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Cd-Rom Installation/Configuration Guide CD-ROM INSTALLATION/CONFIGURATION GUIDE ~INSTALLATION CHECKLIST Wing Commander 11 is one of the most powerful Does your system have "FILES = 15" (or entertainment products available today, utiliz­ higher) and "BUFFERS=&" (or as low as ing the most powerful home computer config­ 2) in your "CONFIG.SYS" file? urations available. Because Wing Commander II You may experience an occasional game crash incorporates state-of-the-art graphics, sound, or Memory Allocation error while playing Wing music, and speech, it is very important that you Commander ll. If you are confident you have follow all of the installation procedures that enough BASE memory (see above), it is possible apply to your specific computer configuration you do not have your FILES parameter in your very carefully, and very accurately! CONFIG.SYS file set high enough. To check this, This Installation Checklist has been provid­ type: ed to further insure that you are able to fully TYPE C:\CONFJG.SYS RETURN realize all of the many powerful features incor­ porated into Wing Commander II that your Look for a line that reads: FILES=xx particular computer system is capable of hand­ and a line that reads: BUFFERS=yy ling. If you continue to experience difficulty If "xx" is less than 15, or "yy" is greater than 6, installing Wing Commander 11 after carefully or there is no CONFIG.SYS file, or there is a considering all of the information provided to CON FIG.SYS file but it contains no "FILES" line, you by this Installation Checklist, please con­ this is probably the source of your problem. tact ORIGIN's customer service department at Consult you DOS documentation to find out (512) 328-0282 for further assistance. how to increase your FILES statement to 15 and reduce your BUFFERS statement to 6, then try Special Note: To Play Wing Commander running the game with the new value. II from a CD-ROM drive, you must load Do you have enough hard drive space? DOS 5.0 high. For more information You must have at least 1 megabyte of drive space available for minimum installation. Your about loading DOS 5.0 high, see the hard drive is used for temporary storage and is Expanded Memory/DOS 5.0 section of used to save your game. this manual. Are you unable to hear Speech with your Sound Blaster or does your game crash Do you have enough base memory? during the opening introduction? To determine your amount of base memory, Run the W!NSTALL program from the root dir­ and whether you have enough free to play ectory of your CD drive (see Quick Install) to Wing Commander II, see the Memory Usage determine your IRQ setting. Consult your section on Page 5 of this guide, and also refer Sound Blaster manual for instructions on to the chart below: setting it. Wing Commander II base memory requirements No Sound Board Ad Lib or Roland Sound Blaster VGA without speech 583K 583K 583K VGA with speech N/A N/A 587K expanded memory 1 --4=- QUICK INSTALL/ TUTORIAL In Space 15. As your blasts hit, damaged parts of the 7. After you and your wingman, Shadow, Sartha tum red on the VDU display (the This description of a Wing Commander II Tutorial/Your First Mission discuss your upcoming mission, there's screen in the center of the cockpit). mission is all you need to begin playing. No 1. When the installation I configuration an animated sequence showing you Continue fighting until you destroy all mission can be duplicated precisely by each process is complete, you will be taken climbing into your fighter, preparing for of the enemy ships. (This may take a few player, but follow it as closely as possible to straight into the Wing Co111111a11der I1 launch. When the sequence ends, you tries-if you die, you are offered the familiarize yourself with the game. introduction. find yourself at the controls of your ship, option of continuing the story or replay­ Note: This mission description assumes you 2. The Wing Commander II introduction already in space. In space, you can pause ing the mission. For now, replay the have a joystick. (If you use a mouse or keyboard begins. If the game doesn't load properly, the game at any time by pressing®· mission. Later you may want to see how instead of a joystick, consult your Referen ce skip the rest of this mission description Pause the game now and take a moment the story unfolds.) to examine your cockpit (see the illustra­ Ca.rd for equivalent commands.) Many of the and turn to the CD Installation/ 16. After all enemy ships in the area have tion on page 4). Resume play by pressing instructions in this tutorial tell you to press joy­ Configuration beginning on page 4. If button #1, or any key. been destroyed, you should find that you stick button #1. Button #1 is usually the button that doesn't help, refer to the T rouble­ have reaclied Nav 1. Press lliJ to bring back on the stick itself (or, if there is more than one s hooting section. 8. Press lliJ to view your mission map. Your your nav computer. "Objective Reached" button on the stick, the one on the front, inten­ 3. One or two text boxes appear. The first current destination, "Nav 1," is high­ flashes on the bottom of the VDU screen ded to be activated by the forefinger). Determine lighted in yellow. Press~ to return to says "Start New Game." The second, (the display in the middle of the cockpit). which button is #1 as soon as possible. the cockpit. which only appears if you've played Wing Press lliJ again to go to the Nav map. Your next destination, Nav 2 (in the asteroids) Commander II before, says "Resume 9. Note the white cross on the radar screen should be highlighted. Press button #1 to Quick Install Current Game." For now, you want to and in your viewscreen. Use your joystick leave the Nav map. Note that the auto­ 1. Make sure you have approximately 1 start a new game, so position the pointer to maneuver your ship until the cross is pilot light on your console is glowing. megabyte of free disk space on your hard over "Start New Game" (the pointer will centered within the green crosshairs on Press to use the autopilot and travel to drive. Your hard drive is used as temp­ become a cross) and press button #1 . the viewscreen. (Maneu vering instructions 0 Nav 2. (If the light is not glowing you orary storage during game play, plus is are on the Reference Card .) Press 0 to Note: If the pointer moves even when the must first center the white cross inside the used to store your save game files. activate your au topilot and fly to Nav 1. joystick is still, calibrate your joystick: Press QJ green crosshairs on your viewscreen 2. Insert the CD-ROM disk into your CD-ROM and follow the on-screen directions. Combat before pressing [Kl). drive. Some drives require that you insert 10. Before reaching Nav 1, you drop from Return Flight the disk into a CD caddy before inserting it 4. The introduction begins. Sit back and autopilot to battle Kilrathi ships. Shadow 17. Before you reach Nav 2, you come out of into the drive. watch the action that follows. As in a says she's spotted the enemy. Press IQ) movie, the first few minutes of the game autopilot near the asteroid belt. (The 3. Log onto your CD-ROM drive by typing its to activate communications and press CD contain important background infor­ autopilot light on your console is now off.) drive letter followed by a colon (i.e. [Qli)) twice to tell her to attack. mation. if you're unfamiliar with the Using the G key, quickly reduce your and pressing~ - Wing Commander story, you may also 11. Press G to increase your speed to max­ speed to 250 kps, the safest speed to travel 4. Type [§I)N(SJT(A(LI Ll and press [Enter!. want to read T h e S tory So Far... section imum (approximately 500 kps). through asteroids. Dodge them, but keep an eye on the white cross. That's (When you want to play the game without of the Play Manu al. 12. Check radar screen (the circular your your destination--don't get lost in the reconfiguring, simply type ~rn: m and 5. A computer console appears, with the screen on the left). The red dots on the asteroid belt! [Enter! and you will be taken straight into phrases "(T)ransfer an existing personnel screen are enemy s h ips. T he blue dot the game.) file" and "(C)reate a new personnel file" is your wingman. Maneuver until the 18. After leaving the asteroids, the "AUTO" 5. The first time you run W!NSTALL, you will displayed on its screen. Select IQ) to create en emy ships are in the center circle of light comes on again. Press 0 to use the be asked which drive you want to use for a new cl1aracter. When prompted, type the radar display-that means you are autopilot and head for Nav 3. (Make sure the autopilot light is on.) temporary storage and for saving your a first name, last name and callsign for the heading straight for them. game. Simply use the up/down arrows to new character, pressing I Enter! after each. 13. When you have an enemy ship on your 19.
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