Dominator 4/Dominator 4.iso/settlers/readme.txt

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The Settlers - Demo Version


Information:

You have probably heard of the game "The Settlers".
You may have read about it, or a friend may have
mentioned it. The fact that the Amiga version of this
game has scooped up all kinds of awards will not
have escaped the notice of an attentive observer of
the software market such as yourself. Now you have the
opportunity to test the PC-version and form your own
opinion. You can try out a range of functions to
experience the fascination of "The Settlers".

Please bear in mind that this is merely a demo version
of the game. Many of the game functions (as, for example,
support for the SVGA mode) have not been included, and
game time is limited to one hour only. After this time,
the program will automatically return to the main screen.


Starting the game:

The current demo version will only run in DOS. You should,
therefore, enter DOS and change to the CD directory
"\ENGLISH\DEMOS\SETTLERS".

Simply enter "SETTLERS".

Sound card users start the game with
"sb" for Soundblaster,
"sbp" for Soundblaster-Pro,
"pas" for Pro-Audio-Spectrum or
"algold" for Adlib Gold.

The demo version assumes certain standard values for IRQ etc.
In case of problems, you should start the demo version without
sound.


Controls:

The whole game is controlled with the mouse. If there are two
players, the second player will use the joystick.

After loading, the title screen appears. One click will take you
to the main menu. On the left center of the screen you can select
the game type. Choose between 'demonstration' (if you wish to
observe a game), one player or two player mode. Up to four players
are shown in the lower half of the screen. The three bars next to
their pictures represent initial stores (blue), intelligence (green)
and birth rate (red).

Click START on your left. The computer will generate the game world,
and play commences. A segment of the game world appears on the monitor,
and five symbols are shown at the bottom.

We will now refer to game world segment as the "screen", the five symbols
are the "menu". You will come across the term "special click"; this means
that you do not only click the left mouse button, but you must hold
down the right mouse button at the same time. Holding right and
clicking left is the "special click".

First you need to know how to move your view. Hold down the right mouse
button and move the mouse in the direction you wish to view. For greater
distances you should use the map. Click the map symbol in the menu at the
bottom of the screen, and a game world map will appear. Simply click at
any point on the map, and the screen will shift to this point.

Your first move in the game is placing your palace or headquarters.
Large buildings like the palace require fairly evenly lawned areas. It is
not always easy to find a suitable site, and you may wish to use the
appropriate help function:

When you special click on the left menu symbol, all potential building
sites on the screen are highlighted. Select a suitable site by clicking
it on-screen, and click the new menu option "Build palace" (left).
The palace will appear bit by bit. The palace is the only building
you are given "for free"; all further buildings must be constructed
by your settlers in the course of the game. The borders of your territory
are shown as posts and buoys. You can construct your settlement within
these borders.

When building houses, first you have to select a suitable site on the
screen (you may use the same help function as above for choosing the site)
and click on the left symbol (Build). Several types of buildings will appear.
Select the one you want. An arrow in the lower left hand corner means
that additional pages are available. After you have chosen a building site,
a foundation stone or cross for major buildings will appear to mark the site
on the screen.

Before you can start construction, you need to build an access road between
the site and your castle. Roads always link two flags. Click on one of the
flags on screen. This will call up the symbol "Build Road" on the menu. Select
this symbol. New symbols required for road construction will now appear around
the flag. A red and yellow striped symbol means that the road cannot be extended
in this direction. The other symbols indicate the gradients of the territory,
ranging from "very steep incline" to "very steep drop". The gradient is not
overly important at first, and you may simply take these symbols to indicate
that you can extend the road in these directions. Just click one of these
symbols on the screen, and the road will be extended piece by piece in the
desired direction. Continue the road until you have reached the other flag
to connect your palace and the construction site.

Now your settlers will start their work. A man will appear from the palace.
He is in charge of transporting materials along the new road. A second man
with a yellow helmet will make his way towards the construction site to start
the building work, or a man with an orange helmet will prepare the site with
a shovel.

Wood and bricks are taken to the construction site from the palace. After some
time, the building is finished, and a further man now leaves the palace to take
up residence in the new building and start carrying out his profession. In the
meantime, you can initiate other building and road projects. In order to expand
your territory, you need to construct a guard post, tower or castle. As soon as
one of these is finished and a knight has moved in, the boundary will be moved
back so that you are given more space to build houses.

The two boxes on the right of the menu provide access to a range of statistics
and special set-up menus that require more detailed explanations than can be
included in this short guide.

We hope you have found these quick instructions both informative and useful for
the construction of your first settlement, although we only had enough space
to mention the very basics.

Your Blue Byte Team, February 1995