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┌───────────────────────────────┐
│ F A T A L F U M E S │
│ │
│ Version 1.10 │
└───────────────────────────────┘
(c) Jussi Koskela 1997
Published by Spectrum Pacific Publishing
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
Parameters......................................3.2
Cup modes.......................................3.3
Registration............................................4
USA and Canada orders...........................4.1
Australia and New Zealand orders................4.2
Germany, Austria and Switzerland orders.........4.3
France orders...................................4.4
Czech Republic and Slovakia orders..............4.5
Scandinavia orders..............................4.6
Netherlands and Belgium orders..................4.7
Spain and Portugal orders.......................4.8
All other countries orders......................4.9
About Spectrum Pacific Publishing.......................5
Appendix A..............................................A
What's new in FF v1.10..........................A.1
About Fatal Fumes development team..............A.2
Contacting Fatal Fumes development team.........A.3
Credits.........................................A.4
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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
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 encourage you to register.
1.2 What is Fatal Fumes?
Fatal Fumes is a topdown car racing game like you have never experienced
before.
Featuring:
-Incredible steering touch
-Intelligent opponents
-Full screen 256 color parallax scrolling at incredible speed of 70 fps
-Six channel digital music + speech
-Beautiful art
-Enjoyable multi-screen tracks
1.3 Files
The shareware package should include all these files.
Do not modify or delete any of them!
FF.EXE Fatal Fumes executable
SETUP.EXE Sound setup
FFDATA.000-006 Data files
SWTRACKS.FF SW track file
README.DOC This documentation
ORDER.DOC Order form
ORD-AUS.DOC Order form for Australia and New Zealand
LICENSE.DOC User license agreement
FILE_ID.DIZ Short description of Fatal Fumes
GAME.CFG Player options
SOUND.CFG Created after running SETUP.EXE
FFUMES.PIF Windows PIF file
FFUMES.ICO Windows Icon file
MAKEBOOT.BAT Utility that makes a disk bootable
AUTOEXEC.WTI Becomes AUTOEXEC.BAT on the boot disk
CONFIG.WTI Becomes CONFIG.SYS on the boot disk
1.4 System requirements
Required
■ 486DX or better / 486DX2 66 for maximum performance
■ 535 kb free base memory (545kb for registered version)
■ 1.8 Mb hard drive space
■ 100% VGA compatible video card
Optional
■ 2 button mouse
■ SOUND BLASTER or compatible sound card + 3.2 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.x : If Fatal Fumes works slow turn music off.
Windows 95 : Works in fully configured MS-DOS mode.
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2. Getting started
2.1 Sound setup
Fatal Fumes supports Sound Blaster or 100% SB compatible sound cards.
Execute SETUP.EXE
If the setup program can't find your sound card's environment settings
it will ask for 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 cases you can start with the 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 and speech.
/NOMOUSE : Disables mouse.
/NOVESA : Disables SVGA mode.
/WAIT : Waits for key press after the game is loaded.
/HELP : Displays the command line parameter info.
2.3 Menu controls
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 / GAME SPEED)
by clicking the left or the right mouse button.
Keyboard controls
Select a button you want to push with arrow keys and press ENTER.
Select the right value for a parameter (for example LAPS / GAME SPEED)
by pressing ENTER or SPACE.
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3. Race Guide
3.1 Driving controls
Player 1 / 2 controls
UP arrow / W - accelerate
DOWN arrow / S - brake
LEFT arrow / A - turn left
RIGHT arrow / D - turn right
TAB - change camera view
PAUSE - pause the game
ESC - abort driving
3.2 Parameters (Race options menu)
Cup mode:
Select Scoring or Total time.
Laps:
Set the amount of laps per track. Valid values are from 1 to 12
with 5 being the default.
Game speed:
Adjust the speed to suit your skills. Valid values are
from 50% to 110% with 95% being the default.
Show last lap:
Setting this on activates a small ring that will show
the route you drove on previous lap.
Bounces:
Setting this on causes car to jump in the collisions
with other cars.
3.3 Cup modes
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 a single track is
(10 + 2 * amount of laps) seconds.
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4. Ordering information
The game is shareware so if you enjoy playing it, you are encouraged to
register it upon which you will receive the following:
■ 35 tracks
■ 12 great vehicles
■ 12 opponents
■ 2 player mode
■ Track editor
You can order Fatal Fumes directly from the following countries:
4.1 USA and Canada
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Webfoot Technologies, Inc.
P.O. Box 15
Lemont, IL 60439
USA
Toll Free (ORDERS ONLY!): 1-800-4WEBTEC (1-800-493-2832)
Fax Orders to: 1-630-257-0942
Questions: 1-630-257-1224
Tech support is available ONLY for registered users of this game!
E-mail: info@WebfootGames.com
Home site: www.WebfootGames.com
Anonymous FTP: ftp.WebfootGames.com
Price: $19.95
Add Shipping and Handling: $4.00
Pay by check, cashiers check, money order, Visa, MasterCard,
Discover or American Express
4.2 Australia and New Zealand
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Spectrum Pacific Publishing
P.O.Box 190
Cherrybrook NSW 2126
Australia
Tel: 02-9980-8900 (24-hour automated ordering service)
Fax: 02-9980-9723
E-mail: sales@SpectrumPacific.com.au
Home site: www.SpectrumPacific.com.au
Price: $24.95 (AUD) + $4 postage
Pay by cheque, money order, Visa, MasterCard or Bankcard.
4.3 Germany, Austria and Switzerland
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Lomax Software
Kettelerstr. 27
48485 Neuenkirchen
Deutschland
Preise:
FATAL FUMES 34.95 DM
Bestelltelefon: 05973 / 5724
Mo - Fr, 14:00 bis 18:00 Uhr
Die Lieferung erfolgt dann per
Post-Nachnahme (zuzuegl. 8,- DM)
Sie koennen natuerlich auch schriftlich bestellen! Fuer
Bestellungen innerhalb der BR Deutschland, benutzen Sie
hierfuer bitte das Bestell-formular "BESTELL.FRM".
Falls Sie eine Kreditkarte besitzen, koennen Sie die
Bestellung auch ganz bequem und sicher im Internet abwickeln,
und zwar unter:
http://www.lomaxsoft.simplenet.com/
Ein Besuch unserer Homepage lohnt sich auf jeden Fall, da
Sie auch alle aktuellen Sharewareversionen unserer anderen
Spiele dort kostenlos herunterladen koennen und ausserdem
auch auf Wunsch sofort ueber alle Neuveroeffentlichungen
und Updates per E-mail informiert werden koennen.
E-Mail: Lomaxsoft@aol.com
100625.1745@compuserve.com
ONLINE ORDERING POSSIBLE!
4.4 France
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Pour recevoir la version finale de Fatal Fumes, il vous suffit de
nous faire parvenir un cheque de 99 Francs a l'adresse suivante:
TLK Games
BP 24
81150 Florentin
France
Tel: 0563532637
Fax: 0563532011
E-mail: TLKGAMES@compuserve.com
Ou de nous passer commande par telephone muni de votre carte bleu.
Vous recevrez en cadeau TECNOBALLZ ainsi que la derniere version
de TLKTRON.
4.5 Czechia and Slovakia
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JIMAZ Ltd.
Hermanova 37
170 00 Praha 7
Czech Republic
Tel: +42-2-379498, +42-2-379870, +42-2-379871
Fax: +42-2-378103
E-mail: jimaz@jimaz.cz
Home site: www.jimaz.cz
Call for prices!
4.6 Scandinavia (Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland)
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Scandinavian Software Agency
Box 11
SE-124 21 Bandhagen
Sweden
Phone/Fax +46 8 99 70 37
E-mail: scand@softagency.se
Receive orders using the Postal Giro Services, Postgirot:
Denmark: pay 149DKK to account no: 1-649-6472
Finland: pay 125FIM to account no: 800057-1090161
Iceland: pay 1590ISK to account no: 602604
Norway: pay 159NOK to account no: 0806 1907581
Sweden: pay 159SEK to account no: 163 24 51 - 9
Credit Card customers using: American Express, Diners Club,
Eurocard, MasterCard or VISA are welcome.
4.7 Nederland en Belgie
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JeKa Software
Postbus 40
1440 AA Purmerend
Netherlands
Tel/Fax : 0299 - 423217 (vanuit Belgie : +31.299.423217)
E-mail : jkreitse@inter.nl.net
Giro : 72.32.978
ABN-AMRO : 44.08.43.308
Prijs : F 40.00 (inclusief btw)
Betaling vanuit Belgie :
- Eurocheque in guldens (voorkeur) -of-
- overschrijving naar onze giro of bank (Let op : bijkomende
kosten voor uw eigen rekening !)
Betaling vanuit Nederland :
- Overschrijving op giro/bank -of-
- cheque aan ons opsturen -of-
- verzending onder rembours (F 15.00 verzendkosten extra)
4.8 Spain and Portugal
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Cataleg Creatius, S.L.
Poeta Maragall, 1
08100 Mollet (Barcelona)
Spain
Tel: + 343 570 64 58
Fax: + 343 570 65 17
E-mail: Cataleg@SpainMail.com
Spain: Price: 2,995 Ptas
Postage and handling: 125 Ptas
Portugal: Price: 3,395 Escudos
Postage and handling: 150 Escudos
Pay by cheque, money order, Visa or Mastercard.
4.9 All other countries
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Spectrum Pacific Publishing
P.O.Box 190
Cherrybrook NSW 2126
Australia
Tel: 02-9980-8900 (24-hour automated ordering service)
Fax: 02-9980-9723
E-mail: sales@SpectrumPacific.com.au
Home site: www.SpectrumPacific.com.au
Price: $24.95 (AUD) + $8 postage
Pay by cheque, money order, Visa, MasterCard or Bankcard.
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5. Other products available from Spectrum Pacific Publishing
Visit our web site at http://www.SpectrumPacific.com.au for more
great games, including:
■ Inner Worlds
■ Yendorian Tales Chapter 2
■ Yendorian Tales - The Tyrants of Thaine
■ Powball
■ Slicks 'N' Slide
■ Subhunt
■ Bubble Pop
■ Delta Hydra
And more!
Contact us at: sales@SpectrumPacific.com.au
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Appendix A
A.1 What's new in FF v1.10
Version 1.10 08/06/1997
■ Individual opponents with portraits
■ New graphics engine
■ Commentator voice
■ All new tracks
■ New graphics
■ New music
■ New menu system
■ Improved opponent AI
■ Adjustable game speed
■ Adjustable car color
■ All major bugs removed
■ Real size cars
■ Even smoother parallax scrolling
■ Advanced game physics
Version 1.00 11/11/1996
A.2 About Fatal Fumes development team
We are a small Finnish group devoted in developing high quality
software on PC. Fatal Fumes is our first game and we hope you will
like it as much as we do. Now after finishing the version 1.10 we
will start developing new games. More details will appear on our
web site at www.sci.fi/~abax.
A.3 Contacting Fatal Fumes development team
If you have any ideas, questions, bug reports or comments please
feel free to contact us.
You can write in English or Finnish.
Mail:
Jussi Koskela
Kaenkatu 4 B 20
04230 Kerava
Finland, Europe
E-mail:
abax@sci.fi
Internet:
www.sci.fi/~abax
On our web site you will find:
-The newest version of Fatal Fumes.
-Lap records for all the shareware tracks.
-Tips and tactics for the game.
And a lot more!
A.4 Credits
Jussi Koskela: Game design
Programming
Graphics
Track design
Ville Koskela: Car handling
Track graphics
Track design
Opponent and player portraits
Mikko Viinikainen: Music
Kalevi Koskela: Photography