--== Insurrection Demo ==--
               Copyright 1998 Colin Day, Trapezoid Entertainment
                               

Table of Contents:
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1) Introduction
2) System Requirements
3) Game Commands
4) Troubleshooting
5) Contacting Me
6) Legal Stuff

1) INTRODUCTION:
    Welcome, thank you for downloading the 'Insurrection' demo.  This
    is the first game I have written and was done in Borland C++ with
    just a hint of assembly from a book.  It's been two years in the
    making ... not because it's a particularly cutting edge piece of
    software but because I am the only one that worked on it.  That's
    right, the only one ... I did all the design, code, graphics ...
    everything from scratch.  Although I admit, I did not just discover
    how to write graphics routines all by myself.  For those I turned to
    Andre LaMothe's "Black Art of 3D Game Programming"
    (ISBN: 1-57469-004-2) and rewrote all his routines to fit my needs.
    It may not look like the high resolution cutting edge stuff on the
    market today but hey, it's all from scratch and now I have an
    excellent understanding of everything that goes into the game making
    process.

    As you have already figured out this is just a demo of the game.  I
    plan on releasing a full blown game to go along with this engine
    and world but I don't know when it will be done.  Please send any
    questions or comments to my web page for this game currently located
    at http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~day.  I want to hear everything, if
    you really like this demo tell me ... if it's the worst thing you
    have ever seen let me know, how am I to ever change anything if I
    don't know about it?

2) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
    Operating System: DOS, Windows 95, or Windows NT (Note: Some users
          have reported that it works great in NT and others have reported
          that it wouldn't recognize the keyboard.  I'm trying to fix this
          problem but for now I recommend that you use a Windows 95/DOS
          machine if you have problems running it on NT).
    Memory: 570K of free conventional RAM
    Display: 256 color VGA display
    Sound: Sound is NOT supported (I'm just a college student)

3) GAME COMMANDS:

   ALT-X     : Exit program
   ARROW KEYS: North, South, West, East movement and cursor control
   NUMBER PAD: Horizontal, vertical, and diagonal movement and
               cursor control.
   U         : Use item on either the map, inventory, or combat
               Note: use a ship to board it, use land to leave a ship
   G         : Get item
   M         : Toggle overhead map display on or off
   I         : Open inventory
   T         : Talk
   C         : Cast a spell on either the map or in combat
   A         : Attack in combat
   R         : Run from combat
   D         : Makes it either day or night ... this won't really be
               available to you in the final product once I implement the
               changes from day to night automatically, but I thought you
               might like to see it
   ESC       : Cancels most stuff
   CONTROL-S : Save game
   CONTROL-L : Load game

4) TROUBLESHOOTING:
    The most common problem is that there is not enough free CONVENTIONAL
    memory and the program is displaying a lot of "not enough memory"
    errors.  The easiest way to free up conventional memory is to make a
    boot disk.  To make a boot disk:

          i) Get a blank disk.
         ii) At the DOS command line (or Windows 95 'Run' option in the
             Start Menu) type

             format a: /s

        iii) The config.sys and autoexec.bat files from the directory you
             unzipped the demo in to the floppy drive.  For example:

             copy c:\games\insurect\config.sys a:
             copy c:\games\insurect\autoexec.bat a:

         iv) Reboot the machine with the disk in the drive

5) CONTACTING ME:
   If you have any comments, questions, errors, complaints, gripes please
   let me know:

           Colin Day
   E-mail: day@cs.colostate.edu
      Web: http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~day

   If that email address or web page does not work go to
   http://www.webcrawler.com or some other search engine on the web and
   search for "INSURRECTION".  I'll always try to keep my web pages
   linked to the search engines in this fashion.

6) LEGAL STUFF
    I don't know why I should put this stuff in here but everyone else
    seems to do it so I will to.  I am not responsable for any damage
    this program may cause even though I do not see how this program could
    damage anything (other than your sanity).  Using this program is
    completely at YOUR OWN RISK.  There, now that's done with.

    DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT:

    You may freely distribute this demo to anyone that wants it anywhere
    provided that you do not alter the contents of the demo.  You may not
    charge anything for this demo aside from any material and distribution
    costs.  If you do distribute this demo on any web site, CD, or any
    other means I'd like to know so please write me an email.  It's pretty
    interesting to see how far your files go ya know!