1.)  Maybe your sound-card has a problem.
1.1) Go to "Start" -> "Configure" -> "Visual FX" -> and switch on "No loops!"
1.2) If nothing helps, switch on "Mute".

2.)  Maybe your graphic-board (special Matrox-boards) has problems.
2.1) Go to "Start" -> "Configure" -> "Visual FX" -> and switch off "Scroll levels"
2.2) If this does not help, go to "Start" -> "Configure" -> "Visual FX" -> and switch off also "Rotating score"

3.)  If 1.) and 2.) do not help, you can also try to switch off the second mouse.
     Go to "Start" -> "Configure" -> "2. Mouse" -> and switch off "Enable device"

        4.)You have problems with the colours in WinBrick 96
        4.1) Do you use 256 colours? Try to use more than 256 colours!
        4.2) If you can not or want not to use more than 256 colours:
                  Do you use microsoft office with the shortcut bar?
                  Close the shortcut bar while playing WinBrick 96!
 

Known bugs:

1.) The "Flying Objects" (lightnings, 15 balls, 3 levels forward) have changed. For example: The 15-balls-object gives lightnings.
1.1) Go to "Start" -> "Configure" -> "Visual FX" -> and switch on "Paddle flickerfree" and "Rotating score"

2.) Unable to play via modem or over the internet.
2.1) The option playing via modem is included in the Direct Play - functionality. Unfortunately we were unable to test this feature ourselves. We are developing at the moment a new game with more players and perhaps we are able to solve and fix the problem in a future release. But we are not sure, if the modem-functionality really does work or not. Normally Microsoft provides this interface and it should work. The required Datarate is about 800 bytes/sec. Therefore a 9600 baud-modem should be sufficient.
This is the way, it normally works:
-You have to choose the connection type before starting the network game (IPX/TCP/Modem)
-Choose "Create network game" for open a new game.
-Choose "Connect to network game" to select and connect to an opened session.
2.2) We are sorry, but we are only using DirectX 2 and not DirectX 3. Therefore you are unable to play over the internet.

3.) Unable to access the highscore-site.
3.1.) We are very sorry, but you can only use this highscore-address, when you are a member of MSN.
WinBrick 96 is only on this page, because it has been the "Featured Game Of The Month" from Microsoft for a few months.
We are still looking for a possibility for all players to compare their highscores.
But we have not found one yet, where you have NOT the chance to give wrong highscores in the list.

4.) Unable to use the 2. mouse
4.1) Uninstall your Logitech-Mouse-Driver for your 2. mouse. WinBrick 96 will find this 2. mouse by itself.
 

We have two different kinds of keywords:

1.)You will get one keyword every five level. This is a word with eight letters. If you write
this keyword in the menu under "Start" and "Jump to Level", you can start in the level, where
you have gotten this keyword. But you will start with 4 lifes, 0 points and 0 rockets.
2.) You get a keyword after each level you have finished, WHEN you begin with the scenery "Basic" and you are not playing in the training-mode.It is made of letters, numbers and
punctation-marks. You can write it down when you want to finish WinBrick 96. If you want to play again, you can write down this keyword under "Start" and "Jump to Level" and you will begin in the next level, where you have ended before with all your points, lifes (max. 9) and rockets (max. 5) you have gotten before. You can play this game three times with using the keywords from the end of the
level, where you want to stop WinBrick 96. After that you will not get a new keyword and you have to begin a new game.