Nota della redazione: Per motivi tecnici, dovuti alla modalità con cui è costruita la struttura del nostro CD-ROM, il gioco funziona solo nella modalità "FULL INSTALL". Inoltre DEVE essere lanciato con il parametro /D1 sulla linea di comando per evitare la ricerca del CD-ROM. Sui computer da noi testati la ricerca non si svolge correttamente, impedendo il lancio corretto del gioco. Per aiutare abbiamo predisposto il comando "START.BAT" con il parametro in questione già predisposto. ================================================================================ BATTLECRUISER:3000AD v1.01D7C FREE DISTRIBUTION =============================================== 02.12.98 ================================================================================ LICENSE THIS PROGRAM, BATTLECRUISER 3000AD "SOFTWARE" AND ALL COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS AND ALL OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS RELATED TO IT ARE OWNED BY 3000AD, INC. AND ARE PROTECTED BY UNITED STATES COPYRIGHT LAWS, INTERNATIONAL TREATY PROVISIONS AND ALL APPLICABLE LAW INCLUDING THE LANHAM ACT. YOU MUST TREAT THE SOFTWARE LIKE ANY OTHER COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL, AS REQUIRED BY ALL APPLICABLE U.S AND INTERNATIONL LAWS. YOU AGREE THAT YOU ARE RECEIVING A COPY OF THE SOFTWARE BY LICENSE ONLY AND TO USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. 3000AD, INC. DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE WITH RESPECT TO THE SOFTWARE. 3000AD, INC. DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE OPERATION OF SOFTWARE WILL BE ERROR FREE OR THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL MEET WITH YOUR REQUIREMENTS. IT ALSO WARRANTS THAT THIS SOFTWARE IS RELEASED AS IS AND NO TECHNICAL SUPPORT WILL BE PROVIDED OTHER THAN VIA DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE AT THE 3000AD WEB SITE. YOU CANNOT SELL, RENT, LEASE, SUB-LICENSE, TRANSLATE, COMMERCIALLY EXPLOIT OR USE THIS SOFTwARE FOR ANY COMMERCIAL PURPOSE WHATSOEVER. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THIS AGREEMENT. YOU ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT BY CONTINUING THE INSTALLATION OF THE SOFTWARE, BY LOADING OR RUNNING THE SOFTWARE, OR BY PLACING OR COPYING THE SOFTWARE ONTO YOUR COMPUTER, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT. I HAVE MADE THIS FULL VERSION OF MY SOFTWARE AVAILABLE TO THE GAMING COMMUNITY FOR FREE AS MY CONTRIBUTION TO THE GAMERS AND INDUSTRY THAT BROUGHT ME HERE. WITH ALL THE BAD PRESS THAT BC3K RECEIVED AS A RESULT OF IT'S INITIAL BOTCHED 1996 RELEASE, I WANT THE WORLD TO SEE THE VERSION THAT IS FINALLY GIVING THE GAME THE RESPECT THAT IT DESERVES. THIS IS THE SAME VERSION THAT OWNERS OF V1.00 WHO HAVE PATCHED IT, ARE PLAYING. THIS VERSION CAN BE PATCHED FOR A FEE, TO THE FINAL V2.00 SCHEDULED TO BE RELEASED THIS QUARTER OR WHEN IT BECOMES AVAILABLE. FOR MORE NEWS AND RELEASES...... MAIN : www.bc3000ad.com NEWS : www.bc3000ad.com/news/gnnews.html PRODUCT : www.bc3000ad.com/products/products.html FORUM : www.bc3000ad.com/Commanders_Forum/ ================================================================================ 1: BC3K SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ================================================================================ PROCESSOR : Pentium 133 or higher Pentium 200 or higher recommended OPERATING SYSTEM : MS-DOS 6.0 or higher or MS-DOS mode under Windows 95 is also supported VIDEO CARD : VESA compliant graphics card. VLB or PCI card is highly recommended. HARD DRIVE : 120 MB MEMORY : 16MB minimum. 32MB recommended. CONTROLLER : A Microsoft compatible mouse is required. A joystick or other flight controller is optional. SOUND CARD : Supports most major sound cards. ================================================================================ 2: INSTALLATION ================================================================================ 1. After downloading all 10 files, run the MAKEBC3K.BAT which will build the BC3KD7C.ZIP file. The final file size should be 51,659,497 bytes. Verify that the zip file is ok BEFORE deleting the 10 files! Also, the building the files into one file requires that the files be in order on your hard drive. If they are not because you downloaded them in a different order, you need to copy them all to another directory. 2. Once you have the zip file, create a sub-directory and unzip the file using -d option for Pkzip otherwise the sub-directories will NOT be created. If you are using a WIN95 unzip utility, be sure you set it to extract with the folders intact! You will NEED at LEAST 120 MB to install this software. Unzip this file into the same directory as well so that you have all files in the same directory. The BC3K.BAT file included in this file is required to run the game. 3. Once you have unzipped the file, run SETUP.EXE and configure your sound card. If you are running under WIN95, you may crash your computer if you choose the auto-detect method. Be warned. 4. Next, using a text editor such as Notepad or Wordpad, edit the BC3000AD.INI file and change the 'cd-rom=' and 'home=' parameters to match your install environment. For instance if you installed the game on your D: drive in the D:\BC3K sub-directory, you would change the lines to read as follows. cdrom=D home=D:\BC3K ! There is no : (colon) after the drive letter on the cd-rom= line above ! Do NOT use your actual cd-rom letter unless you have a cd-rom in the drive ! Do NOT modify any other lines ! You MUST save the file in ascii text format 5. Once you've configured your sound card, you can start the game by either running the BC3K.BAT file or typing BC3000AD /d1 /n . Those two switches disable playback of the 50MB intro (not included) and cd-rom check. Later, if you are going to be using any other switches, i.e, for video settings (see below), you should add them to this file or on the commandline. A DEBUG.TXT file will be created and can get quite large. Remember to delete it every now and then before starting the game. 6. Once the games starts, immediately go to CONFIG from the MAIN MENU and change any options you'd like. Read the manual BEFORE making any changes to the system. Most of all, do NOT enable the intro sequence or the game will crash! ================================================================================ 3: VIDEO PROBLEMS ================================================================================ 1. If after you install the game you get a General Protection Fault or a corrupted screen when it starts, you may have to configure BC3K to use your specific video card. Type BC3000AD /v? from your install directory to see the list of cards that BC3K supports in their native mode. If you card is not listed, you MUST locate and use a VESA driver. You can download SCI-TECH Display Doctor from www.scitechsoft.com. Some of the new cards entering the market have built in VESA 2.0 or 3.0 support so you may be able to run the VESA mode without need for an external VESA driver. If your card IS supported, start BC3K using the card's profile number by typing, BC3000AD /d1 /n /vn Where n is the number of your graphics card returned by /v?. For example, if your card uses the S3 chipset, you would type, BC3000AD /n /d1 /v21 2. If your card is not supported in it's native mode, i.e, not listed when the /v? parameter is used, then you have to use VESA mode. Load the VESA driver for your card and then type BC3000AD /v1 to run in VESA mode. If your card has built in VESA support, you do NOT need to install VESA driver. 3. You MUST add this parameter to the BC3K.BAT file if you end up using it. NOTE: BC3K will try to auto-detect your graphics card and will revert to VESA mode in most cases but considering the advances in graphics cards, it may fail on new cards. So, use the method described above. The performance using the cards native support is faster than VESA mode depending on the type of VESA support that the card has. ================================================================================ 4: MANUAL AND DOCUMENTATION ================================================================================ The manual (BC3KMAN.PDF), keyboard commands (KEYBOARD.PDF) and a host of manual apppendix are located in the DOCS sub-directory. You will need to download and install the Adobe Acrobat v3.01 also available at the 3000AD web site or from Adobe (www.adobe.com). Direct access to the cargo bay is at www.bc3000ad.com/cargo/cargobay_contents.html Once you've downloaded and installed the Acrobat reader, run it and use it to load the files in the DOCS directory. It also allows you to print them. Before you even think about printing the manual, be aware, it's 194 pages! ================================================================================ 5: RUNNING UNDER WINDOWS 95 ================================================================================ Though BC3K is not supported under Windows 95 except in MS-DOS mode, some have been able to get it to run by creating a desktop shortcut using the following settings. Refer to your Windows 95 manual for details on how to create a shortcut. Create the shortcut on your desktop. Make sure the command line and working directory BOTH point to the BC3K install directory. Point the commandline to the BC3K.BAT file in the BC3K runtime directory. An icon file called BC3K.ICO is provided. Once you've created the shortcut, open it up and make the following changes to it's settings. Note: ON = tick mark OFF = no tick mark Program - close on exit = ON If you decide to run in MS-DOS mode if running from Win95 using this shortcut doesn't work, then you can configure MS-DOS mode by clicking on the 'advanced' tab. Memory - Total = AUTO Initial Environment = AUTO EMS memory = AUTO XMS memory = AUTO Uses HMA = ON DPMI memory = 16384 Screen - Full Screen = ON Dynamic Memory Allocation = OFF Misc - Allow screen saver = OFF Always suspend = OFF Idle sensitivity = LOW (all the way to the left) Mouse exclusive mode = ON