                        
        **** RAILROAD TYCOON DELUXE README.TXT FILE ****

    The purpose of this file is to present any information
    that missed the technical supplement.
    
    CORRECT SOUND AND MUSIC SETTINGS

       IF THE INSTALL PROCESS HANGS UP AT ANY POINT,

       TRY AGAIN USING "SETUP -s".  FAILURE TO SELECT
       
       A SOUND SETTING AT THE END OF INSTALLATION WILL 
       
       REQUIRE YOU  TO  RE-INSTALL  FROM THE  BEGINNING.


    When installing the Sound and Music for RAILROAD TYCOON DELUXE
    on your computer be sure that the settings are correct and
    match your particular sound system.  If you experience a
    "lock-up" on your machine during the introduction screens
    or in the early parts of a game, then you probably have some
    sort of conflict between the installed settings for your 
    sound card and RAILROAD TYCOON DELUXE.  To alleviate problems
    of this sort you must simply type "INSTALL" from the RAILSDX
    root directory (if you ran HDINST), and select "Reconfigure
    Hardware Options". If you ran INSTALL then you should type
    CONFIG from D: (or whatever drive your CD drive is labelled)
    and select "Reconfigure Hardware Options". Change the settings
    of your sound/music software interrupts (Addresses, IRQ's
    and/or DRQ's).

    If you continue to experience problems feel free to contact
    MicroProse Customer Service.  The phone numbers for the MicroProse
    Customer Service Department and MPS Electronic Bulletin Board can
    be found in the RAILS DELUXE Technical Supplement.

    TECHNICAL ISSUES

    Railroad Tycoon requires 590K of Conventional Memory to run.
    Memory problems can be cured with a boot disc or by altering
    the current CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT (and DOSSTART.BAT with
    Windows'95).

    The error "Run Time Error" and "MCGA MODE NOT SUPPORTED" is
    normally caused by an incompatible mouse driver.  Please use
    the Microsoft mouse driver included with this CD.

    CORRECTIONS TO THE PLAYER AID CARD

    AFRICA: Passengers do not travel between outposts.
            Cities do not demand troops.

    S. A. : Refineries produce Mfg. Goods, not Petroleum.

    Some references to the England scenerio in the manual should
    be ignored.  This was replaced with continental Africa.

************************** NEW FOR VERSION 2.0 *****************************

    FIXES:    
        
    The problems involving "OVERLAY NOT FOUND" errors has been
    traced to the video routine drawing off screen and has been
    fixed.  
        
    The mouse interface now works like a standard Windows 
    interface while retaining the functions of previous versions.

    The speed of the game in the Local Display has been maximized.
    A side effect of this is the occasional flashing of city names
    and small pieces of track.
        
    The Features section of the Game menu now works properly
    (Animations turns off the scrolling pages of the financial
    summary at the end of a fiscal year).
          
    People experiencing problems with digitized sound on IRQ2
    should configure for IRQ9.  This IRQ is usually re-routed to
    IRQ2 on most machines.

    OS/2 users can avoid lock-ups on exit by retiring instead of using
    the <alt>-Q quick exit.

    NEW FEATURES:

    New train car artwork has been added in all theatres.  The 
    earliest cars cannot be represented on the routing screen due 
    to their small size, but the cars do change their appearance 
    as newer engines are introduced.

    An Auto-Save feature now saves the game at the end of every year
    to a special file that can be reloaded using the resume game
    option.  This method does not use any Saved Game spaces.

    The Tutorial Railroad has been added to the game and can be
    accessed using the Tutorial option at the startup.  This also   
    does not take up any Saved Game spaces.

    APOLOGIES:

    We are unable to fix a money roll over problem that manifests
    in a couple of different ways.  Your cash may mysteriously become
    negative, or you may end up with spikes in your stock graph, or 
    if your Railroad net worth rolls over, you may be kicked out of
    office.  This is an indication that you have done so well as to
    exceed the design parameters of the game.  
        
    We were also unable to raise the restrictions on the number of
    stations and trains available without completely rewriting the
    entire game.  There is room in the future for a bigger, better,
    faster game in the Railroad Tycoon line and we hope you will be
    with us at that time for more enjoyment.
         
           Thank-you for choosing RAILROAD TYCOON DELUXE,

                 The RAILROAD TYCOON DELUXE Team.

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