F A T A L F U M E S by ABAX SOFTWARE Reference manual for shareware version 5.11.1996 Fatal Fumes and all material in this manual are (C) Jussi Koskela 1996 CONTENTS Before you start........................................1 Introduction....................................1.1 What is Fatal Fumes.............................1.2 Files...........................................1.3 System requirements.............................1.4 Supported operating systems.....................1.5 Getting started.........................................2 Sound setup.....................................2.1 Loading the game................................2.2 Menu controls...................................2.3 Race Guide..............................................3 Driving controls................................3.1 Cup modes.......................................3.2 Registering.............................................4 Why should I register?..........................4.1 How to register.................................4.2 Rights of a registered gamer....................4.3 Appendix A..............................................A About ABAX SOFTWARE.............................A.1 Contacting us...................................A.2 Credits.........................................A.3 .............................................................................. 1. Before you start USE THIS SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK. EVEN THOUGH FATAL FUMES HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY TESTED ON VARIOUS SYSTEMS THE AUTHOR HAS NO LIABILITY FOR ANY POSSIBLE DAMAGE CAUSED BY FATAL FUMES. YOU MAY NOT MODIFY ANY FILES OF FATAL FUMES OR THIS MANUAL. 1.1 Introduction Welcome to the shareware version of Fatal Fumes. Thank you for your interest for this game. As you have copied or downloaded this free of charge vesion you have already helped us to succeed. But your mission is not yet over. You have to copy this game to all your friends and distribute it everywhere, so everyone could enjoy it. This shareware version should give you a good foretaste of all you will get when you register. If you like this game and continue playing it after an evaluation period of 30 days we really recommend you to register. You will get the full version of Fatal Fumes and we'll get a little fee for our work. 1.2 What is Fatal Fumes? Fatal Fumes is a car racing game like you have experienced never before. Featuring: -Incredible steering touch -Intelligent opponents -Full screen 256 color parallax scrolling at incredible speed of 70 fps -Six channel digital music -Beautiful art -Enjoyable multi-screen tracks 1.3 Files The shareware paggage should include all these files. Do not modify or delete any of them! FF.EXE Fatal Fumes executable SETUP.EXE Sound setup INSTALL.EXE Install program DATA000.JUS Datafile DATA001.JUS Datafile DATA002.JUS Datafile DATA003.JUS Datafile DATA004.JUS Datafile DATA005.JUS Datafile DATA006.JUS Datafile SWTRACKS.JUS Datafile FFMANUAL.TXT This documentation FILE_ID.DIZ Fatal Fumes description GAME.CFG Sound configuration file (created after setup) 1.4 System requirements Required -486SX or better / 486DX 50 for maximum performance -530 kb free base memory -1.0 Mb hard drive space -100% VGA compatible video card Optional -2 button mouse -SOUND BLASTER or compatible sound card + 2.5 Mb XMS memory 1.5 Supported operating systems DOS : Fatal Fumes is designed to be run directly from DOS. OS/2 Warp DOS session : Works fine when vertical retrace is set on. Windows 3.0 / 3.1 : Seems to be slow. Try turning music off. Windows 95 : Works in fully configured MS-DOS mode. .............................................................................. 2. Getting started 2.1 Sound setup Fatal Fumes supports Sound Blaster or 100% compatible sound cards. Tested with Sound Blaster 2.01, Sound Blaster 16, GUS and GUS MAX cards. Execute SETUP.EXE If the setup program can't find your sound card's environment settings it will ask IRQ, DMA channel and I/O port settings for your sound device. 2.2 Loading the game To load Fatal Fumes run FF.EXE In special situations you can start with following command line parameters: /DMA : Tests the sound card's DMA speed. Use this parameter always if the music plays in wrong speed. /NOSOUND : Disables music. /NOMOUSE : Disables mouse. /WAIT : Waits for key press after the game is loaded. /HELP : Displays the command line parameter info. 2.3 Menu controls If you have a mouse and a mouse driver installed the default control device is mouse. To change to keyboard control start the game with /NOMOUSE parameter or select mouse off from options menu. Mouse controls Move cursor over a button you want to push and click the left mouse button. Select the right value for a parameter (for example LAPS / OPPONENTS) by clicking left or right mouse button. Keyboard controls Select button you want to push with UP and DOWN arrows and press ENTER. Select the right value for a parameter (for example LAPS / OPPONENTS) by pressing LEFT or RIGHT arrow. .............................................................................. 3. Race 3.1 Driving controls Player 1 controls UP arrow - accelerate DOWN arrow - brake LEFT arrow - turn left RIGHT arrow - turn right TAB - change camera view PAUSE - pause the game ESC - abort driving 3.2 Cup modes F1 scoring The winner is the driver who scores highest points on selected tracks. Scoring by place on each track: 1st 10 points 2nd 6 points 3rd 4 points 4th 3 points 5th 2 points Total time In this cup mode the driver with the fastest total time on selected tracks is the winner. Notice : The maximum time one can lose on single track is (10 + 2 * amount of laps) seconds. .............................................................................. 4. Registering 4.1 Why should I register? Because you love Fatal Fumes you must have some idea how much time we have spent making it. Giving you this evaluation version totally free has been really fair from us. Now it's your turn to be fair and send your little donation to support our work. As if this wasn't a reason good enough you will also receive an advanced version of Fatal Fumes that makes your racing experience even more furious! The registered version comes with an easy-to-use TRACK EDITOR, over 40 TRACKS, 12 CARS, fancy NEW GRAPHICS, a TWO PLAYER GAME MODE etc. 4.2 How to register Read the ORDERING INFO from the game menu. 4.3 Rights of a registered gamer As a registered gamer you will HAVE RIGHT TO: 1. You may install the game on only one computer. 2. You have right to Replace a broken Fatal Fumes disk by sending it back to us within 60 days from the day it was sent to you by us. After the 60 day period include five U.S. dollars to cover the expences. Note that only the first disk replacement is free and for following replacements you MUST include five U.S. dollars. 3. You have right to copy freely any track file of Fatal Fumes. Asking any payment for track files is strictly forbidden! As a registered gamer you will NOT HAVE RIGHT TO: 1. As you have already familiarized yourself with the shareware version of Fatal Fumes you do not have right to return us the registered version. 2. You may not copy, transfer or reproduce any part of Fatal Fumes or this documentation except the backups made for your own use. THIS MEANS THAT YOU MAY NOT GIVE AWAY OR SELL COPIES OF YOUR REGISTERED VERSION OF FATAL FUMES. IF YOU SELL YOUR -ORIGINAL- FATAL FUMES DISK YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE FATAL FUMES ANY LONGER ON YOUR COMPUTER. .............................................................................. Appendix A A.1 About ABAX SOFTWARE Abax Software is a small group in Finland devoted in developing high quality software on PC. Yet we want to keep our prices low so that everyone can afford it. Fatal Fumes is our first project ever to see the daylight. Its development started in summer 1995 and even though we are launching it now in November 1996 we shall continue developing it and making it even better! Expect to see some major updates in the year 1997. All updates will be free of charge and available from many BBSs. Check out also our possibly upcoming WWW site: http://www.abax.sci.fi Ville Koskela's personal WWW site: http://www.hut.fi/~vkoskela A.2 Contacting us If you have some ideas, questions, bug reports or comments concerning Fatal Fumes feel free to contact us. Write in English or Finnish, please. Mail: Jussi Koskela Kaenkatu 4 B 20 04230 Kerava Finland, Europe E-mail: mikko.viinikainen@mbnet.fi A.3 Credits Jussi Koskela: Game design Programming Graphics Track design Manual Mikko Viinikainen: Music Track design Ville Koskela : Car physics Additional graphics Kalevi Koskela : Photography