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- F A T A L F U M E S
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- by ABAX SOFTWARE
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- Reference manual for shareware version
- 5.11.1996
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- Fatal Fumes and all material in this manual are (C) Jussi Koskela 1996
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- CONTENTS
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- Before you start........................................1
- Introduction....................................1.1
- What is Fatal Fumes.............................1.2
- Files...........................................1.3
- System requirements.............................1.4
- Supported operating systems.....................1.5
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- Getting started.........................................2
- Sound setup.....................................2.1
- Loading the game................................2.2
- Menu controls...................................2.3
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- Race Guide..............................................3
- Driving controls................................3.1
- Cup modes.......................................3.2
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- Registering.............................................4
- Why should I register?..........................4.1
- How to register.................................4.2
- Rights of a registered gamer....................4.3
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- Appendix A..............................................A
- About ABAX SOFTWARE.............................A.1
- Contacting us...................................A.2
- Credits.........................................A.3
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- 1. Before you start
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- USE THIS SOFTWARE AT YOUR OWN RISK. EVEN THOUGH FATAL FUMES HAS BEEN
- THOROUGHLY TESTED ON VARIOUS SYSTEMS THE AUTHOR HAS NO LIABILITY FOR ANY
- POSSIBLE DAMAGE CAUSED BY FATAL FUMES.
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- YOU MAY NOT MODIFY ANY FILES OF FATAL FUMES OR THIS MANUAL.
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- 1.1 Introduction
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- Welcome to the shareware version of Fatal Fumes.
- Thank you for your interest for this game. As you have copied or downloaded
- this free of charge vesion you have already helped us to succeed.
- But your mission is not yet over. You have to copy this game to all your
- friends and distribute it everywhere, so everyone could enjoy it.
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- This shareware version should give you a good foretaste of all you will
- get when you register. If you like this game and continue playing it after
- an evaluation period of 30 days we really recommend you to register.
- You will get the full version of Fatal Fumes and we'll get a little fee
- for our work.
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- 1.2 What is Fatal Fumes?
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- Fatal Fumes is a car racing game like you have experienced never before.
- Featuring:
- -Incredible steering touch
- -Intelligent opponents
- -Full screen 256 color parallax scrolling at incredible speed of 70 fps
- -Six channel digital music
- -Beautiful art
- -Enjoyable multi-screen tracks
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- 1.3 Files
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- The shareware paggage should include all these files.
- Do not modify or delete any of them!
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- FF.EXE Fatal Fumes executable
- SETUP.EXE Sound setup
- INSTALL.EXE Install program
- DATA000.JUS Datafile
- DATA001.JUS Datafile
- DATA002.JUS Datafile
- DATA003.JUS Datafile
- DATA004.JUS Datafile
- DATA005.JUS Datafile
- DATA006.JUS Datafile
- SWTRACKS.JUS Datafile
- FFMANUAL.TXT This documentation
- FILE_ID.DIZ Fatal Fumes description
- GAME.CFG Sound configuration file (created after setup)
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- 1.4 System requirements
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- Required
- -486SX or better / 486DX 50 for maximum performance
- -530 kb free base memory
- -1.0 Mb hard drive space
- -100% VGA compatible video card
- Optional
- -2 button mouse
- -SOUND BLASTER or compatible sound card + 2.5 Mb XMS memory
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- 1.5 Supported operating systems
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- DOS : Fatal Fumes is designed to be run directly from DOS.
- OS/2 Warp DOS session : Works fine when vertical retrace is set on.
- Windows 3.0 / 3.1 : Seems to be slow. Try turning music off.
- Windows 95 : Works in fully configured MS-DOS mode.
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- 2. Getting started
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- 2.1 Sound setup
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- Fatal Fumes supports Sound Blaster or 100% compatible sound cards.
- Tested with Sound Blaster 2.01, Sound Blaster 16, GUS and GUS MAX cards.
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- Execute SETUP.EXE
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- If the setup program can't find your sound card's environment settings
- it will ask IRQ, DMA channel and I/O port settings for your sound device.
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- 2.2 Loading the game
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- To load Fatal Fumes run FF.EXE
- In special situations you can start with following command line parameters:
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- /DMA : Tests the sound card's DMA speed. Use this parameter always
- if the music plays in wrong speed.
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- /NOSOUND : Disables music.
- /NOMOUSE : Disables mouse.
- /WAIT : Waits for key press after the game is loaded.
- /HELP : Displays the command line parameter info.
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- 2.3 Menu controls
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- If you have a mouse and a mouse driver installed the default control device
- is mouse. To change to keyboard control start the game with /NOMOUSE
- parameter or select mouse off from options menu.
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- Mouse controls
- Move cursor over a button you want to push and click the left mouse button.
- Select the right value for a parameter (for example LAPS / OPPONENTS)
- by clicking left or right mouse button.
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- Keyboard controls
- Select button you want to push with UP and DOWN arrows and press ENTER.
- Select the right value for a parameter (for example LAPS / OPPONENTS)
- by pressing LEFT or RIGHT arrow.
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- 3. Race
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- 3.1 Driving controls
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- Player 1 controls
- UP arrow - accelerate
- DOWN arrow - brake
- LEFT arrow - turn left
- RIGHT arrow - turn right
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- TAB - change camera view
- PAUSE - pause the game
- ESC - abort driving
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- 3.2 Cup modes
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- F1 scoring
- The winner is the driver who scores highest points on selected tracks.
- Scoring by place on each track:
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- 1st 10 points
- 2nd 6 points
- 3rd 4 points
- 4th 3 points
- 5th 2 points
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- Total time
- In this cup mode the driver with the fastest total time on selected tracks
- is the winner. Notice : The maximum time one can lose on single track is
- (10 + 2 * amount of laps) seconds.
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- 4. Registering
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- 4.1 Why should I register?
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- Because you love Fatal Fumes you must have some idea how much time we have
- spent making it. Giving you this evaluation version totally free has been
- really fair from us. Now it's your turn to be fair and send your little
- donation to support our work.
- As if this wasn't a reason good enough you will also receive an advanced
- version of Fatal Fumes that makes your racing experience even more furious!
- The registered version comes with an easy-to-use TRACK EDITOR,
- over 40 TRACKS, 12 CARS, fancy NEW GRAPHICS, a TWO PLAYER GAME MODE etc.
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- 4.2 How to register
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- Read the ORDERING INFO from the game menu.
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- 4.3 Rights of a registered gamer
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- As a registered gamer you will HAVE RIGHT TO:
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- 1. You may install the game on only one computer.
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- 2. You have right to Replace a broken Fatal Fumes disk by sending it back
- to us within 60 days from the day it was sent to you by us.
- After the 60 day period include five U.S. dollars to cover the expences.
- Note that only the first disk replacement is free and for following
- replacements you MUST include five U.S. dollars.
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- 3. You have right to copy freely any track file of Fatal Fumes.
- Asking any payment for track files is strictly forbidden!
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- As a registered gamer you will NOT HAVE RIGHT TO:
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- 1. As you have already familiarized yourself with the shareware version
- of Fatal Fumes you do not have right to return us the registered version.
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- 2. You may not copy, transfer or reproduce any part of Fatal Fumes or this
- documentation except the backups made for your own use.
- THIS MEANS THAT YOU MAY NOT GIVE AWAY OR SELL COPIES OF YOUR REGISTERED
- VERSION OF FATAL FUMES. IF YOU SELL YOUR -ORIGINAL- FATAL FUMES DISK
- YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO USE FATAL FUMES ANY LONGER ON YOUR COMPUTER.
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- Appendix A
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- A.1 About ABAX SOFTWARE
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- Abax Software is a small group in Finland devoted in developing
- high quality software on PC. Yet we want to keep our prices low so that
- everyone can afford it.
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- Fatal Fumes is our first project ever to see the daylight. Its development
- started in summer 1995 and even though we are launching it now in
- November 1996 we shall continue developing it and making it even better!
- Expect to see some major updates in the year 1997. All updates will be
- free of charge and available from many BBSs.
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- Check out also our possibly upcoming WWW site:
- http://www.abax.sci.fi
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- Ville Koskela's personal WWW site:
- http://www.hut.fi/~vkoskela
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- A.2 Contacting us
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- If you have some ideas, questions, bug reports or comments concerning
- Fatal Fumes feel free to contact us.
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- Write in English or Finnish, please.
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- Mail:
- Jussi Koskela
- Kaenkatu 4 B 20
- 04230 Kerava
- Finland, Europe
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- E-mail:
- mikko.viinikainen@mbnet.fi
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- A.3 Credits
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- Jussi Koskela: Game design
- Programming
- Graphics
- Track design
- Manual
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- Mikko Viinikainen: Music
- Track design
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- Ville Koskela : Car physics
- Additional graphics
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- Kalevi Koskela : Photography
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