SIMHEALTH (TM) v1.1 Last Minute Info - !!PLEASE READ ME!! (4/14/94)
I. INSTALLATION
Sound Selection
II. MOUSE DRIVERS
Microsoft Compatible Mouse Required
III. SOUND CARDS
What Are Miles Design Drivers And How Do I Use Them?
SoundBlaster Installation
Pro Audio Spectrum
Gravis Ultrasound
IV. MISCELLANEOUS
Memory Issues
Running with QEMM, EMM386 And Other Memory Managers
Creating A Boot Disk With Stacker/DoubleSpace
V. TROUBLESHOOTING
SimHealth Locks Up
SimHealth Install Program Crashes
I Get A "Microsoft Compatible Mouse Not Found" Message
Please read ALL of this document! This stuff is important!
It covers a lot about memory, installation and various sound cards.
I. INSTALLATION
Sound Selection
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SimHealth cannot automatically detect what kind of sound card you
have in your machine. You will need to pick your sound card(s)
out of the lists provided. The installer will then try to verify the
presence of that sound card in your machine. Certain hardware settings
on your card may be different from what SimHealth is expecting. To
change these settings, select the Change Settings option from the sound
card verification window (where it says "OK" or "Failed!"). For more
information on these hardware settings, see the manual that came with
your sound card. If your sound card is not shown and is 100 percent
SoundBlaster compatible, you should be able to install for SoundBlaster
and hear sound and music. See the section on Miles Design Drivers below
for information on what to do if your sound card is not supported.
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II. MOUSE DRIVERS
Microsoft Compatible Mouse Required
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SimHealth requires a Microsoft-compatible mouse to run. Most
mice today (including Logitech, Mouse Systems, and Kensington) are
Microsoft-compatible. In order for the mouse to work properly in
SimHealth, a mouse driver must be loaded before running
SimHealth. The mouse driver must also be fairly current. Contact
the manufacturer of your mouse or the dealer who sold the mouse
to you to see if your driver is the most current available.
III. SOUND CARDS
What Are Miles Design Drivers And How Do I Use Them?
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SimHealth sound support is accomplished through the use of the
John Miles Design AIL audio driver libraries. These help
software companies support many different sound cards without
having to know how each card works. The Miles Design Drivers are
automatically installed when you select which sound card you wish
to use for sound and music in SimHealth. If your sound card is
not mentioned specifically in the installer, you may be able to get
drivers from the manufacturer for full SimHealth sound.
SimHealth requires "286 protected mode" Miles Design drivers.
Non-286 protected mode drivers will not work.
SoundBlaster Installation
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The SimHealth Installer expects to find the SoundBlaster at IRQ 7.
Many SoundBlasters are shipped with the default IRQ set to 5. If you
have a SoundBlaster and the installer says "Sound Card Detection:
FAILED!", click on the Change Settings button and enter 5 in the IRQ
entry. The DMA and ADDR settings should be fine.
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Pro Audio Spectrum
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MUSIC: The Music Driver for the Pro Audio Spectrum requires the Media
Vision driver MVSOUND.SYS to be loaded in memory as a driver in
your CONFIG.SYS file. If this driver is not loaded, you will receive a
verification failure during installation, and you will NOT hear music
during the game. For more information about MVSOUND.SYS, please
refer to your Pro Audio Spectrum user's manual, or call Media Vision
Technical Support.
SOUND EFFECTS: If you choose Pro Audio Spectrum as your Sound
Effects sound card, you may experience some sound effects "dropouts,"
or even no sound at all. This will only happen on some Pro Audio
Spectrum sound cards. If this does happen, you can re-run the INSTALL
program and choose SoundBlaster for the Sound Effects Card, instead
of Pro Audio Spectrum.
CAUTION: This may or may not work depending on your Pro Audio
Spectrum. Please call Media Vision Technical Support if you have more
problems.
Gravis Ultrasound
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SimHealth is compatible with the SBOS SoundBlaster Emulation TSR
for the GUS. However, most memory managers (such as EMM386) will cause
problems if they are loaded at the same time as SimHealth and SBOS.
DO NOT attempt to run or even install SimHealth with both SBOS and
a memory manager present. Bad things may happen.
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IV. MISCELLANEOUS
Memory Issues
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SimHealth requires a lot of memory to run--3 MB total. On some
machines, even if you have the required 3 MB, SimHealth may report
that you do not have enough free memory. If this is the case,
your best alternative is to create a boot disk as outlined
on page 6 of the SimHealth DOS Addendum/Quick Start Guide.
Running With QEMM, EMM386 And Other Memory Managers
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If you are using MS-DOS 5 and load EMM386.EXE, you must not use
the 'noems' switch. An alternative to is to use 'frame=none'.
This prevents page frames from being allocated while leaving
EMS and VCPI interfaces active. See your DOS manual for
information on how to do this.
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Creating A Boot Disk With Stacker/DoubleSpace
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Stacker version 3.0 and earlier require certain drivers to be loaded in
the CONFIG.SYS file in order to mount the compressed hard drive. When
creating a boot disk with Stacker 3.0 and earlier you must include two
lines in the CONFIG.SYS file. The exact path is dependent upon where
you installed Stacker on your hard disk, but here we will provide the
path for the default installation of Stacker. The two lines needed in
your CONFIG.SYS file are:
DEVICE=C:\STACKER\STACKER.COM C:\STACVOL.DSK
DEVICE=C:\STACKER\SSWAP.COM C:\STACVOL.DSK
These lines will load Stacker and mount your compressed drive when
booting from the boot disk.
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DoubleSpace and Stacker 3.1 do not require that lines be added in the
CONFIG.SYS file as they copy hidden files to the boot disk when using
the "SYS A:" or "FORMAT A: /S" command. Make a boot disk according to
the normal instructions regarding creating a boot disk in your SimHealth
addeundum. If you do not feel comfortable creating a boot disk under
Stacker or DoubleSpace, contact STAC Electronics or Microsoft
for technical support.
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V. TROUBLESHOOTING
SimHealth Locks Up
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This is more than likely the result of a conflict between SimHealth
and a memory-resident program that is being loaded in your AUTOEXEC.BAT
or CONFIG.SYS files. The best solution to this is to create a boot disk
as outlined in the addendum. If this does not help, try running the
INSTALL program in the SimHealth directory and selecting No Sound
Effects. If this doesn't help, call Maxis Technical Support at the
number listed on the SimHealth System/Reference card included in
your SimHealth box.
SimHealth Install Program Crashes
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This is also probably a conflict with a loaded memory resident program.
Try making a boot disk as per the addendum. Ignore the "Bad Command or
Filename" message that appears when using the boot disk for
installation. Also try running the INSTALL program with no mouse driver
loaded. See your mouse manual for information on disabling the mouse.
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I Get A "Microsoft Compatible Mouse Not Found" Message
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This message is usually the result of one of two problems. Most likely,
a mouse driver has not been loaded. SimHealth needs a DOS mouse
driver to run (as opposed to a Microsoft Windows mouse driver). This
driver along with instructions on how to load it should have come with
your mouse. The less likely problem is that the mouse driver is being
correctly loaded, but it is an older version that is not supported. You
should contact the manufacturer (or dealer) of your mouse to get a more
up-to-date mouse driver.
[CLS]
A text file, GLOSSARY.TXT, containing a glossary of health care terms
has been placed in your SimHealth directory.
Thanks for buying SimHealth.
We hope you enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed creating it!
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GLOSSARY OF HEALTH CARE WORDS AND TERMS
ACUTE CARE provides treatments, for a limited
duration, of existing diseases, ailments and injuries.
ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS (overhead) are the
non-medical expenses for health care providers,
including billing, office expenses, etc.
AUTONOMY is the amount of freedom the health
care provider has in choosing the treatment, tests,
surgery, etc.
BENEFITS are payments made by a health
insurance company to a patient or health
care provider to cover some or all of the costs
of medical care.
CANADIAN SYSTEM is Canada's national
health insurance system. It is a single-payer
system where the government assumes the
responsibilities of the insurance provider.
CAPITATION is a payment method used by
HMOs where the physician or hospital is paid
a fixed amount per patient per year for
treatment.
CO-INSURANCE is the percentage of health care
costs that are not covered by medical insurance
and must be paid by the patient.
COMMUNITY RATING is when insurance
companies calculate medical coverage
premiums on statistics for the general
geographic area.
COORDINATED CARE is a system where
hospitals in an area are required to
coordinate the availability of special,
expensive treatments and equipment.
DEFICIT is the government's total annual
deficit (the difference between taxes taken
in and spending).
ENTITLEMENTS are government benefits,
including health care benefits, that are paid
to all qualified individuals. These include
Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and
food stamps.
EXPERIENCE RATING is when insurance
companies calculate medical coverage
premiums based on an individual's or a
group's medical history.
FEE FOR SERVICE is a billing service
where health care providers charge patients
for a specific service.
GDP is the nation's gross domestic product (the
value of goods and services produced in the U.S.).
HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) is a
prepaid health care plan where an individual
pays the HMO a certain fee on a monthly or
yearly basis, and in turn receives treatment
from staff or affiliated physicians. The purpose
of HMOs is to control health care costs through
a system of managed care. There are a number
of variations within the definition of HMO. See
HMO-IPA and HMO-STAFF.
HMO-IPA is a low-level managed form of HMO,
where independent physicians who also see
outside-the-HMO patients are contracted to
treat the HMO's patients on a fixed per capita
basis.
HMO-STAFF is the most managed form of HMO,
where all physicians are salaried employees of
the HMO.
HOSPICE is a facility or program intended to
provide a caring environment to meet the
physical and emotional needs of terminally
ill patients.
LONG TERM CARE provides care for chronic
illnesses that are not currently curable,
including care that requires 24-hour supervision
in a hospital or nursing home.
MALPRACTICE is a dereliction of duty or failure to
exercise an accepted degree of professional skill
or learning by a physician, which leads to injury,
loss or damage.
MANAGED CARE is where the primary care
provider acts as a gatekeeper to control health
care costs.
MEDICAID is the U.S. and state health insurance
program for the poor. It pays health care benefits
to those who are below the poverty line.
MEDICAL EXPENSES are the total amount of
money paid by businesses or individual citizens
for health care, including taxes, insurance
premiums and co-payments.
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY PROVIDERS are
companies that specialize in producing new
medical equipment, treatments and cures.
MEDICARE is the federal health insurance
program for citizens 65 and above.
NATIONAL HEALTH CARE is the term used to
refer to a health care insurance system that
covers all citizens and various residents.
NON-TRADITIONAL CARE is any type of
medical care that is outside the mainstream
of traditional Western medicine. It includes
chiropractors, herbalists, Christian Science
practitioners, faith healers, witch doctors, and
many other treatments with varying degrees of
scientific justification.
PAYOUTS are the amount of money paid by the
insurance companies to health care providers.
PREMIUMS are the cost of obtaining health
insurance.
PREVENTIVE CARE provides procedures to
reduce or eliminate the occurrence of disease
in future years.
PRIMARY CARE is the first line of care people
receive from doctors, nurse practitioners and
physician's assistants. It includes regular
checkups and preventive care as well as
non-emergency treatment of serious ailments
and injuries.
RATE BASE is the way insurance companies
use statistics to compute how much they
charge for medical coverage premiums.
See Experience Rating and Community Rating.
RATIONING, also called the Oregon Plan, is
a system that limits the amount of health care
that a person can receive. Medical procedures
and conditions are ranked from helping the
most people at the lowest cost at one end to
helping the least people at the highest cost
at the other. A line is drawn somewhere in
that ranking to separate the procedures and
conditions that are covered from those that
aren't.
SINGLE-PAYER SYSTEM is a universal
coverage plan where the government takes
on the role of the insurance industry and
collects insurance premiums and pays the
health care providers.
UNINSURED are the citizens who cannot
afford health insurance, but are above the
poverty line so they aren't covered by
Medicaid and are too young to be covered
by Medicare. There are currently 35,000,000
uninsured citizens in the U.S.
UNIVERSAL COVERAGE is a national decree
that all citizens in the country will be covered
in some way by health insurance, whether they
can afford to pay for their premiums or not.
