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- SILENCER
-
- Developed By: Mind Control Software
- (c) 1996 Strategic Simulations, Inc. A MINDSCAPE Company
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- INSTALLATION:
- From within the Win95 Explorer or desktop, drag the entire directory
- structure for Silencer from the CD-Rom to your hard-disk. You can then
- begin the game by clicking on the icon for Silencer.
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- NOTES ON USE:
- The DirectX package must be installed on your system play Silencer.
- Double-click on 'dxsetup.exe' in the silencer\redist\directx directory of
- this CD.
-
- You must have also installed direct-draw drivers for your video card for
- Silencer to run properly. These drivers might have come with windows-95,
- but cards purchased before Win-95's introduction or those that shipped
- with win-3.1 drivers will not work. Most people receive updated drivers
- from either the web-site or ftp-site of their graphics-card manufacturer.
-
- If you are running with a 1MB graphics card, Silencer may run very slowly
- or not at all. Silencer has not yet been optimized for a 1MB graphics card.
-
- This demo version of silencer requires a machine with approximately 24MB
- of free ram. This usually requires a 32 MB system. Silencer will ship
- with a 16MB ram requirement.
-
- Known problems:
- matrox graphics cards
- ensonic sound-scape
-
- To disable sound on any system, modify:
- silencer.cfg
-
- so that the value following
- sound_on
- is 0
-
- All the game play information for silencer can be found in SILENCER.TXT.
- What follows is an abbreviated list of key commands:
-
- ESC Exit current mode
- F12 Exit out immediately (useful for exiting multi-player if one system doesn't respond)
- MOVEMENT Arrow keys
- CTRL Fire
- SPACE-BAR Open door, use teleport, let go of ladder while climbing
- / Camera mode. Hold "/", left and right arrows change camera
- 1-6 Weapons
- a Change ammo for current weapon
- The ammo types for weapon 6 are different grenades
- To throw a grenade, tap the CTRL key or hold CTRL and hit a
- direction key. The last type of grenade ('spy') requires that the
- user hold the camera button to view the location of the grenade,
- and tap the CTRL button to detonate it.
- CAPS-LOCK Allows you to type a cheat code. Press enter to complete it or
- caps-lock again to abort it. 'FBI' gives you all the weapons and
- lots of health. 'FPS' displays frame rate information.
-
- You can jump while running
- Holding the UP arrow while jumping to a ladder will grab ahold
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- NOTES ON MULTI-PLAYER: Silencer currently runs with 2 multi-player opponents.
- The shareware version will support between 4 and 8. Select Network Game from
- the main menu. Select IPX. One player chooses Create. One player chooses
- Connect. The connecting player must then press enter.
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- Enjoy this demo version of Silencer until the shareware version becomes
- available, Summer 1996.
-
- Developed by:
- -Mind Control Software-
- (c)1996 Strategic Simulations, Inc. A MINDSCAPE Company
-
- Questions & Comments, contact:
- Scott Cuthbertson, Producer (408) 737-6800 x192 Scuthbertson@mindscape.com
- Karen "KC" Conroe, Marketing Manager (408) 737-6800 x177 Kconroe@mindscape.com
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