TM TM CD-ROM INSTALLATION/CONFIGURATION GUIDE s INSTALLATION CHECKLIST This Installation Checklist has been provid- Do you have enough hard drive space? ed to further insure that you are able to fully You must have at least 1 megabyte of drive realize all of the many powerful features incor- space available for minimum installation. Your porated into Wing Commander II that your hard drive is used for temporary storage and is particular computer system is capable of hand- used to save your game. ling. If you continue to experience difficulty installing Wing Commander II after carefully Are you unable to hear Speech with your considering all of the information provided to Sound Blaster or does your game crash you by this Installation Checklist, please con- during the opening introduction? tact ORIGIN’s customer service department at Run the WINSTALL program from the root dir- (512) 335-0440 for further assistance. ectory of your CD drive (see Quick Install) to determine your IRQ setting. Consult your Sound Blaster manual for instructions on Special Note: To Play Wing Commander setting it. II from a CD-ROM drive, you must load DOS 5.0 high. For more information about loading DOS 5.0 high, see the Expanded Memory/DOS 5.0 section of this manual. Do you have enough base memory? To determine your amount of base memory, and whether you have enough free to play Wing Commander II, see the Memory Usage section on Page 5 of this guide, and also refer to the chart below: 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 s QUICK INSTALL/TUTORIAL This description of a Wing Commander II Tutorial/Your First Mission mission is all you need to begin playing. No 1. When the installation/configuration mission can be duplicated precisely by each process is complete, you will be taken player, but follow it as closely as possible to straight into the Wing Commander II familiarize yourself with the game. introduction. Note: This mission description assumes you 2. The Wing Commander II introduction have a joystick. (If you use a mouse or keyboard begins. If the game doesn’t load properly, instead of a joystick, consult your Reference skip the rest of this mission description Card for equivalent commands.) Many of the and turn to the CD Installation/ instructions in this tutorial tell you to press joy- Configuration beginning on page 4. If stick button #1. Button #1 is usually the button that doesn’t help, refer to the Trouble- on the stick itself (or, if there is more than one shooting section. button on the stick, the one on the front, inten- 3. One or two text boxes appear. The first ded to be activated by the forefinger). Determine says “Start New Game.” The second, which button is #1 as soon as possible. which only appears if you’ve played Wing Commander II before, says “Resume Quick Install Current Game.” For now, you want to 1. Make sure you have approximately 1 start a new game, so position the pointer megabyte of free disk space on your hard over “Start New Game” (the pointer will drive. Your hard drive is used as temp- become a cross) and press button #1. orary storage during game play, plus is used to store your save game files. Note: If the pointer moves even when the joystick is still, calibrate your joystick: Press J 2. Insert the CD-ROM disk into your CD-ROM and follow the on-screen directions. drive. Some drives require that you insert the disk into a CD caddy before inserting it 4. The introduction begins. Sit back and into the drive. watch the action that follows. As in a movie, the first few minutes of the game 3. Log onto your CD-ROM drive by typing its contain important background infor- drive letter followed by a colon (i.e. D:) mation. If you’re unfamiliar with the and pressing e. Wing Commander story, you may also 4. Type WINSTALL and press e. want to read The Story So Far... section (When you want to play the game without of the Play Manual. reconfiguring, simply type WC2 and 5. A computer console appears, with the e and you will be taken straight into phrases “(T)ransfer an existing personnel the game.) file” and “(C)reate a new personnel file” 5. The first time you run WINSTALL, you will displayed on its screen. Select C to create be asked which drive you want to use for a new character. When prompted, type temporary storage and for saving your a first name, last name and callsign for the game. Simply use the up/down arrows to new character, pressing e after each. select the correct drive and press e None of these can be longer than 12 (most users should select Drive C:). characters. 6. After selecting a storage drive, you will be The Barracks asked several questions about your hard- 6. At the conclusion of the log-on sequence, ware configuration. Read the on-screen you see a full-screen picture of your instructions and answer the questions for barracks onboard Caernarvon Station, your type of system configuration. See the where you begin the game. Screens like CD Installation/Configuration section of this one appear throughout Wing this manual for more information regard- Commander II, allowing you to control ing configuring your system correctly. the flow of the game. For a complete description of these scenes, see the Play Manual. For now, though, move the pointer to the open door. The text “Fly Mission” will appear at the bottom of the screen. Press button #1 to continue. 2 In Space 15. As your blasts hit, damaged parts of the 7. After you and your wingman, Shadow, Sartha turn red on the VDU display (the discuss your upcoming mission, there’s screen in the center of the cockpit). an animated sequence showing you Continue fighting until you destroy all climbing into your fighter, preparing for of the enemy ships. (This may take a few launch. When the sequence ends, you tries—if you die, you are offered the find yourself at the controls of your ship, option of continuing the story or replay- already in space. In space, you can pause ing the mission. For now, replay the the game at any time by pressing P. mission. Later you may want to see how Pause the game now and take a moment the story unfolds.) to examine your cockpit (see the illustra- 16. After all enemy ships in the area have tion on page 4). Resume play by pressing been destroyed, you should find that you button #1, or any key. have reached Nav 1. Press N to bring back 8. Press N to view your mission map. Your your nav computer. “Objective Reached” current destination, “Nav 1,” is high- flashes on the bottom of the VDU screen lighted in yellow. Press q to return to (the display in the middle of the cockpit). the cockpit. Press N again to go to the Nav map. Your next destination, Nav 2 (in the asteroids) 9. Note the white cross on the radar screen should be highlighted. Press button #1 to and in your viewscreen. Use your joystick leave the Nav map. Note that the auto- to maneuver your ship until the cross is pilot light on your console is glowing. centered within the green crosshairs on Press A to use the autopilot and travel to the viewscreen. (Maneuvering instructions Nav 2. (If the light is not glowing you are on the Reference Card.) Press A to must first center the white cross inside the activate your autopilot and fly to Nav 1. green crosshairs on your viewscreen Combat before pressing A). 10. Before reaching Nav 1, you drop from Return Flight autopilot to battle Kilrathi ships. Shadow 17. Before you reach Nav 2, you come out of says she’s spotted the enemy. Press C autopilot near the asteroid belt. (The to activate communications and press 1 autopilot light on your console is now off.) twice to tell her to attack. Using the - key, quickly reduce your 11. Press + to increase your speed to max- speed to 250 kps, the safest speed to travel imum (approximately 500 kps). through asteroids. Dodge them, but keep an eye on the white cross. That’s your 12. Check your radar screen (the circular destination—don’t get lost in the asteroid screen on the left). The red dots on the belt! screen are enemy ships. The blue dot is your wingman. Maneuver until the 18. After leaving the asteroids, the “AUTO” enemy ships are in the center circle of light comes on again. Press A to use the the radar display—that means you are autopilot and head for Nav 3. (Make sure heading straight for them. the autopilot light is on.) 13. When you have an enemy ship on your 19. Just prior to Nav 3, your ship will come viewscreen, press T to activate your out of autopilot. Once again, Shadow will targeting computer. Red brackets appear inform you that she has seen enemy ships. around one of the enemy ships and the When you have defeated all your enemies image of a Sartha fighter appears on the press A. (Make sure the autopilot light VDU screen. Press L to lock onto this is on.) You emerge from autopilot near target. The red brackets turn into a solid Caernarvon Station.