ALIEN TRILOGY PC DEMO

GAME OVERVIEW
You control Ripley from a first person point of view, and you are the only survivor from mankind's first encounter with the Alien.  Your ship has landed on LV426 to investigate transmissions from the colonists who have settled on the Alien planet that have abruptly stopped.  Immediately landing on LV426, your team members are wiped out upon entering the man made complex.  You must now rid the planet of this seemingly unstoppable beast alone!

INCLUDED IN THIS DEMO
-	Two full levels
-	Aliens that will scare you silly (bring extra pants!)
-	One of the game's many FMV sequences
-	Timer! (limited timed game play - sorry!)

INCLUDED IN THE FINAL VERSION
-	No timer (yeah!)
-	Network play for up to four players
-	Talking Ripley
-	Full language options
-	Customize your Mouse & Keyboard configuration
-	Joystick and game-pad capabilities
-	User programmable audio
-	35 nightmare levels
-	10+ remapped network levels (including some previously unreleased levels!!)
-	and much, much more!

YOUR FIST MISSION
You are advised to clear the entrance for the marine drop crew by removing crate and barrel barricades and to destroy any xenomorphs that you encounter.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Alien Trilogy PC Demo requires:
486 DX66/8Mb RAM
Minimum system recommended:
Pentium P75

GETTING STARTED
To install from DOS:
-	Put the Demo CD into your CD-ROM drive
-	Go to the CD drive
-	Type 'INSTALL'
-	Follow the prompts
-	When the sound drivers have been selected, click on 'DONE'
-	To run the game, type 'TRILOGY'

To install from Win95:
-	Put the Demo CD in your CD-ROM drive
-	Double click on the install icon
-	Follow the prompts
-	When sound drivers have been selected, click on 'DONE'
-	To run the game, click on 'TRILOGY.EXE'

CONTROLS
Keyboard:
Primary Fire	CTRL
Secondary Fire	Back Space
Forwards -	Cursor Keys
Backward -	
Turn Left -
Turn Right -		
Do/Switch/Open	Space Bar
Strafe	< or >
In-game menu	Esc, Tab or M

Mouse:
Right Button	Move Forward/Do
Left Button	Primary Fire

For a full list of controls, press F1 during gameplay.

GAMEPLAY HINTS & TIPS
-	Avoid stepping on the Aliens' blood - it's acid!
-	Find & use the auto-mapper to help navigate the levels
-	Look out for the arrows on the first level, they will lead you to the exit.
-	Use the shotgun to destroy the red barrels
-	Turn the red switches to yellow to unlock doors
-	Find the battery to unlock the exit airlock
-	DO NOT DIE!!

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TROUBLESHOOTING/KNOWN PROBLEMS
No Introduction FMV sequence.
The current FMV playback system will not work unless you have a sound card installed. If your sound card is installed and configured correctly please see the specific hardware comments below.

Sound Cards
Gravis Ultrasound/Max
In this demo, there is no direct support for these cards although there will be in the final game. Please use refer to your sound card manual so you may put the card into Sound Blaster compatibility mode.

Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16
Unfortunately, some users of this sound card may not be able to view the introduction FMV sequence. This will be fixed in the final version of the software.

Video Cards
On some the following video cards, the introduction may not, currently, play correctly:
Viper Pro Video Weitek Power 9100 PCI
Matorx Millenium PCI
Matrox QVision 1280 PCI
Matrox QVision 2000 PCI
Speedstar VGA Tseng ET4000ax ISA
Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM S3 Trio 64 PCI

CDROM drives

TEAC CD55A 4x CDROM
Some users may experience occasional loading problems. See "Running from Hard Drive", below.

6PLEX 6x CDROM
Some users may find that they do not hear the CD audio music. This problem will be rectified in the final version of the game.

Memory Managers
You may find it necessary to remove EMM386.EXE from your CONFIG.SYS file.  Please refer to your DOS/WINDOWS user manual for instructions on how to do this.

Running from Hard Drive

To run this demo from your hard disk, you must:
1)	Run INSTALL as described above.
2)	Copy all of the files and the directory structure from your CD onto your hard drive.
3)	Edit the file called PATH.TXT and change the drive letter to your selected hard disk drive letter.
4)	Remember to run SETSOUND from your hard drive.
5)	Type 'TRILOGY' to run.