Entombed for Windows 1.0 (shareware release) Copyright(C) 1993 Chaos Concepts. YOU MUST HAVE ALL FOUR ENTOMBED ARCHIVES IN ORDER TO RUN THIS GAME. THESE ARE ENTV1_1.ZIP ENTV1_2.ZIP ENTV1_3.ZIP ENTV1_4.ZIP ENTOMBED REQUIRES EITHER 640x480 OR 800x600 256 COLOUR DISPLAY. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE... To install Entombed 1.0 for Windows on your hard drive: 1A. If you have downloaded Entombed as an archive, then make sure that you have download all four archives. These are named entv1_1.zip through to entv1_4.zip. Unzip the contents of these archives onto a floppy disk or separate directory. 1B. If you have received Entombed on a floppy disk directly from Chaos Concepts, then this has already been done for you. 2. Place the disk in the floppy drive of your computer. 3. Open the file menu of the Windows program manager and select Run. 4. In the Run dialogue box, type A:ESETUP or B:ESETUP, or as is appropriate. 5. Now that you are in the ESETUP utility, confirm that the installation directory matches the actual directory where the archives can be found. If it does not then enter the correct path in the installation directory text box. 6. Next you may choose to modify the drive Entombed will be installed on to. 7A. Next you choose the archives you wish to install. If you have downloaded entombed from a BBS then there will be four of these. One by one you must click on each Archive button to install the contents of each archive. 7B. If you received entombed on a disk directly from Chaos Concepts then all you need do is click on the first archive button. 8. Next select the sound options you require. If you are not sure which ones match your sound card then leave these options unchecked and consult your sound card documentation. You can change these options later from within the Entombed game application. 9. Finally the installation program will reboot your system to initialise the changes you have made. Note: From within Program Manager, you may need to select Arrange Icons from the window menu, in order to tidy up the desktop. How to start and quit entombed: To Start Entombed, open the Chaos Concepts program manager window, then double click on the Entombed icon. For more instructions press the F1 or H key from within entombed, to bring up on-line help. To Quit Entombed holding down the ALT key press the F4 key. Purchasing the commercial release of entombed. Chaos Concepts, the creators of Entombed believe entertainment software prices are too high. Our research indicates that many game players in fear of spending good money on a lousy game, pirate software before they buy it to try it out. They also jointly buy entertainment software with their friends in order to reduce the purchase cost. Some simply pirate game software because they can't afford to buy all the games that they would like to play. Because of this we decided to let you try out our game free of charge. If you like this program then you are free to use it for as long as you like. The Entombed ver 1.0 shareware release contains the entire first level of the Entombed game. If you want to see how the game continues and play it through to the end then you will have to purchase the commercial release of Entombed. The commercial release of Entombed is not shareware and you must purchase it in order to use it. If you think the shareware release is good, then wait till you see the commercial release, it contains three new game levels which include morphing, animation, fully rendered 3D graphics, digitised speech and comes in a designed box. ( There is a photo of it in the game ). Commercial release owners also have access to the hint line section of our BBS, this has been set up to give you clues on how to solve the many puzzles, should you get stuck. When you finish the commercial release of Entombed you can also send us your save game and you will receive a certificate of completion. Purchasing the commercial release will entitle you to telephone support, special access to our BBS, notification of updates and other worthwhile things. More to the point, it will make you feel good. We haven't infested the program with excessive beg notices, crippled it or had it verbally insult you after ten days so we trust you to support Entombed if you like it. Australian purchases: The purchase fee of Entombed is $54.95 (Aust) plus $5.00 postage. (allow 3 days) International purchases: The purchase price of Entombed is $45.95 (US) plus $10 postage. (allow 3 - 10 days) Please make your cheque or postal money order out to: CHAOS CONCEPTS Pty. Ltd. If you pay us by cheque, please make sure that it's a cheque drawn on an international bank, and that it will be negotiable in Australia. If there's no bank clearance number along the bottom of the cheque, it will not clear. Paying by credit card: If you are interested in using a credit card service to purchase Entombed please contact our BBS for further information. We are will not ship commercial release copies of our software prior to receiving a payment. We are interested in dealer inquiries, but we cannot accept dealer priced orders for single unit quantities of software. Our address is: Chaos Concepts Pty. Ltd. G.P.O. Box 293 Sydney, NSW, Australia 2001 Our BBS number is: Internationally: +(61) 2 550 1728 Within Australia: (02) 550 1728 The bulletin board always has the most recent versions of all our shareware on it, free for downloading, it also has bug fixes, drivers and other relevant information. It only exists to support Chaos Concepts software and is available twenty-four hours a day. The protocol is 1200, 2400 baud, or 9600 baud v.32bis, eight data bits, no parity and one stop bit. ______________________________________________________________________ Release notes: System requirements: Entombed 1.0 for Windows requires Windows 3.1 or better, a MS- mouse or compatible windows pointing device, 2 megabytes of system ram, a 512k SVGA display card and driver that supports the 640 x 480 256 colour SVGA mode, Dos 5.0 or better and 6 Mb of free hard disk space. Entombed for Windows has been written in Microsoft C++ and has been tested with Microsoft Windows 3.1, If you have any problems with Entombed.. or just some comments.. we'd like to hear from you. Compression: As you may have realised the Entombed 1.0 graphics are uncompressed and so consequently take up 6 megabytes of hard disk space. The Entombed program does support on the fly decompression of it's graphic files. However because compressed files do not archive as efficiently as uncompressed files the designers decided to disable file compression in order to make the archive as small as possible seeing Entombed 1.0 is a shareware release. So although Entombed 1.0 takes up a more hard disk space, the archive will fit on one 1.44 mb floppy disk and also requires less time to download from bulletin boards. The commercial version of the game has the compression enabled, and only requires 8 megabytes of hard disk space for the entire game which is over 30 megabytes of graphics uncompressed. Entombed Error Messages: type (1) files missing This error will be reported if files required by Entombed are missing. The solution is to re-install Entombed using the ESETUP program. However leave the "Install to program manager" option unchecked. type (2) memory low This error message indicates that windows system resources are low. If this happens, save your game and close Entombed. Then from the windows desktop close any open applications that you are currently not using. Alternatively you could create a larger virtual drive using the "386 Enhanced" utility within the windows control panel. If you ignore this error and continue to use Entombed while memory is low, then the Entombed application will automatically close if memory runs out. type (3) display detection error (message box) This error appears if the Entombed game application didn't detect a 256 colour display adaptor. Entombed does this by checking the display.drv entry in your System.ini under the heading boot description. Your system.ini should have an entry that looks like this... [boot.description] display.drv=Video 7 1Mb, 640x480 256 colours What Entombed does, is search for the characters "256" in the display.drv entry. If it doesn't find them it prompts you with a type (3) error message before starting the game. If you have a 256 colour display but it is not set to a 256 colour mode, please use your windows setup program to do so. If your display is set to a 256 colour mode and you still receive this error message, you can either choose to ignore it or edit your system.ini. If you want to edit the system.ini, use the windows program sysedit in the system directory and simply add "256" to the end of the display.drv entry under the boot description heading. type (4) required files missing (message box) This error will be reported if files required by Entombed are missing or if you have renamed the Entombed directory. The simple solution is to re-install Entombed using the ESETUP program. When Entombed is installed ESETUP creates a file in your windows directory called Entombed.ini which contains information used by Entombed. The Entombed path is stored in an entry called Dir under the startup heading. [Startup] Dir=C:\ENTOMBED\ If your choose to change or rename the Entombed directory, then be sure to update the startup entry in the Entombed.ini file. type (5) save game file missing (message box) Entombed comes with a save game file called "ENTOMBED.SAV" you may exchange this with friends, or make backups of it etc. However do not run the Entombed game application without the "ENTOMBED.SAV" file. Never try to edit your Entombed save game data. This is a binary data file and if it becomes corrupted, the Entombed game application will become unstable. Midi problems: In the event that your sound driver fails, you will need to reload your midi driver. Do this by running the "drivers" utility within the windows control panel. Click on "add" and select your existing sound driver from the list. Click on "current" and then select "restart windows". This will reset your midi driver. Midi mapping: If you have a midi sound device, you will need to map it to general midi using the "MIDI mapper" utility within the windows control panel. If you have a sound blaster card then we recommend you map your midi to "Adlib general". Reporting bugs: While we have tested Entombed 1.0 thoroughly, it's possible that you may encounter a situation we haven't anticipated. If this happens, we would be interested in knowing about it so we can fix it. Here's how to report a bug to us. Copy your ENTOMBED.SAV, ENTOMBED.INI, WIN.INI, SYSTEM.INI, CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files onto a floppy. Provide a description of what you did and what happened, and tell us with as much detail as possible what sort of hardware you're using. Alternately, ZIP up the relevant files and upload them to our bulletin board. If we can't recreate it, we probably won't be able to fix it. Before you contact us with a problem, please make sure you've read this document thoroughly and that you understand the system requirements and how the software should work. Technical support: We will attempt to answer questions from shareware users who write to us to the extent that their answers are needed for them to determine whether they wish to purchase the commercial release of Entombed. We can also be reached through the Chaos Concepts bulletin board. If you have a question about Entombed, feel free to leave it on the bulletin board. We try to answer all questions within twenty- four hours. But note that you must call back to retrieve your answer... we enjoy getting mail. Commercial release users of Entombed will receive our voice number for immediate technical support. The voice number is only available for use from 10:00am to 5:00pm EST (Australia). If you call and get our answering machine... it does happen... please leave us a message or call back later. We are only able to return long distance calls if we can call you back collect. We ask that in contacting us you appreciate that we are a small company with limited resources and that extensive technical support is not available. Copyright(C) 1993 Chaos Concepts.