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                       FIRECROW demo version 1.0                         
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                         by Ouss & MirMax in 1998

                      http://www.altern.org/firecrow
                            firecrow@altern.org







DISCLAIMER :

    We do not accept responsibility for any effects, adverse or otherwise, 
    that this game may have on you, your computer, your sanity, your dog, 
    and anything else that you can think of. Use it at your own risk.

MINIMUM HARDWARE CONFIGURATION :

    Pentium 120 MHz
    16 Mo RAM
    4 Mo free HD space


RECOMENDED HARDWARE CONFIGURATION :

    Pentium 200 MHz
    32 Mo RAM
    4 Mo free HD space
    SB 16 sound card
    17" Monitor
    Fast graphic card


BETTER HARDWARE CONFIGURATION :

    Sun Station 749 MHz
    256 Mo RAM
    10,2 Go free HD space
    AWE 64 professionnal edition with 32 Mo
    24" SONY ultra wide Monitor
    3DFX III 48 Mo & ET6000 with 12 Mo
    BE Os not Winsux 95 or 98
    (we're joking :-)


STORY :

    Euh... I space craft arrives... Euh... The Earth is in danger... Euh...
    We do NOT know. Play it & be damned ! Just have fun.


MAIN MENU :

    PLAY    : No comment...
    OPTIONS : All what you need to configure your FIRECROW
    CREDITS : Ouss & MirMax
    QUIT    : Never do it, it's for go to DOS !


OPTIONS MENU :

    VIDEO MODE : Swith between VGA (always works but the slowest)
                               ModeX (always works)
                               VESA2 (does not work with old video cards
                                      if UniVBE is not installed, but some
                                      video cards works by default with
                                      this video mode)

    TRANSPARENCY : Use or not shadows (in there is no shadows in the game
                                       it will be faster)

    FRAME PER SECOND : Well 60 calculates every thing all time so movements
                       are more smooth but it need faster CPU, 30 divides 
                       number of calculations by two so it is faster but
                       really ugly.

    SOUND & MUSIC : You can change the volume of each one.

    CONTROL       : Switch between Joysticks, Mouse and Keyboard

    CONFIGURE KEYBOARD : Allows you to define your keys to play, if you
                         are not under Winsux 95 or 98 you can use all
                         yes ALL keys you want...

    KEYS BY DEFAULT : UP, DOWN, RIGHT, LEFT, CTRL for fire, ALT for bombs
                      S for screenshots 

PHILOSOPHY :

   Well this game is FREE, the next firecrow will be better because of
   our ideas. Well the next (december 98 version) will be probably FREE
   too. We think do a beautiful pacman too (FREE of course). As you can
   see our games are FREE it is our philosphy : making beautiful games
   without any charge to destroy the systmem of shraewares charged games.
   Just talk about us every were you can, give this game to every body you
   see. And, of course visit FIRECROW's site http://www.altern.org/firecrow.
   In any case write us at firecrow@altern.org.





TROUBLES :

    Q: I do not hear any sound from my computer ! Why ?
    A: Verify the following points :
       1. Have you any computer ?
       2. Have you any sound card ?
       3. Have you SET BLASTER=Axxx ... in your autoexec.bat ?

    Q: Why the game is sometimes very slow ?
    A: Buy a new computer !

    Q: I have not enough money to buy a new computer what could I do ?
    A: Use a friend's computer or wait for Christmas...

    Q: I am fed up with your silly answers !
    A: Play FIRECROW and stop talking !


CONTACT :

    1. visit the official FIRECROW's site : http://www.altern.org/firecrow
    2. e-mail us : firecrow@altern.org
    3. irc on irc.iway.fr server port 6667 on the channel #kult

CREDITS :

    Ouss   : Code, GFX.
    MirMax : Code, GFX, SFX.


THANKS :

    Shawn Hargreaves (Allegro 3.0) - THE BEST GAME LIB (SUPERB !!!!! & FREE)
    Dj Delorie (DJGPP)             - THE BEST C/C++ COMPILATOR (FREE TOO)

    Huanbo(for the AWE32 bug), Marina, Wassim(helped us on the quantum
    theorie of feilds), Mr-Sephi, Manette, Seb, Tarik, Marilyn, Kathaleen,
    Shoote(our mouse), hugues, Bigfoot, Loeki, Matt48, Workbench
    and so many others persons we know...

29-08-1998 05h15 AM.
