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. Just prior to Nav 3, your ship will come select the correct drive and press [Enter! None of these can be longer than 12 viewscreen, press IT) to activate your out of autopilot. Once again, Shadow will (most users should select Drive@O). characters. targeting computer. Red brackets appear inform you that she has seen enemy ships. 6. After selecting a storage drive, you will be The Barracks around one of the enemy ships and the When you have defeated all your enemies press (Kl. (Make sure the autopilot light asked several questions about your hard 6. At the conclusion of the log-on sequence, image of a Sartha fighter appears on the is on.) You emerge from autopilot near ware configuration. Read the on-screen you see a full-screen picture of your VDU screen. Press III to lock onto this Caemarvon Station. instructions and answer the questions for barracks onboard Caemarvon Station, target. The red brackets tum in to a solid red box. your type of system configuration. See the where you begin the game. Screens like Back Home CD Installation/Configuration section of tl1is one appear throughout Wing 14. Use the joystick to maneuver until the 20. In this mission, the debriefing sequence this manual for more information regard Commander 11, allowing you to control green targeting crosshairs in your view begins on your arrival near Caemarvon. ing configuring your system correctly. the flow of the game. For a complete screen appears on your target and press That isn't the case with every mission description of these scenes, see the Play button #l repeatedly to fire your mass sometimes you have to request Janding Manual. For now, though, move the driver cannons. If the target runs away, so you'll need to read the Play M anu al pointer to the open door. The text "Fly double click button #2 to fire your after thoroughly after this mission. For now, Mission" will appear at the bottom of the burners for a burst of speed. If the target though, watch the debriefing for a run screen. Press button #1 to continue. gets out of your forward view, search the down of how you performed your first radar screen for a small red cross. That's time out. Once the debriefing is over, you your target-maneuver until it's back in see the landing sequence. After you're the center of the radar display. safety back on Caemarvon, you return to your barracks room. 2 3 Ferret Cockpit If the Install program has trouble finding your you play Wing Commander JI, you would then sound board, it may ask for some more infor hear Roland music and effects and Sound Autopilot Light mation about it-if you cannot answer the Blaster digitized speech. questions, consult the documentation that came Completing the Procedure with your sound board. A screen appears asking if the configuration If you have more than one sound board is correct. If not, press® and reset the options installed, you can use one for your music and as you prefer. If the information displayed sound effects and a different one for digitized accurately reflects your system configuration, speech. If, for example, you have a Roland press (YJ and the installation program saves the board and a Sound Blaster, you can select the Roland on menu 1, and answer "Yes" on information. When installation is complete, you will be taken straight into the game. menu 2 to hear Sound Blaster speech. When
Eject ~ MEMORY USAGE
You must have at least 64-0K of RAM to play expanded memory. In addition, you must have Wing Commander 11. Regardless of the amount of HIMEM installed to use the Windows memory RAM in your machine, you must have 583,000 manager. Your CONFIG.SYS file should include bytes of free RAM to run the game. the following lines in this order: Use the DOS command, CHKDSK, and look DEVICE=
7 6 ~CREDITS
CD-ROM Shell Programming Quality Assurance Leaders Gary Scott Smitlr feff Sire/ton, Kirk Winterrowd
Software Engineers Quality Assurance Bill Baldwin, Step/1en Beeman, Scott Sire/ton, Kevin Potter, Scott Hazle, Charles Cafrelli, Rei11aldo Castro, Mark Vittek, Joel Marrrrers, Ben Marrtters, Riclrard Haley, Steve Muclrow, Brent A . T11ale Ben Potter
Story Development Services Manager Stephen Beeman, Ellen G11011 Slrerry Cain Script Documentation G.P. Austin, Jeff George, Elle11 Guo11, Paul Arden Lidberg, Warren Spector Paul Arden Lidberg, Brian Martin Documentation Design & Graphics Art Craig Miller, Jennifer Davis, David Ladymarr, Jeff Dee, Daniel Bourbonnais, Larry Dixon, Wurren Spector, Gary Washington Clrris Douglas, Glen ]olinson, Bruce Lemons, Denis Loubet, fake Rodgers, Box Design & Graphics Gary Waslrington, fohn Watso11 Craig Miller
Technical Design Assistant Assistant Director Brian Martin Ellen Guon
Sound Editor Production Manager Martin Galway Virgil Buell
Sound Effects Engineer Executive Producer Marc Scl1aefgen Dallas Snell Music Producer Da11a Glover, The Fat Man, Dave Gavett, Chris Roberts Martin Galway, Nenad Vugrinec Director Stephe11 Beeman
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