Installation and Tips

Joan O Arc
 Tech Goddess
Joined: 05 Nov 2001
Location: USA
Posted: 16 Mar 2002 16:30 

Hi
Wow! I remember feeding quarters into a arcade machine to play this years ago.

I took a look at the version here - you'll have to run this oldie in pure DOS. Running it in a DOS box via Windows just won't do. Ran fine for me in DOS, no problems. What a blast from the past!

Just unzip the download to an empty directory on your hard drive. Might be best to keep the directory name length to 8 characters or less, just to be safe. (I used \qix).

*Don't* worry about unpacking the .LZH files. Just leave them be.

Run QIX.COM to start the game.

Here's a couple things not mentioned in the manual:

• Run SETUP.BAT to configure graphics, sound and input devices. I chose Adlib for sound and music ran fine, but I have a "legacy" card from the Sound Blaster family so it may not work on the Adlib setting for others. You may have to set sound "off" if you encounter problems.
• and some keys:
  
  • F1 = Toggles Pause off/on
  • F3 = Toggles sound
  • F9 = Back to the Title Screen
  • F10 = Quit

Hope this helps you out.
Deb

Protection Codes

bill22 
Registered User
Posts: 822
(6/2/01 3:04:29 am)

There was a post saying that the link to the codes was down.

So here they are...

I found this somewhere that I don't remember.

"what are the names of the, "the big qwirk, the yellow qwirk, red qwirk, and any other qwirk out there. I lost the box and the manuals to my cd and in order to get into the game I have to answer the question on what the name is for one of the qwirks. Thank you, Lance"

"red-scarlotta blue-mundi green-verdi yellow-purtill purple-hays big-biglow pet-cosmo clear-ollog there are the names of all the qwirk's hope it helps...."