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- ║ SPACEFOX DOCUMENTATION (c) 1994 ECLIPSE ║
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- ║ Contact:Y.Le Tensorer, Karl Jaspers Allee 40/16 CH 4052 BASEL SWITZERLAND ║
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- 1. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- * 286 CPU or newer
- * HARD DISK
- * 1 MB of RAM
- * 509 K of conventionnal memory
- * 2 MB of free disk space
- * VGA graphic card
- * DOS 4.0 of newer
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- RECOMMENDED:
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- * joystick
- * sound blaster or compatible sound card.
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- 2. WHAT IS SPACEFOX ?
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- SPACE FOX is a very fast 'right to left' shoot them up game that
- runs at 70 pictures per second, on a 286 computer as well as on a
- pentium. It was written mostly in assembler. You are flying a ship and
- your mission is to reach and destroy the brain at the final level.
- There are ten levels of increasing difficulty with a great variety
- of ennemy ships.
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- 3. INSTALLATION
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- SPACE FOX has to be installed to the hard disk to be played.If you
- have downloaded spacefox from internet or a BBS, it is certainly as a
- zip file. Uncompress the zip file to your hard disk and copy the files
- to a floppy disk which will be your original installation disk.
- The disk should contain:
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- - INSTALL.EXE
- - SFOXCODE.LZH
- - SFOXDATA.LZH
- - SPACEFOX.DOC
- - LHA.EXE
- - LHA.DOC
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- Once your installation disk is created, type install. The
- installation program enables you to choose the drive on which you want
- to install SPACE FOX, and then creates a new directory named 'FOX' in
- the CURRENT DIRECTORY of the chosen drive.
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- For example,if you want to install SPACE FOX to the root directory
- of your hard disk C you will type:
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- - C:
- - CD \
- - A:
- - INSTALL
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- 4. THE GAME
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- You begin your quest with a hardly equiped space ship. You start
- with a straight shooting cannon with 3 slow shots, a medium shield
- capacity and a medium fuel tank. You will have to play carefully to
- increase these features by catching different bonus (-> 6 Bonus). Your
- fuel decreases slowly while you are flying. When your tank is empty
- your ship explodes.
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- Here is a breef description of the levels:
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- Level 1: Getting started
- Level 2: Meteors
- Level 3: The enemy base
- Level 4: Worms
- Level 5: Hyperspace
- Level 6: The slimer
- Level 7: Technology
- Level 8: Fire planet
- Level 9: The ice cave
- Final Level : The brain
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- 5. The controls
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- If you have a joystick, use button 1 to shoot and button 2 to
- activate the shield. If you don't, use SPACE to shoot and ALT to
- activate shield. If you have different weapons you can change them by
- pressing keys 1 to 6. Press ESC to abort the game and 'P' to pause the
- game.
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- 6. Bonus
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- - Fuel bonus: Catch them to increase your fuel.
- - Tank increase: This bonus increases your tank capacity.
- - Shield bonus: Increases your shield energy.
- - Shield extended: Increases your shield capacity.
- - Extra shot: Increases the number of shots of your cannon.
- - Shotspeed increase: Speeds up your shots.
- - New weapon: Gives you a new weapon.
- - Ship bonus: Catch five of them to gain an extra ship.
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- 7. Stations
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- At the end of each level comes a station. If you dock at the
- station, you will get a score bonus and have your shield fully
- restored. You don't have to dock to go further.
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- 8. Monsters
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- At the beginning, the monsters are not very strong. They need only
- to be hit once or twice to explode. But the monsters become stronger
- and better armed as you go further. Some monsters shoot in your
- direction. Some monsters shoot faster than others. Some monsters need
- to be hit up to 1000 times to be defeated !
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- Ennemy ships often attack in fighting units. If you destroy a
- whole fighting unit, you often get a bonus (That's the case for
- the first three units of level 1... So, be sure to blow up all the
- ships !)
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- 9. Weapons
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- Some bonus give you a new weapon. Don't miss them ! If you miss a
- weapon bonus, you will never be able to have the weapon again...
- We won't tell you more about the weapons.You will find out by yourself
- how to use them...
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- 10. Troubleshooting
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- * You don't hear any music: - Check you have chosen Sound Blaster
- or Adlib in the setup.exe program.
- - Check that your soundcard's
- settings are IRQ 7, PORT 220, DMA 1
- (these are the default settings of
- sound blaster cards.) If it's not
- the case, you should change them.
- Read the manual of your soundcard
- to do it.
- - If you still don't hear anything,
- your sound card probably wasn't
- recognised as a sound blaster
- compatible.
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- * You can't go in all directions, or your spaceship moves by itself
- while using joystick:
- - You should calibrate your joystick
- in the device menu (F1 at the main
- screen).
- - If after calibrating, there are
- still problems, try to adjust the
- sensitivity in the option menu (F2
- at the main screen). Set it to low
- if your ship moves too much, set
- it to high if it doesn't
- - If there are still problems, you
- are certainly the owner of a
- pentium or a very fast PC. You can
- try playing without music, or buy
- a special harware card designed
- for the use of joystick on fast
- PC's
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- * The mouse doen't work during the game:
- - Try another mouse driver, maybe
- your driver is not compatible with
- old microsoft drivers. ( the game
- was designed to work with MS MOUSE
- v 6.0 for those who don't have a
- recent driver).
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