Welcome to Shanghai: Dynasty Demo! 
 
This Read Me file contains installation instructions and product information for Shanghai: Dynasty Mac Demo. 

SET-UP AND INSTALLATION OF SHANGHAI: DYNASTY 
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Minimum System Requirements for  Demo  
¥	Operating System:  MacOS version 7.0 or higher, English language version. 
¥	Macintosh or 100% compatible.
¥	Processor: PowerPC (any Power Macintosh or compatible machine)
¥	RAM: 16 MB
¥	CD-ROM drive:  2x (double-speed  -- 300K/second sustained transfer rate).  
¥	2X CD-ROM users should use the standard or full installations to avoid any potential inferior game performance which may result from animations playing from the CD-ROM.
¥	640 x 480  x 8 bits  - (256 colors)
¥	QuickTime 2.0 (with QT Musical Instruments & PowerPlug)*
¥	Sound Manager 3.0 or 3.1*

* These extensions are included with System 7.5. If you have deleted them for some reason, never installed them, or are running System 7.1 and don't have them already, see the next section,  "How to Contact Apple Computer, Inc." 

Installation Instructions: 

1.  Double-click on the Shanghai: Dynasty Demo Installer icon in the Shanghai: Dynasty window. 
2.  Follow the on-screen instructions.  Note:  If you have selected Minimum Install and would     
like to have more tile sets installed on your hard drive besides the Mah-Jongg tile set, select the tiles you would like to have installed in the Custom Install folder. 
3.  Once you have installed Shanghai: Dynasty Demo onto your hard drive, make sure to keep the files that are installed in the folders into which they were originally installed.  Do not, for instance, move the Data folder out of the Shanghai: Dynasty Demo folder.  For easier viewing, select "View by Name" in the View menu.
7.  Double-click on the Shanghai: Dynasty Demo executable to start playing.  
8.  If you are running System 7.1, make sure that Sound Manager 3.0 or 3.1 (for PowerPC users) and QuickTimeª Musical Instruments are installed in your Extensions folder.  If they are not, the music will sound ÒtinnyÓ (since it will be playing 8-bit instead of 16-bit MIDI). (See "How to Contact Apple Computer, Inc." below.)  Also, make sure that you have the Text Encoding Extensions installed in your System folder, in the Extensions folder. 

How to contact Apple Computer, Inc.  
If you are running System 7.1 and do not have QuickTime 2.0, QT Musical Instruments, PowerPlug, Sound Manager, or AppleCD Audio Player or if you are running System 7.5 and deleted these extensions or never installed them, you can contact Apple Computer, Inc. to obtain them as follows:

In the United States:
	                  Call 1-800-SOS-APPLE.

In the UK:
	Middlesex:  Call 44-81-569-1199.
	Surrey:       Call 44-81-941-6066.

In Australia:
	Sydney:      Call 61-2-452-80-00.
	Adelaide:   Call 61-8-233-58-50.
	Canberra:   Call 61-6-285-15-13.
	Brisbane:   Call 61-7-369-48-00.
	Melbourne: Call 61-3-686-12-33.

TROUBLESHOOTING
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If you usually have your monitor set to a resolution higher than 640x480, but switch back down to 640x480 while playing Shanghai: Dynasty Demo, you may find when you return to your higher resolution that the game is now placed at the top left corner of your screen. You can place the Shanghai: Dynasty screen wherever you like by simply holding down the mouse button and dragging it.

If Shanghai: Dynasty Demo keeps quitting suddenly when you try to run it, the game may not have been installed properly.  Try reinstalling it from the CD-ROM.

Certain screen savers might conflict with Shanghai: Dynasty Demo. If this occurs, please disable your screen saver while playing.

Program won't install. 
1.  You may have insufficient hard disk space for the program to copy the files it needs from the CD to your hard drive.  Free up more hard disk space.  
2.  You may not have enough free RAM to run the installer.  Make sure you aren't running any other application before installing.  Once you have closed all the other applications, click to highlight the Shanghai Dynasty Installer icon on the CD, then go to the File Menu and select Get Info.  Increase the Preferred Size number (in the bottom right corner) to a higher number (1000K, for example).  Close the Get Info. box and try installing again. 
3.  Check that you are running System 7.5.1 or later.  Shanghai: Dynasty may have problems on  older systems.  

Game freezes. 
1.  Make sure your computer has at least 16 MB of RAM. 
2.  Make sure RAM doubler is disabled. 

No sound, partial sound, music, no voices, or sound effects. 
1.  Check the Install Size option you selected for installing the game.  If you have selected Minimum Install, the redbook music will not play.  
2.  If you have speakers, make sure they are plugged in correctly, turned on, and the volume is turned up to an audible level.  
3.  Select the Sound control panel in the Apple menu and adjust volume.  
4.  Look in the Apple Menu (or in Extensions in the System folder) for the AppleCD Audio Player and make sure this is functioning.  If you do not have this extension installed or if you have deleted it, contact Apple to obtain it.
5.  If you have "Toast CD Reader" Driver/Extension, music will not play.  Disabling it may render certain CD drives inoperable. 
6.  Make sure that you have not decreased the Minimum RAM Required for playing Shanghai: Dynasty in the Get Info box.  If you need more RAM, turn on Virtual Memory. 

Game is too slow.
1.  Make sure you are running Shanghai: Dynasty on a 66 Mhz 6100 or faster Power Macintosh.
2.  If you have additional Hard Drive space, try a bigger install size (i.e. Standard or Medium Install).  
3.  Try turning off animations, especially if you're playing with multiple AI players. 

Technical Support
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Before contacting Customer Support, please consult the technical help file. 
It contains the answers to some of our most frequently asked questions and may quickly and easily provide a solution to your difficulty. If after reviewing the technical help file you are still experiencing problems, please feel free to contact us through any of the services listed.

So that we can better help you, please be at your computer and have the 
following information ready:
1. Complete product title
2. Exact error message reported (if any) and a brief description of the problem
3. Your computer's processor type and speed (e.g. Pentium 90)
4.  Video and sound card make and model (e.g., Diamond Stealth 64 video, Sound Blaster 16 sound)

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Please note that Technical Support for the multiplayer component is 
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In Australia & the U.K.
For Technical Support:
	In Australia, please call 1902 962 000.
	In the U.K., please call 0990 143 525.
If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions about this game, or any other Activision product, you can contact us in the U.K. at 0181 742 9400 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. (U.K. time) Monday through Friday, with the exception of holidays.  

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Customer Service in the U.K.:
For Technical Support please call 0990 143 525.
If you have any comments, questions or suggestions about Shanghai: Dynasty for the Macintosh, or any other Activision product, you can contact us in the UK on 0181 742 9400 between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. (UK time) Monday through Friday, with the exception of holidays, or contact a customer service representative through the following on-line services.

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For Technical and Customer Service for the rest of Europe please contact your local  distributor. 



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