
If you follow these instructions, you should be able to play Petz 3
on your machine, provided that you have an operating system that
supports it.  It may not be perfect, but it works better than trying
to get the player-petz demo to work with new browsers.

Download the Petz3exe.zip from the Mad Scientist page.  I will assume
that you have chosen to put it on Drive D in a directory called Petz3.

Unpack the p3foolerstuff, included in this zipfile, into that directory
D:\Petz3
You should then see a .dll file in there, as well as a bunch of clothes.
(.clo files) The clothes are needed for some breedfiles.  The .dll file
should go into a directory which you will have to make, called Resource
D:\Petz3\Resource
and the .clo files go into another new directory, off that one, called Clothes
D:\Petz3\Resource\Clothes

Download and install the "Easy-edit Case, AC door, and mice etc for petz 3"
from the Tutorials, Petz-specific page, under Scene/toy/clo.  Follow the 
included instructions carefully to install.

Now download and install the files from the two pages Catz in dogz 3
and Dogz in catz 3.  You need:
Basic Cat behaviours for Petz 3 English and International versions (4.8 megabytes)  
Small cut-down Catz Rez file for Petz 3 English 
Basic Dog behaviours for Petz 3 English and International versions (4.35 megabytes) 
Small cut-down Dogz Rez file for Petz 3 English 
Follow the included instructions carefully to install.

Now you need four particular playscenes.  Grab the Adoption Centre, Family Room, 
Toy Closet, and Clothes Closet easy-edit kits from my Tutorials, Petz page, under 
Scene/toy/clo. These four are essentials.  Install them as per the instructions.

Other scenes are available, including my Kitchen Easy-edit kit.  You don't need any 
of them but it's nice to have them, isn't it.

Toyz are not needed for the game to run, but they are fun of course :-)
Make a Toyz directory off your game's Resource directory, and download
toyz from the few sites that have 'em, including mine.

Clothes also in general are not needed for the game to run, but some
breedz require items of clothing to be in place or they will crash the game
when some variations come out of the Adoption Centre.  Seems daft, but it's so.  
The chihuahua and Poodle need the pink sweater, the Chinchilla persian requires 
the pink bow, and the Scottie requires the Plaid Sweater.  The Bulldog needs
a bunch of sweaters. You will find all those in my "fooler".  If you want other 
clothes, there are plenty available for download, I'm sure.

And finally, breedz.  You can't adopt a pet without a breed, but there
are plenty online to choose from.  And if you want a set of the original
breeds, well hey, various sites have backups of original breedfiles
for the convenience of hexers.  If you prefer my style, I have all of
them as external-sound, external-lnz files on the Orig C3 Breedz and
Orig D3 Breedz pages.  If you don't want to download all the breedz,
you don't have to of course.

You will find that the game is missing a bunch of sounds.  As regards the Dogz
ones, you'll have to play with some of 'em missing, unless I or someone else
can be bothered splitting and uploading them, but as regards the catz ones
you can download and install my "General Catz sounds" from my Catz\Dogz Sounds
page.

There you are then; a strangely cobbled-together version of the Petz 3
game, playable without the problems that many people have with the online player
petz these days.

Enjoy!

Carolyn Horn



