Help With SoftIce

I'm sure you all have seen this a dozen times but when I do a search on the forums for "SoftIce" a message comes back "nothing found" so I apologize if this is redundant. I am new to cracking and reverse engineering and have tried to do a lot of research and have read as many articles as I could find on the subject. Why my search isn't working now ........I don't know. Anyway here is my situation; I have installed SoftIce "lite" from the FTP server. I have set video to universal. SoftIce loads fine and seems to be functioning. I'm trying to crack a program and follow a procedure as outlined by "The Sandman". The program is "pooldemo.exe". The instructions say to save all vectors before loading program "vecs s". This command is unrecognized is the message I receive. If I run the program and open SI the whole screen is filled with blocks of color. At this point I'm not sure where to begin with this. Is there maybe a better tut to start with or can someone help me with this?

Thanks in advance,
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