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- Documentation on the FADE TO BLACK game (PC DEMO version 0.90e) 26 june 95
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- This is a DELPHINE SOFTWARE game.
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- *) INSTALLATION
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- Put the CDROM in a CDROM drive and run the INSTALL command.
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- INSTALL install the minimum files, and you need to have the CDROM in
- drive to play the game. Space necessary on hard disk drive : 12 Mb.
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- If you have a sound card, run SETSOUND after installation of the game.
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-
-
- WARNING : The destination directory must be a single directory like
- F2B or DEMO, and must not be like GAME\F2B or DEMO\F2B.
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- *) STARTING THE GAME
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- To start the game, type in the command F2B from the installation directory
- on your hard disk.
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- If you have saved games, you won't see the starting cinematic scene.
- If you want to see it, remove your saved games (*.SAV) or move them
- to another directory.
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- *) PARAMETERS
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- -u Play no sound and music
- -c Don't play cinematic scenes
- -t Limit speed to 18 frame per sec (else 15 frame per sec)
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- *) KEYBOARD KEY
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- PLAY MODE
- _________
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- Your are in play mode when you can control the character.
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- UpArrow : run
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- Left,RightArrow :
- in game mode : turn left or right,
- in cupboard/cabinet mode : next or previous object,
- in inventory : select next object of current family of objects
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- DownArrow : crouch, to avoid ennemi weapons
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- Right Shift + UpArrow : Walk
- Right Shift + LeftArrow or RightArrow : Walk left or right
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- Right Shift + DownArrow : Turn
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- Page Up : Small walk
- Page Down : Small walk back
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- I : Go to inventory.
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- 5 on Num Keyboard : In game mode, go Map mode.
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- Shift Right : In inventory mode : object info
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- Shift UpArrow :
- in game : walk
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- Shift Left-RightArrow :
- Translate left or right
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- AltGr or V :
- gun out / gun in
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- Right Ctrl or B :
- fire if gun out, otherwise throw handgrenade
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- Enter : reload gun
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- Space : operate lever, cupboard/cabinet, teleporter
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- J : Jump (while standing up or walking).
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- H : Far view or near view of conrad in static view.
- K : Far view or near view of conrad in gun out view.
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- 4 directions on Num Keyboard :
- To look around
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- 1,2,3,4,5 : in game : select the next object of the corresponding
- family of objects in inventory
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- L : Load a saved game
- S : Save the current game
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- Ctrl M : Mouse enable/disable (US keyboard)
- G : Change mouse mode (icon mode, pro mode)
- Ctrl U / Ctrl Shift U : Change mouse X sensibility
- Alt Ctrl U / Alt Ctrl Shift U : Change mouse Y sensibility
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- Ctrl J : Joystick enable/disable
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- F7 : Switch screen mode (320x200, 640x400, 320x240)
- (graphic card with VESA support and 5 Mb of RAM
- required for 640x480 mode)
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- Ctrl R : Less brigth display
- Ctrl T : More brigth display
- Ctrl D : Draft mode (for slow PCs)
- F : Gourault / Flat polygons
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- Ctrl L : Toggle speed limit to 15 or 18 frame/sec / no speed limit
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- Ctrl S : Enable / Disable sounds and musics.
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- Shift F1 : Reduce screen size (to have faster moves)
- Shift F2 : Grow screen size
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- Esc : Go to main menu (save, load, ... options)
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- MAIN MENU MODE
- ______________
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- Left,RightArrow : Turn the wheel.
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- Up, down : Toggle save mode, load mode, menu.
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- CUPBOARD/CABINET MODE
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- When you open a cabinet, you go to this mode.
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- Left,RightArrow : Select next or previous object
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- Space : Take the viewed object
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- ESC : Close the cabinet
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- INVENTORY MODE
- ______________
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- To open your inventory, press the I key at any time during play mode.
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- Tab : Select next family of objects
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- Left Shift-Tab :
- Select previous family of objects
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- Left or right arrow key :
- change current object
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- Enter : select the current object for use in PLAY MODE
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- Right Shift : view the current object (to view a message, infos on object)
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- ESC or I : Close the cabinet
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- CINEMATIC SCENES
- ________________
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- R : Darker luminosity of screen.
- T : Brighter luminosity
- E : Reset luminosity
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- ESC : Abort cinematic scenes, return to PLAY MODE
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- *) MOUSE KEY
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- You have two mouse modes :
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- ICON mode and PRO mode.
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- In play mode, you can switch at any time between the two mode by
- pressing G key
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- ICON MODE
- _________
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- In general, right mouse button is used to return to PLAY MODE.
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- In icon mode, you can drag icon by pressing Left Shift and Left button.
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- Left Alt + Left button on icon : reduce icon size
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- To read a message or view an object in inventory, left click in the wheel
- beetwin the hands of Conrad.
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- In play mode, right mouse button not on an icon is used to take your
- gun out and fire. Click left mouse button and your can turn left or right.
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- PRO MODE
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- Left button : Walk if you where standing up
- Operate lever, cupboard/cabinet, teleporter if you double click
- with gun in.
- Fire if you are in gun out mode (reload if no munition left)
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- Right button : Run if you are walking
- Gun out / gun in otherwise
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- If you are in gun out mode, to start to run quickly, you can press the
- right mouse button to get your gun in and then press the left key
- without releasing the right button.
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- If you are in run mode you can take your gun out quikly by releasing the left
- mouse button before the right one.
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- *) JOYSTICK
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- Go to joystick menu in main menu to calibrate joystick before activating
- joystick.
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- Press Ctrl J to desactivate joystick during game.
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- When you restart game, you need to recalibrate joystick before activating it.
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- Button 1 : Like keyboard space key or
- Fire if gun out (reload if no munition left).
- Button 2 : Gun out / gun in
- Button 3 : like keyboard space key
- Button 4 : like keyboard enter key
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- If you move joystick left or right, conrad turn left or right.
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- Little toward : walk, or small walk if gun out.
- Far toward : run
- Little backwark : small walk backward
- Far backwark : crouch
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- If you have a Thrustmaster joystick, or Gravis Phoenix, or similar one, you
- can program the extra buttons of your joystick as you like to emulate
- keyboard keys.
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- *) MINIMUM CONFIGURATION FOR ACCEPTABLE PERFORMANCES
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- - 486DX2-66 with 8 Mb RAM and 12 Mb free on disk
- - double speed CD-ROM drive (for cinematic scenes)
- - local bus video
- - install SMARTDRV with a size of 64 Kb
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- *) BEST CONFIGURATION
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- - pentium 133 with 8 Mb RAM and 12 Mb free on disk
- - quad speed CD-ROM drive
- - local bus video with true 32 bits SVGA card
- - 16 bits sound card with wave instrument synthesis
- - install SMARTDRV with a size of 256 Kb or more
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- *) MEMORY PROBLEMS
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- If you have an out of memory error try to run VIRT_F2B, it's a little slower
- and you need 8 Mb free on your hard disk for virtual memory, but you won't
- have any more memory error.
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- INST_FUL copy all the files and you won't need to have the DEMO cdrom in drive
- to play the game. Space necessary on hard disk drive : 45 Mb.
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- If you have no sound card, you can delete the following directory from
- your hard disk (if you need space) :
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- DATA\SOUND\*.*
- DATA\DRIVERS\*.*
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- If you delete these sound files, the minimum demo will take less
- than 4 Mb on your hard disk drive.
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- *) OTHER PROBLEMS
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- If you hear no sound :
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- - run SETSOUND
- - activate the sounds by pressing Ctrl S during the PLAY MODE.
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- If you cannot turn left or right with joystick :
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- - desactivate mouse if you are in icon mode or change to pro mode to
- continue playing with joystick.
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- - In the file config.sys the line FILES must be at least 40.