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The tournament of Zulula Instructions Table of contents INTRODUCTION..................................................2 INSTALLING THE GAME...........................................2 STARTING THE GAME.............................................2 THE MAIN MENU.................................................3 PLAYING THE GAME..............................................4 RACES INFO....................................................5 REGISTERING THE TOURNAMENT OF ZULULA..........................6 UPDATE........................................................7 Special thanks: Richard Martin & Eric Godbout for their help in debugging and improving the game. Stephen Fawcett of the BBS Le Systeme for his help in distributing the program. Eric Boutin for his soundtrack and his constant programming assistance. Alain Paradis of the Axe Master BBS for the special Oracle Software section on his BBS. Introduction On the continent of Rastika, in the country of Zala, there lies the city of Zulula. A rich, prosperous city since the end of the Great War Of Freedom, Zulula is a place of both good and evil, law and chaos. Each year, people from Koros, Shakiri and even the realm of Intisgurb come to Zulula to participate in the greatest tournament of all, the tournament of Zulula. The tournament of Zulula is an action-packed arcade game featuring multiple player character races (including odd creatures), single competition or tournament. It only supports CGA graphics and IBM sounds (future versions of the game may support EGA/VGA and AdLib). Installing the game This game sould include: INSTALL.BAT, READ.ME and FILES.EXE. FILES.EXE is a self-extracting file. Here is how you install the game. Type INSTALL [drive] at the dos prompt (Example: INSTALL c). The program will create three sub-directories: [drive]:\ZULULA, [drive]:\ZULULA\LICONS, and [drive]:\ZULULA\RICONS. The program will then unpack all the files in their appropriate directory. DO NOT TRY TO PUT THEM IN ANOTHER DIRECTORY i.e. C:\GAMES\ZULULA, the game may not work. The game will fit on 1 720k disk or hard disk. A file named ZULULA.ICO (in FILES.EXE) is an icon for windows users. Starting the game To start the game, go to your ZULULA directory and type ZULULA. After the title screen you will be asked to calibrate your joystick(s). If you do not have a joystick, press ESC twice to skip those screens. Once this is done, you will arrive at the gates of Zulula. The guards are pretty nasty, and to enter you will have to accomplish an errand for them. If you have not registered, you will probably be unable to accomplish this errand, and thus, you will go to a limited version of the game. If you have registered and have the list of drinks, simply find the bar that serves the drink the guard asks you for, go to that bar (using the keypad), and press enter. Once in the bar, the bartender will ask you how full you want your drink. Find the name of the creature the drink is destined to, and fill the drink the number written beside this creature. Once this is done, the guard will get the drink, give it to the recipient, whom will drink it. If you have made a mistake, you will go to a limited version of the tournament. The Main Menu The main menu consists of four choices: Single Duel, The Tournament, Set the players, or see the strengths and weaknesses of the different races. The Tournament option might be shaded if you failed to accomplish the guard's errand. On the left and right of the screen there are to characters walking. Those represents the current choices the players are. When chosing a single duel, the two players selected in the Set Players menu will duel one against another. See playing the game for more info. Duels are fun, but nothing compares to the excitement of the tournament! When chosing tournament, you will start the tournament of Zulula. In the tournament, the two players setted in the Set Players option will compete in the tournament, as well as 6 other players (controlled by the computer). You will first be asked is you want to see computer-controlled fights (fights that features a computer-controlled opponent against another computer-controlled opponent). You can choose to see all those fights, none or those fights, or only some of those fights. When you choose "Asks you each time", each time a computer vs. computer fight is about to append, the computer will ask you if you wish to see that fight. Only press Y or N in that case. Once the tournament has begun, you will see player 1 on top of the chart and player 2 at the bottom. The other slots will be filled with the other contestants. The tournament consists of 7 duels. The winner of the tournament will receive the immensely beautiful and so desired trophy representing the founder of the town: Geoffrey Zulula. When choosing Set Players, you will go to a separate screen where you can select the race, name, and input mode for the two players. Use the arrow key to move from field to field and ENTER to change the current selection. When pressing ENTER to change a name, you will be prompted to enter the new name for that player. When choosing Races Info, you will go to a separate screen where every races' stats are showed, two races at a time. You can change the races by pressing PgUp or PgDn. ST stands for strength, the stronger the race, the harder it will hit. DX stands for dexterity, the more dextruous the race, the faster it will hit. HM is the life force of the character, when a character is hit, it will lose life force. RF stands for regeneration factor, the less the number, the more the creature will be able to regenerate its life force. Finally, IN stands for intelligence, it can be Dumb, Low, Medium, and high. One characteristic is not displayed there, that is the reach. See races info in this document to know more about that. Playing the game When a duel occurs (be it single or part of the tournament), the computer will first introduce the two characters competing in this fight. Then, it will switch to the combat screen. On the combat screen, the two bars on top of the screen represent the life force of both the contestants. The left one being for the left character, and the right one for the right character. In the middle of the screen is the scenery area. The scenery displayed depends on the duel's importance. Single duels are fought in the caverns outside the mountain ring surrounding Zulula, the first tournament rounds will be fought outside the moutain ring surrounding Zulula, near the active volcano Kalaza. The semi-finals will be fought inside the ring of mountain, in front of the Castle of the Giants. And the final fight will be held inside the Castle of the Giants. The fight then begins... Use the joystick or keypad to move your character on the screen. The first button (or INS) is used to hit and the second button (or ENTER) to put the character in defensive position. Moving the joystick up or pressing the upper keys of the keypad will cause the character to jump. When using the keyboard, remember this. once you press a direction key and the shield key, the character will do as ordered until another key is pressed. Example: Suppose you are playing a human, if you press 6 (or »), the character will move right until another key is pressed (pressing 6 again will stop the character). In the same fashion, pressing ENTER will cause the human to use its shield and keep it until another key is pressed. Keeping a key pressed will not be of any good. Being hit causes you to lose life force. You will lose less life force if you are in defensive position when hit. Attacking will also make you lose life force (tough only a little). Doing nothing, or simply moving, will cause your character to regenerate its life force at a variable speed (see races info). When a character's life force extinguishes, the character will extinguishes as well, being out of life force. When a character dies, the other is declared the winner and will certainly give some comments to the press! If you decide to quit the duel, by pressing ESC, three situation can occur: If the two characters are players (human-controlled), the computer will randomly choose a winner, the same case occurs if the two characters are computer-controlled. However, if the fights is between a human player and a computer player, the human player will automatically loses! Races Information HUMAN: The human is the standard fighter, being one of the weakest combattant, the human compensate that with a good dexterity, a fair hit maximum, and the longest reach of all the races. He uses a long sword to have a longer reach. On the weak side, he also have one of the worst regeneration factor. LAND OCTOPUS: The land octopus is a four-legged, fish-like creature. It is one of the weakest of all (second to human and the same as drider). A very-low intelligence, and a poor dexterity. It compensate for that with a high hit maximum and a fair regeneration factor. It has a medium reach. DOG: The dog is a four-footed, fishy-like creature that attacks with its poisonous tongue. It is one of the strongest of all, second to the cyclop. It is also very dextruous and has a good hit maximum. However, it regenerates very slowly, has a low intelligence, and a short reach. OSTRICH: The dummest of them all, the ostrich is a giant bird, tallest than the man. It is dumb, has a very low hit maximum, and a slow regeneration factor. However, its great strengh, its high dexterity and its long reach can make it a tough opponent. ZOMBIE: The zombie is a magically animated undead. It fights with its bare hands. It has a high strenght, a fair dexterity, and a very high regeneration factor. Its strongest point is its regeneration factor, wich cures its wounds at a tremendous rate. The zombie has, however, a very short reach and a medium intelligence. CYCLOP: Fear is the feeling inspired by the strongest of them all: the cyclop. Its strength is legendary, it has a great hit maximum, and a fair regeneration factor. However, it lacks of intelligence and dexterity. Its club gives him a fair reach. DRIDER: Being cursed by the ancient gods, the drider is half human, half spider. It is fairly strong, highly dextrous, and has a high intelligence. Its hit maximum is, however, a bit low. Its morning start gives him a fair reach. It regenerates slowly. EYE: The eye is an eyestalk standing on one foot. Its lightning bolts are devastating and have a fair reach, it has a great hit maximum, and a good regeneration factor. It lacks of dexterity and intelligence. Registering The tournament of Zulula It is my hope that The tournament of Zulula will be a great source of enjoyment to all. It has been released as shareware to reach the most people. I believe shareware are a good way to entertain people for a lesser price. This program is complete. However, you will have to register to get to some parts of the program. If you enjoy The tournament of Zulula and wish to register, send a check to the following address: Oracle Software enr. 132, Marchildon Amos, Quebec Canada J9T 4G5 If you register 10 US$ (12 CAN$) or more, you will receive the list of drinks as well as how full their drinks people want. With this sheet, you will be able to complete the guard's errand and you will be able to participate in the tournament of Zulula! Date: April 21, 1993 Version 3.0b: minor bug fixes Version 3.0: This new version have several enhancements. The installation program is now unnecessary The speed is no more adjustable, it is fixed and goes the same speed on all processors. Files have been linked together, resulting in less files The CB software presentation has been replaced with the Oracle Software presentation. A READ THIS option has been added, this option contains instructions and informations. Date: July 16, 1992 Version: 2.4: This new version can be installed in any directory The new syntax of the install program is: INSTALL [DRIVE:][PATH] (Ex: INSTALL C: or C:\GAMES) The game was designed for the Black/Bright Cyan/Red/White palette this works fine in CGA but when using an EGA/VGA card, the palette is set to Black/Red/Orange/Green. Running SETUP.EXE and selecting EGA/VGA will put the palette back to Black/Bright Cyan/Red/White. The default control will be set to keyboard if you have no joysticks. Version 2.3 shown incompatibility with some anti-virus because it wrote in a file named "JOYSTICK.DRV". This file has been removed and is now unnecessary.