The FILE menu is used when CinC is started to begin a new game or to resume a saved game and when stopped between rounds to save the game, print the world map and exit the program.
NEW:
Select the NEW option to start a new game. When this is selected, a graphic is shown indicating that a new world is under construction. Making a new world may take several minutes ( but much less than six days ). Construction completes with a dialog with eleven buttons. Ten of them are numbered 1 through 10 and are used to select the desired game difficulty. Difficulty 10 is the most challanging. Not all difficulty values are available on every map, so some of the buttons may be dimmed and are inactive. Click one of the active difficulty buttons to start a game. If the desired difficulty is not available, click the New World button and the construction process will be repeated. Note that calculating difficulty values is not an exact science.
OPEN:
Select the OPEN option to resume a game saved with the SAVE or SAVE AS options.
SAVE:
Select the SAVE option to save the state of the game in progress. If the current game does not have a file name assigned to it, you will be asked for one. If a name was given to the game in a previous SAVE or the game was resumed using the OPEN option, the remembered name will be used.
SAVE AS:
Select the SAVE AS... option to save the state of the game in progress with a new name. The name you supply becomes the name assigned to the game.
PRINT:
Select the PRINT option to print the map of the world. When the Enemy has surrendered, you are allowed to look at the Enemy and Real maps. The map that is printed is the one that is displayed.
[ Currently, the PRINT option uses two dialogs to select style options. The combination that has been found to work best is Legal and Wide. ]
QUIT:
Select the QUIT option to exit the program. If you have played any rounds since the last save and the Enemy has not surrendered, a dialog will give you the opportunity to SAVE before the exit or cancel the option.
