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CITYLIFE
A fLAtDiSk(TM) FreeWare Virtual Reality Dream
(8th in the series - see BDREAM.ZIP, FURTHER.ZIP, PURPLE.ZIP,
NOUPDOWN.ZIP, EARTHNAP.ZIP, MOANBIRD.ZIP, NITEMALL.ZIP in no particular order.)
System requirements: AT or better, with minimum VGA/MCGA 256-color
card/monitor. Rodent, and/or joystick required. AdLib or Sound Blaster
compatible sound card is optional (if you want sound, you need one.)
Tools Used This Time Department:
Programmed by Rich La Bonte,
(a.k.a.. FLAtRich on America OnLine, the user-friendly network),
with Domark's Virtual Reality Studio 1.3.
(I gave up on VR Studio 2.0, which is basically a bad upgrade.)
The fLAtDiSk(TM) User Interface was created in PCPaintbrush V+ and
John Wagner's IMPROCES 4.1. Converted to LBM format with Bob Montgomery's VPIC.
IMPROCES, GeoDraw 2.0, and PCPaintbrushV+ were used together to create all
included, non-essential GIF docs.
CITYLIFE is FreeWare by fLAtDiSk SoftWorks, circa 1993. Abuse at will. We
will always make no reparations to any addled VR addicts who become
stranded in parallel realities. Please include all files if you want to
distribute CITYLIFE, and give it to anybody who wants it bad enough.
ALL fLAtDiSk files are scanned for viruses with MS Anti-Virus before
distribution. (With that Stealth scan option thing on, just to be sure.)
Practice safe data, kids, use virus protection!
List Of What Should Be Included For This ZIP To Be Legit Department:
citylife.bat (32 bytes) a batch file which will start the program.
citylife.run (92,952 bytes) the program file.
runvga.exe (38,566 bytes) the Domark runner file.
flatface.gif (11,865 bytes) a 640X480 16-color GIF file which explains
the fLAtDiSk mouse user interface.
flatkeys.gif (20,684 bytes) a 640X480 16-color GIF file which explains
Domark's non-intuitive keyboard equivalents.
flatdocs.txt (6,279 bytes) usual rambling. This file, of course.
FLATFACE.GIF, FLATKEYS.GIF, and this file have nothing to do with making
this program work. You can delete them if you need to recover space.
Installation Dept.
It's probably a good idea to make a CITYLIFE directory,
then put the files unZIPped from CITYLIFE.ZIP into that CITYLIFE directory.
It's logical, anyway.
To run it from DOS, be in the directory where you put the files, type CITYLIFE,
and press ENTER.
TO QUIT back to whatever shell or OS you use, press SHIFT and ESC together.
Use Of Dept.
The first thing you will see is a DOS menu that asks if you want to use a
keyboard, joystick, or serial mouse. This is not a test. I KNOW the rodent works.
The Domark keyboard alternatives appear in FLATKEYS.GIF.
If you don't have a mouse, you should look at that file with a GIF file viewer
like VPIC before you run CITYLIFE. If you can't view that file on your system,
don't feel bad! You probably don't have the VGA/MCGA minimum and you can't run
CITYLIFE, so the keyboard alternatives aren't actually alternatives anyway.
When CITYLIFE starts, you've got control buttons to play with. The FLATFACE.GIF
file illustrates what does what, but you can probably figure it out.
Go ahead. Try it. No obligation. Nothing to buy!
The Scenario Dept.
There are 8 million stories in the naked city. Nobody's naked in this one.
Don't ask me why I do these things or what they're about. They're dreams. Maybe
I had an overactive imagination once. Now I'm just a ComHip (computer hippie),
stranded in a parallel reality. Will yuh? Won't yuh? Will yuh? Won't yuh?
Will yuh join the dance?
Or contact me on America OnLine and give me your relative theories. Or have your
theoretical American relatives contact me. Especially your unmarried second cousin
Cindy who works as a late shift phone room operator.
But DON'T leave me email asking how to rewire your VR gloves, OK? I don't have the
slightest idea, as shocking as this may be for you.
GENERAL HINTS:
fLAtDiSk (TM) Dreams are not games, only alternate realities. You're just a
Dreamer. You can't do anything to get killed or penalized. Take your time and
look around. If the controls seem to go nuts or the view becomes unpleasantly
distorted, use the big button to righten yerself: you are probably upside down or
something.
Collide to pass through obvious portals. Use the left rodent button to shoot at
anything that you are curious about. Sometimes this will transport you too. Oooh!
There are no dead ends in fLAtDiSk VR Dreams. Look for portals. Use them buttons!
You can fly sometimes. Better than Dean Cain in red jockey shorts! Honest!
To restart at any time - or if you get stuck - click on the GUI button marked R.
You will probably have to hold down the SHIFT and ESC keys for a while when
you QUIT back to DOS (or whichever shell). You should NOT have to press your
computer's reset button to get out.
When you move around in there, the left mouse button is normal speed and the
right is double speed. 286ers may have to use the right one sometimes if the
graphics are particularly thick. 486ers may find the whole thing a bit too fast
and only need the left button. Pentium users should be doing something more
constructive with their time (to pay for that overstoked CPU, eh?).
Technical Disaster Dept.
fLAtDiSk(TM) VR Dreams may malfunction if launched from Windows with sound drivers
installed because of inexplicable sound driver conflicts. (I.e., they may launch
and play OK and then crash Win on the way out). This is da facts, Jack.
fLAtDiSk(TM) VR Dreams do not run in DOS windows. Que lastima!
I don't know or even care if fLAtDiSk(TM) VR Dreams launch from OS/2 or WinNT,
and I'm sorry I even mentioned Amiga/Mac emulators last time. It was a joke, girls!
Technical Good News Dept.
fLAtDiSk(TM) VR Dreams are 100% MS-DOS5 and MS-DOS6 compatible.
fLAtDiSk(TM) VR Dreams launch from any version of PC/GEOS, including Ensemble 2.0,
which happens to be beyond way cool, BTW!
fLAtDiSk(TM) VR Dreams WILL launch from Windows WITHOUT Win sound drivers
installed, but, of course, you won't hear anything..
Pssst! Dept.
Number Nine Dream is next: you are the Eggperson - and I'm not.
:o)FLAtRich flatrich@aol.com