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              T H E   S H A T T E R E D   K I N G D O M
               6 4 - B I T   I N S T A L L E R   F I X

           V E R S I O N   1 . 0   ( 2 0 1 3 - 1 0 - 1 4 )

1. Introduction
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This fix was made because it is sadly not possible to install the
original Knights and Merchants - The Shattered Kingdom game if you are
running a 64-bit operating system. This is because part of the installer
program is executing 16-bit operations which are no longer supported in
64-bit operating systems.

2. Compatiblity
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The fix as it is now works on most versions of The Shattered Kingdom
that are affected by this problem. This includes both demo versions and
retail versions of the game.

Sadly Polish versions of the game ARE NOT supported by this fix. This is
not because I didn't feel like creating a fix for the Poles, but because
it uses another installation program that I have been unsuccessful at
finding a fix for.

And just as a note, the official Russian version of the game as
localized by Snowball Interactive uses a more current version of the
installer software and Windows has a built in workaround which makes
these installers work on 64-bit systems despite the fact that there's
still 16-bit code that should be executed.

3. Installation
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There are two different installation scenarios depending on whether
you're looking to install the retail version of the game or a demo.

3.1 Retail Version
------------------
To use the fix when installing a retail version of the game, load up
your game CD and then navigate to the CD directory tree (right-click on
the CD icon in explorer and choose "Open"). Now you will have to locate
the "KM" folder and copy this very folder somewhere on your hard-drive.

Please note that the location you copy the folder to has to be
writeable!

After you have successfully done this, you need to take the file
"SETUP32.EXE" that is included in this archive and copy it over to the
"KM" directory you now have somewhere on your hard-drive.

At this point you are pretty much done; all you now need to do is to
launch the installer by running "SETUP32.EXE". Note that you might want
to right-click on the installer and choose "Run as administrator" to
avoid possible problems.

3.2 Demo Version
----------------
Demo versions are slightly more complicated to install, but the process
is quite similar nontheless. First you need to check if the demo version
is using a self-extracting .EXE archive. The demo versions 0.73, 0.91
and 0.92 use these. In case you have one of these, you need to first
extract the contents of this self-extracting archive by using WinZip or
WinRAR. Right clicking on the installer should give you an option to
extract the contents if you have an unzipping tool installed.

Now we have access to the actual installer and this is also the state in
which the later demo versions were distributed. Next up you want to
start the installer so that the actual installer files get extracted.
You will receive an error message that the installer can't run on 64-bit
systems, but don't click "OK" on the error message just yet. Instead you
will need to navigate to the folder that is specified in the error
message and copy the files that you find there to somewhere else on your
hard-drive.

Please note that the location you copy the folder to has to be
writeable!

After you have successfully done this, you need to take the file
"SETUP32.EXE" that is included in this archive and copy it over to the
directory to which you copied the demo installer files.

At this point you are pretty much done; all you now need to do is to
launch the installer by running "SETUP32.EXE". Note that you might want
to right-click on the installer and choose "Run as administrator" to
avoid possible problems.

4. Credits
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Special thanks go out to "SomeGuy" who wrote excellent instructions on
how to get past the installation problems over at:
http://www.reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10988

This little readme has been written by Litude.

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