Midnight Mansion Read Me
By Vern Jensen
Version 1.0.3,  October 4, 2005
ActionSoft <www.actionsoft.com>


What Is Midnight Mansion?

As Jack Malone, fearless adventurer, you will explore eight huge mansions, each filled with traps, puzzles, and secrets, as you search for legendary treasure. Ride on conveyor belts, avoid zapper beams, and dodge monsters as you collect keys that give you access to new areas of each mansion.

Midnight Mansion features rich 32-bit graphics, original sound effects, and professional quality music, bringing you a fusion of the best of classic gaming and modern technology. If you enjoyed timeless platformers such as Dark Castle and Prince of Persia, you'll love Midnight Mansion!


Features

¥ A fun tutorial mansion to get you right into the game
¥ Over 750 rooms to explore in eight giant mansions
¥ A wide variety of unique and challenging monsters
¥ Non-violent gameplay so the whole family can enjoy the game
¥ Spine-tingling original sound effects and pro-quality music
¥ A suspend game feature that allows you to step away from the game at any time and come back to it exactly where you left off
¥ Fluid 60fps animation to keep the action intense
¥ Multiple user accounts so that everyone in the family can easily keep track of
their own progress
¥ Online high scores allow you to compete with other players
¥ Record movies of each game that are so tiny, you can easily email them to friends
¥ A fully featured mansion builder so that you can create your own levels


Requirements

¥ Any PowerPC Macintosh [G3 or higher strongly recommended] 
¥ Mac OS 9.1 with CarbonLib 1.6, or Mac OS X 10.1.5 and higher 
¥ Minimum of 15 MB of free RAM 
¥ Display capable of thousands or millions of colors, 640x480 or higher 
¥ Quicktime 4.0 or newer 


Registering Midnight Mansion

You can play Midnight Mansion for free, but you will only be able to play limited portions of two mansions. Once you register, you will get access to all eight mansions. You will also be able to submit high scores to the internet, and be able to create your own mansions using the included level editor. (You can try the editor before registering, but you won't be able to save.) 

Midnight Mansion costs $20. To register, visit our website:

http://www.actionsoft.com/mm/register.html

If you cannot register online, contact us at support@actionsoft.com and we will be happy to arrange an alternative method of payment.

A huge amount of work went into developing Midnight Mansion. Please don't pirate the game.


CarbonLib

If you are running MacOS 9.1 - 9.2.2, Midnight Mansion requires you to have CarbonLib 1.6 installed. If you do not have CarbonLib 1.6, you can use the Software Update Control Panel to download and install it automatically, or you may use the following link:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120047


Performance

If the game is "choppy," quit all other open programs. Sometimes apparently simple programs can slow down the whole system, even when those programs aren't doing a thing. If quitting ALL open programs doesn't help, try turning off Virtual Memory (on MacOS 9) and restarting.

Sometimes things beyond your control can cause the animation to stutter. If someone drops files off on your hard drive over a network connection, or Mail connects to a server, or anything Airport-related occurs, you can get choppy animation, to name just a few possible causes. When running on MacOS X, quit Mail before running Midnight Mansion. If Mail downloads new messages while you're playing, the animation will stutter.

You can also sometimes make the game run better by starting up in thousands of colors instead of millions. Generally, though, this only helps speed up a slow but steady animation, and won't help a choppy animation.



Contact

Website: www.actionsoft.com
Email: support@actionsoft.com


Distribution

Midnight Mansion is shareware, and may be distributed as such, under the condition that the software package is complete and unmodified in any way. Before distributing, be sure to check our website for the latest version.

If you review Midnight Mansion or ship it on CD, please let us know about it. Just drop us a line at support@actionsoft.com.


License

This software is provided "as is," and is therefore to be used at your own risk. ActionSoft makes no warranty, either expressed or implied, regarding the operation of this product. ActionSoft will not be held responsible for any damage to your system resulting from either direct or indirect use of this software.