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- R O A D W A R R I O R
- copyright 1995 GAMETEK INC.
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- MEMORY Requirements
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- Roadwarrior requires 8 Megabytes of system memory
- RW needs 500 KB of LOW MEMORY (below 640 k barrier)
- in addition RW requires 7.2 MB of EXTENDED RAM
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- VIDEO
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- Roadwarrior runs in a 640x400 VESA mode. Some video cards need to run a
- TSR program to invoke this VESA mode. Contact your Video card vendor or
- refer to your video card manual if you are having diffculty running in
- this resolution. We have included the ability to run the game in 640x480
- resolution automatically on startup for cards without support for
- 640x400, however for optimum performance 640x400 is recomended.
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- SOUND
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- If you are having dificulty initializing a Soundblaster "COMPATABLE" card,
- try using the Soundblaster PRO setting. Other sounblaster choices may work
- as well.
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- DETAIL LEVELS
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- Standard VGA Low detail (320x200) is recomended for 486/66 or lower machines.
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- WINDOWS 95
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- **Note : Road Warrior must be run in an exclusive MS-DOS mode.
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- 1. Open the Windows Explorer. (Go to Start, then Programs and then
- Windows Explorer)
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- 2. Find the directory into which Road Warrior has been installed.
- (The default is C:\ROADWAR)
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- 3. Find the file named RoadWar. Single click and hold down the left
- mouse button on the file and drag the file to the desktop.
- (Game can also be run by double clicking on the file named roadwar)
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- 4. You should now have a RoadWar icon on your desktop.
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- 5. If you did not install the game in the default directory you will have
- to manually change the properties of the icon. (See next section)
- Otherwise double clicking on the icon should now run Road Warrior.
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- Manually Changing the Desktop Icon Path
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- 1. Right click on the RoadWar icon and select Properties
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- 2. Click on the Program tab at the top of the dialog.
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- 3. Beside the heading Cmd line, change the entry to point to the path
- that you selected for Road Warrior. The executable file is
- named rw.exe. (the default should have been C:\ROADWAR\RW.EXE)
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- 4. Next select the Change Icon button.
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- 5. The icon file is named Road.ico. Change the File Name entry to point
- to the Road.ico file in the path that you selected for the
- installation of Road Warrior.
- (You can use the Browse option if required.)
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- 6. When done select OK.
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- 7. Finally select OK in the RoadWar Properties dialog.
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- 8. Double clicking on the icon should now run Road Warrior.
- (**Note: Windows may give you a warning that it cannot find
- the working folder and ask if you would like to continue.
- Select Yes to continue.)
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- Possible Problems
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- 1. In order for Road Warrior to run under Windows 95 your DOS mode
- must be properly set up for your CD-ROM drive, (both CD-ROM
- drivers and MSCDEX are required) and yoursound card. Please
- refer to your CD-ROM, Sound Card, and Windows 95 manuals to
- ensure that these are setup correctly.
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- HINTS & TIPS
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- Keep your vehicles speed under control. Tapping the accelerator is
- the best way to maintain a comfortable speed in Roadwarrior, of course
- decelerate for the corners, with a little practice you will learn the
- optimum speed for any given situation without losing control on the
- corners. learn to anticipate the corners and react to them well in
- advance. Remember the Hover Vehicles in RW are capable of turning on a
- dime, so anticipate a possible last minute turn from your quarry.
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- Don't shoot at everything in the game! Ammuntion and Time are limited,
- use your 'T' key (TARGETING) to choose the next relevent target, seek
- that target out as fast as possible and SMOKE IT! The best skill in
- Roadwarrior to develop is tenatious driving habits, learn to avoid the
- hazards and enemies that block the path to your objective.
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- On the mission map screen, after carefully reviewing the mission
- objectives, take a moment to look at some of the enemies. You can cycle
- through them with the left and right arrow keys. Also it is important
- to remember that when you exit the map your WAYFINDER will be locked
- on to the last thing selected by your arrow keys. Of course once on
- the mission you can use your 'T' key to set your wayfinder on a new
- target.
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- Ramming and disrupting a vehicle is a good way to buy some time time
- and slow it up so you can nail it with some weapons. Also the act of
- ramming does damage as well.
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- Fire missiles carefully as certain types have a 'recycle' time until
- their ready for the next shot.
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- Experiment with the diferent views for different situations. For example
- the full screen 'bumper view'is great for airborne threats.
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- Don't follow your wayfinder literally. If it is pointing to say NORTH-EAST
- but your target is 4 KM away you can continue to travel north and east at
- your discretion. Only when you are very CLOSE to your target should you
- choose to follow the wayfinder exactly.
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- SUPPORT
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- Gametek offers full support for ROADWARRIOR via Compuserve.
- Log onto COMPUSERVE then choose GO GAMBPUB, once there choose GAMETEK
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- In addition developer support may be available via Internet newsgroups at
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action
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