  WELCOME TO BUG ADVENTURE!

  Thank you for purchasing BUG ADVENTURE.  We hope to send you off 
  on the greatest adventure of all . . .

Knowledge Adventure, Inc.
4502 Dyer Street
La Crescenta, CA 91214
(800) 542-4240 (orders)
(818) 249-0212 (technical support)
(818) 542-4205 (fax)
(818) 248-0166 (bulletin board - N, 8, 1) Speed 1200 t0 14,400


===LATE-BREAKING NEWS=================================================


  This "README" file has some additional information and late-breaking news
that could not make the manual as well as some important pieces of
technical information.

  A NOTE TO PARENTS: Some of the movies in the Honeycomb Theater and the
Bug Reference depict actual scenes of bugs eating one another.  You may
want to view these movies with your children.

  MEMORY REQUIREMENTS.  BUG ADVENTURE requires approximately 520KB of RAM
in order to run. Even when there is adequate total RAM to run the
program, there may be conflicts with other programs occupying memory. If
you experience difficulty in running BUG ADVENTURE under these
circumstances, please remove other memory resident programs from memory.
In MS-DOS versions 5.0 and above type "MEM /C | MORE" to see what programs
and drivers are loaded in memory.  To verify the RAM available, check the
next screen for "Largest executable program size" parameter in K.  In MS-
DOS version 6.0 and above try running the MEMMAKER program to free more
conventional RAM. For more information about conventional memory and
memory management, please consult your DOS manual.

  RUNNING FROM WINDOWS.  To avoid possible complications under the Windows
environment, clicking on the BUG ADVENTURE icon will actually shut down
Windows, run BUG ADVENTURE, then re-start Windows on exit from BUG
ADVENTURE. You may get a message saying, "Application still active. Quit
the application before quitting Windows."  Switch to any other running DOS
applications and exit them normally, then click on the BUG ADVENTURE icon
again. If you have Windows applications already running, they will be
shut down and you will be asked to save any unsaved data.

  POWER.EXE.  The DOS POWER.EXE program, used for power conservation
(mainly  on laptops and notebooks), can cause miscellaneous problems with
BUG  ADVENTURE and other applications. If detected, the install program
will  add a line in your BUG.BAT file to temporarily disable this feature
before entering BUG ADVENTURE. The POWER program will be active again the
next time you reboot your computer. To manually restart it type "POWER /?"
at the DOS prompt for information on your options.

  ALT-S/ALT-M. These keys will toggle sound and music (respectively) off
and on. This option may not be functional in all areas of the program.

  FULL SCREEN TEXT.  In the reference section, text can be zoomed to full
screen. The zoom button is located in the middle of the scroll buttons
beneath the text area. To exit the full screen text, click on the zoom
button again.

  LAPTOP/NOTEBOOK COMPUTER DISPLAYS. BUG ADVENTURE requires a color VGA
monitor to display its high resolution images.  It will not work on the
internal plasma or LCD monitors on laptop PCs.  Most laptops, however,
have a connector for an external monitor, and BUG ADVENTURE will work fine
with your laptop hooked to an external VGA monitor. BUG  ADVENTURE will
run fine on certain laptop screens, such as the Toshiba 4400SXC, COMPAQ
LTE's and the PC BRAND NB 486slc which have 256 shades of  grey or color
screens.  The only problem will be that the right edge of the screen will
be slightly cut off.  This is due to the fact that BUG ADVENTURE runs in
the extra high resolution VGA video mode of 360 x 480 pixels with 256
colors and most of the internal laptop screens can only display 320 pixels
in width.

  MONO, CGA, and EGA DISPLAYS.  BUG ADVENTURE requires a VGA color monitor
and therefore will not run on Mono, CGA and EGA monitors.

  MOUSE SUPPORT.  BUG ADVENTURE takes great advantage of your mouse if you
have one, but it does not require one.  There are keyboard equivalents
which will allow you to enjoy the product without a mouse.

  DIGITIZING TABLETS.  Digitizing tablets are not supported by BUG
ADVENTURE. If you are using a digitizing tablet and it is not functioning
properly, unplug the tablet, plug in a mouse, and restart BUG ADVENTURE.
Your tablet manufacturer may be able to provide a software solution to any
problems experienced.

  WINMATE USERS.  BUG ADVENTURE install program will not generate a
Knowledge Adventure program group and icon if you run under Winmate - even
if you said YES to the Windows question during install. Manually add the
BUG Icon to Winmate after installation is complete.

  COMPAQ PROLINEA.  During INSTALL, press ENTER if you get a message
stating  that you do not have a VGA System.  If you receive a similar
message while  executing BUG, please contact Compaq Technical Support for a
patch program that will correct this problem with some early model
Prolineas.

  LOW VOLUME SOUND OR MUSIC.  Sound cards that allow software volume
control may have different volume levels for sound and music. If you hear
a noticeable difference, you should run the volume control program that
came with your sound card to equal out the settings.

  GRAVIS ULTRASOUND.  The Gravis Ultrasound requires a large driver to load
its more realistic "wavetable" instruments to the sound card requiring a
total of 570 K.  Consequently, you may have to free up additional memory
in order to perform properly.  If you plan to run BUG ADVENTURE from
Windows please do NOT run your ULTRAMID or ULTRASND TSR program before
entering Windows. BUG ADVENTURE will load and unload this program
itself.

  NOTE: The Gravis Ultrasound will not play sound or music during 
sound tests in setup.

  ROLAND SOUND CARDS.  Roland sound cards have high quality music but no
digital speech capability. You will not get digitized speech and sound
effects without an additional sound board. If you have a second sound
card, you will have to manually edit the SoundDriver and SoundDevParams
section of the KA.CNF file. An example setup for a Sound Blaster card
with a hardware configuration of base address 220, interrupt 5, and DMA
channel 1 would be:

 soundDevParams    : a220 i5 d1
 soundDriver       : C:\BUG\drivers\SBDIG.DRV
     (where c: is your HARD drive)

Other sound cards can be configured in a similar way, choose the correct
driver from the following list:

ADLIBDIG.DRV - Ad Lib
ALGDIG.DRV   - Ad Lib Gold
DISNEY.DRV   - Disney Sound Source
MSFTDIG.DRV  - Microsoft Sound System
PASDIG.DRV   - Pro AudioSpectrum/Studio 8/16
      (DMA's 0 - 3, otherwise configure for Sound Blaster)
SBPDIG.DRV   - Sound Blaster Pro

For further information on sound cards and editing the KA.CNF file,
please see "About Sound and Sound Devices" of the BUG ADVENTURE User Guide.

  DIGISPEECH PORTABLE.  If you are using the Digispeech PortAble Sound
Plus, check the date of your BMASTER.* driver files. If the files are
dated  earlier than August, 1993, contact Digispeech or our BBS for an
update.

  REVEALSOUND FX.  For inquiries about your Sound FX card, contact Reveal 
at (800) 4-Reveal or FAX to (818) 340-2379.

  PC SPEAKER.  If you encounter a problem with the narration playing 
extremely slowly, please call our customer service, technical support, or
download the BUGSPKR.ZIP from our bbs.

  SPECIAL NOTE - GRAVIS, ROLAND, and ARIA.  For Gravis, Roland and Aria 
sound cards, you can download a file called BUGDSKGM.ZIP from our 
BBS - (818) 248-0166 (bulletin board - N, 8, 1) Speed 1200 to 14,400 - or 
call customer service or technical support for a disk that contains all 
the necessary drivers, music and instructions.  Unzip the file and 
type README.

PC Speaker driver Copyright, 1988-1993 RealSound, Inc.

