A sample view of the screen is shown above. A transport has just landed a group of armies on a newly discovered island and it is now time for one of those armies to move. In addition to the menu bar there are three parts of the display. The “Message” window is the short and wide window in the upper left. The “Data” window is to the right of the message window. Most of the screen is devoted to the map below these two small windows.
The Message Window
This window is used for all messages that don't require any specific response. When it is time for one of your units to move the nine squares surrounding it will be shown at the right of the message window. This is especially useful if you have set the square size to a small value.
The Data Window
 
The data window shows some useful and some scary statistics. It is organized into three columns. The first column describes the current player’s forces. The second and third columns indicate how much time has been spent on the game (which can be scary). In this example, “Day: 19/1” indicates the first segment of the nineteenth turn; “Cities: 4” indicates that Sinful (who is the current player) has 4 cities; “Units: 7” indicates that Sinful has 7 units; “Cost: 32” indicates that these units would require a single city 32 days to build; “Moved: 0” indicates that Sinful has not moved any units today.
Over the second and third columns the total time spent playing this game is shown as “Time: 03:09” indicating three minutes and nine seconds. The format for all time indicators in the data window is “DD HH:MM:SS” with leading fields not shown. Below that the names of the players are shown (with the current player in boldface). Below that is the time each player has spent moving separately. In this case both players have spent one minute and thirty nine seconds moving. (These do not exactly add up to the total time spent playing the game, since there is a small amount of work done changing turns. Pretend that the difference is due to a “referee” calling a time out.) The second line from the bottom shows the time spent moving this turn. In this case Ugly spent six seconds and Sinful has spent four seconds. The last line shows an estimate of how much of his turn the current player has completed. This is estimated by using a weighted average of the total time spent on previous turns. Ugly (who has finished his turn) is estimated to be 96% done (not a bad estimate). Sinful is estimated at 60%.
After several minutes (controlled in the map options dialog) of inactivity the game will go into a suspended state with all windows blacked out. Moving the mouse restores the display. Time spent in this inactive state will not be added to the time spent playing the game.
There are now several data window displays. Click on the data window to rotate among them. The second display shows statistics on the internal block allocator. The third shows some additional memory statistics. The fourth display shows a copyright notice. If the other displays bother you because they “flash” too much then select this one.
The Map Window
The map window shows a section of the world. When it is time for one of your units to move it will be adjusted to make that unit visible. Enemy attacks on your units and cities will also be shown. Also, when a known neutral city is captured by the enemy that will be shown. You may scroll the map at any time to view other sections of the world. The map coordinates are shown in the scroll bars for reference. (If you look closely at the sample display above you will find that the coordinates on the scroll bar is wrong. This is because the screen image has been edited with MacPaint to fit better. Many of the screen images in this manual have been compressed and are not exactly what appears on the screen.)
Up to eight map windows can be open at once. Each of them can be scrolled sized, or dragged independently. Different map windows can show the map in different scales. All map windows are fully functional, so you can select a destination for a unit on any map window, regardless of which window the unit is currently visible in.
