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- ║ Network Q RAC Rally ║
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- ┌─────────────────────────────╖
- │Instore demonstration version║
- ╘═════════════════════════════╝
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- ┌──────────────────────╖
- │Additional information║
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- ■ Rally will NOT run from a floppy so don't even try...
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- ■ When it is raining or snowing you may use F12 to toggle to weather
- effect on the windscreen.
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- ■ Standard keys are as follows
- A accelerate
- Z brake
- < left
- > right
- space Gear change
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- F1 Head up display
- F2 Auto gears
- F3 Auto brakes
- F4 Indestructible
- F5 Pacenotes
- F6 Spoken pacenotes
- F7 Mirror
- F8 Road (Textured/flat polygons)
- F9 Ground (Textured/flat)
- F10 Joystick
- F11 Sound on/off
- F12 Weather mask
- PAUSE Pause game
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- ■ Joystick may be selected by pressing F10, if one is not present
- not a great deal will happen!
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- ■ Only ANALOGUE joysticks are supported by Rally.
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- ■ In demo mode CTRL+ESC quits to DOS.
- If in a game demo SPACE will play that stage.
- If playing game CTRL+ESC will return to demo mode.
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- ┌─────────────╖
- │Sound Support║
- ╘═════════════╝
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- ■ Instore demo only supports BEEPER and SOUND-BLASTER
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- ■ Sound-Blaster will not be available without Expanded memory (EMS).
- See below for further details.
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- ■ Sound-Blaster plays 4 channels of sound, however this requires
- a considerable overhead for your PC's processor. It is therefore
- possible to select which channels you prefer, to ensure that Rally
- always performs as smoothly as possible with your system. The controls
- are documented below.
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- CTRL + F1 Toggle Channel 1 Engine
- CTRL + F2 Toggle Channel 2 Turbo
- CTRL + F3 Toggle Channel 3 Speech+Sound effects
- CTRL + F4 Toggle Channel 4 More Sound effects
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- This configuration will be saved when you quit Rally.
- The music on the main menu is not affected by your choice of channels.
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- ■ Sound Blaster PRO users. Both the music and in game sounds are in
- stereo, so for best results do not use mono headphones or speakers as
- only two of the channels will be heard.
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- ┌─────────────────────╖
- │Memory considerations║
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- ■ Rally requires at least 580Kb free memory at the DOS prompt.
- If you have DOS 5.00 or above you can check your available memory
- using the DOS command "mem", see your operating system documentation
- for further details of this command.
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- ■ If available, Rally will take advantage of UMB's.
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- ■ Sound will not be available without Expanded memory (EMS).
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- ■ The ability to roll your car is not available without EMS.
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- ■ Here are some sample configurations for Rally to use. These will give
- you UMB's and EMS.
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- EMM386 Memory manager
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- in CONFIG.SYS
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- DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
- DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM
- DOS=HIGH,UMB
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- QEMM386 Memory manager
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- in CONFIG.SYS
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- DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM
- DOS=HIGH
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- in AUTOEXEC.BAT
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- C:\QEMM\LOADHI /LINK
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- ┌────────────────╖
- │Game performance║
- ╘════════════════╝
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- ■ Considerable degradation of game performance will be apparent
- if Rally is run with your PC's TURBO switched off (i.e. low speed).
- This degradation will be even more pronounced if you are running
- the game with one of the sound options on.
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- ┌──────────────────────────╖
- │Default game configuration║
- ╘══════════════════════════╝
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- ■ Many of the game options are stored in a configuration file, you
- may, however wish to revert to the default configuration. This is
- possible by simple deleting the RALLY.CFG file.
-
- ■ Default configuration is:
- All game options ON
- Textured road ON
- Textured ground ON
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- ┌──────────────────╖
- │Potential pitfalls║
- ╘══════════════════╝
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- ■ Disk cacheing programs.
- Whilst it is allright to use Rally with READ disk caches (Those
- that cache all disk reads), it is inadvisable to use WRITE BEHIND
- disk caching as the disk cache may not get an opportunity to write
- out it's data until Rally is finished. This only really affects the
- disk operations.
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- SMARTDRV.EXE users.
- To find out what sort of disk cacheing you have type:
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- SMARTDRV /S
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- This will give information about the current status of smartdrv.
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- ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ │
- │ Disk Caching Status │
- │ drive read cache write cache buffering │
- │ -------------------------------------------- │
- │ A: yes no no │
- │ B: yes no no │
- │ C: yes yes no │
- │ │
- └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- If your status looks a bit like the one above, then type:
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- SMARTDRV C
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- This will disable the write behind cacheing but enable the read cacheing.
- Your status would then look like this:
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- ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ │
- │ Disk Caching Status │
- │ drive read cache write cache buffering │
- │ -------------------------------------------- │
- │ A: yes no no │
- │ B: yes no no │
- │ C: yes no no │
- │ │
- └───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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- For further information consult your operating system documentation.
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- ■ If you experience anything odd try deleting RALLY.CFG to restore the
- default configuration.
-
- ■ If the introduction animation does not play correctly this may be due
- to a either selecting SOUND SOURCE or ADLIB without the relevant
- hardware.
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- ■ If the mouse pointer does not move in the menus, this is due to either
- SOUND SOURCE or ADLIB having been selected without the relevant
- hardware. Keyboard operation will still work so it is possible to
- deselect these.
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