    AST RESEARCH, INC.        TECHNICAL BULLETIN # 1662          02/04/97

    TITLE:  Advantage! & Whiplash Joystick Problems

    ISSUE

       The user may be unable to calibrate certain joysticks within
       Gremlin's Whiplash game. The same joysticks will calibrate
       successfully within Windows 95 Control Panel.

       This issue affects the following Advantage! 7000 and 9000
       systems:

       503091-004, 503091-008, 503091-009, 503091-010, 503091-019,
       503091-102, 503091-110, 503091-119, 503091-202, 503091-238,
       503092-002, 503092-004, 503092-005, 503092-006, 503092-009,
       503092-010, 503092-019, 503092-038, 503094-002, 503094-004,
       503094-005, 503094-006, 503094-010, 503094-019, 503094-038,
       503117-002, 503117-010, and 503117-019.

    BACKGROUND

       N/A

    ACTION

       Download file WHIPFIX.EXE from one of the following services:

          AST WWW Site:  http://www.ast.com
          AST On-Line! BBS*:  See IB0001.TXT
          CompuServe:  GO: ASTFORUM
          Prodigy:   JUMP: ASTSUPPORT

          * Refer to IB0001.TXT for a list of AST's
            international BBS numbers.

       To decompress this file, create a temporary directory on your
       hard drive, copy the downloaded file to that directory, and run
       the file.

       The installation instructions are contained in the README.TXT
       file which is extracted upon running the WHIPFIX.EXE file.

    NOTES

       N/A

    TAN 000329CP

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