Otherwise, this screen will not appear and you will be greeted with the game's main menu alongside Gustav Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War. After this time limit you will have to purchase the game in order to register an activation code necessary to turn the demo installation into the full version. If playing the demo, you'll first be greeted with Ambrosia's shareware screen notifying you of the demo's 30-day time limit.Due to the nature of the Windows port (basically identical to the Mac OS X version, itself a port of the Mac OS 9/earlier version, even down to menu composition) the rendering system tends to behave in weird ways at times and it may take a bit of tweaking to get the game running. If the game refuses to run, try running in compatibility mode for Windows XP Service Pack 2, disable visual themes and desktop composition and/or run as administrator. Choose an installation directory, shortcut creation, taskbar icon creation, etc. Install the demo/full game as per usual.I'd suggest you first test the game by installing the demo, to ensure that EV Nova is capable of running on your computer. Download the game (or demo) from Ambrosia Software's EVN page.If any duders want to chip in on cross-platform installation/retro support tips, I'd appreciate it! This guide unfortunately doesn't cover Mac OS X (or ostensibly Linux through Wine?) as this guide-writer does not have an Intel Mac, but one would assume installation is similar to that done with games on PowerPC Macs running Mac OS X manufactured up until late-2005.
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