User manual GAMES PC ALONE IN THE DARK

[. . . ] Because the files on the floppy disk are compressed, you MUST use this option to copy the game files to your hard drive. Reconfigure Hardware Options: Allows you to configure hardware settings for your sound card and interface. The highlighted menu options are the ones that the INSTALL program believes are available in your system. You may still select settings that are greyed out. [. . . ] Certain sound cards may cause your computer to lock up when this routine runs. If you experience this problem, you may run the INSTALL program without checking for sound cards by typing INSTALL -S instead of just INSTALL. This bypasses the check, and lets you select any sound card in the menu. Be careful to use the right settings. 2 Master of Orion requires that 575K (588, 800 bytes) of your conventional RAM be available. To check how much RAM you have available, type MEM and press Enter. The memory report shows a number for the "largest executable program size". If that is less than 588, 800 bytes, you may have to modify your system configuration to remove some memory resident programs that take up that space. Once Master of Orion is properly installed and configured on your hard drive, you are ready to play the game. Change to the subdirectory containing Master of Orion. If you installed with the default options, you would type: CD C:\MPS\ORION then press Enter. Once you are in the correct subdirectory, then you type: ORION and press Enter to begin the game. If you select a fleet already in space, the panel displays its composition, destination, and ETA. THE MAIN SCREEN 4 You control the allocation of your planetary spending, and the distribution of your research efforts, using ratio bars. A group of ratio bars shows how a resource is being divided among several different areas. The total value of all the bars must always equal 100% of the resource being allocated. Therefore, if you reduce one bar, another will lengthen; lengthen a bar, and another must get shorter. To change the setting of a ratio bar, you simply click in the bar area at the position you want the setting to be. Other bars will change their settings to compensate, so that the total values of all the bars still adds up to 100%. You may have finer control over bar settings by pressing the arrows on the left and right of the bars, or by using + and - keys when the ratio bar is selected. If you wish to lock down a bar's setting, so that changing other ratio bars does NOT affect its setting, click on the bar's title, at the left of the bar you wish to lock. The title will change colour, and changing ratios in other bars cannot affect the locked bar`s resources. You can unlock the ratio bar setting by clicking on the title again. Buttons at the bottom of the Main screen access other screens with more detailed information and control displays: Game: lets you save and load games, change settings for sound, and quit the game. [. . . ] 2. Computers Battle Computer Mark I ECM Jammer Mark I Deep Space Scanner Battle Computer Mark II ECM Jammer Mark II Improved Robotic Controls III Battle Computer Mark III ECM Jammer Mark III Improved Space Scanner Battle Computer Mark IV ECM Jammer Mark IV Improved Robotic Controls IV Battle Computer Mark V ECM Jammer Mark V Advanced Space Scanner Battle Computer Mark VI Construction Titanium Armour Improved Industrial Tech 9 Force Fields Class I Deflector Shield 3. 4. 25. Class II Deflector Shield Reduced Industrial Waste 80% Improved Industrial Tech 8 Duralloy Armour Battle Suit Personal Deflector Shield Class III Deflector Shield Class V Planetary Shield Improved Industrial Tech 7 Automated Repair Units Reduced Industrial Waste 60% Zortrium Armour Improved Industrial Tech 6 Class IV Deflector Shield Repulsor Beam Class V Deflector Shield Personal Absorption Shield Class X Planetary Shield Improved Industrial Tech 5 Armoured Exoskeleton Reduced Industrial Waste 40% Class VI Deflector Shield 6 Technology Level 26. 50. Computer Tech Construction Tech Andrium Armour Force Fields ECM Jammer Mark VI Improved Robotic Controls V Battle Computer Mark VII ECM Jammer Mark VII Cloaking Device Improved Industrial Tech 4 Class VII Deflector Shield Zyro Shield Class XV Planetary Shield Class IX Deflector Shield Improved Industrial Tech 3 Hyperspace Communications Tritanium Armour Battle Computer Mark VIII Reduced Industrial Waste 20% Advanced Damage Control ECM Jammer VIII Improved Robotic Controls VI Battle Computer Mark IX ECM Jammer Mark IX Improved Industrial Tech 2 Powered Armour Adamantium Armour Stasis Field Personal Barrier Shield Class XI Deflector Shield Class XX Planetary Shield Black Hole Generator Class XIII Deflector Shield Lightning Shield Battle Computer Mark X Oracle Interface ECM Jammer Mark X Improved Robotic Controls VII Technology Nullifier Battle Computer Mark XI Industrial Waste Elimination Neutronium Armour Class XV Deflector Shield 7 Technology Level 1. 25. Planetology Ecological Restoration Terraforming +10 Controlled Barren Landings Improved Eco Restoration Controlled Tundra Landings Terraforming +20 Dead Planet Landings Death Spores Controlled Inferno Landings Enhanced Eco Restoration Terraforming +30 Controlled Toxic Landings Soil Enrichment Bio Toxin Antidote Radioactive Landings Terraforming +40 Cloning Atmospheric Terraforming Advanced Eco Restoration Propulsion Retro Engines (Warp 1) Hydrogen Fuel Cells (Range 4) Deuterium Fuel Cell (Range 5) Nuclear Engines (Warp 2) Weapons Lasers and Nukes Hand Laser Hyper-V Rockets Gatling Laser Anti-Missile Rockets Neutron Pellet Gun Hyper-X Missile Fusion Bomb Ion Cannon Scatter Pack V Rockets Ion Rifle Mass Driver Merculite Missiles Neutron Blaster Anti-Matter Bomb Graviton Beam Stinger Missiles Hard Beam Fusion Beam Ion Stream Projector Omega-V Bomb Anti-Matter Torpedoes Fusion Rifle Megabolt Cannon Irridium Fuel Cells (Range 6) Inertial Stabilizer Sub-Light Drive (Warp 3) Dotomite Crystals (Range 7) Energy Pulsar Fusion Drive (Warp 4) Uridium Fuel Cells (Range 8) Warp Dissipator Reajax II Fuel Cells (Range 9) Impulse Engines (Warp 5) 8 Technology Level 26. 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