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Downloading the Pacru software

Please read all these instructions before downloading

• 1) click on the "click here to download" link below, and download the zip file (ideally to a new directory/folder).
• 2) when it has downloaded (should be fairly quick on broadband (e.g. 7 seconds on a 10.0 Mpbs connection), may be rather slow on dial-up (e.g. about 5 mins on 33k) because it is 1 megabyte) then you can close your internet connection
• 3) Unzip the game: find the file (unless you chose a different name it will be pacru.zip) using find/search in windows and then double click on it. If you haven't got unzip software go onto the net and download it from a reliable source.
• 4) Extract the files - probably an icon in the unzip software. Unzip them to a new directory (if you created a new directory before you started the download, you can use that).

Once you have downloaded the game file and unzipped it

• 1) start up Internet Explorer without going on-line (if you get a dial-up box, then just cancel it, or choose work off-line)
• 2) in Internet Explorer go to FILE / OPEN / BROWSE and then work your way through to the folder where you have put the downloaded Pacru files
• 3) look for pacru\software\net.html - this should then come up in your browser offering you 2,3 or 4 player game (2 people side by side at computer) or a game against the basic computer machine. You should be able to go forward from there
• 4) you can add this to your favourites in the browser - then you can start it off quickly next time without going through steps 1,2,3 above
• 5) please note that if you have chosen "work off-line" in Internet Explorer it will probably be set that way next time you start it up - so some of you may need to click to turn off "work off-line" so that you get an internet connection.