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- Space Pirates Demo
- Crime Patrol Demo
-
- (C) Copyright 1994 American Laser Games
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- 1. Introduction
- American Laser Games thanks you for your interest in Space
- Pirates and Crime Patrol. The demos that are provided here
- are a VERY small sampling of the hours of fast action
- entertainment that these two games provide.
-
- Each demo is an actual working segment of the game.
- Therefore, you are able to shoot the bad guys and save the
- good guys, just as you would in the real game. This README
- file contains information on getting the demos installed and
- running on your computer. It also has instructions on how
- the demos are played.
-
- Note that the demos support only double-speed CDROM drives.
- If you have a only a single-speed drive, but you have 20M
- of free space on your hard drive, you can still run the game
- by copying "sp.lib" from the CD to your SPDEMO directory on
- your hard drive. Then edit "alg\spdemo\game.cfg" to
- indicate that sp.lib is now found on your hard drive. Similar
- steps apply to running Crime Patrol, but replace "sp" with
- "cp" in the preceding instructions.
-
- The demos do NOT support the original 8-bit SoundBlaster.
-
-
- 1.1. Space Pirates
- In Space Pirates, you are a Star Ranger in the year 3030.
- The Galactic Council has commissioned you and other Rangers
- like you to protect the Galaxy from the marauding privateers
- that plague the outer reaches of the Galaxy. These evil
- doers are constantly attacking colony ships in search of
- booty.
-
- While enroute to a routine check of a new colony in the
- distant Eastern Arm of the Galaxy, you receive a desperate
- transmission from Ursula Sky, the captain of Colonial Star
- 1. She is under attach from the Black Dragon, captained by
- the most evil and dreaded pirate in all the Galaxy, Captain
- Talon. Talon and his crew have seized control of the great
- Star Splitter Cannon. With this cannon, they can conquer the
- Galaxy.
-
- You are the only Star Ranger in the Sector. It is up to you
- and you alone to save us all from total destruction.
-
- Good Luck, Star Ranger...
-
-
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- 1.2. Crime Patrol
- In Crime Patrol, you're part of various law enforcement teams,
- ridding the world of various dens of criminals. In the full
- game, you start as a rookie cop, and progress to Undercover,
- SWAT, and ultimately, Delta Force. The fight scenes become
- more difficult as you advance to the higher levels, with more
- criminals who pop out more quickly.
-
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- 2. Installing The Demos
- Each demo must be installed individually on your hard disk.
- Install programs are provided on this CD. First, make the
- CD ROM drive the current drive. Then switch to the
- appropriate directory. To change to the directory that
- contains the Space Pirates demo, type
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- CD \ALG\SPDEMO
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- at the DOS prompt.
-
- To go to the directory that contains the Crime Patrol demo,
- type
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- CD \ALG\CPDEMO
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- at the DOS prompt.
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- In either directory, simply typing
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- INSTALL
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- at the DOS prompt will install the demo.
-
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- 3.Running The Space Pirates Demo
-
- 3.1. Starting The Demo
- To start the demo, make sure you are at the DOS prompt,
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- which usually looks something like this:
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- C:\>
-
- If you are at the DOS prompt, simply type:
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- CD \ALG\SPDEMO
-
- then type:
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- SPDEMO
-
- The demo should begin.
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- 3.2. Starting The Game Sequence
- The demo starts with a brief video explaining the setting of
- the game. This short segment will play repeatedly. To
- actually begin playing the game sequence, position your
- mouse over the MENU button in the lower left corner of the
- screen.
-
- You will know your cursor is over the menu button because it
- will change to the skull and crossbones Space Pirates logo.
-
- With the mouse cursor on the MENU button, click the left
- mouse button. Whatever video is currently playing will be
- replaced by a menu. The menu choices are:
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- NEW - Starts a new game (in this case, it starts the demo
- sequence)
- LOAD - Loads the last game that was saved.
- SAVE - Saves the current game.
- CONTINUE - Press this after you load or save, so that you
- can exit the menu.
- QUIT - I'll give you one guess what this does.
-
- The other menu choices set the difficulty level. These have
- been disabled in the demo.
-
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- 3.3. Shooting And Reloading Your Gun
- To shoot your gun, aim the crosshair at a target and click
- the LEFT mouse button. You will be allowed to shoot at two
- types of targets, pirates and innocent bystanders.
-
- You are able to shoot pirates only when they threaten you
- directly, i.e. point a gun at you. If you hit a pirate the
- game continues. If you miss, or don't shoot fast enough,
- they'll shoot you. As you might expect, this results in you
- losing a life.
-
- An innocent bystander can be shot almost anytime. Of course,
- the Galactic Council and your boss back at Star Ranger HQ
- generally frown on this sort of thing. Consequently, you
- lose a life for shooting the innocent.
-
- You are given 10 phaser blasts to shoot with. When those are
- gone, you need to reload. This can be accomplished by moving
- your mouse cursor to the RELOAD button in the lower right
- corner of the screen. You know that you are in the reload
- area when your cursor changes to a downward-pointing blaster
- pistol. If your cursor is in the reload area, clicking the
- RIGHT mouse button will fully recharge your blaster.
-
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- 3.4. It's Finished!
- You get 3 lives to defeat the evil crew of the Black Dragon.
- These pirates are armed to the teeth, so be careful! The
- number of lives you have left is displayed down the right
- side of the screen. When you die (my condolences), the demo
- automatically returns to playing the introduction for the
- game. If you want to try the demo again, you must use the
- NEW button in the main menu.
-
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- 4.Running The Crime Patrol Demo
-
- 4.1. Starting The Demo
-
- As with the Space Pirates demo, make sure you are at the DOS
- prompt, then enter:
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- CD \ALG\CPDEMO
-
- and type:
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- CPDEMO
-
- This will start the game in a mode which shows various scenes
- from the game.
-
- 4.2 Starting the game sequence
-
- To play the game, follow the instructions for Space Pirates.
- Note that the difficulty buttons are operational for Crime
- Patrol, although, since the scenario included with this demo
- version is one of the rookie scenes, it's still pretty easy
- to get through on the toughest level.