Black & White(TM) Readme File
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A message from the Lionhead team (6am January 23rd 2003).

Thank you for buying Black & White. We spent three years writing this game and it is, we believe, unlike anything else you will have ever played. It is everything we hoped it would be, and contains all the features we thought a ground-breaking game should have. We hope that you enjoy playing as much as we've enjoyed working on it. In fact, we hope you enjoy it more than that because there have been times when it's pushed us to our very limits. Making this game, we found out who we really were. We hope that, as you play, you'll find out who YOU really are. Please do look at this readme document. It'll enhance your enjoyment of what we hope is an incredible game to play.

This latest patch will add a whole new element of gameplay in Black & White. It focuses around the use and control of a new PC interface device called the P5 from Essential Reality. You can learn more about it at www.essentialreality.com. It allows the gamer to play the game via the use of a virtual reality glove interface device. You literally can be the hand of god!

Thank you.

All at Lionhead Studios Ltd.

For playing tips, check out the official Black & White game website at http://www.bwgame.com

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1. Minimum PC Configuration
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Processor - 350 MHz Intel® Pentium® II MMX processor
Memory - 64 Mb RAM
HDD Space - 600 Mb free hard disk space
Operating System - Windows® 95/98/ME/2000
CD ROM Speed - 4x CD-ROM drive
Videocard - (PCI/AGP) 8Mb 3D Hardware Accelerator Card with Direct3D(TM) support
Soundcard - DirectX 7.0a compliant sound card
DirectX - DirectX 7.0a (supplied with CD)
Peripherals - USB 1.1 compliant motherboard

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2. Installation of Patch
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Note: Black & White will only install and run on machines installed with Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME or Windows 2000.

1. Start your machine and wait for the Windows 95/98/ME/2000 operating system to load.

2. Place the Black & White CD in the CD drive.

3. Windows will automatically detect the CD and begin the installation. Follow the on-screen instructions to install Black & White. If you need to install DirectX 7.0a, you can do this as part of the installation. Black & White will then be ready to play.

4. The installation program creates a program group called Lionhead Studios Ltd and adds it to your Start/Programs menu. Left-click on the Start button on your Windows task bar. Under Programs/Lionhead Studios Ltd, select and click Black & White to play.

5. Next, execute the patch by double clicking on the patch program. The patch will automatically detect the installed version of B&W and perform the necessary upgrades.

Note: Should Windows fail to recognize the CD and fail to run the installation program, run Setup.exe from the root directory of the CD.