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[. . . ] Remember, you may safely quit and start over at any time!Note: Shadowcaster CD has been fully tested with the DoubleSpace disk compression utility that shipped with MS-DOS versions 6. 0/6. 2. We cannot guarantee the compatibility of our games with other disk compression utilities. Note: If you are running a disk cache such as SMARTDrive prior to installing, you will need to disable it to insure a clean installation. [. . . ] (If your CD-ROM drive is external, you may need to turn it on as well. ) 2. Insert the CD-ROM disk (label side up) into your CD-ROM drive. (Some drives may require that you put the disk into a CD caddy before inserting it in the drive itself. ) 3. Change to the Shadowcaster CD subdirectory on your hard drive by typing CD\SHADOWCD (assuming you used the default directory), and pressing e. To begin playing Shadowcaster CD, type: SHADOW e Disk Cache Setup If you have more than 4 megabytes of RAM on your machine you can install SMARTDrive (a disk caching program that comes with DOS and Windows). We recommend you allocate 1024K of memory to the disk cache. We also recommend using the SMARTDrive versions from Windows 3. 1 or DOS 6. 0. If you decide to install SMARTDrive, you need to add the following line to the beginning of your AUTOEXEC. BAT file: C:\DOS\SMARTDRV. EXE 1024 However, before installing Shadowcaster CD, temporarily disable your disk cache. This is easily done by typing REM z before the C:\DOS\SMARTDRV 1024 line in your AUTOEXEC. BAT file: REM C:\DOS\SMARTDRV 1024 This causes the computer to skip that line when it reads the AUTOEXEC. BAT. To enable your disk cache after installation, delete the REM addition. Mouse Setup Be sure that you are using a 100% Microsoftcompatible mouse driver -- a Microsoft version 7. 0 or higher mouse driver is preferable. A: It is also possible that you specified incorrect values during sound configuration. Please recheck your sound card documentation for the proper values and try reconfiguring sound. The Shadowcaster CD game is only compatible with Microsoft DOS versions 5. 0 or higher. This software is not compatible with 286 PCs. You must use a 386/33, Intel486 or faster PC. Q: Why does my game crash when I try to play Shadowcaster CD while I am logged into our LAN (local area network)?A: LAN software often tries to take over the same system resources that Shadowcaster CD uses. Often the two can coexist, but occasionally they can't. If you have strange problems with Shadowcaster CD while your LAN drivers are loaded, try booting from a clean boot disk that does not load your LAN drivers. Please refer to Optimizing Your System (p. Q: Why does my computer crash when I try to play Shadowcaster CD through Microsoft Windows (Windows NT, IBM OS/2, Desqview, etc. )? [. . . ] Level exit. 2 1 4 2 3 0 3 3 8 6 7 4 5 6 6 7 8 6 · Use the Sonic Attack, Shock Horn (W17), Water Cannon (W15), Trident (W5) or any electric attack to kill the bile creatures. If you wait until two or more get close to each other, you can kill more than one with a single shot from the Shock Horn or Water Cannon. · The Grost is the best shape for this maze. He can paralyze the Thorags, and when equipped with both the Silver Armor (A3) and Amulet of Defense (A5) he is hard to damage. [. . . ]