If you have problems with Funball, here are some quick trouble-shooting tips:


Problem: while starting up, right after displaying "Initializing sound
  system...", the screen blanks with a message from EMM386, and the computer
  hangs.

Solution: run Funball with the /NOSOUND switch. Funball tried accessing the
  DMA channel 1 to see if you have a sound card capable of playing digitized
  sounds. The /NOSOUND switch prevents it from doing so.


Problem: Funball gets stuck making the same move over and over again.

Solution: the ball will automatically disappear after 30 moves, or you can 
  interrupt the process yourself after at least 5 moves by holding down both 
  Shift keys.
