M E S S A G E F R O M A U T H O R PCSTS(TM) (C) 1993 Tip Software(TM) Products Designed by Albert C. Ashton U.F.O T R A C K E R THE SHAREWARE VERSION Copyright © 1993 All Rights Reserved. Thankyou for downloading and trying out U.F.O Tracker v1.0 for Windows! Remember to support the Author efforts if you like to own this game or decide to keep this game on your Hard disk. This game is not free to keep without mailing in your registration form and the Author requested shareware fee of only $5.25 + .52 cents for s/h. I'll mail you the latest copy of this game to you on a 3.25 disk unless you request 5.25 disk is also available. Please to register this game so I can continue bringing you some fun and easy games to play under Windows! It is such small request for so much features, and I know you'll like the special sound effects you hear in this game. All orders are process fast, and if I'm working a the latest version of any game your registering at that time, you'll get that new one instead! All my games and the new U.F.O Tracker version all have these new features. More games will follow, base on Space, Medieval, Westerns, Bombs, Triple 3D Simulated Skyscapers, holiday favorites and more funny games like feed crying baby Brats etc.. Much more animation in both graphics and mouse cursor actions. Plus More Wave Sound Effects, Real, Created with Female voices! To find out more you should register today and if you would like to get my latest game catalog just send in a self-address envelope to the author which is me. See the enclosed ORDRFRM.TXT file for a mini sneak preview of what is coming up in the future. Or take a peek at my all new Windows Game Catalog under the file name GAMECAT.TXT. U.F.O Tracker v1.0 Vol.14 (((wave sound)))) This is an Arcade SpaceCraft Simulator using real human voice as a computer saying Red Alert and tracking U.F.O's. Sound effects of moving U.F.Os coming at your SpaceCraft. Your at the edge of space orbiting the moon while on patrol you see many U.F.Os coming at you. You view the U.F.Os in a 3D 5 sided display windows while you see your SpaceCraft controls in a 3D view in front of you. This is a bit different than Tank Tracker, when in this game the double dual scoring in right inside your 3D control panel. Your mouse will become your photon target sight aimer Fire your weapons on the incoming 3D U.F.O targets with your real photon blaster sound. Eye-catching special effects, 3D Earth in the background, and full scale moon below you while you play this sim. Note you view a different object in each 5 views. More info on the main menu line under Help Using New Quick Menu New feature! Under any of my Tracker games you get to hear and extra sound effect to simulate actual push button or computer aided sounds effects. Every menu item above as this effect during and after the game as well! Options is now replaced by Speed which is your main Control Center which will only control Speed and Timer. Note Under this ShareWare version you can't access Speed, but you'll be told this when you click on Speed. The Quick Menu layout is change where the Play Pause Stop are in the right postion. Fast game play access with your mouse, no more going through pull down Game menu drop access to start the game. Just click on Play to play the game right now or Pause the game if you got a phone call or etc.. The word Continue will appear when you click on Pause then click on Continue to play on! Reset the game anytime you want during a game or even on pause by hitting Play again to start a new game! Stop the game now and bring up the introduction screen for a full game restart. This will happen anyway when your game is over then click on play again to start. Also when you do a full Exit out while playing a game whenever you want instead of double clicking on the left bar. This comes in handy if your boss is coming near your work area! For each time you use any of the above menu items you'll hear wave sound effects just like you hear from Windows. Includes female voice greetings on Play, Stop, GameOver and Exit. Check under Register for 7_Games Special Offer! Now under Help will tell you more about using the above Quick Menu! Note: Under this ShareWare version Speed is disable and game play is set by the Author. When you register this copy Options will be enable for you to change speed, target count, time! This is why your strongly encourage to mail in your registered fee to the author. When you see this label Wave System Sound, is available only if you have either of the following; Sound Card or Board installed or Speaker.drv to play the wave sound through your build in Pc speaker. Sound Card option is better, since you can play the wave sound through you mini amp spks or through your home stereo unit. Note: Click on any main menu item from Options thru Help and you will hear wave sounds also. Now you'll also get real female voice announcement when you click on Exit, Play, Stop and when the Game is Over that will be address to you. Since this game is a ShareWare Copy and is only for evaluation purposes only OPTIONS is not available, and I already setup the game time to 1 minute and 45 seconds and speed is just set to slow and the number of open targets is low. This will give you a good idea how the game is played plus why you need to send in your Register fee of only $5.25 plus .52 cents for shipping/ handling. Under the registered version target windows are set to the max, game speed is normal an game time is set to 5 minutes, but can be lowered by you using the Speed & Timer Control Center. You also get higher scoring than the shareware version. Speed can be set from this scale [Slow |||||||||| Normal |||||||||| Fast] in the Registered version. On the main menu Register is replace with Hints on the game. Also when you register this game you'll can also get a none sound version & this sound version for the same shareware fee if you like. Registered users get, TipNews Letter when it's available, coupons off your next order of games. DO NOT ALTER OR CHANGE IN ANYWAY SHAPE OR FORM THESE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS: SHAREWARE VERSION Game Line for Windows 3.1 Released Date: 11\11\93 Game: U.F.O Tracker (UFO.EXE) Volume: 14 Arcade Series: 3 Type of Game SpaceCraft Simulator Sound: Yes Version 1.0 UFO.EXE......... U.F.O Tracker Main Game Program v1.0 WAVEFILE.EXE.....Contains 7 Wave Files for this Game. AUTHOR.TXT.......Use with NotePad U.F.O Tracker Manual! This One! ORDRFRM.TXT......Order and Registration forms GAMECAT.TXT......Current Arcade Game Catalog No.#9 as of 11/11/93 VENDOR.TXT.......BBS, Sysops, Other online services etc.. Note: Do to file size, I've removed all *.Wri from UFOTK10.ZIP You'll get the same information from the *.txt instead. U.F.O Tracker will refer to ORDRFRM.WRI, GAMECAT.WRI, use ORDRFRM.TXT and GAMECAT.WRI instead. PLEASE PASS THIS GAME AROUND TO OTHERS WHO USE WINDOWS JUST KEEP ALL THESE FILE TOGETHER THOUGH! Note: When printing out forms under the NOTEPAD, first go into Page Setup from the NOTEPAD File drop down menu. CLEAR HEADER, CLEAR FOOTER CHANGE LEFT & RIGHT MARGINS TO READ 0000 Now use your printer. IMPORTANT INFO YOU SHOULD KNOW! Installation Game Step 1 1.To install this game you should not place it in your C:\WINDOWS or C:\WIN31 or C:\W31 directory, but into it's own subdirectory like in this example: C:\WINDOWS\GAMES This way you don't have to clutter up your main Windows directory with all these games. Step 2. Just copy either one to your game directory or whichever you choice to place them. In this example it would be COPY UFO.EXE C:\WINDOWS\GAMES Step 3. Now that the file contains is dump out, you can use the FileManger and Program Manager to drag and drop the UFO.exe to your favorite program goup. This is one way you can do this! The other way is that you can use the Program Manager New item feature and insert UFO.exe that way. Step 4. Add the game to one of your ProgMan Manager Group files or leave it as a Icon button by doing a drop and drag in Norton Desktop, Pc Tools for Windows, or run it from DashBoard quick icon launcher or Program Menu. Wave Sound Files To install the wave files for this game place them in your Windows directory or better yet create a SOUND directory and copy all your current wave files to that directory. Add this SOUND directory to your PATH line in the autoexec.bat file. Also make sure your using a sound card, like Sound Blaster or any other wave form compatible card. Also for PC speakers users only you can download SPEAKER.ZIP and use your PC speaker to pick up Wave sound file also. But having the Sound Card is the better route to go! To make U.F.O Tracker more fun to play at the longer times I have added real sound effects to the game play, menu items and etc... Wave Sound files as listed below that are used with this version; Files inside WAVEFILE.EXE IG.WAV, TRACK.WAV, TRACK4.WAV, FTON.WAV, RESET.WAV, CLEAR.WAV, GDBYUFO.WAV These 7 wave files must be used with this game. But don't have to be placed in the same directory with the game in question. Note: Failure to keep these files together or in your a file that is in your path will cause the program to use the default beep wave sound. Or if you don't have [] ENABLE SOUND checkoff in the CONTROL PANEL Sound Icon or have no sound card installed in your computer, then you can also play this game with out hearing. But it is whole lot better if you can heard the sound voice effects in this game. Step1. INSTALLATION OF WAVE FILES Example; Create a C:\SOUND directory Step2. Edit your Autoexec.bat Path line and add this path to it Example; C:\WINDOWS;C:\SOUND Step3. Copy from this disk WAVEFILE.EXE to C:\SOUND Example; COPY WAVEFILE.EXE C:\SOUND Step4. Type in a Run Command line WAVEFILE and make sure your in a C:\SOUND directory. Or Use the FileManager and mouse and double click on WAVEFILE.EXE the same effect will happen. Step5. Remove WAVEFILE.EXE from your HD now! For every main menu item you click on or select a wave sound will go off. This is normal and the game was setup this way. So don't be alarmed when you here these extra sounds effects. Also one more thing when you do select Exit from the main menu line you'll here a nice female voice message before the game closes. It's a nice touch to add to the game Ithought? :o) Includes also Play, Stop, GameOver. Trouble Shooting Guide (For those who only have 3 out of 4megs free on their system Only) If your system as only 4 megs and your perm swap file is set to 4 to 10 kb? Then I would recommend that you change that figure to 11264kb and also switch from a perm to a temp swap file instead! Change your settings if you get a on screen message saying NOT ENOUGH MEMORY TO RUN THIS APPLICATION This will correct any memory problems if your system has only 3 or 4 megs! 8 Megs or More memory won't have this problem! Step#1. From the Main Window Group click on Control Panel icon Step#2 Click on 386 enhanced icon the one that has the numbers 3 8 6 on it Step#3 Click on Virtual Memory Step#4 You should see something like the following displayed in this example Virtual Memory Current Settings Drive: C: Size: 4096kb Type: Temporary Note: This setting above is good for 8 or more megs systems, and some will say that a perm setting is better than a Tem one! But the Temp is a whole faster and only uses what it needs in HD space, while the Perm is slower, and leave itself on your HD always. Step#5 Click on Change>> Step#6 On New Settings Change Permanent to Temp Step#7 See New Size, by-pass what Windows says for you size and type in 11264 for the kb Step#8 Click Ok Step#9 Click Ok to ReStart Windows Step#10 Later-on in the day do a full exit out of Windows and do a full defrag using MS Defrag, or Norton Speedisk, or PC Disk Cleaner etc.. Note: This should get you going, this is a trade secert about the correct size of these swap files I'm sharing this bit of info with you, SO MOMS-THE-WORD or whatever that old saying was ok! Use this method if you you get that memory warning display, underwise you don't have to change your factory default settings, only time you might have to if it get corrupted. If is was then you would have to remove the perm swap first, then restart Windows, then exit Windows. Now defrag you your HD then go back into Windows and reset up your Perm Swap file again. Yes it's alot of work, but this way you'll get clean Swap file that is not corrupted anymore! Don't forget to Register U.F.O Tracker Today! Don't forget to take a peek at GAMECAT.TXT Don't forget to use ORDRFRM.TXT to register this game. Don't forget this is not a free game Support The Author Efforts! Thanks again for your support! Author ID If you have any questions, or any comments? I can be contacted through; This game still performed and ran without any problems. Any inquires please contact the Author; Internet: tipstir@aol.com America On-line: TipStir Off-line Albert C. Ashton 19395 Liberty Rd Boca Raton, FL 33434-2644 U.F.O Tracker(TM) v1.0 © 1993 U.F.O Tracker(TM) v1.0 Shareware Version Tip Software(TM) Products Designed By Albert C. Ashton DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER THIS GAME TODAY! Thanks again for your support in my efforts! 2:02AM 11/11/93