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- THE ORION CONSPIRACY
- ====================
-
- Interactive Demonstration
- --------------------------
-
- Copyright Divide By Zero 1995
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-
-
- DEMO DESCRIPTION
- ----------------
- The demo is a fully interactive segment of the game, including rendered
- sequences, voice-overs, sound effects and musical soundtrack.
-
- You play Devlin McCormack, a retired engineer who has been called to the
- Cerberus research station for the funeral of his son. After he arrives he
- discovers that his son's death was not an accident, and decides to investigate
- further.
-
- But there is another murder, and Devlin is accused of the crime.
-
- In this section from the game, Devlin is locked in the observation pod at the
- base of the space station, awaiting the next transport ship which will deliver
- him to the authorities.
-
- He must escape, so that he can prove his innocence and hunt down the real murderer.
-
- RUNNING THE DEMO
- ----------------
- Ensure that the current directory is the \ORION directory on the CD.
- Run SETUP.
- This will install the demo onto the player's hard drive.
- Type ORION to run game, or SETUP to reconfigure game options.
-
- DEMO REQUIREMENTS
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- 80386 33MHz or above
- VESA-compliant SuperVGA
- 1 Mb Hard Drive space
- At least 510K free Base Memory - more required for certain soundcard options
- At least 3Mb of Extended Memory (XMS) required
- (although interactive part of demo will run with less)
- Configuration possible with most soundcards
-
- PLAYING THE DEMO
- ----------------
-
- Move the cursor over the item you want to interact with. If you can, it's
- name will be printed by the cursor. You can click the left mouse button to
- bring up a menu of available options (if there is only one option it defaults
- to it automatically). Then, by either moving the mouse cursor over the options
- or cycling round them using the right mouse button, select the option you want
- with the left mouse button.
-
- The green arrow on the right of all option lists is for cancelling the
- interaction.
-
- If you move the cursor off the bottom of the screen you will access the
- Inventory. This can be deselected by either clicking on "Exit" or by moving the
- cursor back up to the play area. The Space Bar also toggles the Inventory on
- and off.
-
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- KEYBOARD CONTROLS
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- CURSOR KEYS Cursor movement
- RETURN Interact with item (left mouse button)
- TAB Bypass printed text (right mouse button)
- . Bypass spoken text
- SPACE Toggle inventory on/off
- ESC Jump past cut-scenes/ Quit from inventory
- ALT-J Recalibrate joystick
- CTRL-J Joystick mode
- CTRL-M Mouse mode
- F1 Pause game
- F8 / ALT-X Quit game
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-
- NOTICE:
-
- The Orion Conspiracy features profane language, which has been censored for
- this version, and is the reason for the gaps in the dialogue.
-
- The full game is UNCENSORED, so please do not purchase it if you are likely to
- be offended by verbal obscenities, graphical violence or gore.
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