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- Welcome to the PROBE screensaver/GFX&SFX-demo
-
- These instructions are but a brief set of instructions
- to get the thing running. If this doesn't help, you're
- on your own.
-
- PROBE is being distributed as FREEWARE. This means you can copy
- it freely, so long as you don't modify it or add/remove anything,
- and so long as you don't try to sell it (although shareware vending
- is ok).
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- To run, simply type PROBE. By the way- you must run PCONFIG once.
-
-
- If you would like to see the list of parameters type:
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- PROBE /?
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- Keyboard commands:
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- ENTER - Skip section
- SPACEBAR - Skip only a little
- ESCAPE - Quit program
- F1 - Toggle beeper-sound on/off
- F2 - Toggle digital sound on/off
- F3 - Toggle Aliens on/off
- F4 - Toggle Intro on/off
- F5 - Toggle Planets on/off
- F6 - Toggle Schematics on/off
- F7 - Toggle Fast schematic mode on/off
- F8 - Toggle All-Planet orbit mode on/off
- F10 -
- C - Recalibrate timing control.
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- If PROBE won't run, chances are you don't have enough memory set aside.
- It requires about 600,000 bytes *FREE* DOS RAM available (though you might
- get away with a little less) plus 700k XMS (with lots of free XMS handles).
- If PROBE exits with an error, you may need to reboot to free up the
- XMS handles it grabbed.
-
- You MUST run PCONFIG first to configure the sound settings. This is
- another problem- SOUND. Don't try using sound at all under Windows 3.x,
- lest ye crash thine system. As for Win95 and every other Macro$loth
- Windoze package, you figure it out...
-
- Probe was written slowly over the course of two years (a little here,
- a little there) in TP6 and ASM. You have to watch it for a while to
- see everything it does, since there are half a dozen different types
- of ship encounters, and there are nebulas, spacial anomalies, hyperjumps,
- etc.
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- Enjoy!
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- Revision history:
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- 1.00 - Buggy first version
- 1.01 - Debugged, ready for release.
- 1.02 - Restored from corrupted source code. Actual first release.
- (thus little program has been to hell and back, surviving
- multiple hard drive crashes, lost source code, etc, and yet
- not one piece of it was permanently lost, except some of
- the 3D-studio meshes).
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