[general] ; RELEASE VERSION 1.5 ; PlayDoe Entertainment (c). 1993 ; We use this amoung other factors, to determine how much ; stuff can we throw at you and still have speed ; changing this to 386 means less items ; you can change this by press F2 and select Fewer items ; click OK button to save ; options 386,486 CpuType=486 ; ; You can Turn off the Digital Sound FX by pressing F2 ; select your desired options ; then click OK to save ; or editing this file and making the changes from 0 to 1 ; DigitalWAV=0 ; 0 = ON -- 1 = OFF ; We support Digital music, and again you can turn if ; off by pressing F2 select your desired options ; then OK to save the changes ; we use to use midi -- thats why its says MIDIMusic MIDIMusic=0 ; 0 = ON -- 1 = OFF ; You can zoom thru the onslaught of enemy fighters with you joystick ; by having IBMJOY.DRV in your SYSTEM.INI file ; You can press F9 and make us add it to your system.ini file ; note: IBMJOY.DRV must be manually copied into the ; windows\system directory JoyStick=1 ; 0 = ON -- 1 = OFF ; This will allow to adjust the sensitivity of your mouse ; We noticed that not all mouses are created equal, even ; the same mouse can be different on different machines. ; Change this if you have a problem with the mouse being ; to slow--SHIP NOT MOVING FAST ENOUGH ; you can make this adjustment by press F2 for configure dialog ; Range 1-20 Mouse=15 ; Mouse Sensitivitiy ; This is mainly Techinical support stuff here ; making changes, does not effect the game or game play ; ; Checking to see what video card you have.. ; You can play the game in TRUE COLOR, but there is no change in color ; the game was designed for 256 colors. ; It also possible to play in 16 Colors--with severe color lost! and we mean it Color=256 ; TRUECOLOR/256/16 ; Path Information ; Your Windows Directory ; you can change this to point to the correct directory WinPath=C:\WINDOWS ; Our Game Directory ; you can change this to point to the correct directory ; or just press F7 to update the INI file to your installed directory PlayDoePath=C:\PLAYDOE\QUATRA.EXE ; Pop Up Help at Startup ; you know, the first screen you saw -- showed the control keys ; you can change this by pressing F9 to get the special options dialog PopUpHelp=0 ; 0 = ON -- 1 = OFF ; ********************************************************************** ; ; from here on, you can make changes in hope to get better sound! ; ; We use this to decide what digital device to use to play ; our digital FX and background music. ; for the most part, you can leave this alone... ; we added this for those Totally Rockin' Systems that exist out there ; ; WaveOutDevice=0 : use the first device we find ; WaveOutDevice=1 : use the second device we find ; WaveOutDevice=-1: use WAVE_MAPPER (will use [default] settings of Mapper) ; WaveOutDevice=0 ; This is where you can lower the time consuming process of ; showing you cool stuff ; ; Have Animated Comets Fly thru ; You adjust this by pressing F6 AnimComet=0 ; 0 = ON -- 1 = OFF ; Have Animated Star BackGround ; You adjust this by pressing F6 AnimStar=0 ; 0 = ON -- 1 = OFF ; Have the Planets Moving downward ; You adjust this by pressing F6 AnimPlanet=0 ; 0 = ON -- 1 = OFF ; Yes you guessed it, the game level you start out with ; cheater! ; You adjust this by pressing F6 ; soo sorry! in demo you only get levels 1,3,6 GameLevel=1 ; 1 thru 10 [Default] ; Now just in case we could not figure out what kind of card you have ; we've made a Default one, and try to support it to the best Quality ; we can.... ; (Note: Quality is in the Ears of the beholder) ; ; Remix=1 = We will Reset & Remix the sound before you hear it, ; this may cause a tick sound on some cards but sound ; better then the next option. ; ; Remix=2 = We will not Reset & Remix the sound before you hear it, ; some sound cards have a problem in the mixing and ; you may a even louder tick then option 1 ; in any case, the sound is delay on mixing. ; The end result is a delayed laser sound, but aleast no clicking noise ; Remix=1 ; Timing is everying on mixing the digital sound. ; so we need some way of tracking what we've done, what we are doing, ; and what we are going to do... ; There two methods we use, on most systems the first option works ; great and there is no dry up in the mixing... ; but on the other hand, If your sound is drying up, try the setting ; this option to 1 ; ; GoodWavePos=0 = uses time Get Time window call ; GoodWavePos=1 = uses waveOutGetPosition multimedia call(default) GoodWavePos=1 ; We use alot of memory to get the sounds in real time... ; and we let you adjust that here... ; the more we have, the better chances we have in delivering ; a earth quaking sound FX's ; ; WaveBlocks=# ; 2 is Heart beat - possible dieing out of sounds fxs and music ; 3 is sonic boom - in and out, some drying of sound is possible ; 4 is Rattle - less chances of drying, worked on most systems ; 5 is Tremmer - enough to stir you... ; 6 is Earth Quake - ROCK & ROLL!.. ; WaveBlocks=3 ; Now digital sound sounds are really just small samples of sounds ; cramed into one long one. We give you the option of reading in a large ; block at a time to get prevent the tick/drying sound that might occur due to ; not reading in enough and mixing. ; Bigged is better, but at a cost of memory... ; if your don't have that luxury then lower this value.. ; ; default=1378 = 1/8th sec at 11025 hz ; ; MINIMUM=512 this is the minimum so don't go any lower ; MAXIMUM=4096 we won't go higher then this, so don't bother ; (Note 1024 is 1Meg of RAM!!!!) ; NEW!!! NEW!!! --- We Auto adjust this now and it works for most systems ; you probly should leave this as is. COMMENTED OUT!!!!! ; WaveBlockLen=# ; WaveBlockLen=2048 ; As with all digital sounds, it was sampled at a certain rate and ; we allow you to play at another. ; * in this release we convert all sounds to 11.025 Khz ; so it make no sense to changes this at this time ; we're thinkin' future for this option... ; SamplesPerSec=11 (11.025 Khz) (default) ;=22 (22.04 KHz) ;=44 (44.1 KHz) SamplesPerSec=11 [Windows Sound System Playback] ; Microsoft Sound System ; if you have this system, ; then you need to edit your SYSTEM.INI file ; and make these changes, or press F9 and we'll do it for you ; ; this what we do -- find & add this info, and start windows after these changes ; [sndsys.drv] ; do11khzmce=FALSE Remix=2 GoodWavePos=1 WaveBlocks=3 [MultiSound Wave Out] Remix=2 GoodWavePos=1 WaveBlocks=3 [SB16 Wave Out] Remix=1 GoodWavePos=0 WaveBlocks=5 [SBPro Wave Out] Remix=1 GoodWavePos=0 WaveBlocks=5 [Media Vision Waveform Output] Remix=1 GoodWavePos=0 WaveBlocks=3 ;PlayDoe Entertainment (c). 1993