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- * ROAD & TRACK Presents *
- * The Need For Speed - PC/CD *
- * EA WEB SITE DEMO v1.0 *
- *******************************
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- HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
- ---------------------
- The minimum platform required is a 486 DX2-66 MHz CPU or higher
- with an SVGA VLB/PCI 512K video card, 8 MB of RAM (with 400K conventional
- and 7104K of XMS free)and 8 MB of Hard Drive Space.
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- RUNNING THE GAME
- ----------------
- This DEMO is designed to run on your hard drive.
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- To start the game, simply run the appropriate batch file that best suits
- the audio card on your machine. Please see the list below.
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- 1) SOUND BLASTER & COMPATIBLES (8-bit & 16-bit cards)
- type "runsb" for Sound Blaster
- type "runsbpro" for Sound Blaster Pro
- type "runsb16" for Sound Blaster 16/AWE
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- 2) GRAVIS ULTRASOUND (including MAX)
- type "rungus"
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- 3) WINDOW SOUND SYSTEM & COMPATIBLES
- type "runwss"
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- 4) NO SOUND
- type "nosound"
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- CONTROLS AND KEYS USED IN THE DEMO
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- If you have a joystick pluged in, and if it is calibrated, the game will
- use the joystick as the primary input control. If you do not have a joystick,
- or if you choose not to calibrate the joystick, then the keyboard will be
- used as the primary control. This demo defaults to Automatic shift.
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- JOYSTICK
- --------
- Left/Right - Steering
- Up/Down - Accelerate/Brake
- Button1/Button2 - Shift up/Shift down (Reverse, Neutral and Drive)
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- KEYBOARD
- --------
- Arrow left/right- Steering
- Arrow up/down - Accelerate/Brake
- A/Z - Shift up/Shift down (Reverse, Neutral and Drive)
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- OTHER KEYS
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- ESC - End game (press multiple times to exit to dos)
- Space - Hand Brake
- H - Car Horn
- P - Pause
- C - Change Camera view
- F9 - Dashless view
- F5 - Mute
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- CONFIGURING FOR BEST PERFORMANCE
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- For best "Need For Speed" performance on PC, the program checks to
- see what kind of system you have, and configures it appropriately.
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- If you have a 486 machine, you are limited to low-res support of
- the game. If you have a Pentium or better, you will get hi-res
- support for the game.
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- The following are some graphics detail funtions that is enabled
- during the game.
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- F1 - Adjust window size
- F2 - Adjust image quality
- - 2 levels for low-res (high, medium)
- - 5 levels for hi-res (high, medium, low, auto-medium, auto-low)
- F3 - Adjust view distance
- - 3 levels (far, medium, close)
- F4 - Toggle horizon on/off
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- FEATURE SET
- -----------
- NEED FOR SPEED will debut in September 1995... Look for it and
- for the following sampling of additional features...
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- TRACKS
- o 9 Open road segments.
- o 3 Closed circuit race tracks.
- o 1 Extra bonus track.
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- CARS
- o 7 Additional exotics, each with
- - Digitally sampled engine SFX.
- - Road & Track Statistics, Narration and Photography.
- - Full Motion Video
- - Accurate Handling and Driving Experience.
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- GAME MODES
- o 2 PLAYER direct or Modem link
- o Time Trials - Race against the clock
- o Head to Head - One on One on any track
- o Single Race - Race with 'The Pack'
- o Tournament - Race for the Championship & access to the Bonus Track
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- REPLAYS
- o Full Regular and Cinematic Replay
- o 8 Dynamic Replay Camera View Angles
- o Load and Save those exciting events...
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- PROBLEMS RUNNING THE DEMO
- -------------------------
- This release of this DEMO may have problems running on machines with QEMM
- memory managers,or with shadow ram enabled. If you should encounter problems,
- the easiest solution is to make a boot disk with the following recommended
- settings.
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- **************************<config.sys>*******************************
- DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
- BUFFERS=30,0
- FILES=40
- DOS=UMB
- DOS=HIGH
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- SHELL=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /E:1024 /P
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- rem *ENTER YOUR OWN CD-ROM DRIVER HERE*
- example: DEVICE=C:\CDROM\NEC_IDE.SYS /D:NECCDO
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- *******************<autoexec.bat> (QEMM USERS ONLY)*******************
- Modify your own autoexec.bat file so that any indication of "QEMM" is
- not being executed.
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- example: change "C:\QEMM\LH <stuff>" to "LH <stuff>"
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- ( Electronic Arts is a trademark of, and The Need For Speed is a trademark
- of Electronic Arts. ROAD & TRACK is a registered trademark of Hachette
- Filipacchi Magazines, Inc, used under license by Electronic Arts. )
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