MacPlayŞ presents: Pro Pinball: The WebŞ Demo By Entertainment International (UK) Ltd. Welcome to Pro Pinball: The Web. This Read Me file contains important information about last-minute changes, extra features, and troubleshooting. Please read it! Registering The Demo With MacPlay To register the demo, please double-click the "Register with MacPlay" application that is on your hard disk. Ę This will let you register the demo electronically if you have a modem, so you won't have to mail in a registration card. If you don't have a modem, you can still print out the form and mail or fax it to us. Registering the game will let us notify you about any future upgrades or patches, and you'll be signed up for "MacPlay Today", our newsletter full of news, tips and tricks, behind-the-scenes info about our games, and sneak peeks into our future releases. Purchasing The Full Version Of The Game Call 1-800-4-MACPLAY to order and mention code PBW2 to order. When you buy the full version of Pro Pinball, you'll get the following: Ą You can play longer than 5 minutes (the demo's limit) Ą You can play to a score higher than 200 million (the demo's limit) Ą You can play more missions, including the Ultimate Showdown Ą You can play in a window up to 1024 x 768 resolution, and in thousands of colors. (The demo only lets you play in a 640 x 480 window, and with only 256 colors.) Ą Better, sharper sound effects Ą A full music soundtrack, written by Jake Burns and Bruce Foxton (formerly The Jam and now Stiff Little Fingers) Ą Complete save and preferences functionality Ą Six different views of the table System Requirements Pro Pinball will run on any Macintosh computer with System 7.1 or later, a CD-ROM drive, and a 13" or larger monitor able to display 256 or Thousands of colors. Pro Pinball is optimized to run well on 68040 Macintosh computers and is accelerated to run on the Power Macintosh. Accessing The Menu Bar During play, you may press P to pause the game and access the game's menus. Troubleshooting Note: You don't need to understand the following section. You should only have to refer to this section if you're having problems. If you have Virtual Memory on and your Mac fills it up while playing Pro Pinball, the game will slow down and become jerky. If Pro Pinball runs out of memory while loading sound effects, it will continue loading to the end, but will warn you that not all the sounds could be loaded. Now Menus have been known to cause conflicts with Pro Pinball. If you encounter problems while running Pro Pinball and Now Menus, disable Now Menus while running Pro Pinball. It is remommended that you close Pro Pinball before switching resolution or bit depth on your computer. Graphic Glitches Or Problems? Two further options can be set for Pro Pinball. You will need to find the "pro pinball prefs" file in the preferences folder (in your System folder) on your startup drive. Select Get Info. The option are set by typing the words detailed below into the comments box. If you only have the demo version you will need to create this file by duplicating any other existing prefs file and renaming it. i) Pro Pinball totally takes over your macintosh until it is paused - it even turns the mouse arrow off! This means that no time is allocated for other applications in the background, thus such actions like - shift - 3 (take a snapshot of the screen) will not work. If you need to take snapshots of the screen or need other applications working in the background, type the word "snapshot" in the comments box. This will however, affect the performance of the game. ii) Certain video cards with lots of memory may cause problems for Pro Pinball. If the screen contains garbage or obscure colors, try typing "keep local" in the comments box. High Scores You will find the current international high scores for Pro Pinball the Web on the World Wide Web at http://macplay.com or http://www.empire.co.uk. If you get a really high score and want to register it with us do the following. While the game is displaying the high scores on the dot matrix display (before starting a game) hold down both flippers. The high scores will be encrypted. Type the code into the form on the hi-score page and send it to us. Please note the playable demo is limited to a maximum score of 200,000,000. Customer Support Ń North America Note that MacPlay is a division of Interplay Productions, and if you don't see a MacPlay area on any online system, you can get help at Interplay Productions. Ę Customer Support Ń Europe Ę Have fun! -- The crew at MacPlay SOFTWARE USE LIMITATIONS AND LIMITED LICENSE General Product License. This copy of Pro Pinball The Web ("the Software") is intended solely for your personal noncommercial home entertainment use. You may not decompile, reverse engineer, or disassemble the Software, except as permitted by law. Entertainment International (UK) Ltd., retain all right, title and interest in the Software including all intellectual property rights embodied therein and derivatives thereof. The Software, including, without limitation, all code, data structures, characters, images, sounds, text, screens, game play, derivative works and all other elements of the Software may not be copied, resold, rented, leased, distributed (electronically or otherwise), used on pay-per-play, coin-op or other for-charge basis, or for any commercial purpose. Any permissions granted herein are provided on a temporary basis and can be withdrawn by Interplay Productions at any time. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. Acceptance of License Terms. By purchasing and retaining this Software, you assent to the terms and restrictions of this limited license. If you do not accept the terms of this limited license, you must return the Software together with all packaging, manuals and other material contained therein to the store where you purchased the Software for a full refund. Pro Pinball - The Web: Trademark and Copyright 1996 Entertainment International (UK) Ltd.