

2.) Running the GCS on a system with Windows 95 installed
---------------------------------------------------------

  By modifying your settings, you can get the GCS to run well under Windows
95.  The following is a step by step process that will accomplish this.

  It is assumed that you have already opened a MSDOS prompt window and 
installed the GCS on your hard drive using the INSTALL.EXE program on disk 1.

step 1:
  Open the 'My Computer' window on the Windows 95 desktop.

step 2:
  Double click on the C: drive icon.

step 3:
  Find the WINDOWS folder and double click on it.

step 4:
  Find the program COMMAND.COM.  It might be easier to find if you change
the view from icon view to 'list' using the VIEW pulldown menu.  Click on
COMMAND.COM only once to select it.  DO NOT RUN it by double-clicking.

step 5:
  Goto to the FILE pulldown menu, and select the menu item called 'Create
Shortcut'.  

step 6:
  Drag the new shortcut that you just created out of the Windows folder onto
the Windows desktop for easy access.

step 7:
  Close the Windows folder for a better view of the desktop, and then RIGHT
click on the newly created shortcut.  By clicking with the right mouse button,
you will get a little pop up menu.  Select the item 'Properties'.

step 8:
  Along the top of the Properties window for the new short cut, select the
tab called 'Program'.

step 9:
  Click on the big button in the lower right side of the Properties box that
is labeled 'Advanced..'.

step 10:
  Click on the checkbox that is labeled 'MSDOS mode'.

step 11:
  Click on the button in the lower right called 'Configuration'.

step 12:
  If a warning box comes up, just click on the 'Yes' button.

step 13:
  On the configuration window, turn on the Expanded Memory checkbox.

step 14:
  On the configuration window, turn on the mouse checkbox.

step 15:
  Make sure the other check boxes on the configuration window are turned off.
  
step 16:
  Click on the OK button of the configuration window.

step 17:
  Now the advanced properties window should be active again.  There are two
white text editing areas on this window.  The top is for the local CONFIG.SYS
that this shortcut will use.  Find the line in this top edit box that has
the word Emm386.exe on it.  Add the word NOEMS to this line.  Make sure you
put at lease one space before the NOEMS word.  After completetion, the
line should look like the following:

DeviceHigh=c:\Windows\Emm386.Exe NOEMS

step 18:
  Click on the OK button to close the Advanced Properties window.

step 19:
  Click on the OK button to close the main Properties window.  Now the main
Windows 95 desktop should have the focus.

step 20:
  You may rename the shortcut to the name 'GCS' if you like.

step 21:
  Double Click on the shortcut.  This will restart your computer in MSDOS
mode.

step 22:
  When your computer reboots into DOS, type the command MEM to check on 
available DOS memory.  Look at the number given for 'Largest Executable
Program Size'.  It is recommended that 580,000 or bigger to run the GCS.
If have at least 550,000 bytes, you can run the GCS, but you will have 
less memory for your textures.

step 23:
  Type the following at the DOS prompt:

cd p3dgcs
gcs

  The GCS will now start up and run.  It is likely that the GCS will run
fine, but you might not be able to test your levels with sound without 
further configuration.  However, you can go ahead and use the product 
without using the sound options.



CONFIGURING Sound for Windows 95
--------------------------------

  Most Sound Blaster compatible cards require a DOS driver to be loaded
at boot time.  If this DOS driver is not loaded, the card will not behave
as a Sound Blaster card, and therefore the GCS will not be able to recognize
the sound card.  This will result in an error occuring whenever sound is
requested. 

  The bad news is that these drivers will be ignored when any DOS box running
under Windows 95 itself.  However, in the above steps that allow a simulation
of the true DOS environment by rebooting, you CAN have your DOS sound card
drivers be loaded, and therefore have your sound work.

 What you will need to do is find out the lines in your basic CONFIG.SYS
file in your c:\ directory that deal with the sound card.  For example, for
the Sound Blaster 16, there might be a line in your CONFIG.SYS file:

DEVICEHIGH=C:\SB16\DRV\CTSB16.SYS /UNIT=0 /BLASTER=A:220 I:5 D:1 H:5

  In the above steps, the word NOEMS was added to the shortcut's CONFIG.SYS
edit box.  This is the box where the sound card driver line must be added.

 The tough part about doing this is finding out what to put on this line.
Typically, the correct sound card DOS drivers were present in your 
CONFIG.SYS file before you installed Windows 95 on your system.  In this 
case, these lines are probably still present in your C:\CONFIG.SYS file on 
your computer.

  In this case, you can just print out that file on your printer, and look
for lines in your CONFIG.SYS file that have to do with the your sound card.

  Since many CDROM devices are connected to sound cards, you might not have
to copy any device drivers that pertain to the CDROM aspect.  For example,
the following lines DO NOT need to be included in order for your sound card
to function:

REM do not need these CDROM lines
DEVICE=C:\SB16\DRV\CTMMSYS.SYS
DEVICE=C:\VMEDIA\SANYOCD.SYS /D:MSCD000 /F:M /B:310

  The purpose of not including these lines is to leave more memory available
for the the GCS.

  The basic problem here is that many sound cards will have different drivers,
and we can't tell you which is the correct line.  We really wish that sound 
cards weren't like this.  If there were any way to automate the process for
you we would have done it.

  If you need help, you may want to consult your sound card manual.  The 
part of interest will the DOS drivers.  If the manual does not help, please 
call your sound card technical support number.  They should be able to help
you get the DOS drivers to work by adding the proper lines to your 
Properties box for the shortcut created above.

  There is some discussion of the same issues here for MS-DOS non-Win95
users in the section that follows.  Since the No Sound section deals with
MS-DOS users, they are discussing the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files in
the C: drive.  In the Windows 95 case, the above assumes the changes will
be make to the config.sys section of the Properties Advanced box.



