============================================================================= INSTRUCTIONS FOR MS-DOS, WINDOWS 3.1 AND WINDOWS 95 INFOCOM GAMES AND ACTIVISION DEMOS ============================================================================= All GAMES AND THEIR DIRECTORIES ARE LISTED BELOW. The games should be installed on to your hard disk. All games run in MS-DOS mode even if you installed them in Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. PLEASE NOTE: TO SAVE YOUR GAME IN WINDOWS 3.1 AND WINDOWS 95, YOU MUST FIRST SAVE (BE SURE TO GIVE IT A NEW NAME) AND QUIT WITHIN THE GAME. ONCE OUT OF THE GAME, FOLLOW THE ON-SCREEN INSTRUCTIONS TO CLOSE THE WINDOW PROPERLY. TO PLAY THE GAMES: MS-DOS: At C:\> type in CD INFOCOM then press ENTER. This gets you into the INFOCOM directory (C:\Infocom>). Then type CD and the name of the directory of the game you want to access (games are listed below). Press ENTER. Type the name of the game file (usually the same as the directory). Press ENTER. WINDOWS 3.1: Open the INFOCOM group icon. DOUBLE-CLICK on the game folder you want (listed below). DOUBLE-CLICK on the program file (usually the one with capitalized game name). WINDOWS 95: From the START menu, choose PROGRAMS then select the INFOCOM program group. CLICK on the game you want to play (games listed below). THE GAMES AND THEIR DIRECTORY NAMES NAME OF GAME GAME DIRECTORY (LOCATED IN THE INFOCOM DIRECTORY) A Mind Forever Voyaging AMFV Arthur: The Quest For Excalibur ARTHUR Ballyhoo BALLYHOO Border Zone BORDERZO Bureaucracy BUREAUCR Cutthroat CUTTHROA Deadline DEADLINE Enchanter ENCHANT Hollywood Hijinx HOLLYWOO Infidel INFIDEL Journey JOURNEY Leather Goddesses Of Phobos LEATHER Lurking Horror, The LURKING Moonmist MOONMIST Nord And Bert Couldn't Make Head Or Tail Of It NORDANDB Nordandb Planetfall PLANETF Seastalker (Junior level) SEASTALK Sherlock SHERLOCK Sorcerer SORCERER Spellbreaker SPELLBR Starcross STARCROS Stationfall STATIONF Suspect SUSPECT Suspended SUSPENDE Trinity TRINITY Wishbringer WISHBRIN Witness WITNESS Zork Zero ZORK0 Zork I ZORK1 Zork II ZORK2 Zork III ZORK3 Beyond Zork Due to its configuration, Beyond Zork is accessed through its executable file, BZORK.EXE. ***THE WINNERS OF THE INTERACTIVE FICTION CONTEST*** ***AND VERYLOST DIRECTORIES*** (Also in Infocom directory) Open the WINNERS directory to access the Winners of the Interactive Fiction Contest. Games in Winners: Games in Winners: GAME FILE NAME A Change in the Weather WEATHER.EXE The Magic Toyshop MAGIC.EXE The Mind Electric MINDELEC.EXE Toonesia TOONESIA.EXE The One that Got Away THEONE.EXE Uncle Zebulon's Will ZEBULON.EXE MS-DOS C:\INFOCOM\WINNERS>(game file) Uncle Zeblon's Will WINDOWS 3.1 Open File Manager. Find and then open the INFOCOM folder. Open the WINNERS folder. DOUBLE-CLICK on the game that you wish to play. WINDOWS 95 From the START menu, choose RUN. Select BROWSE and use Find in: to open the hard drive. DOUBLE-CLICK on the INFOCOM folder. DOUBLE-CLICK on the WINNERS folder. DOUBLE-CLICK on the game you want to play. VERYLOST directory contains special surprises from the the vaults of Infocom. MS-DOS C:\INFOCOM\VERYLOST> then type EDIT ABOUT.TXT WINDOWS 3.1 Open File Manager. Find and open the INFOCOM folder. Open the VERYLOST folder. DOUBLE-CLICK on ABOUT.TXT. WINDOWS 95 In the START menu, choose MS-DOS PROMPT. At the C:\> type CD INFOCOM\VERYLOST. Press ENTER. Type EDIT ABOUT.TXT. ============================================================================= ACROBAT READER (MANUALS AND MAPS) ============================================================================= Please note that you cannot play the games from within Acrobat Reader. To play the games, print any documentation that you might need and quit Acrobat reader. Follow the instructions from the system for playing your games. When running Acrobat Reader for DOS, make sure that you have 3 MB hard drive space(after installation) for Adobe Acrobat reader to use for a temporary file. If you receive error messages while running Acrobat for MS-DOS, try deleting some files from your hard drive. ============================================================================= UNINSTALL ============================================================================= To uninstall INFOCOM MASTERPIECES - MS-DOS: At the DOS prompt (C:\>) type DELTREE INFOCOM. Press ENTER. (To be sure you are in the root directory, at the prompt first type CD\. Press ENTER.) WINDOWS 3.1: Open the INFOCOM group window. DOUBLE-CLICK on the UNINSTALL icon. WINDOWS 95: In START menu, choose PROGRAMS. Choose INFOCOM then UNINSTALL. ============================================================================= PLAYING THE ACTIVISION DEMOS INCLUDED ON THE CD ============================================================================= MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS FOR DEMOS An IBM-PC or 100% Compatible MS-DOS 5.22 Double-speed CD-ROM drive (300K/bps sustained transfer rate) 8 Megabytes of RAM 22 Megabytes of Hard Disk Space for the MechWarrior 2 Demo 8 Megabytes of Hard Disk Space for the Zork Nemesis Demo 8-bit Sound Blaster-compatible sound card for MechWarrior 2 Demo 16-bit Sound Blaster-16 compatible sound card for Zork Nemesis Demo VESA Local Bus or PCI Video A monitor capable of displaying SVGA Graphics To play the movie files for BlastChamber, HyperBlade, Mercenaries, Planetfall and Spycraft, open the appropriate folder and double-click on the enclosed files. You will need a movie player that is capable of playing AVI files. To Play the MechWarrior 2 demo, exit to MS-DOS. Change to your CD-ROM Drive and then change the directory to PCDEMOS\MECH2. Type INSTALL and press ENTER. To play the demo change to directory C:\MECH2> and type MW2DEMO.EXE. To Play the Zork Nemesis demo for Windows 95, Open MY COMPUTER, select your CD-ROM Drive, open the PCDEMOS Folder. Next, open the NEMDEMO folder and DOUBLE-CLICK on SETUP.EXE. To install the Zork Nemesis demo for MS-DOS, change to your CD-ROM drive then change to the PCDEMOS\NEMDEMO\DOS directory and type INSTALL. To play the demo, open C:\NEMDOMO> and type ZORKDOS.EXE.