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HOW TO SETUP KAWIN.EXE

Problem:
Your KA program misbehaves under Windows 3.1 or 3.11 (Not Windows 95)

Cause:
Microsoft Windows 3.1x has many settings that can affect the routine
operation of Windows 3.1x and DOS programs under Windows 3.1x. Most of
these settings are contained in your SYSTEM.INI or WIN.INI files found
in
your C:\WINDOWS directory. Because there are so many ways that Windows
3.1x can be altered, there are many ways that Windows 3.1x will behave.
A "tweaking" of a few settings can help some applications to work
better
and cause others to misbehave. Usually the only thing necessary for a
Knowledge Adventure program to work correctly under Windows 3.1x is a
line
in your SYSTEM.INI file saying DMABufferSize=150 under the [386Enh]
section. You'll find this done for you if you stated that you will be
running the program under Windows 3.1x during the installation.
Because
of all the other possible settings this may not always work. KA has
created a program, KAWIN.EXE, that will solve this problem.

"Sound device in use" messages occur due to older sound card drivers
for
Windows 3.1x that are unable to relinquish control of the sound card to
DOS sound drivers/programs. It is also possible you may be running
another
sound application and not know it. Check what programs you have
running
(press and hold down the CTRL and ESC keys together) and close out
other
programs that may be using your sound card. If this is not the problem
then the best solution is to contact the manufacturer of your sound
card
and get the latest drivers for Windows 3.1x. In most cases the latest
drivers
can be downloaded via modem from the sound card manufacturer's bulletin
board system (BBS). If you do not have a modem then you will have to
call
the sound card manufacturer's technical support number and request the
drivers. The phone numbers for contacting your sound card manufacturer
should be listed in your sound card instruction manual.

Note:
For the following instructions America Adventure will be used as the
example and assumed to be already installed. In the examples replace
AMERICA, DINO, DINO3D, KA, SEA, SCIENCE, SPACE, SPEED, PETER, or ZOO as
necessary.

Solution:
 ù After installing the program files via the UTILITY DISK, run Windows
3.1x.
ù Click on the program icon in PROGRAM MANAGER once. i.e. America
Adventure
ù Go to the FILE menu and choose PROPERTIES, a window will come up.
ù Change the COMMAND LINE option from C:\AMERICA\AMERICA.PIF to run the
KAWIN.EXE program first. Also change the extension from PIF to BAT.
It would say:
C:\AMERICA\KAWIN.EXE AMERICA.BAT
ù Click on OK
ù To change the icon back to the pretty picture, click on the FILE menu
again and choose PROPERTIES.
ù Click on the CHANGE ICON button and at the error message click OK to
continue.
ù Choose BROWSE from the CHANGE ICON window.
ù Double click on the C:\ from the 2nd column which is a list of
directories (the default should be C:\WINDOWS).
ù Double click on your program directory, i.e. C:\AMERICA in the 2nd
column.
ù Double click on the program's ICO file, i.e. AMERICA.ICO in the 1st
column.
ù Click on OK, then OK and the icon will be back to normal.
ù Double click on NOTEPAD in the ACCESSORIES group of your PROGRAM
MANAGER.
ù Go to the FILE menu and choose OPEN.
ù Change the FILE NAME from *.TXT to *.BAT.
ù Double click on the C:\ from the 2nd column which is a list of
directories (the default should be C:\WINDOWS).
ù Double click on your program directory, i.e. C:\AMERICA in the 2nd
column.
ù Double click on the program's BAT file, i.e. AMERICA.BAT in the 1st
column. Edit the file to add two lines after the @echo off statement
on
the first line. It will look like this:
@ echo off
C: <ADD THIS: drive letter where program is>
CD\AMERICA <ADD THIS: program directory>
<MORE WOULD BE HERE>
ù Click on the FILE MENU and choose SAVE, then choose EXIT.
ù You should now be able to run your program from Windows 3.1x hassle
free.
The KAWIN.EXE program will actually shut down your Windows 3.1x, run
your
KA program, and rerun Windows 3.1x. If you have any other DOS
programs
running at the time you will get a warning that you will have to quit
them
first. If you have any Windows 3.1x programs running they will be
closed
out and you will be prompted to save any unsaved data.

þMAN 092195