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********** FREEWARE DEMOVERSION 1.0 **********
ATTENTION: Please, start your computer with CONTROL key. Better will
be switch off your accelerators like FX, Nemesis, FT/20, Skunk,
because they can cause problem and crash of the game.
INTRODUCTION OF THE POWER UP GAME
The Power up is race car game destined for Atari Computers ST, STE
and Falcon with minimal 1 Mbytes of memory. The game uses a many types of atari
hardware as a blitter, yamaha sound chip, dma sound and 5 hardware music cards.
It works in low 320x200 points resolution in 32 colors with any TV or color
monitor !. Whole game is coded in MC68000 code!!!
The parameters of the game are set in tabular menus. Players can
choose type of the game from four variants. In two players game is used
the split screen.
GAME INSTRUCTIONS
ACTIVE KEYS IN MENUS:
arrow up or down: moving up or down
arrow left or right: selecting item or counting parameter down or up
enter: selecting item
space: selecting item
esc: to go back to upper menu
ctrl+right shift+"p": input password
controlling by joy (at no-mouse connector) is identical to keys
Every track can have password, which is defined by track editor.
If you would use password to skip some tracks, then please type combination
ctrl+right shift+"p" in any menu.
HARDWARE SETUP:
music: yamaha mono, ste stereo (25kHz, Falcon 50kHz), replay
microdeal, replay professional, replay playback, MV 16
and prosound designer
music quality: low, medium, high and ultra
sound: yamaha fm (chip sounds), yamaha mono (digital), ste stereo
blitter: on, off (where present)
turbo mode: quick scrolling for Falcon only
screen size: normal or small for slow normal ST
GAME OPTIONS:
All settings can be saved. By the help of option menu can be set
parameters of game as player names, type of the game, difficulty (tracks),
selecting own track by track selector,... Setting-up of the keyboard
control in advanced options menu is very important.
keyboard: red .. red car is controlled by keyboard and with first joystick
(first joy is at no-mouse connector), blue car is controlled by
second joystick (normal setting)
blue .. blue car is controlled only by keyboard and red car is
controlled by first joystick (for two-players game with only
1 joystick)
If you would use your own track, then please set up track type to
own ("tracks: own") and select track by track selector. (This selection is
possible only at full version.)
TRACK SELECTOR ACTIVE KEYS:
esc: canceling
shift+return: chosen file is veryfied !!!!!!! (OK!)
return: choosing file
arrows: moving of the cursor and selecting strip
shift+arrows: quick moving of the selecting strip
ctrl+arrows: moving to top or bottom
tab: cursor moving to directory selection
ctrl+"A": active is disk A
F1: to go to up directory
F2: reread directory
ACTIVE KEYS IN RESULT LISTS:
esc: skipping of the further result lists
any key or joy moving: next result list
ACTIVE KEYS IN GAME:
esc: end of the game
"p": pause
arrow left or right: turning car
arrow down: brake
shift+arrow up: gear shifting up
shift+arrow down: gear shifting down
only shift: neutral gear (constant speed)
none key: cars accelerate automaticly
joystick:
button is equal to shift key
directions are like arrows
joy left or right: turning car
down: brake
button+up: gear shifting up
button+down: gear shifting down
only button: neutral gear (constant speed)
none action: cars accelerate automaticly
TROUBLESHOOTING ADDENDUM
a) On old Atari with TOS 1.0 may be some problems with loading files
during playing of the music ("Read file error !, *.MAP). Solution of
this problem is setting up music quality to low.
b) Memory is overflow. Power up need minimal 1015 Kbytes of RAM memory
(1Mbytes Atari, free memory is 9 Kbyte). You have to eliminate some
resident programs as accessories, drivers,.... In case 1Mbytes with
harddisk (harddisk driver in memory) you have to run game only from
floppy disk.
COMERCIAL INFORMATION
This is limited version. The full comercial version contains a lot
of tracks in five different graphics, comfort track editor for own tracks
, more music and graphics.
Price of full game with the track editor is 250 Kc for Czech republic
and 20 DM for foreign customers.
If you want to buy the Power up or to become a dealer, please contact
us at address:
Mr. Karel Rous
Fisova 22
Brno 602 00
Czech republic
tel.: 042-05/571 682
E-mail:CICHON@RTIME.FELK.CVUT.CZ programmer's team
E-mail:xsumbe00@dcse.fee.vutbr.cz distribution
NeST:90:1200/5.2
FidoNet:2:421/16.11
Team of authors
programming: Marek Cichon, Martin Hejral
graphics: Jiri Suchanek, Petr Pokorny
distribution: Karel Rous