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Frequently Asked
Questions This FAQ is completely free though not public domain. I hereby declare I have no right at all to stop anyone from posting this text if I ever lose the ability or desire to post it by myself. The only thing I require is that I be allowed to institute a bureaucratic and over-blown process for maintaining this essentially simple document, and that you all bow down and pay homage at the altar of my question-and-answering supremacy. Gaze upon my FAQ ye mighty and despair! This FAQ may be redistributed in its entirety in any form on any medium, except fish sticks. Or jelly.
No. No. YES. Our very own on-line retail emporium Windows 95 CD-ROM. Yes. Nope. Yes! Or rather, yes, it works until you install Service Pack 2, which upgrades the Cinepak® Codec to a special non-working version. The solution is to download Cinepak version 1.10.0.11 from the wonderful folks at Providenza & Boekelheide, who wrote the codec in the first place. Copy the DLL from the zip file into the Starship Titanic program file folder, and you're done! Yes. We'd like to thank all our loyal Mac users for their patience above and beyond the call, and are overjoyed to announce that the game was released for the Mac on 15th March this year. (You can even buy the game right here on the Starship Titanic Online Shop. To reward your long wait, there's a special offer only with the Mac version: a FREE Official Strategy Guide Book). During the development of the Mac version, we took quite a bit of flak for the delay. Here's Douglas's response. The first room of the game alone requires 30MB of data, and that's before we let you do any puzzles or conversation. What do you think?
Either (a) Minimum 100MHz Pentium-class processor, 133MHz or greater recommended. 16 MB RAM 160 MB available hard disk space 16-bit colour capable video card (100% compatible with DirectX(R) 5.0) 16-bit sound cards (100% compatible with DirectX(R) 5.0) 4X speed CD-ROM drive Or (b) 120MHz PowerPC Mac (180MHz recommended) running MacOS 7.5 or later 32Mb RAM Display capable of at least 640 by 480 in thousands of colours 160 MB available hard disk space 4X speed CD-ROM drive 4x CD-ROM drive ST has been tested with a wide range of graphics cards, and has only failed to run on the following card(s): Note that there was a problem with some video cards causing ST to quit back to the desktop almost immediately, sometimes displaying a warning dialog about DirectX - see patches for details. No. The sound is an essential part of the game, and ST will refuse to run without sound support as described in 2.1. No. To ensure the best possible graphics quality, ST requires a 16 bit display. The game will refuse to run if your system does not support 16 bit screen displays. Yes. Starship Titanic makes serious demands on the processor. A lower-spec machine would offer reduced performance and hence seriously compromise gameplay. The game refuses to install on a machine with a 486/68K processor or lower. Note that there was a problem with Cyrix 6x86 processors - see patches for details. 160Mbytes is the minimum installation. This figure was chosen to reduce the amount of CD swapping during gameplay. Choosing the medium installation (500Mbytes (PC), 550Mbyte(Mac)) further reduces the need to swap CDs, while full install (1.3G) eliminates the necessity altogether. Note that there was a problem with Medium installs of the Mac version - see patches for details. No. That is a very silly thing to do. No. Starship Titanic uses a point-and-click-and-type interface.
No. If you want spoilers, see the Strategy Guide. Douglas writes: "Hardly at all! Well, it's the same basic situation, but the book is no guide to the game or vice versa." To make you laugh. To board the Starship Titanic, upgrade to 1st class, repair the ship and return to earth. To discover the sequence of events that caused the ship to crash in the first place. By engaging the 'bots in conversation, and solving logic puzzles. Summon a bot and ask for help. No - that wouldn't be much fun. Nothing you do will prevent you from completing the game. If you're stuck with a particular puzzle, you can often leave it, and move on to something else - or ask one of the characters for help. If you lose something, you can always find it again. We promise :-) Yes - but you can't die in the game, so you don't need to worry about saving the game before experimenting. Saved games are approx. 100K - quite small enough to be emailed, if you fancy showing off to other ST players having solved a particular puzzle. Ask the Parrot!
You, or someone close to you, or someone not at all close to you that you've never met, or someone you met, invited to your place if they were ever in the area, but have long since forgotten, filled your email address in the box on http://www.starshiptitanic.com/smalform.html Because the kids need new shoes. Unplug your computer. Please consult your hardware vendor for details. Send a message from the same account that you're receiving them at, with 'Remove' as the first word of the subject line. Or the first word of the message body. Or both. Take a wild guess. For your Comfort And Safety. Because of the reason.
It's the employee-only Intranet of Star-Struct LLC, the subsidiary of Starlight Lines Corp., which built the fabulous Starship Titanic. Until recently it was closed to the public but now, thanks to the gracious benevolence of its creators, it can be thoroughly browsed by any old pleb at http://www.starlightlines.com. We hope not - we spent hours on it. It's very easy to say that, but spare a thought for the men, women and reborzos who gave their pelts for the construction of these finely-crafted html pages. No. Yes. I don't know - what did you do? That's not a question. No.
Chew them with your molars, avoiding use of your tongue, thereby overcoming the problem of premature dehydration. Ask your father. Get out of my office and let me do some work. See 6.3. Where you left them last. The thirty-nine steps is a netwoaagghhhhhh.....
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