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- Strike Commander Version F1.4
- -----------------------------
-
- This README file contains important information about Strike Commander
- which did not make it into the manuals. Please read this file completely.
-
- Contents:
- ---------
-
- 1. High Memory Required for Play
- 2. Warning for people with non-Microsoft mouse drivers.
- 3. Warning for people with 16 Meg of RAM or greater.
- 4. Warning about changing hardware.
- 5. Player Score
- 6. Engine Noise
- 7. Damage MFD
- 8. Radar and IR Warning Lights
- 9. Reference Card Errata
- 10. Thrustmaster and Flight Stick Pro
- 11. Thrustmaster Weapon Control System DIP Switches
- 12. CH GameCard III Automatic
- 13. Rookie, Veteran and Ace Options
- 14. Unlimited Ammo Option
- 15. SCSI Drive Problem
- 16. CD-ROM Drive Problem
- 17. Saved Game Limit
- 18. Show Weapons
- 19. Soundblaster auto-detection
- 20. Creating a Boot Disk
- 21. QEMM's OPTIMIZE program
- 22. DOS version SMARTDRV.SYS
- 23. Re-Installing and New Versions of DOS
- 24. Strike Commander and DOS 6.00+
- 25. If You Still Have Trouble...
-
-
- 1. Extended Memory Required for Play
- --------------------------------------------
-
- The Installation Guide for Strike Commander states that a minimum of
- 2.1 Megs of availiable extended memory is required to play the game with
- no sound and with bare minimum detail level. This number is incorrect.
- You actually need a BARE MINIMUM of 2.5 Megs of available extended memory
- to play the game.
-
-
- 2. Warning for people with non-Microsoft mouse drivers
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
-
- You may experience trouble running Strike Commander with a non-Microsoft
- (or 100 percent compatible) mouse driver. If you do, any of the
- following steps should fix the problem:
-
- 1. Replace the mouse driver with a Microsoft mouse driver.
- 2. Disconnect your mouse and use your keyboard or joystick instead.
- 3. Remove the mouse driver and use your keyboard or joystick instead.
-
-
- 3. Warning for people with 16 Meg of RAM or greater
- -----------------------------------------------------------
-
- Because direct memory access (DMA) will not work with memory addresses
- above 16 megabytes, the digitized speech of Strike Commander may not work
- correctly on machines with large amounts of memory. If you hear static
- in the game when speech would be more appropriate, then this
- problem could be occurring.
-
- The best solution is to remove your memory manager and let the game
- supply the high memory using its own memory manager.
-
- See the installation manual for more details on memory configuration.
-
-
- 4. Warning about changing hardware
- ------------------------------------------
-
- If you change your hard drive and video card, you must reinstall
- Strike Commander or the game will not work correctly.
- Symptoms of this not working correctly include not being
- able to set the plane's throttle above MIL 2. If this is happening to
- you, do not panic. Simply reinstall the game. Your saved games will
- remain intact. You can also copy your saved games to a floppy for
- backup purposes without any harm to them. Simply copy all of the files
- in the Strike Commander directory that have the extension .SAV to
- a safe place.
-
-
- 5. Player Score
- -----------------------
-
- The game keeps a running total score of how well the player is doing.
- You can look at your score by pressing Alt-S during the cinematic
- option screens. To maximize your score, play the game with the Ace
- options.
-
-
- 6. Engine Noise
- -----------------------
-
- Strike Commander cannot simultaneously run both music and engine noise.
- If you want to hear the engine noise, turn the music off.
-
-
- 7. Radar and IR Warning Lights
- --------------------------------------
-
- An undocumented feature has been added to the warning lights in the
- cockpit. As missiles get closer to you, the lights blink faster.
-
-
- 8. Damage MFD
- ---------------------
-
- The Damage MFD has an undocumented feature. Systems which are damaged
- but not destroyed appear in yellow. Only when a system is destroyed
- does it appear in red.
-
-
- 9. Reference Card Errata
- --------------------------------
-
- The following are errors in the reference card:
- - The Q key does not select previous weapon. It has no function.
- - The 5 key does not re-center the stick in keyboard flight. The
- keyboard automatically re-centers.
- - The right mouse button does not cause the mouse to go into panning
- mode. If you wish to use the mouse as the cockpit panning control,
- select the mouse panning option from the flight option screen.
- - The arrow keys do not rotate objects in the Object Viewer. These
- keys move the cursor.
-
-
- 10. Thrustmaster and Flight Stick Pro Joysticks
- ------------------------------------------------------
-
- The third and fourth buttons on the Thrustmaster and FSPro are
- incorrectly documented. The third button selects targets and the fourth
- button switches you back to the forward cockpit view.
-
- If you select the FSPro panning option in the flight control options
- screen, the coolie hat on your Thrustmaster or FSPro will control
- cockpit panning. Selecting the FSPro flight control option will
- enable the extra buttons on your Thrustmaster or FSpro.
-
-
- 11. Thrustmaster Weapon Control System DIP Switches
- ----------------------------------------------------------
-
- The DIP switch settings on the Weapon Control System for Strike
- Commander are switches 1, 2 and 6 on. All other switches should be
- off.
-
-
- 12. CH GameCard III Automatic
- ------------------------------------
-
- The CH GameCard III Automatic requires a program to be run whenever the
- machine boots up. This program is called CHJOY3.EXE. Please be sure
- that this program runs before calibrating joysticks in Strike Commander
- or unpredictable results will occur.
-
-
- 13. Rookie, Veteran and Ace Options
- ------------------------------------------
-
- The main game options screen (accessed by pressing Alt-o during flight)
- allows you to select Rookie, Veteran, or Ace difficulty levels. Here is
- a summary of the various changes these modes will make to other options:
-
- EFFECT ROOKIE VETERAN ACE
- -------------------- ------ ------- ---
- Mid-air Collisions OFF ON ON
- Easy Landings ON ON OFF
- Stalls OFF ON ON
- Unlimited Ammo ON OFF OFF
- Easy Gun Hits ON ON OFF
- Enemy Intelligence Rookie Veteran Ace
- Auto Targeting ON ON OFF
- 360 degree Targeting ON ON OFF
- Smart Targeting ON ON OFF
- Sun Glare OFF ON ON
- Gravity Effects OFF ON ON
- Smart Radar ON OFF OFF
- 360 degree Radar ON OFF OFF
- Smart Raw Scope ON OFF OFF
-
-
- 14. Unlimited Ammo Option
- --------------------------------
-
- The unlimited ammo option only applies to gun rounds while playing
- Strike Commander. It will not give you unlimited missiles or bombs.
- The only exception to this rule is the training mission, which does
- give you unlimited amounts of whichever weapons you are carrying.
-
-
- 15. SCSI Drive Problems
- ------------------------------
-
- The sound card detection routines conflict with SCSI drives. If you are
- using a SCSI hard drive, then you should not allow the installation
- program to auto-detect your sound cards. You will be able to manually
- select your sound card from a menu so that the Strike Commander will be
- properly installed.
-
-
- 16. CD-ROM Drive Problem
- -------------------------------
-
- The INSTALL program cannot recognize CD-ROM drives that have not been
- fully initialized by the system. This usually happens because the drive
- has not been turned on before powering up the computer. Installation
- can bypass this problem by the command line parameter "-a". Example:
-
- A:\>install -a
-
- will prevent the installation program from trying to detect your drives.
- You will be asked to type in the letter of the drive on which you
- want to install Strike Commander.
-
-
- 17. Saved Game Limit
- ---------------------------
-
- Strike Commander will only recognize the first 100 saved games in the
- game directory. All additional saved games are ignored and cannot be
- selected in the save/load menu. You may delete unwanted saved games
- using the DOS delete command.
-
-
- 18. Show Weapons
- -----------------------
-
- The show weapons feature in Strike Commander will only show weapons on
- the player's plane and on planes that are viewed using the F6 camera.
-
-
- 19. Soundblaster auto-detection
- --------------------------------------
-
- If you have a Soundblaster with an IRQ setting other than 7, the
- install program will incorrectly auto-detect it as an Adlib card.
- To avoid this problem, make sure you explicitly select the Soundblaster
- sound card option during the install program.
-
-
- 20. Creating a Boot Disk
- -------------------------------
-
- You may need to add lines to the basic boot disk CONFIG.SYS and
- AUTOEXEC.BAT for Strike Commander to support certain sound cards,
- game cards and other hardware. Consult your documentation for these
- products.
-
-
- 21. QEMM's OPTIMIZE program
- ----------------------------------
-
- Some versions of QEMM's OPTIMIZE program add lines to the CONFIG.SYS and
- AUTOEXEC.BAT which may cause problems with Strike Commander. If you
- experience problems after running this program, your old CONFIG.SYS and
- AUTOEXEC.BAT are stored in CONFIG.QDK and AUTOEXEC.QDK. Copy these files
- over the new CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
-
- 22. DOS 5.0 SMARTDRV.SYS
- -------------------------------
-
- Strike Commander does not support the SMARTDRV.SYS that comes with some
- versions of DOS. It does support SMARTDRV.EXE which comes with Windows
- 3.0 or better.
-
-
- 23. Re-Installing
- ------------------------
-
- Should you find it necessary to re-install Strike Commander, we recommend
- that you first delete all the files in the Strike Commander directory
- except the files with the .SAV extension (these are your saved games).
- The install process will not write over them.
-
-
-
- 24. Strike Commander and DOS 6.00+
- -----------------------------------------
-
- Although the Installation guide says that it is necessary to re-install
- Strike Commander if you have first installed the game with version 5.00
- and then changed DOS versions to 6.00+, this is no longer necessary.
- However, since further versions of DOS may cause configuration problems,
- we recommend that you go ahead and re-install the game if you have any
- trouble running Strike Commander.
-
-
-
- 25. If You Still Have Trouble...
- ---------------------------------------
-
- If you call Customer Service with a problem, please have the following
- information handy:
-
- - A listing of your CONFIG.SYS (either from the boot disk or your hard
- drive.
-
- - A listing of your AUTOEXEC.BAT.
-
- - The information you get when you type the DOS command "mem".
-
-
- If you cannot be near your PC when calling Customer Service, please have
- print outs of this information. Customer Service needs this information
- to properly diagnose and correct the problem you are having.
-
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