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3D Pulsoid (final release) Developed by Fifth Dimension Company Published by Ultisoft, Incorporated Contents: Game presentation System requirements Game rules The beginning Game menu description Bonuses description Monsters description Level editor description Features and hints Problems and ways of their removal Frequently asked questions and answers Contact info Our projects Comming soon Copyrights * * * Game Presentation You are tired of shots and blood that pours over the monitor ? You are tired of accelerating a racing car ? You are sick of Your games ? No problem ! Try our game - 3D Pulsoid by Fifth Dimension Company !!! 3D Pulsoid is an arcanoid game, "destroy all the bricks and go to the next level" is the primary goal of the game. 32 insidious game levels make 3D Pulsoid really fascinating ! 17 beautiful melodies will charm Your ear and cool sound effects will impress You ! Nicely drawn high-quality graphics will meet everybody's wishes ! Everything will be Your enemy - unbreakable invisible bricks and 16 types of monsters ! More than 20 bonuses falling from the sky will help You in the game, as well as hinder You ! And You will have to show all Your skills to reach the last, the 32nd, level! Good luck in playing 3D Pulsoid ! System requirements To correctly play our game You will need at least Pentium-75, 16 Mb RAM, quick videocard with 1 Mb and Sound Blaster Pro compatible sound card. Of course, 3D Pulsoid will work without problems on 486 SX2-80 with 8 Mb RAM, but why deprive Yourself of enjoyment of such a cool game ? The only limitation is that You should play the game in DOS, for in Windows You will not hear sound effects (see Frequently asked questions and answers). Game rules As You know, the main rule of the game is to control a racket with snakes and balls, destroy all the bricks and go to the next level. Funny monsters will try to prevent You from completing Your mission and change the trajectory of the movent of the snake or of the ball. Some of the bonuses help You, but some hinder You (see Bonuses description). After the 32nd level the game ends and Your name is placed in the Hall of Fame. If You are tired of our standard game levels, You can always create Your own and play it (see Level editor description and Game menu description). You can also play with the partner, controlling two rackets, and that will ease Your mission greatly. Those who like standard Arkanoid can turn snake into a ball with the special option (see Game menu description). Levels of 3D Pulsoid are specially constructed - the difficulty rises from the first level to the last. It means that on the earliest levels You will not encounter very dangerous monsters such as Mystic and an Evil Scull (see Monster description). Yet You will not have such useful bonuses as Laser, Rocket Launcher (see Bonuses description). Authors tried to make this game as much playable as possible, so we hope that You will appraise our diligence at its true worth ! The beginning After unpacking the archive You will see several executive files, text files and data files. Let's discuss them: 3dpuls.exe file is the main executable file of our game, Just place cursor on it and press Enter ( in Windows - double click ). The game will start and intro will be shown. sndsetup.exe file is made for initializating Your sound system. Press [A] button for automatical initialization and [M] for manual. The set preferencesare these: Sound Blaster, A220, I7, D1. You can change them anytime by executing this file. editor.exe file is an executbale file of the Level editor. Read Level editor description about Level editor. dos4gw.exe file is an important system file. slowgame.bat file is an executable file that slows the speed of the game in one and a half times. read_me.eng file is a text file-description of 3D Pulsoid in English. read_me.rus file is a text file -description of 3D Pulsoid in Russian. usorder.txt, ukorder.txt and ausorder.txt files are text order-forms of the game in USA, UK and Australia. 3dpuls.cfg file is the configuration file of the game. After its removal from Your HDD, the program creates it itself with the set preferences for default. 3dpuls.tbl file - there Hall of Fame is kept. After the removal of this file from Your HDD, the program creates it with zero results of records. pulsold.lvl file contains all the old 32 levels of Pulsoid. 3dpuls.dat and editor.dat files are data files of the game and of the level editor. Game menu description After the finishing of the intro with the pictures of authors and bonuses description You will see Game menu. There You will find: 1) Start Game. Just press it. The game starts with all the set preferences. You will be asked to enter the registration code, recieved from Ultisoft, Inc company. The way of its receiving is described in the order-screen. If You don't have the registration code, You will play only 2 levels of all the 32, but after that You will have enter the code anyway. Please, register the game! 2) Options. Click here to change the game settings. Sound settings. There You can change the volume of the sound effects, music and CD-music or turn them off. Mind You, music will not play in Windows (see Frequently asked questions and answers). Racket control settings. There the control of the game racket can be set. For the first player is mouse, and keyboard is for the second for default. If You have a joystick, the control is set to it. Game process settings. There You can choose Your "players" - snakes or balls - Pulsoid or Arcanoid. There You can also choose the angle of the bouncing off. For Pulsoid it's fixed - 45 degrees. For Arcanoid it's not fixed. Then You can choose the number of players - one or two. With User Levels You can load Your levels for playing (see Level editor description). To cancel the game with home-made level You should enter User Levels and leave it without loading anything. 3) Exit. After pressing there, You will leave 3D Pulsoid. Bonuses description Cannon (a wooden box with the letter C) is a chaingun. It destroys all the bricks except unbreakable. After receiving the second bonus the second muzzle appears and the power of the shooting becomes twice increased. Ammo is unlimited. Life (a bottle of beer with the letter L) adds one life. In the beginning You have three lives. Exit (a turbine with the letter E) is an instant exit to the next level. Nuclear Bomb (a bomb with the letter N) - after catching this bonus the racket explodes and the amount of lives reduces by one. Destroy Monsters (wings and nimbus with the letter D) kills monsters. Super Snake (a snake in the flask) gives a super-power to all the snakes for 30 seconds. Snakes or balls destroy any brick, even an unbreakable, with one hit. Rockets (an iron box with the letter R) gives 10 rockets for shooting. They destroy 3x3 field of the bricks. Rockets explode after You release the fire button. Ammo (a box filled with rockets with the letter A) is an ammunition for the rocket launcher. There are 10 rockets in the bonus. Tank can hold no more than 99 rockets. Freezer (a snow man with the letter F) freezes all the monsters on the screen for 30 seconds. Upgrade (an adjustable spanner with the letter U) increases tank twice. Quicker (an oil-can with the letter Q) quickens the movement of the tank in one and a half times. Breaker (a ball and chain with the letter B) slowes the movement of the tank in one aand a half times. God Mode (a pentagram with letters GM) gives "god mod" for 30 seconds - a green blinking line in the bottom of the screen, that sends snakes or balls back. Yet it doesn't protect from bombs. Money (a gold coin with the number 5) gives 5000 points. You will get an extra life after every 10000 points. Automatic Control (a processor) controls a racket for You for 30 seconds. Yet it follows only one snake. After catching a bomb the tank will NOT be destroyed. Brick Shield (a shield) protects bricks from destruction for 10 seconds. Stop NOW ! (a STOP sign) is the full stop of the tank for 5 seconds. Mirror (a mirror with a ghost) changes the direction of the movement of the tank for 5 seconds. A very funny bonus. Laser (an accumulator) gives a possibility to shoot laser arrows. One shot destroys a row of bricks. There are 5 shoots in accumulator. Scull (a scull with crossed bones) calls an Evil Scull (see Monsters description). Unknown Bonus (an adjustable question mark) - You can receive any bonus. Monsters description The functions of the monsters are all alike - to change the trajectory of the movement of the snake or ball and to prevent the destruction of the bricks, yet there is a specially dangerous monster - An Evil Scull - that shoots new bricks, if You have a chaingun, a rocket launcher or a laser. If this is done, remember, that there are no bonuses in such bricks, but they can be destroyed with one hit. There is another, not less insidious, monster called Mystic that appears only to call the Evil Scull. Take our advice - shoot'im before he causes You troubles. Other cute monsters are not dangerous and just move around the field. They are an Ameoba, Bats, a Blueman, Jaws, a Clauster, a Goblin, a Cubism, a Swinus, an UFO, a Warlord and a Worm. Level editor description Level editor is made for creating Your own levels for 3D Pulsoid game. An executable file is editor.exe. Levels are saved into blocks, each block has 32 levels. If You have drawn several levels and during the play have uploaded a new block then at the end of Your game the program will automatically include levels for default into Your levels. Here follows the description of the functions of the editor. Place bricks. This is the main part of the editor. There You can act as a builder and place bricks for Your new level. All bricks has 6 levels of destruction - from 1 (the brick is destroyed with one hit), 5 (the brick is destroyed with five hits) to undestructable. With Your mouse take any brick and place it in the game field. It's then set to 1 - it can be destroyed with one hit. If You want to change its resistance, press number buttons from [1] to [5] and [U] button for undestructible. Eraser cleans level for another work. Bricks description A transparent brick with cross. It's an invisible brick and it will not be seen in play. A brick with the letter X gives You an additional snake or ball when hit. Remember - You can have no more than 8 snakes or balls on one level! A brick with (+) mark gives You a part of Your snake's body (the maximum amount of parts is 32). The more the snake the better it's controled and the clearly it's seen on the game screen. If You play with the ball, this brick does nothing. A brick with (-) mark takes away one part of Your snake's body, The minimum amount of parts is 4. A brick with zigzag (lightning) is an accelerator. Snakes and balls move twice as fast. A brick with question mark throws down random bonus. Other bricks are used to decorate the background and to make levels more difficult. The more bricks You place, the more time will it take You to complete it. The maximum amount of bricks in level is 525. Place the monsters (change monsters) - there You can put monsters that will hinder Your work. The frame, in which monster has already been set into the level, enlights red. Insert the bonuses (change bonuses). There You can place bonuses into Your level (see Bonuses description). The amount of bonuses must not be greater than the amount of bricks. You can choose two types of placing bonuses - manual or automatic-random. If You want to do it Yourself, then take any bonus and place it into any brick. The brick will have C letter - current. U letter - used shows that the brick already has a bonus. For automatic type of bonuses placement just choose the bonus and its amount in the level. The program will place bonuses randomly. Place the snakes. There You can add snakes to the level. The maximum number of snakes is 8, including the working snake, that starts from the tank in the beginning of the new level. Change borders. Choose any of the 6 borders to decorate Your level. Load levels is used to load game blocks for further editing. Choose any block and then any level to edit it. Save levels is used to save edited levels into blocks. Choose the block and enter name of Your level. Fire Exit icon will allow You to leave the Level editor. Features and hints Press F-10 to temporary stop the game - it's a Pause. If You want to play 3D Pulsoid later, save Your game ! You can do it by pressing Alt+S. Choose the slot for saving. Remember - level is saved from the beginning, it means You will get all the bricks again after the loading even if You have destroyed 90% of them. In the loaded level the name of the block, the number of the level, the amount of lives and Your score is remembered. To load saved levels use Alt+L. You will have to choose from one of the 10 saved levels. If You're using home-made block of levels, load program will automatically switch it to the game. If You cannot complete the game fairly, try it unfairly. Type in the menu in small letters and without spaces the word fifthdimension. You will hear a sound signal, symbolizing the activating of cheat codes system. You need only to press F1 - F9 buttons. F1 - normal racket. F2 - double racket. F3 - one-shot chaingun. F4 - two-shot chaingun. F5 - rocket launcher. F6 - laser. F7 - an instant exit to the next level. F8 - the destruction of the racket. F9 - "god mode". If You think Your game works too fast and You cannot follow it, use the slow code. In the command line type 3dpuls.exe hispeed. Movement of snakes and bonuses will decrease in one and a half times. You can also do this by executing slowgame.bat file. The rocket explodes after You relaese the fire-button or near the upper border of the screen. If the snake or the ball can't find the way out of the bricks, the tank will increase it's fire power every 30 seconds - firstly it will have the chaingun, then double chaingun, then rocket launcher, and then laser. And finaly if You can't complete a level tank will go to the next level. It's IMPOSSIBLE not to complete our game. Problems and ways of their removal If you have any problems with the game - send letters to support@fd.com.ua 1. Corrupted 3dpuls.dat file. - Download full archive and overwrite this file anew . 2. Windows has troubles while starting 3D Pulsoid. - Our game is written for DOS. If You have this problem - contact tech-support service of Microsoft. 3. There is no CD-sound in Windows in our game. - Play it in DOS. Our game uses the CD-ROM driver functions. In Windows this can't be done. 4. The game does not run because of the "3D Pulsoid needs 3.5 megabyte of RAM " message. - Free or increase your RAM. Frequently Asked Questions and Answers If you have any questions, send letters to our tech-support service to support@fd.com.ua Q. I'm running the game in Windows, the music is on in sound setup menu, but I don't hear it. A. 3D Pulsoid is written for DOS and Windows does not have resources to use music. Solution is to rebbot in DOS emulation mode. Q. The game does not see my joystick. What am I to do ? A. The program works only with standart type of joysticks. So, if You have a not standart type of joystick, the game can't notice Your manipulator. Contact information Fifth Dimension Company PO BOX 1471, Dniepropetrovsk, 320070, Ukraine Tel. +380-562-44-00-38 admin@fd.com.ua http://www.fd.com.ua/ Ultisoft, Inc. PO BOX 5015, Central Point, OR 97502, USA Int'l +1-541-664-1885 Fax +1-541-664-3403 Orders 1-800-925-3147 ultisoft@mind.net http://www.ultisot.com/ Our projects Computer Slang Dictionary (tm). Big part of slang phrases is collected here using in ex-USSR. Our creation is unreplacable for any computer beginner ! (http://www.fd.com.ua/dict/dict.htm) Crazy Poker. Joyful imitation of card machine wit alive card. Our first game program. (http://www.fd.com.ua/cpoker/cpok.htm) Comming Soon Crazy Poker 2 : Return to Paradise. A high-quality second part of the well known game - a lot of music, a lot of graphics, a lot of jokes. Copyrights Copyights on the program 3D Pulsoid belong to Fifth Dimension Company. Authors: Project Design by Denis Sadoshenko - admin@fd.com.ua All code works by Crazy BoBka - vovka@fd.com.ua Art works by Vlad Bogutsky - vlad@fd.com.ua Music created by Anton Serov - anton@gtk.dp.ua Translate by Yegor Sadoshenko - yegor@fd.com.ua Web-design by Maxim Ousatov - bh@fd.com.ua Moral support by Denis Morozov - lucyfer@fd.com.ua WWWelcome to official 3D Pulsoid site ! http://www.3dpulsoid.com/ The game is distributed by Ultisoft, Inc. * * * 3D Pulsoid (c) 23 áóúπßΓá 1998 Developed by Fifth Dimension Company Published by Ultisoft, Inc. All rights reserved.