Jason Aller Floppy Collection/72.img/DTRACK.DOC

Text File | 1989-11-12 | 32KB | 714 lines

*************************************************************************
*                                  DeathTrack                           *
*                                                                        *
*                                                                       *
*                          Docs Compiled by Maelstrom                   *
*                                                                       *
*                                                                       *
*                                                                       *
*                             Game by Activision                        *
*                                                                       *
*                                                                       *
*************************************************************************

Stats for DeathTrackers:

Sly
*Avg Elims/Year: 5.29
*Favorite Weapon: S&B Delta Max-1
*Home: Moon Base Alpha
*Best Track: Chicago
*Car: Night Stalker
*Favorite Food: Smokey Links
*Description: Pallid white male. Short dark hair.
"I like to build my car up pretty evenly. When I get a big engine, I also
improve the trans, tires, brakes, and airfoils. I find it better to have
so-so quality everywhere than awesome parts in some places and cheap
parts in others."

MotorManiac
*Avg Elims/Year: 6.42
*Favorite Weapon: RDI MetalStorm 50's
*Home: Atlanta, GA
*Best Track: Boston
*Car: MondoBondo
*Favorite Food: Corn on the cob
*Description: Black male. No shirt on. Arms crossed.
"When you come tearing up on wreckage in the road, make every attempt to
miss it. It tears up your underside and scratches the finish. The same
goes for staying on the track. Off-road racing is hard on these beasts."

Wrecker (the Polish word for Wrecker)
*Avg Elims/Year: 14.3
*Favorite Weapon: S&B Auto-Cannon
*Home: Warsaw, Poland
*Best Track: Pheonix
*Car: Warthog
*Favorite Food: Cottage Cheese
*Description: White male w/ sun glasses. Wild hair. Is holding a gun.
Beard.
"If you're hopelessly out-gunned and your modifications haven't kept up
with the rest of the trackers, try falling behind the pack and letting
them pick off each other before getting into the action. Don't fall so
far behind you get lapped, though."

Melissa
*Avg Elims/Year: 6.89
*Favorite Weapon: TTI Dragon Terminators
*Home: Eugene, OR
*Best Track: Manhattan
*Car Name: Vixen
*Favorite Food: Oysters
*Description: White Female. Blond hair. Has hands on hips.
"When you start feeling real degradation in performance, pull into the
pit and check damage. Your car will run with most of your parts severely
damaged. You can even run around the tracks on your rims if you like."

MegaDeath
*Avg Elims/Year: 2.54
*Favorite Weapon: SDI PT Sunburst
*Home: Unknown
*Best Track: Los Angeles
*Car: Hammerhead
*Favorite Food: Vitamin E
*Description: White male. Black helmet on. Holding black gun.
"When the race starts, I don't waste time in getting ready to blow up the
guy in front of me. I put the foot down before the WCI kicks in to put
some asphalt between me and the pack."

Killer Angel
*Avg Elims/Year: 10.6
*Favorite Weapon: DMS Steel Arrows
*Home: Chicago, IL
*Best Track: Seattle
*Car: Devil's Revenge
*Favorite Food: Tortellini
*Description: Black female. Has hand behind neck. Hair is tied.
"The best way to dodge a missile is to stomp hard on your brakes. You
can't outrun a missile going 400 mph in a car with a top speed of 300
mph. I always get the best brakes at the parts shop to pull this off."

Lurker
*Avg Elims/Year: 3.61
*Favorite Weapon: MX-35 Mines
*Home: San Francisco, CA
*Best Track: Orlando
*Car: The Grunt
*Favorite Food: Black eyed-peas
*Description: White male with torn up white cloth all over him. Light
hair.
"The Pitbull is one of my favorite cars. Its armor keeps you in the hunt
longer and more than makes up for its relative lack of speed. The
firepower isn't much, but you can always improve that at the shops."

Preying Menace
*Avg Elims/Year: .59
*Favorite Weapon: Scorpion Terminators
*Home: Manhattan, NY
*Best Track: St. Louis
*Car: The Bandit
*Favorite Food: Sardines
*Description: White female. Frizzy dark hair. Body paint. Face paint.
"Once I've got my car maxxed out on parts and weapons, I simply stop in
the pits near the end of a race and repair and rearm. Then I just keep on
racing through the entire circuit."

Crimson Death
*Avg Elims/Year: 10.8
*Favorite Weapon: DWS Falcon missiles
*Home: Tokyo, Japan
*Best Track: Houston
*Car: Samurai
*Favorite Food: Hot Dogs
*Description: White Asian female. Hair is all tied up. White shirt.
"If you time it just right, you can come down off the jumps and land
right on top of the poor sucker in front of you. It does a great deal of
damage to him, even if it isn't so good for your own car."

A Note to the Impatient

If you want to jump right in and start racing the DeathTrack, follow
these instructions. When you've played enough times to want to know more
about the circuit, weapons, parts, and controls, refer to the main
section of this guide.

NOTE: These Quick Start instructions assume a working knowledge of basic
DOS commands. If you have any problems, please refer to the main section
of the manual.

Quick Start Intructions

1. Make backup copies of your DeathTrack diskettes <grin>
2. Install the game on your HD (if applicable). DeathTrack has an
Installation batch file.
3. Type DTRACK and press <ENTER> at the DOS prompt. After the game loads,
press the joystick button or spacebar to begin.
4. Answer the question that appears about a DeathTrack driver by finding
the answer in this guide and selecting that answer from the choices on
the screen.
5. To move through the menus, move the pointer with the cursor keys or
joystick or use the TAB key to jump between menu choices. To enter your
selection, press the Enter key, spacebar or joystick button 1.
6. You start the game with $10,000. Go to THE SHOPS to buy new parts and
weapons. The Weapons shop gives you your money back on your old weapons
when you buy new ones. The Parts shop does not.
7. When you've improved your car, choose RUN A TRACK or choose FULL
CIRCUIT RUN. (see the rest of this guide for details). Once you're in a
FULL CIRCUIT RUN, you can SAVE THE CIRCUIT or BAIL ON THIS CIRCUIT,
which allows you to start over with a new car. You can't load an old
circuit or start a new game till you finish the current one, or BAIL ON
THIS CIRCUIT.
8. Control your car with the joystick, mouse, or keyboard. See main
manual for more details.
9. When you're finished, select BAIL OUT to return to DOS.

From the Pit: DeathTrack for Beginners

Greetings, Sports Fans!

Hey, how about that dustup in Orlando last month? Was that DeathTrack at
its best or what? I thought I wass going to die and go to heaven when
Angel slammed that Terminator up Wrecker's tailpipe and blew his carcass
right into the press box! Just another night on the circuit, and the
stars were out (some more than others)! I know there are lots of
runny-nosed young shavers coming in new to the monster sport of
DeathTrack, beguiled by bright lights and big guns. So as a public
service to all you virgins out there, I'll explain how 'Tracking works.

You cruise your ground pounder at maximum speed and eliminate the
competition by ramming them, slicing their tires, dropping mines beneath
their underbellies, and of course, blasting them with a charming variety
of particle beams, lasars, missiles, and good old fashioned machine guns.

Road signs point out which way the road is going to turn, so keep an eye
on them and try to stay on the track. Running off the road slows you down
a lot, and it's hard to get traction when you;re off the blacktop. If
you're car gets damaged, its performance will drop. Pull over into the
pits to repair or get more weapons. Outrace 'em or outgun 'em or both.
The object is to cross the finish line first. Kills are worth points to
your final score, but they don't earn you bucks, so drive hard. The more
you win, the more bucks you snatch to repair or soup up your car between
races. The more you soup up your car, the more you win. Got it? Good.
Sound easy? Well, lots of other buzzard bait and highway pizza thought so
too...

Game Speed Adjustment

The following keys are active at any time to configure DeathTrack for
optimum performance on your computer:

Key      Function
+        Increase Screen Detail (default is max. detail)
-        Decrease Screen Detail (faster frame update)

Use the + or - key on the keyboard (not the keypad) to change the screen
detail. The + key increases detail; the - key decreases it (allowing for
faster frame updates). The default is maximum detail.

Choosing a Car

So you say you want to be a DeathTrack racer, hmmm? Worse beginners have
strapped themselves into a ton and a half of death machine. Let's see how
you do.

Your first big decision will be choosing a car. The frames and dashboards
of the cars are all different, but the main differences are their weapons
and auto parts. You see, DeathTrack cars are pretty modular. You can
replace all the basic parts and weapons. If you really wanted to, you
could take your Pitbull to the parts shop and chop it into a Crusher. Or
vice versa. Or transform it into something even better. The differences
between the cars are only really important in the first few races. After
that, your car will be better than any starting car. If you're still
alive.

The HELLCAT is a fast car. with a good engine and transmission; an XT
Turbo and PowerStream Deluxe. The weapons are standard, except for some
Ajax B260 Wheel Spikes and an Suto Pike SR60 Ram Spike. It's good for
people who like to win by outrunning the competition. The engine and
spikes make it a car designed for passing. And causing lots of damage as
you go by.

The CRUSHER has a decent airfoil and armour, and a good lasar. The
airfoil is a SlipStream Deluxe, the armour is Steel Plate, and the lasar
is a PolyTech Sunburst, by SDI. It's a good all-around,
middle-of-the-road car.

The PITBULL knows how to take and give out punishment. It comes with
outstanding Titanium Core armour, and a Delta Max 1. Everything else on
it isn't the greatest, but it'll get you around the track. SuperSlip
brakes. Stuff like that. Good for people who want to bully their way
through the race.

Once you pick your car, cruise on over to the Parts Shop and modify your
new beast. Select THE SHOPS and see how quick you can spend the $10,000
you start with.

Buying Parts and Weapons

All you have to do to equip your death machine is select things from a
simple menu. Select the part you want and it'll be requisitioned from
storage, billed to your account, and fitted to your car.

Want to upgrade some gear? No problem. The Parts Shop will even buy your
old weapons back from you, and credit the value of it to your new
purchase! What more could you ask for?

Offer only good for used weapons. Used auto parts cannot be exchanged.

Buying parts and weapons is a two-step precedure:

Select an object. The object will be highlighted.
Select BUY IT. The object number will increase by one, and your money
will decrease in payment.

You may also purchase parts and weapons by pressing B on your keyboard.

The automated purchase system can't be cheated-it'll tell you when you're
trying to get something you can't afford, or when you've purchased the
maximum amount you're allowed to carry of any part or weapon.

Shop or Die: Buying Auto Parts

The parts shop stocks three grades of each component, ranging from
mediocre to excellent to outstanding. The highest grades of each
component are all designed to satisfy your most outrageous cravings for
power! Make a monster, monster, monster car!

Beef up that mauler as much as you can afford. You can only buy higher
grades of auto parts between races, so choose you start parts carefully.
Your battles could be won or lost in the shops before the race begins.

If you want the specs on the stuff you're buying, select the item you're
interested in, and then select DESCRIBE or press D on your keyboard.

When you're done outfitting your rig, select OUT'A HERE and get set to
race!

Which Auto Parts Should You Buy?

Read the on screen descriptions for all parts for a good understanding of
their relative strengths and weaknesses. As a general rule, the more
expensive parts will perform substantially better than the less expensive
ones. Many of the higher priced parts have additional armour enhancements
which reduce the amount off damage done to that part, regardless of your
car's armour rating.

ENGINES: The better the engine the higher your top speed.
BRAKES: Good brakes can keep you out of trouble. You don't need to try
and out run everything thrown at you.
TRANSMISSIONS: Transmissions handle three of the most important aspects
of DeathTrack racing: Acceleration, acceleration, and acceleration!
TIRES: Poor tires slip all over the road. And off the road as well. But
good tires grip the road reliably and improve acceleration.
AIRFOILS: Airfoils work with your tires to increase traction, and improve
your road handling. Good tires without good airfoils are a waste of
money. The most powerful engines and transmissions are ineffecient and
sloppy without a good airfoil.
ARMOUR: Higher grade armour weighs less and protects better. Any armour
can be torn apart with enough hits. Face it. There are only two places
you can be: On the road or scattered all over it.

Deadly Toys: A Visit to the Weapons Shop

Buying weapons works exactly like buying auto parts. Just select the item
you want to select, and select BUY IT or press B to purchase it.

When you're buying weapons, unlike auto parts, there are more selections
than will fit on one screen, and you can have more than one of most
weapons.

Paging Through Weapons

Select the upper right or left arrows on the screen to see more weapon
choices. There are nine kinds of weapons with three grades apiece.

Buying Multiple Items

Some DeathTrack can be bought only once, but most can be bought several
times. Each time you select BUY IT or press B, you buy another of the
same item. All weapons have an upper limit that will fit in your car.
Your current inventory of any weapon is indicated by a number in the
lower lefthand corner of the weapon icon.

So go on. Soup up your hot rod with some powerful artillery.

Weapon Limits

Weapon        Low Grade        Med Grade       High Grade
----------------------------------------------------------
Caltrops   |     30       |      20        |       10    |
Lasars     |      1       |       1        |        1    |
Ammo       |    1000      |      700       |       400   |
Mines      |     30       |      15        |        7    |
Missiles   |     20       |      10        |        5    |
Beams      |      1       |       1        |        1    |
Ram Spikes |      1       |       1        |        1    |
Terminators|     15       |      10        |        5    |
Wheel Spike|      1       |       1        |        1    |
----------------------------------------------------------

The Lowdown on the High-Powered Weapons

CALTROPS: In the great Roman chariot races, unscrupulous charioteers
threw sharp, twisted shards of metal in the path of enemy horses. The
horses hooves would be slashed to ribbons, toppling their driver and
leaving him easy prey for the cheating contestant.

DeathTrack brings back a modern, hightech version of the caltrop, which
sends a shower of spikes into the underbelly of the opponent's car,
damaging the tires, brakes, transmission, and even the engine. Drop a few
into the path of the car behind you, and watch the sparks fly!

LASARS: Lasars! The word says it all. You want firepower? Buy a lasar!
You want to be able to effortlessly slice up your opponents? Buy a lasar!
You want a weapon that recharges itself fully after each race? Then buy a
lasar!

Truth in advertising laws force us to reveal that lasar batteries are
good for a limited number of shots per race, and can't be recharged at
the pitstop. But who cares? And who reads the small print anyway?

GUNS & AMMO: FREE DEATHTRACK MACHINE GUN! Well, sir, when it comes to
weapons, new fangled gizmos come and go all the time. But for good
old-fashioned mayhem, nothing beats the Machine Gun. Nothing.

Get a Model 95, a Delta Max 1, or even a top-of-the-line AutoCannon CX750
free with the purchase of ammunition for it. All you ever have to buy is
the ammo. Keep the gun as long as you like. The shop will be glad to keep
selling you fresh ammo for it.

MINES: Having a problem with tailgaters? Other cars tearing around the
tracck twice before you've even completed it once? Want to get rid of
that pesky cruiser before he can pass you? Don't get mad. Get even. With
Assassin Mines from Rear Defense.

Mines are small packets of explosives that your car drops directly behind
it. Your little present comes to life when the offending car passes over
it, tearing up his undercarriage.

If you can't outrace 'em, outthink 'em. With Assassins. Go ahead and drop
'em all. There are more where those came from.

MISSILES: Stop messing around with inferior weapons systems. Stop trying
to save money by buying cheapo weapons. There's only one real way to win.
Missiles. They cost a little more, but then so does anything that's
worthwhile.

Darkwing Weapon Systems, Ltd. For when your tastes grow up.

BEAMS: Picture yourself strapped behind 555,000 Megawatts of particulate
vengeance!

Particle Beam weapons are the newest trend in DeathTrack racing! Unlike
guns, there's no more ammo to buy. Unlike lasers, they won't give out on
you during the race. And you don't have to keep buying them over and over
again, like missiles. Of course, there is a slight pause between shots
while the weapon recharges, but that's hardly worth mentioning. Besides,
a short pause between shots is a lot better than having your laser's
battery die during the race!

The Arrowhead Particle Accelerator. It's the only weapon you'll ever
need.

RAMSPIKES: Face it. In an aggressive sport like DeathTrack, you're going
to get knocked around a lot. You need all the protection you can get. But
you also want to be able to dish it out.

You need Trojan Ram Spikes. Strapped to the front of your car, these
ramming systems can puncture engines and fuel tanks as well as armour!

TERMINATORS: Picture a high-explosive warhead strapped to a skateboard.
Now slap on a rocket pack and launch it from your machine, and you have a
Terminator. As Melissa says, "Are you willing to take the chance that
your opponent doesn't have one?"

Terminators from Terminal. Melissa's got them. Shouldn't you?

WHEEL SPIKES: Why pass a car when you can trash a car? get Ajax or
Achilles Wheel Spikes from Trojan War Systems.

Trojan Wheel Spikes. They're not for everybody. But they could be for
you. Available by invitation only. To see if you qualify, send roadkills
resume to: Trojan War Systems, Reno, Nevada. Or use your Automatic
Purchasing System to buy them.

Start Racing

When you're done souping up your car, you're ready to race! Select Out A'
Here for the racing menu:

RUN A TRACK. Practice any of the 10 tracks.
FULL CIRCUIT RUN. Run all 10 tracks to see who's the best DeathTracker.
SCOPE THE STATS. Review High Scores or scan the pros and tracks.
SET YOUR LIMITS
Number of Laps per Race: To change the number of laps, enter a new number
from the keyboard. Enter a 0 first if you want to race less than 10 laps.
(that is, 06 for a 6-lap race). To change your selection, press backspace
to delete.
Level of Difficulty: Select the level of competition you want to race
against, from punk to megadestroyer, then Enter to accept.
RUN AN OLD CIRCUIT. Restore a selected Saved Game.
SAVE THE CIRCUIT. Allows you to save your circuit in progress. If you
BAIL ON THIS CIRCUIT, you can restore the circuit from your last save.
Have a formatted blank DOS disk handy if you're playing from floppy
disks.
END RACE. A race ends when your car completes the dignated number of laps
or is destroyed. You can also exit a race at any time by pressing ESC,
taking a last-place finish in return. At the end of a race you'll be
informed or your number of kills, your order of finish, and the amount of
money you earned during the race. Before continuing to the next race in a
circuit, visit the Weapons Shop to rearm and the Parts Shop to repair.
See "Entering the Pit" for instructions on repairing and rearming.

Keep Your Eyes Off the Road

A Diabolical Display of Instruments Designed to Put the Wreck Back in
Reckless Driving

Readouts are the lifeblood of a DeathTrack driver. Without this
sophisticated array of computer-controlled driving and targeting
indicators, you may as well be driving and shooting blind.

There are three sets of readouts in your car's cockpit: The Upper
Dashboard, the Windshield, and the Lower Dashboard.

Upper Dashboard Readouts

DAMAGE LEVEL DISPLAY (DLD)
    Location: Upper Left Corner
    The Damage Level Display (DLD) sdhow damage to your armour. If your
    amour's trashed, chance are a lot of other parts are banged up, too.
    Got it? Anyone who can't figure that out is in a lot of trouble
    already. When you take a hit, the border of the screen flashes, and
    the DLD shows you the new damage. The DLD warns you when your car is
    in trouble, giving you time to pull over into the pits and get
    repairs. Pay attention to it or fry.
AUTOPILOT ON/OFF
    Location: Upper Left Center
    This shows whether your Autopilot is on or off. Use the A key to
    switch it on and off. Autopilot will drive your car for you, leaving
    you free to target weapons, catch your breath, pick your toes or
    whatever. It doesn't drive fast and it doesn't drive well. Real
    Trackers do their own driving. Got it?
FUEL GAUGE
    Location: Top Center
    After your intensive study of the DeathTrack sport, you can guess
    what this does by yourself. Sitting stalled on the track is not just
         publically humiliating, but you make such an inviting target for
the      rest of the pack.
REARVIEW MIRROR
    Location: Upper Center
    What do you want a physics lesson? This is just a rearview mirror. It
    shows the track directly behind you, and is good for lining up mines
    and caltrops on that speedhead trying to ram you from behind. Also
    helpful when you want to block faster opponents to keep them from
    passing.
WEAPONS COUNTDOWN INDICATOR (WCI)
    Location: Upper Right Center
    All DeathTrack cars have this override system that keeps weapon
    ystems inactive until the cars have driven about ten seconds. When
    he bar reaches the right of the graph, your weapons can fire. Your
    UD display flashes onto your windshield, and you can start blasting
    way! In the early days of DeathTrack, before they added the WCI,
    races used to be real short.
RACE COUNTDOWN INDICATOR (RCI)
    Location: Upper Right Center
    These three lights under the WCI count down the start of the race.
    When the third one lights, do what comes naturally.
PITSTOP INDICATOR LIGHT (PIL)
    Location: Upper Right Corner
    The PIL flashes as you come into the pit area. Overshoot the pit area
    and you have to go around the track again before pitting. Everytime
    you complete a lap, you'll have an opportunity to pull off to repair,
    rearm, and refuel. Look for the pit area and pull over and stop.
    You'll automatically be placed in the pit menu. When playing with the
    screen detail adjusted to the minimum, you'll need to use the PIL to
    know when to get over into the pits.

Windshield Readouts

HEADS UP DISPLAY (HUD)
    Location: Center
    Love that HUD. It's a mondo targeting and tracking system that's
    projected onto your windshield. It gives you state-of-the-art
    computerized target aquisition, weapon specific aiming cursor, and
    automatic weapons display. It's a special gift to good little
    DeathTrack drivers. If you're really crazy, you can turn the HUD off
    by pressing the H key.
RADAR EARLY WARNING DISPLAY (REWD)
    Location: Upper Left Corner of the HUD
    Most of the time, there wont be anything in that upper left corner.
    But when there is, you better pay close and careful attention to it.
    It doesn't give you a lot of advance notice, but if you're good, a
    little warning is all you'll need. If someone locks a missile on your
    car, it'll follow you no matter how hard you swerve, Fortunately,
    missiles can be fooled into zooming harmlessly overhead and
    detonating in the road if you brake rapidly. If you have a truely
    monstrous engine, you can try and outrun them.
AUTO-TARGET AIMING CURSOR (A-TAC)
    Location: Center of the HUD
    The A-TAC is the weapons crosshair that shows up at the center of the
    HUD. Use it to line up your shots. The shape of the A-TAC depends on
    your selected weapon, and it changes as you change weapons. The gun,
    laser, and beam cursors all stay in the center of the screen, and you
    line up your opponent in your sights by maneuvering behind him. The
    missile cursor moves to follow the target's car.
WEAPON ACTIVATION STATUS (WAS)
    Location: HUD Lower Left
    The WAS lists your weapon of choice at the bottem left of the HUD,
usually with a message about the weapon. The message tells you your ammo
remaining, units of the weapon remaining, or the status of the weapon,
depending on the weapon. When you use up the weapon, the WAS will change
color to let you know. Pay attention to this. You don't want to launch a
Terminator you don't have.

Lower Dashboard Readouts

SPEEDOMETER (MPH)
    Location: Center
    This is you speedometer. Your speedometer shows your speed. If you
    need more information, go to night school.
OPPONENT DETECTION DISPLAY (ODD)
    Location: Lower Left Corner
    Whether the targeted is a snob or a slob, his smirking face will pop
    up on the TV viewer on the lower left dashboard. Just below his mug
    shot is his name, and above it is his standing in the race. If the
    number reads #01, you know you have the leader of the pack clearly in
    your sights. And that's such a good feeling. Press enter to cycle
    through your available targets on the ODD.
MAP ACTION DISPLAY (MAD)
    Location: Lower Center
    The Map Action Display shows you an overhead map of the current
    racetrack and the name of the city. See the little red dot running
    around the track? That's you. See all the black dots? Those are your
    enemies. Kind of sobering, huh? The X points to the pitstop area. The
    triangle points to the finish line. Try to get there before they kill
    you.
LAP COUNTER
    Location: Far Right
    The upper number in the lapo counter shows laps traveled. The lower
    number shows laps remaining.
RACE POSITION INDICATOR (RPI)
    Location: Lower Right Corner
    This shows your current position in the race. If it consistenly says
#10, you better look for a new line of work.

Player Controls: On the Track

Joystick and Keyboard Controls

Low Rt Corner or 3    Turn right and brake
Middle Lower or 2     Head straight and brake
Low Lft Corner or 1   Turn left and brake
Middle Rt Side or 6   Turn right at current speed
Middle or 5           Head straight at current speed
Middle Lft Side or 4  Turn left at current speed
Upper Rt Side or 9    Turn right and accelerate
Upper Middle or 8     Head straight and accelerate
Upper Lft Side or 7   Turn left and accelerate
Button 1 or Space     Fire
Button 2 or Enter     Toggle through weapons

The best way to drive a DeathTrack car is to use the joystick. It's fast,
easy, and intuitive. You just lean forward on the stick to accelerate,
and yank back to slow down. Slide the stick right and left to steer the
car.

Firing is just as easy. Press button 2 to scroll through your weapons,
then sqeeze button 1 to fire.

Joystick and keyboard functions can be used together or independently.

Keyboard Controls for Use with Joystick or Numeric Keypad

Key      Weapon Readied         Key      Weapon Readied

1        Machine Guns           5        Missiles
2        Laser                  6        Mines
3        Particle Beam          7        Caltrops
4        Terminators

A   AutoPilot on/off

B   Buy a weapon or autopart (in the shops only)
C   Drop Caltrop
D   Read Weapon or Auto Part description
H   HUD on/off
M   Drop Mine
P   Pause
S   Turn sound effects on/off
T   Turn music on/off
W   Toggle weapons
+   Increase screen detail (slower frame rate)
-   Decrease screen detail (faster frame rate)

Spacebar      Fire selected weapon
Enter         Cycles through targets on the Opponent Detection Display
              (changes target on missiles only)
ESC           Exit Race
TAB           Move between menu items
ALT C         Recenter your joystick

Entering the Pit

As you pass the flag at the end of a lap, you'll see the pit on your
right. Pull to the right and stop your car to enter the pit. In the pit,
you can refuel, rearm or repair in the Weapons or Parts Shops.

Elapsed race time is determined solely by the number of selections
(button clicks) you make while in the pit.

Repair: In the Parts Shop, damaged parts are indicated by a big DAMAGED
banner running through the parts icon. The cost to repair the damage is
indicated in the lower righthand corner of the icon where the purchase
price is normally displayed. Highlight the damaged part and select Buy It
to repair.

Rearm: Weapons do not take damage during a race. They do, however, run
out of ammunition and inventory. To replenish, simply purchase the weapon
as you did in the Weapons Shop before the race.

Refuel: Refueling is free; however, race time elapses while you're
getting tanked. You start each race automatically with a 3/4 full gas
tank.

Bounties

During a circuit, one of your opponents will occasionally have a bounty
on him. This is a special cash bonus available if you take him out during
the course of the race. Whether you win or lose, you recieve the stated
amount for eliminating that DeathTracker.

Now you know everything there is to know about life in the fast lane on
the DeathTrack.

Appendix: User Options at Start-Up

Graphic Mode Options

To select a different graphics mode, enter one of the options below after
typing DTRACK

*The game automatically selects the best graphics mode for you. If you
like, however, you can manually select the mode by typing one of these
options after DTRACK:

         GE    (Enhanced Graphics Adaptor, 16-color)
         GC    (Composite Graphics Adaptor, 4-color)
         GH    (Hercules monochrome)
         GT    (Tandy 1000 series, 16-color)

Sound and Music Options

To start DeathTrack with sound or music turned off, type the following
after DTRACK:

         S0    (Turns sound effects OFF)
         T0    (Turns music OFF)

Demonstration Mode

To start DeathTrack in self-running demonstration mode, type DEMO at the
DOS prompt.