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The tournament of
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Instructions
Table of contents
INTRODUCTION..................................................2
INSTALLING THE GAME...........................................2
STARTING THE GAME.............................................2
THE MAIN MENU.................................................3
PLAYING THE GAME..............................................4
RACES INFO....................................................5
REGISTERING THE TOURNAMENT OF ZULULA..........................6
UPDATE........................................................7
Special thanks:
Richard Martin & Eric Godbout for their help in debugging and improving the
game.
Stephen Fawcett of the BBS Le Systeme for his help in distributing the program.
Eric Boutin for his soundtrack and his constant programming assistance.
Dave White of the CyberScape BBS for making his help in marketing Oracle
products and for the special Oracle Software section on his BBS.
Alain Paradis of the Axe Master BBS for the special Oracle Software section
on his BBS.
Introduction
On the continent of Rastika, in the country of Zala, there lies the city
of Zulula. A rich, prosperous city since the end of the Great War Of
Freedom, Zulula is a place of both good and evil, law and chaos. Each year,
people from Koros, Shakiri and even the realm of Intisgurb come to Zulula to
participate in the greatest tournament of all, the tournament of Zulula.
The tournament of Zulula is an action-packed arcade game featuring
multiple player character races (including odd creatures), single competition
or tournament. It only supports CGA graphics and IBM sounds (future versions
of the game may support EGA/VGA and AdLib).
Installing the game
This game sould include: INSTALL.BAT, READ.ME and FILES.EXE. FILES.EXE
is a self-extracting file. Here is how you install the game. Type INSTALL
[drive] at the dos prompt (Example: INSTALL c). The program will create
three sub-directories: [drive]:\ZULULA, [drive]:\ZULULA\LICONS, and
[drive]:\ZULULA\RICONS. The program will then unpack all the files in their
appropriate directory. DO NOT TRY TO PUT THEM IN ANOTHER DIRECTORY i.e.
C:\GAMES\ZULULA, the game may not work. The game will fit on 1 720k disk or
hard disk. A file named ZULULA.ICO (in FILES.EXE) is an icon for windows
users.
Starting the game
To start the game, go to your ZULULA directory and type ZULULA. After the
title screen you will be asked to calibrate your joystick(s). If you do not
have a joystick, press ESC twice to skip those screens.
Once this is done, you will arrive at the gates of Zulula. The guards
are pretty nasty, and to enter you will have to accomplish an errand for
them. If you have not registered, you will probably be unable to accomplish
this errand, and thus, you will go to a limited version of the game.
If you have registered and have the list of drinks, simply find the bar
that serves the drink the guard asks you for, go to that bar (using the
keypad), and press enter. Once in the bar, the bartender will ask you how
full you want your drink. Find the name of the creature the drink is
destined to, and fill the drink the number written beside this creature.
Once this is done, the guard will get the drink, give it to the recipient,
whom will drink it. If you have made a mistake, you will go to a limited
version of the tournament.
The Main Menu
The main menu consists of four choices: Single Duel, The Tournament, Set
the players, or see the strengths and weaknesses of the different races. The
Tournament option might be shaded if you failed to accomplish the guard's
errand. On the left and right of the screen there are to characters walking.
Those represents the current choices the players are.
When chosing a single duel, the two players selected in the Set Players
menu will duel one against another. See playing the game for more info.
Duels are fun, but nothing compares to the excitement of the tournament!
When chosing tournament, you will start the tournament of Zulula. In the
tournament, the two players setted in the Set Players option will compete in
the tournament, as well as 6 other players (controlled by the computer). You
will first be asked is you want to see computer-controlled fights (fights
that features a computer-controlled opponent against another
computer-controlled opponent). You can choose to see all those fights, none
or those fights, or only some of those fights. When you choose "Asks you
each time", each time a computer vs. computer fight is about to append, the
computer will ask you if you wish to see that fight. Only press Y or N in
that case. Once the tournament has begun, you will see player 1 on top of
the chart and player 2 at the bottom. The other slots will be filled with
the other contestants. The tournament consists of 7 duels. The winner of
the tournament will receive the immensely beautiful and so desired trophy
representing the founder of the town: Geoffrey Zulula.
When choosing Set Players, you will go to a separate screen where you
can select the race, name, and input mode for the two players. Use the
arrow key to move from field to field and ENTER to change the current
selection. When pressing ENTER to change a name, you will be prompted to
enter the new name for that player.
When choosing Races Info, you will go to a separate screen where every
races' stats are showed, two races at a time. You can change the races by
pressing PgUp or PgDn. ST stands for strength, the stronger the race, the
harder it will hit. DX stands for dexterity, the more dextruous the race,
the faster it will hit. HM is the life force of the character, when a
character is hit, it will lose life force. RF stands for regeneration
factor, the less the number, the more the creature will be able to regenerate
its life force. Finally, IN stands for intelligence, it can be Dumb, Low,
Medium, and high. One characteristic is not displayed there, that is the
reach. See races info in this document to know more about that.
Playing the game
When a duel occurs (be it single or part of the tournament), the
computer will first introduce the two characters competing in this fight.
Then, it will switch to the combat screen.
On the combat screen, the two bars on top of the screen represent the
life force of both the contestants. The left one being for the left
character, and the right one for the right character. In the middle of the
screen is the scenery area. The scenery displayed depends on the duel's
importance. Single duels are fought in the caverns outside the mountain ring
surrounding Zulula, the first tournament rounds will be fought outside the
moutain ring surrounding Zulula, near the active volcano Kalaza. The
semi-finals will be fought inside the ring of mountain, in front of the
Castle of the Giants. And the final fight will be held inside the Castle of
the Giants. The fight then begins...
Use the joystick or keypad to move your character on the screen. The
first button (or INS) is used to hit and the second button (or ENTER) to put
the character in defensive position. Moving the joystick up or pressing the
upper keys of the keypad will cause the character to jump.
When using the keyboard, remember this. once you press a direction key
and the shield key, the character will do as ordered until another key is
pressed. Example: Suppose you are playing a human, if you press 6 (or »),
the character will move right until another key is pressed (pressing 6 again
will stop the character). In the same fashion, pressing ENTER will cause the
human to use its shield and keep it until another key is pressed. Keeping a
key pressed will not be of any good.
Being hit causes you to lose life force. You will lose less life force
if you are in defensive position when hit. Attacking will also make you lose
life force (tough only a little). Doing nothing, or simply moving, will
cause your character to regenerate its life force at a variable speed (see
races info).
When a character's life force extinguishes, the character will
extinguishes as well, being out of life force. When a character dies, the
other is declared the winner and will certainly give some comments to the
press!
If you decide to quit the duel, by pressing ESC, three situation can
occur: If the two characters are players (human-controlled), the computer
will randomly choose a winner, the same case occurs if the two characters are
computer-controlled. However, if the fights is between a human player and a
computer player, the human player will automatically loses!
Races Information
HUMAN: The human is the standard fighter, being one of the weakest
combattant, the human compensate that with a good dexterity, a fair hit
maximum, and the longest reach of all the races. He uses a long sword to
have a longer reach. On the weak side, he also have one of the worst
regeneration factor.
LAND OCTOPUS: The land octopus is a four-legged, fish-like creature. It is
one of the weakest of all (second to human and the same as drider). A
very-low intelligence, and a poor dexterity. It compensate for that with a
high hit maximum and a fair regeneration factor. It has a medium reach.
DOG: The dog is a four-footed, fishy-like creature that attacks with its
poisonous tongue. It is one of the strongest of all, second to the cyclop.
It is also very dextruous and has a good hit maximum. However, it
regenerates very slowly, has a low intelligence, and a short reach.
OSTRICH: The dummest of them all, the ostrich is a giant bird, tallest than
the man. It is dumb, has a very low hit maximum, and a slow regeneration
factor. However, its great strengh, its high dexterity and its long reach
can make it a tough opponent.
ZOMBIE: The zombie is a magically animated undead. It fights with its bare
hands. It has a high strenght, a fair dexterity, and a very high
regeneration factor. Its strongest point is its regeneration factor, wich
cures its wounds at a tremendous rate. The zombie has, however, a very short
reach and a medium intelligence.
CYCLOP: Fear is the feeling inspired by the strongest of them all: the
cyclop. Its strength is legendary, it has a great hit maximum, and a fair
regeneration factor. However, it lacks of intelligence and dexterity. Its
club gives him a fair reach.
DRIDER: Being cursed by the ancient gods, the drider is half human, half
spider. It is fairly strong, highly dextrous, and has a high intelligence.
Its hit maximum is, however, a bit low. Its morning start gives him a fair
reach. It regenerates slowly.
EYE: The eye is an eyestalk standing on one foot. Its lightning
bolts are devastating and have a fair reach, it has a great hit
maximum, and a good regeneration factor. It lacks of dexterity
and intelligence.
Registering The tournament of Zulula
It is my hope that The tournament of Zulula will be a great source of
enjoyment to all. It has been released as shareware to reach the most
people. I believe shareware are a good way to entertain people for a lesser
price. This program is complete. However, you will have to register to get
to some parts of the program.
If you enjoy The tournament of Zulula and wish to register, send a
check to the following address:
Oracle Software enr.
132, Marchildon
Amos, Quebec
Canada J9T 4G5
If you register 10 US$ (12 CAN$) or more, you will receive the list of
drinks as well as how full their drinks people want. With this sheet, you will
be able to complete the guard's errand and you will be able to participate in
the tournament of Zulula!
Date: April 21, 1993
Version 3.0: This new version have several enhancements.
The installation program is now unnecessary
The speed is no more adjustable, it is fixed and goes the
same speed on all processors.
Files have been linked together, resulting in less files
The CB software presentation has been replaced with the
Oracle Software presentation.
A READ THIS option has been added, this option contains
instructions and informations.
Date: July 16, 1992
Version: 2.4: This new version can be installed in any directory
The new syntax of the install program is:
INSTALL [DRIVE:][PATH] (Ex: INSTALL C: or C:\GAMES)
The game was designed for the Black/Bright Cyan/Red/White palette
this works fine in CGA but when using an EGA/VGA card, the palette is set to
Black/Red/Orange/Green. Running SETUP.EXE and selecting EGA/VGA will put the
palette back to Black/Bright Cyan/Red/White.
The default control will be set to keyboard if you have no
joysticks.
Version 2.3 shown incompatibility with some anti-virus
because it wrote in a file named "JOYSTICK.DRV". This file has been removed and
is now unnecessary.