Welcome to Morpheus (tm)! Developed by: Soap Bubble Productions, Inc. 530 Route 517 Sussex, NJ 07461 www.soapbubble.com Published by: Piranha Interactive Publishing, Inc. 1839 West Drake, Suite B Tempe, AZ 85283 U.S.A. www.piranhainteractive.com phone: (602) 491-0500 fax: (602) 491-8990 Please visit our web site at: www.morpheusgame.com System Requirements: Windows: Pentium® 16MB RAM Quad speed CD-ROM drive 640x480 display (256 color or higher) Windows® 95 Windows® compatible sound card and mouse Macintosh: PowerMac 16MB RAM Quad speed CD-ROM drive 640x480 display (256 color or higher) System 7.5 or above The CDs for this game are hybrid CDs. They will work for either Macintosh or Windows 95 computers. QuickTime (tm) 3 QuickTime 3 is Apple's multimedia technology for playing sound and video on your computer. It is required for Morpheus to run. We have included it on the first disc of the CD-ROM set. If you already have it installed, you may skip that part of the installation. Special Notes: ·Morpheus will not run with previous versions of QuickTime. The QuickTime 3 installer will not affect programs which rely on older versions of QuickTime. You do not need to remove versions of QuickTime earlier than version 3. ·If the images in the game are not displaying properly, you may need to adjust your settings in QuickTime. Go to the Start menu, then Settings and Control Panel. Choose the QuickTime control panel. At the top menu, choose Video Settings. The settings here will depend on the type of video card you have installed. Safe Mode should work on any system, but performance may not be optimal. You should experiment with these settings to see what works best on your system. Game Controls The primary way you control the game is with your mouse. As you move the mouse over the screen, the cursor will change shape. The shape of the cursor indicates the type of action you can take on that part of the screen. Each cursor represents a different action. The different cursors and what they do are listed below: · Ship Wheel Cursor The Ship Wheel Cursor means that the current scene is a panorama. On a panorama you can turn left and right, up and down, by dragging around with the mouse. The speed at which you turn is dependent on how you drag with the mouse. · Open Hand Cursor As you play Morpheus, you will come across numerous levers, knobs, dials, etc. These are items you can move and manipulate. When the cursor is over one of these objects, it will change to an open hand. When you click the mouse on it, the cursor changes to a closed hand. Dragging with the mouse down will move the corresponding lever, knob, or dial. Most of the remaining cursors indicate something that you can do by single clicking. Even though the cursor is over one of these hotspots, you can still move around a panorama by dragging with the mouse. · Pointing Finger A hand with a pointing finger represents a button or similar object that you can interact with. · Arrow Cursor When the cursor is over a hotspot that will move you to a new location, the cursor changes into an arrow. Click with the mouse to actually move to that destination. · Magnifying Glass If there is something that you can look at closer, the cursor will change into a magnifying class. Click to examine the item. · Microphone When there is some narrative associated with a spot, the cursor changes to a microphone. Click on it to hear the story. · Down Arrow If you can look down at something, the cursor is a downward pointing arrow. · Circular Arrow A circular arrow is a "Go Back" cursor. This will return you to the location you just came from. · Special Objects There are a few objects that you can pick up during the course of the game. While you are carrying one of these, you will get a cursor depicting that object instead of the ship wheel cursor. This is to let you know that you are carrying that object. Performance Morpheus was designed with features to let it run on a wide variety of machines. If you have an older system, here are some things you can do to improve performance. · Quit other programs If you have other programs running, they will take resources away from the game. You should quit any other programs before you start the game. · Window Size You can set the size of the game window using the "Window" option from the game menu. This lets you choose a smaller size window if you have a slower system. The game will run faster, but the size of the image you see will be smaller. · Hi-Res Pans This controls the quality of the panoramas you see when you look around the game. High resolution panoramas look better, but can be slower on some systems. Low resolution panoramas are faster, but don't look as nice. · Transition Movies Morpheus normally shows animations of you moving between locations in the game. You can turn these off if you would like to skip these and just jump between different scenes. COPYRIGHT, TRADEMARK AND OTHER LEGAL NOTICES THE MATERIAL CONTAINED IN THIS PROGRAM IS PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT LAW AND INTERNATIONAL TREATIES. UNAUTHORIZED REPRODUCTION OR DISTRIBUTION OF THIS PROGRAM, OR ANY PORTION OF IT, MAY RESULT IN SEVERE CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PENALTIES, AND WILL BE PROSECUTED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMISSIBLE UNDER LAW. Copyright © software and program content 1997-1998 Soap Bubble Productions, Inc. All rights reserved. Developed by Soap Bubble Productions. Published by Piranha Interactive Publishing, Inc. Morpheus(tm), Piranha Interactive Publishing® and the Piranha stylized fish logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Piranha Interactive Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. 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