Running LunaTicks under Windows95(tm)
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LunaTicks has not been written to run within Windows95, however it is 
possible on most machines. This is sometimes necessary when you do 
not have DOS mode drivers for your CD-ROM (note that these may be 
available from your drive's manufacturer, even if they were not  
included with the drive itself).

(NOTE : Freeware version runs direct from your HDD, so change any references
to your CD-ROM drive to your Hard drive. CDTEMP is not required for Freeware
versions of the game)

To run LunaTicks from within Windows95, follow these steps:

1. Ensure that the CDTEMP variable has been added to your AUTOEXEC.BAT 
file. To operate under Windows95, LunaTicks must be run direct from 
CD, without using the partial install option. To add this line to 
your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, simply open NOTEPAD, load the AUTOEXEC.BAT 
file, and add the line:

		SET CDTEMP=C:\TEMP

If you have no AUTOEXEC.BAT file, create one. Like DOS Windows95 will run this
file while bootup is in progress. All Windows95 machines HAVE a C:\TEMP
directory.

2. Once this has been done, you will have to reboot your system to 
ensure the change takes place.

3. Open explorer and go to your CD-ROM drive with the LunaTicks CD in 
it. Right click on the LUNA.EXE file. This will open the properties 
dialogue for the main game executable. Set the properties as follows:

	Memory
		Total conventional memory: 560k
		Initial environment: 1024
		Protected: Checked
                Expanded (EMS) memory: 8192k
		Extended (XMS) memory: None
		Uses HMA: Cleared
		MS-DOS protected-mode (DPMI) memory: Auto or None
	Screen
		Full-screen
		Fast ROM emulation: Cleared
		Dynamic memory allocation: Cleared
	Misc
		Allow screen saver: Cleared
		Exclusive mode: Checked
		Background: Always suspend
		Idle sensitivity: Low
		Shortcut keys: All cleared

Leave all other properties at their defaults. This will create a 
LUNA.PIF file in your Windows PIF directory.

4. Now to run the game, run the SETUP program as normal, and then double
click on the LUNA.EXE file on the LunaTicks CD-ROM. You CANNOT start LunaTicks
from inside SETUP under Windows95! See below for starting SERIAL/IPX games
under Windows95. We have included an icon to use from Windows95 start menu.

When run in this manner, LunaTicks may be less stable than normal. Some
things you can do to improve this are turning off music or selecting a lower
mixing rate by running the SETUP program, running LunaTicks from a DOS prompt
window with the same properties as above, and ensuring that there are no other
programs running when you start LunaTicks (even programs such as screen-savers
can interfere when not actually active - they still have a timer process
running which will interrupt LunaTicks). Be aware of things like network drive
servers etc etc. These can cause BIG problems. LunaTicks will run on an 8Mb
memory machine under Windows95, but the more memory you have, the better things
are. We recommend 16Mb for stable performance under Windows95.

If at all possible, it is recommended that you run LunaTicks from 
outside Windows95 (select Shutdown, and restart computer in MS-DOS 
mode). You will have to ensure that your CD-ROM, mouse, sound-card 
(if SoundBlaster(tm) emulation is provided by a TSR), and VESA (if 
you wish to run LunaTicks in SVGA mode) drivers are installed correctly in
DOS mode. Most vendors install programs will do this automatically, and are
available on the manuafacturers World Wide Web site. If you have any questions
about installing the DOS drivers for your CD-ROM/Soundcard, see your computer
supplier. They should be able to help you.

If you are still unable to run LunaTicks on a Windows95 system, you can copy
the game onto your harddrive. The simplest way to do this is at the dos prompt:

CD\
MD LUNA
CD LUNA
XCOPY E:*.* /S    (NOTE: 'E:' is your CD-ROM drive. CD's current directory
                  MUST be game directory).

To run, restart in MS-DOS mode, change to the game directory and type:-

SET CDTEMP=.

then just run SETUP or LUNA as normal.

This will ALWAYS run when you have restarted in DOS 7.0, but due to the large
size of the game (about 100Mb), its a last resort only!


Starting Network Games
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Since you cannot launch LunaTicks from SETUP, You'll have to use command line
switches.

Serial
------

LUNA -serial -port XX -Iam YY  (XX= serial port number, YY=Player number)

IPX
---

LUNA -ipx -Iam XX -numplayers YY -socket ZZ

(XX=Player number, YY=number of IPX players in game, ZZ=Socket number.
NOTE: -socket is optional. Use only if default socket fails or is busy.)

in both modes, -spy XX is available. (XX=1, spy, XX=2, Spectator)

Player 0 (Host) cannot be a Spy or Spectator!
