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a joystick, don't load your mouse driver . Use the "joystick only" option. Next, check the CD for dirt echie Bench includes the most requested technical or scratches, and clean the underside with a dry , information for our current games . If you need addi- clean cloth . Most of the concerns people have with T tional assistance, contact LucasArts Product Suppor t the game are resolved with these simple steps . by fax, letter, telephone or BBS (see "Where to Find Us " However, if it still doesn't work, take a look at th e on the back cover) . When contacting us, please include a following questions : complete printout of the con- ►Does the game run fine with no sound, o r fig .sys and autoexec .bat does the sound echo or have static? Refer to the files used for the game , soundcard documentation and/or the soundcar d the title and version o f company's technical support staff for informatio n the game and a detailed on how to change the IRQ or DMA . You migh t description of the pro b also want to ask them if you need to add informa- lem. If you send a fax , tion to their device lines to take care of the soun d include your name , quality issues . return fax number ►Do you have an unexpected Interrupt/Bad with the area code IFF header message or poor joystick control ? and a phone num- Download or order the Rebel patch. ber so we can ►Lockups? This is usually an IRQ or DMA contact you if conflict . If the game still crashes when running the transmi with no sound, then use the Rebel patch . ssion fails ►No sound on a 16-bit card? Go into the "con - figuration" screen for the game and choose "detect," ignoring any warning messages, to select the correct 16-bit channel settings . ►No sound at all? Rebel Assault only supports fully digitized sounds that operate solely in the DOS environment without memory management and on cards that are t00% Sound Blaster com- Here are some sug- patible. Unfortunately, PC internal speakers , gestions for specific AdLib cards, Windows Sound Systems and other games and concerns : similar cards do not meet these requirements . Rebel Assault: I f X-Wing: If your sound card needs to run on a you are experiencin g port address other than 220, you may either order any problems, pleas e a patch from us or download it from a BBS . create and use a boot Sam & Max Hit the Road' disk-based game. I f disk for your A : you find yourself locking up in the Tunnel o f drive . To do this, fol- Love, you may either order a patch from us or low the instruction s download it from a BBS . in the referenc e Day of the Tentacle or Indiana Jones® and the card, making sure Fate of Atlantis CD-ROM games . If you have that you disable the problems with sound or locking up, please use th e Himem .sys line , "detect" option for selecting the IRQ and Port i n your memory man- the "change configuration" area for the game . ager and any dis k Also, make sure you have at least 2 megs of caching utilities , expanded (EMS) ram available. such as Smartdrive . IRQ 10 . Our games through Day of the Tentacle We now have a boo t may need a soundcard setting of IRQ 7 or lower disk maker utility because they were designed to run with sound - available online if cards with only IRQ 2, 5 and 7 as options. Our you want assis- new games can use IRQ 10 . tance with Again, if you would like additional assistance , this process . please get in touch. Best wishes for happy gam- If you have ing! r s c . ... ... ... ... ...... .................................................. 2 ♦ T H E A D V E N T U R E R . 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The hit title will be available for Seg a his listeners across the country t o CD (published by JVC Musical Industries) and Macintosh CD thi s be a part of radio history . WB N summer . has the talent and imagination to In Rebel Assault, 15 intense levels propel the player — or "Rooki e usher in a new radio network, but One" — from training missions through Beggar's Canyon o n nothing had prepared them for th e Tatooine to the treacherous run on the Death Star . In other levels , events that were about to unfold . Rookie One faces off against Imperial walkers, stormtroopers an d The film stars Brian Benbe n hordes of TIE fighters . Rebel Assault (Dream On) and Mary Stuart LucasArts' first game Masterson (Fried Green Tomatoes) , designed exclusively for CD- with a supporting cast that ROM features realistic 3 D includes such talents as Ne d graphics and digitized Sta r Beatty, Christopher Lloyd, Michae l Wars ® movie footage, as wel l McKean, Jeffrey Tambor, Steve n as original full-screen video . Tobolowsky, Michael Lerner, Larr y Speech, actual movie sound Miller, Anita Morris, Scott effects and the Star Wars Campbell, Harvey Korman , score as performed by the Robert Klein, Bobcat Goldthwait, London Symphony Orchestra Brion James and Corbin Bernsen . highlight the soundtrack . LUCASARTS PRODUCT should be complete by the end o f boot disk maker will be incorpo- SUPPORT: VERSION 2.0 the summer. rated into Sam s Max Hit the ucasArts' Product Support A new phone system is being Road CD-ROM and new presses o f Ldepartment is in the midst o f installed which will increase th e Rebel Assault :" This utility program implementing several "upgrades" number of active phone and fax also is available on the BBSs fo r in order to further improve its ser- lines, provide automated technical downloading . vice to customers . These enhance- advice with a return fax capability, ments — currently in progress — offer a fax directory of prepare d technical suggestions, and allow THE DIG TO call queuing .