Yeah, I know I haven’t posted anything on tgorg.com, in, like, one and a half years. Unfortunately, I’ve been a bit busy, to say the least. But anyways, I’ve just found and purchased The Journeyman Project Turbo 2 : Buried in Time, a sequel to The Journeyman Project, a game that I’ve played when I was a kid back in the day. Much to my surprise, when I opened the box, I found both Buried in Time and the original game! Awesome.
One of the memories I have of it was, strangely enough, the readme file. Just for laughs and giggles, I’ve decided to post the readme file. I’ve (in)appropriately bolded and italized all the old technology references. Times have most certainly changed…
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Welcome to The Journeyman Project Turbo
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Please take a minute to read over the following information. It has been
provided to help you configure an optimized system for playing the game.
The Journeyman Project Turbo is a very memory-intensive game. With the
amount of graphics that Journeyman will be sending to your screen, it needs
every bit of CPU time that it can have. In order to have an enjoyable
experience, you should quit any other applications that you have running
before playing. If you are getting Insufficient Memory Errors, try increasing
the size of your Windows swapfile. To increase the size of your swapfile,
click on the "386 Enhanced" icon in the Windows Control Panel and select
"Virtual Memory". A general guideline to follow is to make your swapfile
at least twice the size of the amount of physical memory installed in your
system. See your Windows documentation for more detailed information.
The Journeyman Project Turbo makes extensive use of Video for Windows.
We have provided the latest version of the Video for Windows Runtime,
1.1a on this CD in the WINVIDEO subdirectory for your convenience.
Enhanced video card drivers that provide Video for Windows acceleration
are highly recommended. Conversely, if you are having speed or reliability
problems with the game, updated video card drivers may solve your problem.
Contact your video card manufacturer for availability of updated video
drivers.
A special note for Compaq ProLinea users. The on-board VGA adapter will not
work with Video for Windows 1.1a in 640x480 resolution. To solve the problem,
simply change your video mode to 800x600 or 1024x768.
This application uses a great deal of digitized sound. If you are experiencing
popping when sound is playing, you will need to increase the amount of
memory that MCI will use to buffer sound. To change this, select Drivers in
your Control Panel, and select "[MCI] Sound" from the list of drivers
presented. The default setting is enough memory for 4 seconds of audio. It is
suggested that you increase this setting to 9 seconds of audio.
Journeyman Turbo has been fully optimized to run as fast as possible.
However, there will still be points at which your computer will need to load
large amounts of data off of the CD-ROM. When this happens, you will not be
able to move. How will you know? Watch for these signs...
- The cursor may disappear or change to an hourglass
- The red arrow movement button may be lit
- The access light on your CD-ROM may light up
Any of these signs is a signal telling you to wait. As soon as the computer has
finished its loading process, you will be ready to adventure again.
If the game seems unbearably slow, it may be because you have a slow
CD-ROM drive. An access time of 350ms or faster, and a sustained data transfer
rate of 150K per second are recommended (call your drive manufacturer if
you have questions). Even though Journeyman Turbo is over three times
faster than the original, there may still be significant lag times if your drive
cannot meet these specifications.
If you want to see Journeyman perform as fast as possible, and if you (by some
fortunate alignment of the planets) happen to have 540 free MB of hard drive
space, you can copy the entire game to your hard drive for optimal load time
performance. You will need to keep the same directory structure under the
SUPPORT directory, and you will need to modify JMAN.INI in your
Windows subdirectory to point to the new path instead of the CD. When you
do this, you will be able to really scream through the environments.
As a general rule, SAVE YOUR GAME OFTEN. There are many ways to die
during the course of the game. The average player will find enough of them
to make it worth while to learn how to save their game early.
Technical support for The Journeyman Project Turbo is provided by Sanctuary
Woods Multimedia. Call 415-286-6110 between 8:30 and 5:30, Pacific Time.
From everyone at Presto Studios and Sanctuary Woods, thank you for
purchasing The Journeyman Project Turbo. We hope that you have as much
fun playing the game as we did creating and publishing it. If you have any
creative comments or questions relating to Journeyman or future Presto
products we would love to hear from you. Presto Studios can be reached at...
Presto Studios, Inc.
PO Box 262535
San Diego, CA 92196-2535