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- WELCOME TO THE TIMELAPSE INTERACTIVE GAME DEMO!
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- APPLE MACINTOSH (MAC OS) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
- * 68040 or faster processor
- * System 7.0 or later
- * 8 MB RAM (16 MB recommended)
- * 640 x 480 with 256 colors (8-bit) display and color monitor
- * Double-speed (2x) CD-ROM drive or faster (quad-speed recommended)
- * External speakers recommended
- * Keyboard, mouse
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- THE TIMELAPSE STORY - HOW IT ALL BEGINS
- It's been a long day. When you arrive home the red message light is flashing
- on your answering machine. You press play....
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- "I know I can count on you. You're the only one I trust.
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- All my life I've believed there's a link between the ancient civilizations
- of the Egyptians, Maya, the Anasazi, and the lost city of Atlantis.
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- For the past 20 years I've traveled the globe in search of Atlantis.
- Through it all I've endured the endless ridicule of my colleagues.
- Now, finally, I've found that missing link.
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- On Easter Island I've discovered what appears to be some sort of
- alien device. In it, I can see worlds from the past, brilliant scenes
- flowing by like clouds. Whatever it is, it definitely is not man made.
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- If I am right, and this device is a time gate, then this may be the
- greatest archaeological discovery of all time.
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- Tomorrow I'll attempt to activate the time portal and go through it.
- I don't know what will happen to me when I try this.
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- Please, hurry, I need your help. You must come at once to Easter Island.
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- You're the only one I trust."
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- Now, on Easter Island, in the present day, you set off to uncover a mystery
- that takes you through four ancient civilizations and then on to the fabled
- lost city of Atlantis...and beyond....
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- The full game contains five richly detailed worlds on four CDs: Easter
- Island, Egypt, Anasazi, Mayan, and Atlantis. There is a wide variety of
- over 50 challenging puzzles and over 50 hours of immersive engaging
- gameplay.
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- This demo is a partial walk-through of Easter Island. The area you can
- visit has been reduced in size and scope so that it can fit on the CD
- sampler disk for the magazine. It is intended to give you a "feel" for
- what the actual gameplay will be like.
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- INSTALLING AND PLAYING THE TIMELAPSE GAME DEMO
- (Requires copying to your hard disk)
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- Installation and Start-up
- 1. Double-click on the CD-ROM icon on your desktop.
- 2. Drag the TimeLapse Demo folder onto your hard disk.
- 3. Open the TimeLapse Demo folder on your hard disk.
- 4. Double-click on 'Timelapse' to launch the game demo.
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- Solving The Sample Puzzle In This Demo
- The full TimeLapse game contains a wide variety of over 50 indigenous puzzles
- of varying degrees of complexity and skill, including a few games of chance.
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- Goal: Look for a dark cave and light the gas lantern. You can find the clues you
- need to solve this simple puzzle in the areas which you can visit.
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- Sanity-Saver Note:
- In this demo you can take a rubbing of an artifact. In the full game, the
- information
- thus obtained would serve a useful purpose. We've included it in the demo
- solely for
- conveying a feel for the game's finely interwoven challenges.
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- USING THE CAMERA AND PHOTO COLLECTION
- In this demo, we've enabled the use of our unique "instant" camera, so you can
- photograph notable items for later reference.
- ** The camera is activated by pressing Command-C.
- Once the viewfinder appears, Click to take a picture.
- If you decide not to take a picture, drag the viewfinder
- past the bottom of the screen, and it will disappear.
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- ** To review your photographs, use Command-P.
- When you are finished, click on any part of the black area
- to return to the game.
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- NAVIGATION
- Use the mouse or arrow keys to navigate through the world. If you are using
- the mouse, the cursor changes shape to show what functions or directions are
- available when you move the cursor around the screen.
- [forward arrow] Go forward
- [back arrow] Go back
- [left arrow] Go left
- [right arrow] Go right
- [bull's eye] Hyperlink (jump directly to that spot)
- [open hand] Grab/manipulate object
- [pointing finger] Touch to activate object
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- If you are using the arrow keys, an icon at the lower left of the screen will
- indicate which directions are available. Sometimes you won't be able to go
- in all directions, so continue in a direction that the game does allow.
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- MANIPULATING OBJECTS
- When the hand icon appears as you move the cursor over an object, it indicates
- that you can pick up that object. The pointing finger icon indicates that
- you can
- manipulate that object. When either icon appears, press and hold the mouse
- button
- to manipulate the object. Experiment; objects that you can pick up or
- manipulate
- are important to the game.
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- KEY FUNCTIONS
- Keyboard shortcuts are listed below:
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- Spacebar: Opens the self-explanatory Timelapse Functions and Options Screen
- (Many of these buttons are non-functional for this demo version).
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- Cmd + 0-9 Adjust ambient sound volume
- 0: Minimum
- 9: Maximum
- Cmd + F1/F2 Adjust brightness
- F1: Brighter
- F2: Darker
- Cmd + F3/F8 Adjust color balance
- F3: More Red
- F4: Less Red
- F5: More Green
- F6: Less Green
- F7: More Blue
- F8: Less Blue
- F9: Reset color to default setting
- Cmd + Q Quit current game
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- UNINSTALLING TIMELAPSE
- 1. Drag the TimeLapse Demo folder into the Trash.
- 2. Choose Empty Trash from the Special menu
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- PLAYING THE TIMELAPSE MOVIE
-
- Double-click on TimeLapse Movie to play a short movie trailer of
- Timelapse.
- This is a composite playing inside a small window. The actual game plays at
- 640 x 480. This movie is best viewed in Thousands or Millions of colors.
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- TROUBLESHOOTING
- Check the installation section in this file before you contact Technical
- Support;
- the answers you need may be in there! If you're still having problems, GTE
- Entertainment provides technical support via telephone and the Internet.
-
- >> Make Sure You Have Memory Available
- You may have sufficient RAM (memory) in your computer, but you may be
- running other applications which use so much of that RAM, that there is not
- enough to run Timelapse. In that case, quit some of your applications, and try
- running Timelapse again. TimeLapse needs about 5000K (5MB) of available
- memory to run properly.
-
- >> Turn Off Your Screen Saver!
- Screen-savers can play havoc with the color-system of a game program.
- To avoid color-change problems, please turn off your screen saver.
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- >> If Your Screen Colors Distort Completely
- Your screen saver may have started up because it may have not been
- deactivated.
- Don't panic or quit. Simply walk around the world to a location several
- steps away.
- Sometimes it may take ten or more steps, but the color will be restored to its
- intended settings. If you stand in one place and simply turn, it won't
- correct the
- problem. You need to walk to a new zone, such as inside to outside, or vice
- versa.
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- HOW TO REACH TECHNICAL SUPPORT
- Please be sure to read through this file before calling technical
- support. Customer support technicians are available to assist you
- Monday through Friday from 8AM to 5PM Pacific Standard Time.
-
- Our telephone number is:
- (619) 431-4264
- Our FAX number is:
- (619) 431-8755
- Our tech. support E-mail address is:
- gtechsup@im.gte.com
- Our World Wide Web Address is:
- http://www.im.gte.com
- From that address you can navigate to the appropriate technical
- support area.
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- FOR MORE INFORMATION ON TIMELAPSE
- Call 1-800-GTE-TODAY or visit our web site:
- http://www.im.gte.com/timelapse
-
- There are also cool contest you can enter to win cool prizes!!!!!
-
- FOR MORE INFORMATION ON OTHER GTE ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTS
- Call 1-800-GTE-TODAY or visit our web site.
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- OFFICIAL TIMELAPSE STRATEGY GUIDE AVAILABLE FROM PRIMA PUBLISHING
- To order call: 800-531-2343. Also available at better bookstores and
- multimedia outlets nationwide!
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- (c) 1996 GTE Vantage Inc. All rights reserved. The GTE logo is a trademark of
- GTE Corporation. Timelapse and the GTE Entertainment logo are trademarks
- of GTE Vantage Inc. Macintosh is a registered trademark, and Power Macintosh
- is a trademark, of Apple Computer, Inc. used under license. All other
- trademarks
- and trade names are the properties of their respective holders. GTE
- Entertainment,
- 2035 Corte Del Nogal, Suite 200, Carlsbad, CA 92009 USA.
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