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- ********** FREEWARE DEMOVERSION **********
-
- ATTENTION: Please, start your computer with CONTROL key. Better will
- be switch off your accelerators like FX, Nemesis, FT/20, Skunk,
- because they can cause problem and crash of the game.
-
- INTRODUCTION OF THE POWER UP GAME
-
- The Power up is race car game destined for Atari Computers ST, STE
- and Falcon with minimal 1 Mbytes of memory. The game uses a many types of atari
- hardware as a blitter, yamaha sound chip, dma sound and 5 hardware music cards.
- It works in low 320x200 points resolution in 32 colors with any TV or color
- monitor !. Whole game is coded in MC68000 code!!!
- The parameters of the game are set in tabular menus. Players can
- choose type of the game from four variants. In two players game is used
- the split screen.
-
-
- GAME INSTRUCTIONS
-
-
- ACTIVE KEYS IN MENUS:
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- arrow up or down: moving up or down
- arrow left or right: selecting item or counting parameter down or up
- enter: selecting item
- space: selecting item
- esc: to go back to upper menu
- ctrl+right shift+"p": input password
-
- controlling by joy (at no-mouse connector) is identical to keys
-
- Every track can have password, which is defined by track editor.
- If you would use password to skip some tracks, then please type combination
- ctrl+right shift+"p" in any menu.
-
-
- HARDWARE SETUP:
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- music: yamaha mono, ste stereo (25kHz, Falcon 50kHz), replay
- microdeal, replay professional, replay playback, MV 16
- and prosound designer
- music quality: low, medium, high and ultra
- sound: yamaha fm (chip sounds), yamaha mono (digital), ste stereo
- blitter: on, off (where present)
- turbo mode: quick scrolling for Falcon only
- screen size: normal or small for slow normal ST
-
-
- GAME OPTIONS:
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- All settings can be saved. By the help of option menu can be set
- parameters of game as player names, type of the game, difficulty (tracks),
- selecting own track by track selector,... Setting-up of the keyboard
- control in advanced options menu is very important.
-
- keyboard: red .. red car is controlled by keyboard and with first joystick
- (first joy is at no-mouse connector), blue car is controlled by
- second joystick (normal setting)
-
- blue .. blue car is controlled only by keyboard and red car is
- controlled by first joystick (for two-players game with only
- 1 joystick)
-
- If you would use your own track, then please set up track type to
- own ("tracks: own") and select track by track selector. (This selection is
- possible only at full version.)
-
-
- TRACK SELECTOR ACTIVE KEYS:
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- esc: canceling
- shift+return: chosen file is veryfied !!!!!!! (OK!)
- return: choosing file
- arrows: moving of the cursor and selecting strip
- shift+arrows: quick moving of the selecting strip
- ctrl+arrows: moving to top or bottom
- tab: cursor moving to directory selection
- ctrl+"A": active is disk A
- F1: to go to up directory
- F2: reread directory
-
-
- ACTIVE KEYS IN RESULT LISTS:
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- esc: skipping of the further result lists
- any key or joy moving: next result list
-
- ACTIVE KEYS IN GAME:
- esc: end of the game
- "p": pause
- arrow left or right: turning car
- arrow down: brake
- shift+arrow up: gear shifting up
- shift+arrow down: gear shifting down
- only shift: neutral gear (constant speed)
- none key: cars accelerate automaticly
- joystick:
- button is equal to shift key
- directions are like arrows
-
- joy left or right: turning car
- down: brake
- button+up: gear shifting up
- button+down: gear shifting down
- only button: neutral gear (constant speed)
- none action: cars accelerate automaticly
-
-
- TROUBLESHOOTING ADDENDUM
-
- a) On old Atari with TOS 1.0 may be some problems with loading files
- during playing of the music ("Read file error !, *.MAP). Solution of
- this problem is setting up music quality to low.
- b) Memory is overflow. Power up need minimal 1015 Kbytes of RAM memory
- (1Mbytes Atari, free memory is 9 Kbyte). You have to eliminate some
- resident programs as accessories, drivers,.... In case 1Mbytes with
- harddisk (harddisk driver in memory) you have to run game only from
- floppy disk.
-
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- COMERCIAL INFORMATION
-
- This is limited version. The full comercial version contains a lot
- of tracks in five different graphics, comfort track editor for own tracks
- , more music and graphics.
- Price of full game with the track editor is 250 Kc for Czech republic
- and 20 DM for foreign customers.
- If you want to buy the Power up or to become a dealer, please contact
- us at address:
-
- Mr. Karel Rous
- Fisova 22
- Brno 602 00
- Czech republic
-
- tel.: 042-05/571 682
- E-mail:CICHON@RTIME.FELK.CVUT.CZ programmer's team
- E-mail:xsumbe00@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz distribution
- NeST:90:1200/5.2
- FidoNet:2:421/16.11
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- Team of authors
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- programming: Marek Cichon, Martin Hejral
- graphics: Jiri Suchanek, Petr Pokorny
- distribution: Karel Rous
-