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- Information text to Playable demo of Ignition
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- Legal stuff
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- (C) 1997 Virgin Interactive Entertainment (Europe) Limited.
- Virgin is a registered trade mark of Virgin Enterprises Limited. All
- rights reserved.
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- Welcome
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- Thanks for downloading the playable demo of Ignition, the new hi-speed car
- racing game from Virgin Interactive and UDS.
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- How to run
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- First of all this playable demo of Ignition is designed for Windows 95(tm) and
- directX(tm) only (The full game comes in both Windows 95(tm) and DOS versions).
- If you don't have directX 3.0 or higher installed on your computer you can
- download it for free from Micosoft(tm) at:
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- http://www.microsoft.com/mediadev/download/isdk.htm
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/pr/win95osr.htm
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- If the demo replies with a dialog box saying "Can find dinstall.dll" when you
- start it you does not have directX 3.0 or higer installed.
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- When you have installed directX you just doubleclick on the Ign_demo.exe icon
- and the demo starts. No more installation is required.
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- Keys
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- Use the arrow keys and return to go through the menu.
- Esc gets you back to the previous level.
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- In the game, use the arrow keys to control your car.
- Use the right shift key to get a turbo boost and the
- apostrophe key to check what's happening behind you.
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- Features in the full game
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- * Ignition includes seven extremely well designed
- tracks. Jump out from waterwalls, over canyons or
- over roads and huge steeps. Select your route when
- the track splits up. Watch out for falling rocks,
- tornados and avalanches. Race along the railway or
- take a shortcut over the airport runway.
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- * Select your car from eleven exotic vehicles like a
- police car, school bus or monster truck.
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- * Play single, two player splitscreen or multiplayer
- LAN, modem or serial link.
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- * Four different race modes: championship, single
- race, training and pursue mode.
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- * Advanced computer-controlled cars that also make
- mistakes like spinning and crashing.
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- * Transparent skidmarks, smoke, sparks and fire add
- a new level of realism to the game.
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- * Transparent textures create great water effects
- never yet seen in a racing game on the PC.
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- * Weather effects like rain, fog and snow.
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- * Realtime anti-aliasing takes the visuals to
- arcade-machine heights in even the lower
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- * Optional mip mapping.
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- * Keyboard, joystick or steering-wheel control.
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- For more information
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- Visit www.uds.se or www.vie.co.uk at the internet for more information.
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