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Appendix: Installation Instructions for MacIntosh Computers
I. System Requirements and Configuration
The “Haunted Mansion Money Game” will function most effectively if the system on which it is run meets the following listed requirements:
- HyperStudio Player: a freeware program available from www.hyperstudio.com.
- 256 color monitor
- At least 4 MB RAM physical, with RAM Doubler , or Virtual Memory (see below)
- Approximately six MB of available hard disk space
To determine whether your system is compatible and modify your settings to optimize game performance, take the following steps.
STEP #1: First, click on the desktop (the background image) on your monitor. This will cause the menu options at the top of the screen to change to “File”, “Edit”, “View”, “Special” and “Help”. Click the mouse on the apple in the upper left corner, and while holding down the mouse, scroll down to About this Computer. This should bring up a screen similar to the one shown below:
The number located next to “Built in Memory”, when divided by one thousand will tell you the amount of RAM built into your computer. The computer from which the image above was taken has 16 MB of built in RAM. If you have at least eight megabytes of built in RAM, and your largest unused block of memory is larger than three or four megabytes when only the system software is running, skip to step 2).
This shows the total amount of physical RAM located in you computer.
This shows the total memory available. Total memory consists of built in memory, plus virtual memory.
This number must be greater than 1,800K in order to run HyperStudio Player.
It should be greater than about 4000K to run this program
If you have only four megabytes of physical RAM, or your largest unused block is less than three to four megabytes, you will need to either install RAM Doubler , or turn on virtual memory. To install RAM Doubler , first check to make sure that Virtual Memory is turned off. Follow the steps in the following paragraph to open the Memory control panel, and click the button to turn Virtual Memory off. Next place the Ram Doubler diskette in your peripheral, and double click on the icon of a floppy drive which appears on the desktop. Run the “Install RAM Doubler” program, and follow the instructions given. Once you restart the computer, you will have effectively doubled your RAM. If RAM Doubler is not available, you can use Virtual Memory as a less efficient substitute. Open the memory control panel by clicking on the apple, scrolling down to control panels, highlighting Memory , and releasing the mouse button. 1 The resultant screen will be as follows:
Click the button to turn virtual memory on, and adjust the arrows so that 4-8 M is selected, depending on the available on disk number. Click on the button in the top left hand corner to quit. To further optimize running speed, you may wish to quit any programs other than System Software and At Ease before running this program. Finally, you may wish to increase the memory allocated to HyperStudio Player. Once you have installed the application HyperStudio Player (see Section II), find this item and click on
(^1) If control panels is not an option under the apple menu, open your hard drive, open the folder called “System Folder”, open the folder called “Control Panels”, and click on Memory.
Click here to turn on Virtual Memory
Click these arrows to adjust the amount of hard disk space being used as RAM.
Change the colors so that at least 256 is selected. Selecting a number greater than 256 will not enhance the performance of the program in any manner.
STEP #3: Finally, double click on your hard drive icon, which is usually located in the uppper right hand corner of the desktop. A screen will appear displaying the total capacity of your hard drive, and also the available capacity. Make sure that the available capacity is greater than six megabytes.
Available hard drive capacity is shown here
If your computer does not have sufficient hard drive capacity, you will need to delete some items from the hard drive by selecting the items, dragging them to the trash can, and choosing the “Empty Trash” command from the Special menu.
II. Installation
The program consists of five HyperStudio “stacks”, entitled Intro, Tutorial, Game1, Game2, and Ending. A copy of HyperStudio Player is also included on the floppy drives or CD- ROM. Finally, there are two fonts located in a separate folder. Each item is a separate file which needs to be copied from a floppy disk, or CD-ROM to your hard drive.
CD-Rom Installation
Double click on your hard drive to display its contents. Next click on the File menu in the top left corner of the screen, and select New Folder. Command - N will also create a new folder. This folder should appear in the window dedicated to your hard drive. Name the folder.
Insert the CD-ROM into the appropriate peripheral. It should appear as an icon on your desktop. Double-click on this icon with your mouse button to display the contents of the disk.
Highlight the contents of the CD-ROM, with the exception of the folder named FONTS. You can click on one, then hold down the shift key and click on the others in order to highlight them all at one time. Next, “drag” the highlighted items from the floppy disk or CD-ROM to the new folder you created. When you’re mouse is positioned directly above the new folder, it will become highlighted. At this point, you should release the mouse button. A dialogue box will appear saying “Copying items”.
Open your hard drive again, and locate the folder named “System Folder.” Next open the folder called FONTS on the CD-ROM, and highlight the two items within. Copy these from the CD-ROM, into the System Folder as you did before. This procedure will automatically install the fonts into the “Fonts” folder located inside the “System Folder.”
Double click on the stack entitled “Intro” to begin the game. You may wish to create an alias at some point in the future to more easily start the game. This can be done by highlighting the “Intro” stack, and clicking on “File” from the menu bar, and “Make Alias”. Command-M will also make an alias. A new item called Intro Alias will appear next to the original. This can be moved to the desktop for easier access. Clicking on this alias at any subsequent command will run the introductory stack to the game, as if you had clicked on the game itself. Alternately, you may wish to install the Intro stack as an At-Ease item. This can be done by getting to the At Ease control panel in a similar fashion as was used to get to the Monitors and Memory control panels. One of the options in the At-Ease control panel will say “Choose Selected Items”, or something to this effect. If this option is clicked, you can then find the Intro
warns you that it is running low on memory allotted to Virtual Memory, by editing the settings in the Memory control panel. Alternately, make sure that no other programs are running at the same time as HyperStudio Player. Check you about this Computer to see how much memory the system software is taking up. If the number seems abnormally large, try restarting the computer and checking again, or reinstalling the system software. A final alternative is always to purchase more RAM or RAM Doubler.
- There is no sound Check the Monitors and Sound control Panel, to ensure that the volume is high enough and mute is not turned on
- Other weird problems You can always try reinstalling HyperStudio Player, and the games after moving the current copies to the trash and emptying it. Files can go bad over time.
