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- Thank you for purchasing "Master of Orion."
- The following are changes/corrections to the manual:
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- ********************* GAME FEATURES *********************
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- - Lasers take 25 power, Heavy Lasers require 75 power, and Maulers
- need 300 power.
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- - Fertile and Gaia planets increase your planets' base populations
- by 25% and 50% respectively, in addition to the increased growth
- rates.
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- - If you have both standard and scatter pack missiles, you may
- change which type your planetary bases fire by using the
- MISSILES button in combat. In Auto-Combat mode, the computer
- automatically selects the more effective type.
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- - The High Council is formed when 2/3rds of the planets have been
- colonized, not 1/2 as stated in the manual.
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- ********************* TECHNICAL NOTES *********************
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- - Sound Blaster Pro Cards should have all environment variables
- fully specified in the config.sys file to be properly recognized.
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- - Adaptec controller cards must use the hard drive drivers supplied
- with the controller cards to access the game properly.
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- - Roland sound cards take several seconds to load custom instrument
- files at the beginning of the program, when switching to and from
- the main menu, and at the end of the game.
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- - The program automatically saves your game in a special file that
- allows you to Continue where you left. However, if you fail the
- ship identification security check, this file is deleted and the
- Continue function is disabled.
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- - If you are using Stacker, DOS 6's Double Space, or some other
- hard drive compression utility, "Master of Orion" will appear to
- use more than the amount of space the Install utility checks
- for. This is because the program files are already compressed,
- and your compression utility will not be able to get the usual
- space savings.
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- - The Install program's sound card detection routines may cause some
- systems to lock up. If this happens to you, run the Install
- program by typing "INSTALL -S" instead of just "INSTALL". This
- bypasses the auto-detection, and lets you select any sound card
- on the menu.
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- If you have any questions or problems, call the MicroProse Customer
- Service Hotline at (410)771-1151, Monday-Friday, from 9am-5pm EST.
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