The following is a list of installation update notes.
Please consult it if you have any problems running Beat the House.

MESSAGE: Beat the House requires 535K to run. - Insufficient free standard memory. 
Beat the House runs in the 640K standard region of memory. With DOS 6 or higher, run 
MEMMAKER. With PC DOS 6 or higher, run RAMBOOST. For lower versions of DOS, 
fax or mail us copies of your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. We will fax 
back changes you need to make to those files to optimize your DOS setup for your 
machine. Until there are 535k (550,000 bytes) of memory free, Beat the House will not 
run.

Message: Cannot execute Beat the House. - Insufficient free standard memory. Beat the 
House runs in the 640K standard region of memory. With DOS 6 or higher, run 
MEMMAKER. With PC DOS 6 or higher, run RAMBOOST. For lower versions of DOS, 
fax or mail us copies of your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. We will fax 
back changes you need to make to those files to optimize your DOS setup for your 
machine. Until there are 535k (550,000 bytes) of memory free, Beat the House will not 
run.

If you are running OS/2 and Beat the House runs slowly or locks up. - 1) Run Beat the 
House in a full screen DOS window.  2) Allocate more memory to Beat the House DOS 
window.  3) Set the HW Timer to on.

If Beat the House will not install 100%. - If you have DOS 6 or higher, skip your 
configuration files. Restart your computer. Watch for the message Starting MS DOS.Ó 
Immediately hit the F5 key. You will get the message MS DOS is skipping your 
configuration. Now run Beat the House install again. If you have any other version of 
DOS, you can skip your configuration by booting from a floppy system disk with no 
AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS files.

Mouse does not work. - This is usually a problem on Windows computers. Windows has 
its own mouse driver software. For the mouse to work in Beat the House, a DOS program, 
a DOS mouse driver must be running. To check this, exit Windows. At the C:\ prompt, 
type DOSSHELL and hit enter. Is your mouse working? If not, contact your computer 
supplier and have him help you install the correct mouse diver. Otherwise, call us and we 
will help you get the right mouse driver installed.

Copy Protection Questions. - Please take the time to look in the manual when you answer 
the questions when you first enter the casino. If you do not answer the questions correctly, 
the bouncer will come and throw you out of the casino in 5 minutes! If you guess 
incorrectly too many times, you may have to answer several questions correctly in a row.

IBM PS/2 and PS/1 Users. - If you experience lock-ups or hesitation when you run Beat 
the House, you will need to turn off the sound in Beat the House. From the C:\BTH 
prompt, type install, and select No Sound.

Sound Blaster 16 and Sound Blaster 16 ASP. - Sound Blaster 16 does not support Sound 
Blaster or Sound Blaster Pro formats. To get both voices and music, you will need to 
choose the AdLib setting in Beat the House.

Note: The game was designed for the older Adlib and original Sound Blaster 8-bit cards. 
      If you using Sound Blaster 16 may require-Port 220, IRQ 5, DMA 1.
      
Installing a sound card after installing Beat the House. - At the C:\BTH prompt, type 
INSTALL and hit the enter key. Choose the appropriate sound setting.
