Flying Tigers manual
****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** **************************** ************************** ************************* ************************ ************************* Flying Tigers ************************ ************************* Copyright 1994 Jay Kramer ************************ ************************* ************************ *************************** ************************** ****************************************************************************** ****************************************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flying Tigers is designed to be a fast pace shoot-em game with multiple weapons, power ups, enemies and bosses. The object is simple: survive and see how far you can get, while racking up a few points in the process. But, seriously your objective is to destroy the bosses who are attempting to take over the world, this won't be easy each boss has it own way of attack! In scenario 1(sharware version) you will be thrown into the middle of 1942, the techno bosses are starting transfering technology to the Japanese Empire. It is your job to stop these bosses at all cost! In scenario 2 and 3(registered version) you will be in 1972 and 2012 fighting the techno bosses. Beware, these bosses are not like the first, they are much smarter and tougher. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What is needed to run Flying Tigers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ * 386 minimum, 486 and above recomended * at least 4 Meg of memory * fast video card, some video cards really slow things down * sound card recomended * joystick, Gravis pad recommended ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Getting Started ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To get started running Flying Tigers type: SETUP, this is the setup program. First select your sound card, the program should automatically select the correct setting, however if it does not move the cursor up or down to highlight the correct setting. Once you have done this you may select a different language if you like otherwise save and exit. Type START to begin Flying Tigers...... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Control ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The default keys for Flying Tigers are as follows: Arrow keys for player 1 -- move plane------------------ fire weapon 1 <"> ---------------------- fire weapon 2 A,W,X,D for player 2 ----- move plane F ------------------------ fire weapon 1 G ------------------------ fire weapon 2 *These keys can be re defined within the game. It is recommended that players use joysticks or game pads, this greatly increases playability. There are several commands that a user can use during game play in order to enhance game play. TAB ------- pause game ESC ------- game playing option menu F1 -------- slow down game F2 -------- speed up game F5 -------- decrease music volume F6 -------- increase music volume F7 -------- decrease sfx volume F8 -------- increase sfx volume ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hints for faster game play (if needed) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flying Tigers was designed to run as fast as possible on the PC's. However, the speed of the game is ultimately decided by what type of video card and how fast memory is copied to the card. The methods used might also cause some type of snow effect on some cards. Try playing a harder skill level, planes and your ship move faster the harder the skill level. Using a joystick or game pad also slows things down a bit, try using keyboard if extra speed is needed. Sounds take up a good deal of time to process, it would be a good idea to select a low sound quality while in the setup program. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Known bugs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keyboard Problems You may notice under different keyboard configurations some keys might have a tendancy to stick or not respond correctly, this is due to the way interrupts are handled under protected mode. To correct this select different keys definitions for the keys that do no respond correctly. Novell DOS 7: The DOS Extender of Flying Tigers has problems with EMM386 that is delivered with Novell DOS. Please REM out EMM386 from your config.sys file or make a bootdisk. See your DOS manual for instructions on how to make a boot disk. If you have a compression program such as DoubleSpace or Stacker you will want to see their manual on how to create a boot disk. If Flying Tigers does not run under Novell DOS 7 you may have to remove the SETVER.EXE command in the config.sys. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This program is not to be guarenteed to be virus free, we have checked it for known viruses at the time of publication, however new viruses are always in the works. THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS-IS". NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, ARE MADE AS TO IT OR ANY MEDIUM IT MAY BE ON. I WILL PROVIDE NO REMEDY FOR INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITICE OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING FROM THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING SUCH FROM NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR BREACH OF WARRANTY OR CONTRACT, EVEN AFTER NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
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