windows system files as possible, which makes it easy to remove. First, be sure to select a screen saver other than "Time Out Screen Saver" from the Main/Control Panel/Desktop window. Next, delete the following three files from your Windows directory: TOSRUN.SCR, WINLIB.DLL and TOS.INI. The third step is to remove the TOS directory and its subdirectories from your hard drive. If you used a directory name other than "TOS" when installing the software, remove that directory. And lastly, you must remove the "TOS Grabber Runner" Program Item from the Start Up Program Group and the "MicroLeague" Program Group. To remove the TOS Grabber Runner" double click on the Start Up icon, single click the TOS Grabber Runner Icon and select File/Delete from the Program Manager Menu Bar. To delete the "MicroLeague" Program Group, single click the MicroLeague icon and select File/Delete from the Program Manager Menu Bar. For further information on deleting, refer to your Windows user manual or Help Screens. QUESTION: Why are the colors so ugly? ANSWER: MicroLeague Time Out Sports is a Super VGA game. That is, it runs in high resolution graphics (640 x 480 pixels) and 8 bit color (256 colors). The standard Windows display is VGA (640 x 480 x 16 colors). If you have Windows running in this standard mode, it will try to display our beautiful 256 colors using its 16 color palette. Go to Main/Windows Setup and the Display option should read "Super VGA 640x480 256 colors". If the display is set to VGA Windows will only be able to use the default Windows palette. To tell Windows you have SVGA capabilities, select "Super VGA 640x480 256 colors" if the option is there. If that option is not present, you need to install a driver from the video card manufacturer. This driver should have come on a disk with the video card if you installed it yourself, or with a bunch of disks you got when you bought hour computer if the video card was already installed. If you do not have this driver, you can download a standard set of drivers from CompuServe, GEnie, Microsoft OnLine or by contacting the Microsoft BBS via modem at (206) 936-6735. If you don't have a modem, call Microsoft Customer Support at (206) 637-7098 to have a disk sent to you via mail. Once you have a disk with the proper video drivers, open the Main/Windows Setup dialog, and pull down the Options menu. Select Change System Settings... and a dialog box will appear. Pull down the "Display" box and select "Other Display (requires disk from OEM)". Now follow the instructions to install the proper driver to display 256 colors. TIME OUT SPORTS BASEBALL DEMO Copyright (c) 1994 MicroLeague Interactive Software Game Development By: Destiny Software Productions, Inc. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.