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- ADVANCED TACTICAL FIGHTERS UTILITY v0.9 BETA
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- an utility for A.T.F.
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- written 1995,1996 by Bart Kamps, release date 05/MAY/96
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- OVERVIEW
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- 1. (DE)INSTALLATION
- 2. HOW TO USE IT
- 3. WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
- 4. KNOWN PROBLEMS
- 5. CHANGES BETWEEN VERSIONS
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- 1. (DE)INSTALLATION
- -------------------
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- To install A.T.F. Utility, copy all the files to the directory
- where you've installed the game. You can start the utility by
- running ATFUTIL.BAT
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- If you want to deinstall this utility, simply command DEL ATFUTIL*.*
- and all files used by this utility will be deleted.
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- 2. HOW TO USE IT
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- Basically you'll only need four keys for this program: CURSOR UP,
- CURSOR DOWN, ENTER and ESC. With the CURSOR keys you can go through
- the menu's and select your choice with ENTER or back up a menu with
- ESC. From the main menu ESC will quit the utility. There is no mouse
- support, sorry. If a pilot or mission will be deleted, the program
- will ask you a confirmation by pressing Y.
-
- The following functionalities are offered:
-
-
- --- PILOT CHEATS
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- - Select any mission
- You can select any mission from one of the campaigns to play, so
- you don't need to play the campaigns in order or you can just play
- your favourite missions from a campaign again. If your pilot is in
- the Egyptian campaign, a list of all missions from this campaign is
- show. The same for the other campaigns. If your pilot is not in a
- campaign (after finishing one f.e.), you can't select this option.
-
- - Undead pilot
- Arggh! You were killed in action and you had already played half the
- campaign and now you can't use your pilot anymore. With this undead
- feature you can bring him back alive and play on. Even if you're
- busted or MIA, this cheat will put you back in the skies. If you're
- not KIA/MIA/busted you can't select this option.
-
- - Reset mission failures
- Your superiors are getting though on you, one more failure and you're
- fired. To soften the pressure reset your mission failures and you can
- again mess up a couple of missions without being fired. If you have
- no mission failures or you're dead, then you can't select this option.
-
- - Reset mission failures
- Delete the selected pilot for ever. A confirmation is asked.
-
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- --- MODIFY CUSTOM MISSIONS
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- - Select any aircraft
- Create a custom mission in A.T.F. and then use this option to change
- your aircraft to any aircraft from the game. Be aware that a B-52 can't
- take off from a small airfield, etc. This logic is all up to you.
-
- - Create mission briefing
- If a selected mission has no mission briefing file (.MT), this option
- will make a default mission briefing, which thereafter can easily be
- completed by selecting 'edit mission briefing' and fill in all the
- bracketed { } sections.
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- - Edit mission briefing
- The mission briefings have to be written with a text editor. This option
- allows you to easily start the editor with the selected mission. See the
- file BRIEFING.TXT in your A.T.F. directory for information on how to write
- these briefings. If the mission has no mission briefing (.MT file), you
- will edit an empty file. You can't use this option if no mission briefing
- file exists, use 'create mission briefing' first then.
-
- - Edit mission
- If you're an advanced mission writer, it might be handy to edit the
- mission file with a text editor, to make changes that the A.T.F. editor
- in the game won't allow you to do.
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- - Delete mission or mission/briefing
- Deletes the selected mission and briefing if any. A confirmation is asked.
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- --- OTHERS
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- - Play A.T.F.
- This options starts ATF.BAT which will run the game.
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- - View README
- Starts an editor with this file you're reading now.
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- - About
- Shows information on author, version, etc.
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- 3. WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW
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- This utility works only with A.T.F. and is not tested on foreign
- versions of A.T.F, users of 'non-standard' A.T.F. versions beware.
- If you have another version than v1.0xx you'll get a warning message
- if you start the utility.
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- Although the program is tested thoroughly, it's always possible that
- your pilot or mission files are messed up by this utility. So it is
- wise (and probably not necessary) to backup your pilot and mission
- files, or don't use this utility one the pilots or missions that
- are important to you. I.e. create a new pilot and use this pilot
- for all the cheats you want to use.
-
- This utility assumes that an EDIT program is in your path (usually
- the DOS EDIT.COM program). Otherwise you won't be able to edit the
- missions files or view this readme file from the utility. If you use
- another editor, your can create a batch EDIT.BAT file including a line
- like this: CALL C:\PATH\MYEDITOR.EXE %1 and put this batch file in
- your A.T.F. directory.
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- This utility comes with the following files:
- ATFUTIL.BAT - the batch file to start A.T.F. Utility
- ATFUTIL00.EXE - the main program
- ATFUTIL.TXT - this readme file
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- When running this utility, the following files will be created:
- ATFUTIL.DAT - configuration file holding your cursor position, etc.
- ATFUTIL00.BAT - temporary batch file to execute A.T.F. and EDIT
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- 4. KNOWN PROBLEMS
- -----------------
-
- I didn't check all disk I/O for errors, so you might get a runtime
- error if you have a unhealthy harddisk or if your harddisk is completely
- full. Your problem really. With a good hard disk, you should have no
- problems.
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- Not all mission names are included for both campaigns, so you'll have to
- do it with only the mission number. Future releases will include more or
- all of them.
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- 5. CHANGES BETWEEN VERSIONS
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- This document goes with version 0.9B of ATFUTIL, here is an overview
- of the changes between versions.
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- 0.9B 05/06/96 First release
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- _________________
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- Have fun!
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- This utility is written by Bart Kamps, email kamps@cs.utwente.nl,
- maintainer of the unofficial ATF homepage on WWW:
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- http://wwwedu.cs.utwente.nl/~kamps/atf.html
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- You're allowed to distribute this utility freely, as long as you
- don't make any changes to it and include all the stuff that should
- go with it. Comprendo?
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- Advanced Tactical Fighters is a trademark of Electronic Arts, Inc.
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