

                      Birthright PATCH
                          README 1.0.0.2
                          8/22/97

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                      TABLE OF CONTENTS

                   I] WHAT THE PATCH FIXES
                  II] HOW TO INSTALL THE PATCH
                 III] ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
                  IV] IF YOU STILL EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS

I] WHAT THE PATCH FIXES
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  1. The multi-player game will access character data files from the CD
    only. This will prevent multi-player games from getting out of sync
    and crashing when one or more players have edited characters using
    the Birthright Character Editor Tool.
  2. The Turn Undead spell will be fixed so that it only effects the undead,
    rather than all foes.
  3. Having a regent die in an adventure will no longer end the game.
   If any of the adventure characters survive, they will lug back the
   corpse of the hapless regent and have it resurrected. It may cost
   you a bunch (gold, regency, and bloodline strength), but the regent
   can be revived and the game continues.
  4. The LISTEN feature in chat did not work correctly. If you set it
   so that you would only listen to chat from player 3, for instance,
   it actually only listened to player 2.
  5. Often, while playing multi-player, a wait cursor would appear while
   other players were interacting with NPCs. While that was up, you could
   neither scroll around, nor chat, even though your computer should have
   been idle and able to do those functions. This has been greatly improved
   so you can scroll the map, check unit and holding status, or chat
   with other players whenever you are waiting on an opponent to finish
   up his turn.
  6. When the source potential of a province declines, any sources in
   that province should decrease as well to stay within the province
   source potential limit.  This has been fixed.
  7. If you are in a multi-player game, you should never minimize your
   game window as the game then does not talk to the host and will be
   disconnected. To prevent this, we removed the minimize button from
   the title bar. But, if you go into DirectDraw (full-screen) mode,
   then back to windowed mode, the minimize button re-appeared, enabling
   the other problem.

OK, this one is pretty obscure, but we fixed it anyway.
  8. When the Gorgon "dies", his message about "I'll be back." (shades
   of Arnold the Terminator?) had some garbage characters in it. We fixed it.
  9. Several non-landed organizations did not have the correct loyalty
   levels towards certain realms. For instance, the Western Imperial Temple
   should like Tuornen more and Ruarch Rockhammer should be more
   favorably inclined to Baruk Azhik than to other realms.
  10. The prompt to memorize spells before going on an adventure will
   be more prominent.
  11. The Coffer of the Realm should add d6+4%
  12. Vassal troops visiting your provinces caused those provinces to be
   treated as occupied, reducing their tax and loyalty levels.  This was
   fixed.
  13. Meteor Storm spell did not work on the battlefield.  This was fixed.
  14. Units can retreat from a battle either out of or into a warded
   province, ignoring the ward in that case.  This was fixed.
  15. The Chalice of the Dead could summon infinite skeletons if it was
   used before any other domain action during a turn.  This was fixed.
  16. The Legion Of The Dead spell should generate one skeleton per
   level over 6 for magic users. That is, a 7th level mage can make 1 and
   a 10th level mage can make 3, etc.
  17. When a lieutenant action is used for an adventure, it used up a
   domain action.  This was fixed.
  18. Even if you have enough memory, high-res animations and textures
   were not being displayed during adventures. This was fixed. The table
   on page 2 of your user's manual should now include one additional line.
   If you have 40 Meg or more of RAM and are running the Win95
   game, you will see the highest resolution images for both wall
   textures and animations.
   19. There were several fixes to the memory manager code that would
   prevent disk thrashing while battles were occurring with large stacks
   on both sides.  In those cases, the battlefield display would slow
   to a crawl. It could have also lead to a erratic and difficult to
   reproduce game crashes during battles.  A rare bug, but now fixed.
  21. There was a bug with the string handler that could lead to intermittent
   and unpredictable crashes, most often when running the game under
   Windows NT. This was fixed.
  22. That door in Bindier that had the switch on the wrong side of the
   door - fixed.
  23. Playing multi-player mode with different versions of the game
   (demo vs release gamer for instance) would cause the game to crash.
   This has now been dis-allowed.
  24. THACO numbers were incorrect for several units. These were fixed.
  25.  The Scepter of Cuiraecen didn't have a single charge on it for
   adventures, this has been fixed.
  26.  Shooting a wand with a charge on it from the "use" button instead
   of from the hot box doesn't decrement the number of charges on it.
   This was fixed.
  27.  Some blood abilities were not available during adventures. Travel
   now allows one teleport per adventure visit. Enhanced sense provides
   3 detect evils to those with Anduiras derivation. Other bloodlines
   get infravision. The Heal blood ability allows healings (minor
   ability = 1 healing, major = 2 healings and great = 3 healings per
   adventure). The Fear blood ability will act like a stun spell.
   Protection from evil now works.
  28. Time based adventure elements (lift movement and damage, duration
   spells, HP being regained, etc.) do not continue to occur while you
   are waiting in turn-based mode. They stop accruing when animations
   are not moving.
  29. Players now accrue experience for realm actions, per the table in
   the on-line help on this subject.


II] HOW TO INSTALL THE PATCH
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1. From the A: prompt type the command   BRDOSPT.EXE  and press <ENTER>.
2. When asked "Would you like to extract this file?" type  Y  and press
   <ENTER>.
3. If you have to installed to the default directory (C:\SIERRA\BIRTHRT)
   press <ENTER> when you see the line "Target directory:[c:\Sierra\Birthrt]".
   If you have NOT installed to the default, type in the complete path to
   the game directory, and press <ENTER>.
4. You will now see 8 files decompress into the game directory.  Once this
   has completed, the game has been successfully installed.

To verify that the patch was installed correctly, make sure the following
files are copied to the game directory:

Nova.EXE
STRDAT.DAT
\Wads\bindi_mw.wad
\Wads\lofto_mw.wad

These files will over write existing files.

III] ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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If you haven't installed the DOS version, the NOVA.EXE program will not run.
If you haven't installed the Win95 version, the WINBR.EXE will not run.
Use the SETUP or INSTALL off of the Birthright CD-ROM to install these
products.

The patched version of Birthright will not be compatible with the non-patched
version when playing multi-player and should not be attempted.



IV] IF YOU STILL EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS
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If you continue to experience any problems, or if you have any questions
concerning any of the above steps, our Technical Support Team will be more
than happy to assist you.  Please call (206) 644-4343 between 8:15 a.m. and
4:45 p.m., Pacific Standard Time, Monday through Friday.  We can be reached
by Fax at (206) 644-7697, or by mail at the following address:

U.S. Technical Support
Sierra On-Line			 Phone: (206) 644-4343
Technical Support                Monday - Friday, 8:15 a.m. - 4:45 p.m. PST
P.O. Box 85006			 Fax: (206) 644-7697
Bellevue, WA 98015-8506 

Sierra On-Line offers a 24-hour Automated Technical Support line with
recorded answers to the most frequently asked technical questions. To
access this service, call (206) 644-4343, and follow the recorded
instructions to find your specific topic and resolve the issue. If
this fails to solve your problem, you may still write, or fax us with
your questions, or contact us via BBS.


U.K. Technical Support
Sierra On-Line Limited		 Phone: (0118) 920-9111
2 Beacontree Plaza		 Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Gillette Way			 Fax:   (0118) 987-5603
Reading, Berkshire 
RG2 0BS United Kingdom
(Disk/CD replacements in the U.K. are £6.00, or £7.00 outside the UK.
Add "ATTN.: Returns."

France
Parc Tertiaire de Meudon     Téléphone: 01-46-01-46-50
Immeuble "Le Newton"         Support Technique automatisé 7 jours sur 7 24h/24
25 rue Jeanne Braconnier     Techniciens accessibles du Lundi au Vendredi 
92366 Meudon La Forêt Cedex	 de 10h à 19h
France				 Fax: 01-46-30-00-65

Germany
Sierra Coktel Deutschland	 Phone: (0610) 399-4040
Robert-Bosh-Str. 32		 Montag bis Freitag von 9Uhr - 19Uhr 
D-63303 Dreieich			 Fax: (0610) 399-4035
Deutschland				 Mailbox: (0610) 399-4041

Spain
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Avenida de Burgos 9            Lunes a Viernes de 9h30 a 14h y de 15h a 18h30
1º-OF2                         Fax: (01) 381-2437
28036 Madrid  Spain

Italy
Contattare il vostro distribotore

Technical Support via modem is also available through:
CompuServe USA: 			 GO SIERRA
CompuServe United Kingdom: 	 GO UKSIERRA
CompuServe France: 		 GO FRSIERRACompuServe Germany: 		 GO DESIERRA
America Online USA: 		 Keyword Sierra
Email USA: 				 support@sierra.com
Internet USA: 			 http://www.sierra.com
Internet United Kingdom:	 http://www.sierra-online.co.uk
Internet France:			 http://www.sierra.fr
Internet Germany:			 http://www.sierra.de

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DISK/DOCO REPLACEMENT:			PRODUCT RETURNS:

Sierra On-Line Fulfillment		Sierra On-Line Returns
PO Box 485					PO Box 485
Coarsegold, CA.     93614		Coarsegold, CA.      93614

NOTE: To replace your disk(s) please send only Disk #1 (or the CD) and
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please include a $5.00 handling fee and a photocopy ONLY of disk #1.
Payment should be made at the time of your request.  Sorry, no credit cards.

United Kingdom
Sierra On-Line Limited		 Main: (0118) 920-9111
2 Beacontree Plaza		 Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Gillette Way			 Fax:  (0118) 987-5603
Reading, Berkshire 
RG2 0BS United Kingdom
(Disk/CD replacements in the U.K. are £6.00, or £7.00 outside the UK.)
Add "ATTN.: Returns."

France
Parc Tertiaire de Meudon	 Téléphone: (01) 46-01-48-53
Immeuble "Le Newton"		 Lundi au Vendredi de 9h à 18h 
25 rue Jeanne Braconnier	 Fax: (01) 46-30-00-65
92366 Meudon La Forêt Cedex 
France

Germany
Sierra Coktel Deutschland 	 Tel.: (0) 6103-99-40-40
Robert-Bosh-Str. 32		 Montag bis Freitag von 9Uhr - 19Uhr 
D-63303 Dreieich			 Fax: (0) 6103-99-40-35
Deutschland

On-Line Sales
CompuServe USA:			 GO SI (CServe Mall)
CompuServe United Kingdom:	 GO UKSIERRA
CompuServe France:		 GO FRSIERRA
CompuServe Germany:		 GO DESIERRA
America Online:			 Keyword Sierra
Internet:                      http://www.sierra.com
Internet:                      http://www.sierra-online.co.uk
Internet:                      http://www.sierra.fr
Internet:                      http://www.sierra.de
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U.S. Hints:

1-900-370-5583
$.75 per minute (must be 18 years or older, or have parental permission).
You may also contact Direct Sales to inquire whether a hint book is available
for your product.

On-Line Hints:
Access Sierra's BBS through CompuServe by typing GO SIERRA
Access the Sierra Forum on America On Line with the keyword: SIERRA

Hint Line, Canada:
1-900-451-3356

Hint Line, France:
08-36-68-46-50 (hint line)
2,23F TTC la minute; tariff en vigueur au 1 juillet 1996. (France
métropolitaine seulement)

Hint Line, United Kingdom:
Old Games Hint Line:		(0118) 920-9109
New Programs hint line:		(0891) 660-660 (within the UK only)

New Sierra Hint Line:
For adventure programs released after January 1st, 1993.  Charged 50p/minute
at all times.  Maximum call length 7.5 minutes.  Maximum charge is £3.75.
Must have permission of the person who pays the phone bill before calling.
Line available in the UK only. Requires a touch tone phone.

Old Sierra Hint Line:
For adventure games released up to December 31st, 1992.  Calls are charged
at normal telephone rates. Requires a touch tone phone, 24 hour line.

Hint Line, Deutschland:
0190 - 515 616(hint line)
Kosten: 1,20 DM pro Minute (Nur in Deutschland verfügbar) 24Std. /Tag 

Hint Line, Italy:
Contattare il vostro distribotore

Hint Line, Spain:
Coktel Educative Multimedia    Teléfono: (01) 383-2623
Avenida de Burgos 9            Lunes a Viernes de 9h30 a 14h y de 15h a 18h30
1º-OF2	 			 
28036 Madrid  Spain

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