User manual GAMES PC SIM ISLE-MISSIONS IN THE RAINFOREST

[. . . ] ISLE Windows 95 System Requirements Installing and Starting M i s s i o n s In The R a i n f o r e s t CD-ROM Quick-Start Guide Windows'95 Edition 2 2 2 Table of Contents Handy Reference SimIsle Mini-tutorials . 4 7 ISLE Introduction Pack your bags, have the neighbors collect your mail, and take a working vacation in the rainforests of SimIsle. Build tourist hotels, exploit natural resources and develop industry in a land of beauty and danger. Can you become wealthy and keep native populations, tourists, and industry leaders happy?Or will your actions destroy the delicate balance of a fragile ecosystem? SimIsle for Windows 95 System Requirements · Any computer using Windows 95 (486/66 minimum recommended) · 8 MB RAM · 5 MB free on hard drive · 2x CD-ROM You must have the SimIsle CD in your CD-ROM to play the game. [. . . ] For example, items monitored in the Graph window will update periodically onscreen. The changing game dates are reported dynamically in the Message Bar and also by selecting Scenario Recap in the Files/Options menu. The Control Bar is the hub of your island operations--it is the figurative headquarters and mission control for your agents. The Control Bar contains tools to manipulate map views, gives you feedback on your island work, and lets you access system and file functions for the program. The top of the Control Bar holds a series of buttons that when clicked with your mouse bring up command menus or i n f o r m a t i o n windows. These menus or Control Bar windows can be closed by clicking again on their associated buttons. The Central Bar Files/Options Button The leftmost button is the Files/Options button, which when clicked with your mouse displays a panel of buttons that control system and file functions and that provide you with game options. Some of the game and scenario-loading procedures will take a moment to load from the CD. The game will continue to run when this panel is open. The panel will close when you click again on the Files/Options button. Open Files window Page 41 ISLE Save Clicking the Save button presents you with a list of numbered boxes (all titled "Empty" if you're saving your first game) in which you can enter the name of your game file. Type in your island's name ("Empty" will disappear) and click on the Save button. Games will be saved to your hard drive in the Savegame directory within your SimIsle directory. You can save new changes under a different name by clicking in an Empty text box and following the procedures above, or you can save changes to the old file by selecting its name--it will highlight--and clicking the Save button. Save window You can backspace over the names of old games and re-title them, to save games under new names. You can also delete any highlighted item by hitting the Home key, giving you a blank line. Clicking the Save button will exit the window; you can also leave without changing anything by clicking on the Cancel button. You can save up to eight games total, and you can name them what you please. Load Load window The Load button will bring up a box list much like that of the Save window; there you can find the names of all your saved games. Click on the game you want to load (it will highlight) and then click on the Load button or press the Enter key to bring your island to life. You can also double-click directly on the game name to load it. Click on the Cancel button to go out the back door, game untouched. Scenario The Scenario button is your key to opening SimIsle's treasure chest of challenge: each of the scenario islands that you can see in the Scenario Selection Map has a different terrain, different agents, different developments, and Scenario Selection Map Page 42 SimIsle -- Reference different event possibilities. Take the risk by clicking on one of the scenario islands (it will highlight), then click on the Play button, or just double-click the island itself. You can get information about island specifics by clicking on the Info button after you've highlighted the island. Clicking on the Load button will bring up your list of saved games, which can be brought onscreen from there. Clicking on the Freeform button lets you play on the selected island as it's described in the Info window, but without the strategic gameplay demands for "winning" the scenario. Those of you with more pressing concerns (disk drive on fire?) can opt for the Quit button. [. . . ] It is the bright light of the tropical sun which powers the rainforest. Using solar energy, plants manufacture simple sugars from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and from water by the chemical process of photosynthesis. These sugars are the building-blocks of molecules which make up plants' cell walls and woody substance. Furthermore, they can be broken down as needed to provide energy and atoms for use in the complex biochemistry of life. [. . . ]