SIMHEALTH (TM) v1.1 Last Minute Info - !!PLEASE READ ME!! (4/14/94) I. INSTALLATION Sound Selection II. MOUSE DRIVERS Microsoft Compatible Mouse Required III. SOUND CARDS What Are Miles Design Drivers And How Do I Use Them? SoundBlaster Installation Pro Audio Spectrum Gravis Ultrasound IV. MISCELLANEOUS Memory Issues Running with QEMM, EMM386 And Other Memory Managers Creating A Boot Disk With Stacker/DoubleSpace V. TROUBLESHOOTING SimHealth Locks Up SimHealth Install Program Crashes I Get A "Microsoft Compatible Mouse Not Found" Message Please read ALL of this document! This stuff is important! It covers a lot about memory, installation and various sound cards. I. INSTALLATION Sound Selection --------------- SimHealth cannot automatically detect what kind of sound card you have in your machine. You will need to pick your sound card(s) out of the lists provided. The installer will then try to verify the presence of that sound card in your machine. Certain hardware settings on your card may be different from what SimHealth is expecting. To change these settings, select the Change Settings option from the sound card verification window (where it says "OK" or "Failed!"). For more information on these hardware settings, see the manual that came with your sound card. If your sound card is not shown and is 100 percent SoundBlaster compatible, you should be able to install for SoundBlaster and hear sound and music. See the section on Miles Design Drivers below for information on what to do if your sound card is not supported. [CLS] II. MOUSE DRIVERS Microsoft Compatible Mouse Required ----------------------------------- SimHealth requires a Microsoft-compatible mouse to run. Most mice today (including Logitech, Mouse Systems, and Kensington) are Microsoft-compatible. In order for the mouse to work properly in SimHealth, a mouse driver must be loaded before running SimHealth. The mouse driver must also be fairly current. Contact the manufacturer of your mouse or the dealer who sold the mouse to you to see if your driver is the most current available. III. SOUND CARDS What Are Miles Design Drivers And How Do I Use Them? ---------------------------------------------------- SimHealth sound support is accomplished through the use of the John Miles Design AIL audio driver libraries. These help software companies support many different sound cards without having to know how each card works. The Miles Design Drivers are automatically installed when you select which sound card you wish to use for sound and music in SimHealth. If your sound card is not mentioned specifically in the installer, you may be able to get drivers from the manufacturer for full SimHealth sound. SimHealth requires "286 protected mode" Miles Design drivers. Non-286 protected mode drivers will not work. SoundBlaster Installation ------------------------- The SimHealth Installer expects to find the SoundBlaster at IRQ 7. Many SoundBlasters are shipped with the default IRQ set to 5. If you have a SoundBlaster and the installer says "Sound Card Detection: FAILED!", click on the Change Settings button and enter 5 in the IRQ entry. The DMA and ADDR settings should be fine. [CLS] Pro Audio Spectrum ------------------ MUSIC: The Music Driver for the Pro Audio Spectrum requires the Media Vision driver MVSOUND.SYS to be loaded in memory as a driver in your CONFIG.SYS file. If this driver is not loaded, you will receive a verification failure during installation, and you will NOT hear music during the game. For more information about MVSOUND.SYS, please refer to your Pro Audio Spectrum user's manual, or call Media Vision Technical Support. SOUND EFFECTS: If you choose Pro Audio Spectrum as your Sound Effects sound card, you may experience some sound effects "dropouts," or even no sound at all. This will only happen on some Pro Audio Spectrum sound cards. If this does happen, you can re-run the INSTALL program and choose SoundBlaster for the Sound Effects Card, instead of Pro Audio Spectrum. CAUTION: This may or may not work depending on your Pro Audio Spectrum. Please call Media Vision Technical Support if you have more problems. Gravis Ultrasound ----------------- SimHealth is compatible with the SBOS SoundBlaster Emulation TSR for the GUS. However, most memory managers (such as EMM386) will cause problems if they are loaded at the same time as SimHealth and SBOS. DO NOT attempt to run or even install SimHealth with both SBOS and a memory manager present. Bad things may happen. [CLS] IV. MISCELLANEOUS Memory Issues ------------- SimHealth requires a lot of memory to run--3 MB total. On some machines, even if you have the required 3 MB, SimHealth may report that you do not have enough free memory. If this is the case, your best alternative is to create a boot disk as outlined on page 6 of the SimHealth DOS Addendum/Quick Start Guide. Running With QEMM, EMM386 And Other Memory Managers --------------------------------------------------- If you are using MS-DOS 5 and load EMM386.EXE, you must not use the 'noems' switch. An alternative to is to use 'frame=none'. This prevents page frames from being allocated while leaving EMS and VCPI interfaces active. See your DOS manual for information on how to do this. [CLS] Creating A Boot Disk With Stacker/DoubleSpace --------------------------------------------- Stacker version 3.0 and earlier require certain drivers to be loaded in the CONFIG.SYS file in order to mount the compressed hard drive. When creating a boot disk with Stacker 3.0 and earlier you must include two lines in the CONFIG.SYS file. The exact path is dependent upon where you installed Stacker on your hard disk, but here we will provide the path for the default installation of Stacker. The two lines needed in your CONFIG.SYS file are: DEVICE=C:\STACKER\STACKER.COM C:\STACVOL.DSK DEVICE=C:\STACKER\SSWAP.COM C:\STACVOL.DSK These lines will load Stacker and mount your compressed drive when booting from the boot disk. [CLS] DoubleSpace and Stacker 3.1 do not require that lines be added in the CONFIG.SYS file as they copy hidden files to the boot disk when using the "SYS A:" or "FORMAT A: /S" command. Make a boot disk according to the normal instructions regarding creating a boot disk in your SimHealth addeundum. If you do not feel comfortable creating a boot disk under Stacker or DoubleSpace, contact STAC Electronics or Microsoft for technical support. [CLS] V. TROUBLESHOOTING SimHealth Locks Up ------------------ This is more than likely the result of a conflict between SimHealth and a memory-resident program that is being loaded in your AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files. The best solution to this is to create a boot disk as outlined in the addendum. If this does not help, try running the INSTALL program in the SimHealth directory and selecting No Sound Effects. If this doesn't help, call Maxis Technical Support at the number listed on the SimHealth System/Reference card included in your SimHealth box. SimHealth Install Program Crashes --------------------------------- This is also probably a conflict with a loaded memory resident program. Try making a boot disk as per the addendum. Ignore the "Bad Command or Filename" message that appears when using the boot disk for installation. Also try running the INSTALL program with no mouse driver loaded. See your mouse manual for information on disabling the mouse. [CLS] I Get A "Microsoft Compatible Mouse Not Found" Message ------------------------------------------------------ This message is usually the result of one of two problems. Most likely, a mouse driver has not been loaded. SimHealth needs a DOS mouse driver to run (as opposed to a Microsoft Windows mouse driver). This driver along with instructions on how to load it should have come with your mouse. The less likely problem is that the mouse driver is being correctly loaded, but it is an older version that is not supported. You should contact the manufacturer (or dealer) of your mouse to get a more up-to-date mouse driver. [CLS] A text file, GLOSSARY.TXT, containing a glossary of health care terms has been placed in your SimHealth directory. Thanks for buying SimHealth. We hope you enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed creating it! [EOF] ------------------------------------------------------------------------