Action Ware 14: Rise of the Triad/ACWARE14.iso/acware14/pictures/set1/triad.doc

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         ANNOUNCING A NEW SHAREWARE GAME RELEASE -- COMING OCTOBER 1994
                               Rise of the Triad
             Apogee Software, Ltd.   The #1 Shareware Game Publisher
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HOW TO RUN THE SLIDE SHOW
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To run the slide show preview, type "TRIAD" at your DOS prompt.

GAME STORY
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You are a member of the HUNT, the top secret High-risk United Nations
Taskforce, sent on extremely covert operations to possible trouble spots
outside the three-mile boundary waters of member countries.  You are on a
routine reconnaissance mission on San Nicolas Island, located in the Pacific
twenty miles west of Los Angeles.  Your team is investigating possible cult
activity in an old monastery, when suddenly troops pour out of nowhere!

In the distance your boat explodes.  Just before your radio goes all static,
you hear desperate newsmen describing the systematic destruction of Los
Angeles. An escaped prisoner informs you that a pyrotechnics expert and a
rich studio head have joined forces with the Oscurido cult.  Their plan:
kill millions of innocent people for the glory of their master, El Oscuro.
Having no other escape route, the HUNT heads into the monastery, taking the
only course of action left: stop the Oscuridos or die trying.

FEATURES
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o  Four cool bosses with intelligence, reactions, devious abilities,
   and up to four stages!
o  Over thirty levels of death, mayhem, chaos, terror, and so on
o  Ten unique, real digitized actors
o  Nine wicked weapons, including the massively destructive Firebomb and
   Flamewall
o  Three words: really cool explosions (digitized)
o  A rockin' soundtrack on all the major cards--featuring DigitalDrums
   (where available)
   Supports the following soundcards:
     Gravis UltraSound, All SoundBlasters, Pro Audio Spectrum, WaveBlaster,
     AdLib, SoundMan, Maui, Roland, Disney SoundSource, and many more.
o  Tons of secret areas, difficult puzzles, and mysterious bonuses
o  Far-out features: Parallaxing sky, look up and down, fog,
   light diminishing, light sourcing, super save games
o  Violence level adjustment, from low to excessive, with parental password
o  Choose from five characters--of different genders and races!
o  Brain-numbing Powerups like God Mode and the rare "Dog Mode"
o  Fifteen incredible hazards like SpinBlades, FireChutes, FireJets,
   PitTraps, and LavaWalls
o  Hilarious jump pads add a new dimension to gameplay.  Fly through the air
   to reach new areas, collect bonuses or run away!
o  Auto-tracking for shooting down at enemy from platforms and up at them
   as they fly off jump pads
o  Two player head-to-head action by modem or serial cable, with nine
   different battle modes, lots of battle options, and RemoteRidicule(tm)
   speech capability.  Don't taunt your enemy with simple text, let him HEAR
   what you think of that last battle!
o  Twenty buddy-blasting Battle levels (in addition to the 32 normal levels)
o  Editor to be available so you can make your own battle levels
o  Random level generator so there are always new battle levels to play
o  Over TEN Megs of eye-poppin' graphics!
o  Over FOUR Megs of ear-poppin' sounds!
o  The entire game is OVER 20 MEGS unzipped.  The largest shareware game ever!

COOL STUFF TO DO
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o  FALL OFF the edge of a level!
o  TOWER OVER little guards in God Mode!
o  SNEAK INTO secret rooms in Dog Mode!
o  BLOW UP almost EVERYTHING in the environment--including shattering windows!
o  PICK UP a 7-10 split of guards with the sadistic Split Missile!
o  ROCKET into the air off a jump pad, spin and shoot a heat-seeking missile at
   your buddy, who promptly juices in mid-air!  Fun!
o  WASTE countless hours of your precious time while you could be doing
   something constructive!

REQUIREMENTS
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Requires 386, VGA, hard drive.  A 486 computer with a sound card and a mouse
strongly recommended.  Rise of the Triad (c) 1994 Apogee Software, Ltd.

CONTACTING APOGEE SOFTWARE
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Apogee Software     [phone]
P.O. Box 496389
Garland, TX  75049

Ordering and support:
   * 1-800-GAME-123 to order 24 hours a day.
   * 214-278-5655 for technical support on any game. (8AM-6PM CST M-F)
   * 214-278-4670 to FAX your order or inquiry.
   * Fill out ORDER.FRM and mail or FAX it to us.

For press reviewers or shareware vendors:
   Call Dennis Scarff at [phone] or on Compuserve at 71321,2743.

WHERE TO FIND APOGEE'S GAMES ONLINE
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1. APOGEE'S HOME BBS:  THE SOFTWARE CREATIONS BBS

Software Creations BBS was recently voted North America's most popular BBS
by the readers of Boardwatch Magazine.  It was also featured on the TV show
Prime-Time Live in December 1993.  Apogee's releases are available here before
they're available anywhere else in the world!

To download any Apogee game, call one of the three numbers listed below.  Then,
look in the free Apogee file section, #1.  Type "F 1" to see a listing of the
files.  These are free downloads, and you do not need a membership.

   [phone] -- 2400 baud                   Over 90 lines
   [phone] -- 9600-14.4K v.32bis          available, and
   [phone] -- 14.4-21K HST/DSv.32terbo    growing fast!
   [phone] -- 28.8k v.fast class (v.fc)

2. America Online - Use the keyword "apogee" to go to our forum.

3. CompuServe - Type "go apogee" (at any ! prompt) to find Apogee's games.

4. Internet - Apogee's titles can be access via anonymous FTP at our official
              ftp site.   The site is "ftp.uml.edu", and the directory they can
              be found in is (case important) "msdos/Games/Apogee".

5. Exec-PC -  Apogee also has it's own free area on Exec-PC!  Exec-PC can be
              reached by dialing 1-414-789-4360.

6. Fidonet Filebone - If you are a Fidonet SysOp, you can now get Apogee's
                      games on the Fido filebone.  Talk to your local filebone
                      hub about the four Apogee areas (see FILEBONE.NO for more
                      information).

RECENTLY RELEASED GAMES
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While you are online, check out some of our latest VGA releases.  We're sure
you will like them.

* Hocus Pocus -- Play a bumbling wizard's apprentice in this VGA parallax
                 scrolling game.
* Raptor -- One of the finest PC shooters ever made! VGA butt-kickin fun!
* Blake Stone 3D -- Apogee's long awaited 3D follow-up to Wolfenstein 3D.
* Duke Nukem II -- Duke's back in this action packed VGA sequel!
* Mystic Towers - A 3D isometric view game with adventure/arcade play style.

Thanks for enjoying Apogee games!  The best is yet to come.  We have many
more games in production that will continue to push your PC to it's limits and
provide you with hours of fun.

Look for the following games in the near future:

* Rise of the Triad - 3D action game featuring modem play!.
* Wacky Wheels - A super fun 3D racing game with modem play!
* Blake Stone: PlanetStrike (A retail version of Blake Stone with new levels)
* StarGunner - Horizontal scrolling shooter with even more stuff than Raptor!
* Tom, Dick & Harry - VGA side scroller with up to 14 layers of parallaxing!
* Boppin - VGA puzzle game with 150 levels to tease your brain.
* Realms of Chaos - 256 VGA adventure game with multiple characters.

APOGEE'S NEW EVOLUTION OF 3D GAMES IS COMING!
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1. "Shadow Warrior" - Become a ninja and keep to the shadows!
2. "Duke Nukem 3D" - High action science fiction as Duke returns in 3D.
3. "Ruins - Return of the Gods" - High adventure in and around ancient ruins.

These games feature Apogee's newest hot 3D technology like the following:

* Detailed 3D worlds with any height, thickness or angle walls.
* Fully texture mapped environment (walls, ceilings and floors)
* Parallaxing backdrops up to 1024 pixels wide!
* Fast action! 20+ frames per second on a 486/50 (without local bus!).
  A 486/66 with local bus can get frame rates of 38-40 frames per second!
* Lighting effects like: Strobing, flickering, fading, total darkness and more!
* Up to 64 levels of light diminishing in the distance.
* Light sourcing creates pools of light from windows or any other light source.
* Modem play!  You can link up and play against your best friend or enemy!
* Full sound card support (including GUS, PAS 16, Roland, Sound Blaster etc..)
* Full 8 channel stereo sound effects for ultimate realism!
* Ability to JUMP over things, DUCK shots or other hazards and CRAWL around
  the realistic 3D environment.  Duke Nukem will actually FLY around his 3D
  world with a jetpack!
* Moving floors.  The floors and ceiling can crush you or be used as elevators
  to reach higher areas.
* Morphing environment.  Your environment is NOT static as in Doom.  Walls can
  move at will.  Rooms, or any areas of the map, can morph in to larger or
  smaller areas, crushing you or other effects.  Entire rooms can be changed
  into new structures.  Special effects can be created such as vehicles to move
  around in, or true hinged swinging doors that have thickness.
* Looking up and down.  This is an extraordinary feature that allows you to see
  more of your environment.  You can actually look up at the ceiling and blast
  an alien off of it, or look down to avoid a nasty hazard in the floor such
  as a pit.  Clues or objects can be placed on the roof and you must look up
  at them in order to see all of it and proceed.
* Animated environment - Any surface can animate.  Walls, ceilings, floors.

Thank you for taking the time to look at this preview.

Apogee Software