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Installation of FEDER

I guess that most troubles will have something to do with the configuration of the soundcard. To have it said: only SoundBlaster-compatible cards are supported. But fortunately, almost all Soundcards are that. Because the auto-detection is not very reliable and sometimes causes a system-crash (I'm sorry!), you'll have to put in the values manually. But where take from if not steal?

For Windows 9x:
First you have to open the control panel, then choose "system". Click on "device manager" and choose "audio-, video- and game controller". Then choose your soundcard - not your card themself but the Windows SoundBlaster emulation called "SB16-Emulation", "SB-Emulation", "Game device" or similar - and click on "properties". Now you are interested in the resources. You will have to get the values for "E/A area" (or similar), DMA and interrupt. The following table shows that:
 
FEDER name WIN name standard-value other possibilities
PORT E/A-area (or so) 220 230, 240...
IRQ interrupt 7 or 5 about 3 to 12
DMA DMA 1 0, 2, 3

For DOS:
If one is able to handle DOS, one is also able to get these values. There are many games with a better sound-detection than mine, and one can read the values from them. But caution: only the SoundBlaster-values are interesting!

FAQ

There are no frequently asked questions until now.

Updates and known bugs

Feder:
I will not do big changes any more.
Known bugs:
 
Bug Fix
The feather-boxes have a longe time to open. This is not a bug, but the stop-bon. It makes that the next ten boxes wich are put delay very longly before sending out feathers. But they may still be activated by another feather!
A reflecting feather flies trough walls and out of the screen. This bug has been fixed!
The graphics in the scheme "MAGIC" are not always coordinated. Perhaps I will redesign the graphics and even make a new scheme if the game becomes known. But anyway, the scheme "NATUR" looks perfect!

Gold and Orgis
I don't want to waste my time on searching clean source-code, recompile this games and finally find and remove the numerous bugs if a version of this games ever will become downloadable. Do not expect any support there.

e-mail:

For opinions, comments and bug-reports send an e-mail to:

Martin Renold: martinxyz@gmx.ch (mainprogramming, publication, gamegraphics)
Jonas Kley: jonas.kley@schweiz.org (menu + translation, a part of the graphics (eg Robots))

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