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There are three sections:
Macintosh Questions, PC Questions, and General Questions.
Macintosh Questions
My mouse cursor shows up during the game, and it's really distracting. How can I get rid of it?
This seems to be a new problem under System 8.5.1, and I just bought an
iMac, so I'll work on fixing it. On My iMac, it seems to be related to
the taskbar - whenever the mouse goes over the taskbar, it appears. So,
making the taskbar small and moving it away from Snood's window seem to
help. If you do get the cursor to show up, you may be able to get rid of
the cursor by either (1) pausing the game and un-pausing it (hit command-P
twice) or (2) switching the game to Total Control mode under the Game
Preferences under the Preferences menu.
Snood is pretty slow on my Mac. How can I speed it up?
Snood is set to use a reasonable amount of free memory. It should work fine on most 68040 and PPC Macs set to
256 colors (see "Out of Memory" error below). It may run more slowly on other 68K Macs, such as the IICX,
IICI, IISI, and the LC III. Some users report slightly choppy play on 68040 and PPC Macs, however, and
report that setting Snood's memory allotment (use "Get Info" on Snood in the Finder) to about 5 megabytes
smooths things out. If you are noticing some small slow periods in game play on a newer Mac, try giving
Snood a bit more memory and see if that helps.
Snood crashes a lot on my PowerMac 7200. Why?
One user reported that Snood was conflicting with an extension called 7200
Graphics Acceleration. Turning that off seems to solve the problem with
Snood.
Why am I getting an "Out of Memory" message?
If you run Snood at high screen depths, you may get a message telling you that Snood is out of memory and
needs an increase. To do this, select Snood in the Finder and pick "Get Info" from the file menu. Then add the
appropriate amount of memory to the "preferred" box. Under 256 colors, Snood needs only about four
megabytes. Under thousands of colors, Snood needs about six megabytes. My monitor won't do millions of
colors, but a few more megabytes should work. Snood at thousands or millions of colors won't look any
different from 256 colors.
Why is Snood behaving strangely?
If you have any other problems with Snood (freezes, odd behavior) during game play, try putting Snood in
"Total Control" mode (under Game Preferences in the Preferences Menu). This mode is more stable than
"Background Friendly" mode. If you're using system 7.5 on a PowerPC, you may also need this
extension.
PC Questions
WINDOWS BETA VERSION - If you're using the Windows version, there have been two major complaints - one that the Snoods are sometimes invisible, and another that the window is too darn tiny to see anything. Those questions are addressed on the PC SNOOD PAGE (Click here to go there).DOS VERSION - If you're using the DOS version there is quite a bit of information in the README.TXT file, so check there. You can also run Snood with several special configurations from a DOS prompt. Here are the options you can use. Just type them after "Snood" on a MS-DOS prompt command line from within your Snood directory.
nomouse Keyboard only nosound Run without sound 800 Set screen size to 800x600 1024 Set screen size to 1024x768 vesa1 Use VESA 1.x driver vesa2B Use VESA 2.0 binary driver vesa2L Use VESA 2.0 linear driver sb SoundBlaster card (autodetect type) sb10 SoundBlaster 1.0 sb15 SoundBlaster 1.5 sb20 SoundBlaster 2.0 sb16 SoundBlaster 16 sbpro SoundBlaster ProFor example, to run Snood with the keyboard only, without sound, and with the simplest VESA driver, type this at the command line:
snood nomouse nosound vesa1
How can I get my scores and registration code from beta version 0.9 into version 2.1?
If you want to keep
your high scores with this new version, just copy the file called
"snoodprf.200" from your old Snood directory into your new Snood
directory. If you installed into the default directories, the old version
will be in
c:\snood
and the new version will be in
c:\program files\snood
General Questions
Why does Snood call me a thief? That's really rude.
The voice at the beginning is actually saying Please!, not Thief!
I would never insult users that way, but many people seem to hear it as Thief! regardless.
Where did you get the name Snood?
I was looking for a silly-sounding non-trademarked name, and one of my friends had named his fantasy football team "Snood Trunion"
(for no apparent reason). So, the word Snood stuck in my head, and it seemed appropriate for the game. The word actually refers
either to a hair garment popular in the middle ages (and the 1940's) or to a turkey part.
This seems kind of
cheap to me, but I don't want to get in people's way if they want to play
in this manner. This technique works fine for the Child, Easy, and Medium
levels, but it gets difficult on the Hard and Evil levels. Journey mode
prevents people from doing this. If you hear a spooky voice say "End It
Now!", you've taken too long!
It also turns out that there are a couple of bugs that allow people to
cheat and get higher scores, one on the Mac version and one on the PC
version. As I hear of these, I'll prevent them. If you report one of
these that I haven't heard of yet, I'll give you a free registration code
for Snood.
How do people get those astronomically high scores on the score page? Are they cheating?
For the really high scores, I think people are just not trying to win.
They build up big chains of Snoods and then drop them, over and over again
until they get bored and finally finish the game.