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- -- SILENT SERVICE II
- -- IBM Version 457.03, 02/10/91
- -- Copyright (c) MicroProse Software, 1990. All rights reserved.
-
- 1) The historical data in the initial Halls of Fame reflects postwar JANAC
- tonnage scores analysis with one exception: the War Career lists, which
- represent wartime claims. We used these because they seemed more in the
- spirit of the game. The top ten tonnage scores for war careers per JANAC
- are: Fluckey(95,360), O'Kane(93,824), Underwood(75,386), Cutter(72,000),
- Munson(67,630), Gross(65,735), Whitaker(60,846), Reich (59,839),
- Triebel(58,837), Andrews(57,243), Morton(55,000).
-
- 2) Fans of strict historical accuracy have noted that contacts are more
- frequent in Silent Service II than in real life. In reality many subs
- never found a target throughout an entire war patrol. To play the
- simulation as a "purist", use a deck of cards. For each contact you make
- where there's an option to avoid battle (you have a Y/N choice), draw a
- card. If the card is 2 through 10, or an Ace, you MUST say no (N). If you
- get royalty (K,Q or J) you can make the choice normally. Reshuffle
- after every patrol.
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- -- SILENT SERVICE II IBM Version 457.03, 02/10/91
- -- Historical notes above, playing notes below.
-
- 3) NEW KEY: The "s" key toggles on and off a special "extra-slow" speed.
- This may be useful on 386/33+ or 486 machines. The slow-down affects ALL
- time acceleration modes, not just the slowest.
-
- 4) NEW KEY: The "l" (lower-case L) key spins the periscope 180 degrees.
-
- 5) You can restore the original historical data to your various Hall of Fame
- screens by copying the HALL.??? files from Disk C.
-
- 6) Make sure CapsLock is OFF when you play. We also suggest having NumLock
- off unless your keyboard requires it to be on for functional cursor keys.
-
- 7) Ignore the "not enough memory" warning at your peril. The alt F1 key will
- report currently available RAM. If you have 0 or a small number (like 3!)
- you're cruising for a crash. See the Technical Supplement for details.
- SSII isn't the only game that needs lots of memory, especially in DOS 4.
- I (Arnold Hendrick) have a BAT file that lets me select one of six
- different configurations (Config.Sys and Autoexec.Bat) for my DOS 4.01
- 386/20, depending on the memory and type of drivers a game requires.
-
- 8) Your current save game and Hall of Fame files can not be used with the
- 457.03 version of SSII. There have been changes to these files and the
- way that they are saved. This was to repair several bugs found with
- restoring the game from saved as well as the Hall of Fame.