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Last Minute Release Notes: SimEarth for Windows


MUSIC

If you notice the absence of music, that is because we've chosen to set the 
default to off.   We have found a small number of hardware configurations to 
experience problems with the music playing either obnoxiously slow or causing 
a variety of other problems in SimEarth.

If you want to hear the SimEarth music, you may turn it on by selecting MUSIC
from your Options Menu.  Then, use the SAVE OPTIONS feature to save this as 
your default.  If you experience any problems with SimEarth, we recommend 
turning the music off, then trying to recreate the problem.  If the problem 
does not occur with the music off, it is best to keep it turned off.


SCREEN SAVERS AND OTHER SIMULTANEOUS APPLICATIONS

SimEarth may also conflict with certain other applications being run simultaneously (most notably 'Screen Saver' programs that are used to prevent monitor 'burn in'). If you are playing SimEarth and run into intermittent "Unrecoverable Application Error" messages (or it just plain acts funny) while another application is running, try loading SimEarth without the other application running (or with the 'screen saver' disabled).


MULTIPLE ADVANCEMENT/COLLAPSE MESSAGES

Sometimes in the course of game play, you may get a "Civilization Has Collapsed" or "Mammals Are Now Sentient" type message two or three times in a row. This can be caused by a borderline sentient species becoming sentient, then falling back, then becoming sentient again several times in a short period.


WINDOWS WALLPAPER

We've included a full screen BMP file of the SimEarth title screen, SIMEARTH.BMP.  You can use this file as your Windows wallpaper.  Refer to your Windows documentation if you do not know how to display custom wallpaper in Windows.

Enjoy!
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