CU Amiga Super CD-ROM 6/CU Amiga Magazine's Super CD-ROM 06 (1996)(EMAP Images)(GB)(Track 1 of 4)[!][issue 1997-01].iso/cucd/readers/games/eurotrotter/et_read_me.txt

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          EuroTrotter

   EuroTrotter is a transporting simulation.
You remember PoC, don't you. The game from
1985 (or '86?) where you bought yourself a
ship and transported goods all over the
world. Well, here's a game in the same genre.

EuroTrotter will run on any Amiga with at
least 1 MB of RAM. The game will run faster
with more RAM as the RAM: is used as a temp
for the graphics and data files. The system
controlling this temporarily saving is rather
intelligent, and will have the most recent
accesed files stored there. When there's
no more space in RAM:, the program will
delete the oldest file. When you quit the
game the program will delete all the files
from RAM.

In EuroTrotter you buy trucks instead of
boats and transport goods all over Europe.
(Surprise, surprise...) Well, once you've
bought yourself a truck, and a trailer if
you want one, you can start your career as
a EuroTrotter. 47 real European cities are
included in the game, and you can travel
between all of these.


Instructions:
When you first start off, you must first buy
a truck. Do this by clicking on the "Truck-
Dealer" button in the telephone list.
Then select the type of truck you want.
E.g. "New Truck", "Used Truck", "Old Truck"
and so on. Note: You do not start off with
enough money to buy anything else than an
old truck, but if you go back to the tele-
phone by clicking the right mouse button and
select the "Bank" in the list, you can obtain
a credit.
When you've bought a truck, you can buy a
trailer/wagon for it. (Depending on what kind
of truck you bought. If you bought a "normal"
truck, you must buy a trailer for it in order
to be able to get any cargo on it. If you
bought a lorry, you can buy a wagon for it, but
you don't have to.
Then go back to the telephone by clicking RMB.
Click the "Repair" button to repair your truck.
Click the "Insure" button to insure your truck.
Click the "Bank" button to obtain credit, repay
credit, get your economical status or to find out
the current interest.
After done your business (bought your truck), hit
RMB. Then you'll have to wait some time. Delivering
the truck will take 10 days. At day 11 your truck
will be in your home town. You will then come to
your office.
In the down left corner there will be some info
about your truck's and company's state.
Click on the telephone on the desk to go to the
telephone. (the same telephone as in the beginning)
Click on the big sheet of paper on the desk to get
info about your trucks.
Click on the little book on the desk to get cargo
for your truck.
Click on the archive-box on the desk to set how
long the truck shall travel each day. Remember:
  -Longer travelling per day means more fuel
   expenses
  -More than 700 km per day is illegal and will
   be looked very seriously upon by the police
   and you risk very high fines.
Click on the truck on the desk to travel to a
city without taking any cargo with you.
Click on the lorry on the desk in the top
right corner.
Click on the piece of paper on the desk to get
some stats about the firm.

When you take on a transporting order, you will
be paid at arrival of the truck. The trucks will
be refuelled automatically, and the money deducted
automatically at the beginning of each trip.
In addition there's a small amount of maintenance
money needed for each truck per day. This amount
will differ from truck to truck.
Also, every month you will be presented the
current balance and the incomes and outcomes for
the last month. If the balance by the end of a
month is negative, you are bankrupt and the game
is over. Be careful allways to keep the balance
well over 0, as the value of your trucks might fall
drastically pretty fast because the prices of new
trucks are changing constantly. You may see your
current balance by going to the bank. If the balance
is negative in the middle of a month, you will not go
bankrupt, but if you not get it positive until the end
of the month, the game is over. If there are more than
one player, the game will continue until the last
player is bankrupt.


You may flip back to the workbench screen without
quitting the game. Press the Left Amiga key and the
"A" key at the same time to flip to workbench. Repeat
the sequence to flip back to the game.

In the options menu, there's a "Animation on/off" button.
This button does nothing else than turning off and on
those nice cars driving on the highway over Europe while
you are waiting for your trucks to arrive at their
destinations. Turn it off to speed up the game process.


NOTE: A couple of hints:
  -If a truck is in bad technically
  condition, the condition will get worse
  fast if you don't repair it. AND a
  status rating below 80% is illegal and
  you risk a very expensive fine for
  violating this.
  -Increasing the amount of kilometers
  a truck drives each day, dramatically
  increases the fuel usage! More than
  700 km per day is illegal, and is
  looked very seriously upon by the
  police. You risk an extremely heavy
  fine!

EuroTrotter is a shareware game.

This means that this is only a limited
version of the game and is freely
distributable. You may copy it to all
your friends (please do) and upload it
to any database you find (please do!).
The only payment you are allowed to
charge when you copy/give it to anyone
else, is to cover the cost of the disk
and postage and packing.

When the game is distributed to any
other person, all the files MUST be
included. You may not change any of
the files except for personal use.
You may not change/alter any of the
files and then distribute it to others.


REGISTER NOW!!! (Please...)

You may also use it on PD/Shareware
CD-ROM compilation

  EuroTrotter
     19©96
Knut Olav Løite

Løite may be written Loite...